Singapore, nothing personal. You're awesome but you just deserve one day.
This might be the craziest thing I've ever done (okay. One of the many crazy things) and probably the hardest one to beat.
So one off day and I was left with nothing in mind to do, I hopped on a train, crossed the Malaysian boarders then spent the entire day in a different country. Unplanned. Alone. Well, let's say that a friend, okay, two friends wanted to come but one changed her mind and then wired me the money since I already bought return tickets for her too then decided to back out last minute. The other, I wasn't really sure if he really wanted to tag along. I just couldn't wait. I hope he has forgiven me by now.
I'm no pro in traveling but this is one of the things that I love about Malaysia. Its nearness to almost every South East Asian country, affordability of traveling and almost everything. I can't say that my sense of direction is remarkable either. Maps give me eye sore. For unknown reasons, the lines are swaying to a catchy beat that makes me want to cry.
Only thing I know I am good at; mischief. I know I will always end up humiliating myself for being so clumsy and stupid. And directions will never ever be easy.
And so back to my one day Singapore adventure and why I didn't contact friends, booked a hotel and stayed for even a night.
I was of course questioned by the immigration officer because I don't have any booked hotel or contact person where I will be staying. I can easily give a friend's name and contact number since I have few friends working there but I found the officer's reaction fascinating. He probably thinks I will be trying my luck to look for a job there. When I felt that I will be bugged further and the queue was getting longer, I showed my return ticket and the stressed officer calmed down. He let me go with a knowing smile. He now thinks I'm crazy. I was thinking it's fun.
Despite my highest heels, skimpiest skirts and reddest rouge, the tallest and grandest buildings intimidate me. I was never a fan. I feel depressed when I don't feel I am one with nature. Even the beach is man-made. I can't breathe. I can't move. Though I know, modern cities will kill me, I am in awe by how an Asian city can be so efficient and I am using the words of a lady I met whilst in the bus from Vietnam to Laos.
No matter how I avoided converting, my brain was on autopilot. It was as if they were specifically programmed to do it. I had abacus in my head that made even the smallest cell in my body cringe when it gave me an amount I will not even think of spending for some things. I am a recovering shopaholic and traveling made me value money. I still can't believe I spent $100 SGD (70.32 USD) in one day on top of the 80 Malaysian Ringgits (18 USD) I shelled out for return train tickets. According to the blogs I have read, I should only spend 50 dollars in Singapore a day. Oh well, somehow I relied on other's experience though I've said I will just go and see for myself. I know I ate too much and their Pub Street was also inviting. Who am I to say no to a happy hour offer of buy 1 get 1 cocktails?
I spend so much time with people so when I go somewhere, I want to veer away from the crowd. Away from the hassle and bustle of the city. Away from it all. I am looking for peace, for off the beaten paths, for a place where my soul can find peace; for a place where my heart can heal and for a place my mind can think freely. Where my train of thoughts will go uninterrupted. I tried so I can see the place with own eyes. I can't say I don't like if I haven't tried. I loved it but an entire day and a night is enough.
I almost saw the entire Singapore in just half a day. I felt well connected and the effective train system allowed me to go and see all the places I need and want to go to without requiring me stay longer. It gave me ample time to move on to the next destination.
Will I still come back to Singapore? Definitely. Because it's a lovely country where people show so much discipline and extended help to the direction impaired ADHD. The cleanliness of the country is unbelievable and it is a proof that I need not go out of Asia to see a country with such charm, beauty and efficiency.
Will I recommend a day tour to fellow travelers? Hell no! I literally walked the entire day under the scorching heat of the sun and even if I slept in the train, I had to request for time off from work the following day due to exhaustion. I slept on the upper bank of the train and I was surprised i couldn't come down when we need to go to the Immigration. Every little crevices of my feet felt and my legs felt sore. Yes. Even a hyperactive kid gets smashed.
Being a Filipino, Jolibee has become a huge part of me not just my childhood. It is our local version of Mcdonalds. I just kept on thinking that I went to Singapore because I crave for crispy fried chicken and Pancit Palabok.
I love your photos! I m glad you had a great time even if you would only stay there a day!
You managed to cram in so much in just one day! I'm not surprised you were exhausted afterwards. I think day trips are great, but nothing beats a 2-3 day stay in a place to really get to know it and pace yourself a little.
I didn't realise Singapore was so expensive though. After visiting London multiple times I didn't think anywhere else could be any worst!
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Five Family Favorites with Fracaswell Hyman, Author of Mango Delight
Ruth Behar | The Children's Book Review | July 12, 2017
I started reading to my infant daughter before she knew what a book or a story was. I wanted to pass on my love of reading as soon as possible, try to make it an organic part of her nature. At first the books were very simple, lots of colorful pictures and textures, tactile things that she could grab and pull, stick in her mouth and slobber over. As she matured and became able to follow a story, I searched for books that had African-American characters on the covers that she could identify with.
My daughter was lucky…(she might argue the point,) to have a father who is one of the world's biggest hams. I love doing voices, making faces and creating characters to bring the story books to life. As a result, my daughter is a very expressive reader who loves to play all of the characters herself. Here are some of our favorite books and performances that my daughter would request over and over again.
The Fisherman and His Wife
Written by the Brothers Grimm, retold and illustrated by Rachel Isadora
This was one of my daughter's all time favorites. The story of the fisherman and his greedy wife who kept demanding that her husband ask for more and more, from a magical flounder he had caught and frees, until she pushes things too far and winds up with nothing at all. In this version of the story the fisherman and his wife live in Africa. The illustrations are layered collages that look as though they are wood prints. The colors, the patterns are vibrant and seem to escalate as the wife pushes the husband farther and farther with her unquenchable greed. Playing the characters of the fisherman, his wife and the flounder allowed me to do outrageous accents that kept my daughter giggling every time. The book was a perfect reminder for when my daughter got a case of the "gimmies" and needed her own greed reigned in.
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Ages 4-8 | Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers | 2008 | ISBN-13: 978-0399247712
Please, Baby, Please
Written by Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
At some time or other, every parent has had to deal with an inexhaustible toddler who refuses to go to sleep. The Lees have turned this endurance marathon into a funny and enjoyable book filled with repetitive phrases that will have your pre-reader chanting along with you while giggling at the toddlers antics. The beautiful illustrations by Kardir Nelson bring an energy and emotion to the story that makes it all the more charming.
Ages 2-8 | Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 2002 | ISBN-13: 978-0689832338
The Wide-Mouthed Frog, A Pop-Up Book
Written by Keith Faulkner
Illustrated by Johnathan Lambert
Pop-up books are always fun and this was one of my daughter's favorites. It is the story of a curious wide-mouth frog who hops around telling other creatures, "I'm a wide-mouthed frog and I eat flies," and asking them what it is they eat. Things go well as he meets a bird who eats worms, a mouse who eats berries and finally an alligator who eats…wide-mouth frogs! The ending is very funny and the pop-up finish is fantastic. Of course, playing the wide mouth frog while my daughter took on the characters of the other animals (from memory before she learned how to read,) was fun and so entertaining.
Ages 2-5 | Publisher: Dial Books | 1996 | ISBN-13: 978-0803718753
Guts: Our Digestive System
Words and Photography by Seymour Simon
Mr. Simon has always been one our our non-fiction book favorites, but this book has topped them all. We were both fascinated by the journey our food takes from the time we put it in our mouths to chew until it works its way through each phase of our digestive system. The photographs are stunning and the entire process is explained in simple, easy to understand language.
Ages 6-10 | Publisher: Collins | 2005 | ISBN-13: 978-0060546519
Priscilla And The Pink Planet
Written by Nathaniel Hobbie
Illustrated by Jocelyn Hobbie
Priscilla is a plucky little girl who lives on a planet where everything is pink. Priscilla comes upon a multi-colored butterfly, an anomaly in an all pink world, who is captured by the Queen of Pink and about to be destroyed until Priscilla convinces the queen that all colors are beautiful and pink would look "even pinker" if their world were more inclusive and welcomed all colors. A great lesson about diversity told in rhyme reminiscent of Dr. Seuss.
Ages 4-8 | Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 2004 | ISBN-13: 978-0316735797
Mango Delight
Written by Fracaswell Hyman
Illustrated by Frank Morrison
Publisher's Synopsis: Mango is as delightful as her middle name indicates, and middle-grade readers will easily recognize their own experiences in her friendship struggles.
What happens when your BFF becomes your EFF . . . EX-Friend-Forever? When seventh-grader Mango Delight Fuller accidentally breaks her BFF Brooklyn's new cell phone, her life falls apart. She loses her friends and her spot on the track team, and even costs her father his job as a chef. But Brooklyn's planned revenge—sneakily signing up Mango to audition for the school musical—backfires when Mango not only wins the lead role, but becomes a YouTube sensation and attracts the attention of the school's queen bee, Hailey Jo. Hailey Jo is from a VERY wealthy family, and expects everyone to do her bidding. Soon Mango finds herself forced to make tough choices about the kind of friend she wants to have . . . and, just as important, the kind of friend she wants to be.
Ages 9-13 | Publisher: Sterling Children's Books | 2017 | ISBN-13: 978-1454923329
Fracaswell "Cas" Hyman is an award-winning television writer (Humanitas Prize, Alma Award, Peabody award) and screenwriter (UCLA Extension Best Screenplay winner.) He is also a playwright, theater and television director, and producer who has created and executive produced successful live-action (The Famous Jett Jackson, Romeo, Taina) and animated (Little Bill) television series for Disney and Nickelodeon. Cas lives in NC, and Mango Delight is his first novel. You can connect with Cas on Twitter @fracaswellhyman.
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David Sykora is TORSH's Director of Engineering and Lead Software Engineer. He is an enthusiastic electrical and software engineer and spent two years teaching in Africa with the Peace Corps before joining TORSH. He returns to the tech field, passionate about education and helping teachers. David has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Davis.
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Destin Tate is a Software Tester at Torsh who wants to help provide educators with a platform that will give them the tools needed to improve their craft. Growing up as a son of a teacher, he was inspired by his mother's commitment to being a great educator and administrative figure within the East Baton Rouge Parish School System. This inspiration grew into an appreciation for education that fueled his pursuit for a B.S. in Marketing at Louisiana State University. He has previous experience in Quality Analytics with Electronic Arts where he honed his skills as a software tester using his creativity and attention to detail to test products for the Fortune 500 company. Destin hopes that his role with Torsh will play a part in pushing the education system forward in a positive direction.
William Van Hoof
Customer Support Associate
William Van Hoof is a Customer Support Associate at TORSH. He earned his BA in Film & Theatre at the University of New Orleans, where he first aimed his sights toward the local film industry. After working in the production offices of several Disney Channel/Disney+ original series, he refocused his passion of helping others within the field of IT. He has previously offered customer support for another New Orleans based company, TPN.health, where he helped to facilitate the continuing education of behavioral health clinicians around the country. He believes that education is essential for communities to grow and for professions to evolve. William is committed to providing high-quality, resolution-focused support and aims to supply educators and coaches with the resources they need to best utilize the many features offered through TORSH's platform.
Chenellia Walters
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Chenellia Walters is a Business Development Associate at Torsh. She is a native of Norco, LA and graduated from the University of New Orleans with two Bachelors in Business Administration and Business Management with a minor in Human Resources. Prior to Torsh, Chenellia worked for the state of Louisiana in DCFS and in the hospitality industry in Sales & Front Office. With years of experience in customer service, she firmly believes that in order to provide the best customer service, one must truly listen to what a customer needs and provide the best solution. By doing so, Chenellia states that this not only builds rapport with the customer, but leads to genuine relationships. Chenellia is new to the tech industry and eager to see where this new journey takes her.
Courtney Williams
Courtney Williams is a seasoned executive with a passion for education reform. As an immigrant, he is intimately familiar with how a good education can change the trajectory of an individual's life. Courtney founded TORSH after more than 15 years of experience in the technology industry, where he held senior executive roles at companies like AOL, Time Warner, and Interactive One. He is an active member of his community, serving as a Big Brother and a former board member of Big Brothers Big Sisters. He is a Board Member of the Johns Hopkins School of Education National Advisory Council and a 2010 CUP Fellow, a fellowship awarded to executives with a keen interest in social change through public service. Courtney is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Oberlin College.
John Williams serves as Chief Revenue Officer for TORSH. He is responsible for all revenue generating processes including sales, marketing, and customer success. John joined TORSH after serving as the Vice President of Sales Readiness & Support for Follett School Solutions. Throughout his career, he has held numerous executive level positions with companies like IBM, Lightspan, and ETS where he served as the General Manager for the Professional Development Division. He is known as a strategic thinker with a track record of delivering results that align to measurable business objectives. As the son of a high school principal and math teacher, John has always had a passion for K-12 learning, technology, and supporting teacher quality.
Felisa Wind
Felisa Wind joins TORSH as an Executive Assistant. Felisa earned both her BS and her MA in Elementary Education from NYU. After years of being a stay at home mother to three, now grown children, she began working for Advantage Testing, a private tutoring service that offers preparation for standardized tests and academic tutoring as well as college counseling. Felisa worked for Advantage Testing as a Program Coordinator and then in Business Development. Having served on numerous boards and fundraising committees during her years in Connecticut, Felisa comes to us with real-life experience working with educators and organizations.
Nick Wolf
Nick Wolf is TORSH's Product Owner. Nick is a former New Yorker with a degree from McGill University. Prior to his time at TORSH, Nick worked for the student information Alma and the KIPP Foundation. He has a passion for education, and believes that good tools are fundamental to enhancing practice.
Ashley Wright
Senior Manager, Business Development, K-12
Ashley is an experienced EdTech professional who has dedicated her career to helping schools and districts select the appropriate tools to support the success of all students. This approach, as well as years of tutoring and mentoring students, led Ashley to working alongside schools and districts throughout the nation. As a Senior Business Development Manager at TORSH, Ashley will continue her work in demonstrating the value of technology integrated within the learning process of educational institutions. Ashley is a native Georgian, with a Bachelors in Marketing from Valdosta State University and a MBA from Texas A&M University, Texarkana. She has an extensive background in sales and has found a home within the educational technology industry and looks forward to utilizing her experience with Torsh to impact the future of learning.
Carrie Xaisongkham
Senior Manager, Customer Success
Carrie Xaisongkham is a Customer Success Manager who assists TORSH Talent users in utilizing the platform to its fullest potential. Born in Kansas and raised in southern Louisiana to refugee parents, Carrie recognizes the significance of having access to good education, and she is dedicated to having an indirect impact in making it more accessible to all by empowering educators to make data-driven decisions in their practice. Carrie has a background in hospitality and restaurant management and is looking forward to using a combination of her experience to provide a positive and knowledgeable customer journey with Torsh. Carrie holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University.
Sarah Yeager
Sarah Yeager serves as a UX/UI Designer at TORSH. Sarah studied Visual Communication Design at Kent State University. There, she became fascinated by the combination of design and technology. Alongside her studies, she participated in a number of technology-based competitions called Hack-a-thons where she explored the potential between software, hardware, and user-friendly design. Having an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, Sarah has served in a number of start-ups on both a local and international scale. Sarah believes that education has the power to create opportunities and change lives. She hopes that by listening to users' needs and influencing design, then she can further the mission of TORSH.


The wreckage left behind by super storms is motivating students to contribute more than money.
Philanthropic and community initiatives give students the chance to gain credits along with invaluable experience. Following are three ideas institutions can adopt to encourage such efforts.
Leaders at Barry University encourage the entire Florida campus to engage in service work. The Center for Community Service Initiatives, or CCSI, is Barry's clearinghouse for community engagement.
Offering course-based service learning and cocurricular volunteer service, it also posts opportunities for collaborative service on its Community Engagement Management System, an online portal for students, faculty and staff, says Glenn Bowen, the center's executive director.
"When disasters occur, the CCSI monitors the needs of affected communities and coordinates relief efforts with support from campus ministry, the athletics department and other university units," says Bowen.
The center collects nonperishable food items, bottled water, personal hygiene supplies, flashlights and batteries for disaster relief agencies such as Catholic Charities.
Sometimes, the center's volunteers will deliver donations to storm-torn areas themselves, as they did during a 2017 trip to northwestern Haiti.
Recently, 120 Barry volunteers provided direct service to communities as part of three post-Irma relief projects in the southern Florida counties of Miami-Dade, Monroe and Collier.
The CUNY Service Corps encourages students to explore civil service jobs under managers at nonprofits who provide career development support. Some 650 participants from eight City University of New York campuses work 250 hours per year, earning $15 per hour.
Participants are screened rigorously, as 2,788 students applied for 200 spots in the Corps' Puerto Rico relief initiative, says Curtis Dann-Messier, director of continuing education and workforce programs.
Applicants participated in individual and group interviews, and in a construction project. They were evaluated—by volunteers—based on work ethic, teamwork, commitment to service and experience.
For many participants and the CUNY community, the Puerto Rico relief effort felt particularly personal. Several Corps members speak Spanish, and come from families that experience the same financial struggles as the people they met abroad.
"Forty percent of our students are born in another country and many already feel like they belong to two worlds when they arrive at CUNY," says Dann-Messier.
To ensure that students learn 21st-century skills, college and university leaders are redesigning general ed courses by adding group project work in small seminars, teaching communication and quantitative reasoning skills, and requiring international experiences.


I could not survive without my planner. I have tried almost all of them under the moon, and even tried bullet journaling for a long time, which was so much fun! I want to share my planner organization tips and advice on decorating a planner because sometimes it can be daunting staring at the blank week staring back at you.
Right now, I am using a Lilly Pulitzer planner that I love. Her planners are so colorful and fun, and I love the artwork on each week and the gold ring binding.
My absolute favorite planner, though, is The Simplified Planner by Emily Ley (ALL THE HEART EYES). I am impatient for 2020 so I can buy another one of Emily Ley's again! I used the one linked in college because it's an hourly schedule and I love planning my days hourly like that, so you can make an order of what tasks you need to achieve. Her regular weekly layouts are just as amazing and gorgeous, and I'll probably switch to that next year since I no longer have as many free days to work hourly since I'm an adult 8-5 worker now LOL.
I've also heard amazing things about the Erin Condren planners, but I have never personally tried them out. I think they are too big and chunky since I usually take mine with me to work, but they are also a great price point and I love their layouts and you can personalize the covers. I will be deciding between Emily Ley and Erin Condren next year probably!
This is the fun part! I like to start by choosing a color scheme with grey and black. My favorite weeks are the ones where I used monochrome colors. If I choose blue, I will use a dark blue pen and a light blue pen, and then I will make all of my stickers have blue in them too. I use stickers first and then plan out my todos for the week, my weekly goals, my workout schedule, any events, my blog posts, even when I want to whiten my teeth. I only use the color pens to accent titles and lists on my week, and then I use one black pen throughout the week so I am not carrying multiple pens with me all the time.
Sunday nights are my jam when it comes to planning my week! I sit down with all of my pens and stickers and just start decorating. I follow my moods and sometimes I want simple and plain, and other times I want orange colors and multiple colors together. Something I've learned is not to worry about where I put my todo list, and I only use the days as suggestions. I put my workout routine on the certain days, but I will have a weekly todo list on Wednesday's space, and my weekly goals on Friday's space just because it looks nice. Just have fun with it!
And my biggest tip- actually look at your planner every day! I am so guilty of planning out my ideal week, and then all of a sudden it's Friday and I realized I haven't opened my planner back up all week! When I do, I see missed goals or something on my todo list that I forgot about and that doesn't make for a good start to the weekend!
And of course, choosing to just write down your tasks and schedule in black pen forever is great too, I just love decorating and being creative, and it's cute when I go back and look through my old planners and see what my goals were and what I was doing each day! I treat my planner like a diary and that's why I love decorating every week. Have fun with it!


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Building A Progressive Coalition
Hassan Arif PhD Candidate - Sociology, University of New Brunswick
The (relatively new) leader of the British Labour Party, Ed Miliband, is turning out to be a very capable leader, and not just because his party is leading in opinion polls due to Conservative Prime Minister Cameron's harsh austerity measures.
Miliband -- in policy and communications -- has balanced recognition of the strengths of the market economy and an acknowledgement of 21st-century social and economic realities with traditional social democratic (or, more broadly, progressive) values of promoting strong social programs, helping the working poor, and valuing the role of government in helping the poor and middle-class. In the process, Labour is providing a clear contrast to the austerity-focused Conservatives.
Where Tony Blair's New Labour often pursued pragmatism -- accommodating the "centre" -- at the expense of idealism (at least in public statements), the Miliband-led Labour Party has assertively established a progressive identity.
A key component for Labour has been engaging members and the general public -- building a broad progressive coalition and appealing directly to the concerns of voters. Miliband has sought to build ties between the Labour Party and various civil society groups, expanding beyond the party's traditional union backers.
This is something made easier with the third-party Liberal Democrats being part of a coalition government with the Conservatives. In many ways, this is reminiscent of the 1920s when the old British Liberal Party got displaced as the centre-left contender for government by Labour, as Liberals aligned with Conservatives. Progressive Liberals in the 1920s went over to the growing Labour Party and conservative voters opted for Conservatives over Conservative-lite (an apt warning to liberal parties about leaning to the right when a social democratic party is a viable alternative).
Labour under Miliband -- in its communications on social media and other outlets -- has sought to drive home exactly how Cameron's austerity measures are harming the British people -- including the poor and middle class and youth faced with a difficult job market -- showing that it is not just an opposition for opposition's sake, but that very real issues are at stake. On Facebook and Twitter for example, Labour Party updates highlight clearly the numbers of police offers and nurses laid off, the number of early learning centres closed, and provides individual stories of people negatively affected by Tory policies.
On engaging party members and the general public, the party is seeking to put in place processes to garner greater rank and file input, and is encouraging the involvement of elected officials in advocacy on issues of local concern in their communities -- creating more direct engagement between the party and local communities and bringing these concerns to the leadership. While the term "grassroots" gets thrown around a lot, this is a real effort at genuine "grassroots" engagement.
To this end, the Labour Party hired an American community organizer -- Arnie Graf -- who had trained local leaders in Chicago to fight for issues such as housing and decent wages -- to bring these skills to the Labour Party, to train strong local leaders and connect the party to local communities -- attracting volunteers and supporters engaged and interested in these local concerns.
If applied in Canada, this could offer real potential for elected representatives -- who are too often stifled by party discipline -- to be real advocates for the communities and constituencies they represent, to have a more empowered role and, in turn, create a policy process better rooted in the concerns of constituents.
On constituency work, former deputy leader of the Labour Party, Denis Healey, wrote in his memoirs that:
"The busier a politician is with national or international affairs, the more important is his constituency case work. It is that above all which keeps him in touch with the problems of those he is supposed to represent, and teaches him how legislation at Westminster [Parliament] actually affects real people on the ground - or how powerless it is to help them."
Thus, for progressive political parties, substantive policies, rooted in the concerns of party members and the general public (through genuine consultation and engagement) is key -- policies aimed at combating real problems faced by the general public, aimed at building a broad progressive coalition to defeat conservative parties which, in many cases in both Britain and Canada, are increasingly driven by rightwing neo-conservative ideology.
In Canada, this would entail building a coalition of environmentalists (including many who would normally support the Green Party), social democrats, liberals, and Red Tories who hail from the Progressive half of the old Progressive Conservative Party. This would involve emphasis on environmental conservation, poverty-reduction, a strong social safety net (both protecting and enhancing it), and an emphasis on entrepreneurship and innovation.
Federally in Canada, the Liberals and the NDP are fighting for this space (with the NDP having the advantage as official opposition). In New Brunswick, the provincial Liberals as official opposition have the potential -- as they embark on their policy development process in 2013 -- to develop policies rooted in the concerns of New Brunswickers, appealing to this broad progressive coalition, with particular emphasis on issues such as poverty, unemployment, youth outmigration, on modernizing sectors such as agriculture and forestry, and enhancing sectors such as information technology and tourism.
The Labour Party, in charting an assertively progressive path, in seeking to root policies in local concerns and to empower volunteers and elected officials, and in embarking on a genuinely consultative policy process, is offering lessons worth learning for other progressive parties, including here in Canada.
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Q: Allowing Camera and Mic access in Chrome 64 I've read over this promising thread to try and enable this, but the suggestions aren't working or I'm not following well enough.  I tried both methods spelled out in the previous link but no luck. There are no errors in the IDE and Chrome launches fine, but camera and mic still aren't allowed.(details below).
I should also mention that I'm not just trying to make the pop up go away, I need the camera and microphone for testing our application.
I'm using Java 8, Selenium Webdriver 3.8.1, Chrome v.64.
Option 1
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addExtensions(new File("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\64.0.3282.140\\default_apps\\1.4_0.crx"));
options.addArguments("start-maximized");

Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
prefs.put("profile.content_settings.exceptions.media_stream_camera.'https://<oursite>:443,'.setting","1");
prefs.put("profile.content_settings.exceptions.media_stream_mic.'https://<oursite>:443,'.setting","1");
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Tools\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

driver.get(<oursite>);

Option 2
options.addArguments("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\<user>\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default");

Thanks for any help offered (especially if it works).

A: Allowing Camera using add argument use-fake-ui-for-media-stream
ChromeOptions optionsC = new ChromeOptions();
optionsC.addArguments(Arrays.asList("disable-infobars", "ignore-certificate-errors", "start-maximized","use-fake-ui-for-media-stream"));

A: So in the end, it was a very simple 'fix' to make it work for me.  The "use-fake-ui-for-media-stream" argument turned on the real camera and mic.
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("use-fake-ui-for-media-stream");

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Tools\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

driver.get(<oursite>);

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Malaysia's trade and industrial production both paint an optimistic outlook on the nation's economy but the reimposition of the Movement Control Order (MCO) may threaten its road to recovery, said Moody's Analytics.
Associate economist Sonia Zhu said Malaysia's industrial production upswing was a combination of both low base effect from last year as well as the growing demand in manufacturing goods.
The industrial production rose 9.3% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March 2021, and was up 1.5% from the previous month, she said in a note today.
"The growth in manufacturing sector output was in line with the burgeoning manufacturing sales growth in Malaysia with the nation's stellar March export performance contributing to the strong growth in export-oriented manufacturing industries.
"Compared with the previous month, the manufacturing production index rose from 120.12 to 128.28," said Zhu.
She added that the manufacturing sector output remained the bright spot in Malaysia's industrial production as it increased by 12.7% y-o-y, the highest growth rate since September 2017.
The resurgence of Covid-19 infections in the Asia-Pacific region has led to a ramp-up in rubber and plastic production by 14.1% y-o-y and this translates to a 6.3% increase month-on-month (m-o-m), she said.
Zhu also noted that food, beverage and tobacco output increased ahead of the Ramadan festive period in April, while electrical and electronic products continued to increase at a double-digit growth rate due to strong global demand in semiconductors used in 5G technology, high-performance computing and automobiles.
However, she said the mining sector continued to contract in March as a result of falling crude oil and condensate index.
The increase in the natural gas index (4.3%) was insufficient to offset the decrease in crude oil index (-9.4%), she said, resulting in an overall decline in the mining sector output.
As for the electricity sector output, Zhu noted that it increased 10.3% y-o-y, following a 5.8% decrease in February 2021, resulting in a surge of 16.2% m-o-m.
"While both trade and industrial production performed better than expected, downside risks remained elevated.
"This is attributed to the government's recent MCO announcement in major cities in Malaysia, including Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru, due to rising Covid-19 infections," she added.
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The Lahore Fort, locally referred to as Shahi Qila (Punjabi, Urdu: شاہی قلعہ) is citadel of the city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located in the northwestern corner of the Walled City of Lahore in Iqbal Park which one of the largest urban parks in Pakistan. The trapezoidal composition is spread over 20 hectares.
Origins of the fort go as far back as antiquity, however, the existing base structure was built during the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar between 1556–1605 and was regularly upgraded by subsequent Mughal, Sikh and British rulers. It has two gates one is known as Alamgiri Gate build by Emperor Aurangzeb which opens towards Badshahi Mosque and other older one known as Maseeti (Punjabi language word means of Masjid) or Masjidi Gate which opens towards Masti Gate Area of Walled City and was built by Emperor Akbar. Currently Alamgiri Gate is used as the principal entrance while Masti Gate is permanently closed .The fort manifests the rich traditions of Mughal architecture. Some of the famous sites inside the fort include: Sheesh Mahal, Alamgiri Gate, Naulakha pavilion, and Moti Masjid. In 1981, the fort was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the Shalimar Gardens.
The Pakistan Pavilion at Expo 2010 is designed as a replica of the fort.
The Lahore Fort, locally referred to as Shahi Qila (Punjabi, Urdu: شاہی قلعہ) is citadel of the city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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I am on Manan at the moment and I need to get past the sharks but I have no idea how. Help?!
If you aquired the sonic whatsit in the base you should see it down at the bottom right corner. Use that and it will stun or kill the sharks.
Yes, you need to aqquire the Sonic Emitter, in order to venture past the sharks. You can find one in a footlocker near a locked door, and if IIRC, also in the lockers where you get your Watersuit.


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2011 Sexiest Man Alive Favorites
Bradley Cooper tops our "hot" list, but see who else – Liam! Ryan! Idris! – joins him as this year's honorees
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"I'm waiting for Dax Shepard to come out, and that it's an episode of Punk'd," Cooper says of being named PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive of 2011. But what really earned the modest 36-year-old actor this year's honor? A combination of box office appeal (who hasn't seen The Hangover movies?), undeniable good looks and the lengths he'll go to for romance. Asked the sexiest thing he's done to woo a woman, Cooper tells PEOPLE, "Getting on a plane to go get them."
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American fans can thank Hemsworth's big brother Chris for luring the 21-year-old Aussie to Hollywood. "I saw my brother doing it and thought I could do it better," Hemsworth told Interview magazine of following his sibling into acting. While Hemsworth ultimately lost the lead in Thor to Chris, his buff physique landed him an even more sought-after role – that of Gale in the much-anticipated The Hunger Games franchise.
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He's made a lasting impression on fans of The Wire, earned an Emmy nomination for his devilish turn in the BBC's Luther and showed off his 6-foot-3-inch form to very good advantage in Thor. So what's the British-born actor's weakness? "A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me," Elba, 39, told Essence. "It's always sexy."
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Though Evans jokes that he looked pretty scrawny for most of his life, the 30-year-old lead of the summer blockbuster Captain America made star-spangled Spandex a uniform women could get behind. Even more endearing: He's a mama's boy. "We're incredibly tight," Evans tells PEOPLE of his mother, Lisa. "Mom can hang – she's on the level."
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Houston-based Mainline has announced new partnerships with a few universities. Jamie McInall/Pexels
Houston esports company taps nearby universities for partnerships
A Houston esports platform has announced that four universities — including one in town — have made moves to optimize the company's technology.
Texas A&M University, the University of Texas - Austin, Louisiana State University, and Houston's own University of St. Thomas have made a deal with Mainline. The company, which just closed a $9.8 million series A round, is a software and management platform for esports tournaments.
The four schools will use the software to host and grow their on-campus esports communities, according to a news release.
"These are top universities seeing the value of esports on-campus and making a choice to support their students' desires to play and compete — much like in traditional sports," says Chris Buckner, CEO at Mainline, in the release. "Adoption of Mainline is validation of the opportunity to engage students and the broader community with a compelling esports platform, as well as strengthen a school's brand, provide additional partnership opportunities and market their initiatives"
While UST has is still in the process of utilizing Mainline for its esports platform to grow its program and will use the software for its first tournament in 2020, A&M first used Mainline's software this past spring, but has doubled down on its commitment to esports.
"Texas A&M recognizes the significant esports presence on campus and the importance of supporting this thriving student community. Mainline allows us to maintain the brand continuity of the university, and to drive incremental inventory and value for sponsors," says Mike Wright, director of public relations and strategic communications at Texas A&M Athletics, in the release.
The platform provides its clients with an easy way to manage, monetize, and market their tournaments.
At UT, the school's administration, along with its Longhorn Gaming Club, is currently running two tournaments on Mainline: Rocket League and League of Legends.
"Texas has had a long established esports community on campus, and our partnership with Mainline will enable us to more closely work with Longhorn Gaming to better support this audience to benefit our students and partners," says Mike Buttersworth, director of the Center for Sports Communication and Media at UT, in the release.
Meanwhile at LSU, the university is running an esports Rocket League qualifying tournament on the Houston company's platform to select a three-student team to represent the school at the inaugural "Power Five Esports Invitational" in New York in January, according to the release.
"This kind of tournament is a first for our campus, and Mainline is making it easy for us to be able to host this qualifying tournament for our students to ultimately represent our university at the Power Five Esports invitational," says Robert Munson, senior associate athletics director at LSU.
As for Mainline, these four schools are just the beginning for universities using the platform.
"Mainline is continuing this collegiate momentum with another 10 powerhouse universities expected to come aboard our platform by the end of 2019, and 50 more by the spring 2020," says Buckner.
Rice University is one of the best colleges in the U.S. for your money. Photo courtesy of Rice University
3 Houston schools highlighted on new ranking of best colleges
College tuition is a concern for many Americans, but here in Houston, there are options that make it a little easier on the wallet. Money magazine recently unveiled its Best Colleges for Your Money for 2019-20, and three local universities made the cut.
Money's annual report is an analysis of the country's institutions of higher education, "ranging from elite colleges and public universities to smaller specialized colleges."
In order to determine the best colleges, Money compared each school based on three points, all weighted equally to find the final score:
Quality of education: Graduation rates, student-to-faculty ratio, Pell Grant recipients, etc.
Affordability: Net costs, time it takes to earn a degree, amount of money borrowed, and student-loan default and repayment rates after graduation.
Outcomes: Post-graduation salaries, socioeconomic background of the student body, and mix of majors.
Houston schools
Topping the local list is Rice University at No. 24 out of 744 schools. On average, tuition at Rice will cost $66,000 for the 2019-20 school year, but students will only pay an average of $25,800 after grants.
The school also has an outstanding ratio of debt ($11,200) to early career earnings ($69,200).
In the 236th spot is the University of Houston. UH's tuition is estimated to be $26,100 for the upcoming year, but students pay an average of $16,700 after financial aid.
UH's students have a reasonable ratio of debt to early career earnings: $19,250 to $55,000, respectively.
University of St. Thomas was the only other local school to appear on the list. At No. 431, St. Thomas has an estimated tuition of $48,600 for the upcoming year, but students pay an average of $20,500, thanks to grants.
The school's ratio of debt to early career earnings is similar to UH's: $22,500 to $49,500, respectively.
Texas and beyond
Texas A&M ranked best in Texas at No. 18. On average, tuition will cost $29,700 for the 2019-20 school year, but Aggies will only pay an average of $20,900 after grants.
The College Station school also had a solid ratio of debt ($18,520) to early career earnings ($59,000).
In total, Texas has 21 institutions on the list, including The University of Texas at Austin (No. 28), The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (No. 193), and The University of Texas at Dallas (No. 271).
Meanwhile, the top five best colleges for your money are: University of California - Irvine, City University of New York - Baruch College, Princeton University, University of California - Los Angeles, and University of California - Davis.
This article originally appeared on CultureMap.
This week's innovators to know are all female leaders in different industries within Houston innovation. Courtesy photos
3 female Houston innovators to know this week
Female leaders play a huge role in the Houston innovation ecosystem. This week's innovators to know are all women — and are each representatives for different industries. From health care and nonprofits to education, meet this week's who's who of Houston innovation.
Janna Roberson, executive director of Urban Harvest
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For the first time — thanks to Houston nonprofit Urban Harvest — Houston has caught up with the times for providing access to healthy foods in exchange for government subsidies.
"Double Up is new to Houston, this is the first time we have had a Double Up kind of program here in the metroplex, ever," says Janna Roberson, executive director of Urban Harvest. "It is something that is very common in a lot of states."
Read more about the organization here.
Beena George, chief innovation officer at the University of St. Thomas
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Beena George is the inaugural chief innovation officer at the University of St. Thomas. The former UST business school dean takes on the role at an interesting time for higher education. In the next few years, the industry expects a sizable drop in enrollment, which means UST is tasked with positioning itself in a way that creates value for its students.
"There has been a lot of changes in the industry and in society in general that's requiring higher education institutions to react in a different way," she says. "Some of the things that we've always been doing — creating new programs, moving online, new campuses — now it's even more important to bring that to prominence and figure out how it fits with your university. Things have changed, so the rate at which you're innovating has to increase."
Read more about Beena George here.
Ayse McCracken, founder of Ignite Healthcare Network
Courtesy of Ignite
It's astounding to Ayse McCracken that, while so much of the health care industry is comprised of women, the C-suites of medical companies were mostly male. She wanted to create an organization that helps women climb those corporate ladders — and innovation and startups were a way to do it.
"As we saw this innovation economy and startup space begin to evolve in the city, it seemed that our contribution to this was that we could help incubate and find companies that had high likelihood of success," says McCracken, who is the founder of Ignite Healthcare Network — a group of female health care executives who, among other things, hosts an annual pitch competition.
Read more about Ayse McCracken here.
From tips on finding the best coworking spot for your company to the people in Houston leading innovation, here are this week's top stories. Leanne Hope/PDR
Editor's note: Ask anyone — people are the driving force within innovation. They are also what drives innovation stories, from founding companies, discovering new technologies, and providing advice to others. Here are this week's trending news stories that are focused on the people aspect in innovation.
From fitness tech and interior design to super thin wearable technology, this week's innovators to know can't be stopped. Courtesy photos
Another week, another set of Houston innovators to keep your eye on. This week's cast of characters are from across industries — from fitness innovation to interior design for tech companies. Meet the people behind Houston innovation. Read more.
Houston educator plans to lead her university into the future with her new role
Former University of St. Thomas business school dean, Beena George, is taking on a new role at the university: Chief innovation officer. Courtesy of UST
High school graduation numbers are decreasing, and, by 2025, far fewer college freshmen will be starting school. Some project as high as a 15 percent drop, says Beena George, inaugural chief innovation officer of Houston's St. Thomas University.
UST is looking forward to and anticipating changes and challenges within higher education like this, and one of the steps the university has been to create George's position.
"My role is to ferment that culture of innovation," George says. "Not just sit here and think of ideas." Read more.
4 Houston health startups to look out for
It might come as no surprise that Houston, home to the largest medical center in the world, has many impressive health startups. Photo by Dwight C. Andrews/Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau
Houston's growing life sciences industry has been a topic of discussion of late — and it's pretty obvious why.
In March, Houston was named the No. 2 top city for an emerging life sciences market, according to CBRE data. Houston was also named the No. 2 city for STEM jobs, per a report from American Enterprise Institute's Housing Center, which cited the city's growing life science industry as a factor. Even Amazon, which recently opened a Tech Hub in Houston, credited the city's life sciences as a reason for Houston's selection.
In fact, according to a report from the Greater Houston Partnership, Houston has over a fifth of the nation's clinical trials last year. With health care innovation abound in town, here are four startups to keep an eye on. Read more.
Houston clocks in as No. 2 most overworked city in the nation
Only D.C. is more overworked than Houston. Photo by Shobeir Ansari, Getty Images
A new study on work-life balance proves Houstonians work harder than almost anyone else in the country.
Mobile technology company Kisi set out to determine which major U.S. cities offer the best work-life balance, and which ones could use an adjustment, by examining work intensity, society and institutions, and livability. Overall, the Bayou City ranks fourth-worst for work-life balance (No. 37 out of 40), but even more sobering is how overworked our residents are.
According to the study, Houston is the second-most overworked city in the nation, behind only Washington, D.C. Fifteen percent of Houston workers work at least 48 hours a week, the highest figure in the study, and, on average, the Houston workforce stays on the clock 43.7 hours a week. While local workers arrive at work later than most Americans (9:56 am), they are on the road much earlier, commuting about 30 minutes just one way, the study says. Read more.
5 things to keep in mind when finding coworking space in Houston
Here's what all you should consider before settling into a coworking spot. Leanne Hope/PDR
If you're in the market for office space you've undoubtedly heard a lot about one of the fastest growing trends in commercial real estate – coworking. What started as a simple idea to help freelancers and startups find workspace is now beginning to disrupt the traditional office market. More than 1,000 spaces opened in the US in 2018 alone, according to Coworking Resources.
But, as this trend continues to take off, tenants now face a wide range of potential options. So many, in fact, it can seem overwhelming weeding through them. Where does one even start? How do you find the right space? Here are five things you should keep in mind when conducting your search. Read more.
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"My role is to ferment that culture of innovation," George says. "Not just sit here and think of ideas."
As the school gets ready to welcome students back onto its Montrose campus, the former business dean gets ready to serve in her new role for the first semester. She spoke with InnovationMap about her career, goals, and the role UST plays within the Houston innovation ecosystem.
InnovationMap: What have you learned throughout your career that has prepared you for the role?
Beena George: I've always been interested in solving problems. If I saw something that was an opportunity, and we didn't take advantage of it, I'll keep thinking about it. I've been thinking about what makes me enjoy this role and stage in my career, and I think it's because most roles tend to be mostly operational, but this is thinking of new things and doing things differently and checking your own assumptions. That is what really engages me in my role. My career has given me different opportunities to use this, but not so much as now. When teaching, you have that opportunity every day — engaging students differently. Then as dean, it was about looking at new opportunities and programs for the business school, like our Master of Clinical Translation Management program.
IM: How did this clinical translation program come about?
BG: The idea of clinical translation is essentially to move a discovery from the lab to the patient's bedside — it's the commercialization of life sciences. The program trains students to shepherd a discovery from the lab to the commercial setting so that it's available to patients.It's a combination of business, life sciences, regulatory affairs. It's a one-year online program with some residency periods. It's the only of its kind in Houston and is one of less than 10 in the United States and, to my knowledge, the only of its kind in a business school.
IM: What does innovation mean to the University of St. Thomas and this inaugural position?
BG: I think innovation isn't entirely new on college campuses, but now is a time when higher education is in flux. There has been a lot of changes in the industry and in society in general that's requiring higher education institutions to react in a different way. Some of the things that we've always been doing — creating new programs, moving online, new campuses — now it's even more important to bring that to prominence and figure out how it fits with your university. Things have changed, so the rate at which you're innovating has to increase.
IM: What's on your to-do list for this first year and within five years?
BG: Since this is a new role, my first goal for the next two to three months is the process of discovery — internally and externally. One of the cool things that's happening in Houston is all these partnerships and collaborations. That's what I'm trying to do — learn about the groups here and outside and make these connections. The other part of it is bringing information in from the outside. There are so many different ways of doing things. For instance, in higher education, it's been historically tied to credit hours. We know now there are many different ways to look at education. That's the kind of conversation I look to get started.
IM: You mention collaboration, and I think that's key when it comes to higher education institutions within the innovation ecosystem, but how do you see that teamwork affecting the city as a whole?
BG: So I have been so glad to see that, because I've always believed that there has to be some competition — it ensures that everyone performs at their best. But there are some industries where you have to go beyond competition to the next level and manage competition and collaboration at the same time. We have two networks — Texas Medical Center and the academic partnership created by The Ion — and talk about what's happening on your campuses and how we can work together in Houston. There's also the 60x30 Texas, which has different advisory councils that offers that same conversation of collaboration to work together to meet our goals. Those types of conversations are important and having those types of venues to do that can have only a positive effect on Houston.
IM: How is UST finding new ways to prepare its students for the workforce?
BG: One thing that has gained a lot of attention here on campus is providing students with more experiential learning opportunities — more internships and apprenticeships and bringing the industry into the classroom. Carlos Monroy, a professor at UST, and his student worked on a project for the city. This is something that allows us to remain connected to the industry and it gives our faculty the idea of what the Industry needs and they can focus on that in the classroom.
IM: UST recently announced a major "renewal" plan. How is this going to affect innovation efforts on campus?
BG: I think the whole process is about innovation. What we have is an opportunity to recreate ourselves for the next millennium and create a sustainable operating model that will continue to provide for our students. I think it will affect everything.
Portions of this interview have been edited.


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Q: How do you shuffle a dictionary with list of strings as values such that no key is adjacent? # Create a function to generate a random, 8-character password.
# It should satisfy the following requirements:

# 1) There should be exactly two characters from each of the following categories:
# - Uppercase letters
# - Lowercase letters
# - Numerals 0 - 9
# - Special Characters from the string "!@#$%^&*"

# 2) No two character categories should be adjacent.
# bad example: AXyu74$^

# 3) The categories should be randomly ordered.
# good example: 8b&U6Nz!  NLSUNULS
# */
import random, string
def generate_password():
    store = {}
    for category in 'ULSN':
        store[category] = []
    for i in range(2):
        store['U'].append(random.choice(string.ascii_letters).upper())
        store['L'].append(random.choice(string.ascii_letters).lower())
        store['N'].append(str(random.randint(0,9)))
        store['S'].append("!@#$%^&*"[random.randrange(0,7) + 1])
    print("".join([item for sublist in store.values() for item in sublist]))
    for item in store.items():
        print(item)
     # shuffle and eliminate adjacency
generate_password()

There is a dictionary with four keys. Each key maps to a different category, and each key has a list of 2 characters as the value.
How do you shuffle the dictionary to build a string in random order, such that no key is adjacent?
The goal is to efficiently return a 8 character long string with no adjacent values.
Examples and test cases are in the problem statement

A: Having slept on the problem, I think a solution is to break it down into two parts: a pattern and a mapping.
Every valid pattern starts with two different categories; call them A and B for the moment.  This gives AB****** as a starting part-pattern.  At some point a third category, C, will be used:
ABC*****
ABAC****
ABABC***

By completing these part-patterns you can generate a list of all valid patterns from ABCDABCD to ABABCDCD.  These patterns can either be hard coded into the program or loaded from an auxiliary text file.  By my rough calculation there are less than 6! = 720 valid patterns, though I'm not sure how many less.
Having picked a random pattern, you need a mapping from ABCD to ULNS.  A random shuffle of ULNS should be enough.  Read through the chosen pattern and use the mapping to determine which categories to pick from and in what order.
For example, pattern ABCADCBD with mapping LSUN gives LSULNUSN.  Breaking the problem into separate parts, pattern and mapping, makes it easier to deal with.

A: my answer
import string
import random

categories = "ULNS"
prev = curr = None
passwd = ""
used = {}
for category in categories:
    used[category] = 0

while len(passwd) != 8:
    while prev == curr:
        curr = random.choice(categories)

    if curr == "U":
        passwd += random.choice(list(string.ascii_uppercase))
    if curr == "L":
        passwd += random.choice(list(string.ascii_lowercase))
    if curr == "N":
        passwd += random.choice([str(i) for i in range(10)])
    if curr == "S":
        passwd += random.choice([s for s in "!@#$%^&*"])

    used[curr] += 1
    if used[curr] == 2:
        used.pop(curr)
        categories = "".join(list(used.keys()))
    prev = curr

print(passwd)