This is perhaps more of a general Python question, than a Py4D question, but I thought I'd run it by you guys. Do you have any recommendations on how to automatically prepare your plugins for distribution?
1. Commit my source in Git (private hosting via BitBucket).
2. Manually increment version number in README, and source files.
2b. Review my commit history between my last distribution and the current version, and update the Changelog in my plugin's documentation.
7. .zip up the "PluginName" directory.
8. Rename the .zip "PluginName v01_05" or whatever the version is.
9. Move the .zip into a "distributions" folder in my repo.
10. Commit my updated repo.
11. Upload the file to my website / distribution location.
Why certainly not difficult, this process gets a little bit tedious, especially when I'm updating dozens of plugins. To the point that I don't update for minor bugfixes, but instead wait for big version changes - to the detriment of my end-users.
I'm looking for something that will automate as much of the above process as possible. Any suggestions?
I can probably write a python script that does most of the above, but I suspect someone else has already solved this problem. If not, any suggestions on how to source protect more than one .pyp file at a time?
to protect a PYP file without GUI, otherwise it would be possible to automate the PYP protection as well.
put any files in the res folder that I have to take away for distribution.
I usually use external modules already in byte-compiled format or distribute them in source format.
write a Shell, Batch or Makefile for it).
and it creates the Eggs.
Regarding automated source protection of .pyp files, you can actually do it with my Apex plugin.
Niklas - thank you so much for the detailed response. I've decided to avoid source protecting libs at all costs so that I can avoid at least some of these issues. Thanks for directing me to Apex, being able to source-protect more than one .pyp at a time is a huge convenience.


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Theory of organisation explained
October 14, 2016 May 15, 2017 erichbuhler
I have known Peter for a very long time. I still remember the day when he said that he had an innovative idea and decided to set up a new company. At first, there were just a few employees in the start-up, and communication was done mostly face to face. The guys trusted each other, and everyone clearly knew what others thought about the company, its vision, and its strategy.
At that time, its enterprise social density was somewhat high as information traveled through the whole little company quite quickly, in a casual way and with low levels of distortion. That meant they got a lot of direct feedback from every single corner, which helped everyone avoid wrong paths and decisions.
Enterprise social density: Flow of relevant, honest, informal, and effective information between people in an organization in an environment where they feel safe.
I should admit that there were some silos around, but employees were happy to collaborate and share their knowledge, even if they were busy. When there was some urgent matter, all the guys gathered together and brainstormed until they resolved the highest-priority matter. Everyone could see what others were doing at all times, as information flowed constantly from their actions, behaviors, and physical panels. People seemed to be happy and the situation looked like it would last for ever.
Enterprise social visibility: Information that is passively captured by people from the environment through social interactions, information radiators, and behavioral recognition of facial expressions.
At that point in time, nobody thought of transforming their implicit social agreements into explicit core values, or that even one day the organization would badly need them.
Peter didn't know either that core values were the most pervasive aspect of his organization, as they set the basic constraints of where, why, and how his firm was competing. Core values also dictated how people behaved socially and the way that everyone was giving visibility to one another.
He didn't even realize that a small change in the company's core values could affect the five main pillars of his organization. And there is no universal truth about companies, but I am pretty sure that no matter what the size of the enterprise is, it always has the following pillars:
1. Strategy (and vision)
2. How power is distributed across the organization
3. Structures and relationships (i.e., hierarchical structure)
4. Control systems in place (how things or people are controlled)
5. Social behaviors or social systems (how people behave/interact)
When one or more core values are changed, a cascading effect takes place that affects all of the five different areas. It sounds like common sense, but sometimes people don't stop to reflect about the importance of this point. When the core values and all five pillars change, we say that the company has gone through a transformation.
Since we were friends, Peter wanted me to help his company succeed. One day, he started talking about undertaking a transformation by changing the way that people created software. He had heard of the miracle of something called SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and wanted to give it a try.
Unfortunately, he didn't believe me when I said that making changes in the way that people did their jobs — how they were coordinated or how employees were controlled (control systems) — would rarely start a transformation. This is because these areas are weakly coupled with changes in structure, power distribution, or strategy.
Control system: Procedures designed and established to check, regulate, supervise, and authenticate.
I know from experience that many companies are convinced that once they go "digital," they can start a transformation by just changing the way people do their work. In fact, some enterprises choose SAFe as a means to push a transformation. In theory, it sounds plausible, as it constitutes a relatively big challenge for many enterprises.
But in reality, a change to the control systems or an increase in coordination (which this framework offers) is only weakly related to producing major changes to the other pillars. In fact, organizations won't generally initiate a fundamental change based solely on modifying their processes. In order to transform something, you need some radical disruption to break the organizational inertia patterns. When you increase coordination, you also raise complexity and complication.
Using Scrum leads to a completely different result, as it simply offers a basic set of rules that can progress into something different, allowing the organization to evolve freely. I will tell you more about what inertia is and how it works soon.
It turns out that my friend was quite lucky. A few months after launching his initiative, the small start-up became a huge enterprise, attracting a lot of attention and hundreds of clients. The obvious result was the creation of new departments, roles, and rules to better serve the customer, support the company, and boost predictability. It was clear to Peter at this point that his organization's growth had brought with it new formats and processes.
One day, I heard someone in the new offices mentioning that they needed to achieve more effective performance and that could be done just by making things more efficiently. Then she said that the only way to accomplish that was by implementing some new structures.
Peter and everyone started getting used to the idea that every time a requirement was needed (cheaper and more reliable product, etc.), they just had to create a new department to specifically address the matter.
As the company and the number of departments and roles grew (complexity), the number of associated processes and procedures (complication) increased, resulting in more bureaucracy and dependencies and less customer value and enterprise social density.
Everyone had the feeling that the company was getting bigger and bigger, and that it would be better for the organization to use digital boards instead of physical ones. A day after this idea was mentioned, every employee installed commercial software and threw away all the physical boards and post-its.
It was clear that not everyone had visibility with the new tools compared to the old physical system. People needed to ask for usernames, passwords, permissions, etc., and learn how to use the software (a new department was created for that). As a result, visibility decreased and complexity and transaction costs increased.
Nobody realized at that time what an impact such a small change would have, and people were quite happy to send tickets and e-mails back and forth as the de facto means of communication.
Three weeks later, the company opened two new branches in nearby countries. The following Monday, Peter said that he wanted to achieve a clear corporate identity in all offices. He then created a new department to clarify the existing values and make sure the whole enterprise was aligned. This triggered certain organizational inertia toward stability, which allowed people to better understand the organization's unique character and establish some internal legitimation for accepted behaviors.
It was clear that before the company had grown that big, they had received plenty of feedback from everyone. As they were becoming larger, however, they started replacing many of the feedback loops with coordination, as well as formalizing some habits and expected behaviors. The new team announced the new strategy by email. They underscored what the core values really meant, and many pictures were hung around the company the day after the official values were announced. Some steps were also taken in order to socially enforce the "new" status quo with the idea of giving a clear sense of which rules and norms were now accepted and why.
This plan implicitly constrained employees' behaviors to the new definitions and helped everyone build a more structured environment and homogenized institutional factors. They put in motion some constrained forces toward greater alignment.
A new hiring system was also instituted, with the aim of finding the right candidates to support the current strategy. At that point in time, Peter didn't know that his company was passing through another convergent period.
A convergent period is a relatively long period of incremental change and adaptation, which allow organizations to elaborate their structures, control systems, resources, and social systems toward a greater alignment to their core values and strategies.
Many companies confuse convergent periods with transformations. Many scaling frameworks produce a convergent period but not a transformation.
Keep in mind that an enterprise has several convergent periods, one after another, during its lifetime, but those stages should not be confused with what we call a transformation.
During a convergent period, there is no discontinuous change, as values and most strategy is kept intact, and all forces move to support their current status quo. Every time a new convergent period begins, a more solid interpretation of their existing situation is created and new rules are reinforced, which involves a huge amount of organizational resistance to all but incremental change.
As you can imagine, the longer the convergent period, the harder it is for an Agile Coach or any other consultant or member to run a transformation, and the more obstacles arise to prevent information contrary to the status quo to flow into the company's social system.
An exception to the rules occurs when the company changes its demography. This means that you start hiring people with fresh ideas and new points of view. That can potentially overcome part of the inertia and move the enterprise toward a different direction, as long as part of the leadership team is also replaced.
As convergent periods come and go, the status quo is reinforced by what we call incremental change. This helps to gradually consolidate current values, as well as their implicit and explicit rules. This type of convergent period clearly increases dependencies and complexity, as more rules are added after each adjustment. (This is what we see in many governments, where hundreds of laws, rules, and guidelines are in place as a result of going through many convergent periods but not any transformations.) In these cases, it is essential to "reset" the system and achieve simplicity as the art of maximizing efficiency.
To summarize, in most enterprises, new convergent periods add or formalize brand-new rules or habits. I have seen many teams loaded with reports, metrics, and guidelines after many adjustments (or convergent periods).
One of the few ways to reduce complexity is by having some turbulent times, where rules are questioned and very often simplified. I remember an episode in a different company, when they were quite close to losing one of their key customers. That created some turbulence within the organization, which led to questioning many of its processes and beliefs, and finally to streamlining communication, guidelines, and rules.
That is the beauty of the sense of urgency in a company: It breaks the rules and leads the way to discoveries.
I realized at that point that the only way Peter could run a real transformation was to simplify his company by direct intervention. That would only happen if he had to go through some real trouble, such as a period of sustained low performance that led his enterprise to fail.
One morning I read in the newspaper that some new players were coming into the market with similar products to those by Peter. As the company had been passing through many long and successful convergent periods, I imagined the probability that executives would receive or hear some adverse information was extremely low, so I decided to let them discover the news. That discussion never happened. I assumed that if Peter's company resisted the fundamental changes required, they would be unable to face more environmental changes.
What was crystal clear was that different companies (contexts) require distinct strategies to achieve better performance, and that there are no generic steps or ideal frameworks to run a transformation. Yes, you can start with something, but the company needs to freely evolve into something different in order to be successful.
It was April 2015, and I had to leave my friend for a few months to travel to Chile for another client. For many weeks I didn't hear from him and did not hear any other news, so I imagined that everyone was working hard and doing well.
On my return, I was surprised to find a different Peter. He had been passing through a couple of interesting stages, and I was happy to see that he had learned a lot from them. Initially, he had tried to compete with the new players by cutting costs. He hired cheap labor and reduced the quality of his products, with the aim of cutting time to market. He also tried to scale his software department to produce more. The result was more pressure, an increase in control systems, unhappiness, new rules, conflict and turbulence, and decrease in customer value. It was not a good time for him, but he learned his lesson.
Later on that year, he remembered that I had told him to use Cost of Delay for all the enterprise's decisions, instead of basing them on political facts. That helped him go through what we call a reorientation (or strategic reorientation). A reorientation is a short period of discontinuous change, when you radically modify your strategy. That leads to turbulence and changes in power distribution, control structures, social behaviors, and organizational structures toward a new strategic alignment. At this point, he understood the impact that a reorientation had on the five pillars of his organization. He also recognized that there were no transitions in a company, just convergent or reorientation periods.
My feeling after having a chat with him was that he was finally ready for an exciting episode of his life: a re-creation, which is the most extreme event in any enterprise.
During a re-creation, all or some of the company's values change, triggering a cascade effect on the five different pillars of the enterprise. This is the company reinventing itself, or what we also know as a transformation.
I realized that Peter was heading in the right direction and his company was evolving thanks to real feedback. I did not have much to do — except visit my other friend, Andrew, who was struggling with his organization. But that is another story. . . .
– See more at: https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2016/october/the-theory-of-organization-explained#sthash.rnQ574QV.dpuf
Thanks for listening,
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The 2008 version of EA's long-running soccer franchise FIFA will be coming to the Wii and the PS3 for the first time, pretty much ensuring that the title will be available on any gaming system that draws electrical current. Footie star Ronaldinho, who was the cover boy for last year's FIFA, will grace the cover of the 08 version, as well.
Contrary to the popular belief that nobody in the U.S. cares about soccer, FIFA 07 sold some 800,000 units in the states, not including the 950,000 units of FIFA World Cup 2006. So clearly somebody here knows their red cards from their yellow.
Pros sharing cover space with Ronaldinho will very based on region: in Germany, it'll be Miroslav Klose, Spain gets Sergio Ramos, Austria will have Andreas Ivanschitz, and Tranquillo Barnetta will do the job in Switzerland.


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.. _tensorboard:

Tensorboard Integration
==========================

Basic Usage
------------

To use Tensorboard with the rl baselines, you simply need to define a log location for the RL agent:

.. code-block:: python

    import gym

    from stable_baselines import A2C

    model = A2C('MlpPolicy', 'CartPole-v1', verbose=1, tensorboard_log="./a2c_cartpole_tensorboard/")
    model.learn(total_timesteps=10000)

Or after loading an existing model (by default the log path is not saved):

.. code-block:: python

    import gym

    from stable_baselines.common.vec_env import DummyVecEnv
    from stable_baselines import A2C

    env = gym.make('CartPole-v1')
    env = DummyVecEnv([lambda: env])  # The algorithms require a vectorized environment to run

    model = A2C.load("./a2c_cartpole.pkl", env=env, tensorboard_log="./a2c_cartpole_tensorboard/")
    model.learn(total_timesteps=10000)

You can also define custom logging name when training (by default it is the algorithm name)

.. code-block:: python

    import gym

    from stable_baselines import A2C

    model = A2C('MlpPolicy', 'CartPole-v1', verbose=1, tensorboard_log="./a2c_cartpole_tensorboard/")
    model.learn(total_timesteps=10000, tb_log_name="first_run")
    # Pass reset_num_timesteps=False to continue the training curve in tensorboard
    # By default, it will create a new curve
    model.learn(total_timesteps=10000, tb_log_name="second_run", reset_num_timesteps=False)
    model.learn(total_timesteps=10000, tb_log_name="thrid_run", reset_num_timesteps=False)

Once the learn function is called, you can monitor the RL agent during or after the training, with the following bash command:

.. code-block:: bash

  tensorboard --logdir ./a2c_cartpole_tensorboard/

you can also add past logging folders:

.. code-block:: bash

  tensorboard --logdir ./a2c_cartpole_tensorboard/;./ppo2_cartpole_tensorboard/

It will display information such as the model graph, the episode reward, the model losses, the observation and other parameter unique to some models.

.. image:: ../_static/img/Tensorboard_example_1.png
  :width: 400
  :alt: plotting

.. image:: ../_static/img/Tensorboard_example_2.png
  :width: 400
  :alt: histogram

.. image:: ../_static/img/Tensorboard_example_3.png
  :width: 400
  :alt: graph

Logging More Values
-------------------

Using a callback, you can easily log more values with TensorBoard.
Here is a simple example on how to log both additional tensor or arbitrary scalar value:

.. code-block:: python

  import tensorflow as tf
  import numpy as np

  from stable_baselines import SAC
  from stable_baselines.common.callbacks import BaseCallback

  model = SAC("MlpPolicy", "Pendulum-v0", tensorboard_log="/tmp/sac/", verbose=1)

  class TensorboardCallback(BaseCallback):
      """
      Custom callback for plotting additional values in tensorboard.
      """
      def __init__(self, verbose=0):
          self.is_tb_set = False
          super(TensorboardCallback, self).__init__(verbose)

      def _on_step(self) -> bool:
          # Log additional tensor
          if not self.is_tb_set:
              with self.model.graph.as_default():
                  tf.summary.scalar('value_target', tf.reduce_mean(self.model.value_target))
                  self.model.summary = tf.summary.merge_all()
              self.is_tb_set = True
          # Log scalar value (here a random variable)
          value = np.random.random()
          summary = tf.Summary(value=[tf.Summary.Value(tag='random_value', simple_value=value)])
          self.locals['writer'].add_summary(summary, self.num_timesteps)
          return True

  model.learn(50000, callback=TensorboardCallback())

Legacy Integration
-------------------

All the information displayed in the terminal (default logging) can be also logged in tensorboard.
For that, you need to define several environment variables:

.. code-block:: bash

  # formats are comma-separated, but for tensorboard you only need the last one
  # stdout -> terminal
  export OPENAI_LOG_FORMAT='stdout,log,csv,tensorboard'
  export OPENAI_LOGDIR=path/to/tensorboard/data

and to configure the logger using:

.. code-block:: python

  from stable_baselines.logger import configure

  configure()

Then start tensorboard with:

.. code-block:: bash

  tensorboard --logdir=$OPENAI_LOGDIR

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Of all the years for me to decide to write every single day, I had to pick a Leap Year. Consider this a bonus post and in honor of it being a bonus, I'm going to be all over the place in this one.
First of all, I try to take advantage of certain milestones or days to post about since I have to come up with hundreds of ideas to write about. Yesterday, I didn't realize until after I hit "publish", that it was my 100th blog post. I have been blogging since May of last year and never thought I would actually make it to triple digit numbers when it came to posting. I'm going to pause and give myself a little pat on the back.
In regards to Leap Year. I have had two feelings about this day. They both have to do with people who were born on February 29th. I remember having a teacher or someone of similar stature, that was born on Leap Day and them saying they were only 7 years old since their birthday only came around every 4 years. I was pretty young – maybe 5 or 6, but I distinctly remember thinking this person has no authority over me. They are only a year older than I am! The second thought was I'm glad I wasn't born on this day. I wouldn't get presents every year. So in a nutshell, being born on Leap Day, in my eyes, really sucked. I always felt that birthdays and The Olympics, should come every year.(The summer Olympics – not the B rated, Winter Olympics.) I still don't know what people do if they were born today as far as tracking their age. Is it counted on February 28th or March 1st? I'm just curious – I've lived 35 years and not had enough interest to actually look it up so if you know – go ahead and comment.
My last piece of useless information was that I woke up with hives all over my body today. I have absolutely no idea what they are from, but I was scratching the hell out of my legs, arms, and head last night. I was going to go to urgent care, but I know they would have told me to take some Benadryl. So I saved myself $25 and picked up some allergy drugs at CVS after I dropped Kamryn off at school. The directions said adults over 12 could take 2 and I thought that was a good idea since I was about ready to tear the skin off my body. About 30 minutes later, I was so loopy and tingly, I haven't been able to move from my chair. I'm no longer itchy and the hives are gone. Thank God I wasn't born today because I would have been turning 9 (I think) and only been able to take one pill!
Also, if you haven't done so and you feel so inclined, please vote for me to win a Skydiving Adventure! You vote by clicking on this link and clicking on all of the options you subscribe to as well as the "like" button with the yellow star. You can only vote on each option once, but since there are multiple ways (Facebook, Twitter, etc) please vote in all the media's that you subscribe to and please feel free to leave a comment! Thanks!!
Once again I was snoopin' around on Pinterest and came across another homemade candy bar recipe. I have tried making Almond Joys and Butterfingers, but I have found a Snickers recipe. If I could successfully make the nougat, I would be a happy girl.
I don't ever buy full sized Snickers bars for some reason. I buy the fun sized ones or the really little bite-sized ones. It may be because ofhowI eat them. I like to bite all the chocolate and caramel off until all that remains is a chunk of nougat.
The homemade Snickers take some time. The actual recipe isn't difficult, but each delicious layer needs to cool and harden before adding the next. I also love that even the chocolate layer is mixed with peanut butter. I thought that was going to be overkill, but I was mistaken. I used a sauce pan to melt everything and thought it was much easier than microwaving. I tend to burn my chocolate whenever I melt it in the microwave. I just don't know when to stop trying to melt it.
In less than 24 hours, this was all that was left.
I realized that the email I submitted to be a finalist isn't on the site. Here is what I submitted to be considered in the skydiving contest.
My name is Amy Peterson and I live in San Diego. I recently started following Lesley's blog and was thrilled to see San Diego listed as #5 in her list of the greatest cities she has visited. San Diego truly is an amazing place and some days I can't believe I actually live here. I am a native Iowan and moved to San Diego in 2003 after my husband I got married. In 2007 we moved back to Iowa after having our first child. We thought we should be closer to family since we had started a family of our own. However, 3 short years later and another addition to our family, the pull of San Diego was too strong and we found ourselves packing up our house and moving back to the West Coast. We have been back since November of 2010 and have no plans of ever leaving again.
The first time I thought of sky diving was when I was 18. A company was offering a sky diving package for $75 and my brother and I discussed doing it on a weekend when my parents were out of town. I immediately got butterflies in my stomach and the more my brother and I talked about it, the bigger those butterflies got until I'm pretty sure there was something the size of an eagle flapping around in my abdominal cavity. That was all I could take and I bowed out. If I was that nervous just talking about it, I didn't think there was any way that I would be able to actually jump out of a plane.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I was reading Lesley's post and I got those butterflies again. I got it in my head that I needed to take advantage of all that San Diego has to offer and if it means jumping out of a plane, well, then so be it. I was just telling a friend last weekend about how I was thinking of sky diving as we discussed our fear of heights that has developed as we have gotten older. I suggested that if I went sky diving, it would resolve me of that overwhelming feeling of having to jump whenever I am in a high place.
I don't know that I'm any more deserving to win this fabulous prize than anyone else, but I will say that it will definitely be the most adventurous thing I will have ever done and possibly will be for the rest of my life. I have learned to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves and the timing of this contest was a little too perfect. All I can guarantee is if I am chosen as the winner, some hilarious video and photos will result from my jump. My hands are cold and clammy as I'm typing and my heart rate has significantly increased the closer I get to sending this email.
I'll be anxiously awaiting March 12th to see if I am announced as the winner. In the meantime, I'll have to put it out of my head or run the risk of talking myself out of an amazing opportunity!
Once again, here is the link if you would like to vote for me! Thank you in advance!!!
Here is where you, my attractive, intelligent, and successful (did I mention beautiful?) readers come in. The finalist with the most "likes", "tweets" or other "mentions" under their profile by March 12th, 2012 at 5pm PST (GMT-8:00) will be the winner of the Skydiving Package.
I am taking some serious consideration into embarking on a new career. I usecareer loosely because I think for something to be a career, you usually get paid. I haven't discovered the money making part of it yet.
You have things to say. You take an interest in what other people are talking about and you care. Engaging. You're engaged.
I have to agree with his word choice – maybe more with his justification, but nonetheless, I agree. This was actually an excellent segue into my new career choice prospect.
I want to have an advice column. I have no problem giving unsolicited advice, but I'm curious how I would respond to someone actually asking for my opinion about something. I admit, I am more interested in just what people are having a hard time figuring out on their own, but I do enjoy a good conundrum.
The only thing that I know for sure is that I will have the world's biggest disclaimer on my column. ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!!! NOT A LICENSED ANYTHING BUT DRIVER!!! You get the point.
We had a fun-filled vacation and tonight we got to hang out with our good friend, Mike, who we haven't got to see in a while, but will hopefully being seeing more of soon.
That being said, I'm totally taking the easy way out on my Flashback Friday. It is 10:02 right now and I am tired and ready for bed. See – it really is 10:02 a lot when I look at the clock – hence the name of my blog.
Here is a photo to enjoy.
You know how people take pictures of their feet and if you look past their feet, you see this nice beach or pool? It's to show you that they are lying back and enjoying a nice view, at least that is what I get from it when I see pictures like that.
Well, I didn't start seeing them until about a year or two ago and just to show all of you that I am way ahead of the curve on things, here is a picture of my feet. From the date stamp you can see it was almost 6 years ago. I realize you can't tell, but that is airport carpet and after spending an unusually hot and humid weekend in Minnesota for my friend, Mary Jo's wedding, this was the result. Oh and it probably didn't help that I was 6 months pregnant at the time. But seriously, doesn't it look like someone beat my ankles like Annie Wilkes did to Paul in Misery?
So maybe I'm not way ahead of anything, but I did take a picture of my feet once.
I never co-slept with either of my kids. I had them both in a bassinet next to my bed when they were newborns, but eventually, they both ended up in their respective beds. On the rare occasion that one of them has a nightmare or has their bed peed upon by a sibling, I offer them a nice little spot on the floor to sleep.
It's not so much that I am afraid of forming a irrevocable habit, but I value my sleep too much. I am unable to sleep with little people in my bed – they are all over the place. Last night I tried to get the kids to sleep in the same bed (we have 2 double beds in our room), but Rory wanted to sleep with Ryan which meant Kamryn was with me.
She has a habit of squeezing her feet between my legs and putting her face right in mine and breathing all over my face. Last night she was actually spooning me. I don't let Ryan sleep that way – I'm sure as hell not going to let my 5 year old daughter. I moved her back over to her side of the bed countless times, but within the hour, she was right back in my business.
Tonight, I'm going to try and get Kamryn and Rory to sleep together again, but I don't think they'll take the bait. Or, I'll end up with one or both of them waking up in the middle of the night and having to play musical beds. Either way, it's a lose-lose situation. It's a good thing the only energy I expended today was getting out to the pool and sitting in the sun.


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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to assign the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City as the state agency to implement a project building an expressway linking the southern economic hub with Moc Bai in the southern province of Tay Ninh.
The PM tasked the Ministry of Transport and the People's Committee of Tay Ninh province to closely work with the People's Committee of HCM City to carry out the project as regulated.
The expressway is designed with a total length of about 53.5km, starting from a road belt in HCM City's Hoc Mon district and ending at a point linking with Highway 22 in Tay Ninh's Moc Bai international border gate area.
The project will be carried out under the public-private-partnership (PPP) form and build-operate-transit (BOT) contract with the State's support in two phases.
The first phase will focus on building the HCM City-Trang Bang part with four lanes and Trang Bang-Moc Bai with the same number of lanes, while the second one will concentrate on building the HCM City-Trang Bang with eight lanes and Trang Bang-Moc Bai with six lanes.
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He has been called "an historian who always writes with grace and intelligence" (Michael Bliss, The Beaver), "a wonderful popular historian" (John Fraser, National Post), and "obviously no slave to political correctness" (Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail). Dalton Camp called 1867 "just about the best book on our history I've ever read."
Moore was national chair of the Writers' Union of Canada in 1999-2000 and was a director of Access Copyright, the Canadian copyright licensing collective, from 2001 to 2007. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughters. He comments on historical topics and national issues, and speaks to audiences across the country.
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Canada: Our Century. with Mark Kingwell: Doubleday, 1999.
The Illustrated History of Canada. co-author. Key Porter, 2002.
Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth Century Garrison Town. McClelland and Stewart, 2000.
The Big Book of Canada: Exploring the Provinces and Territories. illus. Bill Slavin. Tundra Books, 2002.
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Using "The Story of Canada," "Champlain," "1867: How the Fathers Made A Deal," and other works by me and by other writers, my presentation links curriculum topics on Canadian history to my work and to students' own lives. I always try to link our personal histories and family origins to link our own lives to Canadian history. For younger audiences, the theme is often stories, characters, places; for older students I often take up themes of democracy, rights, and the Canadian tradition of how we govern ourselves.
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Attock on Friday to inaugurate the Hassan Abdal Railway Station, which has been renovated and reconstructed after 127 years.
At the inauguration event, PM Imran Khan was briefed about the various facilities installed for the passengers' convenience.
Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed accompanied the premier.
Earlier today, Rashid had reviewed the arrangements ahead of the premier's visit to inaugurate the Hassan Abdal Railway Station, the reconstruction of which cost Rs300 million.
The British-era railway station has been upgraded to a two-storey structure, with 24,502 square feet of covered area. The boundary of the railway station covering a total area of 101,610 square feet, including passengers' facilities, was also improved.
In a briefing, Divisional Superintendent (DS) Railways Syed Munawar Shah apprised the railways minister of facilities at the new structure.
Water plants and a new tube well have been constructed to provide clean and cold water to the passengers, while a 300 KV generator was installed for uninterrupted power supply at the Hassan Abdal Railway Station, Shah told Rashid.
A canteen and a cafe were set up near the waiting area, he added.
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Cooking Time: Soak the chickpeas overnight. Then preparation of around 45 minutes, plus at half of resting time before serving.
Start a day before, by washing the chickpeas well and placing them in a large bowl. Cover them with cold water, at least twice their volume, and leave to soak overnight.
The next day, drain the chickpeas. Place a medium saucepan on a high heat, before adding the drained chickpeas and the bicarbonate of soda. Cook for about 3 minutes, stirring constantly to coat the chickpeas in the bicarbonate of soda. Add 1.5 litres of fresh water and bring to a boil. Cook, skimming off any foam and skins that float to the surface. The chickpeas will take anywhere between 20 and 40 minutes, depending on size and freshness. You can judge they are done by pressing a chickpea between your thumb and finger – it should be tender and break up easily, and only just mushy.
Drain the chickpeas and place in the bowl of a food processor. You should have roughly 600 g now. Process until you get a stiff paste; then, with the machine still running add the tahini paste, lemon juice, garlic, and 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt. Finally, slowly drizzle in the iced water. Allow to mix for around 5 minutes, until you get a very smooth and creamy paste. Add extra lemon juice, tahini and salt as needed if you are not adding the lemon sauce. I also unconventionally add a touch of pepper to the mix.
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While waiting for your hummus to rest, combine the ingredients for your lemon sauce in a small bowl. Divide your hummus into serving dishes, leaving a slight hollow in the centre. Scatter the reserved chickpeas on top, and drizzle generously with lemon sauce. Garnish with chopped parsley and toasted pine nuts.


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Powys è una area amministrativa principale ed una contea preservata del Galles.

Geografia fisica
La contea confina a nord con il Gwynedd, il Denbighshire ed il distretto unitario di Wrexham; a est con le contee inglesi di Shropshire e di Herefordshire; a sud con Rhondda Cynon Taff, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly (distretto unitario), Blaenau Gwent ed il Monmouthshire; ad ovest con il Ceredigion ed il Carmarthenshire.

Il territorio della contea è prevalentemente montuoso. La parte occidentale è attraversata da nord a sud dalla catena dei monti Cambrici. La maggior parte della contea è drenata da fiumi che scendono verso le valli del versante orientale. Il nord è drenato dal fiume Severn e dall'Efyrnwy che formano nel nord-est della contea un'ampia vallata. Il fiume Dyfi che scorre nella parte centrale della contea verso occidente sfocia nella baia di Cardigan con un ampio estuario. Il confine del Powys passa proprio all'imbocco del Dyfi nel suo estuario.
I principali fiumi del sud della contea sono il Wye e l'Usk. A sud si elevano i rilievi montuosi della catena delle Brecon Beacons, che raggiungono gli 886 metri con il Pen y Fan, e delle Black Mountains (Y Mynyddoedd Duon). Al confine settentrionale si eleva la catena delle Berwyn.
L'area delle Brecon Beacons è protetta da un parco nazionale.

La contea è scarsamente popolata ed i centri principali sono posti nelle valli. La sede amministrativa è Llandrindod Wells. Altri centri di una certa importanza sono: Welshpool, Montgomery, Builth Wells, Presteigne, Knighton, Llanwrtyd Wells, Brecon, Hay-on-Wye, Llanidloes, Newtown e Rhayader.

Storia

Amministrazione
La contea è nata nel 1974 in attuazione del Local Government Act del 1972. Essa copre il territorio che era stato parte delle contee di Montgomeryshire e Radnorshire, la maggior parte del Brecknockshire e una piccola parte del Denbighshire. Il nome della contea trae origine dal regno di Powys che occupava la parte centro-settentrionale dell'attuale contea. Inizialmente la contea controllava i distretti di Montgomery, Radnor e Brecknock ma nel 1996 i distretti sono stati aboliti ed il Powys è divenuto una Unitary Authority amministrata da un consiglio di contea che ha sede a Llandrindod Wells ed è costituito dai rappresentanti dei 73 ward che lo compongono.

Oggi la contea, dal punto di vista dell'ordine pubblico, fa riferimento alla Dyfed-Powys Police.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
Agen Allwedd, grotte
Abercraf, con il vicino castello Craig-y-Nos, in cui morì la cantante lirica Adelina Patti.
Black Mountains, catena di colline. Bruce Chatwin vi ambientò il romanzo del 1982 Sulla collina nera (On The Black Hill).
Brecknock Museum, a Brecon
Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog in gallese), catena montuosa protetta da un parco nazionale.
Brecon Caer Roman Fort
Castell Du, a Sennybridge
Castello di Montgomery, a Montgomery.
Celtica exhibition, a Machynlleth
Centro per la tecnologia alternativa, a Machynlleth
Cwmmhir Abbey, abbazia cistercense in rovina situata nel villaggio di Abbeycwmhir
Elan Valley, valle del fiume Elan con numerosi laghi artificiali.
Hay-on-Wye, villaggio sul confine con l'Inghilterra soprannominato la "città dei libri" per le sue numerosissime librerie. Ospita annualmente un festival letterario.
Lago di Llangorse, il secondo lago naturale più grande del Galles, nel Parco nazionale di Brecon Beacons.
Llanidloes Museum, a Llanidloes
Llandrindod Wells Museum, a Llandrindod Wells
Llangammarch Wells, località termale
Maesllwch Castle, nei dintorni di Glasbury
Museo tessile di Newtown
Ogof Draenen (gallese per Hawthorn Cave), grotte di  di lunghezza.
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu (gallese per Grotta della primavera nera), grotte a oltre 300 metri di profondità e lunghe .
Ogof y Daren Cilau, grotte
Ogof Craig a Ffynnon, grotte di  di lunghezza
Powis Castle, castello nei dintorni di Welshpool
Powysland Museum, a Welshpool
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, ferrovia storica di .
Radnor Forest, area di bellezze naturali nell'ovest della contea.
Riserva naturale del lago artificiale di Vyrnwy.
Tretower Castle
The Welsh National Cycle Route
The Wye Valley Walk, sentiero di  da Chepstow a Rhayader.
Ystradfellte, villaggio delle Brecon Beacons noto per le sue cascate
Offa's Dyke Path, sentiero di  lungo il confine con l'Inghilterra.

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Altri progetti

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A shortstop on De Anza College's baseball team has announced his splash commitment to a highly touted baseball program. Riki Desa, 20, shortstop, communications major, decided that he will commit to Long Beach State, to continue his illustrious baseball career.
As Desa gets set for the next chapter in his life, he explained his process, and how it was straight forward. "Coaches would contact me, and try to sell me on their school, but I was already set on Long Beach State," said Desa.
Long Beach State has produced many MLB talents throughout their history, as players like former AL MVP Jason Giambi and former all-stars Troy Tulowizki & Evan Longoria have gone through Long Beach State to the pros.
Raich said that Riki can play any defensive position on the field.
"Desa was our shortstop, but when he came back from a index finger injury, we put him in the outfield and he made plays," Raich said.
Raich has a connection with Desa that goes back to Desa's 8th grade year, in travel ball leagues. And when he found out that Desa had no offers coming out of high school, he brought him to the baseball program at De Anza.
Raich always saw a great potential in the smaller Desa, standing at 5 feet, 10 inches tall. "Riki has a toughness to him that is very underrated, to go with a very high baseball IQ … and can be a very tough out when batting at the plate," Raich said.
Although Desa says he improves his game by watching slow-motion videos of MLB players swings, his biggest influences come from within his family.
'When I was younger, my grandfather would play catch with me, and he made the game fun for me," Desa said.
Since moving to San Jose, Desa's inspiration has been his dad, Dean, who would go to his high school and practice with him by having him field ground balls and do batting practice.
Desa has professional running through his blood, with his grandfather having pitched for multiple teams in the Japanese Baseball League. And as Desa enters Long Beach in the fall, he follows in the footsteps of multiple MLB stars in his journey to make it to the pros.


RAFA BENITEZ says Chelsea's task will be less complicated than it will be for Swansea City in tomorrow nights Capital One Cup semi-final.
RAFA BENITEZ says Chelsea's task will be less complicated than it will be for Swansea City in tomorrow nights Capital One Cup semi-final.
The Blues start the second leg 2-0 down after a dreadful night at Stamford Bridge a fortnight ago, in which two glaring errors by Branislav Ivanovic proved costly.
Chelsea's interim boss agrees the hosts will be favourites to advance to the final at Wembley, but is confident his side can reproduce the same kind of results achieved in other away games of late - the four and five goal bonanzas at Leeds, Southampton and Stoke.
"For us, I think it is easier than for [Swansea boss] Michael Laudrup," Benitez said ahead of what will be the start of a run of four away games in a row.
Benitez added: "Obviously it's not easy, but we did it before in other stadiums and we have confidence that we can do it.
"We will play against a good team, but if you remember the first leg, there were a lot of chances and we made two mistakes. Now, we have to manage the situation, but our games away are quite good, so we are confident.
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Discussion in 'Current Affairs' started by mmm....shiney!, Dec 7, 2017.
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Stoic Phoenix said: ↑
Rebecca comes across as a melodramatic and unimaginative twit based on the above.
Yes, in the feminist world comments such as Rebecca West's pass as insight or a depth of understanding.
mmm....shiney!, Dec 28, 2017
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In July, Yiannopoulos set out to sue Simon & Schuster for $10m for breach of contract. As part of the case, Simon & Schuster have submitted documents that reveal the problems they had with the book. Among other criticisms, the publisher's notes say Yiannopoulos needed a "stronger argument against feminism than saying that they are ugly and sexless and have cats" and that another chapter needs "a better central thesis than the notion that gay people should go back in the closet".
In addition to the documents, a full copy of an early manuscript of the book, complete with the Simon & Schuster editor Mitchell Ivers's notes, is available to download from the New York state courts' website.
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fb...cumentId=VhVQNjyOxzgx32b52YsZJg==&system=prod
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...tors-notes-on-milo-yiannopoulos-book-revealed
JulieW, Dec 28, 2017
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Julie please tell me that your not avoiding dealing with the quotes put forward by the feminist you support because you also believe that all men should die?
Thats just plain crazy and is as close to inciting gender based violence as you can get short of actually attacking someone because of their gender
serial, Dec 28, 2017
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At JulieW, re: The Guardian (aka The Font of All That Is Wrong), I see we're moving on from being offended on behalf of women back to something of substance. Good.
Value is subjective.
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mmm....shiney! said: ↑
That's why feminism has now become obsolete. Women have the same economic, social and political rights as men.
At the risk of making myself look like a bit of a soft feminist, I don't think that having the same legal rights doesn't necessarily mean the same practical day-to-day freedoms for the average woman versus the average man.
Fear of personal safety is probably the easiest example, especially when I see the way girls act when they go out for a night on the town (or even just going out jogging) versus the way the boys act. In general, the guys don't have to worry anywhere near as much about getting their drink spiked or getting physically attacked in a vastly unequal situation. It is irrelevant if the legal penalties are the same, the different risks are enough to significantly change behaviours. Even with access to personal defence tools like pepper sprays etc, I think there are still enough biological differences that there will always be enduring differences (e.g. key hormones like testosterone are naturally present in higher levels in men and can be released faster generally allowing for a quicker capacity for short, sharp violent action compared to women who's levels build up and dissipate more gradually).
Now, I am not in any way suggesting that men have it "easier" than women in all situations, just that there are certain areas of life where interactions between the sexes can still result in "soft" dominance of one sex over the other even though they both have the same economic, social and political rights. How we recognise and deal with these situations is an area worthy of discussion but is complicated by the large variation of people within each sex and regularly overlapping of the distributions.
bordsilver, Dec 29, 2017
Geez bordie, Canberra has been rubbing off on you mate.
bordsilver said: ↑
Precisely, none of which need nor can only be solved by a gender exclusive political, social or economic theory with its solution resting upon lobbying the State for preferential treatment for females at the expense of the whole of society.
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I'll defend her serial. After all, that's what men are supposed to do and have been doing since the dawn of time.
I don't think Ford hates men. Just as Milo doesn't hate black people because he's married to one, Ford doesn't hate men because she's also married to one. Bit difficult in my books to fall in love with someone from a race or gender you hate.
It's a ploy to attract attention and engage the media in women's rights issues. She's probably sick and tired of repeating the whole rationale for her position (I share that feeling with her) so instead, she just relies on the big moment tweets to keep the momentum going. Beyond the first sentence a feminist utters ie "I think women should have the same social, economic and political rights", there's really not much more substance to feminism so she has to tweet controversial statements.
Of course Twitter being the left-wing mouthpiece it is tolerates Clementine doing it but bans Milo.
Clearly you didnt read her quote. She essentially says ANY time she says anything at all she is called a feminist.
Thats not melodramatic? If thats considered insightful clearly her followers are even bigger twits than she is.
Such broadsweeping statements as per that quote show no understanding as you profess.
Just another triggered muppet is what she is followed by muppets.
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JulieW said: ↑
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
- Rebecca West.
If Rebecca thinks she is competing with opinionated doormats then it may be time for post 57 ... a little zap zap might be just what the doctor ordered ...
systematic, Dec 29, 2017
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@JulieW, you don't think highly of Milo and you've made it known to all your dislike of Hilary, but I'm starting to question your ability to judge character because you are clearly out of touch:
Former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democrat who wanted to become the nation's first female president, once again topped Gallup's poll as the man and woman living anywhere in the world that Americans most admire. This is the 16th consecutive year Clinton has held the title of most admired woman — she has topped the poll 22 times, more times than anyone else.
https://patch.com/us/across-america/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-again-top-gallup-most-admired-poll
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Wow. Apart from recognising her named based on a few newspaper articles that I'd read that clearly displayed her left leaning, I had no idea that she was so seriously deranged.
She really shouldn't be given any kind of platform. Apparently, according to a quick google search she was even paid to speak at a school and refused to take questions from males.
Edit to say this was in reference to C.Ford.
ParanoidAndroid, Dec 29, 2017
Don't let it annoy you, she thrives on what she calls "whining men" and "male tears".
What's disturbing is that Twitter banned Milo, yet doesn't seem to have a problem with her rhetoric. It's the left-wing double standard that Milo talks about.
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I think you're right. I'm getting to like you!
Stoic Phoenix Well-Known Member Silver Stacker
No - misread of whom posted what looking at it on a phone sorry. I thought Julie posted it in seriousness as opposed to you in jest.
Stoic Phoenix, Dec 29, 2017
Well we've got something in common then.
Looks like a date.
Fish and chips on mmm.. shiney.
The deluded conviction that we communicate?
Date cancelled.
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Would never have ended well anyway PA, before the fish was even crumbed Shiney would have said something Julie disagreed with and her socks would have been off and thrown in his face quickly followed by any cat within arms length.
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Milo will be representing himself in the Supreme Court case against S&S. Apparently because certain documents were made for attorneys eyes only, so he has been unable to see them, only his attorneys can. Now that he will be representing himself he will have direct access to them, and will be able to respond more appropriately.
mmm....shiney!, Jan 9, 2018
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After more than a month of speculation, Lithium Technologies, an online community and social engagement platform provider, officially announced Thursday that it will acquire Klout, which scores influence on social networks.
Though financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, it has been widely reported that the purchase price was $200 million.
Klout, which was founded in 2008 by Joe Fernandez and Binh Tran, provides registered users with a Klout score from one to 100 based on their ability to spread messages across social networks. Brands can use the service to identify individuals who could amplify messages about their products or services.
According to Fernandez, who appeared alongside Lithium CEO Rob Tarkoff at a press conference in San Francisco to announce the purchase, Klout started with Twitter and quickly expanded to other social networks, Wikipedia, and several other sites. The company reportedly delivers Klout data more than 50 billion times per month.
Together, Lithium and Klout now become the "single source of trusted content from trusted people," Tarkoff said. "The acquisition," he said "brings the relationship to CRM" and "bridges the gap" between customer service and marketing on social media.
Tarkoff said further that Lithium and Klout together will bring "shared value for brands and consumers." Together, the two companies reach more than 500 million consumers across 10,000 specific interest areas and 300 branded communities.
"Customer profiles are the next big battleground in delivering a continuum of customer experiences in a digital world," said Ray Wang, principal analyst and founder of Constellation Research, in a statement. "It's about knowing who is valuable, trusted, and credible. The combination of profiles with an engagement platform will provide a powerful combination for customers."
Fernandez, meanwhile, assured current customers that Klout's mission will not change under Lithium: "It will maintain a brand and destination. We will keep evolving it with the assets that the combined company now has."
Tarkoff said the acquisition allows Klout to add Lithium social communities to its scoring process, which has seen its share of controversy. In 2012, for example, it was revealed that teen idol Justin Bieber had a higher Klout score than President Barack Obama.
According to Fernandez, there are more than 400 factors that go into compiling Klout scores, but it essentially "comes down to how trusted you are and, when you post, do people care."
Paul Greenberg, president of the 56 Group, has had mixed feelings about the company. "While Klout has always been calling itself an influence measure, they have never been able to truly measure influence. That was a misrepresentation," he says. "What they are able to do with some real effectiveness is measure digital engagement over time, which, for companies that are looking to personalize interactions with customers, is a huge plus. The amount of data that Klout gathered as a result, misrepresentation or not, was not just enormous, but incredibly valuable."
Greenberg, though, calls the acquisition "a win-win" in this case. "On the one hand, Lithium can evolve the technology and use the massive data store to have Klout do what it actually does—measure engagement," he says. "On the other hand, this acquisition helps Lithium extend beyond just a community platform because of the tentacles that Klout has extended into the social Web. It puts Lithium into the engagement platform world, which is a gigantic, roiling, and nascent market."
Though Klout had trouble generating revenue in the past, Fernandez claimed that the company's revenue last year hit "double digit millions" for the first time and it was on pace to break even fairly soon.
In the past year or so, Klout has expanded with Klout for Business, a portal intended to offer deeper analytics to brands, as well as content creation aggregation, so users could share articles and posts with their audiences. The company even signed some key integrations to social CRM solutions, including Crimson Hexagon Social Analytics, Genesys Social Engagement, and Badgeville and Simply Measured.
Tarkoff said the acquisition further paves the way for a set of new products that Lithium plans to introduce in May.
In the meantime, Klout will continue to operate out of its San Francisco headquarters and eventually move to the Lithium Technologies offices nearby. Fernandez will join Lithium's executive team and will continue to run Klout as its general manager and a senior vice president at Lithium.


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Archive for December 2nd, 2013
Lamar What?
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HISD's Lamar High School and the NFL's DC franchise have the same mascot. Today the Chron E-Board says it is time for Lamar High to get a new mascot. Check out the E-Board take:
The holiday season is supposed to be a time of generosity and compassion, yet it took a convenient history to celebrate a shared meal between pilgrims and Native Americans while ignoring the bloody underbelly of manifest destiny. That Thanksgiving disconnect becomes all the more obvious when we cheer football mascots that stand on objectification and exploitation of native people.
While the debate continues over the NFL's Washington Redskins, it is time to have that same discussion about Houston's own Lamar Redskins. This wouldn't be the first time that Lamar High School, named after the second president of the Republic of Texas Mirabeau B. Lamar, has faced questions over its mascot name. As Chronicle sports columnist Randy Harvey wrote in October, some students in 1999 unsuccessfully pushed to change the name. According to Capital News Service, 28 high schools in 18 states have dropped the Redskins nickname within the past 25 years. Yet Lamar's name is particularly offensive given that President Lamar's first major act as president was a campaign to slaughter the native tribes in Texas. On its own, "Redskins" is inappropriate, but "Lamar Redskins" is blatantly so.
Society is now shocked by things that seemed acceptable 50 years ago – and vice versa. And in another 50 years there's sure to be a whole new realm of controversial issues to drive social debate. Good people make honest decisions that we now see in a different light. But the fact of the matter is that the Americas were once filled with native tribes and civilizations, all of whom fell at some point to European disease, the march of Western expansion or integration at the barrel of a rifle. We celebrate the friendship between the pilgrims and Indians on Thanksgiving, but rarely mourn when that friendship ended. Instead, we treat these very real people as a mascot. Out of sheer kindness to fellow man, it is time to end that practice.
I am curious to see who is going to step forward and defend the mascot choice. The mascot name is an embarrassment and ought to be canned.
Speaking of best games of all time, when Bill Mazeroski hit his Game 7 World Serious winning dinger over the left field wall in the bottom of the 9th against the Yankees at Forbes Field in 1960, who was in left for the Yankees?
Early Voting in Person starts on Wednesday and Election Day is in twelve days and the last campaign contribution and expenditure reports are due Friday.
I actually was watching the game Saturday and rooting for underdog Auburn. I thought the game was heading to OT and I was trying to remember the OT rules for college football. I tweeted within a minute after the winning TD. Was it the best game of all time? I will say it was the last greatest game ending of all time. After all, running back missed field goals for a TD just doesn't happen.
Yogi Berra of course was in left field for the Yankees and watched Maz's dinger sail over his head.
The Texans have the inside track to the number one draft pick next May. In June the 'Stros will pick first. What a coincidence!


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Home Africa By Region M-Pesa Africa Appoints New Managing Director
M-Pesa Africa Appoints New Managing Director
Jenna Delport
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Safaricom's M-Pesa Africa has appointed Sitoyo Lopokoiyit as its new Managing Director. He is a "mobile financial services expert who has directly managed mobile money in two of the largest markets in the world – Kenya and Tanzania," reveals MyBroadBand.
Lopokoiyit joined Safaricom in 2011 as head of M-Pesa strategy and business development. He then went on to Vodacom Tanzania in 2016 where he worked as the director of m-commerce, before re-joining Safaricom in 2018.
Kenyan Senators Call for Safaricom to Split
Senators in Kenya believe that Safaricom should split into two firms – Mobile Services and M-PESA. According to The Star, a split would see the mobile telephony service is regulated by the Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) and the M-Pesa division regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).
A recent report by TechWeez revealed that senators believe there should be a level playing ground for the likes of Telkom and Airtel Kenya who operate at the mercy of Safaricom as they owe it billions of shillings.
"The market is not competitive any more. The other operators should be allowed to operate, by giving the dominant operator its right, but also allowing the others to operate, and allow innovation in the country," says Senator Petronilla Were of the ICT committee.
Senator Irungu Kang'ata echoed this sentiment, saying "in Kenya, you have a situation where one single player dictates how much you are going to pay for data bundles, for calls and Short Message Service because it controls almost 90 per cent of the market".
"In such a situation, I do not foresee any other entity growing. We are not going to create more jobs and innovation in that industry because of the dominance of one entity."
Senator Enock Wambua urged Safaricom to confirm whether it is a communication company or a banking institution. "I would suggest that Safaricom is split into two. Safaricom the communication company, regulated by the Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK), and the M-Pesa division regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya."
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I expect this is a simple problem but I'm stuck loading my new plugin. I am developing on OS X.
I have written a plugin to dynamically extend functionality in my application, following the EchoWindowPlugin example provided by QT. The application compiles and the plugin compiles. However, my application does not seem to load the plugin.
Both are compiled in debug mode.
I have checked and I am looking in the correct directory and the pluginLoader constructor gets passed my plugin ReactionServerPlugin_debug.dylib but the 'plugin' QObject pointer is still null. What am I missing?
You should set the QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS environnement variable to 1 and re-run your application. You'll get more information about what is happening.
So somehow my plugin is not properly set up.
It all compiles, as per the dylib file. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
under the class definition ?
I do have the Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE .
The only thing I can find that is wrong in my plugin is that I get a warning that reactionsserver.plugin.json doesn't hold a valid json object. But I don't know how that would influence whether or not my plugin is a valid plugin.
I also got that message as far as i can recall but it still loaded.
Can you show the json ?
Granted, I haven't figured out what is wrong with this structure as I didn't think this would be source of my error.
Might be silly but I wonder if it's because you have two dots in your file name.
Again might be silly but did you try to lint your json file ? Might have a stray char somewhere that's messing things up.
@SGaist So it turns out that this file is optional. I removed it from the Q_PLUGIN_METADATA declaration and that seemed to resolve the warning. Now everything compiles and the dylib loads.


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New car, never opened or displayed.
I am glad I finally managed to track this model down and buy it. Auto Art makes very good 1/18 scale model cars and this Forty-Nine Concept is no exception. The paint finish is very good and the detailing of the interior impressive. The chrome wheels appear to be well cast and the opening features help to make this model quite entertaining.


A clash broke out today in the Bwari Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as the Hausas and the ethnic residents of the area, the Gbagyis were at each other's necks.
Cars, houses, shops and the main market in the Bwari area were all burnt and/or vandalised in the ensuing melee.
One person has also been confirmed dead, with many others injured.
While confirming the incident to newsmen via a telephone call, the Police Public Relations Officer, FCT Police Command, DSP Anjuguri Manzah said security operatives have been deployed to the area and order has now prevailed.
He, however, said the cause of the clash is yet to be ascertained with investigations in full swing.
DSP Manzah said: "Our men rushed to the scene and are still on ground. The cause of the clash is not yet known but investigation has commenced.


"I don't think anyone expected a year like 2012 in English football. 2011 certainly finished with a bang that only seemed to snowball during the next calendar year. Players, clubs, fans, National Associations, the English FA and even the anti-racism campaigns were called in to question in one way or another.
"Personally, I thought the FA's coming to the defence of Danny Rose was every bit as strong and commendable as the Serbian fans actions were deplorable. For too long, black players have been subject to such abuse with little support from the game's highest authorities. But then, I also thought they needed to be stronger in dealing with their own.
"The result was a backlash from a number of black players throughout the league, the unfortunate and unwitting recipients being those initiatives which champion equality but are funded by the FA and Premier League. The discussions that followed and continue, I believe, will change the game for the better. An equality of voice and representation was missing. Satellite organisations were proposed, and maybe considered, though I don't think that is the right path. The solutions may not be easily found.


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Tag Archives for " FitMum "
Dad snaps a photo of mom of six 'breastercising'
There's a photo of a mother of six doing squats while breastfeeding circulating around the internet right now. I don't think I've ever felt as lazy as I do in this moment.
Sharny Kieser gave birth to her sixth child two weeks ago — and she's already squatting like the pro that she is. Of course, because moms can literally never do anything without the internet weighing in about their parenting choices, she's being judged for everything from not paying full attention to her children, to exercising too soon, to showing off.
Just seems way to self obsessed for my liking! Is it a lack of self confidence or a total "have to be skinny/ perfect thing. I'm sorry , but you put it out there to be judged. I'll have to unlike your page so that I don't have to be unkind.
Really! Breast feeding while exercising? I breastfeed my 3 children and felt that they deserved all my time and energy whether it be in public or private… We are/were all busy mums but I think our children deserve us to be completely in the moment with them.
I honestly don't understand why it's necessary to exercise whilst breastfeeding? Is it even comfortable? Can you concentrate on doing the exercise properly?
"I feed six times a day, I'm not exercising every time and when I do I'm also watching the kids ride around on their scooters and play outside," Sharny told the Daily Mail. It's not like I'm running or leg pressing or doing weights, I'm doing squats and lunges as they are the easiest things to do while feeding…then at night we sit quietly and feed.
Her kids look happy and healthy and she definitely looks the same. There's nothing in these images but a loving family having some fun with fitness. Cool your jets, internet.
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Sharny Squats whilst Breastfeeding
Breastercising Stirs Debate
A proud husband's photo of his wife working out has sparked controversy on Facebook because it shows the mother-of-six doing lunges while simultaneously breastfeeding in a maneuver that he hashtagged, #breastercising.
"I caught Sharny multitasking today. In public. #breastercising," Julius Kieser, an Australian personal trainer, wrote on Facebook in a caption of the image posted Jan. 26, revealing his wife exercising while nursing their 2-week-old son, Magnus. "I don't get the whole breastfeeding in public problem. It's not disgusting at all."
This Photo of a Mom "Breastercising" Has Been Met With a Collective Internet Eye Roll
"I caught Sharny multitasking today in public. #breastercising," her husband, Julius Kieser, an Australian personal trainer, wrote on Facebook.
In the pic, Sharny Kieser, who is also a trainer, is nursing their two-week-old son, Magnus.
"I don't get the whole breastfeeding in public problem. It's not disgusting at all," her husband writes in the caption.
Despite his comment, it's not where Sharny is breastfeeding that their Facebook followers are taking issue with. It's the fact that she's not living in the moment. Or YOLOing, so to speak.
"Cut the multitasking crap for 10 [minutes] and enjoy the one on one time with your child," one commenter wrote. "We are/were all busy moms but I think our children deserve us to be completely in the moment with them."
Another added, "I honestly don't understand why it's necessary to exercise whilst breastfeeding? Is it even comfortable? Can you concentrate on doing the exercise properly?" The last time I checked, doing lunges didn't require a great deal of thinking, but then again, I can't recall the last time I did a lunge.
Sharny, 35, replied, "A lot of people think it's gross or strange or that I should be bonding with Magnus, but I feed six times a day, I'm not exercising every time and when I do I'm also watching the kids ride around on their scooters and play outside," Sharny told the Daily Mail.
"It's not like I'm running or leg pressing or doing weights. I'm doing squats and lunges as they are the easiest things to do while feeding," she added. "Then at night we sit quietly and feed."
The self-proclaimed "fit mom" (though we're not arguing with her descriptor), wrote the Healthy Junk cookbook after she lost the nearly 70 pounds she gained after having her first three kids.
"I felt like a terrible mother, and that it was just going to be this way forever until something externally changed for me," Sharny wrote on her website, describing her (very natural) weight gain.
"After the previous four pregnancies I was overweight and I had this 'enough is enough' moment," she told Daily Mail.
"I looked at myself in the mirror and was like oh my God who has eaten Sharny? I felt like this fat old woman and that's how I saw myself… it was all in my head but I just felt miserable."
After she gave birth to her fourth child, she says something snapped. She was ready to get in shape.
"Walking, squatting and doing things makes me feel better and feel good...with Hugo, my fifth child, I waited a few months before exercising again and it was much harder," she said.
"If I wait less time I bounce back faster and it also helps with post natal depression."
"With my other babies, I think I stopped exercising because I was scared that I'd hurt the baby or myself or miscarriage, so I just stopped completely," she said. "By the time I'd fallen pregnant with my fifth baby I realized I'd be fine, so I just went for it to see what I was capable of."
Now she says, she absolutely loves working out, so, haters be damned, if this is how she finds the time to get a squat in, then leave this woman be.


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Dynamical mean field theory studies on heavy fermion system
E6-2, #1323
2015/12/11, 3:45PM
Dr. Ji Hun Sim (POSTECH)
Dec. 11 (Fri.), 15:45 PM, E6-2. 1st fl. #1323
Dr. Ji Hun Sim, POSTECH
In f electron-based heavy fermion compounds, the temperature dependent behavior of the f electron is determined by the competition between Kondo effect and RKKY interaction. The f electron's magnetic moments bind to the itinerant quasiparticles to form composite heavy quasiparticle bands at low temperature to produce a large Fermi surface. When the f electrons are localized free moments, a small Fermi surface is induced with the absence of coherent contribution from f electrons. In the dynamical mean field theory approach of Ce-based heavy fermion compounds, we addressed that the Fermi surface sizes and their effective masses show continuous logarithmic scaling behavior (~ ln(T0/T)) with different characteristic temperatures.[1,2] Under the pressure or chemical doping, the temperature scale can be changed which is related to the movement of the quantum critical point.[3,4] Also, the role of crystalline electric field (CEF) to the spectral function has been investigated in YbRh2Si2 with well-defined CEF splitting. We describe the CEF multiplet Kondo resonance peaks similar to recent experimental observation [5] and suggest that the CEF effect enhances the localization of the Yb ions under pressure.[6] We will also discuss the temperature evolution of Kondo resonance band observed in topological Kondo insulator such as SmB6 and YbB6.[7]
[1] H. C. Choi et al, Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 016402 (2012).
[2] H. C. Choi et al, Phys. Rev. B, 88, 125111 (2013).
[3] J. H. Shim et al, Science 318, 1615 (2007).
[4] S. Seo et al, Nat. Commun. 6, 6433 (2015).
[5] S. Ernst et al., Nature (London) 474, 362 (2011).
[6] O. Trovarelli et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 626 (2000).
[7] J. Denlinger et al., arXiv:1312.6637
Contact: Heung Sun Sim, Physics Dept., (hs_sim@kaist.ac.kr)
62	 Apr. 08 (Fri.), 4:00 PM E6-2. 5st fl. #1501 Dr. Changyoung Kim, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIV. Spectroscopic studies of iron-based superconductors : what have we learned?
61	 Apr. 08 (Fri.), 13:30 PM E6-2. 1st fl. #1501 Dr. Yunkyu Bang, Chonnam National Univ. Theoretical Overview of Iron-based superconductors and its future
60	 Apr. 5 (Tue.), 4PM E6-2. 1st fl. #1322 Dr. Ara Go, Columbia University A new impurity solver for multi-orbital systems: adaptive truncation of the Hilbert space
59	 Apr. 01 (Fri.) 4:15 PM E6-2. 1st fl. #1501 Dr. JONG SOO LIM, KIAS Cotunneling drag effect in Coulomb-coupled quantum dots
58	 Apr. 01 (Fri.) 2:30 PM E6-2. 1st fl. #1501 Dr. KICHEON KANG, Chonnam National University Interference of single charged particles without a loop and dynamic nonlocality
57	 April 6, 2016 (Wed), 3:30 PM E6-2, RM #1323 Dr. Andrei Matlashov (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices for Precision Detection
56	 April 4, 2016 (Mon) - April 8, 2016 (Fri) KAIST Natural Science Building (E6-2), RM #4314 Dr. Fritz Caspers (CERN) Radio frequency engineering
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43	 2015/12/02, 4PM E6-2, #1323 Dr. Dae-Jeong Kim (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine) Samarium Hexaboride: Is it a Topological insulator?


Create a Halloween GeoMesh™ Lamp Bow to dress up any outdoor light fixture this fall.
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Step 2: Beginning with the black, layer the Offray GeoMesh™ alternating between black and orange.
Step 3: At one end, begin pinching the middle of the Offray GeoMesh™ to create pleating.
Step 4: Secure with wire and fluff out each layer of Offray GeoMesh™.
Step 5: Use the purple GeoMesh™ to create a loop bow with tails and attach it to the center of the larger black and orange bow. Secure with wire.
Step 6: Wrap wire ends around an outdoor lamp to secure your bow in place for the season.


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Q: How to return a list on different lines in python? Right now, my codes output is ['I love mac and cheese', ' cheese', 'se'], how would I change it so that the output would be a string and appear on different lines so
"I love mac and cheese (first line)
cheese (second line)
se (third line)
. This is the output when the user inputs .369 for fraction and I love mac and cheese for sentence
def echo(a,b, count):
    newlen = int(len(b)*a)
    if newlen > 0:
        count+=1
        return [b] + echo(a,b[-newlen:], count)
    else:
        count+=1
        print("Number of echos: ", count)
        return [b]

def main():
    count=0
    f=float(input("Enter the fraction"))
    sentence=input("Enter the sentence")
    print(echo(f,sentence, count))

main()

A: Use the str.join() method with new-line.
>>> a = ['some text', 'some other text', 'some more']
>>> print(a)
['some text', 'some other text', 'some more']
>>> print('\n'.join(a))
some text
some other text
some more
>>>

A: Try the following. Assuming you have successfully achieved the right sentence...
sentence = ["I love mac and cheese", "cheese", "se"]
for item in sentence:
    print(item)
    # If you want a newline character between each item:
    # print("\n") \n is the python syntax for a newline

A: You can simply assign the return of your echo function to a list, then iterate over that list printing the elements.
def main():
    count = 0
    f = float(input("Enter the fraction"))
    sentence = input("Enter the sentence")
    results = echo(f, sentence, count)
    for line in results:
        print(line)

Results in:
Enter the fraction.369
Enter the sentenceI love mac and cheese
Number of echos:  3
I love mac and cheese
 cheese
se

A: You can store the list returned by the echo method in a variable and use a for loop to print out the contents separately.
results=echo(f,sentence, count)

for result in results:
    print(result)

A: Got it, I think.
So, the key is to is to understand when you are returning back to the outside world, i.e. to print.  The item to watch is count, because it's at 1 right before that.
def echo(frac,b, count):
    newlen = int(len(b)*frac)
    if newlen > 0:
        count+=1
        #`count` is going to go up for the inner, recursive, calls
        res = [b] + echo(frac,b[-newlen:], count)

        if count == 1:
            #back to the caller.
            return "\n".join(res)
        else:
            #nope, this a recursive call, leave as list of strings.
            return res
    else:
        count+=1
        print("Number of echos: ", count)
        if count == 1:
            return b
        else:
            return [b]

def main():
    count=0
    f= .369 # float(input("Enter the fraction"))
    sentence="I love mac and cheese" #input("Enter the sentence")
    print(echo(f,sentence, count))

main()

output:
Number of echos:  3
I love mac and cheese
 cheese
se

In a way, it helps if instead of count you think of as is as level or depth and understand that it tracks how deep in the recursions you are.  Nice question - I always struggle with recursion exits and this is a nice trick to know, tracking levels.
Also, if you had a short sentence or a very small fraction, you might not hit newlen > 0 even once.  Your code should allow for that in your else branch and return the "\n".join([b]).
without having to recurse because of small fraction:
    f= .01 # float(input("Enter the fraction"))
    sentence="I love mac and cheese" #input("Enter the sentence")

output:
Number of echos:  1
I love mac and cheese


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Q: MalformedURLException in java application i wrote a simple program which is in my book.
but i'm getting the MalformedURLException exception.This is my code
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class ImageGreet{
    public static void main(String []args){
        URL imageLocation = new URL("http://horstmann.com/java4everyone/duke.gif");
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Hello","Title",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,new ImageIcon(imageLocation));
    }
}

but my friend said he got it right with the same code.
what's wr9ong with my code? Is it because of the internet connection(I'm using a dial-up connection)
I

A: Java uses the concept of checked Exceptions. You need to put this code inside a try/catch block, since it is bound to throw a MalformedURLException. Something like
URL imageLocation = null;
try {
    imageLocation = new URL("http://horstmann.com/java4everyone/duke.gif");
} catch (MalformedURLException mue) {
    mue.printStackTrace();
}

Or let the main method throws the Exception like :
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class ImageGreet{
    public static void main(String []args) throws MalformedURLException {
        URL imageLocation = new URL("http://horstmann.com/java4everyone/duke.gif");
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Hello","Title",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,new ImageIcon(imageLocation));
    }
}

A: catch the MalformedURLException using try and catch block
 try {
    URL imageLocation = new URL("http://horstmann.com/java4everyone/duke.gif");
     JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Hello","Title",
JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,new        ImageIcon(imageLocation));
    }
    catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        // new URL() failed
        // ...
    }

A: Your internet connection would not cause that Exception. (If your URL did not exist, Java would throw an IOException, probably a FileNotFoundException, per URLConnection documentation.) In fact, your code isn't throwing an Exception at all! What you're seeing is a compile error:
$ javac ImageGreet.java
ImageGreet.java:7: error: unreported exception MalformedURLException; must be caught or  declared to be thrown
        URL imageLocation = new URL("http://horstmann.com/java4everyone/duke.gif");
                            ^
1 error

When Java tries to turn your program from source code into machine code, it finds a problem, so it stops and asks you to fix it. Your code hasn't run yet -- Java's warning you that there's a problem with your program's source code. (If you're running an IDE, this will show up in a "problems" pane, as opposed to an error message from javac.)
The issue is that you need to catch the MalformedURLException in your code, or declare that main throws MalformedURLException. For example:
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class ImageGreet{
    public static void main(String []args) throws MalformedURLException {
        URL imageLocation=new URL("http://horstmann.com/java4everyone/duke.gif");
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Hello","Title",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,new ImageIcon(imageLocation));
    }
}

Note that I've added throws MalformedURLException to the end of your main method, which is the latter of the solutions I suggested above. That tells Java that your main method may propagate an Exception of type MalformedURLException.

A: Since Java has checked exception you have to add throws MalformedURLException to your methods header or you have to write the method logic inside try/catch blocks.