Back in December, an absolutely heartbreaking video of a dog being abandoned in England went massively viral. The CCTV footage is genuinely hard to watch, as it shows a man getting out of his car on an empty road and taking the dog out before getting back into the car and driving away. What made the video especially excruciating was how long it took the poor pup to realize what was happening. The video shows him excitedly jumping up against the car, expecting his human to let him back in any moment, and chasing after it once it finally drives away.
Snoop was picked up by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), an organization that said it was reviewing applications for this loving pup.?
In an accompanying blog post, the RSPCA said that Snoop had been matched with an elderly gentleman named?Laurence Squire, who lives in a nice, big house in rural England.
In addition to the fact that they bonded immediately, Squire was also chosen as Snoop's new human because the poor dog suffered from separation anxiety as a result of being abandoned, and needed a home where someone was around all day. Squire said that Snoop "settled in straightaway," jumping on the sofa and claiming it as his own as soon as they walked through the door.
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Casinos have seen growth in their orders and presence. Some casinos have games, which gives a novice entrant, a chance to explore and win more often than usual. With this way, the players earn more confidence and play the games more often. However, people only talk about slot games being the easiest to understand, which is partially correct, while the major focus barely diverts towards any card game. The reason is that, in the first place, everyone considers card games to be the toughest of the lot and winnings in these games requires special skills. They are not wrong, neither are they completely right.
Casino War is a popular Card game offered across some of the famous casinos around the globe today. It explores all about how the game of prediction works wonders for either of the players. Only two persons play the game at a time, and the card usually has the stack featuring from Ace to 2 in the descending order. It has all the 52 regular playing cards featuring in the deck. With prestige and pride at stake, casino war is certainly one game, which is perfect starter level games for all those, who does not prefer slots.
History of Casino War
Casino War is one of the popular games, which got relevance towards the end of 20th century. Bet Technology, a small company based in Carson City, Nevada developed this. The company did not waste any time in filing the patent and rights by the end of 1993. A year later in 1994, the game was given to 5 Northern Nevada based casinos for real money players. However, by the end of 2004, Shuffle Master acquired most of the company's asset, which included this game in particular.
What a turn of events the game has seen in such a short span of time, yet whatever has happened has never been exploited in any sense, and the players still find the game to be competitive.
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Casino War is one of the casino games, which is simply not restricted to a single casino or formats. Since the advent of technology has taken over most of the real-life online games today, Casino War too is among those games and is available for online players as well. The rules of the games require a little understanding, which is stated,
Casino War is played with a pack of six decks of cards. All of these cards are exactly arranged the way they are sorted in poker games, where the aces stand out the highest payout cards and 2 being the lowest and least significant cards of the collection. Although the suit arrangement does not matter, the value of the symbol definitely matters.
During playing Casino War card game, the player can also opt for a table, exactly the way like playing blackjack game. In this case, a dealer is on one side and the other side is filled with players. Like blackjack and any other live dealer backed casino games, the dealer picks the card and compares the rank of the cards. While doing this, there are two chances such as,
For scoring more points on the basis of card ranking, the round is awarded to the player and the opponent dealer loses that particular round.
In case the player fails to show card higher than that of the dealer, the round is won from the casino's end.
Round Ties are extremely common in Casino War games, more importantly, because while playing the game in a live table, there are chances of hitting square zero and the dealer as well as the player stands on the same position. While for tied situations, players are required to put up another bet, which will be equal to the first bet and then the round gets going.
In the later stage, the dealer will be liable to show off 3 dead cards to the players, with a face up and the players are required to choose among these cards and stand a chance to win the rounds then and there. If this was not it, the players after completing the tie-breaking rounds can only win the original bet amount and in the case for a casino, they win the original as well as the real-time rounds.
Interesting Points on Casino War
Casino War is a game with full of surprises and bloopers. Likewise, there are 2 different aspects, which gives players a fair deal to risk it or bail off from critical situations, which includes,
Bet on Tie: This is one of the riskier options in a game with variance such as Casino War since the result can fluctuate on either side. Players will place a side wager in the starting of the round, where the results may or may not work in their favor, and players should hit anywhere between 10 to 1 odds. But here is the downside; casinos impose 18.65% on these rounds, which is significantly a higher percentage on any casino games.
Give Up: Aside betting on the tie, the other safe alternative, which assures to take away as much as half of the deal accumulated in the rounds. Although the margin of taking away might look little unfair, like taking away 50 % of the winnings is excessively much, but the rest assured this would not cost as much what betting on tie rounds may do. With the game having an unfavorable house edge, the stakes are higher even on the surrendering rounds, let alone betting rounds.
Casino War is a special card game, which has not been explored as much as people would have loved. Unlike poker games, the game is easy to learn the process, and anyone can master the art of the game and stand to win games with ease. Be it offline or online casinos, the variability of the game is simply in the favor of the casino, and players can win, provided fates answer the other way.
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Quickness is the fourth full-length studio album by Bad Brains, originally released by Caroline Records in 1989. At the time of it's release, it was the band's best-selling album and also landed them a featured MTV music video for the opening track, "Soul Craft." This reissue marks the fifth release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records label imprint. In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains' recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.
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DJI's Mavic Air 2 offers 34 minutes of flight time and 48-megapixel photos
Much of DJI's camera functionality comes from the numerous auto-shot and "smart" modes. Again, there are some new goodies here. DJI was eager to talk up the new "scene recognition" feature which sounds like the trick we've seen on flagship phones where the camera knows (or, rather, guesses) where you're shooting and automatically optimizes the settings for you. DJI claims the Mavic Air 2 can detect five scenes: sunset, blue skies, snow, grass and trees. That might not seem a lot, but up in the air that's most things covered we guess. Along with the aforementioned HDR mode, there's also "Hyperlight" for when shooting in low light conditions.
Videos will benefit from two layers of stabilization now. The 3-axis gimbal as before, with some additional help from EIS (which we hope/presume is optional). The Mavic Air 2's FocusTrack feature offers some updated tracking modes: Spotlight 2.0, ActiveTrack 3.0 and Point of Interest 3.0. The former is a hand-me-down from the Inspire 2, which locks the camera onto a target, leaving you to simply fly the drone. Active Track we've seen before, but this time it should be more robust at following targets even when they go out of view temporarily. The updated Point of Interest mode claims to be better at recognizing different surfaces and more dynamic tracking — again, we'll have to wait and see what that really means once we test it.
It's not all about the fun stuff though, DJI has added some new safety features which might be less sexy, but certainly much appreciated. Most notably, the inclusion of ADS-B — which means the drone will be able to sense when something else (as in, actual planes etc.) is flying nearby. One last acronym for now, and that's APAS 3.0 — something we saw introduced in the first Mavic Air. In short, it's what allows the drone to fly around things that its sensors detect, and DJI claims it's smoother and more fluid this time around. I'm very interested to see if it comes anywhere close to Skydio's mind-bindingly good obstacle avoidance, something DJI hasn't been able to compete with thus far in my opinion.
One last small, but important thing. It looks like DJI has updated the radio controller so that your phone will now perch on top, rather than clip in below. This might seem a minor detail, but as anyone with a larger phone will attest (especially if it's in a case), clipping it into the old controller was clumsy at best. Let's hope this new setup is simpler and more comfortable.
As rumored, the Mavic Air 2 will cost $799 at launch, but thanks to the pandemic, it's only available in China right now, with a global rollout set for mid-May (around the 11th). DJI has a habit of semi-cannibalizing its own products, with new drones offering features even its flagships don't have, and that seems to be the case here. Which is both great, and slightly confusing when it comes to deciding which one is for you. The premium Mavic Pro 2 series, with its superior camera, or the Mavic Air 2 with it's longer flight time and new software tricks? Once we get it in for review, hopefully we can help you decide.


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Getting a Logitech Quickcam E webcam to work on newer systems. Is there a legacy kernel for Quantal? Best Selling in Webcams See all. November 1st, 3. The "off" amount and percentage simply signifies the calculated difference between the seller-provided price for the item elsewhere and the seller's price on eBay. This item is new in box.
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I tried to compile the gspca Linux kernel module driver for the Logitech webcam, also without a result. I have just installed Ubuntu The "off" amount and percentage simply signifies the calculated difference between the seller-provided price for the item elsewhere and the seller's price on eBay.
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The Global Service Provider Awards are among the hedge fund industry's most highly anticipated; and are also among the most sought after and competitive. The global nature of the awards illustrates the international scope of the alternative investment sector, and the necessity that its service providers demonstrate the ability to act effectively and efficiently on behalf of their clients, wherever they are.
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Indian History his series of essays on Indian History and Culture is to select contributions which could interest, educate ad inspire our readers. Attempt has been made to make availabel to our readers best literature written by renowned scholars, through the ages, to enable our students, teachers, policymakers and our general readers to analse the themes, they are interested in, in proper historical perspectives.Printed Pages: 266.
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Sailing To Be Included In FESPIC Games
The 2006 Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled (FESPIC), which are to be held in the Kuala Lumpur, will for the first time include a specific sailing event as part of the competition.
As participation in disabled sailing grows in that area of the world, the event is being considered as a developmental competition and will be sailed in the Access Liberty, of which 18 will be supplied at the event for competitors entering.
As a development sport at the event, and as disabled sailing is still in a developing form in FESPIC countries, the competition will be open to any sailor who is able to be classified under the IFDS Functional Classification System.
FESPIC Games have been held since 1975. Disabled athletes from the South Pacific and Asia are eligible to compete. The most recent games were held in Bangkok, Thailand in January of 1999, one short month after the conclusion of the Asian Games.
The FESPIC and Asian Games had adopted the strategy used by the Olympic and Paralympic Games of having both games in the same city. The 2002 Asian Games and 2002 FESPIC Games were held in the city of Pusan, South Korea.
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Q: Pandas to kivy MDDataTable/DataframeGUIKivy Anyone can help regarding DataframeGUIKivy? I had go through the documentation but I can really understand how does it works .. If anyone can help me.
As I try to display data in kivy screen from the result I got in <class'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
The method I had to try is using MDDataTable but, I had know idea what row should I refer to?
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An upcoming exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site will feature a selection of works left in the artist's studio at his death.
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Cole wanted you to stare off into the impending destruction of a landscape and ponder the sublime beauty of it all — which, man, I did.
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HUDSON, NY — River Crossings, the recently opened show up at the historic Thomas Cole House and Olana, Frederic Edwin Church's architectural ode to Orientalism, over-promises and under-delivers.
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At work we recently switched from using SVN to Git and GitHub. There are many advantages but there's one in particular I want to talk about.
Using TeamCity you can automatically build all pull requests. This is incredibly useful as it ensures only code that compiles successfully and passes all unit tests gets back into master. If the build fails you are notified in GitHub.
But, there's a problem. View errors are not reported because MvcBuildViews is off. One solution is to enable MvcBuildViews for all web projects but in our case this is best avoided as it roughly quadruples compile time. The ideal solution is to enable MvcBuildViews only if a view has been changed in the current build. Unfortunately I struggled to work out how to do this. So I asked a question on Stack Overflow and the first answer I received pointed me the right direction.
I've managed to improve on my Stack Overflow answer. It simply enables MvcBuildViews for all .csproj files if a view has changed, but this is still quite slow. It's much faster to only enable the setting for projects in which views have changed. This may be overkill for many solutions but for ours it's not.
Code also available on GitHub.
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On the phone, it's surprising to hear a voice that is so familiar. David Stratton has been on my TV since I was a kid, so it makes sense. But when he says my name and asks how I am, it feels like a surreal moment in a film when the TV talks back.
Stratton hasn't been on the box since December last year. He and co-host Margaret Pomeranz decided to retire their weekly film review show, At The Movies, after 28 years on air together. While it's hard to imagine Stratton as anything but a film critic, it's a career he found himself in rather than one he actively pursued. Following his 18-year stint as director of the Sydney Film Festival, where he first battled the Australian Classification Office on issues of censorship, Stratton began programming films on SBS. It was around this time he was asked to write for Variety, following which reviewing opportunities began to flow in, including beginning The Movie Show with Pomeranz in 1986.Pomeranz often described their duo as a balancing act, Stratton as the pedagogue and she as the "bum on the seat" viewer. Her description of Stratton rings true throughout his career. As an educator, festival director, and film programmer, Stratton has generously shared his knowledge of film and created opportunities for people to see them.
"I think there's plenty of scope on free-to-air television for such a program [like At The Movies]. I thought that back in 1986 when we started, and I think it's still true today. I'm sure there are lots of young film critics who are very, very capable of doing it."
"I think that's absolutely true. I've always, from the very beginning wanted to share my love of films with other people, so I suppose that's been my life's work," Stratton says.
"When I was about 19… I started a film society in my hometown in England and looking back I guess that was exactly the same thing. There were films that I'd seen, and I'd loved and I wanted to give people where I lived the same opportunity to see them too. And running the Sydney Film Festival for 19 years and then also programming and hosting films on SBS for all those years. That was all part of the same kind of thing. I guess that's what I've been doing; if you can't make them, you can at least proselytise them."
Stratton continues to hold this attitude as the curator and patron of the first Great Britain Retro Film Festival, happening now in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. A retrospective of British cinema the main criteria hinged on the ability to get good copies of films selected. Two of the movies featured were what sparked the idea for the festival after they were digitally restored to 4K resolution – a level of resolution that adequately translates all of the subtleties of celluloid film to digital sparked the idea for the festival.
"The most important thing was that we could get really good copies," Stratton says. "It all started really, this British Festival when they produced beautiful new copies of two great British films The Third Man and Tales of Hoffman. Tales of Hoffman, by the way, is a slightly longer version than any that's been seen before too. It seemed like a good idea to see if it was possible to put together a kind of cross-section of British films. It's by no means comprehensive; there are lots that had to miss out, unfortunately."
There were many films Stratton would have liked to have included: "I'd like to have shown at least one of the films that Joseph Losey made in the '60s like The Servant or The Accident.", But he's very pleased with what they've pulled together for the 2015 program.
It's not just black and white classics either. "It covers a lot of territory really," says Stratton. "The oldest film I'm showing in the program is The 39 Steps, which is one of Alfred Hitchcock's British films made in 1935, and its still a really great film. I think one of Hitchcock's most entertaining films. And the most recent is Slumdog Millionaire, so you go through a wide range of British films there." Other more recent titles include Gosford Park (2001), Brassed Off (1996) and Sense and Sensibility (1995).
"There're also a couple of films that really demand to be seen on the big cinema screen, like Lawrence of Arabia," says Stratton. "That's such a different experience if you see it in the cinema than if you see it on a television screen. I don't care how big your television screen is." 2001: A Space Odyssey falls into this category of the program, and the chance to see the 2 hour and 41-minute science fiction epic in seats more comfortable than the Astor's is a treat.
"I used to know very vividly how cumbersome 35mm film could be, how heavy the cans of them could be because I've carried them. A Francis Ford Coppola film nearly broke my back once just carrying it upstairs to the projection room."
Two films whose source material has been revisited multiple times in film and TV are also included in the retrospective. The 1946 version of Great Expectations and 1995's Sense and Sensibility are both held up as superior adaptations, yet each has been reimagined several times over.
"I'm not a huge fan of remakes," says Stratton. "It all depends, I guess. I suppose every generation deserves a version of some great work, I'm thinking more Shakespeare there. We've had so many versions of Hamlet over the years, and each one brings something different to it." But not every remake manages to do that.
"Those of us who have memories long enough to remember the original versions very often make evil comparisons with the new on all sorts of levels. For example, the version of Far From The Madding Crowd – which is very good in many ways and Carey Mulligan is very good. For me, I just couldn't get out of my head how much better Alan Bates, Peter Fincher and Terence Stamp were in the original film version. I kept saying to myself, 'You mustn't make these comparisons because it's just not fair on the new film', but I couldn't help it. I think Alan Bates was so much more believable as a Dorset farmer than this Belgian actor [Matthias Schoenaerts] who played him in the new version… If you come to it without having seen the earlier version, then it's going to be a whole different experience."
While Sense and Sensibility had been adapted for TV twice before and once since, the 1995 film manages to stand apart from comparisons with other versions. "The thing with Sense and Sensibility is the screenplay is written by Emma Thompson, who, of course, is in the film as well, and here was this Taiwanese director who made a couple of films in Taiwan – he made three films in Taiwan, one of those partly in New York. Who would have thought that then he would come to England and make such a great adaptation of Jane Austen, such a quintessentially British film? That's an extraordinary leap, and he did it with such success. And he's gone on to make some very interesting and very different films from Brokeback Mountain and so on… Ang Lee is an extraordinary filmmaker and… Sense and Sensibility is one of the great classical adaptations in British cinema."
While Stratton mightn't enjoy modern takes on certain films (or popcorn; he hates popcorn), he fully embraces the modernising of cinema in other ways. Namely the switch to digital technology to transport and project films.
"Partly because of my experiences in directing the Sydney Film Festival I used to know very vividly how cumbersome 35mm film could be, how heavy the cans of them could be because I've carried them," says Stratton. "A Francis Ford Coppola film nearly broke my back once just carrying it upstairs to the projection room.
"But now of course on DCPs [Digital Cinema Packages, the digital files used to screen films in cinemas] it's easy, and I think that what you see on the screen is very, very good. In the old days, films could get scratched and torn and all those sorts of things – that doesn't happen anymore. I know purists say, 'Oh, it's not the same now that it's not a 35mm film.' I'm not a purist in that sense at all. I think if it looks great on the screen I don't really mind how it's projected, but it certainly does make it more accessible and easier to handle. I'm pleased about that."
While Stratton is often portrayed as a Negative Nancy in parodies and self-parodies, watching At The Movies, it was rare for him to tear a film to pieces. Stratton has said before that the film critics he admires are those who come from a positive place, and it is something he aims to do himself.
"I've always had the view that I'd rather be positive about a film than be negative," says Stratton. "[Some critics have] almost delighted to be negative, just rejoicing in the fact that they can get stuck into something, and it's easy to write about a bad film. It never gave me any pleasure to do that, because I would like to be able to recommend good films to people not have to slag off on bad films… Some reviewers I know take the opposite view and like to pull down something, I'd like to build it up."
The GBRFF is Stratton's latest contribution to the Australian film and cinema industry. The program introduces us to some of the films we may have missed or reminds us of the disruptive cinematic experience some of these films had before 3D and CGI were commonplace.
But his time with Pomeranz presenting their movie reviews week-to-week is what most people know him for and will have the most impact in its absence from our screens. The torches in fighting censorship and directing the Sydney Film Festival have been picked up and carried by others since his departure. But, as James Zarucky recently discussed on Spook, his and Pomeranz's weekly and accessible presence on a free-to-air public broadcaster hasn't. (Pomeranz has moved to Foxtel's Screen.)
"I think we still need that," he says. "It's a shame that the ABC decided not to [replace us]. I mean in fairness to the ABC they experimented a bit. They had Jason Di Rosso and Judith Lucy standing in for Margaret and myself when we went on holiday for a couple of years. But I guess in the end they decided not to go ahead. I hoped they would, either with those guys or with others, but they decided not to, and I think that's partly to do with funding cuts and pressure on the ABC as well.
"And, I guess, I don't know why, but Margaret and I attract quite a large audience, and there was the fear that without us it wouldn't have the same impact. I don't know. I think there's plenty of scope on free-to-air television for such a program. I thought that back in 1986 when we started, and I think it's still true today. I'm sure there are lots of young film critics who are very, very capable of doing it but here we are."
Less than a year since the credits rolled for the last time, it's hard to tell if this will have a long-lasting effect on Australian film and independent cinemas. The Australian film industry has seen its best year in two decades in 2015, and the digital online releases and platforms like Netflix are getting more eyeballs on Aussie films in non-traditional ways. But some distributors are worried.
"I know that distributors and independent cinema owners do bemoan the fact that we're not on television anymore because that was the main source of information and appreciation of the sort of films they were selling," says Stratton. "I would be sad to think that the fact that we'd decided we'd had enough after 28 years made it more difficult for quality cinema to be distributed."
This interview was originally published on Spook Magazine on August 11, 2015.
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ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
Ever since the advent of BERT a year ago, natural language research has embraced a new paradigm, leveraging large amounts of existing text to pretrain a model's parameters using self-supervision, with no data annotation required. So, rather than needing to train a machine-learning model for natural language processing (NLP) from scratch, one can start from a model primed with knowledge of a language. But, in order to improve upon this new approach to NLP, one must develop an understanding of what, exactly, is contributing to language-understanding performance — the network's height (i.e., number of layers), its width (size of the hidden layer representations), the learning criteria for self-supervision, or something else entirely?
In "ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations", accepted at ICLR 2020, we present an upgrade to BERT that advances the state-of-the-art performance on 12 NLP tasks, including the competitive Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD v2.0) and the SAT-style reading comprehension RACE benchmark. ALBERT is being released as an open-source implementation on top of TensorFlow, and includes a number of ready-to-use ALBERT pre-trained language representation models.
What Contributes to NLP Performance?
Identifying the dominant driver of NLP performance is complex — some settings are more important than others, and, as our study reveals, a simple, one-at-a-time exploration of these settings would not yield the correct answers.
The key to optimizing performance, captured in the design of ALBERT, is to allocate the model's capacity more efficiently. Input-level embeddings (words, sub-tokens, etc.) need to learn context-independent representations, a representation for the word "bank", for example. In contrast, hidden-layer embeddings need to refine that into context-dependent representations, e.g., a representation for "bank" in the context of financial transactions, and a different representation for "bank" in the context of river-flow management.
This is achieved by factorization of the embedding parametrization — the embedding matrix is split between input-level embeddings with a relatively-low dimension (e.g., 128), while the hidden-layer embeddings use higher dimensionalities (768 as in the BERT case, or more). With this step alone, ALBERT achieves an 80% reduction in the parameters of the projection block, at the expense of only a minor drop in performance — 80.3 SQuAD2.0 score, down from 80.4; or 67.9 on RACE, down from 68.2 — with all other conditions the same as for BERT.
Another critical design decision for ALBERT stems from a different observation that examines redundancy. Transformer-based neural network architectures (such as BERT, XLNet, and RoBERTa) rely on independent layers stacked on top of each other. However, we observed that the network often learned to perform similar operations at various layers, using different parameters of the network. This possible redundancy is eliminated in ALBERT by parameter-sharing across the layers, i.e., the same layer is applied on top of each other. This approach slightly diminishes the accuracy, but the more compact size is well worth the tradeoff. Parameter sharing achieves a 90% parameter reduction for the attention-feedforward block (a 70% reduction overall), which, when applied in addition to the factorization of the embedding parameterization, incur a slight performance drop of -0.3 on SQuAD2.0 to 80.0, and a larger drop of -3.9 on RACE score to 64.0.
Implementing these two design changes together yields an ALBERT-base model that has only 12M parameters, an 89% parameter reduction compared to the BERT-base model, yet still achieves respectable performance across the benchmarks considered. But this parameter-size reduction provides the opportunity to scale up the model again. Assuming that memory size allows, one can scale up the size of the hidden-layer embeddings by 10-20x. With a hidden-size of 4096, the ALBERT-xxlarge configuration achieves both an overall 30% parameter reduction compared to the BERT-large model, and, more importantly, significant performance gains: +4.2 on SQuAD2.0 (88.1, up from 83.9), and +8.5 on RACE (82.3, up from 73.8).
These results indicate that accurate language understanding depends on developing robust, high-capacity contextual representations. The context, modeled in the hidden-layer embeddings, captures the meaning of the words, which in turn drives the overall understanding, as directly measured by model performance on standard benchmarks.
Optimized Model Performance with the RACE Dataset
To evaluate the language understanding capability of a model, one can administer a reading comprehension test (e.g., similar to the SAT Reading Test). This can be done with the RACE dataset (2017), the largest publicly available resource for this purpose. Computer performance on this reading comprehension challenge mirrors well the language modeling advances of the last few years: a model pre-trained with only context-independent word representations scores poorly on this test (45.9; left-most bar), while BERT, with context-dependent language knowledge, scores relatively well with a 72.0. Refined BERT models, such as XLNet and RoBERTa, set the bar even higher, in the 82-83 score range. The ALBERT-xxlarge configuration mentioned above yields a RACE score in the same range (82.3), when trained on the base BERT dataset (Wikipedia and Books). However, when trained on the same larger dataset as XLNet and RoBERTa, it significantly outperforms all other approaches to date, and establishes a new state-of-the-art score at 89.4.
Machine performance on the RACE challenge (SAT-like reading comprehension). A random-guess baseline score is 25.0. The maximum possible score is 95.0.
The success of ALBERT demonstrates the importance of identifying the aspects of a model that give rise to powerful contextual representations. By focusing improvement efforts on these aspects of the model architecture, it is possible to greatly improve both the model efficiency and performance on a wide range of NLP tasks. To facilitate further advances in the field of NLP, we are open-sourcing ALBERT to the research community.
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Lára Dawn Michelsen resides in Þorlákshöfn, a small fishing village in Iceland. From a young age, she had a passion for stories and watched almost every film that came on the television screen. One day she watched the films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Those films inspired her to write a story, a story that eventually morphed into the novella that is now Goodbye Ingrim.
Goodbye Ingrim by Lára Dawn Michelsen is a mesmerizing story with compelling characters and powerful hints of adventure. Ava Ingrim left home and moved to the city against her father's wishes. It has been many years since her brother, Ace Ingrim, last heard from her and, worried, he decides to move to the city in search of her. He doesn't find her where he thought she'd be. Then he quickly learns that she's been married, and this comes as a shock to the young man. But when he finally finds his sister, he learns a more shocking, painful truth.
Goodbye Ingrim is deftly written and Lára Dawn Michelsen has a descriptive style of writing that conveys emotions succinctly, capturing the emotional and psychological implications of the story in a unique way. The narrative begins with a powerful image, one that is as clear as it is intriguing and I just loved how the author melds elements of the setting with a unique plot detail... the quiet breeze that flows through the midsummer heat, the young man stepping off the train onto the railway platform and looking both ways, perhaps lost. One is compelled to read on to find out who he is and where he is and what he really wants. Ace is a character that readers will love to follow. This story is about the drama that is witnessed very often when young people leave the simplicity of life in rural areas to pursue dreams in the city. It is filled with pathos. I enjoyed the fluidity in the prose, the excellent handling of the plot, and the focused and balanced writing.


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Calvin Harris' 'Stay With Me' Is Like Being Inside a Kaleidoscope With Halsey, Justin Timberlake & Pharrell
Released Friday (July 15), the video places the track's trio of vocalists inside a shimmying, spinning, lightly psychedelic universe.
Calvin Harris has high expectations to live up to after 2017's Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, and with the sequel's arrival less than a month away, he's certainly feeling the pressure right now.
Most recently, the DJ delivered "Stay With Me" featuring some of the biggest names in the music industry : Justin Timberlake, Halsey, and Pharrell Williams.
The track, set to feature on Harris' upcoming album 'Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2', was released yesterday (July 15) as the latest preview of the record.
'Stay With Me' follows the tracks 'New Money' featuring 21 Savage and 'Potion' (feat. Dua Lipa and Young Thug) which have been released ahead of 'Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2', which is set to be released on August 2.
This month, Harris is set to play a huge Glasgow stadium show at Hampden Park, with slots at EXIT Festival, Creamfields South, Sziget and the Belfast-based Belsonic all confirmed so far.


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Locals embrace art throughout community
PORT CLINTON - With the Black Swamp Bird Observatory's July Jubilee Art and Book Sale on one side of the county, Lakeside Chautauqua's Art in the Park on the other and the Port Clinton Women's Club's annual arts and crafts show perfectly in between, there was no shortage of opportunities for locals to embrace art throughout community.
Despite living and working three hours away, one artist's annual journey to the Lake Erie coast doubles as both a bit of a vacation and an opportunity of his own to further share his art with more and more.
Jay Risner, of St. Paris, Ohio, has been working as a full-time artist for 23 years. He is an entirely self-taught sculptor, but judging by the popularity of his pieces, you wouldn't know it until he's told you.
"It's not a job, it's life. It's every day," Risner said of his life as a sculptor. "This is my little vacation. I don't travel much. This time of year keeps me busy. In the summer I do a lot of wholesale, but I've been doing shows up here for 20 years."
Come winter season, Risner spends most of his time sculpting new pieces. Then even when he thinks he could be done, he sculpts some more.
"It gets to the point that I think, 'I've got enough,' but then there's always something else to make and that's my favorite part," he said.
For example, Risner has a whole series of clay sculptures with the large, meditating, naked man character. But that began as simply a piece he wanted to make for his neighbor.
He said his neighbor meditates a lot and so he wanted to make a piece for her garden.
"That was the first one I did and then I decided to do a few other styles," Risner said.
All of his pieces have deceptively incredible attention to detail as well. For example, the character's eyes and eyelids make a neat "yin and yang" sort of shape.
The pieces are particularly inspired by the Buddha, too, he said.
"I was just trying to have fun with it," Risner said. "They all have a little bare butt sticking out a little bit. I just eyeballed it and he came out really good."
Most of Risner's sculptures are made to be concrete lawn or garden art. But before they are ever poured in concrete, they start out as clay.
He has actually been sculpting in the same non-hardening modeling clay for around three decades.
Once one of his original sculptures is complete, Risner makes a mold of it out of fiberglass and latex. Creating the first mold can tear up the original piece a bit, he said, but he can still recover the clay and re-use it.
Risner then works with developmentally-disabled adults to help him with the concrete pouring process, where they can add colors and make every piece one-of-a-kind.
Risner said he tells these folks he works with, when they're mixing the concrete and the colors then eventually pour, just how beautifully unique all of the pieces turn out is thanks to them.
"It got to the point where I just needed help and it all worked out good," he said. "They have been doing them for a little over 10 years now."


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I confess, I am very sorry that you should thus have arrested on its road to oblivion, ^a subject^ which in my apprehension it would have been much wiser to have permitted quietly to have taken its course to eternal rest: but since you have thus called upon me for an avowal, or a recantation of the opinion you already heard me give; the silence which I have from that evening invariably maintained, must of necessity be broken.
You assert the "purity of your intentions." I am afraid I am not sufficiently versed in the new nomenclature of virtues thoroughly to understand your meaning. In my old fashioned way of thinking purity of intentions comprehends candour, and sincerity, and is altogether incompatible4 with every shade or degree of treachery, or malevolence. In the case which you have forced upon my recollection there is no need of any appeal to the recording Angel5 in search of the inspiring motive. The Action speaks for itself.
Appears one beauty to thy blasting eye?
Is all I ask, and all I want from thee.
As this is determinedly the last time that I ever will put pen to paper upon the subject, I cannot conclude without one further observation.
In my opinion it is a strange sort of a compliment you pay your friend Mr Godwin, in taking it for granted that he has made a monopoly of all the absurdity, and extravagance in the world; and that it is impossible to laugh at any thing ridiculous without thinking of ^pointing at^ him. Ignorant as I am, and ^ignorant^ as to the world you have declared me to be, I could point out to your perusal volumes upon volumes where ^you might see that^ in the regions of Metaphysics fancy has taken as bold a flight – and that in the rage for systemising authors of at least as distinguished eminence have laid themselves open to ridicule. – To convince you of the truth of my assertion – I here assure you that the account of the Philosophers in the Rajah, and their various absurdities (in all of which you can only see Mr Godwin) was written before I had looked into his book.
As to what you observe of the ^disadvantages of drawing a^ narrow circle &c. I perfectly coincide in your opinions: but to which of us the observation is most applicable – the friends to whom we are both best known can best decide. In the little circle of friends by whom I should wish to see myself surrounded I hope the light will always shine of Sound Judgment, and unsophisticating truth.
1 Misc. Ms. 2210, Pforzheimer Collection, NYPL; Brooks, Correspondence 313-15. Hays and Hamilton had met at least twice in 1796, once at a tea at Hays's residence on 16 April with Godwin and others, and later at the theatre on 12 November joined by Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and others, which is most likely the "evening" mentioned in the second paragraph by Hamilton.
3 A review of Hamilton's Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796) appeared unsigned in the Analytical Review 23 (1796), 429-31; Hamilton clearly believes Hays to the reviewer, which she was, as revealed in Eliza Gregory's letter to Hays on 28 March 1801 (see below). Hamilton would get her revenge through her character Bridgetina Botherim, a caricature of Hays, in Modern Philosophers (1801).
5 This phrase can be found in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Book VI, ch. 8.
6 Most likely the negative review of Letters and Essays which appeared in the English Review 22 (October 1793), 253-57, portions of which were quoted by John Evans in his undated letter to Hays from autumn 1793.


Additional patches for discovering and exposing all available screens as separate QScreens are welcome. Not entirely sure about the feasibility, especially when it comes to discovering and monitoring the connected outputs, but it is definitely worth a try.
Subject: [Development] Are there any limitations on implementing the changing of the screen for a QWindow on systems using EGLFS?
I looked at the code for the EGLFS BRCM integration and the screen it uses is hard-coded. After trying some test code for Dispmanx it seems that it is fairly straight forward to change the screen it uses.
My question is: Are there any limitations to implementing the functions that would allow us to change the screen using QWindows->setScreen()?
The reason for why I'm asking is, because I'd like to implement this, but I'd like to know whether if this is not implemented beacuse of some limitations or because of lack of intrest/contributors?


Home Around Austin Reminisce A Unified Experience: Connecting with Austin Artists at Staple!
This past weekend, Staple, the premiere Independent Media Expo in the Southwest, celebrated their 14th year.
As a newcomer to Staple, I immediately responded to the welcoming atmosphere. I admit that I am unfamiliar with this sect of the creative scene, but regardless there was no shortage of work that resonated with me.
For me, the best part of attending events like Staple is the personal experience of connecting with the creators themselves. Instead of simply viewing the art, I could ask the artist directly how and why they made it.
To delve a little deeper, I expanded on my conversations by interviewing three Austin artists showcasing their work in this year's Staple event.
How do you start creating your art?
For official comic projects, I tend to work very linearly since the story beats are already laid out for me in the script. I do very quick thumbnails so I can spend more time on details in the inking stage, which is where I feel I have the most room to add to the narrative.
I see that you share a lot of sketches and storyboards on your site. Do you think it's important for artists to share their work in progress as well as finished pieces?
Absolutely! Sketching is a reflection of how you think and solve problems, so having that on display is helpful for potential employers to see.
Some of the themes of your comics seem personal. Are you typically inspired by real life when creating your work?
Always. Putting my lived experiences on paper is cathartic because it helps me re-frame the narrative of my own life in a positive way. It also helps me connect with others and find comfort in that solidarity.
Do you prefer creating work that touches on deeper subject matter?
Yes, though I like to do so in a fun and uplifting way. I try to make the art and stories I wish I'd had available to me as a kid and awkward teenager. Hopefully my work can be a means of entertainment and comfort to kids who feel 'othered' for whatever reason.
What is the best part about participating in STAPLE?
Meeting new people! There's so much talent under one roof— it's great inspiration to try new things artistically and to read stories from different perspectives.
I've got some cool comics coming out in the next month for College Humor and ONI Press, so keep a look out!
Regarding your process, when you begin new work do you already have an idea in mind or do you just go and see what happens?
I usually start with a fairly specific image in mind. I'll make sure the concept works with a thumbnail or two before diving in, but I don't prepare much. Capturing specific emotions, moods, and energy is what's most important to me, and over-preparing can stiffen that so I go with the flow a lot of the time.
I saw that you include physical media to your designs like watercolor. How does it add to your work and style?
Watercolor is my favorite medium to color with. It's so free and does magical things on its own. It bleeds across the paper with beautiful textures and life that can't be emulated. I find a lot of coloring methods overpower and fight against line work in a way I don't care for, but with watercolor it's a perfect balance.
You share sketches on your site and give insight to your process through Patreon. How do you think this level of transparency benefits you as an artist?
I love to share. If there's even the smallest silly sketch or doodle that someone will enjoy, I want them to see it. I've always loved seeing sketches and rough progress stuff from my favorite artists and found so much inspiration in them, sometimes even more so than finished work. I want people that have the same passion for my art to feel that too. I'm enthusiastic about everything, and being able to express that in what I do and feeling other people's excitement only feeds that thrill. Nothing makes me happier than being able to inspire others.
Staple has such a special place in the hearts of many artists and creators in the Texas community. While many conventions have celebrity guests and big merchandise vendors, Staple puts us front and center. It's an event that is truly celebrating us, and in turn we get to gather to celebrate each other together.
Do you have any upcoming events or shows?
I am regularly at shows whether they're nerd conventions, small press, or anime. My next one is a fun anime show in Galveston, Oni-con!
Have you noticed any changes in your process since transitioning to a full time freelance artist?
It's a mixture of freelance design and illustration as well as selling my own art prints. Adjusting my process and my perspective of my work is what got me to the point of realizing that quitting my day job might be a possibility. I realized that as much as art and business don't always seem to mix, it's important to take a step back and realize the relationship that your audience has with your work.
I'm still making work I want to make, but I've focused things a bit more so that I can actually pay my bills with that work.
When you begin new work do you already have an idea in mind?
It depends on the medium I'm working in. With my screen prints, a lot of that stems from my freelance illustration work, so in those cases I'm working on particular projects with some parameters.
For the work that's not necessarily for specific projects, I have a few ongoing series that sort of give me vague starting points. Since most of that work is pretty realistic pen and ink style illustration, I usually need to have the idea fairly developed before I start. I do some preliminary sketches and then mull it over while walking my dog. At that point, I can usually have it pretty mapped out in my head and start on the final.
When I'm painting, it's often the opposite. I use it more like a form of meditation. I just keep adding colors and sanding those colors down and adding more colors and not trying to force it to be anything in particular, just responding to what's developing.
If I feel stuck, I put that panel down and pick up another and start developing color on that one. Then at a certain point it kind of starts to become something, kind of like when you try to see shapes in the clouds.
Once it starts to feel developed enough, I can think it through a bit more and push it in a certain direction. I like narratives in my work, no matter how subtle or vague.
One of the main issues affecting the art community in Austin is the lack of affordable studio space. Did this play into your decision to run your studio in your garage?
Yeah, pretty much. I do like certain elements of having my studio right here at my home, but there's a real benefit to having studio space around other artists. I miss being able to have a group of people you trust to hash out ideas and critique each others work. I do share my garage with my friend Lindsey Verrill, so that helps. We bounce ideas off each other. It's good to get a second set of eyes on something.
I'm about to go to the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City, New Mexico in early October. I love New Mexico and Silver City is a lovely town. A friend of mine runs a letterpress shop there and she helped start this print festival a few years ago and this will be my first time going.
Most of my big shows are around the holidays. I'm showing at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar and at the Blue Genie Art Bazaar. Both of these shows, one in south/central Austin and one in north Austin, are really well put together and are run by people who really care about the artists. We're pretty lucky to have events like those as well as Staple, East Austin Studio Tour, West Austin Studio Tour, and many others that help make it possible to be a working artist in Austin.
I really like the inclusive community atmosphere around Staple. It's not a snobby show at all. It's very welcoming. "Uncle Staple" (as he is known) does a great job promoting the show and clearly really cares a lot about it. I see him at pretty much every related art, comic, or print event in town handing out flyers and talking to artists. The vendors are mostly comic artists and zine publishers, but there are also fiction writers, painters, people selling enamel pins, and printmakers like me. It's also a show that's not terribly expensive to be a part of and you can share a table with another artists if you want. So the barrier isn't that high for people that are just getting started, but have good work and are ready to show it to people.
I try to be pretty active on Instagram, so you can follow me @dangrissom to see progress shots, finished pieces, and occasionally a picture of my dog/BFF, Buck.
And check out my work at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar and the Blue Genie Art Bazaar over the holidays. I'll have a lot of new prints and pins and a few other surprises.


If you are like most couples today, most certainly you can do with some love and relationship advise that will help cement a relationship for the long term. No doubt each relationship is unique with its unique challenges and strengths, but there are things applicable to all that can help create long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships. To get you started, you should avoid listening to the naysayers and those against your relationship. The second important thing you have to keep in mind is to learn to trust your partner no matter what everyone in the world around you says. If not for anything else, you expect the same to be done to you, right?
Before looking at the critical role that Peace Quarters plays today in relationships, how about you find and create time to do things that both of you enjoy. See, we are living at a time and age when people are extremely busy with career and personal development goals to achieve. Ultimately, people will grow apart if nothing is done to bring the lovebirds to a common ground. It is no wonder most relationship experts will advise on dedicating time every so often to attend to things that the couple enjoys doing together. At the very least, this creates an opportunity for a couple to spend quality time together while doing what they love and enjoy most.
How about you also take some time to learn more about your relationship's future zodiac sign? When you know how compatible, or incompatible, thereof, you are with your partner, you will be better placed to make informed decisions about your future love life. Luckily, there is enough info out there in the open that can help you know whether or not you two were meant for each other. A good place to start is from a reliable site such as Peace Quarters that offers the best love and relationship advice as well as future zodiac sign details you will find quite useful for your relationship.
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I have observed errors usually done by scientist during percent body weight change calculation is that they are not using "( )" function.
Where B is current body weight and A is previous body weight.
If you use this formula =B1-A1/A1*100 by mistake , it will give you wrong result.
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Q: AuthResult task in google sign in returning false in task.isSuccess statement I had implemented Google Signin with my app using Firebase.
As the user signed in, the MainActivity should start.
But this statement in my firebaseAuthWithGoogle() function is returning false as:
  if (task.isSuccessful()) {
          //Start The activity from here
          }

Here's my login.java that is causing me this:
public class login extends AppCompatActivity {

private SignInButton signInButton;
private TextView textView;
private static final int RC_SIGN_IN = 1;
private GoogleApiClient mGoogleApiClient;
private FirebaseAuth mAuth;
private FirebaseAuth.AuthStateListener mAuthListener;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);

    mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
    mAuthListener = new FirebaseAuth.AuthStateListener() {
        @Override
        public void onAuthStateChanged(@NonNull FirebaseAuth firebaseAuth) {
            if (firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser() != null) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Success", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                startActivity(new Intent(login.this, MainActivity.class));
            }
        }
    };

    signInButton = findViewById(R.id.SignIn);
    textView = findViewById(R.id.negativetext);
    textView.setText(getString(R.string.negativetext));

    textView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            startActivity(new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class));
        }
    });

    GoogleSignInOptions gso = new GoogleSignInOptions.Builder(GoogleSignInOptions.DEFAULT_SIGN_IN)
            .requestIdToken(getString(R.string.default_web_client_id))
            .requestEmail()
            .build();

    mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
            .enableAutoManage(this, new GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener() {
                @Override
                public void onConnectionFailed(@NonNull ConnectionResult connectionResult) {
                    // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Error", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
            })
            .addApi(Auth.GOOGLE_SIGN_IN_API, gso)
            .build();

    signInButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            signIn();
        }
    });

}

@Override
protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    mAuth.addAuthStateListener(mAuthListener);
}

private void signIn() {
    Intent signInIntent = Auth.GoogleSignInApi.getSignInIntent(mGoogleApiClient);
    startActivityForResult(signInIntent, RC_SIGN_IN);
}

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

    // Result returned from launching the Intent from GoogleSignInApi.getSignInIntent(...);
    if (requestCode == RC_SIGN_IN) {
        Task<GoogleSignInAccount> task = GoogleSignIn.getSignedInAccountFromIntent(data);
        try {
            // Google Sign In was successful, authenticate with Firebase
            GoogleSignInAccount account = task.getResult(ApiException.class);
            //Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), ""+account, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            firebaseAuthWithGoogle(account);
        } catch (ApiException e) {
            // Google Sign In failed, update UI appropriately
            Log.w("Signing in: ", "Google sign in failed", e);
            // ...
        }
    }
}

private void firebaseAuthWithGoogle(GoogleSignInAccount acct) {
    AuthCredential credential = GoogleAuthProvider.getCredential(acct.getIdToken(), null);
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "" + credential, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    //mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
    mAuth.signInWithCredential(credential)
            .addOnCompleteListener(this, new OnCompleteListener<AuthResult>() {
                @Override
                public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<AuthResult> task) {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "" + task.isSuccessful(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                        // Sign in success, update UI with the signed-in user's information
                        //Log.d(TAG, "signInWithCredential:success");
                        //FirebaseUser user = mAuth.getCurrentUser();
                        //Log.i("Test:", " Compiled ?");
                        //startActivity(new Intent(login.this, MainActivity.class));
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Success", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        startActivity(new Intent(login.this, MainActivity.class));
                        //updateUI(user);
                    } else {
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Not Success", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

                        //Log.w(TAG, "signInWithCredential:failure", task.getException());
                        //Snackbar.make(findViewById(R.id.main_layout), "Authentication Failed.", Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        //updateUI(null);
                    }

                    // ...
                }
            });

    // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), ""+acct, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

}

}
Can anyone suggest/advice what am i doin' wrong here?
I checked the statements, so i commented some of the lines.
Any regarding advice would be very much appreciated :)

A: This is happening because you are using the following line of code twice:
startActivity(new Intent(login.this, MainActivity.class));

Once in your mAuthListener and once in your firebaseAuthWithGoogle() method. You need to redirect the user to the MainActivity only when the firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser() != null, which means that the user is already authenticated. I have explained in one of my tutorials all the steps hat you need to follow in order the achieve the exact thing that you are looking for.


He's the fellow who took Christine away from Erik (long story) and is now trying to murder him. He's also an Autofficer, so he has the Empire to back him up.
Take your time! I'll be gone after today until Friday anyway.
@Emman_Jumpsong1 Raoul de Chagney is. . . um. . . Hard to explain. You'd have to watch Phantom of the Opera to understand, but long story short, he and Erik kind of despise each other's existence.
Eerie plans to tell you soon in the role play. Right now, we're making our way to the Great Seed Forest to hide from de Chagney.
Eerie will tell you in role play soon!
(Waving hammer in the air) 'soon' is not close enough.
Oh? So you plan to discover it sooner?
(Puts hammer down) I can't. I don't know anything about the situation at the moment.
Please, I do love new ideas. All of the most wonderful participants here have kept a spectacular flow of plot, along with various angles that I never imagined. I shall wait with patient enthusiasm for your instalment.
There it is, I hope you approve.
Very good. Merci for your thoughtfulness of my Lair.
smiles and blushes You are quite welcome, my Tutor.
Terribly sorry for the double post, but @Emman_Jumpsong1, there is your chance.
@Draven_Eldercraft, should you care to make good on your threat, you may join @Emman_Jumpsong1 in stopping the Viscount from excavating No Man's Landing for Erik's tunnels.
Okay, I will hopefully be able to write soon. Kinda busy right now.
@Draven_Eldercraft , clearly your actions before I continue please.
tilting his head to the side in a catlike manner.


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Q: Git branch strategy with multiple parallel feature release into the same application We are developing modules for a web app that are released in parallel. We are trying to figure out a good branching strategy to keep an overview of the released modules. This is our current system:

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*Master: contains all released modules / code (matches production)

*env/test: Branch that is deployed to the testing environment

*env/acceptance: Branch that is deployed to the acceptance environment

*env/production: Branch that is deployed to the production environment

Since modules are being developed and released in parallel one module could be started after another and be released earlier. To make this work a new module starts with a feature branch from master. This feature branch is squashed merged into env/test to create a single commit for the new module. Now the difficult part starts. To prevent merges into the env/* branches we have added a policy to force squash merges. For test this is working correctly since it is the first place a new module / feature is merged to. When we squash merge into acceptance / production and master we loose a reference between master and the env/* branches. We would like to maintain a reference so we can check how much acceptance is ahead of master (unreleased modules in acceptance stage).
We know this is not the best solution but are struggling to figure out a better strategy. The clients really want to maintain the parallel development since some modules can take months in the acceptance stage (many stakeholders ect) and some can be released in a week. Using a fixed numbered release system would delay some modules and would introduce other issues when a module is cancelled during acceptance.

A: Split the repository into one repository for each module (this approach is used for microservices, and generally is used on GitHub for open source modules). Then each repository can have separate branches, separate versioning scheme, etc.


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The difference in these two movies is that in the first part of Jumanji, They face dangers in their own world while as in Jumanji welcome to the jungle they enter a new world and that is full of the jungle.
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'Magic' Campaign Lands 17 Black Women on Houston Courts
Nov 13, 2018 | Politics
Juan A. Lozano
The Houston area's courts are going to be a lot more diverse thanks to a group of 17 African-American women and their "magic."
The women, who were part of an effort dubbed the "Black Girl Magic" campaign, all won races Tuesday to be judges in various Harris County courts in an election that featured more Black women on the county's ballot than any other.
The "Black Girl Magic" campaign debuted over the summer with a viral photo that featured the 17 women and two other sitting Harris County judges inside a courtroom. Although those two judges lost their bids Tuesday for seats on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, they will retain their local judgeships.
Those behind the campaign say it was part of an effort to broaden the diversity of the Houston area's judiciary and ensure that more African-Americans and other minorities can bring their backgrounds and life experiences to the bench and better reflect the diversity of the nation's fourth largest city.
"I think that while Houston itself is one of the most diverse cities in the United States, our elected officials have not always reflected that," said Lillie Schechter, chair of the Harris County Democratic Party, which put together the "Black Girl Magic" campaign. "Having a government that reflects the people, the population is something that is incredibly important."
Lori Chambers Gray, a Houston defense attorney who won election to be a judge on a criminal district court, said the photo and the "Black Girls Magic" campaign provided her with a source of strength and motivation as she proceeded to Election Day.
"I hope that it's an example for women that we do have opportunities to run and to win a campaign," Gray said.
The "Black Girl Magic" moniker has been used as a hashtag in recent years to highlight the accomplishments of African-American girls and women. In politics, it's been used to highlight the role African-American women have played in helping decide various races, including the highly contested Senate race in Alabama last year in which Democrat Doug Jones beat Republican Roy Moore.
The victory by the 17 Black women on Tuesday was part of a Harris County rout by the Democrats, who won almost all of the nearly 70 local judicial races and ousted a popular Republican from the county's top elected office.
Although Tuesday's election will increase the diversity of the Houston-area's judiciary, more than three-quarters of U.S. trial judges are white, according to 2016 report by a liberal legal organization, the American Constitution Society. The group found that less than one-third of state judges were women and less than one-fifth were people of color.
In Texas, women of color make up about 28 percent of the state's population but only about 12 percent of its state court judges, according to the American Constitution Society's report.
According to U.S. Census figures, African-Americans make up about 20 percent of Harris County's population. Tuesday's election will increase the number of Black female judges in Harris County from eight to 25, according to the Harris County Democratic Party.
Angela Graves-Harrington, a family law attorney in Houston who was one of the 17 women elected, said Tuesday's success will be an important step in improving diversity, as this will be the first time that Black women have been elected as family court judges and as judges on misdemeanor criminal courts in Harris County.
"We felt showcasing the number of African-American women on the bench would galvanize our base and also galvanize those who don't typically vote in the midterm elections and get them excited about coming out," Graves-Harrington said. "We also wanted to have something out there that we could be proud of, that our community could be proud of and that Harris County could be proud of."
Schechter said she hopes the successful election of the 17 African-American women inspires "candidates of all colors" to run for local office
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Funky Kingston war das erste Album der jamakaikanischen Reggaeband Toots and the Maytals.
Es wurde von Chris Blackwell produziert und erschien 1973. Das Album ist das erste der Band, das nicht aus bereits vorher aufgenommenen Singles besteht.

Stil
Das Album enthält "hypnotische Grooves" und "kraftvolle Rhythmen" Der gespielte Musikstil ist Roots-Reggae.

Rezeption
2003 wurde es vom Magazin Rolling Stone zum 378. wichtigsten Album aller Zeiten ernannt. Allmusic bezeichnete das Album als das beste der Band. Robert Christgau als "ein Geschenk". Wenn man "Bob Marley entdeckt hat und seine Roots-Zeitgenossen erforschen möchte", ist Funky Kingston laut BBC die nächste "Anlaufstelle".

Weiterverwendung
Funky Kingston ist das Titellied der US-amerikanischen Fernsehserie Miami Ink – Tattoos fürs Leben.

Das Lied Louie, Louie wurde in dem britischen Film This is England verwendet.

Titelliste

Originalversion
 "Sit Right Down" (Frederick Hibbert)
 "Pomp And Pride" (Hibbert)
 "Louie, Louie" (Richard Berry (Musiker))
 "I Can't Believe" (Ike Turner)
 "Redemption Song" (Hibbert)
 "Daddy's Home" (Hibbert)
 "Funky Kingston" (Hibbert)
 "It Was Written Down" (Hibbert)

US-Version

 "Time Tough" (Frederick Hibbert)
 "In the Dark" (Hibbert)
 "Funky Kingston" (Hibbert)
 "Love is Gonna Let Me Down" (Hibbert)
 "Louie, Louie" (Richard Berry (Musiker))
 "Pomp and Pride" (Hibbert)
 "Got to Be There" (Hibbert)
 "Country Road" (Bill Danoff, John Denver, Taffy Nivert)
 "Pressure Drop" (Hibbert)
 "Sailing On" (Hibbert)
Die bekanntere US-Version ist eine Kompilation des Originals mit dem zweiten Album der Band, In the Dark. Sie enthält Maytals größten Hit, Pressure Drop, sowie ungewöhnliche Coverversionen, z. B. John Denvers Take Me Home, Country Roads, bei dem "West Virginia" durch "West Jamaica" ersetzt wird.

Quellen

Weblinks
 Kritik bei Allmusic: []

Album (Reggae)
Album 1973

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Group CEO/Director of HSIS Cheah Kok Hoong shares that the collaboration agreement makes way for all existing Oracle JD Edwards customers in Singapore to be supported by a stronger and bigger resource.
"With HSIS, S & I Systems' Oracle JD Edwards customer base in Singapore will have the support of eight times (8x) bigger resource in the team of application support specialists that HSIS has built up since 1991. We are therefore confident of providing better service and all post-sales customer support," says Cheah.
"Both companies will optimize its wealth of experiences in enterprise systems leadership and applications capabilities respectively and thus collaboratively drive sustainable improvements in Oracle JD Edwards deployments for customers," shares Eric.
*NOTE: Headquartered in Singapore, S & I Systems is a subsidiary of Singapore Exchange (SGX)'s main-board listed TeleChoice International Limited (TeleChoice) – which is a unit within the Temasek-owned Singapore Technologies Telemedia Group. S & I Systems is an integrated IT solutions provider of enterprise infrastructure system and business application solutions.
Eric adds that the migration for all S & I Systems existing Oracle JD Edwards customers to HSIS will also be seamless and is already ongoing.
HSIS' Enterprise Applications division is one of the few global elite teams who have achieved the quadruple specializations of Oracle JD Edwards applications in Financial, Manufacturing, Distribution and Configurable Network Computing.
"The Enterprise Applications business is no doubt very important for the HSIS group; thus moving forward you can expect that HSIS will continually boost up all effort to grow this line of business in other SEA markets particularly in Thailand," ends Cheah.
Currently, Enterprise Applications contributes to over 20 per cent of HSIS annual revenues from Malaysia and around the region and is expected to continue in an upward trend over the next 12 months with increasing demand of business applications in enterprise corporations.
Some of the notable HSIS Enterprise Applications' notable Oracle JD Edwards customers include QSR Brands (M) Holdings Sdn Bhd, Eversendai Corporation Bhd, Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT) and more.
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Hi I'm Hayley, a fully accredited MamaBabyBliss Associate Teacher, running classes in Pregnancy Massage, Pregnancy Yoga, Baby Massage and Baby Yoga in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
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I trained as a MamaBabyBliss teacher to enable me to help mums and babies benefit from the same enjoyable experiences as we did. Since I qualified as a teacher, I have been blessed with a beautiful daughter. With the skills and tips I have learnt from the pregnancy yoga classes, I managed to get through my labour with just the breathing techniques.
Becoming a mum has completely changed my outlook on life, and I feel extremely passionate about nurturing mums, babies and mums to be with the wonderful benefits of Pregnancy yoga, baby massage and baby yoga. I find it rewarding watching mums flourish through their pregnancies and then attend the baby classes with their wonderful bundles of joy.
We provide everything you need to attend one of our classes including mats, cushions, towels, blankets and other yoga equipment. All you need to bring is yourself and your bump or baby.
To book a class, workshop or more information, please view my timetable above or contact me direct.
The baby massage course was extremely enjoyable for us both, i now feel confident in massaging Ava at home. it was lovely meeting other new mums too!
The baby yoga course has been so much fun! Making new friends and having the time together has been so worthwhile for us both. A lovely and relaxed class – the homemade cakes every week were a great treat for us!
Being pregnant for the first time has been overwhelming, but the classes have helped to give me the confidence to know what to expect during labour. I will give the breathing techniques and visualisation tips a go! I can't wait to attend the baby massage course next.


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At Bendigo SDS we acknowledge the Jaara People and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging of the Dja Dja Wurrung and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owners of the land.
Bunjil - was created by our whole school community (students, staff, parents, siblings, admin, therapists, KESO team and external aboriginal community members from LAECG meeting) and is displayed proudly in our front office.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are one of the oldest, continuous cultures in the world, having existed in Australia for at least 60,000 years. The uniqueness of these cultures and the wisdom and knowledge embedded in them are things to be highly valued by all Victorians.
The Victorian Curriculum includes the knowledge and skills students are expected to develop about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' histories and cultures, given their particular and enduring importance.
Education Protocols
All teachers must follow the relevant protocols when teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.
These protocols provide guidelines about how to protect the integrity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural expressions and enable all Victorian teachers and students to engage respectfully and feel connected to this identity.
For more information, please refer to these Department of Education pages:
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/multicultural/Pages/koorieculture.aspx
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/Pages/marrung.aspx#link50


1.4 Vice President Individual Reports.
3.4 Application status for 6mR World Championship by both BISMA and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club for 2021 Worlds Championships.
3.6 Licence agreement and fee for organisers of ISMA events.
4.1The Executive Secretary's summary and discussion regarding the activity during the last year.
4.2 Promoting restoration of boats to racing condition including, but not limited to, Rule 1 boats.
4.3 Update on production of Class History.
5.3 Establishment of relationship with St Francis International Yacht Racing Foundation to facilitate USA tax-deductible contributions.
 Use of Appendix A Classic flotation allowance and ballasting.


When Rev. Michael Rogers moved earlier this year he told me that he needed to get rid of many books as there wouldn't be room for them in his new home. So I decided to pop round to the Pip and Jim's vicarage to see if there were any which interested me.
'Don't come home with more than five books,' my wife Sheila pleaded with me as I set off, 'we haven't room for any more books!' Well, I have to confess that I came back with twenty-three fascinating books, large and small. One of the small ones is a Fontana paperback by Hywel Lewis Our Experience of God. I have just finished reading it during a late holiday break.
In the course of Lewis's opening chapter, headed 'Religion and Belief', he talks about something which has always intrigued me – but he puts the issue with more clarity than I have seen it expressed before. He points out that it is impossible to think of a furthest point of space because 'wherever we place it there could always be something beyond that'. In saying this he is not daunted by theories of relativity and receding constellations. He insists that 'space as we all of us find it in experience is something to which no limit is conceivable'. The notion of space going on ad infinitum is bewildering.
The same is true of time: there is 'something quite fundamentally bewildering about the notions of either a first moment of time or of time that has always been going on'. It is a 'another aspect of the irreducible but positive mystery in which the world as we find it is somehow rooted'.
With this sense of mystery as one of his starting points, Hywel Lewis goes on to discuss how we may experience God and has chapters devoted to 'Religion and Transcendence', 'Instruments of Worship', 'Art and Religion' as well as the role of symbolism, how we may view miracles, prayer and morality. There is much in the book to interest both those who lead worship and all Christians in their journeys of faith. It is not always an easy read and you need to give yourself time to grasp the points the author is making. The book first came out in paperback in 1970 and now may be difficult to get hold of. So I am willing to lend it the first comer – but I shall certainly want it back!