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Q: Adjacency List Implementation in Python I'm a newbie to Python (and computer science in general), so bear with me.
I'm having trouble implementing an adjacency list in Python. I have learned how to implement it through a dictionary (I learned how through here lol), but I need to know how to do it using only basic lists (list of lists)
This is my code:
with open("graph1.txt") as infile:
    vertices = []
    for line in infile:
        line = line.split()
        line = [int(i) for i in line]
        vertices.append(line)

adj = dict()

for edge in vertices:
    x, y = int(edge[0]), int(edge[1])
    if x not in adj: adj[x] = set()
    if y not in adj: adj[y] = set()
    adj[x].add(y)
    adj[y].add(x)
print(adj)

Any help is appreciated.
Cheers

A: I am not sure whether you got it but anyway here is my python implementation for adjacency list. I have used list of lists.
Python 2
Code :
class graph(object):
    def __init__(self, n):
        self.n=n
        self.mat=[list() for i in range(n)]

    def insert(self, u, v, w):
        t=[v, w]
        self.mat[u].append(t)

    def printGraph(self):
        i=0
        for i in range(self.n):
            print i, self.mat[i]

    def deleteEdge(self, u, v):
        weight=0
        for x in self.mat[u]:
            if x[0]==v:
                weight=x[1]
                break
        self.mat[u].remove([v, weight])

g=graph(3) # 3 is the number of vertices
g.insert(0, 1, 10) # 10 is the weight of the edge
g.insert(0, 2, 12)
g.insert(1, 2, 9)

g.printGraph()
g.deleteEdge(0, 1)
g.printGraph()

A: You'll still be thinking in terms of a set of vertices, each with a set of adjacent vertices, but you will be implementing the sets as lists rather than with a more sophisticated set data structure. You will need a fast way to index into the top-level set, and the only way to do that is with integer indexes. So you want to assign a (natural or arbitrary) integer k to each vertex, then put that vertex's adjacency set (implemented as a list) into slot k of the top-level list. It is less important to provide for efficient indexing into the second-level lists, since you typically iterate over them rather than selecting a particular one, but since Python has a built-in list that happens to provide efficient indexing with integers, why not use it?
I agree with the comment that a variable called vertices shouldn't hold edges. Everyone in the world but you will be confused, and later you also will be confused. I suggest you use the name vertices for the top-level list I described above. Then the second-level lists can just hold indices into the top-level vertices. (Well, maybe you need edge objects, too -- I don't know what you are using this for -- but a purist's adjacency-list representation has no room for edge objects.)


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Essentially, this form of marketing involves using content, such as articles, infographics or videos to attract visitors and persuade them to become customers. By creating or curating the right content, you can enhance your brand and reach a large audience.
Generating new leads is a major challenge for many businesses. Using content to bring in new leads is a very effective strategy. By providing the type of valuable information that people are looking for, such as how-to articles, tutorials, or expert interviews, you can increase the amount of traffic that comes to your site.
Sites that are regularly updated with new content tend to generate many more leads than those that only add new articles or content irregularly, or not at all. However, it is important to select the right type of content for your target audience. For example, if you want to reach people who are interested in cooking, then recipes or instructional videos are going to be most effective. You can re-purpose the video content by converting it to a podcast or transcribing it and posting it as an article on your site.
If no one is interested in the products or services that you provide, you will have a hard time staying in business for long. By providing free samples or trials, you can significantly boost the level of interest in a short period of time.
One effective technique for doing so is to offer free trials or free samples. This is particularly effective if you are in the business of selling content. Offer a free sample chapter of an e-book or the first video in a series of instructional videos. If people like what they see, they will be more likely to come back and pay for the rest.
Too often, businesses think of their customers in isolation, as separate individuals with no connection to each other. In fact, companies that work to connect their customers and to create a lively community focused on their brand tend to do very well in the marketplace. Content marketing is an excellent tool for building such a community.
Do not just publish your content and forget about it. Instead, ask people to respond to it and to let you know what they think of it. Social sites are an excellent place where people can get together and discuss a particular article or video. Encourage people to provide their own ideas that expand on your content.
When people feel as if they are part of a larger community, they naturally come to feel loyal to that group. By working on building such a community, you can turn casual visitors into loyal customers. Of course, you need to make sure that you keep providing new content so that the community remains active.
Your brand is one of your most valuable assets so you need to protect it. A great deal of hard work can be destroyed overnight by a careless tweet or thoughtless post. You need to make sure that all of the content that you post is consistently aimed at creating a positive image for your brand.
Because of this, it is often wise to centralize the production of content. Instead of letting a half-dozen people write articles or create videos, it may be more sensible to put these tasks into the hands of a few trusted employees. This way, you can make sure that nothing is posted that will harm your brand image.
Content marketing needs to play a central role in your strategy for growing your business. By making judicious use of these techniques, you can make sure that your company is able to take advantage of any growth opportunities that may arise.
Jim Daniels has been an online entrepreneur since 1996. He's been featured in Entrepreneur and Opportunity magazines, as well as other respected periodicals and regularly posts internet marketing strategies to his website.


The Zambian government has secured $65 million from China to initiate and fund the second phase of the national mobile phone tower construction project.
The Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) plans to launch the nationwide construction of mobile phone communication towers, aimed at easing communication problems in the country - especially in rural areas.
The towers will be used by MTN, Zamtel and Airtel, the three mobile phone service providers currently operating in the country. The operators will also be responsible for maintaining and servicing the towers once they are operational and handed over to ZICTA.
Zambia's president Edgar Lungu secured the multi-million Dollar loan during his visit to China last week during which he also had a meeting with Huawei Technologies and ZTE.
Once implemented, the Zambian government believes the communication tower project will address issues with telephone connectivity being experienced in the country, particularly in rural communities.
Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda said, "through the towers, the Zambian government wants to make sure that everyone has access to mobile phone communication in the country."
The Zambian government, via ZICTA, is already constructing 169 communication towers in selected rural areas in the first phase of the project. Last year Huawei Technologies was awarded the contract to erect the towers as part of this phase.
The telecommunications company has been accused of erecting towers that do not adhere to technical specifications because they cover a radius of less than 5km, a minimum requirement as per specifications contained in the bid document.
ZICTA said last month that it was aware of the irregularity and promised it would be corrected under phase two of the project.
With the funds from China, authorities are aiming to connect the whole country to mobile phone communication.


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AAC Chair's Medal
Each year, the Chair's Medal is bestowed upon an Academy Fellow who has demonstrated exemplary dedication and made outstanding contributions to the culinary profession. This individual has also maintained the highest standard of ideals of the AAC and has significantly and positively worked to ensure excellence among future culinarians.
John Kukucka, AAC, is currently the Executive Chef at the Essex Golf and Country Club in Lasalle, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of George Brown College. Chef Kukucka was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs in 2011 and has been an ACF member since 1999. Chef Kukucka was the recipient of the AAC Chef Good Taste Award in 2013, the ACF President's Medallion and the Cutting Edge Award in 2020.
Lawrence A. Conti, CEC, AAC, HOF, Chair's Achievement Award
This award is given to a Fellow of the Academy who is not only dedicated to the American Academy of Chefs but also to the culinary profession. This individual must be an ACF member for a minimum of 35 years and be actively in the AAC and ACF, making the advancement of both organizations a personal priority. The person selected for this award will have achieved success in both business and culinary arts, and must have the respect of the AAC Fellows at large.
John E. Bogacki, CEC, CCE, AAC, is employed at Westwood Country Club, and holds the position of Executive Chef Emeritus. He has served on the ACF Internal Audit Committee. In 2008, Chef Bogacki held the position of the ACF Junior Culinary Olympic Team Financial Manager. He was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs in 1992 and served as Central Regional Director from 2009–2015. Chef Bogacki was a founding member of the Chefs De Cuisine Association of St. Louis' Junior Chapter and the St. Louis Chefs De Cuisine Education Foundation. Chef Bogacki received the AAC Central Region Chefs Chair Award in 2001, Good Taste Award in 2009, six AAC Service Awards and the ACF Presidential Medallion in 2008.
The Joseph Amendola Award is presented to a pastry chef or master baker. The recipient has devoted his or her career to the profession and to the mentoring of young individuals who will be future pastry chefs.
Gloria M. Cabral, CWPC, CCE, AAC, attended Bristol Community College's Culinary Arts Program where she received a Certificate Degree in Culinary Arts, A.A.S., a B.S. in Baking and Pastry Arts from Johnson and Wales University, a Master's in Education from Cambridge College and a Master's in Science of Management from Eastern Nazarene College. Chef Cabral was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs in 2017. She is also an ACF Certification Evaluator. In 2018, Chef Cabral earned the position as the Culinary Arts Program Coordinator at Bristol Community College.
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The Lt. General John D. McLaughlin Award is presented each year to an individual of high honor, distinction and involvement in the culinary field. This award has been established in the memory of Lt. General John D. McLaughlin, who was instrumental in bringing professional recognition to the American executive chef.
Wolfgang D. Geckeler, CEC, AAC, HOF, an ACF certified executive chef since 1985, was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Chefs in 1988, recipient of the AAC Service Pin in 2015 and is currently serving on the Culinary Hall of Fame Committee. He completed his apprenticeship in Germany, was sponsored for emigration to the U.S.A. and within four months was drafted into the U.S. Army. After service in Vietnam from 1967–1968 he returned to the restaurant business. From 2002–2010 when he was corporate chef with the Marine Corps Community Services in Okinawa, Japan, overseeing 13 full-service restaurants and clubs on seven Marine Corps bases. Chef Geckeler received ACF Presidential Medallions in 1997 and 2014 and the Hermann G. Rusch Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He is an active member of the ACF Professional Chefs Association of South Jersey, and has held numerous positions since 1988, from certification chair to president and chairman, and is currently treasurer.
The Chef Good Taste Award is designated for culinarians who are actively involved in furthering the chef's greatest achievement, "taste," and upholding the traditions of the classical cuisine.
Jean W. Hull, CCE, AAC, is currently retired. She is a graduate of Michigan State University in Food Science. Chef Hull is an active member of the ACF Chef and Child program, serving as chair of her chapter's Chef & Child Foundation committee from 2000–2015. Chef Hull has also been very active within her community supporting scholarships and education. She was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs in 2007. Chef Cabral was awarded the Western Region Hermann G. Rusch Chef's Achievement Award in 2010 and the "Cutting Edge" Award by the ACF Western Region in 2013.
One Academy Fellow is selected each year to receive the Sharing Culinary Traditions Award. This individual has demonstrated unwavering dedication to the education of future culinarians, thereby perpetuating the mission statement of our prestigious honor society and our profession.
Alan L. Romano, CEC, CCE, AAC, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America with a degree in Culinary Arts and a degree in Hotel/Restaurant Management from Westchester Community College. For the past 19 years he has been the owner of Fire & Ice 1999 and has been a full-time Chef Instructor/Professor at Guilford Technical Community College. Chef Romano has been an ACF member since 1988 and was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs in 2002. Chef Romano has been the AAC Southeast Region Director since 2017. Chef Romano has been teaching Chef & Child classes every summer for the past 20+ years.

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Water reveals its secrets. Scientists are watching hydrogen bonds
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The "quantum force of attraction" between water molecules has finally been measured. Scientists have conducted studies that shed new light on hydrogen bonds. Thanks to them, water has wonderful properties and plays an important role in many biological processes.
Water is all around us. It covers up to 71% of the Earth, although only 2.5% is fresh water. H . game2O is one of nature's least understood fluids – it exhibits many strange behaviors that cannot be explained to this day. One might even wonder how water can have the highest density at a temperature of about 3.8NSC, just above the freezing point. However, most liquids thicken as the temperature decreases. Water also has a high surface tension, which allows insects to walk on its surface, as well as a high heat storage capacity, which provides stable living conditions for ocean-dwelling organisms.
scientists z Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Stockholm University first direct observation of how hydrogen atoms in water molecules pull and push on neighboring molecules when excited by a laser. Why is this an important discovery? The results of these studies may explain the unusual properties of water. They can also help understand the role of H.2around in our body.
Although it has been speculated that this so-called nuclear quantum effect underlies many of the peculiar properties of water, it was first observed directly in this experiment. The question is, could this quantum effect be the missing link in theoretical models describing the anomalous properties of water?
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The best recognizable chemical formula in the world
The chemical formula for water – H.2Oh – says it all. The molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, but the hydrogen bonds that connect the individual molecules seem to be key. Many scientists believe that hydrogen bonds are the cause of many of the unusual properties of water. For a long time, no direct interactions between H . molecules could be observed2Oh, but now it has changed.
The low mass of hydrogen atoms enhances their quantum nature. This study is the first to directly show that the response of the hydrogen bond network to an energy pulse depends on the quantum mechanical nature of the way hydrogen atoms are distributed, which has long been suggested to be responsible for the unique features of water and its hydrogen bond network.
Kelly Gaffney of the Stanford Pulse Institute at SLAC
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Hydrogen bonds between water molecules
In the experience detailed in temper natureA stream of liquid water just 100 nanometers thick was used – 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. The water molecules that compose it were vibrated by a laser beam as well as short, high-energy pulses of the MeV-UED. As a result, it was possible to obtain a high resolution of the variable atomic structures of H.2s.
Something amazing happens in the water during the laser pulse. It was found that when the excited molecule begins to vibrate, the hydrogen atoms that make it attract the oxygen atoms of neighboring water molecules and then repel them with great force, increasing the distance between them. This is a unique phenomenon that we do not observe in other liquids.
What do these discoveries tell us about water?
SLAC experiments are only the first step toward understanding the quantitative nature of hydrogen bonds and the role they play in many biological and chemical processes. Some are even talking about a new "water test window". This could be a real breakthrough in understanding water better – both on Earth and on other planets.
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5 Fiction Releases to Watch for in December
December must be a difficult time to release a new book. Many of the book review sites have already published their best of the year lists, holiday shoppers might not get a chance to hear about your title before spending their gift cash and books must get lost in the buzz of so many other things going on.
Here's a few December releases for this year: take a minute and give them a second look.
One Hundred and One Nights (M)
by Benjamin Buchholz (December 1):
A first novel that gives readers a peek inside modern day Iraq. "After 13 years in America, Abu Saheeh has returned to his native Iraq, a nation transformed by the American military presence. Alone in a new city, he has exactly what he wants: freedom from his past. Then he meets Layla, a whimsical fourteen-year-old girl who enchants him with her love of American pop culture. Enchanted by Layla's stories and her company, Abu Saheeh settles into the city's rhythm and begins rebuilding his life. But two sudden developments--his alliance with a powerful merchant and his employment of a hot-headed young assistant--reawaken painful memories, and not even Layla may be able to save Abu Saheeh from careening out of control and endangering all around them. " (publisher's description)
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by Stephen Hunter (December 6).
The second title in a series from a popular military thriller author sees retired marine Ray Cruz caught up in a terrorist hostage taking on Black Friday in the Mall of America. In their starred review, Booklist magazine said ""Combining elements of the locked-room mystery, the disaster novel, and the lock-and-load thriller, Hunter produces a remarkably gripping tale, building character (the captives, the bureaucrats, and the "terrorists" all get compelling backstories) every bit as convincingly as he drives the narrative to its High Noon–style finale."
All the Flowers in Shanghai (M)
by Duncan Jepson (December 20).
Set in 1930s Shanghai, this debut historical title looks at class and culture in China. "For every young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai, following the path of duty takes precedence over personal desires. For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessman in a marriage arranged by her parents. In the enclosed world of the Sang household—a place of public ceremony and private cruelty—fulfilling her duty means bearing a male heir.The life that has been forced on her makes Feng bitter and resentful, and she plots a terrible revenge. But with the passing years comes a reckoning, and Feng must reconcile herself with the sacrifices and terrible choices she has made in order to assure her place in the family and society—even as the violent, relentless tide of revolution engulfs her country." (publisher's description)
The Innocent: a Vanessa Michael Munroe novel (M)
by Taylor Stevens (December 27)
Quick on the heels of Stevens' debut international thriller The Informationist (M), comes the next Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel. The title of the first book refers to lead character Munroe's career: she seeks information that is valuable to corporations and others. The plot of this action packed sequel finds Munroe investigating the case of child kidnapped by a cult. In a time when Larsson remains the name to mention when trying to draw positive attention to a new thriller, I've seen more than one comparison of Stevens' female lead to Lisbeth Salander.
Death Comes to Pemberley (M)
by P.D. James (December 6).
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Q: Why is my app crashing on iPhone 4S because of Core Data request execute? I have an app that works fine on the simulator 6.1, works fine on the iPhone5 and iPad3 on iOS6.1 but when run on iPhone4S it crashes in this method with Exc Bad Access:
-(void)parsePlistIntoCD{
    self.managedObjectContext = [[SDCoreDataController sharedInstance] backgroundManagedObjectContext];
    // 3: Now put the plistDictionary into CD...create get ManagedObjectContext
    NSManagedObjectContext *context = self.managedObjectContext;
    NSError *error;

    //Create Request & set Entity for request
    NSFetchRequest *holidayRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
    NSEntityDescription *topicEntityDescription = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Holiday" inManagedObjectContext:context];
    [holidayRequest setEntity:topicEntityDescription];

    //Create new NSManagedObject
    //Holiday *holidayObjectToSeed = nil;
    Holiday *newHoliday = nil;
    //Execute fetch just to make sure?
    NSArray *holidayFetchedArray = [context executeFetchRequest:holidayRequest error:&error];
    **if (error) NSLog(@"Error encountered in executing topic fetch request: %@", error); // if I comment this line out it reaches as far as the next bold line**

    // No holidays in database so we proceed to populate the database
    if ([holidayFetchedArray count] == 0) {
        //Get path to plist file
        NSString *holidaysPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"PreloadedFarsiman" ofType:@"plist"];
        //Put data into an array (with dictionaries in it)
        NSArray *holidayDataArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:holidaysPath];
        **NSLog(@"holidayDataArray is %@", holidayDataArray);**
        //Get number of items in that array
        int numberOfTopics = [holidayDataArray count];
        //Loop thru array items...
        for (int i = 0; i<numberOfTopics; i++) {
            //get each dict at each node
            NSDictionary *holidayDataDictionary = [holidayDataArray objectAtIndex:i];
            //Insert new object
            newHoliday = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"Holiday" inManagedObjectContext:context];
            //Parse all keys in each dict object
            [newHoliday setValuesForKeysWithDictionary:holidayDataDictionary];
            //Save and or log error
            [context save:&error];
            if (error) NSLog(@"Error encountered in saving topic entity, %d, %@, Hint: check that the structure of the pList matches Core Data: %@",i, newHoliday, error);
        };
    }

    //set bool that specifies the coredata has been populated from plist already
    NSString *bundleVersion = [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:(NSString *)kCFBundleVersionKey];
    NSString *appFirstStartOfVersionKey = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"first_start_%@", bundleVersion];

    NSUserDefaults *prefs = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    [prefs setObject:@(YES) forKey:appFirstStartOfVersionKey];
    [prefs synchronize];
}

Why only on 4S?  It gives no console log and the last know method traversed in this one above.  Here is a pic:

And as mentioned above, if I uncomment that NSLog line it reaches as far as logging the array, as shown in the pic.  If I leave it in it stops at that line.

A: NSArray *holidayFetchedArray = [context executeFetchRequest:holidayRequest error:&error];
if (error)
   NSLog(@"Error encountered in executing topic fetch request: %@", error);

No no no no no. I know this is a difficult pattern, but please let's try to do it right. Not if (error). error could be anything (esp. under non-ARC). The test is if (!holidayFetchedArray).
For all of these methods that return a value and also take an NSError** by indirection, you test the result to see if it is nil. If it is, then there was an error because returning nil is the sign that there was an error. Then and only then you may touch the error meaningfully.
The docs are always quite clear about this, though it is true that a fog can come over one's eyes at the critical instance, so I've added some comments in italic brackets to call out the key points:

request
A fetch request that specifies the search criteria for the
  fetch.
error
If there is a problem executing the fetch, upon return
  contains an instance of NSError that describes the problem.
  [And if there is no problem executing the fetch, contains garbage so don't touch it!]
Return Value
An array of objects that meet the criteria specified by request
  fetched from the receiver and from the persistent stores associated
  with the receiver's persistent store coordinator. If an error occurs,
  returns nil. [And that, forsooth, is the sign that an error did occur.] If no objects match the criteria specified by request,
  returns an empty array.

This might be the cause of your trouble or it might not, but you must fix it now. I want you to go through all your code looking for NSError* variables declared for use in this pattern and fix all of them! Thank you. Here endeth the lesson.

A: This is a stab in the dark b/c you haven't identified the line of code where the crash occurs. I recommended you set a breakpoint and then step through until you hit the crash. If what I say below doesn't resolve the issue then edit your post and add more info about where the crash occurs and we'll go from there.
Here's something to check. The line:
[newHoliday setValuesForKeysWithDictionary:holidayDataDictionary]

may be crashing if any of the keys in holidayDataDictionary aren't valid for an instance of the Holiday class.
With regard to your question about why it only crashes on your iPhone 4S there's not enough data to explain that yet. Depending on how you've been doing testing and core data migration (if at all) you may have a model inconsistency on that device, though I don't see anything in the screen shot you posted pointing me in that direction. I would try uninstalling/reinstalling your app and see if the crash is still iPhone 4S only.

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How mentors turn kids into successful adults
Chris Kissell @bankrate
October 22, 2014 in Career
Most of us fondly remember at least one adult who played a key role in our lives.
Youths who have "natural mentors" — non-parental adults who come into the youth's life through routine interactions — are more likely to end up with better jobs in their late 20s and early 30s, according to research from North Carolina State University.
Natural mentors help young people find career paths that are rich in intrinsic rewards that create a sense of satisfaction that reaches far beyond the numbers on an employee's paycheck, according to study lead author Steve McDonald, associate professor of sociology at North Carolina State.
In the following interview, McDonald talks about the study findings and how natural mentors help young people find careers they value and enjoy.
Please explain what your study found about the long-term effects of having a mentor early in your career.
In the survey, respondents were asked to self-identify whether they had a mentor — someone who had made an important impact on their life.
Youth who reported having natural mentors during their teenage and early adult years ended up in better jobs during their late 20s and early 30s.
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How did you define "mentors" in this study? Can you provide examples?
The focus for this study was on natural mentoring relationships. These are different from gaining mentors through formal mentoring programs. Instead, natural mentoring relationships arise through the routine interactions between youth and the non-parental adults they come in contact with.
Natural mentors could be teachers, relatives, employers or neighbors. Of course, not all such people are mentors, only those who develop a special connection with a youth and those who take a special interest in the development of that young person.
You wanted to distinguish between the career benefits people get from their socioeconomic status and the advantages that are tied to having a mentor. How did you do this?
The main challenge of studying the benefits of natural mentoring is that the youth who come from advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds are most likely to have mentors. So, if we merely compared the mentored group to the non-mentored group, the benefits of mentoring could be due to both their background factors and their mentoring.
To isolate the causal impact of mentoring, my co-author (Joshua Lambert) and I conducted a statistical matching technique, which essentially lined up the study participants according to their socioeconomic backgrounds, and then matched youth who had nearly identical backgrounds but differed only based on whether they had or did not have a mentor.
We then examined the different outcomes within those matches, which helped us to better understand the career benefits of mentoring.
You found that employment and compensation did not markedly differ between those who had mentors and those who did not. Yet, the people with mentors had jobs with more "intrinsic" job rewards. Can you explain?
Work, of course, is valuable for the compensation that we receive via salaries and benefits (extrinsic rewards), but it is also valuable in terms of the more intrinsic quality of the employment. This refers to the extent to which the work allows individuals to have control over their tasks and to have a say in how the work is organized.
So, while we did not find any direct benefits of natural mentoring in terms of gaining employment or in terms of extrinsic job rewards, we found that youth who reported having a natural mentor were later employed in jobs that had significantly greater intrinsic rewards than the jobs of the those individuals who did not have natural mentors.
Moreover, we know from other research that intrinsically rewarding work early in careers tends to lead to more employment opportunities and higher compensation later in careers.
What are the implications of this study? How can teachers, business leaders, parents and others use these findings to help young people develop more successful and fulfilling careers?
This study not only shows that natural mentoring relationships matter, it also helps clarify why they matter. The findings suggest that natural mentors promote long-term thinking and goal setting, which is instrumental for gaining intrinsically rewarding employment experiences.
Mentoring helps youth of all backgrounds to move beyond the idea of finding a job that pays well to finding a career that they value and enjoy. Focusing on long-term planning and emphasizing the benefits of intrinsically rewarding work can therefore have a profound and positive impact on career success and fulfillment.
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Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China quantity
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In the years before World War I, Montana cowboy Fred Barton was employed by Czar Nicholas II to help establish a horse ranch—the largest in the world—in Siberia to supply the Russian military. Barton later assembled a group of American rodeo stars and drove horses across Mongolia for the war-lords of northern China, creating a 250,000 acre ranch in Shanxi Province.
Along the way, Barton became part of an unofficial U.S. intelligence network in the Far East, bred a new type of horse from Russian, Mongolian and American stock and promoted the lifestyle of the open range cowboy. Returning to America, he married one of the wealthiest widows in the Southwest and hobnobbed with Western film stars at a time when Hollywood was constructing the modern myth of the Old West, just as open range cowboy life was disappearing.
Larry Weirather lives in Vancouver, Washington, and is a professor emeritus of popular culture at Clark College. He has published articles in The Journal of Popular Culture and The Popular Culture Review and served as editor for various literary magazines.
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Acknowledgments vii
One • Fort Keogh Days, 1889–1905 11
Two • A Young Bronc Peeler in Miles City, 1905–1911 23
Three • Vladivostok and the World's Largest Horse Ranch, 1911–1912 36
Four • "Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em": The British-American Tobacco Co., 1912–1916 46
Five • Horses for the Warlords: The Longest Drive, 1917 60
Six • 15th Infantry Cowboys and U.S. Intelligence, 1917 71
Seven • Khabarovsk, Siberia, to Hilar, Manchuria, 1917 87
Eight • Hilar, Manchuria, to Urga, Mongolia, 1917 94
Nine • Across the Gobi: Urga to Kalgan, 1917 103
Ten • Final Leg: Kalgan to Taiyuanfu, 1917 113
Eleven • Montana Cowboys in the Celestial Empire, 1918–1920 120
Twelve • When to Hold 'Em, When to Fold 'Em, 1920–1937 134
Thirteen • Poor Little Rich Boy and Princess Xenia, 1920 144
Fourteen • The Many Wives of a Lifelong Bachelor, Here and Abroad 148
Fifteen • Life Without Warlords: C.M. Russell and the Fred Barton Museum of the Old West, 1937–1967 164
Sixteen • Barton and the Hollywood Cowboys 173
Seventeen • Ruminating on Guys, Gussies and Morons at Trail's End 190
Epilogue 198
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The team of the Piraeus Office, with the assistance of a reputable Management Consultant, along with Mr. Margetis gathered up in Aesko Resort, on Friday evening, where they discussed the program to follow and then spent a pleasant night among friends.
Starting on Saturday morning till noon of the following day, all colleagues – divided into two groups – participated in a long discussion of various elements of the company that are considered to be either assets to maintain and strengthen or weaknesses to be dealt with and improve. Future goals and opportunities as to the company's development worldwide and regarding the direct goal of provision the outmost of quality services to its clientele, were also scrutinized. A SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats), was carried out, allowing every member to elaborate on its view of the company's organization. George Margetis and the team were more than eager to locate every single element concerning the above and worked together to set goals and policies whose implementation in the Piraeus office, as well in all the other Worldwide Offices, will be essential and decisive for our Firm's expansion and development.
Margetis Maritime Consulting often quotes that "More Is Yet To Come", thus we are confident to say that there is a lot more to expect from Margetis Maritime Consulting, in the near future.


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The Hattiesburg Alumnae Chapter has provided annual educational scholarships to deserving students. We are committed to mentoring youth in our community through the Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy, Delta GEMS and EMBODI organizations. We formed collaborative efforts with Hattiesburg AIDS Coalition, American Heart Association, Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi, Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, Hattiesburg Police Department, NACCP, Association of Retarded Citizens, and local schools and churches in order to make a difference in our local community.
Hattiesburg Alumnae Chapter continues to focus our attention to current health care disparities that affect our local community. Our chapter provides HIV/AIDS education and free screening to local college students, promote breast cancer awareness to women of all ages, and support local efforts of the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi and American Heart Association.
As a chapter, we are registering citizens to vote, supporting our local government and elected officials, highlighting minority owned businesses, providing financial literacy program to local school districts, and advocating international causes.
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Motion: The 2019 ASHI budget shall be amended to allocate TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($12,500) to be distributed at the discretion of the Council Speaker.
Rationale: The Council of Representatives is the pool in which we prepare, and from which we draw, our future leaders. The Group Leaders are engaged in a program to undergird the Council with training, communication and recognition. This increased budget provides for a Council Representative training (CRT) program preceding LDC. See below.


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The Chromium build system is a complicated beast of a system, and it is not very
well documented beyond the basics of getting the source and building the
Chromium product. This page has more advanced information about the build
system.

If you're new to Chromium development, read the
[getting started guides](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code).

There is some additional documentation on
[setting GYP build parameters](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/gyp-environment-variables).

[TOC]

## Faster Builds

### Components Build

A non-standard build configuration is to use dynamic linking instead of static
linking for the various modules in the Chromium codebase. This results in
significantly faster link times, but is a divergence from what is shipped and
primarily tested. To enable the
[component build](http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/component-build):

    $ GYP_DEFINES="component=shared_library" gclient runhooks

or

```
C:\...\src>set GYP_DEFINES=component=shared_library
C:\...\src>gclient runhooks
```

### Windows: Debug Builds Link Faster

On Windows if using the components build, building in debug mode will generally
link faster. This is because in debug mode, the linker works incrementally. In
release mode, a full link is performed each time.

### Mac: Disable Release Mode Stripping

On Mac, if building in release mode, one of the final build steps will be to
strip the build products and create dSYM files. This process can slow down your
incremental builds, but it can be disabled with the following define:

    $ GYP_DEFINES="mac_strip_release=0" gclient runhooks

### Mac: DCHECKs in Release Mode

DCHECKs are only designed to be run in debug builds. But building in release
mode on Mac is significantly faster. You can have your cake and eat it too by
building release mode with DCHECKs enabled using the following define:

    $ GYP_DEFINES="dcheck_always_on=1" gclient runhooks

### Linux

Linux has its own page on [making the build faster](linux_faster_builds.md).

## Configuring the Build

### Environment Variables

There are various environment variables that can be passed to the metabuild
system GYP when generating project files. This is a summary of them:

TODO(andybons): Convert to list.

|:-------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------|
| `GYP_DEFINES` | A set of key=value pairs separated by space that will set default values of variables used in .gyp and .gypi files |
| `GYP_GENERATORS` | The specific generator that creates build-system specific files |
| `GYP_GENERATOR_FLAGS` | Flags that are passed down to the tool that generates the build-system specific files |
| `GYP_GENERATOR_OUTPUT` | The directory that the top-level build output directory is relative to |

Note also that GYP uses CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, and CXXFLAGS when generating ninja
files (the values at build time = ninja run time are _not_ used); see
[gyp/generator/ninja.py](https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/ninja.py&q=cxxflags).

### Variable Files

If you want to keep a set of variables established, there are a couple of magic
files that GYP reads:

#### chromium.gyp\_env

Next to your top-level `/src/` directory, create a file called
`chromium.gyp_env`. This holds a JSON dictionary, with the keys being any of the
above environment variables. For the full list of supported keys, see
[/src/build/gyp_helper.py](/build/gyp_helper.py).

```
{
  'variables': {
    'mac_strip_release': 0,
  }, 'GYP_DEFINES':
    'clang=1 ' 'component=shared_library ' 'dcheck_always_on=1 '
}
```

#### include.gyp

Or globally in your home directory, create a file `~/.gyp/include.gypi`.

#### supplement.gypi

The build system will also include any files named `/src/*/supplement.gypi`,
which should be in the same format as include.gyp above.

### Change the Build System

Most platforms support multiple build systems (Windows: different Visual Studios
versions and ninja, Mac: Xcode and ninja, etc.). A sensible default is selected,
but it can be overridden:

    $ GYP_GENERATORS=ninja gclient runhooks

[Ninja](ninja_build.md) is generally the fastest way to build anything on any
platform.

### Change Build Output Directory

If you need to change a compile-time flag and do not want to touch your current
build output, you can re-run GYP and place output into a new directory, like so,
assuming you are using ninja:

```shell
$ GYP_GENERATOR_FLAGS="output_dir=out_other_ninja" gclient runhooks
$ ninja -C out_other_ninja/Release chrome
```

Alternatively, you can do the following, which should work with all GYP
generators, but the out directory is nested as `out_other/out/`.

```shell
$ GYP_GENERATOR_OUTPUT="out_other" gclient runhooks
$ ninja -C out_other/out/Release chrome
```

**Note:** If you wish to run the WebKit layout tests, make sure you specify the
new directory using `--build-directory=out_other_ninja` (don't include the
`Release` part).

### Building Google Chrome

To build Chrome, you need to be a Google employee and have access to the
[src-internal](https://goto.google.com/src-internal) repository. Once your
checkout is set up, you can run gclient like so:

    $ GYP_DEFINES="branding=Chrome buildtype=Official" gclient runhooks

Then building the `chrome` target will produce the official build. This tip can
be used in conjunction with changing the output directory, since changing these
defines will rebuild the world.

Also note that some GYP\_DEFINES flags are incompatible with the official build.
If you get an error when you try to build, try removing all your flags and start
with just the above ones.

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Each year in the run up to the first full week of April, in hushed tones we hear an announcer say, "A tradition like no other, the Masters." It's a catchy phrase but it's actually true. The Masters has a tradition like no other sporting event. Other events have traditions, they drink milk in Victory Lane at the Indy 500 and the winners at Wimbledon get a chance to meet royalty. But at the Masters the traditions start early and continue through the sunset Green Jacket ceremony on Sunday.
I've been in Augusta for the Masters each year since 1979. As a young reporter in Charleston, S.C. I was excited to get my first invitation to cover golf's first Major of the year. I was a little surprised when I arrived at Augusta National and it was tucked into a corner on Washington Road amid fast-food restaurants and discount stores. Just a small sign amongst the trees showed the way to Magnolia Lane. Back then, the media was allowed to come in the main gate, and then directed to the side where one of the practice area was a large expanse of green in front of the clubhouse. A gravel-covered parking lot had a single post near the middle that said "media" with volunteers showing the way. A short walk to the right of the clubhouse was the "media center" a Quonset hut down two wooden stairs with a manual scoreboard in the front and the clatter of portable, manual typewriters filling the air. Tom Place, the PGA Tour's on-site media coordinator, saw me at the back door, no doubt looking bewildered, and shepherded me through the credentialing process. Not much past my 23rd birthday, I'm sure I was the youngest "reporter" in the building. I met Furman Bisher from Atlanta and Edwin Pope from Miami. Other icons of writing at the time like Herbert Warren Wind (he named "Amen Corner") were scattered around the "room." Pre-internet, pre-computers, pre-cell phones, it was a place full of activity. Everything was done manually. The scoring, the announcements, everything.
Being a city kid form Baltimore, I didn't know much about golf before I went to college and stepping onto the golf course at Augusta National was like being dropped into a dream. From the golf shop the course unfolds in front of you as an expanse of green like I'd never seen. A former nursery, Augusta National had trees and flowers of every variety that were breathtaking.
You often hear the Masters described as "this special week." Yes the tournament provides the backdrop for that, but the "specialness" comes in the people you see every year under the oak tree at the clubhouse, returning to experience the first elements of spring and renewing old friendships. As a sports fan, there's no place like the veranda at Augusta National. I've seen just about every major sports figure at one time or another, relaxed and enjoying the atmosphere. The members provide part of that, a genteel-ness that can be attributed to the Masters home in Georgia but also to the gentlemanly nature of the game of golf and the traditions the game itself holds.
I've smoked a cigar with Sonny Jurgensen sitting on the porch of "The National" and had breakfast with Arnold Palmer in the upstairs dining room that once had a "Gentlemen Only" sign posted at the bottom of the stairs.
At my first Masters, the television station I was working for couldn't afford a photographer so I enlisted my Dad to point the camera when I was conducting interviews. After Fuzzy Zoeller made the winning putt on 11 in sudden death, a member brought Zoeller back toward the clubhouse in a golf cart, stopping in front of me so I could ask the newest Masters champion a few questions. As he walked toward me I could hear my Dad behind me saying, "I don't see him, I don't see him." A glance over my shoulder showed the viewfinder disconnected from the camera, easily fixed with one turn of the wrist behind my back. "There he is," my Dad said as I shook hands with Fuzzy. The story line that week was Zoeller playing so well as a rookie at Augusta National and the fact that his wife was back in Indiana about to give birth to their first child. "Are you a dad yet?" I blurted out, putting the microphone under Fuzzy's chin. "I don't know," he said with a laugh, "but after that she's probably on her way to the hospital!" As I went to ask a second question, out of the dark about twenty microphones identifying media outlets from all over the world were pointed at me as I pulled my own mic back. That's when I first realized: this is a big deal.
It's at Augusta National where I've played 18 holes with Brent Musberger and caddied for David Duval in the par three contest. It's where I got to know Pat Summerall and Hall of Famer Frank Chirkinian, the legendary golf producer. It's there on the patio at lunch with the then-President of CBS Sports Peter Lund where I heard him say, "You know Sam, I got it down to you and Jim (Nantz) and for the life of me I can remember why I picked Jim." (Yes, crushing) It's where I encouraged my friend Todd to propose to his girlfriend, saying, "Really? Amen Corner would be the perfect spot." And it's where Chirkinian invited me to play one Monday after the Masters and I brought my friend former NFL quarterback Matt Robinson. "What is this the Chirkinian invitational," the pro said with a laugh followed by, "You guys go over to the 10th tee and start on the back." A dream come true for any golfer at any level.
It's a worldwide event that happens close to home as evidenced by the number of languages you hear spoken on the golf course among the patrons and in and around the clubhouse. Two years ago a man making the "strike a match" motion approached me under the oak tree. Once I realized he spoke no English and he recognized that my Spanish was not good, we had a laugh and I gave him a matchbook and an extra cigar I was carrying. He was part of the Argentine Golf Federation, one of dozens invited to Augusta each year to represent the game in their country. The next afternoon while headed inside, my new Argentine friend tracked me down and insisted we share some time, and one of his cigars, under the oak. That doesn't happen anywhere else.
Over the years I've covered every aspect of the tournament allowed from the practice rounds (which used to be open to anyone for a $15 admission) to the Thursday tradition of the ceremonial starters to the final putt dropping on Sunday. Sometimes our news management has sent me there for a week, sometimes for a day, and sometimes, not at all. On those occasions I've thought it was important enough to get there on my own and carry on my own tradition of being at The Masters. Because as I found out early on: it's a big deal.


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Engineering for the project is already underway and work is expected to begin this month. The project is expected to ramp up production in the first quarter of 2019.
Arconic has applied for incentives to support the project. A decision is pending before the Bowie County Board of Commissioners, cities of Nash and Texarkana as well as Texarkana Community College and Texarkana Chamber of Commerce.
In September of 2015, Arconic restarted assets in the Texarkana casthouse—two casting pits which had been idled since 2009—to meet demand in the automotive industry. The facility, which currently has 80 employees, is part of Arconic's Global Rolled Products business. The majority of the plant's production volume has supported Arconic's automotive business with some additional supply supporting the industrial markets.
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Link to model pkl file generated by notebook: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am9OrS5L0lkngiTNdH2rLhiOdiF2

This repository has code for finetuning or directly using the resnet-152 model pre-trained on Imagenet in theano and lasagne.

This is based on an awesome notebook doing the same things for resnet-50: https://github.com/Lasagne/Recipes/blob/master/examples/resnet50/ImageNet%20Pretrained%20Network%20(ResNet-50).ipynb

For licenses and credits please see the [notebook](https://github.com/kundan2510/resnet152-pre-trained-imagenet/blob/master/ImageNet%20Pretrained%20Network%20(ResNet-152).ipynb)


Campsite Het Horstmannsbos is a campsite in Gasselte, Drenthe, located in a wood.The campsite has which are marked out, pitches with shade, pitches without shade and pitches with some shade. It is possible to rent hikers' cabins. The campsite has a playground and a sports ground.
This inspector visits Campsite Het Horstmannsbos every year and inspects the campsite on the basis of more than 200 amenities and other points of interest. The inspector is an ACSI staff member and does not work for the campsite.
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From the N34 Groningen-Emmen follow the road signs to the Gasselte exit.
ACSI Eurocampings will send your information request to "Campsite Het Horstmannsbos".


As morning approaches I am awakened once or twice by the patter of rain on the rain tarp. I listen for a moment or two and it goes away. This happens a couple of times. Since I don't have my watch with me, I don't know what time it is. But I sleep very, very well.
Finally I peak out from under the rain tarp. It looks like morning. I feel no hurry to get things going. On the other hand everything I want today is at the end of the trail. In my mind I have broken the hike into two sections, the bushwhack back to the trail and then the trail back to the Chittenden Picnic area. A shower and a good meal await me in West Yellowstone.
I haul myself out of my sleeping bag and test my body for aches and pains. I feel pretty good considering what I did yesterday. I am a little stiff, but not too bad. I put on my jacket and my boots and head out to the food preparation area. I drop the bear bags again--it's probably a good thing I did this alone because there was plenty of evidence of late-night incompetence in tying the thing off. I am thus able to hide the evidence. I open Jake and Leslie's bag and rummage around for my watch. It's under a couple of things. Then I open my own bag and start looking for breakfast. I'll have to repack everything in it before we leave.
I can't remember if we had an agreed upon wake up time or not, but pretty soon Leslie arrives to begin work on their breakfast. Jake arrives pretty close on her heals. I was hoping to be hungry, but my appetite is now down to a normal level. I make two packets of oatmeal and force myself to finish them. Then I start to work on cleaning things up and packing them up.
I'm not too happy about the intermittent rain. I forgot to put in the garbage sack that I usually use to line my backpack and to make it waterproof. If the rain wants to get really bad, I will be more or less at the mercy of the weather. I definitely do not want my sleeping bag to turn into a sloppy pile of wet down. I will have to pack some items differently because of the weather. I want to make sure my rain jacket is near the top.
So while Jake and Leslie are busy packing up and putting their rain covers on their packs, I am busy hoping the rain will stop. But it clearly is not. Finally I just bite the bullet and start throwing stuff in the pack. Jake helps me take down my tent and pull out the stakes. I do not roll it up with my usual care. It's all wet anyway. Unknown to me, Leslie has grabbed the water filter and my tent stakes and put them in her pack. That's got to be another pound on her back. Thanks, Les.
Jake asks Leslie what way she wants leave. "Let's go the easy way," she says. I'm all for the easy way, whatever way that is. Jake says that he will take us by some of the features we missed on the way in. That is fine with me.
The first thing I discover is that my feet are not working well. It takes me a few steps and a minute or so to get up to speed. This is a combination of mostly my battered feet and a little bit of muscle soreness. So we head up the hill behind 4B1. We pass the ridge where the mud pot is and come to the stagnant pond. Wendy described this and I am pleased to finally see it. The shore is packed hard and is dry and cracked. At the far end of the pond we pass the interesting tree that I remember from Dr. Sarah Boomer's trip report. This is great.
I gather from Jake and Leslie that the "easy way" involves more or less following drainages as much as possible. After the initial climb out of 4B1--steep in itself, but not nearly as bad as the trip out of Fairyland--the way is not too bad. We pass over the little creek that drains into the area where Laurie and I camped and we pass through meadows, forests and deadfall. Finally we come to the creek that Laurie and I followed down.
I tell Jake that we can follow this creek for a little ways to the south until it gets pretty small. Somehow I get pushed out in front to lead. When I ask why, Jake says it's because I've been here before. But I am doing nothing more clever than following the creek. I try to stay mostly to the ridge above the creek. It will be better to avoid the marshy sides of the creek until the ridge disappears into meadow. The deadfall is not too bad along this way and it is a pleasant thing to hear the creek bubbling below us.
When the ridge finally gives way, we descend to the meadow that the creek runs through. When the creek is clearly meandering here and there I decide that it is time to cross. We should now be about a half mile from the trail. Jake takes a look at his compass and map and we follow the meadow for a ways, jumping the creek once or twice as necessary. Finally we leave the creek.
Jake doesn't seem excited about the trip anymore. I understand. But I really want to finish this hike and the end of the trail is a finite number of steps away. I want to avoid lollygagging as much as possible. Job one is to get back to the trail.
So Jake takes a compass reading and we head off. Jake seems to think that we should be coming out on the trail soon. He says he wants to come out as close to Orange Rock Springs as possible. After we travel a bit further, he more or less gives up that idea. "It's time to take the direction sure to get us to the trail," he says.
When we finally come out of the forest we are somewhere between Orange Rock and 4M2. We never see Orange Rock on the way out. On the trail I take the lead again and we head towards 4M2 and lunch time. We probably hike less than ten minutes before we pass 4M2 and come to the place where we ate. We all drop our packs and break out the food. This is my last peanut butter sandwich. It's good, but the beef jerky is absolutely to die for. I cannot get enough. I wonder if it is a salt thing?
We decide that we have plenty of water, so we don't pump from Moss Creek. The day is cloudy and cool and a little rainy. The hiking conditions are perfect as long as a cloudburst doesn't turn the trail to mud. I ask Jake about landmarks again. Now that we are at the trail, there is nothing else to do but get to the trailhead. We still have not seen any other hikers. So Jake and I run through the list: disappointment meadows; the creek along the trail; the two creek crossings; the trail junction and then finally making our way up the big hills in Hayden.
My feet and legs are still not working so well. Whenever we stop, it takes me a few steps to get up to speed. I'm not particularly hurt, just stiff and sore. No one seems to care that much. They just make the adjustment until I am up to speed. I check my watch and we leave Moss Creek. Jake has found his bad trail attitude again. I just want to make tracks. Once again I plan on stopping about once an hour in hopes of making two or more miles an hour.
Jake and Leslie are still holding out some hope of seeing Fan and Mortar Geysers in the Upper Geyser Basin. They plan on checking on that when we get out. I want a shower and red meat for dinner. I try to talk Jake and Leslie into joining me for dinner. They say they will come if there is no chance of seeing Fan and Mortar. I want to treat them for giving me the hike of a lifetime.
I try to keep pushing on, even when I would rather stop a bit early. Stopping just means a slow start again after a rest. So I pretty well keep to my stopping schedule. Even when my back hurts some, I push on. At the rest stops I make sure that I stretch. Leslie shows me how to do her funky hands-behind-the-back stretching exercise. Boy does that feel good. Thanks, Les. I am still doing that one to this day. It's fantastic.
I am excited to see each bit of trail that we know along the way. Even the deadfall is now familiar and it is a pleasure to go around it or climb over it. At rest stops, Jake seemingly takes every opportunity to complain about the trail. Forest, streams and more forest. I try to get an interest going on when we will see someone else. I say in Hayden; Leslie says at the trailhead; Jake says at the Wrangler Lake junction.
The miles pass pleasantly enough. Jake hikes to the oldies again. It's great to get to the Ribbon Lake junction. We now have about three miles to the trailhead. When we get to the thermal areas outside of Hayden I pull off the trail to let three horses come by. One of the horsemen is familiar. He calls Jake by name.
"Jake, is that you?" It's Lee Whittlesey, of all people. No one tells me this. I recognize him from his photo.
"You out doing the Ribbon Lake loop?"
"No, we went to Fairyland," says Jake.
"Fairyland?" There's something of a look on Whittlesey's face. "Well, very few people have ever been there." He smiles.
"Jake's been there four times," says Leslie.
Whittlesey is going out to Wapiti Lake. I make a generous offer of $50 to borrow a horse to the end of the trail, but my suggestion only brings smiles and laughter. "The good news," says Whittlesey, "is that you are not all that far from the trailhead." Perhaps not on horseback, but we still have about two miles to go. So it turns out that none of us were correct about when we might see another human being.
As we part company, Jake has a new target. "They'll be eating prime rib tonight," says Jake. "That's some kind of tough backpacking."
It's one last break in the forest by the thermal area and I hobble into Hayden. It's great to see Hayden. Even though we probably still have a mile to go, even though we still have the two big hills to climb, Hayden symbolizes the end of the hike. When we get to the first hill Jake says, "This is where I remember you took off last time." There will be no taking off this time. My sore, blistered feet and tight legs won't allow it.
Finally we get over the last hill and past the trail junctions. We can see the trees that mark the parking lot and the last curve in the trail. My Fairyland adventure is almost over.
Back at the cars we set a time for dinner. 6:00pm, I think, maybe 7:00. I tell Jake and Leslie to meet me at the Three Bear restaurant. There will be red meat tonight. It's only about 3:00 right now, so I should have plenty of time for showering and cleaning up. Frankly, I am a stinky mess.
So I drive to Canyon Junction and head off towards Norris. I tell myself that I will only stop for a bear. Okay, I will only stop for a bear or an eruption of Steamboat. I find myself hoping that the Madison bison are kind and let me pass unobstructed. I pass each landmark without incident--Norris, the Chocolate Pots, Gibbon Falls, Elk Meadows, Seven Mile Bridge. I keep thinking about Fairyland as I get close to West Yellowstone. I can't quite believe it really happened.
Dinner is everything I was hoping for. Jake and Leslie are there and we all eat heartily. We decide to meet at 11:00am tomorrow for some geyser gazing. I need to do some laundry in the morning. I will have to make a decision about my feet and the Bechler trip then. Sleeping tonight is going to be good. I say goodbye to Jake and Leslie and head back to my room. I still have stuff to sort and put away before bed. I make a trip to the grocery store for a few items as well. Life is very, very good.


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Kyle Snyder and the College Cash Loophole
Suzanne Goldsmith Senior Editor, Columbus Monthly
An Olympic-size exception in NCAA regulations
If your understanding of the NCAA's no-payment rules for student-athletes is informed by the memory of Ohio State football's 2011 "tattoo gate" scandal, you might be surprised to learn that Kyle Snyder received cash bonuses for international wrestling wins while also competing for the Buckeyes, according to a profile of Snyder in Victory Journal. From 2015 to 2018, Snyder earned at least $375,000.
Since 2001, the NCAA has allowed student-athletes to accept payments the U.S. Olympic Committee offers medalists (and world champions in non-Olympic years) through its Operation Gold program. Snyder received $25,000 from the USOC, the standard award for gold in 2016.
But the NCAA also allows enhancements to the USOC payments, as long as the money comes from an athletic federation. Under those rules, USA Wrestling awarded Snyder a massive payout of $250,000 for winning gold in Rio. The bonus was underwritten by the Living the Dream Medal Fund, a pot of money created in 2009 by two wealthy former wrestlers. Living the Dream also paid Snyder a total of $100,000 for winning gold at world championship tournaments in 2015 and 2017, according to Victory Journal.
Have other OSU Olympians received similar bonuses? It's hard to tell. That information is protected under student privacy rights, according to OSU Athletics Department communications director Dan Wallenberg, and the NCAA says it doesn't document such payments. In an email, NCAA representative Michelle Brutlag Hosick writes, "Because these type of awards are allowed by rule (not waiver), we don't keep track of who accepts them or how much."
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Vorders buys up Irish hideaway
Countdown star Carol Vorderman splashes out #1.37m on a luxury holiday home in Ireland.
COUNTDOWN star Carol Vorderman has splashed out a titanic #1.37m on a luxury holiday home in Ireland.
The human calculator - who is hot property herself as one of TV's highest paid women - forked out for the west coast dream retreat after she fell in love with its nautical-style decor.
Denbighshire-born Carol's house is a modern seafront pile with its own pier on Glandore harbour, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in rural Cork.
The three-bedroom house - called Bar Na Don meaning Top of the Waves - has breezy open-plan rooms on two levels with a balcony running the entire length of the building, resembling a ship's deck.
It was built in the 1960s but remodelled by the previous owner in the 1990s to reflect his love of sailing.
Architect Rachael Lidlow said: "We had to open it out to the sea. The external ocean-facing wall was replaced with a sea of glass. Now the whole room opens out onto a balcony walkway, bringing the sea right inside."
But if it gets too much, she can always close the electronically-operated curtains.
There's no need to worry about storms lashing her cliff-side pad either because the windows are Belgium-imported custom-built to withstand gale-force gusts.
Inside, the sea-faring theme continues with decked out floors reminiscent of a liner's decking and a galley-style kitchen.
Other perks include a surround-sound stereo, an ensuite spa bath, twin power shower, heated towel rail and a designer art deco mirror.
Vorders and partner Des Kelly will be able to work undisturbed too while she holidays with the kids - Katie, 11, and Cameron, six - thanks to an office, telephone switchboard and cable wiring for high-speed internet access.
She joins a host of A-listers who have bought in Ireland, including actor Jeremy Irons, film producer Lord Puttnam, Irish tycoon Tony O'Reilly and Lady Margaret Jay.
Carol - who is a self-confessed property bore - sold her Berkshire home in 2002 for two penthouse apartments in central London after tiring of the "hell of commuting".


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Q: How can I get input field in iframe? I use the below code to get input field in web page,
var a = document.querySelectorAll('input [ type = "text"]');

However, today I found the code can't work in specific condition, and found:
The input field in the webpage can't be seen in "View Source Page" in Firefox, but if I use Firebug, I can see that an iframe is injected into a div tag, and the iframe contains the input field.(this iframe doesn't exist in "View Source Page")
I use Fiddler and found: the iframe code is from another response, which is after the first response.( these response are from the same origin.)
My question is: how can I get the input field in the iframe?
I am new to JavaScript, so apologizing if it's a dumb question.


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Q: How to print label multiple times for contour lines using clabels in matplotlib? I am trying to plot a contour map in matplotlib. I want the labels to be printed at a certain interval in the plot for more clarity, but I am unable to do so. How can I do that?
For eg: Here in MATLAB has multiple labels per contour lines, however in matplotlib I get only one label per contour line. How can I get multiple labels in matplotlib?
Desperately looking for help.

A: You can just apply the label again:
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
CS = ax.contour(X, Y, Z)
ax.clabel(CS, [-1, 0.5,], inline=1, fontsize=10)
ax.clabel(CS, [0.5,], inline=1, fontsize=10)

This will give you two labels on the contour with te level 0.5. I don't quite see a way to control their position, but as far as I can see, they seem to be spaced evenly automatically. Here is the output wth the data generated as per this link.

A: In addition to the answer provided by @krm, you can use manual option to set contour labels' location. The relevant code is:-
plt.figure()
CS = plt.contour(X, Y, Z)
manual_locations = [(-1, -1.4), (-0.62, -0.7), (-2, 0.5), (1.7, 1.2), (2.0, 1.4)]
plt.clabel(CS, inline=1, fontsize=10, manual=manual_locations)