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Q: Lambdas: local variables need final, instance variables don't In a lambda, local variables need to be final, but instance variables don't. Why so?

A: The fundamental difference between a field and a local variable is that the local variable is copied when JVM creates a lambda instance. On the other hand, fields can be changed freely, because the changes to them are propagated to the outside class instance as well (their scope is the whole outside class, as Boris pointed out below).
The easiest way of thinking about anonymous classes, closures and labmdas is from the variable scope perspective; imagine a copy constructor added for all local variables you pass to a closure.

A: Within Lambda expressions you can use effectively final variables from the surrounding scope.
Effectively means that it is not mandatory to declare variable final but make sure you do not change its state within the lambda expresssion.
You can also use this within closures and using "this" means the enclosing object but not the lambda itself as closures are anonymous functions and they do not have class associated with them.
So when you use any field (let say private Integer i;)from the enclosing class which is not declared final and not effectively final it will still work as the compiler makes the trick on your behalf and insert "this" (this.i).
private Integer i = 0;
public  void process(){
    Consumer<Integer> c = (i)-> System.out.println(++this.i);
    c.accept(i);
}

A: Here is a code example, as I didn't expect this either, I expected to be unable to modify anything outside my lambda
 public class LambdaNonFinalExample {
    static boolean odd = false;

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
       //boolean odd = false; - If declared inside the method then I get the expected "Effectively Final" compile error
       runLambda(() -> odd = true);
       System.out.println("Odd=" + odd);
    }

    public static void runLambda(Callable c) throws Exception {
       c.call();
    }

 }

Output:
     Odd=true

A: YES, you can change the member variables of the instance but you CANNOT change the instance itself just like when you handle variables.
Something like this as mentioned:
    class Car {
        public String name;
    }

    public void testLocal() {
        int theLocal = 6;
        Car bmw = new Car();
        bmw.name = "BMW";
        Stream.iterate(0, i -> i + 2).limit(2)
        .forEach(i -> {
//            bmw = new Car(); // LINE - 1;
            bmw.name = "BMW NEW"; // LINE - 2;
            System.out.println("Testing local variables: " + (theLocal + i));

        });
        // have to comment this to ensure it's `effectively final`;
//        theLocal = 2;
    }

The basic principle to restrict the local variables is about data and computation validity

If the lambda, evaluated by the second thread, were given the ability to mutate local variables. Even the ability to read the value of mutable local variables from a different thread would introduce the necessity for synchronization or the use of volatile in order to avoid reading stale data.

But as we know the principal purpose of the lambdas

Amongst the different reasons for this, the most pressing one for the Java platform is that they make it easier to distribute processing of collections over multiple threads.

Quite unlike local variables, local instance can be mutated, because it's shared globally. We can understand this better via the heap and stack difference:

Whenever an object is created, it's always stored in the Heap space and stack memory contains the reference to it. Stack memory only contains local primitive variables and reference variables to objects in heap space.

So to sum up, there are two points I think really matter:

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*It's really hard to make the instance effectively final, which might cause lots of senseless burden (just imagine the deep-nested class);

*the instance itself is already globally shared and lambda is also shareable among threads, so they can work together properly since we know we're handling the mutation and want to pass this mutation around;
Balance point here is clear: if you know what you are doing, you can do it easily but if not then the default restriction will help to avoid insidious bugs.
P.S. If the synchronization required in instance mutation, you can use directly the stream reduction methods or if there is dependency issue in instance mutation, you still can use thenApply or thenCompose in Function while mapping or methods similar.

A: In a document of project lambda, State of the Lambda v4, under Section 7. Variable capture, it is mentioned that:

It is our intent to prohibit capture of mutable local variables. The
reason is that idioms like this:
int sum = 0;
list.forEach(e -> { sum += e.size(); });

are fundamentally serial; it is quite difficult to write lambda bodies
like this that do not have race conditions. Unless we are willing to
enforce—preferably at compile time—that such a function cannot escape
its capturing thread, this feature may well cause more trouble than it
solves.

Another thing to note here is, local variables are passed in the constructor of an inner class when you access them inside your inner class, and this won't work with non-final variable because value of non-final variables can be changed after construction.
While in case of an instance variable, the compiler passes a reference of the object and object reference will be used to access instance variables. So, it is not required in case of instance variables.
PS : It is worth mentioning that anonymous classes can access only final local variables (in Java SE 7), while in Java SE 8 you can access effectively final variables also inside lambda as well as inner classes.

A: In Java 8 in Action book, this situation is explained as:

You may be asking yourself why local variables have these restrictions.
  First, there's a key
  difference in how instance and local variables are implemented behind the scenes. Instance
  variables are stored on the heap, whereas local variables live on the stack. If a lambda could
  access the local variable directly and the lambda were used in a thread, then the thread using the
  lambda could try to access the variable after the thread that allocated the variable had
  deallocated it. Hence, Java implements access to a free local variable as access to a copy of it
  rather than access to the original variable. This makes no difference if the local variable is
  assigned to only once—hence the restriction.
  Second, this restriction also discourages typical imperative programming patterns (which, as we
  explain in later chapters, prevent easy parallelization) that mutate an outer variable.

A: Because instance variables are always accessed through a field access operation on a reference to some object, i.e. some_expression.instance_variable. Even when you don't explicitly access it through dot notation, like instance_variable, it is implicitly treated as this.instance_variable (or if you're in an inner class accessing an outer class's instance variable, OuterClass.this.instance_variable, which is under the hood this.<hidden reference to outer this>.instance_variable).
Thus an instance variable is never directly accessed, and the real "variable" you're directly accessing is this (which is "effectively final" since it is not assignable), or a variable at the beginning of some other expression.

A: Putting up some concepts for future visitors:
Basically it all boils down to the point that compiler should be able to deterministically tell that lambda expression body is not working on a stale copy of the variables.
In case of local variables, compiler has no way to be sure that lambda expression body is not working on a stale copy of the variable unless that variable is final or effectively final, so local variables should be either final or effectively final.
Now, in case of instance fields, when you access an instance field inside the lambda expression then compiler will append a this to that variable access (if you have not done it explicitly) and since this is effectively final so compiler is sure that lambda expression body will always have the latest copy of the variable (please note that multi-threading is out of scope right now for this discussion). So, in case instance fields, compiler can tell that lambda body has latest copy of instance variable so instance variables need not to be final or effectively final.  Please refer below screen shot from an Oracle slide:

Also, please note that if you are accessing an instance field in lambda expression and that is getting executed in multi-threaded environment then you could potentially run in problem.

A: It seems like you are asking about variables that you can reference from a lambda body.
From the JLS §15.27.2

Any local variable, formal parameter, or exception parameter used but not declared in a lambda expression must either be declared final or be effectively final (§4.12.4), or a compile-time error occurs where the use is attempted.

So you don't need to declare variables as final you just need to make sure that they are "effectively final". This is the same rule as applies to anonymous classes.

A: First, there is a key difference in how local and instance variables are implemented behind the scenes. Instance variables are stored in the heap, whereas local variables stored in the stack.
If the lambda could access the local variable directly and the lambda was used in a thread, then the thread using the lambda could try to access the variable after the thread that allocated the variable had deallocated it.
In short: to ensure another thread does not override the original value, it is better to provide access to the copy variable rather than the original one.


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I have an idea for a routine using an Amazon Echo; interacting with " Alexa". But it won't be timed, as I'll also be interacting with a volunteer. So need to trigger "Alexa" when needed.
I can pair my iPhone via Bluetooth to it, but not sure what app and remote to use for the audio interaction. So many and quite confusing. Most of what I'm reading looks geared towards music. I imagine I can make the Alexa bits separate tracks.
Just hoping to jump start further research and looking for advice and insight.
A few people including myself use Alexa or Siri for this purpose. You're quite right that there are a great number of ways you can go with this. The challenge for you is that you have someone on stage which makes the timing a bit trickier. Without the person on stage you can use anything to just start the mp3 recording and leave the appropriate timing. You could even leave some dead space at the beginning of the track so there's a delay in you using your remote and the track actually starting.
https://ideaalab.com/en/activacion-invis......istancia (click on CC so you get the English version).
Voted "Canada's Most Inspirational Magician"
I would use Audio Ape or MediaStar Pro.
I would use a fake Alexa, and put it all in qlab. then you can either remotely activate the qlab, or you can have a tech run the sound.


Many Americans refer to their high school experience as a nightmare, but this was absolutely not the case for me. I thrived both socially and academically; I felt comfortable vocalizing my opinion during class, and I was active in the student leadership circles. The notion of 'sexism' remained a concept in abstraction – I never imagined it could affect me personally.
Now, I'm finishing a Gender Studies degree at one of the most prestigious institutions in the US, which also happens to be a women's college. At 22 years old, I'm the chair of the feminist student group and a Gender Studies liaison. My high school self would be scoffing at my current situation.
After finishing up traditional American high school, I spent a year working and traveling around Europe. Winter brought the college application process, and I was cajoled into applying to my current university by my older brother. I argued with him about it for ages. Why would I want to spend four years at an institution that excludes men? I didn't even hang out with that many girls in high school. A bunch of girls living together wouldn't that just be catty and dramatic?
Eventually I chose to trust my brother's wisdom.
Springtime finds me working at a backpacker's hostel in Istanbul. I've been accepted at almost all of my top schools, and I have yet to make a choice. There are three American boys sitting in the lobby, chatting and joking. I take in their casual confidence, their cheeky grins and floppy hair. There is nothing particularly striking about any of them; each represents the easy masculinity of the young American male. One makes a bad joke and I giggle reflexively.
I'll never forget this moment. The giggle bubbles up out of me like an involuntary throat contraction. It's girly and sweet. The boys continue talking, but I'm stuck listening to the reverberations of that giggle. That giggle, reflexively bunched at the base of my subconscious, is an effort to feminize myself around what my body recognizes as a masculine presence. The boy's joke was not funny. I had giggled myself into a moment of clarity. I was feminizing myself around them. I have to work out these issues, I realize. Why should I have to do that work at the same time as my studies?
One part of my high school self has never changed – I am still dedicated to my academic work. At my women's college, the emphasis on collectivity and community leaves no room for cattiness or vicious competition. The absence of the male gaze fosters an environment of body-positivity and self-love. This structure allows for a a sense of welcome for women from all walks of life. I've never encountered peer support in an institution that could rival what I've experienced. The goal is to foster a community in which women have greater access to engage in academic opportunities.
I wish I could tell my high school self all the things I know now. My journey from strong-headed adolescent to ardent feminist has been literally life-changing.
In America, oppression of women has been largely absorbed as infrastructural violence. Femininity is associated not with strength, but passivity. A long history of sexism has erased the femaleness from the cultural narrative, so the majority of celebrated historical figures are men. A women-only space, specifically in an institute of higher learning, cultivates a healthy relationship with one's ego and advances opportunities of academic advancement.
I was lucky that high school was never a nightmare for me. Nowadays, I am confident that attending a women's college will help me fulfill my dreams.


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Uncategorized Sandman Defends Shortened World Sailfish Championship
Sandman Defends Shortened World Sailfish Championship
Defending champion fends off rough weather and competitors in Key West tournament
By Newswire
world sailfish wrapup
Key West, FL – For the second straight year, Team Sandman held off 52 other boats to win the 2012 World Sailfish Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops.
The event's defending champion takes home a total of $316,917.50, after the tournament was called Sunday morning for safety concerns due to high seas and worsening weather conditions.
Sandman, led by captain Scott Leon, boat owner Sandra MacMillan and crew Kyle Sherman of Fort Lauderdale, Domie Adames of Miami and Robby Waddick, Cory Ryan and Wes Stevens of Pompano Beach, finished with 34 releases. Based on the time of the release, Sandman was able to hold off Team Advanced Roofing who also finished with 34 releases. Team 4 Aces made a charge Saturday by releasing five fish in just 42 minutes of fishing to capture third.
"I can't put into words how this feels" said Leon, who joined the team midway through the season. "It's just a great feeling. It's incredible. We have a great team. The crew and captains on the boat are just awesome. We worked really hard to get here."
MacMillan continued Sandman's good fortune, earning the title of Top Female Angler for the second consecutive year. MacMillan released 12 fish, outdistancing Sweet Release's Sarah Hoog-White, who had 8 releases for the tournament.
Sunday also marked the second World Sailfish Championship title for Leon, who led Team Rock Star to the title in 2008.
A field of 53 boats caught a record 630 fish over the first two days. However, Saturday was limited to just 42 minutes of fishing after heavy storms moved through the Key West area and lightning knocked out tournament communications. Overall the event finished with 652 total releases.
That meant the first two days of fishing – Wednesday and Thursday – were critical to Sandman's taking home the big check. Sandman caught 20 fish the opening day and 14 on Thursday before heading into Friday's lay day and wondering what Saturday would hold weather-wise.
"Wednesday and Thursday were critical because I knew they were going to be tailing and I knew we were going to have to catch as many as we could in the first two days because the third day was going to be minimal," Leon said.
The win moved Sandman from 13th in the Sailfish Pro Series standings to an automatic qualifying position in the season-ending tournament, which will be held in two weeks in Miami Beach. The Sailfish Pro Series Championship will feature the top seven teams in the standings fishing in a head-to-head elimination-style tournament to determine the winner.
—Source: World Sailfish Championship
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Q: Android SDK Tool, Revision 12 not erase user information anymore? I just updated my android sdk tool to revision 12 today. I usually check the box "wipe user data" before launching an AVD. But now it seems like rev 12 is keeping all my settings (not resetting the simulator to the original state). Anyone else runs into this problem? Is the only solution just to create a new AVD every time?
Edit: The reason I am wiping user data every time is due to my app is coded to copy over a default database on the first use. i am using different initial db to test different things.

A: I know this isn't the exact answer you're looking for but, if it helps, Android Documentation states that you can start your AVD (using command line) with some additional Options to wipe the user data i.e.: c:\android-sdk-windows\tools>emulator -avd hero -wipe-data
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html
Best
-serkan

A: If you have your avd's in /root/.android/myAPI8.avd
owned by root
and you now try to run "emulator -wipe-data myAPI8.avd" with user jenkins
the jenkins user is not permitted to delete files,
and -wipe-data fails silently,
BUT the emulator still starts with the old user data in place.
If you remove the /root/.android/myAPI8.avd folder,
the jenkins user will now fail with "SDL init failure" instead.
I don't have a workaround.
You may have a user permission issue,
not an SDK issue.

A: This appears to be an acknowledged bug in R12 of the developer tools.  See issue 18444

A: Click the Tools menu
Tools--> Android --> AVD Manager
Select your AVD and click the dropdown and select wipe data and confirm it by clicking YES.

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SWING MAG on Being Queer in the Digital Age
What does Singapore's LGBTQ community need more of from ourselves?
Zine culture in the Instagram age is unstoppable. Zines are accessible, they're now and they're more prolific than ever. They tell stories. Quickly. Weaving and darting around cultural gatekeepers, publishers and censors.
In a country that continues to reconcile its laws that criminalise gay sex with a relentless global march into hyper-modernity, zines offer the perfect workaround. They let us take the pulse of and connect with the community from the comfort of our phone. For many, it can be the only safe space they know.
With backgrounds in publishing and visual design, co-founders Rhyhan (21) and Gerald (22) have grown SWING MAG into one of Singapore's most loved LGBTQA+ zines. Op-eds, visual art, stories and perspectives of underserved narratives are a mainstay here.
B-Side speaks with SWING MAG about finding a collective voice amid the noise.
Note: interview has been edited for clarity.
SWING Mag's founders – Rhyhan (Left), Gerald (Right)
Tell us about Swing Mag's moment of conception. Why now?
Gerald: I think there's no "turning point" at which Swing was conceived. The queer movement was in full swing, and Rhyhan and I were just fresh from serving as volunteers in Pink Dot '16. And the debate has really shifted in the past few years: the IPS survey, Li Huanwu's marriage, the repeal of 377A in India and the repeal movement it spun in Singapore, and Taiwan's legalisation of marriage.
It might not directly seem like it, but Swing was conceived as a first response to the things happening in our society tangential to the queer community.
Rhyhan: Swing was conceived as a result of pent-up emotions that I felt in response to the LGBTQA+ community in Singapore. I was frustrated that the community was overwhelmingly represented by picture-perfect Instagram influencers and excluded those on the sidelines — those who didn't conform to the gender binary, those whose sexual identity didn't fall into a neat category, and those who didn't possess an idealised (and often unattainable) physical appearance.
So I think Swing had to happen now to support this counter narrative by providing a platform where the LGBTQA+ community can take refuge and share personal stories that can be discomforting.
G: We're doing a series on being queer in school right now in response to a local JC asking a gay couple to take down their Instagram picture and another prestigious local school dropping an LGBTQA+ person from their TED Talk. We provide a platform for better discourse, hopefully for some sort of catharsis and self-reflection for a community that sorely needs one.
How has the response been from the community since launching?
G: Good! A lot of enthusiastic responses to our last open call, and we're literally struggling to get all of them on the page. We've had people email us. One lady from Australia told us about her queer Muslim son and her reading about the Malay-Muslim drag queen that we covered in our first printed zine. That was unexpected as we thought our reach was only within Singapore.
R: Our contributors always thank us for giving them a voice, but I think the biggest thank you should go to them, for daring to share their stories and letting others in the same situation know that they aren't alone.
It signals to us that there is a community that wants to hear these stories, and it needs a platform to talk about stories that are unheard.
How has the consumption of LGBTQA+ culture via social media impacted the way it's evolving?
R: Definitely made it more important for one to keep up their appearances in the LGBTQA+ community — putting their best face forward, finding the wittiest caption and using the latest slang introduced in the community.
G: I'm a great believer in social media helping the queer community gain its voice, but I'm also highly sceptical of its impact. For one, I don't believe in the wholesale import of Western-style queer activism. Activism in Singapore is a "delicate dance", as Lynette Chua put it. Western activism is a lot of militancy, aggression and in-your-face demands that I feel might be a bit too much for Singapore to chew.
Queer activism is a set of steps you have to ascend. Before marriage, there is decriminalisation, and before decriminalisation, I would argue there is a set of problems unique to Singapore that we can't look to the (mostly Western) models set by social media.
How do we solve majoritarian chauvinism, for example, or break the standard of male gay beauty? Social media won't provide the answer.
G: What will provide it is active discourse and debate, but it's really crowded out by social media's dopamine-fuelled critical mass: sex appeal, SEOs, click-bait, PR and all that jazz. Unable to avoid a cliché here, but it really is a double-edged sword.
R: It has created a narrow definition of which parts of LGBTQA+ life are worth sharing. It builds a culture where the gravity of LGBTQA+ issues is diminished in favour of content that gets more "likes".
Do you feel a pressure to represent 'everyone' with Swing Mag? How do you balance it with the need to curate your content and the content that actually gets submitted to the magazine?
G: This is really tough. Our job descriptions have fluctuated since we started. First we were editors-in-chief, then publishers, then curators, and now we're what I would call "providers of a platform", like that notice board you see in the CC. This definitely comes from the pressure to represent everyone. The advantage of this is that we can get to really capture the dynamic of the queer community in its full force. The downside is that sometimes Swing is left without a clear direction.
R: By putting lesser-known stories at the forefront, we ensure those with similar stories but who cannot share their identities feel accepted and worthy.
G: Curating content is important because you have to shave off stuff. It's like woodcarving; shave off too much or too little and you get bad quality work.
R: One of our most recent stories, Finding Myself At 21, was about the writer's experience as a LGBTQA+ individual from a conservative Indian family and a convent school. In mainstream LGBTQA+ media, we often don't hear stories about those who are from Singapore's minority racial groups.
Ultimately, I think stories that offer a unique perspective is what Swing should be about.
G: That's something we should work on in the future — give the content we publish more incubation time, consult the queer community and people in content-publishing, and process the stuff people want to give us into stuff that people want us to give them back. We still have a lot to learn.
What's an aspect of queer youth culture you wish we focused on more often? Why?
R: Stories from the margins. We need to keep reminding ourselves that while being queer is a label that unites the community, there are still so many different parts of someone's identity that will act to exclude them.
G: Intersectionality. The queer community has always been intersectional with the feminist community and the minority communities. This is because all these communities have experience with being the Other.
Yet, we still have rampant misogyny and racism in the queer community.
We can't be intersectional when we don't want to understand other communities. And when we aren't intersectional, we lose out on the potential strength that we have if we unite our fronts.
What's an aspect of LGBTQA+ youth culture you wish we focused on less often? Why?
R: Face value. Specifically, the idea that one's public face, especially online, are accurate markers of their identities and worth as individuals. This is especially a problem because of the limited physical spaces and communities where LGBTQA+ youth can learn about themselves. This means that social media becomes the primary means for LGBTQA+ youth to do so.
G: Pride. This whole fixation on pride is good, but it also puts unnecessary pressure on people to come out. That's discounting all the other factors at play, like religion, socioeconomic status, family values, personal values, etc. Come out whenever you are ready, or don't come out at all. Different strokes for different folks.
What does Singapore's LGBTQA+ community need more of from ourselves?
R: An awareness of other LGBTQA+ folks who cannot easily find spaces or social circles to belong to.
One's race, religion, physical appearance and socioeconomic status are powerful identity markers that can limit this. We should be aware of the circumstances of LGBTQA+ folks with whom we may not often interact, but whose struggles are equally valid and important.
G: Self-introspection. Every year, Pink Dot sees itself accrue more participants and volunteers. It's a huge organised mass that gives our community visibility. But we need to see what's wrong within our own community. Exclusion in a community premised on inclusion is not a good look.
And there are platforms for this. Indignation has forums and discussions that you can look forward to. Gayhealth.sg does a lot of great PR campaigns to improve gay health habits in Singapore.
Gay culture is so much more than circuit parties and ladies' night. I don't blame the community, though. Sometimes, it's easy to drown out the problems with blaring techno and tequila shots. I say this from personal experience.
What are your future plans for Swing Mag? Is there anything we can look forward to?
R: In terms of content distribution, I'd like to come up with a better strategy, especially on Facebook! We primarily use Instagram now, but I think our posts will get greater exposure on Facebook.
G: We have another series in the works — it's about queer places and spaces. We hope to come up with another zine output. The zine imprint part of Swing is dormant and I hope we can revive that in the style of the queer activists from the '60s.
R: I hope to also create some merch for Swing! Swing is not-for-profit, which means that the cost of running the website comes directly from our savings. We've gotten a lot of encouragement in terms of some of the promotional designs we've created, which are spinoffs of local logos but with a LGBTQA+ twist, so we might start selling them on our website to finance the website.
G: I also hope that we can intensify our first-response to queer issues. Really ask the community to respond to the things going on around us and post them hot on the press. We need a participative queer community, which I'm sure won't be a problem.
Ok, quickfire round.
Underrated local LGBTQ icon:
R: Anita Sarawak, never afraid to challenge what a Malay woman should look like and always real!
G: Sun Ho. If Kill Bill isn't camp, I don't know what is.
Favourite LGBTQA+ space in Singapore:
R: Hong Lim Park during Pink Dot
G: The Projector. Queer-friendly.

Coming out for the first time is:
R: … tempting
G: Tiring
Coming out for the fifth time is:
R: … less tempting
Singaporean LGBTQA+ culture is:
G: In need of more discourse
R: OK. It should be more than OK, though.


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Hillary Clinton to Speak at the TIME 100 Summit on April 23 in New York, NY
NEW YORK, April 3, 2019 — Today it was revealed that TIME is launching the TIME 100 Summit. An additional live event to the yearly TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people. On April 23, 2019, at Center415 in New York. Leaders from previous and current TIME 100 lists from a variety of industries. Including business, entertainment, government, health, and science, will gather for the day-long TIME 100 Summit.
More speakers are going to be announced
Robert Mueller's report
The occasion will highlight the extraordinary advancements a few TIME 100 leaders are making. Inspire interdisciplinary cooperation for a better world. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, screenwriter, director, and producer Ryan Murphy, activist and founder of the #MeToo movement Tarana Burke, actor, author, and businesswoman Tyra Banks, AI expert Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Bumble Whitney Wolfe Herd, chef and activist José Andrés, activist, host, and author Janet Mock, geneticist George Church, CEO of Thrive Global Arianna Huffington, transplant surgeon Giuliano Test
"The TIME 100 Summit marks an exciting and important new chapter in TIME's history". Said TIME editor in chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal. "Over the last sixteen years,. TIME has built not only a globally recognized annual list and gala, but one of the world's greatest leadership communities. The Summit is the next step in the evolution of the TIME 100 list into a series of events. That tap into the power of this community and encourage collaboration, action and progress."
In the coming weeks, more speakers will be announced. On April 18, 2019, in conjunction with the publication of the 2019 TIME 100 list. The final lineup for the TIME 100 Summit will be revealed. This list will include honorees from this year's TIME 100.
"The TIME 100 is not just a list of the world's most influential people—it's an opportunity to connect them". Said Dan Macsai, editorial director of the TIME 100. "And when you connect extraordinary people, they can do extraordinary things. We are thrilled to make that even more possible at the Summit."
On April 18, 2019. TIME will release its 16th annual list honouring the activism, creativity, and accomplishment of the world's 100 most influential people. After the TIME 100 Summit on April 23, 2019, in New York. The TIME 100 gala will honour the 100 most influential people in the world for the 15th time. Visit time.com/time100 to learn more about the TIME 100.
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton stated on Tuesday that the special counsel Robert Mueller's report "raises some serious questions". But it is only the beginning of a reckoning on election meddling.
However, the former Democratic presidential candidate said Congress should instead seriously examine. Whether President Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanours. She refrained from calling for immediate impeachment proceedings.
If elected officials believe that he did. "Then I think it is the obligation of Congress to put forward the articles of impeachment". Clinton said at an appearance in New York City for the Time 100 Summit. Where she called for the full, unredacted report to be released.
Clinton has indicated she "should undertake something in a really serious way based on evidence". Rather than a predetermined result for
She compared it to her time as a young lawyer working on the impeachment case against Richard Nixon. Which she claimed gained the public's trust and confidence due to its professionalism and apolitical approach.
Clinton added that Trump benefited from the Department of Justice's position that an incumbent president cannot be indicted
"I think there's enough there that any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted". She said.
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Listed in top spot on the current Under 18 Boys' World Rankings and keeping the pen-hold grip style of play alive; Xu Haidong is the leading name on duty at the forthcoming 2018 Hang Seng Hong Kong Junior and Cadet Open.
Play commences on Wednesday 1st August and concludes on Sunday 5th August.
The winner in Italy, he is the top seed in the Junior Boys' Singles event ahead of Thailand's Yanapong Panagitgun, Singapore's Pang Yew En Koen and Japan's Takeru Kashiwa. Chinese Taipei's Tai Ming-Wei, Germany's Kay Stumper and Meng Fanbo, alongside Aoto Asazu, also from Japan, complete the top eight names.
Notably of that group both Aoto Asazu and Takeru Kashiwa will be competing in no less than their seventh ITTF World Junior Circuit tournament of the year; the best for Aoto Asazu being a quarter-final finish in both Belgium and Sweden, for Takeru Kashiwa, the runners up spot in Slovakia.
Similarly, Yanapong Panagitun and Pang Yew En Koen have both enjoyed success on their travels and at opposite sides of the world. Yanapong Panagitgun was the runner up in Paraguay, Pang Yew En Koen won in the Cook Islands. Somewhat differently, Tai Ming-Wei, Kay Stumper and Meng Fanbo have yet to make their mark.
However, it is the Junior Boys' Team and Cadet Boys' Team events that commence play in Hong Kong.
Xu Haidong lines up alongside Lin Yebo and Niu Guankai. In early July, Lin Yebo was the runner up on home soil in Taicang, whilst Niu Guankai was on duty with Xu Haidong at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Riva del Garda.
In the Italian resort Niu Guankai reached the semi-final round of the Junior Boys' Singles event losing narrowly to Sweden's Truls Moregard; a notable performance considering at the time he was only 15 years old. Earlier in the year, he had won the Boys' Singles title at the ITTF World Cadet Challenge in Suva, having also retained his Cadet Boys' Singles crown at the Asian Junior and Cadet Championships in Asan. Notably the previous year the player he beat in the final was a certain young Japanese opponent named Tomokazu Harimoto.
Thailand's Yanapong Panagitgun, Supakron Pankhaoyoy and Tananan Tantakool form the second seeded combination followed by the European combination of Frenchman Dorian Zheng who teams with Kay Stumper and Meng Fanbo. Singapore, represented by Josh Shao Han Chua, Pang Yew En Koen and Gerald Yu Zong Jun complete the top four seeded outfits.
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Hungary's president visits Ukraine for first time
Hungarian President Katalin Novak (centre) is the highest-ranking Hungarian politician to visit the country since the Russian invasion. / Facebook
By Tamas Csonka in Budapest November 28, 2022
Hungary's President Katalin Novak travelled to Kyiv to meet her Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy on November 27 in a visit widely seen as an attempt by Hungary's pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to score good points as the country faces the suspension of vital EU funds..
Novak is the highest-ranking Hungarian politician to visit the country since the Russian invasion.
Hungary's first female president, previously a deputy of Fidesz, was invited by Zelensky to participate in the Grain from Ukraine humanitarian scheme launched on the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, the great Ukrainian famine of 1932/1933, to promote grain exports to countries in Asia and Africa that are the most vulnerable to famine and drought.
Novak traveled via Poland by train to the war-stricken capital.
"Securing the food supply chain and the undisturbed flow of goods is not only a dry issue of free trade or market economy but a matter of life and death," Novak said, adding that Hungarians were not only aware of the horrors of the Holodomor, but belonged to the few nations that commemorate the tragedy.
She cited a memorial in central Budapest, near Elizabeth Bridge, and the Hungarian parliament holding a commemoration on the anniversary. Parliament has given unanimous support to a resolution issued about the great famine, she added.
Novak said it was everyone's duty to help victims and those in need, adding that the greatest humanitarian scheme in Hungary's history was underway, launched to help Ukrainians.
"Vladimir Putin's responsibility for this war is crystal clear," she stressed.
In June, the Ukrainian President invited Hungary's rightwing prime minister to Ukraine, but there has been no reaction from the prime minister's office since. Orban is considered Russia's closest ally in the EU and has bashed EU sanctions against Russia, despite having approved all measures introduced by Brussels, except those related to gas, oil and nuclear energy.
The government launched an advertising campaign and a consultation survey to gauge the view of Hungarians on sanctions, but the guided questions are widely seen as a communication tool to push the blame on the EU for the deteriorating economic situation as Hungarians face surging food and energy prices.
Hungary's strongman has annoyed its allies by delaying the ratification of the Nato accession of Finland and Sweden and blocking support to Ukraine. To ease the pressure and show some sign of cooperation, Orban announced that Budapest would provide €187mn in financial aid to Ukraine as its contribution to a planned EU support package worth up to €18bn, but rejected the idea that the EU should take out a loan to help the war-stricken country.
Novak met with ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia on Sunday. There were 150,000 Hungarians living in Ukraine's western region before the war, but tens of thousands have fled since. Novak said that 500 Ukrainian-Hungarians who fought in the war were wounded or died since the war broke out.
Novak's visit to Ukraine triggered a sense of confusion among Fidesz voters and unveiled what has already been a constant and deep anti-Ukrainian sentiment among the radical-right voters, many of whom support Our Homeland party, which passed the 5% threshold in the April election.
Social media, including Novak's own Facebook page, was flooded with furious comments, calling the president's visit a shame or the Ukrainian leadership a Nazi regime, but many comments were simply anti-Semitic rants.
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Mulatu Gemechu, deputy secretary of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress, spoke a day after the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, who said he was leaving office to smooth reforms.
Mulatu said Ethiopia needed a completely new political system after years of political unrest in the two most populous regions of the Horn of Africa country. "Ethiopians now need a government that respects their rights, not one that keeps beating and killing them," he told Reuters.
Rights advocates have frequently criticised Ethiopia's government for mass arrests and long jail terms handed to political opponents and journalists.
Pressure on the ruling coalition, in power since 1991, began building in 2015 when protests against an urban development plan for the capital Addis Ababa sparked larger demonstrations demanding more freedom and civil rights.
More than 6,000 political prisoners have been freed since January as the government struggles to placate simmering anger among the two largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and Amharic, who complain they are under-represented in the corridors of power.
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A wave of strikes and demonstrations hit towns near Addis Ababa this week as protesters successfully pressed demands for jailed opposition leaders to be released. On Friday, the U.S. embassy suspended travel outside the capital for its staff.
The Oromo Federalist Congress is one of seven parties that make up the biggest opposition coalition, MEDREK.
Mulatu's views were echoed in the Oromo heartlands of central Ethiopia, the site of a series of violent protests against Hailemariam's government in 2015 and 2016.
"Our land can't continue being taken from us. Oromos should not be jailed for exercising their rights," said Dinkissa, a university student in Ambo, a town in the region.
"Oromos have been always mistreated. His (the prime minister's) resignation will not mean anything unless our rights are respected. Whoever comes to power should know that. Otherwise, we will not stop protesting."
The government has also grappled with several armed groups in the past decade, some of which it has designated as terrorists.
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Filmmakers success down to graft and selfbelief
Filmmaker's success down to graft and self-belief
Ali Rasoul, 21, is making a name for himself, working with film and music celebrities
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At the age of just 21 Ali Rasoul has achieved extraordinary things.
He's rubbed shoulders with royals and Hollywood A-listers, his face has been on a billboard, he's started his own business, and he's chasing his dreams – big dreams.
The University of Portsmouth film graduate learned that against all received wisdom, he could indeed run before he walked.
Ali has travelled the world filming some of the big names in the Afrobeats music genre. As well as films, he works with social media influencers, and as a filmmaker and photographer in the fashion industry.
He's been interviewed by Lorraine Kelly, met Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings and Prince Charles, and been invited to the Grammy Awards, and afterwards to Alicia Keys' house to party with Bradley Cooper, Jessie J and Channing Tatum.
He works with some of the world's best-known brands, including Nike, Universal Music Group and Warner Bros Music, and his clients include Spike Lee, Jordan Peele and Tory Lanez.
He says the only thing stopping others from doing the same is self-belief and a lot of work.
Ali said: "Someone needs to believe in themselves for others to."
Someone needs to believe in themselves for others to.
Ali Rasoul, Filmmaker
He graduated with a BA in film production this summer and throughout his studies was often asked by other students how he managed to make such a success of his creative life, before he'd even graduated.
"People often ask me how did I do this? How can they do this? There is no mystery. It's about work, work, work.
"Young people are told all the time they need to start at the bottom, be a runner, make the coffee. That's not true. If you dream big, you can do whatever you want to do."
Ali was born in Sweden to an Iraqi family who then moved to England when Ali was at primary school. He speaks Arabic, English and enough Swedish to get by.
As a teenager living in London, he was running with a bad crowd.
"I wasn't a well behaved kid," he says.
"One day I just thought I want to be more than this."
He saw an advertisement from the British Film Institute for a free three-week summer holiday course in film, and applied, alongside 66,000 others. He was one of the 66 people given a place and that course changed his life.
"When I was there, at the BFI, we were surrounded by Oscar and Bafta winners. There were pictures of them everywhere and some big names were on the premises or came to speak to us. It was my moment of discovery. I knew then I was a creative.
"The course taught me to dream big, to create my own path."
He stopped hanging out with his friends to avoid getting into trouble, and instead started going to a café in Shoreditch, in London, a known hangout for people working in the creative industries.
"I was on my own, but I was fuelled with a drive to create, create, create. I was networking, just talking with people, hearing about their worlds. I just wanted to learn."
He was drawn to music videos, especially the Afrobeats genre, and started making films of artists.
He applied to university and started a three-year BA in film production in 2017. Alongside his studies he was often on the road, filming musicians at work.
"I wasn't thinking about earning money, I was investing my time so I could learn. As well as musicians, I was also coming across influencers and people in fashion and so I started working with them on photography and film.
"I was networking with so many creative people. I remember at one event being overwhelmed. I was 17. I was standing there surrounded by some huge names and I thought this isn't normal. I was the youngest person there by a long way. I was mentally battling with being there.
Ali Rasoul , Filmmaker
"But the more I worked, the stronger my CV became. If I'd filmed with one musician that opened doors to filming with others.
"Once, I was filming at the O2 arena. I was on stage, I was working and for a moment I did cry a little bit – I thought I don't belong here, even though I worked and worked and worked to be there. I didn't have any of my childhood friends to tell. I'd made that transition away from them, but sometimes that feels lonely, you know? For so many teenagers in London that's very much an issue.
"I wanted my friends to see what I was seeing, bigger possibilities. Like look, these are places you could be, these are the kind of interesting conversations you could be having."
In January this year, he was invited to attend the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. It was his proudest moment.
"I've never been to places like that, around so many people I look up to. I was at Alicia Keys' house and there was Bradley Cooper, Channing Tatum and Jessie J and they were all just there. I thought if I'm here with these people, I belong here. I've worked so hard and I've got to keep working hard, now is not the time to rest, a big door has opened for me.
"Adults have this long background full of people who can help them, but a lot of kids don't have that.
"I have made a lot of friends, but those childhood friends are the people you trust completely, who when they say well done, you know they aren't faking it. That's a big mental health thing, for me. I am dealing with it, and I still check up on my childhood friends digitally, but I have to be careful, I need to protect myself."
I was on stage, I was working and for a moment I did cry a little bit – I thought I don't belong here, even though I worked and worked and worked to be there.
Ali met a fellow university student at one networking event and she introduced herself as "just a student".
"I said I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. What projects do you really want to work on?"
"And she said she wanted to be a writer, so I said try introducing yourself as that.
"Believing in yourself and speaking your truth is very powerful.
"The creative industries are very diverse. You could meet anyone. You might meet a publicist, and who knows what could come of that? Everyone at these networking events is there to expand their network. If they didn't want to meet new people, they'd stay at home. So there they are, and there you are, and I'd say, 'hey, my name's Ali, what do you do?'
"Someone would ask what I'm doing and I'd say I'm a filmmaker and sometimes that person would 'oh, are you available next week?'
"You have to believe in yourself if you want others to."
As a student he says he treated his tutors' assignments as if they came from a client and he was building his professional portfolio.
"I knew I wanted to establish myself before I finished my course. University creates a discipline – you have to wake up, be there, hand things in. It's a time to grow up. You put on a bit of weight, so you sign up for the gym and you get yourself there. Or you negotiate with the landlord over extending your lease. These are all life lessons which are really important for working in industry."
He describes the city of Portsmouth as very creative, diverse and welcoming. "Everything is there, plus it's small, so you can walk everywhere, and save money."
Ali's website can be found here.
BA (Hons) Film Production


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Q: A Memory of Light Question on the Epilogue How did Rand al'Thor do what he did at the end of Memory of light?

  By instinct he reached for the One Power to light [the pipe]. He found
 nothing. No saidin in the void, nothing. He paused, then smiled and
 felt an enormous relief. He could not channel. Just to be certain, he
 tentatively reached for the True Power. Nothing there either.

 ... He inspected it for a moment in the darkness, then thought of the
 pipe being lit. And it was.

How was this achieved, and what are the implications?

A: The Sharans have their prophecy of Bao the Wyld, who could weave without weaves.

 Both Demandred and Moghedien use the True Power to simulate this and convince the Sharans that they were Bao.

Whilst we don't know the full details of Sharans' prophecies, (hopefully the forthcoming book encyclopedia or River of Souls will have these) it is my belief that this is what Rand did.
I.e that Demandred and Moghedien were imposters and Rand is the rightful Bao who can fulfill the prophesies of weaving without weaves without cheating and using the true power.

A:
 He is now able to alter the pattern himself after the fight worn the dark one. Just as he was able to create worlds to fight the dark ones essence he can now do the same while living in the pattern itself. He is both within the pattern and outside of it as well.

A: I have two theories, one that I believe is more likely than the other.
We'll start with the less likely one:

 Rand al'Thor was able to light the pipe by manipulating chance as a Ta'veren. In a previous book, he made a threat to Cadsuane Sedai, saying that he could stop her heart through chance by willing it to be so. He could have lit the pipe by willing it to be so in a similar manner. However, I believe this is likely: Rand should no longer be a Ta'veren after he defeated the Dark One.

I believe my second is more likely, though it has very strong implications:

 When he was battling the Dark One, he was able to manipulate threads of the Pattern itself to show what the world would look like after killing Shai'tan. Additionally, he was able to channel Saidin and Saidar in their purest forms. Since he can no longer channel weaves of fire directly, he lit the pipe by manipulating the Pattern itself through his will. This leaves him as immensely powerful, far more than any channelers that remain alive, though I believe he would choose not to exercise that power in the future.

A: Rand burned out his ability to channel the One Power sealing the Dark one's prison and can no longer channel the True Power because the Dark One is sealed. After going outside of the pattern Rand has learned that he is the hand of the Creator and thus can remake the world as he sees fit by controlling the Pattern.
That's my theory but will someone-for the love of God- ask Brandon Sanderson?

A: Here is what I think.  Rand saw that both killing the dark one and the dark one winning accentually where the same thing.  With that I think he took the dark one into himself creating the balance the world needed to survive.  that is why he has the mark of the dark one on his eye and that is why he has the ability to change the pattern with a mere thought.

A: Just my (probably controversial) theory that I picked up from my personalized signed, #266 copy (cue jealousy except from those people ahead of me in line)

Rand al'Thor and Moridin are two sides of the same person. This explains Ishamael's comments
in the early books about them fighting over and over, throughout the ages.
Also, I think it gives a pretty good reason why Rand was essentially able to hop over.
Now obviously, there could only really be one thing in the series have a dual nature like
that, the creator himself. Note also the time when Rand understands that "The Dark One was
not the enemy.
It never had been" p.891
I think this means that the whole Dragon vs. the Dark One thing has been an extension
of the creator's internal struggle between good an evil. In the end though, he finds balance
(as is pretty key in a lot of other epic fantasies) with Rand's mind in Moridin's body.
Also bear in mind, then when Rand woke up, he had a single saa in his eye, which is
normally indicative of the Dark One's power, showing that he is now in balance between
light and dark, to become the creator he was meant to be.
 Conclusion: If Rand's the creator who made the pattern in the first place, what's
 lighting a pipe to him?

A: While sealing the Dark One away Rand was able to completely access the essence of the Dark One, the True Power.  We know from many instances that the Dark One could implant one's soul into the body of another.  Rand acknowledged before re-sealing the Bore that his lifeblood was flowing from him, so in his last moments, using the Dark One's powers, he placed his soul into Moridin's body.  As he stumbles out of the cave he is actually in Moridin's body carrying Rand's old body out of the cave.
Since this happens using both the True Power and One Power, he is left with the saa, and becomes the true balance he realizes the world needs.  For this reason he is able to manipulate the pattern in a way that even the Dark One and Creator can not.
At least that's what I think.

A: I like all the posts so far.  There are some very interesting possibilities.
I think that what we learn of his children with Aviendha is a clue to this perhaps. They are always channeling...always.
That said, here is my stab at this... I think that the deal here is that the Dark One and the Creator are one and the same.  I think a clue to that is that the Dark One's power is called the True Power.  This is also apparent to me when Rand realizes that life without the Dark One would be just as bad as life with the Dark One.
Others have said it: the pattern is balance.  Balance can only come when the objects on either side of the scale are the same.  It is the scale that is our problem.  It is not really there, but by humanity perceiving its existence it is real and is what enables us to (falsely) see a difference between good and evil.
As has been mentioned the Creator has been absent as a singular consciousness.  The Dark One and the Creator are two parts of the same whole (there is all kinds of imagery throughout the series to support this, such as the ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai; the overall undertone and current of the series also fits in with this thought).
You can't have a creator, an Alpha and Omega, and then have a power or force that is beyond his ability to control (by the way, that statement holds true in real life as well; God and the Devil are really just God).
I think that the Rand / Dark One storyline highlights the duality that infects human eyes.  After the last battle Rand now realizes that the duality is a lie.  It is one, though, that humans can't overcome.
Having touched the threads of creation he has transcended the limitations of normal people and can, because of his experiences and realizations from when he was outside of the pattern, manipulate the very threads of life and creation because he realizes that everything that is and is not are part of the same whole. So he lit that tabac because he now sees that he is the fire and the tabac and Rand and Moridin and the Dark One and the Creator.  "He will be one with the land..."

A:
 I guess that rather than using the One Power he has changed the pattern.

A: I've thought about this a little, and I wanted to add my thoughts to see if they are helpful or if anyone can build off of them. Building off some of what was suggested before me:

*

*He is fairly clearly not Ta'veren, based on Perrin's earlier comment.

*He is not channeling either the One Power or the True Power, based on the original quote. What's more, when Rand wakes up, the text reads "Rand al'Thor, just Rand al'Thor". By this, the author means 'and not the Dragon Reborn.' Since the Dragon can channel, but Rand presumably would not be able to, this means Therin is gone and Rand cannot channel.

*He isn't in the World of Dreams. It just wouldn't make sense. I doubt Min could even get the the World of Dreams, as she is not a channelor or a Dreamwalker. Same for Tam and Lan. Anyway, I sincerely doubt that Sanderson would end a book by saying "...but it was all a dream." I've read everything else he has written, and I don't think it fits his style.

*I obviously don't know the answer, as I've gone about eliminating theories that don't seem possible. That leaves manipulating the pattern or something else. I think the answer is partially connected with his body switch, but not completely. Moridin could channel too, so why wouldn't Rand be able to in Moridin's body?

*Something else I think is interesting is the fact that the Rand-and-Moridin body switch happened in the tunnel. So Rand, in Moridin's body, carried Rand's body out of the tunnel at the end of the confrontation before collapsing. The people at the cave entrance saw Moridin walking out carrying an unconscious Rand, and decided to heal them both. I think we can attribute that to Min's guidance, based on some viewing she had, but I think it's interesting.

*My guess at the answer is that Rand is actually the inverse of the Dark One (I think someone else mentioned the Creator as a possilibity? Maybe a part of the Creator, who is never represented as a single conscious being?). I think the Dark One has the power to change the world with a thought (before he was sealed), so Rand may have that power as well. I don't think it makes more sense that Rand can mess with the pattern while in the pattern, as that sounds dangerous. If Balefire unravels the pattern, so too would messing with the threads. It seems easier to just say Rand has the power of thought, more like channeling without the weaves. Obviously, there are no quotes to back this up, as Sanderson left it vague intentionally.

A: Something I'd like to point out: a lot of comments are brushing over the potential immensity of Rand's merging of the One Power (both halves) and the True Power to weave TDO's prison anew. I took away from it that the only possibility is that he is left with this new way of channeling. And as far as I can remember, nobody else channels at all after the incident in the bore. Either way we can't be totally sure.

A: I believe the answer hides in the Prophecies, he is one with the land. As such the land is a part of the Pattern, so perhaps this is actually a combination of both manipulating the Pattern as the Dragon Reborn, and being the Patterns Ultimate Guardian. Or possibly it comes from perhaps as the Patterns tool, he is allowed to remain within the pattern, waiting for the next cycle he is needed in. The Pattern is Balance,  so perhaps he may stay because if he is needed the Pattern will be deteriorating anyways so a ready Answer with all the knowledge needed would make sense?

A: Glad to see this online.  I think after reading everyone elses comments I may have a good theory.  I think our math wiz's out there could agree.
Take Perrin's ability to enter and exit the world of dreams.  Faster and Faster he goes as he battles Lord Luc.  Rand also learns how to create/enter his own worlds as he battles the Dark Lord.
Is it out of the question that Rand can enter any alternate world he wishes (as Perrin enters the world of dreams)?  Faster and faster Rand can enter alternate worlds.  Enter a world and jump to a new place and then return to real world. Enter a world, light a pipe, and return to the real world with a lit pipe.
Now apply a little calculus.  Assume that Rand can make the switch between worlds and think about lighting a pipe as fast as the thought can be made.  Infinitely fast.

A: He applied what he learned as the dragon. He understands the nature of the universe, and has successfully stayed the dark one's hand. After having gone through what he did, his thread is permanently altered, and he is able to hold communion with the wheel itself, impose his will, and alter events around him with ease.
He didn't imbue the dark one's essence, that is a silly suggestion. He attained a kind of nirvana, and by knowing the nature of existence, is able to successfully impose his will on the pattern. He was already beginning to show the ability to do this throughout the series with his "Taveren" abilities, it's how he fulfilled the seanchan prophecies and illicited the aid of The daughter of 9 moons.
He leveled up. He attained Nirvana. He retired. It's not the biggest mystery in the world.

A: My explanation? below:

 i think he might be dead and in the world of dreams? since he will be woven out again for the time the next Dragon is needed.

 that makes sense because he's wondering which one of the three will follow him and he wills the pipe to be lit.
 doesn't make sense for cadsuane seeing him.
 who is the lady in aiel clothes? is that supposed to be alivia?

A: Not sure. He might have a new power or elayne or aviendha lit it for him after reading his mind through the bond.

A: Here is one of my theories based on my most recent read (last night).

Rand channeled Saidar. First, Casuanne Sedai recognizes Rand as something and there's extensive work showing that female channelers can recognize other channelers by some instinct. Second, while Rand was just channeling Saidar, Saidin and the True Power during the sealing of the bore (all 3 are explicitly mentioned), Rand only tries, and fails, to seize Saidin and channel the True Power when lighting the pipe. Why would it explicitly mention Saidin, the True Power and Saidar just a few pages earlier, and then not have Rand try that? Rand has channeled Saidar before (when cleansing the taint).

A: It seems to me that in uncovering the secrets of TDO he understands deeper power now and can use it.

A: Since I didn't read the hard cover, but listened to the audio book, I can't easily find the spot, but there was a point in Tam's story line where he talked about the void and how, when he was in the void, he could just think his arrow was going to hit its mark and it would.  Could that be some sort of clue to a power in the void that Rand has tapped?  Could the void be the the combination of all three powers, which can be touched by anyone with the focus and practice.  It was said many times in the books that Rand's reaching Saidin was very similar to the way that Tam had taught him to reach the void.

A: Im pretty sure he was using a new 4th way to channel. Similar how balefire needed an opposite, so too does the dark one's power. He was channeling the power of the creator

A: I think it is just an ter'angreal. Not all required the power to be used.


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During the years my mother was still putting me to bed, I would ask her one question before she left my room each night: "Can you give me something good to think about?" I hoped her suggestions would give me a way to prevent my brain from spiraling out of control. I didn't realize it at the time, but thus began decades of trying to find ways to escape my own anxious thoughts. And despite the fact that I've likely had anxiety since I was a toddler, it's only in the last five years that I've been able to acknowledge it and start talking about it.
Anxiety impacts over 40 million adults in the U.S. alone. And while certain anxiety-related disorders like Social Anxiety Disorder are split evenly between the genders, women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder.
It's hard to explain what it's like to live with anxiety unless you've experienced it. But for every woman (and man) who struggles with these issues, there are a whole host of people around them who want to try and understand.
Below are 15 things anyone who loves someone with anxiety should know.
1. Anxiety is physical. Your chest tightens, your head feels cloudy and you are acutely aware of the effort behind every breath. When you feel as though you have a small child made of frenetic negative energy trying to beat her way out of your body, it becomes impossible to ignore.
2. And it's all-consuming. One of the reasons that anxiety is so frustrating is because the physical discomfort makes it impossible to think about anything else.
3. You feel anxiety in your hands, your chest, your head, your eyes and your stomach, out to the very tips of your fingers and toes. It's there and it wants to get the hell out of your body.
4. It can be treated, but not "cured." Even with years of therapy, like any chronic condition, anxiety disorders require management. Treatment is more about giving people with anxiety the tools to help themselves than making the anxiety go away forever.
5. Therapy, exercise and anti-anxiety medication can all help. But each person needs something different.
6. Our anxiety might be exactly what makes us so damn productive. Turn in a paper late? Fail to finish a task at work? Not show up for an event we've committed to? Hell no.
7. And it can be a great survival mechanism. This comic comparing anxiety to a superpower really says it all. Anxiety can make you more empathetic, driven and aware of the dynamics around you.
9. We're not "crazy." Ban the word crazy from your vocabulary ASAP. It's attached to a long history of being used to invalidate women's thoughts and needs. Plus, everyone has their sh*t.
11. We know our triggers are irrational. Yes, we're intellectually aware that we probably won't die alone in an apartment full of cats, and we probably are not dry drowning at this very moment. Yet that awareness doesn't change the fact that there are things outside of our control which make it nearly impossible not to have an emotional (and physical) reaction.
12. But don't make us feel stupid. Just let the wave of anxiety ride out, and be by our side while it does.
13. Sometimes a back rub makes everything better. And sometimes it doesn't.
14. It's not about you. It's about us.
15. But we need your support -- and your patience. Thanks for being there. It means more than you know.


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In spring 2008, Kurkku hosted the first of what became four art shows of the original drawings and page layouts of Living on the Earth. I was delighted to hear that Banana-san had purchased my self-portrait that appears on the epilogue page of the book. She's 15 years younger than I am, and the book was a favorite of her childhood. So, she said, she felt almost in a dream to purchase this drawing she had gazed upon so long ago.
Fujii-san, a rock and roll producer who is a friend of Banana-san's and a friend of Keisuke Era's (he's the director at Kurkku) offered to introduce me and Banana-san, and Switch Magazine offered to document this event. So, here we are: Takeshi Fujii, Banana Yoshimoto, me, Miho Kawaguchi (writing for Switch), Kaori Miyagi (translating for me) and Kengo Tarumi (taking photos for Switch).
OMG! We showed up wearing the SAME EXACT T-SHIRT! It's the Being of the Sun illustration licensed by Aya Noguchi (fashion designer and owner of Bed and Balcony) last year for her summer line.
But that wasn't the only coincidence. After the interview was over, Banana went out to the street and there stood our dear friend in common – Sandii Manumele, vocalist extraordinaire and hula teacher of hundreds of Tokyo students, including Banana. Sandii rushed upstairs to see me and we had a big group hug.
I last saw Sandii at a huge rock concert memorial for Donto in Okinawa City in 2006. She danced and sang in the show, and I sang one of my songs, too. We became instant friends.
Sandii choreographed the hula for Donto's classic song "Nami," which women all over Japan love to dance. I just recorded "Nami" on my recent CD, Beyond Living, both in the original Japanese lyrics, and also in a Hawaiian and English translation. I was happy to present both Sandii and Banana with signed copies of my new CD.
Here's Banana-san's blog about the same meeting (in Japanese).


Located in south-central Colorado, the Wet Mountain Valley may be the state's most beautiful and unspoiled mountain valley. The Valley is bordered on the east by the Wet Mountains and on the west by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains: the longest and straightest mountain range on earth. The Sangres' string of 13,000 and 14,000 foot snow-capped peaks tower over the 7,800-foot valley floor.
Because it is off the beaten path, the Wet Mountain Valley maintains its rural charm, and the community works hard to keep it that way through initiatives like Dark Skies (click to learn more) to prevent light pollution and assure those beautiful, star-filled skies you can only find in the mountains. And yet the valley is within easy reach of several urban areas. From the towns of Westcliffe and Silver Cliff, the Valley's commercial center, Denver is three driving hours north; Colorado Springs, with its beautiful airport, is 90 minutes to the Northeast; and Pueblo, Canon City and Salida are each within an hour's drive.
Opportunities abound for the flyfisherman in valley ponds and in an alpine lake as in the photo.
Custer County celebrates its cowboy roots during the Westcliffe Stampede each year in July.
The historic Beckwith Ranch is just one of the sites on the Frontier Pathways National Scenic Byway.
This is ranch country, and for those seeking beauty and solitude in the great outdoors it is prime vacation, hiking, biking, horseback riding and relaxing country. The evidence of this rural lifestyle is seen in the population density of 4.41 persons per square mile. Forty percent of our county's land is State and Federally owned and most of the Sangre de Cristo range is designated a National Wilderness Area. 7.5% of our population live on farms and ranches. This compares to 1.4% for the state of Colorado and 1.6% for the entire US. Currently there are approximately 4,000 people living in Custer County.
In 2012 the population grew to 4255. It is estimated by our Master Plan Committee that there will be 6,619 people by the year 2020. The town of Westcliffe is "old Colorado" in nature and with the vastness of the surrounding land it is one of the last remaining bastions of the true old west!
The name "Wet Mountain Valley" is an interesting one since the area is semi-arid with low humidity and relatively little precipitation. The climate is ideal, and resembles the climate of northern New Mexico (only three hours south) rather than the cold associated with Northern Colorado. With over 320 days of sunshine per year and with low humidity, the weather is pleasant the vast majority of the time, even in the winter. In this blessed region of Southern Colorado, there is seldom an extended period of gray skies.


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The Fossil Five Awards
Scotland's Favourite Fossils
Scotland has amazing fossils, with a huge variety of different animals and plants stretching back more than a billion years. From giant sea scorpions and dinosaurs to delicate graptolites, Scotland has gathered a fantastic diversity of fossil types as it has travelled across the globe over hundreds of millions of years. Many of these species are unique to Scotland, and new finds are still being made that close important gaps in the fossil record.
To celebrate this rich fossil heritage, the Scottish Geodiversity Forum organised a public poll to choose Scotland's favourite fossils. Several hundred people have taken part, and the nation's five favourite fossils were celebrated in the Fossil Five Awards at the Hunterian Museum on Tuesday 24 March. City of Glasgow Bailie Phil Greene presented the Awards to champions of the top five fossil groups.
Scotland's five favourite fossil groups represent the diversity of fossils found across Scotland, including many of historical and scientific importance. You can read more about all these groups, and other important fossils in the Scotland's Fossils section of this website. The Fossil Five Awards go to:
1. Devonian Fish: Fossils from the Devonian 'Age of Fishes' are found across Scotland, recording a time when life flourished in rivers and lakes. Find out more about the fish in this blog article about the Pavement Fish project, and more about Hugh Miller (geologist, folklorist, national newspaper editor, church reformer and best-selling author on geology) from The Friends of Hugh Miller.
2. Jurassic dinosaurs of the Isle of Skye: Fossilised footprints and bone remains found on the Isle of Skye show that rarely-preserved Middle Jurassic dinosaurs once roamed there. Find out more about these reptiles from the PalAlba research group.
3. Early tetrapods: The search for the missing link between amphibians and land-dwelling reptiles has been greatly enhanced by fossil discoveries in Scotland. The TW:eed Project is currently looking for fossils in the Scottish Borders – find out more at the Tetrapod World Blog.
4. Trilobites: Perhaps one of the most recognisable fossils, slater-like trilobites of all different shapes and sizes can be found across Lowland Scotland.
5. Fossil trees: During the late Carboniferous period around 310 million years ago, the Scottish Lowlands were covered in dense tropical rainforest. One of the best places to see these trees is at Fossil Grove in Glasgow.
Neil Clark, Curator of Palaeontology at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, says "It is most appropriate that Scotland should be voting for its most popular fossil. Scotland has one of the most important fossil heritages in the world, bridging what were wide chasms in our knowledge of the evolutionary history of life on Earth, and providing us with some of the most significant and aesthetic discoveries ever found. It is also a celebration of those collectors who have provided us with these fascinating fossils, and without whom the science of palaeontology would barely exist."
Martin Gostwick, Secretary of the Friends of Hugh Miller, says "Hugh Miller, one of the great pioneers and popularisers of geology as a science, would be surprised, and doubtless very pleased, to see his Devonian fossil fish selected as Scotland's favourite fossils. We will be celebrating this honour on his behalf at his Museum in the little Black Isle town of Cromarty, where some of his most striking finds are displayed."


After building up the endurance and strength to do 22 miles, we go easy the next few weeks. It's a proven science to marathon training and darn does it feel good! The key is to not injure yourself, eat right, and trust the process. I loved the few weeks leading up to the Indy Marathon last year!


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Crime | Culture | Politics - Wisconsin
Former governor Tommy Thompson penned an interesting piece last week that suggests that Wisconsin do a better job of training ex-cons to reenter the workforce.
Our prisons are full of people who want another chance to succeed. Here's how we can help create better parolees and in turn help our state address workforce shortages:
• Create a core criteria/survey/interview process to find those incarcerated individuals who have both the desire and will to succeed after prison.
• Develop a "Second Chance Skills Institute" that would deliver certified job and entrepreneurial tools along with necessary life skills training. Participation would require a signed contract and a "no mistakes," immediate expulsion policy. The program would have to be fully completed, similar to a skilled technical college degree.
• Work with state government, employers, business groups such as Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and trade unions both financially and for instructional and mentoring support.
• Convert an existing prison (or build a new one) to house the "Second Chance Skills Institute." This secure hub would be part of the Department of Corrections, but fully supported by other state agency efforts including the Department of Workforce Development and the University of Wisconsin and technical college systems.
• Draw on technical schools, two-year colleges and social service organizations along with specifically-hired instructors.
• Develop a highly-structured early parole opportunity, with specific responsibilities and a "no mistake" clause for the most qualified graduates, in which a sponsor-business would provide a skills-specific job opportunity.
The end product, a highly-skilled and marketable job applicant best-equipped to enter the workforce and far-better equipped to reenter society. This high-quality program would create a highly marketable and sought after payroll-ready employee, permanently attached to an ongoing "Second Chance Skills Institute" support network.
There's a lot of merit in some of these ideas. We need to have harsher penalties and less lenient judges when people violate the laws, but we also need to do a better job of reintegrating these folks back into the mainstream when they are released. The best way to keep people from committing further crimes is to get them integrated into the mainstream culture where criminal behavior is discouraged and where they have more to lose if they get put in prison again.
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Q: ¿Cómo cambiar background-color de un tab / pill / nav con clase .active en bootstrap 4? Si ejecuta el siguiente script verá que por defecto el tab / pill / nav activo tiene clase .active y por tanto el color predeterminado es azul. Dos preguntas:
1. ¿Cómo puedo cambiarle ese color activo a otro?
2. ¿Puedo aplicarle al tab / pill / nav activo clases .danger (rojo),  .warning (amarillo), ...?

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Fijate, pero te recomiendo darle otra clase o id para que no modifiques el bootstrap.css

A: Nunca debes editar directamente la hoja de estilos css de tu bootstrap, lo que puedes hacer es crear tu hoja de estilos y acceder a la misma clase que usa bootstrap y modificar lo que necesites modificar, pero como te digo lo estarías haciendo en una hoja de estilos propia y no en la de la librería:
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Recomiendo el uso de !important para que siempre el navegador tome el estilo tuyo y no el de la librería como tal.
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Read our coverage on Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams
It has been the proverbial annus horribilis for Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams — from breaking national regulations to not paying R213.3-million in workers' mandated benefits.
The year began with the news of Ndabeni-Abrahams allegedly going on a merry jaunt with her husband, Thato Abrahams, to Switzerland and the United States. Taxpayers reportedly footed the "honeymoon" trip.
She said in a February statement: "Mr Abrahams had accompanied me on an official trip, in line with the ministerial handbook."
In addition to failing to respond to questions for weeks, Ndabeni-Abrahams was unable to chart how the switch to digital terrestrial television will come into affect by March next year.
Another failure under her belt is that the South African Post Office couldn't pay R213-million to medical aid and pension funds, despite deducting these contributions from its employees.
In August, the Democratic Alliance accused Ndebani-Abrahams of flouting procurement processes at the post office "by introducing a businessman and chairperson of private equity firm, Convergence Partners, Andile Ngcaba, to [the post office's] executives in an alleged bid to partner on a highly lucrative R2.1-billion e-commerce platform".
The SABC, which is facing crippling retrenchments of 400 of its workers, posted a net loss in November of R511-million.
That Ndabeni-Abrahams was suspended by Ramaphosa for two months in April for breaking lockdown regulations on her visit to former ANC MP Mduduzi Manana's home was an apt metaphor for the year she and her department have had.


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Q: R multi-hot encoding among multiple columns My data is in the shape
Event Id Var1 Var2 Var3
1      a   x    w    y
2      a   z    y    w
3      b   x    y    q

and I need to create multi-hot encoded vectors for each row in the table, considering all the values appearing in Var1, Var2 and Var3.
Meaning that the desired output would be:
Event Id  x  y  z  w  q
1      a  1  1  0  1  0
2      a  0  1  1  1  0
3      b  1  1  0  0  1

Meaning that I keep the same number of rows of the initial dataset, I only add for each row a number of columns equal to all the unique factors among Var 1, Var 2 and Var3.
I tried all aproaches I could think of, but nothing seems to work so far..
Any idea?

A: We could gather into 'long' format and then do a spread
library(tidyverse)
gather(df1, key, val, Var1:Var3) %>%
   mutate(n = 1) %>%
   select(-key) %>%
   spread(val, n, fill = 0)

Or in a compact way
library(qdapTools)
cbind(df1[1:2], +(mtabulate(df1[-(1:2)]) > 0))

A: You can use data.table -
dt <- read.table(text="Event Id Var1 Var2 Var3
1      a   x    w    y
2      a   z    y    w
3      b   x    y    q",header=T)

setDT(dt)
dcast(setDT(melt(dt,id.vars = c("Event","Id")))[,ind:=1],Event+Id~value,value.var = "ind",fill=0)

Output-
   Event Id Var1 Var2 Var3 q w x y z
1:     1  a    1    1    1 0 1 1 1 0
2:     2  a    1    1    1 0 1 0 1 1
3:     3  b    1    1    1 1 0 1 1 0


Sting & Shaggy Brings Jamaican vibe to Jacksonville!
Who would think Sting and Shaggy on stage together!!! Daily's Place in Jacksonville Florida took on this Happy Dynamic Duo on Friday, September 14th, 2018 with alternating Hit songs like "Message in a Bottle" and "Don't make me Wait".
The whole concert had a rasta reggae feel mixed with back up singers that brought out the soul of real African and America Gospel music. Sting was seamless, and ageless portraying an image and voice that could literally be heard back in Time as if the 80's and 90's had never passed. Like a time capsule saved in a politically changing world. To see Sting live was an epic experience for sure one of the top performers I've ever experienced live.
So if you are one of those fans who is still holding on to an old Police CD or your Mp3's are overflowing with Sting I would for sure take the op to attend this show if you get a chance. It was a diverse crowd and I watched as people were brought to there feet for a little reggae movement. The air was happy with a lot of sing-alongs, Smiles, and excitement to see such a legend in concert. It was an experience to commemorate.


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June 25, 2017 11 comments on "Maya matrix nodes – Part 1: Node based matrix constraint"
11 Comments on "Maya matrix nodes – Part 1: Node based matrix constraint"
Once you can understand Matrices; I think life in general with CG becomes easier. Then you become CG guru.
That does sound promising, I'll give it a go! Is there any performance slowdown? I can't imagine that being the case, but it's worth having a look.
Regarding performance, did you happen to test/know the performance benefits of using a matrix mult + decompose node over of a regular constraint? I tested this some years ago (before parallel was a thing) and found very little performance benefit.
Just wanted to let you know I added a new post on Blending matrices using the wtAddMatrix node as you suggested. I had a look and it seemed to work perfectly in that specific use case. Nice one, thanks for sharing!
As for the performance, you will notice in that new post I did a performance test to see how the setup compares to a parentConstraint. The results seem to be that the matrix constraint setup is significantly faster. About 8fps per 200 instances of the setup, which if you imagine multiple rigs in the scene you can easily see the benefits. Bear in mind that is with the wtAddMatrix nodes in there, so if you have just one target the increase would be even slightly larger.
That being said, just as you did, I also found that before parallel the increase was quite small. Not only on this setup but on other things like rivets and follicles as well. I guess we should be happy parallel is here to stay.
I might of found a simpler method for the joint orient, I've only done a quick test but so far it appears to be working.
Compose a matrix from the child object but use joint orient instead of rotate, then connecting that into a inverse matrix and do the same getAttr / setAttr method to add it to the mult matrix that you used in your offset section.
Really cool and looks very promising! The reason I avoided doing something like this is that I wanted to do a rotateBy function similar to how I had done in with the API previously. Honestly, though, I don't see any reason why not do it as you are suggesting.
I suppose the only real difference is that when constructing the matrix you need the position of the child object, which means that we can't leave this connection live as it is going to cycle. So in that case, the matrix setup will need to be updated everytime the jointOrient is changed.
That being said, I can't imagine people messing about with the joint orientation after it has been constrained, so that would not be an issue at all.
Any idea how to deal with rotate pivots in this setup? I figured out how to account for the target's rotate pivot (just another offset matrix at the start of the matrix mult). But the constrained node's rotate pivot doesn't appear to be so simple.
Yeah, pivots can be tricky. I have to say that I never use this setup when I work with pivots. I also have to say, though, that I very rarely have to work with pivots and even then it can be avoided.
That being said, I gave it a quick go to see how we can account for these pivots and it seems like the following setup works, but obviously, it is a very simplified one, so it would be great if you can let me know if it works for you.
So basically, we are accounting for the pivot in the beginning and then we multiply by the inverse of the pivot in the end, as otherwise we get a double transformation.