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<?php
namespace PF\EnApi\Command;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;

class Consumption extends Command
{
    protected function configure()
    {
        $this
            ->setName('en:consumption')
            ->setDescription('Get consumption values')
            ->addArgument(
                'customerNo',
                InputArgument::REQUIRED,
                'Your customer number'
            )
            ->addArgument(
                'pin',
                InputArgument::REQUIRED,
                'Your login pin code'
            )
            ->addOption(
               'resolution',
               null,
               InputArgument::OPTIONAL,
               'Show comsumption by hour, day, month or year?',
               'day'
            )
        ;
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $customerNo = $input->getArgument('customerNo');
        $pin = $input->getArgument('pin');

        $resolutions = array(
            'hour' => 1,
            'day' => 2,
            'month' => 3,
            'year' => 4
        );

        if(!array_key_exists($input->getOption('resolution'), $resolutions)) {
            throw new \Exception(sprintf('Unknown resolution %s', $resolution));
        }

        $resolution = $resolutions[$input->getOption('resolution')];

        $cc = new \PF\EnApi\Com\JsonApi($customerNo, $pin);
        $cc->setResolution($resolution);
        $response = $cc->getConsumption();

        foreach($response->HentForbrugResult->ReturnData as $entry) {
            print date('Y-m-d', substr($entry->Key, 6, 10)) . ' : ' . $entry->Value . ' kwh' . PHP_EOL;
        }
    }
}

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Q: df.drop_duplicates python Running into some difficulty trying to drop correct duplicates from a dataframe.
I have the following example:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

test = {'date': ['2012-10-12 10:10:10', '2012-10-12 10:10:10', '2012-10-19 10:55:10',
        '2012-11-02 16:08:07', '2012-11-02 16:08:07', '2012-12-12 23:45:21', '2012-12-12 23:45:21'],
        'value' : [123, '', 324, '', '', '', 321],}

df = pd.DataFrame(data=test)

The output can be seen below:
                  date value
0  2012-10-12 10:10:10   123
1  2012-10-12 10:10:10
2  2012-10-19 10:55:10   324
3  2012-11-02 16:08:07
4  2012-11-02 16:08:07
5  2012-12-12 23:45:21
6  2012-12-12 23:45:21   321

My desired output after dropping duplicate dates is as shown below:
                  date value
0  2012-10-12 10:10:10   123
2  2012-10-19 10:55:10   324
3  2012-11-02 16:08:07
6  2012-12-12 23:45:21   321

However, my attempts to date have been unsuccessful as shown below:
Attempt 1:-
df = df.drop_duplicates(subset='date')

                  date value
0  2012-10-12 10:10:10   123
2  2012-10-19 10:55:10   324
3  2012-11-02 16:08:07
5  2012-12-12 23:45:21

Attempt 2:-
df = df.drop_duplicates(subset='date', keep='last')

                  date value
1  2012-10-12 10:10:10
2  2012-10-19 10:55:10   324
4  2012-11-02 16:08:07
6  2012-12-12 23:45:21   321

Please can you assist with helping me reach my desired output. Many thanks in advance

A: One approach is to mask the empty strings in the column value, then groupby on date and aggregate using first:
df['value'].mask(df['value'].eq('')).groupby(df['date']).first().fillna('').reset_index()

Alternatively you can mask the empty strings in the column value and assign it to temporary column key, then sort the dataframe on columns date and key, followed by drop_duplicates:
df['key'] = df['value'].mask(df['value'].eq(''))
df.sort_values(['date', 'key']).drop_duplicates('date').drop('key', 1)

Result:
                  date value
0  2012-10-12 10:10:10   123
1  2012-10-19 10:55:10   324
2  2012-11-02 16:08:07
3  2012-12-12 23:45:21   321

A: import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

test = {'date': ['2012-10-12 10:10:10', '2012-10-12 10:10:10', '2012-10-19 10:55:10',
        '2012-11-02 16:08:07', '2012-11-02 16:08:07', '2012-12-12 23:45:21', '2012-12-12 23:45:21'],
        'value' : [123, np.nan, 324,  np.nan,  np.nan,  np.nan, 321],}

This should work out!
df = pd.DataFrame(data=test)
df.sort_values(by = "value", inplace = True)
df = df.drop_duplicates(subset='date')
df = df.replace(np.nan, '', regex=True)
df.sort_index()

Output comes out like below:
        date    value
0   2012-10-12 10:10:10 123
2   2012-10-19 10:55:10 324
3   2012-11-02 16:08:07
6   2012-12-12 23:45:21 321

A: import pandas as pd

test = {'date': ['2012-10-12 10:10:10', '2012-10-12 10:10:10', '2012-10-19 10:55:10',
        '2012-11-02 16:08:07', '2012-11-02 16:08:07', '2012-12-12 23:45:21', '2012-12-12 23:45:21'],
        'value' : [123, '', 324, '', '', '', 321],}

df = pd.DataFrame(data=test)

df["value_not_empty"] = df['value'].map(bool)
df = df.sort_values("value_not_empty")
df = df.drop(columns=["value_not_empty"])
df = df.drop_duplicates('date', keep='last')
df

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After four days of testimony about the shooting death of Marine Cpl. Andre Boone, jurors are expected to hear today from the only witness to the slaying -- Boone's stepfather, the man charged with his murder.
Former Maryland State Trooper James M. Harding will take the stand in his own defense, if he does not change his mind overnight, defense attorney Anthony Covington said yesterday.
Harding admits shooting Boone -- the only homicide in Howard County this year -- but his testimony could be critical as jurors grapple with the central question in the trial: Did Harding fire the fatal blast into Boone's neck in an act of self-defense or murder?
The prosecutors' attempt to prove that Harding had murder on his mind when Boone came to his residence March 21 appeared to suffer a blow yesterday when a former Howard County police officer contradicted the statements of one of the prosecution's principal witnesses.
Sean Mease -- the prosecution's first witness and their key to proving first-degree murder charges -- told jurors that Harding threatened him with a pump-action shotgun earlier in the day that Boone was shot.
But yesterday, Officer Adventino Dasilva -- who was sent to Mease's house after Mease dialed 911 -- testified that Mease told him five times that Harding had never touched the gun or threatened him.
That means the state's witness is contradicted by the state's own agent -- Dasilva. Dasilva said he was told to resign or be fired because it was determined that he was "dishonest" in his report about Mease. Criticism fell on the Howard County Police Department when it was disclosed that police failed to go to Harding's house that day despite Mease's complaint.
Dasilva now works as a police officer in Chevy Chase.
Covington asked Dasilva whether he felt he was fired because his March 21 report "was on the wrong side of the evidence in this case."
"You didn't lie in this report, did you?" Covington asked Dasilva.
The defense also presented evidence yesterday designed to buttress its argument that it was Boone, 23, who was looking for trouble when he came to his stepfather's house that day.
Boone's friend and former Marine supervisor, Cpl. Darelle Joiner, testified that Boone called him March 21, sounding concerned and almost crying as he called off a planned exercise session.
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"I said, 'Andre, don't go. Don't go,' " she testified. "He said, 'I'm going over there.' "
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Q: Getting info from a specific XML Node I am trying to read the value for 3 specific XML nodes (bill_codes, sent_total, clicked_unique_total) I have done a lot of testing and I feel like I need someone with fresh eyes to look at this and help me find out what I no longer see..
I am using the simplexml_load_string function to load the XML into an array..
Here is the code that I have so far:
$xml = simplexml_load_string($content);
echo $xml->methodResponse->item->responseData->message_data->message->bill_codes;

This is the XML that I am using (comes from an API Call so I have no access to modifying/updating the structure of the XML)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<methodResponse>
  <item>
    <methodName>
      <![CDATA[legacy.message_stats]]>
    </methodName>
    <responseData>
      <message_data>
        <message id="2345456">
          <message_subject>
            <![CDATA[#1 Item You Should Be Hoarding in 2015]]>
          </message_subject>
          <date_sent>2014-12-18 04:01:34</date_sent>
          <message_notes>
            <![CDATA[Sample Notes]]>
          </message_notes>
          <withheld_total>0</withheld_total>
          <globally_suppressed>0</globally_suppressed>
          <suppressed_total>0</suppressed_total>
          <bill_codes>
            <![CDATA[8578]]>
          </bill_codes>
          <sent_total>734273</sent_total>
          <link_append_statement/>
          <timezone/>
          <message_name>
            <![CDATA[Sample Message Name]]>
          </message_name>
          <optout_total>4054</optout_total>
          <optout_rate_total>0.55</optout_rate_total>
          <clicked_total>5363</clicked_total>
          <clicked_unique>4350</clicked_unique>
          <clicked_rate_unique>13.71</clicked_rate_unique>
          <campaign_id>228640</campaign_id>
          <campaign_type>C</campaign_type>
          <included_groups>
            <segment id="1208891">
              <![CDATA[Segment Name Here]]>
            </segment>
          </included_groups>
          <included_smartlists></included_smartlists>
          <excluded_groups></excluded_groups>
          <excluded_smartlists></excluded_smartlists>
          <attributes></attributes>
          <link id="40278272">
            <has_name>1</has_name>
            <clicked_unique_total>4350</clicked_unique_total>
          </link>
        </message>
      </message_data>
    </responseData>
    <responseNum>
      <![CDATA[1]]>
    </responseNum>
    <responseCode>
      <![CDATA[201]]>
    </responseCode>
  </item>
</methodResponse>

A: No need to include the parent, just start with the ->item:
echo $xml->item->responseData->message_data->message->bill_codes;

Sample Output


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The cure for the coronavirus crisis: More trade or less?
Just as in 2008, U.S. and EU policymakers are staring into a black hole as global trade plunges and ..
Just as in 2008, U.S. and EU policymakers are staring into a black hole as global trade plunges and industry sputters.
But 12 years on, they are more divided about whether the answer is to oil the wheels of free trade, or whether the true lesson of the coronavirus crisis is that long supply chains (especially those tied to China) are a vulnerability and that big Western economies need to switch to producing more at home.
During the debt crisis a decade ago, the G20 group of leading economies spearheaded the response by calling out countries that resorted to protectionism and, learning the lessons of the Wall Street crash of 1929, preached the virtues of low tariffs and reduced customs barriers. There is no such consensus this time, as borders close and Washington and Brussels call for reshoring critical industries.
No one doubts the severity of the problem. China reported that its exports plummeted an eye-watering 17 percent in the first two months of this year and, in a dramatic sign of a contraction in industrial production and transport, world oil prices have sunk more than 60 percent since the beginning of the year. In the first two weeks of March, German and French shipments to the U.S. were down 10.6 percent and 12.5 percent in comparison with the same period last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Faced with that scale of slump, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier has insisted trade policy must play a major role in escaping from the crisis. "Thats why we should work together … and avoid tensions and obstacles to world trade," he said.
German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier says trade policy must help the world to escape the crisis | Adam Berry/Getty Images
In the short term, the U.S. is also moving toward giving companies a 90-day relief on tariff payments, but Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is giving a longer-term sense that globalization has gone too far. "We are learning in this crisis that over-dependence on other countries as a source of cheap medical products and supplies has created a strategic vulnerability to our economy. For the United States, we are encouraging diversification of supply chains and seeking to promote more manufacturing at home."
While the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has long been more clamorous than Europeans about reshoring, the topic has also leapt up the agenda in Europe amid the coronavirus crisis, with both Germanys Altmaier and his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire calling for more pharmaceutical production to come back to Europe.
Doing what they can
The worlds largest industry associations, including Germanys BDI, Frances MEDEF and South Koreas FKI reckon that the recipe for recovery is definitely more trade. They are urging policymakers to step back from export restrictions and to "minimize disruptions to global value chains and refrain from unnecessary new regulations and trade barriers."
But most of the measures at policymakers finger tips are relatively modest and technical.
Italy was one of the first governments within Europe to step up. Its decree that tackles the economic impact of the coronavirus includes additional funding to support "internationalization" of businesses, financing for a communication campaign to bolster exports and other promotional initiatives.
For its part, the European Commission is trying to give EU exporters a boost by ramping up export credit insurance. Brussels changed existing rules to enable EU countries to provide insurance for short-term export-credit risk. Germanys chambers of commerce had issued an urgent call for governments to cover insurance for foreign trade, warning that private credit insurers were withdrawing from what is normally a formality.
France on Tuesday announced it would insure foreign trade across the world, rather than only for 17 countries.
But here again, policymakers are being tugged in two directions. Countries may praise open trade but also have deep strategic concerns about the export of medical equipment. A report last week from the Swiss-based Global Trade Alert found that 54 countries have imposed export restrictions on medical goods since the start of the year.
G20 trade ministers on Monday vowed to keep that market open, but stopped short of promising not to impose export restrictions. EU trade chief Phil Hogan called on leaders to keep trade flowing and to "avoid the downward spiral of restrictive measures or stockpiling" but at the same time defended the EUs controls on shipments of personal protective equipment.
Crippling global trade
Within Europe, the crisis has piled stress onto intra-European supply chains with new border checks causing traffic jams for truckers. The European Commission had to call on EU countries to implement so-called green lanes to permit the transportation of goods and is seeking to minimize checks and paperwork for transport workers.
Even if the EU resolves those troubles within its common trade area — the single market — the coronavirus poses a more global challenge.
"Well have a rude awakening once the numbers on German-Chinese trade come in in the coming weeks," said Volker Treier, head of foreign trade at the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK).
Italy will see its exports drop by 5.1 percent in 2020, according to figures from Italys industry lobby Confindustria. The countrys exporters are faced with enormous challenges as the entire country has been in lockdown since March 10, said Marco Bonometti, president of Confindustria Lombardy, the worst-hit region in Italy.
"The total lockdown message perceived abroad is leading to an isolation of Italy by important industrial and commercial partners and to the concrete possibility of losing positions compared to our international competitors," Bonometti said. "[The shutdown of factories] risks paving the way for unpredictable scenarios with damages difficult to quantify, first of all for the many businesses making their living on export."
For now, the politicians are simply trying to gauge how bad the trade slowdown will be.
Signals from global air cargo are dire. All EU countries apart from Ireland have a ban on travel from third countries. Airport lobby ACI-Europe said that even if the industry gets up and running again by the end of April, the world will see 700 million fewer passengers pass through Europes airports this year — a drop of 28 percent.
Crucially, airliners carrying passengers are also loaded with cargo. As fewer passenger planes are flying, cargo doesnt move as cheaply or as fast. "Roughly half of global air trade travels in the so-called belly of aRead More – Source


In 2018, Middle East Rail will once again deliver an unrivalled conference, hosting over 200 speakers. As the leading rail conference for the regional markets, it will extend its project overviews into the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia.
PowerRail is proud to be attending this show from March 10-12, 2018 in Dubai.


There's an old adage in the sports world that goes something like, "You know you're in trouble when they stop yelling at you." The phrase is true and turns the feeling of reprimand on its head. The idea, then, is that being scolded, verbally motivated, or whatever you'd like to call it is a sign that the coach that is yelling at you cares about you enough to do so. If a scout, coach, or recruiter in sports becomes silent to a player, the message received is that he is finished. Yelling is good.
Malcolm: World-class athlete. Coachable still.
Though we aren't the drill sergeant-kind, there can be quite a bit of verbal cuing from your coach at FFOTB. In the Olympic lifts, especially, this never ends– even at the world class level.
As much as it may seem like "there's always something," or you just can't get it perfect, take it in stride. Being able to take cues, or being "coachable," is an invaluable attribute to have. As long as your coaches are critiquing you, there is hope. As soon as your mistakes continually go unnoticed, then there's a problem.


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Geirr Tveitt: Variations on a Folk song from Hardanger
On the present disc, the focus is on the works for piano and orchestra – works which Tveitt himself, as the piano virtuoso that he also was, usually premièred himself. The Piano Concerto No. 5 is a case in point. First performed, by the composer, in Paris in 1954, it has become "the" Norwegian piano concerto after the Grieg A minor, and is full to the brim with poetic tenderness and rugged power in a brew of deeply original musical ideas.
This also applies to the earlier, but equally lyrical, Variations on a Folk-song from Hardanger, for two pianos and orchestra. This work is based on a Norwegian folk song called There's a maid standing by the well, and was first performed in 1938, with Tveitt and his future wife as soloists.
As on our previous Tveitt discs it is conductor Ole Kristian Ruud and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra which with an inimitable enthusiam brings this music to us. (About BIS-CD-1027, the Gramophone reviewer wrote: "The Stavanger Orchestra provide beautifully played and characterful accounts under Ole Kristian Ruud's firm direction.") The soloists are Nils Mortensen and Sveinung Bjelland, young Norwegian pianists recording on BIS for the first time. Hide
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If someone wishes to change the use of their own property then why shouldn't they? Isn't the right to property a social and economic right?
Shouldn't it be for reading the damn thing? Well, how many should there be?
But more interestingly what are the consequences?
As letting becomes more expensive for the landlord do house prices fall… rents increase…? A bit of both I presume.
Then what? Government steps in to cap rents or try to inflate house prices by restricting new builds?
Do these things actually get thought through?
Is it me or is being a landlord becoming a mugs game? I know one person who has stopped renting out their flat to long term tenants. He has gone fully over the AirBnB. He became sick and tired of tenants treating his property badly and having to repair and redecorate the flat every six months.
Makes me wonder how folks will find a place to rent ion the future.
Which is one of the reasons the Irish government restricted the number of days one can rent out your property on AirBnB.
In other, non unrelated news, the housing shortage increases.
The right to enjoy your property is enjoyed mainly by the middle-classes and above, so it's suspect. The right to adequate housing is for the poor, so it trumps all other rights.
Poverty has become our latest religion, making a change from the environmentalism of the last couple of generations. Just as the eco-loons preached environmental chastity whilst jetting off to far-flung destinations, so the poverty pimps don't live in anything resembling poverty.
Landlords can evict tenants without giving a reason?
Well, more like landlords can give notice as per the tenancy agreement and/or not renew the tenancy.
Just as tenants can give notice and/or renew the lease as per the tenancy agreement. And tenants don't need to give a reason.
Contins: But Why Should Housing Developers Pay For Schools?
A landlord can end an assured shorthold tenancy during the term for breach of a tenancy obligation. At the end of the term the contract has ended and so the landlord is iunder no obligation to grant a new tenancy. This makes letting property attractive as you can always get a bad tenant out without having to go through costly court proceedings. If this property right is taken away it will make letting property considerably more risky with obvious consequences for the letting market.
By the way, if the 'right to' involves forcing someone else to provide the 'to' then its not a right.
I wonder how these people justify this. 'The right to . . . ' requires the enslavement of someone else. What in the world would you have a right to that justifies doing that?
Because they create the need. Build a development for a thousand families, the local government must provide schools for the kiddies.
My county has an $18,000 impact fee on new development.
School operations are paid for by property taxes; the impact fee covers the initial capital outlay by the county for the schools.
The Conversation is just The Guardian without the celebs and sport.
Gandhi was big on that ideal. Probably bigger. He thought duties were more important than rights. You can have your rights taken away. No one can take away your sense of duty and determination to uphold it.
Surely the need for schools etc. is created by the existence of people. The fact that they have other needs, say housing, is a separate issue and should be treated as such.
The important thing is there are no rights without duties. You can claim any right you like, but unless there's someone to discharge it, you can't have it. So, in essence, only duties exist. Rights are their shadow.
Should house owners have the right to adequate tenants?
It hits landlords and makes life worse for tenants. Can't buy/can't rent–welcome to being too worried about keeping a roof over your head to organise/fight back against state oppression.
What would one's duties be in regard to the right (sic) to health care?
"But Why Should Housing Developers Pay For Schools?
Developer wants to build x homes in a town. That town now needs one extra school. So the developer has to build it.
So he divides the cost of the school by x and bumps up all the prices.
So how does he get his money back? Easy, he pays less for the land upon which he builds his houses. Cos his best price taking into account the market value of what he will build and the costs to build it (inc the school) is still the best offer that landowner is going to get. The developers who build projects big enough that they are expected to make infrastructure contributions buy land through options and other contractual devices that deal with it all. They know what they're doing.
Houses are not priced on a cost plus basis and only an absolute idiot thinks otherwise.
As a landlord, my strategy has to been to buy single family homes and then lease them out. I always make sure that it is one that I would be willing to live in. That way I can always use the reason for eviction that I will be moving into the property. As long as the lease term is completed, there is no legal way to fight the eviction. Careful vetting of tenants is important. It is also easier to sell than an apartment block.
Good call. Bob Bruss advocated single family dwellings as the best residential real estate investment for many years.
Long term, maybe. But not around here now. Too much demand; too much growth. Landowners aren't going to sell for less in this market.
I suspect that neither of the authors own rental properties.
If I am correct, everything else most probably flows from that fact.


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More evidence from prostitutes that women are most bangable around 23 to 24
Before I showed that the average porn star is 23 years old, judging from LA Direct Models, which represents the more famous ones. The average beauty pageant winner in recent years is 21, though. (And of course, sex symbols have been getting steadily older for as long as we have data.) So now let's look at a group of women who are also chosen almost entirely based on looks, though probably for having a daring and calculating personality too: prostitutes.
I happened upon this data after reading an NYT article on how the global recession is affecting demand for Czech prostitutes. The brothel profiled allows guys to pay an entrance fee and have sex with the women there, who get paid wages plus commission per act. They're filmed for an internet audience, whose subscription fees provide the brothel's revenue. Here is their website's list of girls. From this list, we get the following distribution of ages:
The average girl here is 24 (median 23.5), and the distribution is highly skewed (skewness is +2.96 S.E.). That is, most of the girls are in the lower end, with just a few in the upper end. No surprise there: younger is better, even when almost everyone is under 35. And look at how many are 18 -- about 11%. If you imagine what the graph would look like with ages 15 to 17 included to the left, it's obvious that those bars would not have negligible height -- and certainly not zero height. There is clearly a big demand for girls that age. After all, that's why there are laws against under-18 prostitutes: finding no minors at all among prostitutes is not a situation that would happen naturally in a libertarian society.
In fact, for 16 and 17 year-olds the bars would probably stand taller than those of the over-30 women. I'm going to sell motivational posters for over-30 women who are still "exploring their options" on the dating market: it'll be a stern-faced picture of me, and under it, "You were hotter in high school. So settle already." Take a lesson from your treasured retailers and think up some sort of "buy one, get one free" offer involving your enabler -- er, best friend -- to make sure you get married to someone before your assets evaporate.
Lastly, it's interesting that the beauty pageant winners are quite a bit younger than porn stars and prostitutes. One misgiving I have about chasing teenagers is that, as tight as their skin is, and despite their indefatigable energy level, their asses can't compete with those of a girl who's about 23 to 24. These girls have more raw fuckdoll appeal than the younger ones, who specialize more in being cute and enchanting.
A girl who's 23 is at or near the age when the average woman would've had her first child in most places and times for our species. So, she's the one you want a one-night stand with: she's decided to have a kid, and all you need to do is be there and leave some other guy to raise it. To get her for a greater length of her salad days, like before 23 as well as during her mid-20s, you have to invest more in her, since she's not quite as promiscuous as she'll be in a few years. Because guys would rather not invest anything, they must be tricked and manipulated into doing so -- and youthful charm, plus super-firm flesh, is one of the few weapons that young girls have to get past a guy's resistance to commitment.
(Again, a note to any women planning to go husband-hunting after 30: it's like trying to rob a bank with water gun.)
Anonymous 12/9/08, 3:31 AM
While I don't think it disproves your point, it should be noted that prostitutes, and porn stars, lie about their age. A lot. As long as they're not actually barely legal it's pretty safe to assume they're a lot older than they claim to be.
Of course, the reason they do this is that placing an ad selling sex claiming to be 35 isn't going to work as well as claiming to be 25.
I think a much more interesting counter-point to your general "young girls are hotter than women" argument is the fairly high prevalence of MILF-type porn as well as the extraordinary rates fairly old porn stars can command as escorts (advertised rates are typically in the 1600-3000 range).
/JohnF
agnostic 12/9/08, 5:11 AM
Porn stars and legal prostitutes have to have their ages verified, so they're trustworthy. Anyhow, a 35 y.o. could not pass herself off as a 25 y.o.
Go to any type of porn site -- database of titles, online rental, whatever -- and search for "barely legal," "teens," etc., and then search for "milf," "mature," etc.
Teens beat milfs every time, hands down.
No, verification does not mean they are at all trustworthy with regards to the age they *advertise*, it just means they're sure to be over 18, or whatever the legal age is. The controlling authorities do not give out actual ages as a consumer service.
I've known more than a few prostitutes of all price ranges and classes and one common factor is that they universally lie about their age if they perceive it to be a negative. A 25-year old will claim to be 20, or 18, if she's petite and a 35 year old will claim to be 28.
If I were to make a bet for actual ages on the site you refered to I'd guess that the average actual age, compared to the advertised one, would be something like 3 years higher. And that might be optimistic.
So I'm just making the subtle point that apparently the age that sex advertisers think sells the best is 23 to 24, not arguing against your thesis as a whole.
As for the MILF-stuff I don't think the interesting part is that it proves that women of all ages are equally attractive, or something like that, but that it exists at all.
And it is not a marginal market, if you ask any actual pornographers they will tell you that MILF-titles brought in a lot of cash in the last few years.
That stuff like MILF-porn, femdom homosexuality, etc happen at all is a very interesting challenge to evpsych and much more relevant to respond to than feminism, queer theory or gender studies which are so far removed from actual science as to be pretty much strawmen.
Another way to asses a woman's peak attractiveness is to use rape statistics. Most women who are raped are aged between 12-30. There are few females below 12 and few females above 30. The fear older women have of being raped is irrational. And even in the 12-30 year range, most rapes are concentrated in the 16-24 years range, so it's fair to say that women are the most attractive for the average men during the midd to late teens and early twenties. Using rape statistics gives you the data to the left.
Anonymous 12/9/08, 2:56 PM
JohnF:
Are you sure the effects aren't entirely local?
Just looking at the chart (without any data to back this up), the spikes and dips around key ages look mighty suspicious. Do prostitutes really take "gap years" when they are 19 and 20?
agnostic 12/9/08, 4:01 PM
Do prostitutes really take "gap years" when they are 19 and 20?
Who says they aren't simply fired by the brothel owners, and replaced with new girls?
Women may misrepresent their ages as individuals, but it is firms who are giving the data here. If I were a porn manager or brothel owner, I'd be hyperparanoid about lying about *anyone's* age, because it would raise the authorities' suspicions, I'd have to deal with a painful audit, etc.
Gannon, or agnostic -- do you have a cite on the rape. I read it before somewhere (gnxp?) but I can't seem to find the original reference.
I mean age-rape statistics, of course.
I'll agree with a prior comment and express a lot of suspicion about these age claims. Many years ago, in Mayflower Madam, Sydney Biddle Barrows admitted that her high-end escort agency would tell little white lies about their hookers, including lies concerning their ages. Tricks seldom complained, and it's not as if they could ask to see the hookers' licenses to verify their ages. I really doubt if anything has changed since then. No, an escort agency may not be able to pass off a 35-year-old as 21, but they certainly could pass off a 25-year-old as 21.
Anonymous 12/10/08, 12:17 AM
Sorry Agnostic, I have to go with Anonymous (comment #1) and Peter. The idea that "Gosh, the proprietors wouldn't let them lie" is naive (shows *your* youth, heh). Nobody's going to show ID to a customer, so there's nothing to prevent a little puffery. If you disagree, try carding a girl at any ogley emporium. Unless you're flashing a badge, they'll look at you like you're crazy. Those girls do not want clients even knowing their *names*, let alone where they live.
IMHO this armchair philosophical proof is strong, but if you need more, take a good look at "Dominika BS" at the left in the first row. "BS" indeed. No way is she 18. http://www.bigsisterlive.com/free/girls.php
You don't understand -- it is not the individual females who are or are not lying. You're thinking of a street-corner prostitute interacting with a john, or a hooker putting an ad on craigslist.
Here, it is the firm that provides their ages -- LA Direct Models and Big Sister. Firms do not behave like individuals -- you can't get angry at them in an attempt to shame them.
Therefore, it doesn't matter whether an individual female would or wouldn't lie, as with a streetwalker. We ask instead: would it be worth it for the firm to lie -- in public, documented on the internet?
The answer is obviously "no." Here's what the board of managers are thinking:
"We are compelled to keep age records for all women, available for inspection at all times. If we lie about a 28 year-old, the authorities will think we're lying about other girls as well -- in particular, the ones most worth lying about: the ones we claim are 18. At that point, we get the audit to end all audits. And what is our benefit -- that some guys think they're banging 24 year-olds instead of 28 year-olds? BFD for our profits. So, it's not worth making public, documented lies about our women's ages."
Every so often there'll be something in the paper about another massage parlor getting busted, and it usually seems as if the women are much older than you'd expect - often in their 40's.
[i](Again, a note to any women planning to go husband-hunting after 30: it's like trying to rob a bank with water gun.)[/i]
IMHO, 30 is a little low for a cut off age there. I would be highly surprised if a good-looking 30-year-old struggled to find a spouse her age or older. Obviously the average 24-year-old male would likely be playing younger, unless he prefers an older woman, which is possible but obviously rare.
Anonymous 12/12/08, 5:56 AM
Agnostic,
LA Direct or Big Sister aside, the relevant point for your data here is that this is a brothel in the Czech Republic. Not the U.S. I live here and have had a lot of professional interactions with Czech businessmen of a wide variety of sorts. They are cunning bastards. If you honestly believe that they would not lie on a website about their whores' ages, would have any compunction about making false statements, any fears of being audited, or any knowledge of or interest in obeying *American* laws on age verification (which are irrelevant as concerns lowering the ages of legal whores to lower, but still legal numbers, anyway), you are honestly beyond naive. Your conclusion is perfectly good, if banal, but your "data" is nowhere near as iron clad as you seem to believe. Quit defending it.
homosexuality: if a gene makes a man love to bonk women, it'll make him have lots of kids. so a gene to make you bonk women could be favored to pass itself on through the men even if it makes the women with it do the occasional muff-dive. male homosexuality is harder to explain using this theory.
femdom: a lot of men with low self-esteem might want the woman to take the initiative. there are also doubtless genes controlling a person's natural inclination towards dominance and submission. get too many submissive genes and this is what you get.
The thinking man's sex symbols -- yeah right
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Q: static constexpr member of same type as class being defined I would like a class C to have a static constexpr member of type C. Is this possible in C++11?
Attempt 1:
struct Foo {
    constexpr Foo() {}
    static constexpr Foo f = Foo();
};
constexpr Foo Foo::f;

g++ 4.7.0 says: 'invalid use of incomplete type' referring to the Foo() call.
Attempt 2:
struct Foo {
    constexpr Foo() {}
    static constexpr Foo f;
};
constexpr Foo Foo::f = Foo();

Now the problem is the lack of an initializer for the constexpr member f inside the class definition.
Attempt 3:
struct Foo {
    constexpr Foo() {}
    static const Foo f;
};
constexpr Foo Foo::f = Foo();

Now g++ complains about a redeclaration of Foo::f differing in constexpr.

A: If I interpret the Standard correctly, it isn't possible.

(§9.4.2/3) [...] A static data member of literal type can be declared in the
  class definition with the constexpr specifier; if so, its declaration shall specify a brace-or-equal-initializer in which every initializer-clause that is an assignment-expression is a constant expression. [...]

From the above (along with the fact that there is no separate statement about non-literal types in static data member declarations), I believe it follows that a static data member that is constexpr must be a literal type (as defined in §3.9/10), and it must have its definition included in the declaration. The latter condition could be satisfied by using the following code:
struct Foo {
  constexpr Foo() {}
  static constexpr Foo f {};
};

which is similar to your Attempt 1, but without the class-external definition.
However, since Foo is incomplete at the time of declaration/definition of the static member, the compiler can't check whether it is a literal type (as defined in §3.9/10), so it rejects the code.
Note that there is this post-C++-11 document (N3308) which discusses various problems of the current definition of constexpr in the Standard, and makes suggestions for amendments. Specifically, the "Proposed Wording" section suggests an amendment of §3.9/10 that implies the inclusion of incomplete types as one kind of literal type. If that amendment was to be accepted into a future version of the Standard, your problem would be solved.

A: I believe GCC is incorrect to reject your Attempt 3. There is no rule in the C++11 standard (or any of its accepted defect reports) which says that a redeclaration of a variable must be constexpr iff the prior declaration was. The closest the standard comes to that rule is in [dcl.constexpr](7.1.5)/1_:

If any declaration of a function or function template has constexpr specifier, then all its declarations shall contain the constexpr specifier.

Clang's implementation of constexpr accepts your Attempt 3.

A: An update on Richard Smith's answer, attempt 3 now compiles on both GCC 4.9 and 5.1, as well as clang 3.4.
struct Foo {
  std::size_t v;
  constexpr Foo() : v(){}
  static const Foo f;
};

constexpr const Foo Foo::f = Foo();

std::array<int, Foo::f.v> a;

However, when Foo is a class template, clang 3.4 fails, but GCC 4.9 and 5.1 still work ok:
template < class T >
struct Foo {
  T v;
  constexpr Foo() : v(){}
  static const Foo f;
};

template < class T >
constexpr const Foo<T> Foo<T>::f = Foo();

std::array<int, Foo<std::size_t>::f.v> a; // gcc ok, clang complains

Clang error :
error: non-type template argument is not a constant expression
std::array<int, Foo<std::size_t>::f.v> a;
                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A: Earlier I had the same problem and came across this decade-old question.  I'm happy to report that in the intervening years a solution has appeared; we just need to do something like "attempt 3" above, but mark the definition of Foo::f as inline.  Minimal example which compiles with g++ --std=c++17:
foo.hpp
#ifndef __FOO_HPP
#define __FOO_HPP

struct Foo
{
    constexpr Foo() {}
    static const Foo f;
};

inline constexpr Foo Foo::f = Foo();

#endif

foo.cpp
#include "foo.h"

main.cpp
#include "foo.h"

int main(int, char **) { return 0; }


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ArcheAge is one of the most popular MMO games worldwide. Specifically it not only has local server in Korea, but also many international servers throughout other regions and countries such as NA, EU, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, and the latest coming one China, etc. In this game, players try to be skillful for leveling up quickly or having fun in PVP battle, and in the meantime how to survive or live very well in this game is another key thing. You want to have more fun and live well in the game, you need to be good at economy which means you need to be good at making ArcheAge gold to support your character's life in game. Therefore, we write this guide aiming to teach ArcheAge players how to make gold in ArcheAge.
Basically, there are many ways to make gold in game. We divide them into two main categories, activities that don't require any labor and activities that require labor. In this guide, we'll talk about the category of activities that do not require any labor, and will give the activities that require labor in guide two.
The first way to get ArcheAge gold through collecting Gilda Star Dailies in game. Players can get a large stack of Glida Stars over days and weeks in order to purchase items like fancy ships or some little things like housing patterns and sell them for ArcheAge gold.
How to collect Gilda Stars?
When players' character reaches to level 10, the Priestesses of Nui at the Respawn Bases begin to provide dailies, and players can obtain the Gilda Stars through successfully finish them. Let's see the dailies between level 10 and level 30.
Speak to the Priestess again after accepting the quest.
Buy a Memory Ink which cost 10 Silver from General Merchant and take it to any Priestess of Nui.
Send a Lily to Priestess of Nui. PS: Players can get the lily in wild or plant it yourself, or purchase it from auction house.
From level 31 players can start to choose the dailies listed in below to get Gilda Stars.
To collect 30 Crushed Flowers, Ground Grain, Crushed Spices, or Chopped Produce to make a perfume.
There is one thing that player need to know that you should finish the daily of A Rare Perfume first, then the Guerrilla Marketing is available for you.
When players go to PVP battle, Honor will be granted to them. Honor can be used to purchase many items. One of those items is Lunastone which is not bound to your character, therefore it is tradable item for players. PVP becomes another way to make ArcheAge gold then.
Besides all above methods for making gold in game, players still can choose the way of purchasing ArcheAge gold from MMOGAH.COM. Mmogah as a professional ArcheAge gold selling service has run the business for over 10 years, is a reliable and secure gold seller. If you have any demand of ArcheAge gold for building your characters' gears or equipment, you can visit our website. Moreover mmogah also provides ArcheAge power leveling service to players, so if you have any queries, please feel free to contact our customer reps via Live Chat.


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DNR wildlands land-grab
Posted on October 21, 2013 by Ken Kyler
FYI folks – can someone attend and report back? You can bet DNR won't view wildlands as OHV friendly.
DNR wildlands proposal gets mixed reactions
Elaine Blaisdell Cumberland Times-News
OAKLAND — Garrett County Planning Commission members have mixed emotions about the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Wildlands Proposal that is up for review, according to county commission chairman Robert Gatto, who is a non-voting member of the planning commission.
Wildlands are state-owned natural areas preserved for their wilderness character or sensitive natural resources. The nine areas proposed in the county, both new and expanded wildlands, total 9,000 acres. The largest wildlands proposed is 3,993 acres of the Youghiogheny Corridor, Maryland's only "wild" river.
"People definitely like to see the land preserved and protected for future generations, but at the same time there is the concern of are we protecting it too much and we aren't able to do the things we want to do on that property," said Gatto during the commissioners' public meeting. "Some on the commission felt that it's already protected because it has endangered species and so why protect it even more and limit potential down the road."
Hunting and fishing are permitted on state wildlands, subject to existing laws, regulations and administrative policies.
"At any time, those designations could be changed where you wouldn't be able to (do those things) depending on who is in office and what their intent is," said Gatto.
Commissioner Jim Raley said that when the DNR purchases the properties, everyone becomes a landowner.
"Because each of us who pay taxes have put a little bit of money towards that purchase and it does concern me that sometimes in designations there are certain things they don't want done," said Raley. "My concern is that the state is going to continue purchasing land with our monies in our county. Then the citizens should be able to enjoy some economic benefit from that such as usage of those trails. Yes, there are limitations."
For example, some off-road vehicle trails have been closed and restrictions have been placed on being able to consume alcoholic beverages in parks.
"The rules can change and that becomes my point of contention," said Raley. "I think the folks in Garrett County need to make sure our state officials and DNR know those concerns. I want the lands protected but I want the citizens protected, too."
Gypsy moth suppression can't occur on wildlands, according to Commissioner Gregan Crawford. Swanton resident Marshall Stacy, whose land is surrounded by wildlands, stated, "My little patch is beautiful and green and everything around me is dead."
"We invite people to see just how horrible the state has been as a steward of forest land by this gypsy moth mess," said Marshall's wife, Cindy Stacy.
The state owns $165 million worth of assessed value property in the county, which includes critical infrastructure, according to Raley. The state owns close to 80,000 acres in the county.
Local meetings regarding the wildlands proposal are scheduled Nov. 6 at 6 p.m. at Deep Creek Lake State Park's Discovery Center and Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. at Allegany College of Maryland Continuing Education Room CE8.
More information on the wildlands can be found on the county's website at http://garrettcounty.org/news/2013/10/dnr-beginning-public-input-process-on-wildlands-designation.
Contact Elaine Blaisdell at eblaisdell@times-news.com.
Link: http://times-news.com/local/x252031722/DNR-wildlands-proposal-gets-mixed-reactions
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