Another big turn-out in Newcastle would see six more players through to our National Final in Nottingham and we'd also be finding a new North East champion as the soon to be dethroned Stephen Flynn was absent. Last season's Team Event winners, the Royal Tavern, were looking for back to back wins but their challenge didn't last long as their representative Stevie Fairbairn was the first player to be eliminated. Other players who exited early were Michael Jopson and previous North East champion, Kevin Ginger. The outstanding venue was the Burn Inn in Co. Durham as all three players flirted with making the final table. League champion Richard Clinton was accompanied by Matthew McLean and Scott O'Brien.
David Gray's very large chip stack put him as the big favourite as the majority of our short stacks hit the rail one by one. However, one of our finalists had home advantage on his side as Rob Flett creeped into the heads-up match against John Mann after David Gray left in 3rd place. The final hand had Rob in good shape with his A-J up against john's 7-3. A 2-Q-4-2-4 brought no help to either player as Rob Flett became the new North East regional champion! Rob leaves with £500, a crystal glass trophy and a seat in next year's national final. Well played!


The history of Android can be viewed by going through the Android developers numbers and watching in each release how the latest Android build slowly starts to get traction and the older builds start to fade away. We've seen Froyo (Android 2.2) go from a small share of Android models to becoming the dominant build. We watched as Gingerbread replaced Froyo. Now, it is Ice Cream Sandwich beginning the journey from new upstart to eventually running on a vast majority of Android phones. It is way too early for Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) to register.
The latest numbers show that between Android 4.0 through 4.0.4, Ice Cream Sandwich is installed on 10.9% of Android devices. That is a far cry from the 64% using Gingerbread, but the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III alone is going to shake things up in favor of Ice Cream Sandwich. 27.3% are still sporting Android 2.2, Froyo. The information, by the way, uses data compiled for the two weeks ended on July 2nd. Believe it or not, 4.7% of Android devices active are running Eclair (Android 2.1) while a combined .7% use devices running Android 1.5 and 1.6. How many Nuvifones are still in use?
Well, i wonder is that because all the all the tablets are getting upgraded from Honeycomb to ICS?
Just got my daughter the RAZR Maxx two weeks ago, and she got ICS today. She's super impressed with it. It's silky smooth, fast and functional. We'll have to see if it makes the battery even more awesome.
Yeah, don't you hate how the notifications bar is so small now? It is so difficult to see the icons taht are up there! Why did they do that? Also, the screen gets darker when it is at 0%! ITS AWESOME!! I wish we could take those extra things off the lockscreen, I sometimes accidently hit them when in a little hurry. And why did they not fix those bugged camera and gallery apps? They are SOOO SLOW! Try pinch-to-zoom in the gallery app and you'll see what I mean. Does anyone know if I could get a different camera app and set it as default?
Me too, I have been on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean since a day after Google I/O.
Probably because the RAZR family just got ICS 4 days ago.
A 3 percent jump. Nice. That's an increase of 12 million units over the course of a month. (multiply 400 million by 0.03) Seems the combination of the Evo launch and the Razr/Razr Maxx (plus a few other devices and tablets) getting ICS has made a bit of a mark. Edit: that's 400,000 units a day getting ICS. Assuming a good percentage of them are sold, I'd say a good chunk of the 1,000,000 activations a day are ICS devices.
wonder if this includes the custom ROMs..
It's collected from devices accessing google play in the past 2 weeks so i would say so..
Why not ? It's not like devices running roms won't be able to access the store ?
that's part of it but the Razr series would have more of an impact than that.
Nah. There are a lot of ICS phones out there now. The EVO LTE, a sequel to one of Sprint's best selling phones ever (so successful that they sold it pretty much up until Christmas last year) has launched, the Galaxy Nexus is on two carriers now (and not selling for 300 f**king bucks anymore) versions of the Galaxy S 2 are getting the update, and the Razr and Razr Maxx are getting it too. Also, the S 3 is launching as we speak, which will lead to a huge jump in sales. We sold the last of our units today. Hoping to get more in by the time I work again on the 4th.
Wait, since when was this a discussion about Jellybean's rollout? On the S2: what I meant is that the T-Mobile version has the update, as do some international versions, and the AT&T update is available on Kies (which is, admittedly, f**king stupid). Also, the Razr and Razr Maxx have both had the update rolling out to them, and the update can be triggered manually by anyone who finds out about it. I was just saying that it's reasonable to expect that most of the increase in ICS adoption has to do with the phone updates and launches in the past month, and not necessarily due to tablet updates. Also, I would expect Jellybean adoption to pick up considerably faster than ICS adoption has been. For one, only select models will be getting ICS in the first place (due to hardware limitations; it wasn't until late last year that a good number of phones with the requisite processors and RAM began to be released). Also, ICS is a HELL of an update, with far greater UI changes than most other mobile OSes have ever even attempted. It also adds a ton of features previously exclusive to skins, so the manufacturers (who have to have skins because the carriers are assholes) have had to work on coming up with skins that work well and preserve some unique identity while not killing ICS's native functionality. Since Jellybean offers only a very minor visual refresh and only a handful of (really cool) new features, its adoption should be a relative cakewalk, especially as more phones with ICS (or that are ICS capable) are released.
Hallelujah. He's returned. It's a real shame that even though Android devices don't get updates as often, iOS 6 still isn't as good as Android 2.0 Eclair. Go play with your little iPhone, silly child.
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Taking the long view: Policing into 2040
A new report has been published which aims to encourage and support long term planning within policing.
'Policing in England and Wales: Future Operating Environment 2040' (FOE 2040) is a 'futures' report which describes how policing's operating environment might change over the next 20 years. It aims to encourage thinking and debate about what policing might need to do now to prepare for a range of possible future outcomes.
FOE 2040 draws on the latest edition of the Ministry of Defence's Global Strategic Trends report, supplemented with interviews and workshops with policing stakeholders, academics and 'futures' practitioners. Our report contains practical resources which police forces can use to develop plans, strategies and capabilities which are grounded in an understanding of the potential challenges and opportunities for policing in the future.
The resources are:
1. Ten trends likely to drive and define the character of policing's operating environment out to 2040. While the impact of each trend individually will be far-reaching, it is the convergence of multiple trends, often in hard to foresee ways, that will shape the challenges and demands facing policing in the future.
2. Four scenarios for policing's future operating environment. A limitation of an exclusively trend-based analysis is that it can give too linear a view of the future, leading to an over-emphasis on continuity and under-emphasise potential shocks, surprises and disruptions (e.g. a pandemic). By forcing us to consider how – and why – things could become better, worse or broadly stay the same, scenarios increase our preparedness for the range of possibilities the future may hold.
3. Five challenges which require policing's attention today. Each challenge will take up an increasing amount of policing's 'bandwidth' over the next 20 years, adding new layers of complexity to existing demands and raising important questions about how policing is organised, resourced and governed.
What are the ten trends shaping policing's operating environment out to 2040?
All of the resources have been designed to support strategic planning. For example, the development of robust and 'future-proofed' plans, policies and strategies relies on an understanding of how trends (past, current and future) may shape the outcomes of the decisions we make. Considering trends systematically can enhance our awareness of how things might change in the future, helping us to identify potential problems, manage emerging risks and capitalise on previously unseen or hidden opportunities.
Over the next few months we will be holding a number of virtual events aimed at helping police forces to use these resources in their own strategic planning. Please get in touch (horizon.scanning@college.pnn.police.uk ) if you would like to attend one of these events.
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Future Operating Environment 2040: Full report
Future Operating Environment 2040: Part 1 - Trends
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Participant and Socio-Ecological Outcomes of the Hofmann Open-Water Laboratory (HOWL) Citizen Science Project
Meredith Hovis, North Carolina State UniversityFollow
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Madhusudan Katti, North Carolina State UniversityFollow
Kathleen McGinley, USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical ForestryFollow
Citizen science, also known as participatory research, combines the efforts of professional researchers and community volunteers to collect data. We have established one such collaborative project in eastern North Carolina, near the 79,000-acre Hofmann Forest, called the Hofmann Open-Water Laboratory (HOWL) citizen science project. The White Oak River, New River, and Trent River all flow out of the Hofmann. The Hofmann is an ecological keystone in the region, acting as a natural filtration system for harmful runoff that occurs in the coastal plain of North Carolina. Our purposes for this study were twofold: (a) to evaluate the HOWL project by assessing the perceptions of HOWL participants and determining whether the project achieved its goals of individual development and community engagement and (b) to provide recommendations for the HOWL project as well as suggestions for other participatory research projects in their beginning phases. We interviewed 12 HOWL citizen scientists who participated in the project, and we drew two major conclusions from our research. First, we recognized that community engagement and collaboration drastically increased in rural eastern North Carolina due to the community members' participation in water monitoring and natural resource management. Second, citizen scientists achieved their personal goals and objectives by participating in the HOWL project: Participants reported that they learned new skills, gained knowledge of scientific and research procedures, developed an attachment to their community and region, and acted as environmental stewards.
Hovis, Meredith; Cubbage, Frederick; Katti, Madhusudan; and McGinley, Kathleen (2021) "Participant and Socio-Ecological Outcomes of the Hofmann Open-Water Laboratory (HOWL) Citizen Science Project," Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship: Vol. 13 : Iss. 2 , Article 1.
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The Browns have become illastrions by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle, within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the Universities. Notwithstanding the well-raerited but late fame which has now fallen upon them, any one at all acquainted with the family must feel, that much has yet to be written and said before the British nation will be properly sensible of how much of its greatness it owes to the Browns. For centuries, in their quiet, dogged, homespun way, they have been subduing the earth in most English counties, and leaving their mark in American forests and Australian uplands.
Memoir of a beothek
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There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ! who in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not.
''Faithful endurance and high aim''
Human life is a great thing, if rightly lived and written, which to man must ever be of the greatest importance, and holds over him the highest power in moulding his character, and modifying and guiding his activities ; it is the noblest work of God, and the most prominent and the nearest to the sympathies and faith of men. We have memorials and records almost of every thing ; and that often with greater attrac- tion and faithfulness, than that of the noblest of human lives is given us. The memoirs of human lives have in some degree lost their attraction and influence over society, because either they have no- thing extra in them, or are written not for instruc- tion and advancement, but ...
Early Memories for the Children
In a state of unequivocal freedom, both of thought and action, every question of interest in its turn will be dis- cussed ; its different sides will be turned up, and what can be said for and against it will Be expressed, until a verdict of approval or disapproval, at least for the present, will be obtained. It has been ever the policy of conservative opponents to delay and throw all obstructions in the way of all questions of change and advancement, which by policy and power may be done under certain conditions for a time, to the prejudice of truth and the detriment of society. But under no condition, in a state of knowledge and liberty, can any question of general interest be thrown asi...
My own inclination would lead me to say as little as possible about myself." With these words the greatest explorer of modem times begins that account of his missionary journeys and researches in South Africa which electrified England. The eager desire of his countrymen to know all they could about himself, induced him to modify his own inclination so far as to devote six pages of his famous book to the history of his family, and of the early years of his own life up to the time of his sailing for the Cape at the age of twenty-three.
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The Old Church, what shall We Do with it
HOW THE QUESTION STANDS.
What shall be done with the Old Church ? Any one who cares has no time to lose in making up his mind what he wants, and doing what he can to get it. For some answer will have to be given in the next Parliament to this question. True, many public men have been telling us of late that it does not press ; that it is one for our children ; that at any rate it is not to be made a test question at the next election. They should change their mood into the optative. What they really mean is, that they hope it won*t be made a test ; that whips, or influential persons of one kind or another, will be able to pull some other wire than this at the last moment
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THE MOTIVE OP TECEJ BOOK.
Some time ago, when I was considering what method it would be best to adopt in Sunday - afternoon readings with a small class in the Working Men's College, I re- ceived a communication which helped me to come to a decision. It came in the form of a proposal for a new association, to be called "The Christian Guild." The pro- moters were persons living in our north- em towns, some of which had lately gained a bad reputation for savage assaults and crimes of violence. My correspondents be- lieved that some organized eJBEort ought to be made to meet this evil, and that there was nothing in existence
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In a state of unequivocal freedom, both of thought and action, every question of interest in its turn will be dis- cussed ; its different sides will be turned up, and what can be said for and against it will Be expressed, until a verdict of approval or disapproval, at least for the present, will be obtained. It has been ever the policy of conservative opponents to delay and throw all obstructions in the way of all questions of change and advancement, which by policy and power may be done under certain conditions for a time, to the prejudice of truth and the detriment of society. But under no condition, in a state of knowledge and liberty, can a...
The Biglow Papers
When, more than three years ago, my talented young parishioner, Mr. Biglow, came to me and submitted to my animadversions the first of his poems which he intended to commit to the more hazardous trial of a city newspaper, it never so much as entered my imagination to conceive that his productions would ever be gathered into a fair volume, and ushered into the august presence of the reading public by myself. So little are we short-sighted mortals able to predict the event! I confess that there is to me a quite new satisfaction in being associated (though only as sleeping partner) in a book which can stand by itself in an independent unity on the shelves of libraries. For t...
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Have you ever considered growing your own indoor vegetable garden? Growing your own garden and eating your own vegetables can be very fun and rewarding, but if you don't have the outside space to grow your vegetables in, then creating an indoor garden can be a good alternative.
There are several incentives to growing an indoor vegetable garden. For one thing, there are fewer weeds to deal with. You also lose the risk of animals such as deer and rabbits getting into your garden. You can also garden without worrying about getting hot and sunburned, which is the biggest incentive for some people.
Remember that plastic containers get hotter than a ceramic container, although plastic is almost always cheaper. No matter which option you go with, however, there must be a drainage hole at the bottom of the container. You can use a sharp object, such as an ice pick, to create a hole if there isn't already one there.
It also needs to drain well. If you are going to grow vegetables that hang, such as tomatoes, then you should consider soil that is a combination of black peat moss, perlite, and vermiculite.
Once you have the soil and you have cut a hole in your container, if you needed to, then you can add the soil to the container. Don't pack the soil too much or else there will be problems when it comes to drainage and root development. There should also be some space at the top for watering purposes, too.
Although you will be planting them indoors, it's a good idea to stick with the same basic principles as outdoor gardening when it comes to when you should plant your vegetables. On the other hand, it's much easier to start your indoor vegetable garden from seeds because you won't have to worry about the weather conditions as much.
Once your seeds start sprouting, it is important that you thin them. You can also start your plants from sprouts, o begin with, which some people prefer because the results are more instantaneous.
Some vegetables that are good options for indoor growing include bush beans, lettuce, sweet peppers, hot peppers, endive, radishes, small-rooted carrots, small-rooted beets, short-vined cucumbers and squash, spinach and eggplant. Cherry tomatoes are one option because as you pick the tomatoes off, they continue to grow back. Herbs are another popular item because they fit well in containers-even small ones.
It is also important to remember that plants that are grown indoors need more care than those grown outdoors because they are completely dependent upon you, and not the natural elements. Plants dry out quickly in containers so they must be watered more frequently. Smaller plants might even need to be watered twice a day.
If you are planting plants that are leaf-based, such as lettuce, then it's a good idea to plant them in rooms that have cool temperatures. They do well in areas that don't get much above 60 degrees Fahrenheit in the daytime and don't get lower than 30 degrees in the night.
Tomatoes, hot peppers, beans, and cucumbers, on the other hand, prefer warmer temperatures. If growing them in the winter, they should be in a room where they receive both sunlight and heat.
Most plants need at least 6-8 hours of sunlight per day. If your abode does not receive this, then you might want to consider getting a fluorescent light to help supplement your natural light. In addition, you will have to pollinate your plants manually. This can be accomplished by using a paintbrush.


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IVFRT-MMP launching cum sensitization program at FRO-Rourkela, Odisha
Participants of the Workshop
Mr Pioter from Poland receiving ORC from SP, Rourkela
With the target of state-wide implementation of IVFRT project in Odisha, a workshop was organized at the conference hall of SP-office, Rourkela on 15th November, 2014.
SP Rourkela, SP Sundergarh and SP Keonjhar were present at the occasion along with DSP, DIB Rourkela, DIB staff and hoteliers, institute representatives and District Informatics officers from the corresponding districts.
Shri Rakesh Sharma, IG, Rourkela, extended a warm welcome to all the participants and, in his brief statement, explained the importance of IVFRT in maintaining national security. He stated the need for the online system and its effectiveness in tracking foreigners. He urged all the participants to migrate to the online system as soon as possible.
Following the welcome note, the state IVFRT team comprising of state-coordinator Mrs. Sasmeeta Sabat and Mr. Avinash Mishra took over the session. They presented the overview of the IVFRT project and its various modules. The stake-holders were made aware of their duties and responsibilities. Detailed demonstration was given on different modules like C-FRO, C-Form and S-Form.
Few Hoteliers were registered on spot and a computer generated certificate through c-fro was handed over to a foreign guest by FRO Rourkela, Shri Anirudh Singh.
Later, a detailed presentation and demonstration of the CFRO module was given to all DIB staff present. Few cases were registered on the test server as part of the training program. The closing note was given by DSP, DIB-Rourkela Shri P K Mohapatra who delivered vote of thanks and assured the successful implementation of the project at FRO-Rourkela.


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Home » » La pietra al confine tra Repubblica Ceca e Germania / The stone on the border between Czech Republic and Germany © Giuseppe Picheca
La pietra al confine tra Repubblica Ceca e Germania / The stone on the border between Czech Republic and Germany © Giuseppe Picheca
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Circulation of 5,000 copies, most of which is in Prague but also in other Czech cities. It's also distributed in Italy, Slovakia and in major European capitals.
Around 15,000 readers. The double language, Italian and English, allows to have a wide range of followers, between who lives in Prague and the Czech Republic and who passes here for business or pleasure purposes.


The Smelne Vlet 11.50 is a one of a kind beauty built by the high Smelne standard. Due to her bilge keels, CE-B and heavier engine she is capable to cruise both the inland as coastal waters. Both the first and current owner haven't saved anything on the maintenance, which you will directly see when visiting her. The Smelne Vlet 11.50 is momentarily stored in a heated hall, please contact the sales office for an appointment.


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Q: Cocoon callbacks aren't fired when called from rspec I have a page with nested fields that works well in development environment.
I use an after-insert callback to number the field labels. So this creates the "pericoop 1, pericoop 2" labels.
However, when I test the page from rspec, the labels aren't numbered. When I save_and_open_page, I see just the text "pericoop".
So, for whatever reason it seems that the callback isn't fired.
Here's my rspec:
  scenario 'to multiple pericopes with valid attributes', js: true do
    fill_in 'pericoop 1', with: 'Jona 1:1 - 1:10'
    click_on 'Voeg nog een pericoop toe'
    should_see 'pericoop 2'
    fill_in 'pericoop 2', with: 'Jona 2:20 - 3:3'

    submit_form

    should_see 'Jona 1:1 - 10 | Jona 2:20 - 3:3'
  end

And the coffee-script
$ ->
  $("#pericopes").on "cocoon:after-insert", (event, added_item) ->
    num = $("#pericopes div.nested-fields").length
    added_item.find('.control-label').html('pericoop '+num)
    console.log('pericope numbered')

The console log is not displaying anything when run from the test (I've configured Firefox to keep the logs).
The form:
= simple_form_for studynote, validate: true do |f|
  #pericopes
    = f.simple_fields_for :pericopes do |ff|
      .nested-fields
        = ff.input :name,
                  label: "#{t('simple_form.labels.pericopes.name')} 1",
                  placeholder: 'Genesis 1:1-3:21',
                  autofocus: true
        = link_to_remove_association 'remove pericope', ff
    .links
      = link_to_add_association t('add_pericope'), f, :pericopes
  = f.input :title
  = f.input :note, :input_html => { :rows => 20 }
  = f.button :submit, class: "btn-primary"

And the partial:
.nested-fields
  = f.input :name,
            label: "#{ t('simple_form.labels.pericopes.name') }",
            placeholder: 'Genesis 1:1-3:21',
            autofocus: true
  = link_to_remove_association 'remove pericope', f

EDIT, I've refactored the form and the partial to dry up some code, hoping that this might solve the issue, but no luck yet.
Partial _pericope_fields.html.haml
.nested-fields
  - index = index
  = f.input :name,
            label: "#{ t('simple_form.labels.pericopes.name') } #{index}",
            placeholder: 'Genesis 1:1-3:21',
            autofocus: true
  = link_to_remove_association 'remove pericope', f

Form, _form.html.haml
= simple_form_for studynote, validate: true do |f|
  #pericopes
    = f.simple_fields_for :pericopes do |pericope|
      = render 'pericope_fields', f: pericope, index: 1
    .links
      = link_to_add_association t('add_pericope'), f, :pericopes, class: 'new btn-xs'
  = f.input :title
  = f.input :note, :input_html => { :rows => 20 }
  = f.button :submit, class: "btn-primary"

I've looked at this post, 300 but there the callbacks are not working at all.
And another post (that I can't find right now) where the spec did not include a js: true. But that's not the problem here.
Any ideas what could be wrong here?

A: Not sure if you especially configured it to be so, but the tests depended on the presence of compiled assets.
So either, you once compiled the assets and then forgot to do it again, so the application.js did not contain the latest version, or you never compiled the assets.
I simply disabled the compiled assets in test by editing the config/environments/test.rb file and adding
config.assets.debug = true
config.assets.digest = true
config.assets.raise_runtime_errors = true

And then your tests seemed to work as expected (well two tests still failed: deleting studynotes and deleting pericopes but I am guessing that is something else).

Note: I also had to edit your seeds, since a field nr_of_verses was renamed in a later migration to nrofverses.


Interview with Selwyn wMilborrow to celebrate my debut South African publication with 3 South African authors.
Milborrow Media (MM): Don, thank you for the opportunity to interview you. Let us start off with the question of what made you leave South Africa?
Don Beukes (DB): I initially took a year's unpaid leave – in my sixth year of teaching – to go on a working holiday visa to the UK. It was also my first visit overseas. In short, London was grey and unfriendly, despite its world-class infrastructure, especially the underground train system and light railway system which connected all of this historic metropolis. I left London after two days, went up north and worked as a waiter in a stately home.
After returning to South Africa, I wanted to study a Master's Degree in Town Planning. The University of Cape Town offered me a place but the Cape Town City Council which was governed by the African National Congress (ANC) rejected my bursary application, as part of their Affirmative Action policy, thereby discriminating against my colour and cultural background as a racially classified 'coloured' citizen. This prompted me to reconsider my place in South African society, and when the opportunity came for me to be recruited as an English and Geography teacher in the UK – after turning down an offer from Oxford University to teach Geography in Sixth Form College (Grade 11&12) – I decided to leave SA in August 2001 and remained until 2011.
MM: What was your experience moving to and arriving in a strange land?
DB: On arrival at Heathrow airport in 1999, I had to present an original X-Ray to prove I didn't have Tuberculosis (TB) as part of the entry rules at the time. During my first two days in London at the youth hostel, a friend and I had to share a cramped room with an American girl who visibly had her mouth open every time she heard our South African accent.
She avoided us at all costs. The two Germans just grunted and the Japanese guy just smiled a lot and said thank you a lot. We ended up befriending a Maori called Ike who was the only one who cared to talk to us.
On my first visit to France before becoming a British/European citizen during my first holiday there by car ferry across the English Channel, I was horrified to get marked on my windscreen with a gigantic round neon green sticker, as I still travelled with my SA passport containing my UK work visa! I chillingly thought of how the Jews must have felt with badges to show others they were not the same or equal as others. It felt humiliating and degrading. Only years after I became a British/EU citizen in 2007, did I become 'invisible' and crossed with no problems at all.
MM: How did your citizenship come about?
DB: Through Naturalisation in April 2007, having had a 5-year work visa. I kept my SA citizenship and had to get permission from the SA Embassy in London via Pretoria.
MM: What are the biggest differences between SA and France literature-wise?
DB: A hefty one to respond to. Literature-wise, I got to teach English Literature poetry to Years 10 and 11 (GCSE Certificate) as well as Year 12 and 13 Prose (University entry levels in the UK) where I taught Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' as their exam novel. I also had the choice to teach 'Poetry from Other Cultures' and to my astonishment discovered an Egyptian/South African poet called Tatamkhulu Afrika with his poem 'Nothing's Changed' commenting on the same sentiments existing after Apartheid. I could then give my pupils unique South African context, which boosted their grades! I also taught a prescribed young adult novel by Benjamin Zephaniah, 'Face' with hard-hitting realistic social themes as well as 'Refugee Boy'. I was honoured to meet this celebrated British author at an annual GCSE literature exam conference where senior pupils heard from the poets for their final exams. There are many publishing houses in the UK but Indie authors find it difficult to get published.
MM: What are the biggest differences between SA and France cultural-wise?
DB: Culture-wise there are many levels of differences. In the UK, free education and resources for families and free access to health impacts on the attitude of children feeling they deserve it and therefore most pupils do breeze through school unchallenged with many social and intellectual problems. They get free school meals and basically for some their target grades are D-G, which some are happy to attain just that and content to not study for exams or aim higher. Classes are never more than 25-30 and as little as 10-20 with pupils set in groups of ability at all schools and special needs pupils receive government-funded assistance in class. The UK has many social and cultural problems with many Asian and African/ Caribbean communities still feeling ostracised, which impacts on youth relations and cohesion in society. Many children have no boundaries at home and live in households with low income and supported by government funding.
In France, each Region is different but every child has access to the same opportunities, with the top pupils gaining entry to specialist tertiary institutions to prepare for employment in every state department and civil service. Those who do not, follow vocational careers and in rural areas, the farming community has a proud legacy of producing food for the whole nation with government funding. Regrettably, even here standards are also falling for some.
MM: What are the biggest differences between SA and France literature lifestyle-wise?
DB: Lifestyle wise in the UK – Pub crawling in the UK is exactly that for some – literally crawling in a gutter – unable to walk or know who they are.
Brits come alive in summer when the gloom and darkness of winter vanishes. Their BBQ (braai) get-togethers are frankly a disappointment. There are no boerewors (unless you are with Saffas) nor Snoek braai! They mostly eat Indian or Chinese takeaway food, and those who can afford it will spoil themselves to a Michelin Star restaurant. At Christmas always the same turkey and stuffing. You get the Brussel sprouts with carrot, Yorkshire pudding with gravy and desserts – No thank you!
France – You must speak the language to be respected, but with my (what I call situational French) limited ability, I understand it enough to get by.
You buy your baguette(s) at your local Boulangerie (traditional bakery) where desserts are a delicacy depending where you go. Many restaurants have great food and for €12-20 you could get a fantastic three-course menu of the day anywhere you go in France. Summers are hot and the beaches are great. Each village and town/city has a Mayor with annual festivals and local traditional activities, depending on which Department/region you live in. When you meet someone for the first time, you shake hands, afterwards, you greet the French way, kiss on each cheek and once more, for all in the company! I've never felt any animosity from the French because of my background, unlike in England.
MM: Did the move to France made you a better and riper person and writer? If yes, why?
Moving to France has certainly cemented my writing culture, being surrounded by nature and without the stress of working 9-5, as I am self-employed and in charge of my own destiny. I get inspired by sights, sounds and people I meet and when a word, an idea or image enters my mind I DB: jot it down and wait for the right moment to spill ink to become a poem or fiction.
Although disappointingly he held strong colonial views, he was a passionate supporter of Republicanism and campaigned for the abolition of capital punishment. Interestingly, he spent his exile on Guernsey Island from 1855-1870 in the English Channel Islands, where he wrote his famous works and where I had my last teaching post in 2012.
The other inspiration is Voltaire which was actually his 'Nom de Plume' or Pen Name for Francois-Marie Stoner. He was a French Enlightenment author and was famous for his wit, attacks on the established Catholic Church and enforced Christianity. He advocated for freedom of religion, speech and the separation of church and state.
Another interesting fact is that Breyten Breytenbach had to move to Paris due to his views on the Apartheid racist government where he still lives with his Vietnamese wife. I mentioned him because, before a visit to Cape Town in 2009, I was a regular contributor to a special poetry section in 'Die Burger' (The Citizen), a major Afrikaans daily newspaper in Cape Town. I was subsequently invited to help launch a literary group at the Breytenbach Centre in Wellington, which happened in August 2009, where I met fellow contributors and had my very first poetry reading. Unfortunately, the newspaper removed its poetry blog and consequently the literary group was disbanded.
MM: A lot has happened in South Africa since you left. How do you feel about SA now that you've been away for so long?
DB: I'm just going to speak from the heart. As an educator, my passion has always been to ensure children get the best out of their education despite their race, culture or socio-economic status. I have always tried to keep up to date with education in SA and although the change was inevitable, after two decades I am sad to see that not much has changed. I am shocked to hear from teachers that classes are still overcrowded in 'coloured' and township schools, especially in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, with as much as 40-55 learners in a class. This makes me really sad. The government should be ashamed of themselves, both nationally and provincially across the country for that matter. How can we expect the new generations to be part of a global society when they are still getting a 'gutter' education? The mere fact that SA students are bilingual and for some even trilingual should already give them a head start. It is clear that the language policy in schools has failed miserably. Literacy levels are still too low. How can eager learners concentrate on a hungry stomach? If the authorities cannot appoint worthy leaders to improve literacy and numeracy and provide realistic study routes, especially vocational study options, then the country cannot possibly move forward.
I like many others have been victims of crime and have lost friends and family because of it. My prayer is that lawmakers and community leaders will work together to protect citizens.
I am aware that Apartheid built schools still lack many facilities to ensure a holistic and balanced educational experience. I am proud of the new sporting stars produced in SA but would like to believe that all children from especially coloured and black heritage, be given a chance to access sports facilities and opportunities.
Lastly, as a writer of mixed race heritage termed 'coloured' by a racist authoritarian regime, I hope other writers from my background will one day be recognised by major publishing houses in South Africa. Yes, some have the connections and means to get published, but many other talented writers are being dismissed.
MM: Thank you for this wonderful opportunity you have afforded Milborrow Media to interview you, one of the true ambassadors for South Africa.
DB: Thank you. I am immensely proud to know how you have supported authors who otherwise would never have had the opportunity to share their words with SA and indeed the global village.


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Nadia Elizabeth Brown is an American political scientist. She is a University Scholar and professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University, where she is also affiliated with the department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. In 2020 she was appointed Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University, with a term starting in August 2021. Brown is a scholar of American politics whose work focuses on identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies, using the theory of intersectionality to study topics across multiple disciplines.

Education and early career
Brown studied political science at Howard University, obtaining a BA in 2004. She chose to study political science because of an interest in how power is distributed in society, and particularly how Black women engage in political activity. In 2010 she completed her PhD in political science at Rutgers University, specializing in Women and Politics and American Politics. She also received a Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. From 2010 to 2013, she was a professor of political science and African American studies, and affiliated with women's studies, at St. Louis University.

Career
In 2014, Brown published the book Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making, which studies how the policy preferences and legislative behavior of African American women legislators are influenced by experiences with racism and sexism during their lives, given the context that in 2013, only 239 of the 7,776 female legislators in the United States were African American women. The book was reviewed positively not just for its substantive findings, but also for its analytical approach, with Muireann O'Dwyer writing that it "delivered an answer to the enduring question of how exactly intersectionality can be brought to bear on the empirical questions of social science". Sisters in the Statehouse won the 2015 W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award, as well as awards from Purdue University and the Association for the Study of Black Women and Politics.

In 2016, Brown was appointed a University Scholar at Purdue University, an honor which is intended "to recognize outstanding mid-career faculty who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction". Brown was chosen as the American Political Science Association's Member of the Month for April 2019.

Brown is the lead editor of the journal Politics, Groups, and Identities, which she has noted may make her the first Black woman to be the sole lead editor of a political science journal. She has also been a member of the editorial board of the political science expert database Women Also Know Stuff.

Brown is an advocate for political scientists to communicate about their discipline with the media. She has published in The Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and Ozy, and been cited in outlets like The New York Times and The Washingtonian.

Selected works

 Brown, Nadia E. and Danielle Casarez Lemi. 2021. Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites. Oxford University Press.
 Brown, Nadia E. 2014. Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making. Oxford University Press.

Selected awards
W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award (2015)
Purdue University Scholar (2016)
American Political Science Association Member of the Month (2019)

References

External links

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Date of birth missing (living people)
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American women political scientists
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Purdue University faculty
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA – July 25, 2018 - Grandstream, connecting the world with award-winning SIP Unified Communications solutions since 2002, and Issabel, one of the leading open source platforms in the world of Unified Communications, today announced the interoperability of Grandstream IP terminals with Issabel's UC platform. By combining both solutions, businesses, channels and integrators worldwide can now utilize this powerful and accessible option to take communication and collaboration to the next level.
Boston, MA, USA - July 19, 2018 — Grandstream, connecting the world with award-winning SIP unified communication solutions since 2002, announced today that TMC has named the GVC3210 as a 2018 TMC Labs INTERNET TELEPHONY Innovation Award winner. The award is presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.
Clichy, France and Boston, MA, USA – June 27, 2018 – OpenIP, French leader in SIP trunk services and a unified communications provider, and Grandstream, connecting the world with award-winning SIP unified communication solutions since 2002, today announced a new partnership. Under this partnership, Grandstream's UCM series of IP PBXs, GXP2100 series IP Phones and GXV3200 series IP Video Phones for Android™ are now fully certified for use with OpenIP's world-class SIP trunk services. Customers throughout France can now utilize the certified Grandstream devices with their SIP services from Open IP.
Boston, MA USA – June 14, 2018 – Grandstream, connecting the world with award-winning SIP unified communication solutions since 2002, today announced that the GXP1760W was selected as the Best VoIP Device at the 2018 ITSPA Awards. The GXP1760W, Grandstream's Mid-Range WiFi-enabled desktop IP phone, won the award over devices from other market leaders. The ITSPA Awards celebrate innovation and best practices across the next generation of the communications industry.
Boston, MA USA – June 13, 2018 – Grandstream, connecting the world since 2002 with award-winning SIP unified communication solutions, today announced a new member of its award-winning GXV series of IP video phones. The GXV3370 IP Video Phone for Android™ offers a powerful desktop video phone featuring Android 7.0, a 7" touch screen, real-time HD video telephony, built-in WiFi & Bluetooth, and more.
Boston, MA, USA and Bogotá, Colombia – May 24, 2018 - Grandstream, connecting the world with award-winning SIP Unified Communications solutions since 2002, and net2phone, a global provider of cloud-based communications services, today announced an alliance to provide businesses in Colombia with cost-effective telephony solutions at a much lower price point that traditional analog phone systems.
The integrated solution integrates Grandstreams award-winning IP phones and IP PBXs together with versatile Virtual Phone Systems and SIP Trunk services from net2phone.


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Father Arrested As Suspect of 7-Year-Old Daughter's Death Whose Abused Body was Found in Garage
By JC Silvederio May 27, 2020 07:53 AM EDT
(Photo : Pexels/ kat wilcox)
A seven-year-old Californian girl was found dead at a home in north Stockton as stated by authorities.
On Saturday, at about 4:45 in the morning, authorities of the Stockton Police Department responded to a residence in the 1300 block of Candlewood Way to perform a welfare check on a child.
Deputies on the scene found the unresponsive body of Billie Williams. Medics came to the scene but declared Billie dead.
Billey Williams, the 30-year-old father of Billie, was captured by the authority as a suspect of the crime and taken to San Joaquin County Jail.
According to People, the police department stated that the exact cause of the girl's death is still unknown but they presume that she was severely abused.
Joe Silva, Stockton police spokesman officer, said that five other children, who were at the same house during the welfare check conducted by authorities, were taken into protective custody by Child Protective Services.
According to online jail records, Williams is being arrested without bail and is scheduled to be in a court trial on Tuesday at 1:30 pm in Stockton.
Williams was charged with assault on a child under his care or custody with great bodily injury willful cruelty to a child resulting in death or injury, felony murder, and misdemeanor charge of the battery.
CBS13 also reported that the person who contacted the authorities was still unknown, but Billie's stepmother and five other children were all inside the house when the girl's dead body was discovered by the authorities.
Read also: Man Beats 5-Month-Old Infant to Death While Mom Was in the Shower
Silva uttered that the case is still an active investigation and, although both Billie's birth mother and stepmother have spoken to the investigators, neither of them has been arrested.
Jelessa Davidson, Billie's aunt, said that they all failed, the teachers, CPS workers, and their family members failed Billie.
On Sunday night, dozens of the little girl's closest friends and devastated family members came together to a vigil. They shared laughter and tears as they gathered and cherished her memories.
Balloons, candles, stuffed toys, flowers, and photos were rendered in front of the house where her dead body was found to help memorialize her.
Deanthony Reaves, Billie's cousin, said in an interview that Billie did not deserve what she has gone through and wanted people to remember her as a sweet young girl who's loving and caring as well. He believes that Billey is definitely in a better place now, though the incident saddened everyone.
In a report by Fox, Carolyn Bryant, Billie's grandmother, said that what her family wants is justice for the little girl's death and that Billie will be missed by their family so deeply since they can no longer hug her and what's left is her memories. Bryant added that little Billie was robbed of her life and innocence and that she cannot find words but a pain at the moment.
Some of the victim's family members have voiced out their incredulity that Billey could have committed such crime. One of his siblings claimed that he is a very sweet person.
Billie's family is waiting for answers as authorities further investigate the incident.
Related article: Ohio Mother, Stepfather Charged for Abusing and Drowning 7-Year-Old Boy


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L'MTV Europe Music Award al miglior artista latinoamericano (MTV Europe Music Award for Best Latin American Act) è stato uno dei premi  degli MTV Europe Music Awards, assegnato dal 2011 al 2016.

Albo d'oro

Anni 2010

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This website will be undergoing some updates over the next month or two. Please feel free to call us if you need information about our programs and services. 802.674-6752 is the office number and our email address is peihwi@gmail.com - and you can always write to PO Box 21 Windsor, VT 05089-0021.
A workshop on Sustainability and Historic Preservation, in partnership with several divisions of the National Park Service and supported by a grant from the Historic Preservation Foundation.
A Feasibility Study, funded in part by the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board and the Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union, is under way to evaluate using the Jacob House as a preschool. Engineering students just completed a review of the project as a senior class project.
We are partnering with the Barre Historical Society, Preservation Trust of Vermont and several other groups to conduct a brick repointing workshop in Barre, Vermont this fall.
The Asher Benjamin Model will be on display at the Old Constitution House in Windsor this summer beginning June 11. I will present a talk on the 11th at 2pm about how the loss of three Benjamin-designed buildings in Windsor contributed to the creation of Historic Windsor when Windsor House was threatened with demolition in 1971. Yes, 1971! This is our 45th year!
The Vermont Preservation Conference takes place on June 10. Visit www.ptvermont.org for details. We are co-hosting a window repair demonstration from 12-4pm and a panel discussion from 1-2pm: you can earn one AIA HSW Learning Unit for the panel discussion since we are a registered AIA Continuing Education Provider.
The courses in our Preservation Skills and Technology Certificate Program underwent a review this past winter. We anticipate a renewal of the college transfer credit program for all 10 courses. This review is conducted by the Education Testing and Evaluation Service of the Vermont State College System.
The Traditional Building Show takes place in New Haven, CT July 19 and 20. I encourage you to attend!
Thank you to the Friends of the Jacob House who are making the preservation of the Jacob House, which possible. Learn about its history here (PDF).


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L'immeuble Chaban-Delmas est un bâtiment situé au 101 rue de l'Université, dans le  de Paris. Il a été construit en 1974, et restructuré entre 2006 et 2008. La façade est un mur rideau habillé par une résille béton. Il porte le nom de l'ancien Premier ministre Jacques Chaban-Delmas depuis 2001.

Cet immeuble est maintenant relié à celui du 32 rue Saint-Dominique. L'ensemble représente près de , répartis sur 14 niveaux (du R-5 au R+8).

Il héberge :
230 bureaux doubles et 51 chambres d'hôtels.
Deux auditoriums de respectivement 130 et 350 places.
Trois restaurants délivrant près de 700 repas par jour.
Une cafétéria.
De nombreuses places de parkings.

Il existe un passage souterrain reliant directement ce bâtiment à celui de l'assemblée nationale.

Le bâtiment possède aussi une entrée côté rue Saint Dominique, entrée très pratique pour entrer dans l'hôtel des députés discrètement.

Dans la culture populaire
 Il apparaît dans Baron noir.

Notes et références

Bâtiment à Paris


In 2D, vectors may be thought of as arrows with a fixed length and direction. The place at which the arrow starts is not important, so they may be translated around the plane without affecting the value of the vector.
This allows us to add and subtract vectors visually: if the vectors can be translated so as to form a closed circuit then the vector sum is zero. If the vectors cannot be translated so as to form a closed circuit then their vector sum is not zero, as in this diagram in which the vectors on the left have zero sum, whereas the vectors on the right don't have zero sum.
In this problem we are given three grids of vectors. The vectors are only represented visually, but it is assumed that their x and y values are whole numbers (Remember: the x and y values represent the horizontal and vertical offsets from the start of the arrow, not the location of the start of the arrow itself).
Your task, in each case is to try to see which subsets of the vectors form closed loops.
In each grid can you find a closed loop of vectors?
In each case is the closed loop unique? You can prove your assertions using algebra or a convincing visual argument.
Try hard to solve using visualisation before resorting to algebra.
Real world. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Matrices. Scalar products. Vectors. Cubes & cuboids. Visualising. Maths Supporting SET. Vector Notation and Geometry. Games.


Courtney's Guest Post: The Joe Romm of Climate Progress article is nonsense on all counts.
"The deniers have been rooting for a Maunder Minimum to stifle global warming."
I know of nobody who has been "rooting" for cooling, but I know of several so-called "deniers" who assert that slight warming (as could be expected if the AGW-hypothesis is right) would provide net benefits.


Just because the weather is less than ideal doesn't mean we can't get creative! This was a simple styled shoot at the lovely brand-new boutique Chicago hotel, Kimpton Gray. Without trying to sound too sappy, capturing joy and the sweet relationship between these two is the reason I truly love my job! Enjoy!


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"""
The Kullback-Leibler divergence.
"""

import numpy as np

from .cross_entropy import get_pmfs_like
from ..helpers import normalize_rvs
from ..utils import flatten

from .kullback_leibler_divergence import kullback_leibler_divergence

__all__ = ('double_power_sum',
           'hellinger_sum',
           'alpha_divergence',
           'hellinger_divergence',
           'renyi_divergence',
           'tsallis_divergence',
          )

### References for Divergence Formulas ###
## http://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.3259v1.pdf
## http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.2459.pdf
## http://mitran-lab.amath.unc.edu:8082/subversion/grants/Proposals/2013/DOE-DataCentric/biblio/LieseVajdaDivergencesInforTheory.pdf
## Crooks: http://threeplusone.com/on_information.pdf

def double_power_sum(dist1, dist2, exp1=1, exp2=1, rvs=None, rv_mode=None):
    """
    A common generalization of the sums needed to compute the Hellinger
    and alpha divergences below.

    Parameters
    ----------
    dist1 : Distribution
        The first distribution in the sum.
        The second distribution in the sum.
    exp1 : float, 1
        First exponent used in the power sum.
    exp2 : float, 1
        Second exponent used in the power sum.
    rvs : list, None
        The indexes of the random variable used to calculate the sum.
        If None, then the sum is calculated over all random variables.
    rv_mode : str, None
        Specifies how to interpret `rvs` and `crvs`. Valid options are:
        {'indices', 'names'}. If equal to 'indices', then the elements of
        `crvs` and `rvs` are interpreted as random variable indices. If equal
        to 'names', the the elements are interpreted as random variable names.
        If `None`, then the value of `dist._rv_mode` is consulted, which
        defaults to 'indices'.

    Returns
    -------
    dkl : float
        The specified sum between `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Raises
    ------
    ditException
        Raised if either `dist1` or `dist2` doesn't have `rvs` or, if `rvs` is
        None, if `dist2` has an outcome length different than `dist1`.

    """

    rvs, _, rv_mode = normalize_rvs(dist1, rvs, None, rv_mode)
    rvs = list(flatten(rvs))
    normalize_rvs(dist2, rvs, None, rv_mode)

    ps, qs = get_pmfs_like(dist1, dist2, rvs, rv_mode)
    div = np.nansum(np.power(ps, exp1) * np.power(qs, exp2))

    return div

def hellinger_sum(dist1, dist2, alpha=1.0, rvs=None, rv_mode=None):
    """
    The Hellinger sum/integral of `dist1` and `dist2`, used to define other
    divergences.

    Parameters
    ----------
    dist1 : Distribution
        The first distribution in the sum.
    dist2 : Distribution
        The second distribution in the sum.
    alpha : float, 1
        Exponent used in the sum.
    rvs : list, None
        The indexes of the random variable used to calculate the sum.
        If None, then the sum is calculated over all random variables.
    rv_mode : str, None
        Specifies how to interpret `rvs` and `crvs`. Valid options are:
        {'indices', 'names'}. If equal to 'indices', then the elements of
        `crvs` and `rvs` are interpreted as random variable indices. If equal
        to 'names', the the elements are interpreted as random variable names.
        If `None`, then the value of `dist._rv_mode` is consulted, which
        defaults to 'indices'.

    Returns
    -------
    dkl : float
        The Hellinger sum between `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Raises
    ------
    ditException
        Raised if either `dist1` or `dist2` doesn't have `rvs` or, if `rvs` is
        None, if `dist2` has an outcome length different than `dist1`.

    """

    return double_power_sum(dist1, dist2, alpha, 1.0-alpha, rvs=rvs, rv_mode=rv_mode)

def hellinger_divergence(dist1, dist2, alpha=1.0, rvs=None, rv_mode=None):
    # http://mitran-lab.amath.unc.edu:8082/subversion/grants/Proposals/2013/DOE-DataCentric/biblio/LieseVajdaDivergencesInforTheory.pdf
    """
    The Hellinger divergence of `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Parameters
    ----------
    dist1 : Distribution
        The first distribution in the Hellinger divergence.
    dist2 : Distribution
        The second distribution in the Hellinger divergence.
    alpha : float, 1
        The divergence is a one parameter family in alpha.
    rvs : list, None
        The indexes of the random variable used to calculate the
        Hellinger divergence between. If None, then the Hellinger
        divergence is calculated over all random variables.
    rv_mode : str, None
        Specifies how to interpret `rvs` and `crvs`. Valid options are:
        {'indices', 'names'}. If equal to 'indices', then the elements of
        `crvs` and `rvs` are interpreted as random variable indices. If equal
        to 'names', the the elements are interpreted as random variable names.
        If `None`, then the value of `dist._rv_mode` is consulted, which
        defaults to 'indices'.

    Returns
    -------
    dkl : float
        The Hellinger divergence between `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Raises
    ------
    ditException
        Raised if either `dist1` or `dist2` doesn't have `rvs` or, if `rvs` is
        None, if `dist2` has an outcome length different than `dist1`.

    """

    if alpha == 1:
        return kullback_leibler_divergence(dist1, dist2, rvs=rvs, rv_mode=rv_mode)
    s = hellinger_sum(dist1, dist2, rvs=rvs, alpha=alpha, rv_mode=rv_mode)
    return (s-1.0)/(alpha-1.0)

def tsallis_divergence(dist1, dist2, alpha=1.0, rvs=None, rv_mode=None):
    """
    The Tsallis divergence of `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Parameters
    ----------
    dist1 : Distribution
        The first distribution in the Tsallis divergence.
    dist2 : Distribution
        The second distribution in the Tsallis divergence.
    alpha : float, 1
        The divergence is a one parameter family in alpha.
    rvs : list, None
        The indexes of the random variable used to calculate the
        Tsallis divergence between. If None, then the Tsallis
        divergence is calculated over all random variables.
    rv_mode : str, None
        Specifies how to interpret `rvs` and `crvs`. Valid options are:
        {'indices', 'names'}. If equal to 'indices', then the elements of
        `crvs` and `rvs` are interpreted as random variable indices. If equal
        to 'names', the the elements are interpreted as random variable names.
        If `None`, then the value of `dist._rv_mode` is consulted, which
        defaults to 'indices'.

    Returns
    -------
    dkl : float
        The Tsallis divergence between `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Raises
    ------
    ditException
        Raised if either `dist1` or `dist2` doesn't have `rvs` or, if `rvs` is
        None, if `dist2` has an outcome length different than `dist1`.

    """

    # D_T = (D_alpha -1) / (alpha-1)
    if alpha == 1:
        div = kullback_leibler_divergence(dist1, dist2, rvs=rvs, rv_mode=rv_mode)
    else:
        s = hellinger_sum(dist1, dist2, rvs=rvs, alpha=alpha, rv_mode=rv_mode)
        div = (s - 1.0) /(alpha - 1.0)
    return div

def renyi_divergence(dist1, dist2, alpha=1.0, rvs=None, rv_mode=None):
    """
    The Renyi divergence of `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Parameters
    ----------
    dist1 : Distribution
        The first distribution in the Renyi divergence.
    dist2 : Distribution
        The second distribution in the Renyi divergence.
    alpha : float, 1
        The divergence is a one parameter family in alpha.
    rvs : list, None
        The indexes of the random variable used to calculate the
        Renyi divergence between. If None, then the Renyi
        divergence is calculated over all random variables.
    rv_mode : str, None
        Specifies how to interpret `rvs` and `crvs`. Valid options are:
        {'indices', 'names'}. If equal to 'indices', then the elements of
        `crvs` and `rvs` are interpreted as random variable indices. If equal
        to 'names', the the elements are interpreted as random variable names.
        If `None`, then the value of `dist._rv_mode` is consulted, which
        defaults to 'indices'.

    Returns
    -------
    dkl : float
        The Renyi divergence between `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Raises
    ------
    ditException
        Raised if either `dist1` or `dist2` doesn't have `rvs` or, if `rvs` is
        None, if `dist2` has an outcome length different than `dist1`.

    """

    # D_R = log D_alpha / (alpha-1)
    if alpha == 1:
        div = kullback_leibler_divergence(dist1, dist2, rvs=rvs, rv_mode=rv_mode)
    else:
        s = hellinger_sum(dist1, dist2, rvs=rvs, alpha=alpha, rv_mode=rv_mode)
        div = np.log2(s) / (alpha - 1.0)
    return div

def alpha_divergence(dist1, dist2, alpha=1.0, rvs=None, rv_mode=None):
    """
    The alpha divergence of `dist1` and `dist2`, as used in Information
    Geometry. Note there is more than one inequivalent definition of
    "alpha divergence" in the literature, this one comes
    from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_geometry .

    Parameters
    ----------
    dist1 : Distribution
        The first distribution in the alpha divergence.
    dist2 : Distribution
        The second distribution in the alpha divergence.
    alpha : float, 1
        The divergence is a one parameter family in alpha.
    rvs : list, None
        The indexes of the random variable used to calculate the
        alpha divergence between. If None, then the alpha
        divergence is calculated over all random variables.
    rv_mode : str, None
        Specifies how to interpret `rvs` and `crvs`. Valid options are:
        {'indices', 'names'}. If equal to 'indices', then the elements of
        `crvs` and `rvs` are interpreted as random variable indices. If equal
        to 'names', the the elements are interpreted as random variable names.
        If `None`, then the value of `dist._rv_mode` is consulted, which
        defaults to 'indices'.

    Returns
    -------
    dkl : float
        The alpha divergence between `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Raises
    ------
    ditException
        Raised if either `dist1` or `dist2` doesn't have `rvs` or, if `rvs` is
        None, if `dist2` has an outcome length different than `dist1`.

    """

    if alpha == 1.0:
        return kullback_leibler_divergence(dist1, dist2, rvs=rvs, rv_mode=rv_mode)
    if alpha == -1.0:
        return kullback_leibler_divergence(dist2, dist1, rvs=rvs, rv_mode=rv_mode)
    s = double_power_sum(dist1, dist2, (1.0-alpha)/2, (1.0+alpha)/2, rvs=rvs, rv_mode=rv_mode)
    return 4*(1.0-s)/(1.0-alpha*alpha)

def f_divergence(dist1, dist2, f, rvs=None, rv_mode=None):
    """
    The Csiszar f-divergence of `dist1` and `dist2`. Note that it is typically
    more accurate to use a specialized divergence function when available
    due to roundoff errors and small probability effects.

    Parameters
    ----------
    dist1 : Distribution
        The first distribution in the f-divergence.
    dist2 : Distribution
        The second distribution in the f-divergence.
    f : function
        The auxillary function defining the f-divergence
    rvs : list, None
        The indexes of the random variable used to calculate the
        f-divergence between. If None, then the
        f-divergence is calculated over all random variables.
    rv_mode : str, None
        Specifies how to interpret `rvs` and `crvs`. Valid options are:
        {'indices', 'names'}. If equal to 'indices', then the elements of
        `crvs` and `rvs` are interpreted as random variable indices. If equal
        to 'names', the the elements are interpreted as random variable names.
        If `None`, then the value of `dist._rv_mode` is consulted, which
        defaults to 'indices'.

    Returns
    -------
    dkl : float
        The f-divergence between `dist1` and `dist2`.

    Raises
    ------
    ditException
        Raised if either `dist1` or `dist2` doesn't have `rvs` or, if `rvs` is
        None, if `dist2` has an outcome length different than `dist1`.

    """

    rvs, _, rv_mode = normalize_rvs(dist1, rvs, None, rv_mode)
    rvs = list(flatten(rvs))
    normalize_rvs(dist2, rvs, None, rv_mode)

    ps, qs = get_pmfs_like(dist1, dist2, rvs, rv_mode)
    vfunc = np.vectorize(f)
    div = np.nansum(qs * vfunc(np.divide(ps, qs)))

    return div

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Top Tourist Attractions In Chicago
Chicago is known for its dynamic expressions scene, various social attractions, brilliant shopping, and intriguing design. The city appreciates an overall notoriety as a point of convergence of twentieth century engineering and craftsmanship, with planners, for example, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, and specialists. The city likewise has a lot to bring to the table in the wearing circle, as well, with the Chicago Bears in American football, the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls in b-ball. Last, however not least, are the delightful sea shores. Here Are Some Top Tourist Attractions In Chicago:
The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the top tourist attractions in Chicago with countless craftsmanship. The assorted assortment traverses a great many years and incorporates pieces from an assortment of media including painting, prints, photography, design, ornamental expressions, materials, engineering drawings and then some. The primary structure, planned by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge in beaux-expressions style, was worked for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. A few different structures have been included throughout the long term and today the perplexing estimates 400,000 square feet. Book your flight ticket today to travel to your favorite destination in Chicago through American Airlines customer service.
Thousand Years Park
Thousand years Park is important for the bigger Grant Park, situated in downtown Chicago circumscribed by Michigan Avenue toward the west, Columbus Drive toward the east, Randolph Street toward the north, and Monroe Street toward the south. Its highlight is a 110-ton design named Cloud Gate, which has a cleaned, reflected hardened steel surface that was enlivened by fluid mercury. Another top fascination in Millennium Park is Crown Fountain, an interesting current understanding of the antiquated figure of deformity that gives the presence of water spilling out of the mouths of extended pictures of Chicago residents. Other famous activities here incorporate seeing an exhibition at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, an outside show scene, and visiting Lurie Garden, which is available to people in general at no cost all year.
Found near huge numbers of the significant attractions, just as extraordinary shopping, this territory of the city is a helpful spot to base yourself. For convenience recommendations see our rundown of suggested inns here.
Gallery Of Science And Industry
At the north finish of Jackson Park is the Museum of Science and Industry, established in 1933, and ostensibly the most amazing exhibition hall in Chicago. It is committed to the utilization of common laws in innovative and mechanical turn of events. The historical center is believed to be the first in the U.S. to join "hands-on" shows. The MSI highlights lasting and evolving shows, just as an OMNIMAX theater. You can reduce your flight ticket charge through American airlines advantage frequent flyer program.
Implicit 1927 as a gift from the family, the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain is one of the biggest on the planet. Planned in the period's notable Art Deco style, the focal wellspring is encircled by four seahorses that speak to Lake Michigan's four circumscribing states. From 8am to 11pm, the wellspring blasts to life hourly, shooting 15,000 gallons of water through almost 200 spouts every moment to make an amazing presentation. After nightfall, the water show is joined by lights, an unquestionable requirement on the off chance that you are in the area at night. The wellspring is the focal point of convergence of Grant Park, Chicago's broad public space that contains numerous attractions and littler parks like Millennium Park, tantamount to Central Park, one of the top attractions in New York City. One of the recreation center's primary traveler locales is Museum Campus, home to The Field Museum of Natural History, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Adler Planetarium, and Shedd Aquarium.
Willis Tower SkyDeck
Until 1996, when the Petronas Towers were worked in Kuala Lumpur, the 110 story Sears Tower, presently Willis Tower, was the world's tallest office block. While there are presently a few taller structures, the view from here is amazing. On a crisp morning you can see 40 to 50 miles more than four states, and increase an elevated perspective on Chicago's amazing design.
The Willis Tower took three years to construct and was opened to general society in 1974. The structure is 1,453 feet tall with a perception region, called the SkyDeck, on the 103rd floor, 1,353 feet over the ground. A glass box with a glass floor, known as the Ledge, extends away from the SkyDeck, where guests can stand and look straightforwardly down at the city underneath. In the event that this is your first visit to Chicago, the SkyDeck is an unquestionable requirement.
Field Museum Of Natural History
Initially called the Columbian Museum of Chicago, the Field Museum of Natural History was established in 1893 to grandstand the organic and anthropological assortments accumulated for the World Columbian Exposition. The name changed in 1905 to respect Marshall Field, the retail chain proprietor, workmanship supporter, and significant sponsor of the gallery. The perpetual assortment includes roughly 20 million antiquities and examples covering an assortment of orders including geography, herbal science, zoology and human studies. Of unique note are the lasting presentations on Ancient Egypt and the way of life of North, Central and South America and "Sue," the world's biggest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Extraordinary pivoting displays happen consistently.
Lincoln Park is a six mile stretch of green space along with the edge of Lake Michigan, & one of the top tourist attractions in Chicago. This mainstream park is home to the beautiful Lincoln Park Conservatory and the Lincoln Park Zoo, probably the most established zoo in the nation. For the individuals who basically need to appreciate the open air space there are battlegrounds, bicycle trails, running ways, and sea shores. Guests can see various huge sculptures and bits of public craftsmanship inside the recreation center grounds including Augustus Saint Gaudens' Standing Statue of Lincoln (1887).
Chicago Riverwalk And Lakefront Trail
The McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum gets sightseers a very close glance at the components of one of the city's most acclaimed spans, where you can really watch the riggings fill in as it moves. The Riverwalk is home to many feasting alternatives and hosts unique occasions consistently, and you can likewise discover a few stream visits and travels that leave from the Riverwalk.
One of the top tourist attractions in Chicago Lakefront Trail offers delightful perspectives on the city horizon and Lake Michigan, extending 18 miles from 71st Street on the South Side to Ardmore Street on the North Side. It is available to walkers and individuals controlled wheels, and is lined by parks, nurseries, and entertainment territories, just as sea shores. A large number of the city's top attractions are situated along the path, including Navy Pier, Lincoln Park, and Soldier Field.
The Rookery Building
The Rookery Building was planned by draftsmen Daniel Burnham and John Root in 1888, however the inside hall and porch were renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907. This 12-story building has a Roman Revival and Queen Anne-style façade, yet it is the focal light court and the elaborate ironwork of the rich flights of stairs that are the genuine pearl of the structure. The Rookery, named for the enormous number of pigeons that frequented the structure, is recorded on the Register of National Historic Places. The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust conducts voyages through the structure, just as different locales, similar to the Robie House in Hyde Park and the Bach House.
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