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The ghost story
Back in March, I published a post here about the unpleasant personal life of Saul Bellow, whose most recent biographer, Zachary Leader, has amply documented the novelist's physical violence toward his second wife Sondra Tschacbasov. After Bellow discovered the affair between Tschacbasov and his good friend Jack Ludwig, however, he contemplated something even worse, as James Atlas relates in his earlier biography: "At the Quadrangle Club in Chicago a few days later, Bellow talked wildly of getting a gun." And I was reminded of this passage while reading an even more horrifying account in D.T. Max's biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, about the writer's obsession with the poet and memoirist Mary Karr:
Wallace's literary rebirth [in the proposal for Infinite Jest] did not coincide with any calming of his convention that he had to be with Karr. Indeed, the opposite. In fact, one day in February, he thought briefly of committing murder for her. He called an ex-con he knew through his recovery program and tried to buy a gun. He had decided he would wait no longer for Karr to leave her husband; he planned to shoot him instead when he came into Cambridge to pick up the family dog. The ex-con called Larson, the head of [the addiction treatment center] Granada House, who told Karr. Wallace himself never showed up for the handover and thus ended what he would later call in a letter of apology "one of the scariest days in my life." He wrote Larson in explanation, "I now know what obsession can make people capable of"—then added in longhand after—"at least of wanting to do." To Karr at the time he insisted that the whole episode was an invention of the ex-con and she believed him.
Even at a glance, there are significant differences between these incidents. Bellow had treated Tschacbasov unforgivably, but his threat to buy a gun was part of an outburst of rage at a betrayal by his wife and close friend, and there's no evidence that he ever tried to act on it—the only visible outcome was an episode in Herzog. Wallace, by contrast, not only contemplated murdering a man whose wife he wanted for himself, but he took serious steps to carry it out, and when Karr heard about it, he lied to her. By any measure, it's the more frightening story. Yet they do have one striking point in common, which is the fact that they don't seem to have inspired much in the way of comment or discussion. I only know about the Wallace episode because of a statement by Karr from earlier this week, in which she expressed her support for the women speaking out against Junot Díaz and noted that the violence that she experienced from Wallace was described as "alleged" by D.T. Max and The New Yorker. In his biography, Max writes without comment: "One night Wallace tried to push Karr from a moving car. Soon afterward, he got so mad at her that he threw her coffee table at her." When shown these lines by a sympathetic reader on Twitter, Karr responded that Wallace also kicked her, climbed up the side of her house, and followed her five-year-old son home from school, and that she had to change her phone number twice to avoid him. Max, she said, "ignored" much of it, even though she showed him letters in Wallace's handwriting confessing to his behavior. (In his original article in The New Yorker, Max merely writes: "One day, according to Karr, [Wallace] broke her coffee table." And it wasn't until years later that he revealed that Wallace had "broken" the table by throwing it at her.)
There's obviously a lot to discuss here, but for reasons of my own, I'd like to approach it from the perspective of a biographer. I've just finished writing a biography about four men who were terrible husbands, in their own ways, to one or more wives, and I'm also keenly aware of how what seems like an omission can be the result of unseen pressures operating elsewhere in—or outside—the book. Yet Max has done himself no favors. In an interview with The Atlantic that has been widely shared, he speaks of Wallace's actions with an aesthetic detachment that comes off now as slightly chilling:
One thing his letters make you feel is that he thought the word was God, and words were always worth putting down. Even in a letter to the head of his halfway house—where he apologizes for contemplating buying a gun to kill the writer Mary Karr's husband—the craftsmanship of that letter is quite remarkable. You read it like a David Foster Wallace essay…I didn't know that David had that [violence] in him. I was surprised, in general, with the intensity of violence in his personality. It was something I knew about him when I wrote the New Yorker piece, but it grew on me. It made me think harder about David and creativity and anger. But on the other end of the spectrum, he was also this open, emotional guy, who was able to cry, who intensely loved his dogs. He was all those things. That, in part, is why he's a really fascinating guy and an honor to write about.
Max tops it off by quoting a "joke" from a note by Wallace: "Infinite Jest was just a means to Mary Karr's end." He helpfully adds: "A sexual pun."
It's no wonder that Karr is so furious, but if anything, I'm more impressed by her restraint. Karr is absurdly overqualified to talk about problems of biography, and there are times when you can feel her holding herself back. In her recent book The Art of Memoir, she writes in a chapter titled "The Truth Contract Twixt Writer and Reader":
Forget how inventing stuff breaks a contract with the reader, it fences the memoirist off from the deeper truths that only surface in draft five or ten or twenty. Yes, you can misinterpret—happens all the time. "The truth ambushes you," Geoffrey Wolff once said…But unless you're looking at actual lived experience, the more profound meanings will remain forever shrouded. You'll never unearth the more complex truths, the ones that counter that convenient first take on the past. A memoirist forging false tales to support his more comfortable notions—or to pump himself up for the audience—never learns who he is. He's missing the personal liberation that comes from the examined life.
Replace "memoirist" with "biographer," and you're left with a sense of what was lost when Max concluded that Wallace's violence only made him "a really fascinating guy and an honor to write about." I won't understate the difficulty of coming to terms with the worst aspects of one's subject, and even Karr herself writes: "I still try to err on the side of generosity toward any character." But it feels very much like a reluctance to deal honestly with facts that didn't fit into the received notions of Wallace's "complexity." It can be hard to confront those ghosts. But not every ghost story has to be a love story.
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The back matter
"Annotation may seem a mindless and mechanical task," Louis Menand wrote a few years ago in The New Yorker. "In fact, it calls both for superb fine-motor skills and for adherence to the most exiguous formal demands." Like most other aspects of writing, it can be all these things at once: mindless and an exercise of meticulous skill, mechanical and formally challenging. I've been working on the notes for Astounding for the last week and a half, and although I was initially dreading it, the task has turned out to be weirdly absorbing, in the way that any activity that requires repetitive motion but also continuous mild engagement can amount to a kind of hypnotism. The current draft has about two thousand notes, and I'm roughly three quarters of the way through. So far, the process has been relatively painless, although I've naturally tended to postpone the tricker ones for later, which means that I'll end up with a big stack of problem cases to work through at the end. (My plan is to focus on notes exclusively for two weeks, then address the leftovers at odd moments until the book is due in December.) In the meantime, I'm spending hours every day organizing notes, which feels like a temporary career change. They live in their own Word file, like an independent work in themselves, and the fact that they'll be bundled together as endnotes, rather than footnotes, encourages me to see them as a kind of bonus volume attached to the first, like a vestigial twin that clings to the book like a withered but still vigorous version of its larger sibling.
When you spend weeks at a time on your notes, you end up with strong opinions about how they should be presented. I don't like numbered endnotes, mostly because the numeric superscripts disrupt the text, and it can frustrating to match them up with the back matter when you're looking for one in particular. (When I read Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, I found myself distracted by his determination to provide a numbered footnote for seemingly every factual statement, from the date of the Industrial Revolution to the source of the phrase "nothing new under the sun," and that's just the first couple of pages. Part of the art of notation is knowing what information you can leave out, and no two writers will come to exactly the same conclusions.) I prefer the keyword system, in which notes are linked to their referent in the body of the book by the page number and a snippet of text. This can lead to a telegraphic, even poetic summary of the contents when you run your eye down the left margin of the page, as in the section of my book about L. Ron Hubbard in the early sixties: "Of course Scientology," "If President Kennedy did grant me an audience," "Things go well," "[Hubbard] chases able people away," "intellectual garbage," "Some of [Hubbard's] claims," "It is carefully arranged," "very space opera." They don't thrust themselves on your attention until you need them, but when you do, they're right there. These days, it's increasingly common for the notes to be provided online, and I can't guarantee that mine won't be. But I hope that they'll take their proper place at the end, where they'll live unnoticed until readers realize that their book includes the original bonus feature.
The notion that endnotes can take on a life of their own is one that novelists from Nabokov to David Foster Wallace have brilliantly exploited. When reading Wallace's Infinite Jest, the first thing that strikes most readers, aside from its sheer size, is its back matter, which takes up close to a hundred pages of closely printed notes at the end of the book. Most of us probably wish that the notes were a little more accessible, as did Dave Eggers, who observes of his first experience reading it: "It was frustrating that the footnotes were at the end of the book, rather than at the bottom of the page." Yet this wasn't an accident. As D.T. Max recounts in his fascinating profile of Wallace:
In Bloomington, Wallace struggled with the size of his book. He hit upon the idea of endnotes to shorten it. In April, 1994, he presented the idea to [editor Michael] Pietsch…He explained that endnotes "allow…me to make the primary-text an easier read while at once 1) allowing a discursive, authorial intrusive style w/o Finneganizing the story, 2) mimic the information-flood and data-triage I expect'd be an even bigger part of US life 15 years hence. 3) have a lot more technical/medical verisimilitude 4) allow/make the reader go literally physically 'back and forth' in a way that perhaps cutely mimics some of the story's thematic concerns…5) feel emotionally like I'm satisfying your request for compression of text without sacrificing enormous amounts of stuff." He also said, "I pray this is nothing like hypertext, but it seems to be interesting and the best way to get the exfoliating curve-line plot I wanted." Pietsch countered with an offer of footnotes, which readers would find less cumbersome, but eventually agreed.
What's particularly interesting here is that the endnotes physically shrink the size of Infinite Jest—simply because they're set in smaller type—while also increasing how long it takes the diligent reader to finish it. Notes allow a writer to play games not just with space, but with time. (This is true even of the most boring kind of scholarly note, which amounts to a form of postponement, allowing readers to engage with it at their leisure, or even never.) In a more recent piece in The New Yorker, Nathan Heller offers a defense of notes in their proper place at the end of the book:
Many readers, and perhaps some publishers, seem to view endnotes, indexes, and the like as gratuitous dressing—the literary equivalent of purple kale leaves at the edges of the crudités platter. You put them there to round out and dignify the main text, but they're too raw to digest, and often stiff. That's partly true…Still, the back matter is not simply a garnish. Indexes open a text up. Notes are often integral to meaning, and, occasionally, they're beautiful, too.
An index turns the book into an object that can be read across multiple dimensions, while notes are a set of tendrils that bind the text to the world, in Robert Frost's words, "by countless silken ties of love and thought." As Heller writes of his youthful job at an academic press: "My first responsibility there was proofreading the back matter of books…The tasks were modest, but those of us who carried them out felt that we were doing holy work. We were taking something intricate and powerful and giving it a final polish. I still believe in that refinement." And so should we.
Tagged with D.T. Max, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Louis Menand, Michael Pietsch, Nate Silver, Nathan Heller, Robert Frost, The New Yorker, The Signal and the Noise, Vladimir Nabokov


I've been experimenting with machine learning lately. For someone who started writing code in the early 90's and witnessed firsthand the explosion of the web and all the software engineering practices that evolved from it, I find amazing how machine learning flips traditional software engineering on its head.
Traditional software engineering taught us to divide and conquer, minimize coupling, maximize cohesion while artfully abstracting concepts in the problem domain to produce functional and maintainable code in the solution domain. Our favorite static code analysis tools helped keep our code (and its complexity) in check.
Similarly, traditional software architecture taught us to worry less about code complexity and more about architectural complexity for it had farther reaching consequences. Architectural complexity had the potential to negatively impact teams, businesses and customers alike, not to mention all phases of the software development lifecycle.
Yes, this was the good ol' world of traditional software engineering.
And machine learning flips this world on its head. Instead of writing code, the engineering team collects tons of input and output data that characterize the problem at hand. Instead of carving component boundaries on concepts artfully abstracted from the problem domain, engineers experiment with mathematics to unearth boundaries from the data directly.
And this is where machine learning's complexity problem begins. Training data sets rarely derive from a single cohesive set. They instead depend on a number of other data sets and algorithms. Although the final training data set may be neatly organized as a large table of features and targets, the number of underlying data dependencies required to support this can be quite dramatic.
Traditional software engineering became really good at refactoring away dependencies in static code and system architectures in order to tame the complexity beast, the challenge now is to do the same for data dependencies in machine learning systems.


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A Different Kind of Superhero
His futuristic prosthetic hand lends him superhuman powers. He uses these powers to give children with disabilities more confidence—and cool, 3D-printed hands.
When Michel Fornasier dons his sparkling blue cape, he ceases to be a normal human with everyday problems and limitations. He transforms into his alter ego, Bionicman, has unlimited powers, is able to fly, and even to turn back time.
Yes, it's really him. Bionicman! "The costume creates this special kind of magic. When I'm standing in front of school kids, they actually believe that they're looking at the real Bionicman. That's just an amazing feeling." However, Michel Fornasier isn't wearing his superhero costume just to make himself feel good. He's on a mission. He works to strengthen the confidence of children and show them that having a physical disability does not make them better or worse than other children. Bionicman fights for tolerance and against mobbing. Fornasier was born without a right hand and knows what he is talking about. He never let things slow him down, learned early how to tie his shoelaces, and has even run a marathon. After all, why not?
From Spiderman to Bionicman
Fornasier has been using a myoelectric hand prosthesis made by Touch Bionics, a high-tech device with six integrated maxon motors that provides 25 motion patterns. "This prosthesis has made my life much easier in many respects, even though it can replace only 15 percent of the human hand's functions. I can use it to ride a bicycle or scooter and am able to type on a keyboard using both hands. Also, simply being able to hold a smartphone in my right hand feels great."
Children used to ask: Does the hand give you superpowers? Initially, Fornasier denied the question. However, after a while he began to say: Who knows? That's how the idea of Bionicman was born. Fornasier contacted the artist David Boller, who had worked for Marvel and DC in the USA and had even drawn Spiderman comics in the past. Together, they created the first stories about Bionicman, who comes to people's aid in various situations. Physical handicaps play a role in many stories. "What I want to do is to point out in a playful way that there are people with disabilities, and that they would like to be treated just like anyone else." The first comic anthology is out now. A second volume is planned for late 2019.
Michel Fornasier is an ambassador of the Cybathlon event. He mainly tries out new tasks for the prosthetic hand race and provides feedback to the organizers.
3D-printed prostheses for children While Bionicman provides the moral support, Fornasier helps out with state-of-the-art technology. In 2016, he started the charity organization "Give Children a Hand," to which he devotes a lot of energy. A ...
3D-printed prostheses for children
While Bionicman provides the moral support, Fornasier helps out with state-of-the-art technology. In 2016, he started the charity organization "Give Children a Hand," to which he devotes a lot of energy. A cooperation with ETH Zurich and the Wyss Institute has been set up to develop affordable prosthetic hands whose components come from a 3D printer. At the time of this writing, 25 children are wearing prototypes and continually provide feedback for improvements. "To children, the look is often more important than the functionality," says Michel Fornasier and laughs. "First and foremost, the prosthesis has to look cool."
Ambassador of the Cybathlon There is still a lot to do: Engineers have to keep developing prosthetics, and society needs to treat people with disabilities as equals. This is what Bionicman fights for. These goals are also shared by the Cybathlon event, which was first held in 2016 and will take place again in 2020 in Zurich (see box). It comes as no surprise that Michel Fornasier is an ambassador of the Cybathlon. "I mainly try out new tasks for the prosthetic hand race and provide feedback to the organizers: What's difficult, and what could be improved?" In addition, he advertises a lot for the Cybathlon. "It's a great event, because it's about people, not about disabilities." Fornasier is impressed by the ambition shown by both engineers and pilots. "The resulting developments benefit users in the end."
Michel Fornasier will definitely be in a ringside seat at the Cybathlon in 2020. Together, the Cybathlon and Bionicman are a unique team that overcomes social taboos and builds bridges between people with and without disabilities.
maxon supports the 2020 Cybathlon
In the Cybathlon, people with physical disabilities compete against each other in obstacle races—supported by state-of-the-art technical assistance systems. The second installment of the event takes place in Zurich on May 2–3, 2020. The teams and pilots compete in six disciplines: Virtual racing using thought control, bicycle racing with electrical muscle stimulation (FES), dexterity challenge with prosthetic arms, obstacle race with prosthetic legs, obstacle race with robotic exoskeletons, obstacle race for powered wheelchairs.
The Cybathlon is hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). With this event, the institute provides a platform for exchange between technology developers, people with disabilities, and the public. maxon motor again supports the event—this time as Presenting Partner. More information on: cybathlon.com
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Are you a pain in the behind? Find out why you and your fellow city leaders need to be!
DEED Commissioner Steve Grove talks economic development during the keynote luncheon.
What do legislators have to say? A panel of legislative leaders will discuss the 2019 session and what to expect in 2020 and heading into the next election.
Housing, workforce development, environmental clean-up and restoration are just a few of the other topics that will be featured.
Bemidji in the summer? Yes, please! Explore the city through tour options and a city-sponsored reception, dinner and entertainment.
Get free swag at the exhibitors' tradeshow.
Honor recently retired CGMC Executive Director Tim Flaherty and other leaders who have helped shape the CGMC and advance Greater Minnesota priorities during our annual Legislative Awards Dinner.
Please note that attendees are responsible for their own hotel reservations.
The Country Inn & Suites in Bemidji has a block of rooms reserved for CGMC Summer Conference attendees at a discounted rate of $114-$139 (plus tax) per night, depending on room type. As of last week, the block was full; however, we recommend that the you call the hotel at 218-441-4800 to see if any rooms have opened up.
If there are no rooms available at the Country Inn & Suites, we recommend that you contact the nearby DoubleTree at 218-441-4400. Other hotels near the Sanford Center include the Hampton Inn & Suites (218-751-3600) and the Candlewood Suites (218-497-3000).
If you have any questions about the conference, please contact Julie Liew at jlliew@flaherty-hood.com or 651-259-1917.
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Below is a statement from CGMC President and Bemidji City Council Member Ron Johnson on the state budget agreement:
"I'm pleased to see that the Governor and legislative leaders have come to a bipartisan agreement on the state budget. As lawmakers continue to hammer out the details, I want to reiterate that there needs to be a $30.5 million increase in Local Government Aid in order for this session to be considered a success for Greater Minnesota. This has been our No. 1 priority since the first day of the session and we will continue to lean on our legislators to make it a reality.
"Gov. Walz campaigned on increasing Local Government Aid and leaders in the House have been vocal in their support for boosting the program. As we move into a special session, it is vital that they continue to fight for communities throughout the state and pass a $30.5 million LGA increase this year."
Negotiations at the Capitol may be going at a snail's pace (see next article for an update). In fact, with just days remaining in the legislative session, it is more important than ever that city officials speak up on key CGMC legislative issues like Local Government Aid (LGA), child care, clean water infrastructure and transportation.
Earlier this week, we issued an Action Alert in which we encouraged all CGMC members to contact Governor Tim Walz, Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka (R-Nisswa), House Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) and your own legislators and urge them pass a $30.5 million LGA increase this year. This remains the CGMC's top legislative priority. While the CGMC lobbying team has been persistent in advocating for an LGA increase, it is vital that lawmakers continue to hear from you about the importance of LGA and its impact on the strength and vitality of your city.
Also earlier this week, our economic development-focused sister organization the Greater Minnesota Partnership (GMNP) issued its own Action Alert regarding the need to pass legislation to help address the child care shortage. Specifically, the CGMC and GMNP are advocating for two legislative initiatives that aim to increase child care capacity in Greater Minnesota: we are seeking $10 million in bonding for grants to help build or expand child care facilities and $2 million to be divided between the six Minnesota Initiative Foundations for child care business assistance and provider training.
If you have not yet responded to these Action Alerts, please do so ASAP. Session ends May 20, so there is no time to waste.
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As cities across Minnesota face billions of dollars in wastewater infrastructure costs, rural communities simply cannot afford to upgrade or rebuild aging facilities without additional financial assistance from the state
Who: Kelly Rasche, Lakefield city clerk; Chad Adams, Albert Lea city manager; Mark Larson, Glencoe city administrator; Bradley Peterson, CGMC executive director, and other Greater Minnesota city leaders
What: Press conference about the need for a bonding bill that addresses wastewater infrastructure costs in Greater Minnesota
When: 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Where: Press Conference Room B971, Minnesota State Capitol
Things are starting to heat up at the Legislature, but lawmakers are still far from reaching agreements on top Greater Minnesota issues like LGA, bonding, transportation, workforce housing and broadband. It's become apparent that we need to make an extra push in the last few weeks of session to demand that legislators take action to address the needs and concerns of Greater Minnesota communities. To relay this message, we are asking all Greater Minnesota city officials and community leaders to join us for a special CGMC Lobby Day on Wednesday, May 11.
What: CGMC Lobby Day
Who: Elected officials, city staff and other community leaders from across Greater Minnesota
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11
Where: Office of Flaherty & Hood, P.A. (525 Park St., Suite 470, St. Paul) and lobbying at the Senate Office Building and State Office Building
Please see this flyer for a tentative schedule of the day. Lobby Day is FREE to attend, but we ask that you RSVP to RSVP@flaherty-hood.com by Monday, May 9.
If you have any questions about the May 11 Lobby Day, contact Julie Liew at jlliew@flaherty-hood.com or 651-259-1917.
Register today for the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities' Legislative Action Day 2016! This year's event will be held Wednesday, March 16. It will kick off with a brief legislative update in the morning, followed by lunch featuring speaker Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk (House Speaker Kurt Daudt has also been been invited) at the Flaherty & Hood office in St. Paul. Members will then spend the afternoon meeting with their legislators at the House and Senate offices (members should make their own appointments for meetings with legislators between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. that day). The daylong event concludes with a legislative reception and dinner at Mancini's Char House & Lounge that evening.
Legislative Action Day is always a great opportunity to build connections between local officials and legislators and advocate for the priorities of Greater Minnesota cities. To RSVP, please fill out this registration form and email it to RSVP@flaherty-hood.com or mail it to the listed address. Please RSVP by March 2.
Below is a guest column by Owatonna Mayor Thomas Kuntz and Glencoe Mayor Randy Wilson, both of whom serve on the CGMC Board of Directors. As of Dec. 10, the column has appeared in the Rochester Post-Bulletin, Brainerd Dispatch, Faribault Daily News, Northfield News, Owatonna People's Press, Marshall Independent, Winona Daily News and the Worthington Daily Globe.
Republican Mayors: House Republicans need to reverse course and support LGA
By Thomas Kuntz and Randy Wilson
As 2015 winds down and we prepare to welcome a new year and a new legislative session, the time has come for us to speak out. As mayors of cities in Greater Minnesota—and as Republicans—we have waited more than a year for the new House Republican majority to show leadership on a key issue affecting communities across Greater Minnesota: Local Government Aid (LGA).
However, the only message House Republicans have sent on LGA has been far from a positive one. Last spring, the House—with support from every rural Republican—passed a tax bill that would reduce funding for the LGA program by $84 million. This is in stark contrast to the Senate's version of the tax bill, which includes a $45.5 million increase in LGA funding—the amount needed to get the LGA program back to its 2002 benchmark level.
Minnesota had a nearly $2 billion surplus last session (and it was recently announced that the current surplus remains just as high), which makes it all the more unbelievable that House Republicans voted to cut funding for a program that is the cornerstone of many Greater Minnesota cities. The House Republicans' stance is wrong for LGA and wrong for Minnesota.
We thought the days of LGA being a political football were behind us. As rural mayors and Republicans ourselves, we can't fathom why the House would threaten the LGA program like this. LGA helps cities pay for essential services like police and fire protection and street repairs, as well as important quality-of-life amenities like parks and libraries. For many Greater Minnesota cities, LGA is the difference between being a thriving attractive community and being a hollowed out ghost town.
While cutting $84 million out of the LGA program when Minnesota has a significant budget surplus is unjustifiable in its own right, the House's method of doing so is downright dangerous to the future of the entire program.
The proposed $84 million in cuts are targeted solely at the "first class" cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth. The House GOP's argument for the cuts is that LGA "was never intended" for Minneapolis and St. Paul, that they get "too much" LGA and that they don't need it because of their large tax bases.
These arguments are completely unfounded. The original 1971 statute on LGA specifically refers to how Minneapolis and St. Paul's share of aid is calculated. Since the beginning of the program, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth have received a fair share of LGA funding under a formula that is based on a city's need and tax base. In fact, the percentage share of LGA going to those cities has actually decreased in recent years.
You may be wondering why two mayors from Greater Minnesota are defending Minneapolis and St. Paul. Shouldn't we be happy that the House is going after the giants rather than us little guys? The fact is that if successful, the House's attack on LGA severely undermines a program that is vital to many Greater Minnesota communities. If the House GOP succeeds in cutting LGA from the first-class cities, what's to stop our cities from being on the chopping block next?
We are given hope by the fact that there is still time for the House Republicans to change direction on LGA. They have six months, from now until the end of the legislative session, to show their support for Minnesota cities and the families and businesses who reside in them. It's time for legislators who say they support LGA and Greater Minnesota communities to start showing it.
State officials announced today that Minnesota's budget surplus has increased to nearly $1.9 million, up almost $900 million from the previous budget report released a few months ago. You can read more about the surplus and lawmakers' response in this article from Forum Communications.
In response to the surplus announcement, CGMC President and Ely City Councilor Heidi Omerza released the following statement to the media this afternoon (click here for a PDF version):
"Today's announcement that the state's economic recovery has produced a nearly $2 billion surplus is good news for Minnesota. It is important that our lawmakers take this opportunity to position our entire state for continued growth and long-term stability by making strategic investments in local government aid, broadband expansion, workforce housing, job training and other critical needs for Greater Minnesota.
Communities, families and businesses in all parts of the state will be able to reap the benefits of an even stronger economy if lawmakers seize this opportunity to make smart investments in key areas."
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We have a great program lined up! Since it will be just days after the election, the event will kick off with an election re-cap in which we will explore the results from a Greater Minnesota perspective. That session will be followed by a transportation panel discussion featuring legislators who are leaders on the issue. Later in the afternoon, policy expert and former gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner will discuss his study titled "Finding the Voice for Rural Minnesota," which explores Greater Minnesota's role and influence in the state's decision-making process. That evening, attendees will join members of the League of Minnesota Cities-Metro Region group for a social hour reception, followed by a dinner featuring veteran WCCO Political Reporter Pat Kessler as the keynote speaker. Kessler will share his insight and observations from his 30 years of experience covering Minnesota politics, as well as provide advice on how interest groups like the CGMC can stay relevant and be effective in shaping public policy.
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Scientists have found a compelling clue to what causes age-related memory problems, and to a way of one day differentiating whether those misplaced car keys are just a senior moment or an early warning of something worse.
Wednesday's report offers evidence that age-related memory loss really is a distinct condition from pre-Alzheimer's -- and offers a hint that what we now consider the normal forgetfulness of old age might eventually be treatable.
"You know not every band that comes from Liverpool becomes The Beatles," Dr. Scott Small, a professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center and a senior author of the study, told CBS News. "And most of our studies fail. So this is the one that worked."
Small and other researchers at Columbia University Medical Center examined brains, young and old ones, donated from people who died without signs of neurologic disease. They discovered that a certain gene in a specific part of the hippocampus, the brain's memory center, quits working properly in older people. It produces less of a key protein called RbAp48.
That section of the brain, called the dentate gyrus, has long been suspected of being especially vulnerable to aging. Importantly, it is a different neural neighborhood than where Alzheimer's begins to form.
But the evidence that having less RbAp48 affects memory loss in older adults is circumstantial. So the researchers took a closer look at mice, which become forgetful as they age in much the same way that people do.
Sure enough, cutting levels of the protein made healthy young rodents lose their way in mazes and perform worse on other memory tasks just like old mice naturally do.
More intriguing, the memory loss was reversible: Boosting the protein made forgetful old mice as sharp as the youngsters again, the researchers reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
"Can we take an old mouse and now increase the levels of this protein in that very small area of the brain affected by aging and show that we can make an old mouse look like a young mouse," Small, who is also director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia asked. "And we did."
The result was unexpected, Elias Pavlopoulos, an associate research scientist on the team, said in a statement.
"It's the best evidence so far" that age-related memory loss isn't the same as early Alzheimer's, said Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel, who led the Columbia University team.
And since some people make it to 100 without showing much of a cognitive slowdown, the work begs another question: "Is that normal aging, or is it a deterioration that we're allowing to occur?" Kandel said.
Added Small: "As we want to live longer and stay engaged in a cognitively complex world, I think even mild age-related memory decline is meaningful. It opens up a whole avenue of investigation to now try to identify interventions."
This is early-stage research that will require years of additional work to confirm, cautioned Dr. Molly Wagster of the National Institute on Aging, who wasn't involved with the report.
But Wagster said the findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting "that we're not all on the road to Alzheimer's disease" after we pass a certain age.
For example, other researchers have found that connections between neurons in other parts of the brain weaken with normal aging, making it harder but not impossible to retrieve memories. In contrast, Alzheimer's kills neurons.
How do "super agers" have such good memories?
How does Wednesday's research fit? Many pathways make up a smoothly functioning memory, and that protein plays a role in turning a short-term memory -- like where you left those car keys -- into a longer-term one, Kandel explained.
Some good news: Scientists already know that exercise makes the dentate gyrus -- that age-targeted spot in the hippocampus -- function better, Small said. He's also studying if nutrition might make a difference.
Scientists can now assess interventions whether diet, behavior, or drugs, he said.
Said Kandel: "We have treatments in mice that work extremely well, and there's no reason why that wouldn't work in people -- if we work hard enough on it."


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Q: Reducing a normalized table to one value I'm sure this has been asked but I'm not quite sure how to properly search for this question, my apologies.
I have two tables, Foo and Bar.  For has one row per Food, bar has many rows per food matching descriptors.
Foo
name         id
Apple 1
Orange 2
Bar
id description
1  Tasty
1  Ripe
2 Sweet
etc (sorry for the somewhat contrived example).
I'm trying to return a query where if, for each row in Foo, Bar contains a descriptor in ('Tasty', 'Juicy') return true
ex:
Output
Apple True
Orange False
I had been solving this somewhat trivially with a case when I only had one item to match
select
Foo.name,
case bar.description
when 'Tasty' then True
else 'False'
end
from Foo
left join Bar on foo.id = bar.id
where bar.description = 'Tasty'
But with multiple items, I keep ending up with extra rows:
Output
Apple True
Apple False
etc etc
Can someone point me in the right direction on how to think about this problem or what I should be doing?  Thank you.

A: You need to use a subquery
select foo.name
from foo
where foo.id in (
   select bar.id
   from bar
   where bar.description in ('Tasty', 'Juicy')
)

As Martin pointed out, the above query doesn't quite provide what the OP wants. Below is a fixed version.
select
     foo.name,
     case
         when r.id is null then 'True'
         else 'False'
     end as IsTastyOrJucy
from foo
   left join (
       select foo.name
       from foo
       where foo.id in (
          select bar.id
          from bar
          where bar.description in ('Tasty', 'Juicy')
       )
    ) as R

A: You'll want something like the following, depending on your DBMS:
SELECT
        id, name,
        CAST(CASE
            WHEN EXISTS (SELECT NULL FROM bar WHERE
                    bar.id = foo.id
                    AND bar.description IN ('Tasty', 'Juicy')
                ) THEN 1
            ELSE 0
        END AS BIT) AS HasBar
    FROM
        foo

A: Try this:
select id, name
from foo
where exists (
    select 1 from bar where bar.id = foo.id
    and bar.Description in ('tasty', 'ripe')
)

A: Try this?
SELECT  F.Name,
            CASE WHEN B.Description IN ('Tasty', 'Juicy')
                  THEN 'True'
                  ELSE 'False'
            END AS IsTastyOrJuicy
FROM Foo AS F
LEFT JOIN Bar AS B ON B.ID = F.ID
GROUP BY F.Name, B.Description

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Sen. Mike Lee on Soleimani Airstrike: 'Frustrating' to 'Not Get the Details Behind It'
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) expanded on his reaction earlier this week to a briefing by Trump administration officials on the airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.
Lee had told reporters following the briefing that it was "probably the worst" one on a military issue he had been a part of in his nine years in office.
Speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union, Lee said he believes that "the briefers and the president believe that they had a basis for concluding that there was an imminent attack," but that "it's just frustrating to be told that and not get the details behind it."
Lee added that he is "worried" about the integrity of information that the administration is giving to Congress, especially since administration officials have not been consistent in their public statements.
"As a United States senator, and as a voter and citizen, I have learned not to simply take the federal government's word at face value," he said. "We were lied to about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, we were lied to for a couple of decades about what is happening in Afghanistan, we've been lied to about a lot of things."
What it comes down to, Lee said, is that "it's important to ask these questions so that we know the details."
Watch the video above, via CNN.
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When Razer announced its Nabu wearable wrist band, gamer geeks everywhere rejoiced as there was finally a wearable that was geared towards their hobby. Unfortunately, wearable wrist bands have made headlines of late with outbreaks of skin irritation and resulting recalls that cost companies millions.
Razer says that it has decided to delay the launch of its Nabu in order to see if it is safe to wear long-term. "While we're 100-percent confident that there won't be any problems with the Nabu, we've engaged medical professionals and are running medical tests to make doubly sure that by the time the Nabu gets on your wrists, it is fully certified hypoallergenic," advises said Razer's co-founder, Min-Liang Tan.
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The district includes portions of Tipp City, Huber Heights, and Bethel Township, Ohio. Bethel High School is accredited by the State of Ohio and the North Central Association. In addition to having outstanding college preparatory and general courses of study, BHS is affiliated with the Miami Valley Career Technology Center, which offers 50 vocational programs and Tech Prep courses of study. The athletic teams compete in the Cross Country Conference.
Bethel Local School graduating students consistently rank among the top in the Miami Valley area in proficiency and achievement tests. Forty-nine percent of BHS graduates in the Class of 2015 continued their education at colleges and universities. Graduates earned $505,220 in scholarships and awards to public and private colleges and universities in Ohio and across the nation 2014-2015.
The district promotes and supports high achievement with: technology, a Gifted Program, and English as a Second Language Program (ESL is for bilingual and English language learners).Bethel students take great pride in academic and extracurricular accomplishments. The strong support of the PTO (parent teacher organization), Athletic Boosters, surrounding business community, and local governments enhance the lives of our students. There are many amenities within, and surrounding, this district that is rural by nature yet a very comfortable place to be a permanent resident.


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Q: android aapt dump resources no output When I try to dump an apk resources using the AAPT on Android Jellybean and pre-Jellybean versions, it works fine. It displays the expected output.
aapt dump --values resources /system/framework/framework-res.apk

But when I try to run this command on KitKat and newer versions, it outputs literally nothing. I'm not really sure if ART runtime has something to do with this though.
Anyone knows what could be the cause of this? and how to fix this?

A: In android studio ,In between minimum SDK version and maximum SDK version keep as per your mobile android version.then clean project and try to run.

A: Here is what I've done on a Marshmallow Nexus 6 (6.0/MRA58K):
adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk
aapt dump --values resources framework-res.apk

it produced a 19 MiB long list of resource identifiers. The same commands on a Jelly Bean Nexus S (4.1.2/JZO54K) produced equivalent output, except it was half the size.

A: It seems the problem is in the android platform, when AAPT is ran on other OS, it works fine but when ran on inside android, it displays nothing.


Ever since we drove up the hill to Park City to dine at The Nelson Cottage, I haven't stopped talking about the meal with encountered. Did you know High West Distillery just opened up a new pre-fix menu restaurant?? It's easy to miss but its stealth is part of its charm. The cute blue bungalow is just one door down from the popular, and often times hard to get into, High West Distillery restaurant and saloon.
What should you expect when dining at The Nelson Cottage – expect your tastebuds to be become new friends with new flavors and expect a brand new experience all its own. One of my favorite parts of our evening was learning how to sip and savor my whiskey. The whiskey missionary of the establishment, Terry, will guide you through how and when to sip throughout the meal, and he's an entertainment himself! You'll also learn the process of making whisky and its many uses and byproducts.
Our meal was a feast of the senses, starting with bone marrow whipped butter and local cheddar brioche, to coffee roasted bison tenderloin, with several more courses in between. And I won't soon forget the dessert of decadent date caramel cake swimming in creme anglaise and topped with candied kumquats.
Every evening will be unique at The Nelson Cottage so come with an open mind and an empty stomach and you'll be sure to leave with much more than you came with.


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Q: YAxis labels and series color the same I have a chart with two series. One series uses the left YAxis, the other uses the right YAxis. I would like the labels on each axis to have the same color as their respective series.
I know this can be done by manually assigning the colors, eg:
  yAxis: [
    {
      labels: {
        style: {
          color: "red"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      labels: {
        style: {
          color: "green"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  series: [
    {
      color: "red",
      yAxis: 0,
      data: []
    },
    {
      color: "green",
      yAxis: 1,
      data: []
    }
  ]

But I would ideally prefer not to assign colors manually. When you don't specify any colors, the series colors are set automatically. I would like for the corresponding axis labels to have the same color.

A: To change the colors automatically, you can use the chart load event and update y-axes:
chart: {
    events: {
        load: function() {
            this.series.forEach(function(s) {
                s.yAxis.update({
                    labels: {
                        style: {
                            color: s.color
                        }
                    }
                }, false);
            });

            this.redraw();
        }
    }
}

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/u0myw5az/
API Reference:
https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/chart.events.load
https://api.highcharts.com/class-reference/Highcharts.Axis#update


Online safety is an important part of children's education in today's digital world. We help support children at school to understand how to stay safe and how to use the internet in and digital media in a safe way.
We are all aware how important online safety is and how it can be a concern for many parents. Guru Andrew speaks to the NSPCC's Claire Lilley about the importance of online security for children and what you can do to make sure your child's life online is protected.
There are many publications that can help parents and carers support their children. Here are a few that you may find helpful.


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This week I interview Kelly about the ideas behind the remake of our front yard. We talk about why we took out a bunch of stone fruit trees and Kelly discusses how the principles in Thomas Rainer and Claudia West's book Planting in a Post-Wild World inspired the new design of our yard.
Haven't been able to download podcast interviewing Kelly re landscape.
Ok it just downloaded, yah!
1) Behind my garage I always had weeds growing to the sides of the entrance. Technically a wild area but it just didn't look good. Where driven on not much grew but in the gravel to the side there was. I got some compost & mulch from the landfill and just put it over the gravel and I figured whatever grew was meant to live there. Wild sunflowers have taken over the area now. Though slow to fill in early in the season they take off midsummer. There are bees all around all summer and when they mature in late fall the birds work away at the seeds and re-plant for next year.
2) In the front yard I noticed an area of lawn never did well. When I probed it there was only 8″ of soil then sandy gravel. I've planted hen & chicks and creeping thyme there. Initially it didn't look like much but as they've rooted this year its looking better and they should fill in better over the next few years.
I really like the idea of not worrying about native plants. I have planted some drought tolerant natives (as I live in a semi-arid area) but I don't get too hung up on it.
Finally – thanks for telling all about the failures in the past and the design process. I like hearing the whys and not just what was done.


Final thing on the car-culture regression. Below is a comparison of the actual data on Vehicle Miles Traveled with my reconstruction of Nate Silver's model, and my model including lagged gas prices, housing prices, and the stock market.
I "seasonally adjusted" the miles data by fitting a model predicting miles based only on the month of the year. The miles data (whether the actual data or the prediction from a model) is then corrected by subtracting the coefficient for the month it was collected. This data is normalized according the level of driving in April.
An even better fit is possible with a more complex model that includes a) average monthly temperatures and b) an interaction between gas prices and time. But this simpler model suffices to show that Silver's original finding was probably an artifact of his failure to control for wealth effects and the lagged effect of gas prices.
The lesson, I suppose, is: beware of columnists on deadline bearing regressions!


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SPACEMAN IN SAPPORO
'Spaceman'
New role forJapan baseball's eccentric 'Spaceman'
Studiously bizarre new team manager's been out of baseball, busying himself as TV celebrity and clothing modelBy ROBERT WHITINGNOVEMBER 12, 2021Print
I have seen a lot of strange appointments to the post of baseball club manager in my long career as a journalist, but perhaps none so strange as the recent Nippon Ham Fighters front office decision to hire Tsuyoshi Shinjo as field manager for the 2022 season.
Shinjo was announced as the team's 2022 pilot in a press conference in which he appeared in a gaudy suit with an extremely high collar, his hair dyed, and declared himself to be "the Big Boss." He looked like an actor in a yakuza crime film.
Shinjo, a good-field, no-hit outfielder with the Hanshin Tigers, New York Mets and San Francisco Giants, had been known primarily through his career as "Spaceman" for his bizarre behavior, which included touching home plate with his hand when scoring and displaying an outre fashion sense – leather suits, orange wraparound glasses, colorful wristbands and eyebrow makeup.
He looked like he belonged in a rock band rather than in center field. After a peek inside Shinjo's locker in San Francisco during an interview in 2001, a photographer noted wryly, "He's got more hairspray in there than my wife does in her bedroom."
He was unconventional in other ways. By his fourth season with the Hanshin Tigers, he had recorded a love song, "True Love" (which sold a grand total of 8,000 copies). By the time he was 28 he had written his autobiography, entitled Dreaming baby.
He became so famous for making odd statements – for example, "I am one who wants to be adored by others" – that a collection of them was published in a book entitled, appropriately enough, The Analects of Shinjo.
Shinjo could run – and, as an outfielder, he had an arm as good as Ichiro Suzuki's. He was a .249 lifetime hitter who could not hit the outside breaking pitch. He had one good season, 2000, when he batted .278 with 28 home runs, 85 runs batted in and 15 stolen bases.
Becoming a free agent he turned down lucrative, multiyear offers from Central League teams and signed with the New York Mets in 2001 for a reported league minimum of $200,000 – which caused an uncle to yell, "What the hell are you thinking, you idiot?"
"I want to test my abilities," Shinjo replied, "and I want to have fun playing baseball."
His signing with the Mets reportedly annoyed Ichiro, who had just signed with the Seattle Mariners, as the first Japanese position payer in America.
"What on earth did the New York Mets sign a guy like that for?" Ichiro was quoted as saying, "If someone like him can go over there, the major leagues must not be anything much these days. Putting me and Shinjo together is a joke."
However, Shinjo showed flashes of talent in New York. He had several important hits and made fine defensive plays in center field. And he always hustled on ground balls to the infield to back up teammates in case of an error, something not all American outfielders could be bothered to do.
In fact, Mets manager Bobby Valentine, in a moment of unguarded enthusiasm, called Shinjo the best center fielder in Major League Baseball. Evidently, however, it wasn't enough as Shinjo finished the season at .269 with 10 home runs in 123 games and was traded to San Francisco for the 2002 season.
Some baseball fans compared Shinjo to Bill Lee, a Boston Red Sox pitcher in the 1970s also nicknamed "Spaceman" because of his outspoken manner and unfiltered comments. Lee publicly defended Maoist China, Greenpeace and population control. He once threatened to bite off an umpire's ear. He openly bragged about his marijuana use. His propensity to criticize management – he said portly Bosox manager Don Zimmer looked like a gerbil – got him bounced out of baseball by 1982.
Japanese press overkill
I interviewed Shinjo twice in San Francisco, where his presence on the team was a huge distraction. Shinjo hit .238 with only nine home runs in 113 games, but his every move was documented by twenty or so reporters. Giants manager Dusty Baker was not happy about that.
"I'm not used to being asked every day about the same person," he sighed, "How much can you say in a 24-hour period?"
Shinjo spent long stretches languishing on the bench, which left the "Shinjo Patrol" desperate for new story angles. One desperate reporter took a photograph of Shinjo to the strip joints and gay bars in the Castro District, asking bartenders and patrons alike if the good-looking young man in question had ever patronized their establishments.
Hearing of this Shinjo became so upset he stopped talking to the Japanese press for a time and instituted a ban of reporters from entering the Giants locker room.
So how will Shinjo do as a manager? Who knows. There have been worse hirings. In 2015 the Miami Marlins hired as manager a front office executive with no managing, coaching or even playing experience on a professional level, major or minor. Dan Jennings finished with a win-loss record of 55 and 69 and was fired at the end of the year.
Although he has been out of baseball for a while, busying himself as a TV celebrity and model for his own line of clothing, among other things, Shinjo will definitely attract the media.
With former Ham Fighters manager Atsunori Inaba occupying the general manager position to provide adult leadership as well bring respectability and baseball smarts to the Fighters' team, one would assume Inaba will be tasked to keep Shinjo in line and possibly call some/many of the shots.
Some people may view this as a clown stunt. But Nippon Ham is known for unconventional – and successful – thinking. So in the end, this bizarre experiment might turn out ok.
Robert Whiting's career has been devoted to exploring what Japanese baseball can tell us about the larger society. He is the author most recently of Tokyo Junkie: 60 years of BrightLights and Back Alleys … and Baseball.
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The busser or server assistant position changes from restaurant to restaurant as they expect different duties in establishments.
Clean off all plate and glassware from tables that have left.
Re-set the table in the restaurants style.
Make sure the table is set properly and clean.
Make sure the chairs and floor area around the table is clean.
Bring all dishware to the dish area for cleaning.
On occasion a guest may ask you for something that you feel is the waiter or waitresses job to get, if it does not involve a transaction or adding something to the bill like "Could you get me a knife?" that's your job too. Remember it is because of the guests that we all get paid so if its guest related its YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION!
In any job there are times where the guest may ask you a question about the restaurant so you should know the necessary information about where you work.
Bringing clean glassware to the bar area.
The bottom line is this, regardless of what the stated duties of a busser or server assistant in your establishment the more you do the more you know, the more you know the more your worth. If you want to grow in the business or any business you will do so by putting forth a little extra each day. The first time I hear "that's not my job," you're probably right, and it never will be!
Again this varies wildly from restaurant to restaurant. Usually it consists of an hourly wage at minimum wage or above and a percentage of server tips or sales. Most places today have it set to be a percentage of servers total sales or food sales. To give you a clear example in my restaurants I pay our server assistants $5.75 per hour and the servers tip out the server assistants 2% of total sales. Since an average server sells $800 and I have one SA per four servers the SA would get 1% of $3,200 or an additional $32 per night. That's not too shabby when you look a six hour shift, over $10 per hour to learn what you will need to know to move into a server position! And you know what? If your good you will no doubt be tipped out better by the servers you are helping!


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Schedule online via eTang or call (510) 642-2000 - press option 4 - to schedule between 8am-4:45pm.
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You are automatically assigned a Primary Care Provider. You can request a specific clinician if you have someone in mind, or you can explain your need or problem when making an appointment.
For life-threatening emergency, call 911.
See Emergency and Crisis for specific emergency and/or crisis situations, what to do and referrals.
When Tang is closed, check the resources provided in Emergency and Crisis or you may call After Hours Assistance at (510) 643-7197 for referrals. Berkeley SHIP members who'd like to speak to a nurse when we are closed may contact the 24/7 Nurse Line at (800) 681-4065.
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Q: How to run gulp tasks on execute I currently only have gulp working, but need to make a change to a file before any update is done. Is there a way to run the build tasks then watch for changes?
This is my gulp file:
var gulp = require('gulp');
var sass = require('gulp-sass');
var browserify = require('browserify');
var babelify = require('babelify');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
var buffer = require('vinyl-buffer');

gulp.task('styles', function() {
    gulp.src('sass/**/*.scss')
        .pipe(sass().on('error', sass.logError))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('css/'));
});

gulp.task('scripts', function() {
    browserify('js/main.js')
        .transform(babelify,{presets: ["es2015", "react"]})
        .bundle()
        .pipe(source('bundle.js'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('.'))
        .pipe(buffer())
});

gulp.task('default', function() {
    gulp.watch('sass/**/*.scss',['styles']);
    gulp.watch('js/*.js',['scripts']);
});

A: Add them as dependent tasks that are run prior to your task.
gulp.task('default', ['styles', 'scripts'], function() {
    gulp.watch('sass/**/*.scss',['styles']);
    gulp.watch('js/*.js',['scripts']);
});

The tasks 'styles' and then 'scripts' will be run, then the callback function for 'default' will be fired calling the two gulp.watch() statements.


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Macrocycles are often described as molecules and ions containing a ring of twelve or more atoms. Classical examples include the crown ethers, calixarenes, porphyrins, and cyclodextrins. Macrocycles describe a large, mature area of chemistry.

Synthesis
The formation of macrocycles by ring-closure is called macrocylization. Pioneering work was reported for studies on terpenoid macrocycles. The central challenge to macrocyclization is that ring-closing reactions do not favor the formation of large rings. Instead, small rings or polymers tend to form. This kinetic problem can be addressed by using high-dilution reactions, whereby intramolecular processes are favored relative to polymerizations.

Some macrocyclizations are favored using template reactions.  Templates are ions, molecules, surfaces etc. that bind and pre-organize compounds, guiding them toward formation of a particular ring size.  The crown ethers are often generated in the presence of an alkali metal cation, which organizes the condensing components by complexation. An illustrative macrocyclization is the synthesis of (−)-muscone from (+)-citronellal.  The 15-membered ring is generated by ring-closing metathesis.

Occurrence and applications
One important application are the many macrocyclic antibiotics, the macrolides, e.g. clarithromycin.  Many metallocofactors are bound to macrocyclic ligands, which include porphyrins, corrins, and chlorins.  These rings arise from multistep biosynthetic processes that also feature macrocycles.

Macrocycles often bind ions and facilitate ion transport across hydrophobic membranes and solvents.  The macrocycle envelops the ion with a hydrophobic sheath, which facilitates phase transfer properties.

Macrocycles are often bioactive and could be useful for drug delivery.

Subdivisions
 Cryptand
 Rotaxane
 Catenane
 Molecular knot

Effective molarity
Macrocyclic stereocontrol

See also

 Macrocyclic ligand

References

Further reading


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7 Who is the poorest president in the world?
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Q: Strange counting behavior in simple change making program So I was making this fairly straight forward optimal change program that works perfectly fine in most cases. But for some odd reason it acts inconsistent and sometimes won't add the last penny needed, but other times it will.
I've tried different outputs and the code always comes out correct except sometimes for the last penny; when using American currency. I'm sure the reason is obvious, but I just don't see it.
   public static int[] optimal_change(double[] currency, double amount) {

        int[] count = new int[currency.length];

        for (int i = 0; i < currency.length; i++) {
            if (amount >= currency[i]) {
                amount -= currency[i];
                count[i]++;
                i--;
            }
            if (amount == 0.0000) {
                break;
            }
        }

        return count;
    }

public static void main(String[] args) {

        double[] american_currency = {100,50,20,10,5,1,0.25,0.10,0.05,0.01};
        //Japanese currency: https://www.boj.or.jp/en/note_tfjgs/note/valid/index.htm/
        double[] japanese_currency = {10000,5000,2000,1000,500,100,50,10,5,1};

        int[] american_change = optimal_change(american_currency, 78.36);
        int[] japanese_change = optimal_change(japanese_currency, 793048);

        System.out.println("Optimal change for: $78.38");
        for (int i = 0; i < american_currency.length; i++) {
            if (i <= 5) {
                System.out.println(Integer.toString(american_change[i]) + " $" + Double.toString(american_currency[i]));
            } else {
                System.out.println(Integer.toString(american_change[i]) + " " + Double.toString(american_currency[i]) + "¢");
            }
        }
        System.out.println("--------------------------");
        System.out.println("Optimal change for: ¥793040");
        for (int i = 0; i < japanese_currency.length; i++) {

            System.out.println(Integer.toString(japanese_change[i]) + " ¥" + Double.toString(japanese_currency[i]));

        }

    }

Correct Results:
input: 78.37
output:
Optimal change for: $78.37
0 $100.0
1 $50.0
1 $20.0
0 $10.0
1 $5.0
3 $1.0
1 0.25¢
1 0.1¢
0 0.05¢
2 0.01¢

Incorrect Results:
input: 78.38
output:
Optimal change for: $78.38
0 $100.0
1 $50.0
1 $20.0
0 $10.0
1 $5.0
3 $1.0
1 0.25¢
1 0.1¢
0 0.05¢
2 0.01¢
The output Should have been:
Optimal change for: $78.38
0 $100.0
1 $50.0
1 $20.0
0 $10.0
1 $5.0
3 $1.0
1 0.25¢
1 0.1¢
0 0.05¢
3 0.01¢

A: Switching To BigDecimal seemed to fix the issue. Not sure why the issue with doubles has persisted this long. But thankfully it works.
import java.math.BigDecimal;

public class Greedy_Money_BigInteger {
    public static int[] optimal_change(BigDecimal[] currency, BigDecimal amount) {

        int[] count = new int[currency.length];

        for (int i = 0; i < currency.length; i++) {
            //if (amount >= currency[i]) {
            if (amount.compareTo(currency[i]) >= 0) {
                amount = amount.subtract(currency[i]);
                count[i]++;
                i--;
            }
            if (amount.compareTo(BigDecimal.valueOf(0)) <= 0) {
                break;
            }
        }

        return count;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        BigDecimal[] american_currency = {BigDecimal.valueOf(100),BigDecimal.valueOf(50),BigDecimal.valueOf(20),BigDecimal.valueOf(10),BigDecimal.valueOf(5),BigDecimal.valueOf(1),BigDecimal.valueOf(0.25),BigDecimal.valueOf(0.10),BigDecimal.valueOf(0.05),BigDecimal.valueOf(0.01)};
        //Japanese currency: https://www.boj.or.jp/en/note_tfjgs/note/valid/index.htm/
        BigDecimal[] japanese_currency = {BigDecimal.valueOf(10000),BigDecimal.valueOf(5000),BigDecimal.valueOf(2000),BigDecimal.valueOf(1000),BigDecimal.valueOf(500),BigDecimal.valueOf(100),BigDecimal.valueOf(50),BigDecimal.valueOf(10),BigDecimal.valueOf(5),BigDecimal.valueOf(1)};

        BigDecimal american_change_value = BigDecimal.valueOf(78.31);
        BigDecimal japanese_change_value = BigDecimal.valueOf(793043);

        int[] american_change = optimal_change(american_currency, american_change_value);
        int[] japanese_change = optimal_change(japanese_currency, japanese_change_value);

        System.out.println("Optimal change for: $" + american_change_value.toString());
        for (int i = 0; i < american_currency.length; i++) {
            if (american_change[i] > 0) {
                if (i <= 5) {
                    System.out.println(Integer.toString(american_change[i]) + " $" + american_currency[i].toString());
                } else {
                    System.out.println(Integer.toString(american_change[i]) + " " + american_currency[i].toString() + "¢");
                }
            }
        }
        System.out.println("--------------------------");
        System.out.println("Optimal change for: ¥" + japanese_change_value.toString());
        for (int i = 0; i < japanese_currency.length; i++) {
            if (japanese_change[i] > 0) {
                System.out.println(Integer.toString(japanese_change[i]) + " ¥" + japanese_currency[i].toString());
            }
        }

    }
}

A: As pointed out by other people in the comments, the problem is caused by Java "approximation" of the values of a double.
Change it in BigDecimal.
Refer to this question for additional information.


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Shareholders are calling on the major mutual fund company Vanguard to support political spending disclosure at the companies in which it invests. As the largest manager of retirement savings in the country, Vanguard should support shareholders who are calling for big companies to disclose their political spending, but instead it either abstains from voting or votes against disclosure resolutions.
Tell the company today to stop using your retirement savings to protect secret corporate political spending.
Institutions with retirement plans managed by Vanguard: Check out our 1- pager on dialoguing with the company about your concerns over political spending disclosure.
For the last decade, investors have been filing shareholder resolutions at individual companies and seeing promising responses from many who are interested in increasing their transparency. Without a uniform rulemaking, though, others are allowed to continue to keep shareholders and the public in the dark about how they spend in politics. Even those who do disclose may not do it the same way as other corporations, making it hard for investors to actually use the information to make corporate comparisons.
How do mutual funds fit into this picture? The major ones, like Vanguard and BlackRock, have incredible power in corporate elections; power accumulated from the millions of retirement savings accounts they manage. With the volume of shares they control, the major mutual funds can and should support shareholder resolutions calling for political spending disclosure. Instead, Vanguard, specifically, either votes against or abstains from voting for these resolutions at the companies where its clients' savings are invested. The weight of the major mutual fund vote means that many times resolutions fail to get majority support without it.
In September, the CRC sat down with Vanguard's founder, John C. "Jack" Bogle to talk about the public comment he submitted to the SEC on the petition for a rulemaking requiring companies to disclose their political spending.
Watch Vanguard's founder Jack Bogle talk about a shareholders right to information like a company's political spending.
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Burger Boogaloo drops name, association to Burger Records in wake of scandal
Roman Gokhman
Fans at Burger Boogaloo at Mosswood Park in Oakland on June 30, 2018. Karen Goldman/STAFF.
The producer of Oakland's annual Burger Boogaloo festival announced today that his company, Total Trash Productions, has broken off its relationship with Burger Records. The label is facing allegations of fostering a culture of toxic masculinity among artists, and that numerous artists and label executives actively took part in sexually assaulting female artists; some of them minors at the time. The festival producer said the event, which was postponed last week to July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will return with a new name.
"It was hard to read the allegations," a clearly emotional Marc Ribak said in a phone call Tuesday night. He seemed to be fighting back tears during the conversation. "They sounded horrible."
In the scandal, which began building on Saturday morning with the creation of Instagram account Lured By Burger Records, members of popular bands like The Growlers, The Frights, The Buttertones, SWMRS and Cosmonauts were accused by female fans and musicians of abuse and predatory behavior. The label has since acknowledged on social media that the allegations were truthful, made pledges to change and rebranded as BRGR RECS. Additionally, the label vowed to pay for victims' counseling costs and announced co-founder Lee Rickard will "immediately step down from his role as label president, and fully divest all interest in the label."
The first Ribak said he heard of the allegations was by Cherry Glazerr frontwoman Clementine Creevy against The Buttertones' Sean Redman. She wrote online that he had sex with her when she was 14 and he was 20. Numerous other women accused artists associated with Burger Records over the weekend of similar crimes, which occurred over years in various locations, including after teenage girls were enticed to come into the back of the label's storefront.
Ribak said that his wife and partner, Amy Carver, as well as their team at Total Trash Productions, made the decision to drop the "Burger" name and association after twice speaking to label officials Sunday and Monday.
"I believe people are innocent until proven guilty but there seemed to be a lot of allegations," he said. "The following morning I got an email from one of the bands that are playing [at next summer's festival] and they said they wanted to be removed from the event and they said that they'd be more than happy to do the event if the name 'Burger' was not a part of it."
While Burger Boogaloo, which is approaching its 11th iteration in 2021, initially got off the ground with the help of Burger Records, the label had only been minimally involved in recent years.
The festival originated out of a showcase tour of the label's artists from California to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest, with other stops along the way. Since by itself the tour was not a much of a moneymaker, Robak came up with a concept for all the bands to make it to the Bay Area at the end of this circuit and play a show together.
"It was a way to get the artists paid a little bit more," he said.
By the third year the festival wasn't directly related to the label. He moved the event from an indoor club to Mosswood Park in Oakland and began booking the bands himself.
The label helped the event get off the ground because Ribak had called on all of his friends and contacts to help make it possible. In its first year in the park, he lost $10,000, but still considers it a success. In recent years, Burger Records' association was mostly limited to letting Ribak use its name, hyping the show on its website and social media and staffing a label merch tent.
"The people that work at the label are in Southern California and the people that work on the event with me, our production company, are in Northern California," he said. "The event is Amy's and my livelihood."
For a brief time on Tuesday, the festival's website listed the fest's new name as "Mosswood Meltdown" before taking it down. Ribak said that was a name originally given to a second event he was planning on staging in 2020, before scrapping it. He said it's too soon to know what the renamed Boogaloo will be called.
In his years in music production, Ribak said he's seen many abuses of power. He said that he was told by the record label in his conversation with executives that the label had severed ties with 13 bands since Saturday in the wake of the scandal.
"They told me that they've kicked plenty of bands off the label over the years for stuff like this that came out," he said.
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Roman Gokhman is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of RIFF magazine. He has been covering music in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2006, first as a staff writer for the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and San Jose Mercury News, followed by five years at a San Francisco music blog. He also contributes to several national publications.
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Q: convert str to list in python I have a python str object like this and i want to convert this into a list
l = "['Incorrect password.$', 'Login failed']"  --- type <str>

expected output
l = ['Incorrect password.$', 'Login failed']  ---- type <list>

Trial 1:
p = list(l)

it makes l as ['[', "'", 'I', 'n', 'c', 'o', 'r', 'r', 'e', 'c', 't', ' ', 'p', 'a', 's', 's', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'd', '.', '$', "'", ',', ' ', "'", 'L', 'o', 'g', 'i', 'n', ' ', 'f', 'a', 'i', 'l', 'e', 'd', "'", ']']
Trial 2:
  l.split(',')

second method is not favourable as the list element itself may contain comma in between.
How should i proceed?
Any hint is appreciated.

A: Use the ast module
import ast
l = "['Incorrect password.$', 'Login failed']"
print l, type(l)
l =  ast.literal_eval(l)
print l, type(l)

Output:
['Incorrect password.$', 'Login failed'] <type 'str'>
['Incorrect password.$', 'Login failed'] <type 'list'>

A: eval(l)

eval() is a built-in function that will evaluate the code.


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title: How to make git diff looks better
description: Wondering How to make git diff looks a bit better? This article can help you with it!
date: 201606141833
id: 201606141833-how-to-make-git-diff-looks-better
tags: git
---
By default, `git diff` looks not that good as it could be. If you use GitHub,
you can see how good it can looks. We'll try to achieve something similar to
Github's diff.

# Diff-highlight

`diff-highlight` is a contributed tool which shows better diff by comparing
strings by character.
So, if your diff looks like:

```diff
- hello, world
+ hello, people
```

It will highlight `world` as old (red background) and `people` as new
(green background).

[You can grab the script here][1] and install it by placing it to `/usr/bin/`

# Diff-so-fancy

This project makes diff looks **much** better!

![screen][2]

On the left side, it's the default diff. On the right side, it's the diff
with `diff-so-fancy`.

You can install it by `npm install -g diff-so-fancy`. This will install `diff-
highlight` as well.

For more info, see the [github project][3].

I'm using Forest scheme for terminal, so the config suggested by diff-so-fancy
looks not that good. I've picked some nice colors, so if you're using Forest
as well, enter these commands instead of the suggested:

```sh
git config --global color.diff-highlight.oldNormal "red"
git config --global color.diff-highlight.oldHighlight "red 217"
git config --global color.diff-highlight.newNormal "green"
git config --global color.diff-highlight.newHighlight "green 157"
```

![git diff forest](git-diff-forest.png)

Happy diffing! :D

[1]: //github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight
[2]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/39191/13622719/7cc7c54c-e555-11e5-86c4-7045d91af041.png
[3]: //github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy