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Japanese Emperor Naruhito 'Extremely Worried' About Olympics as Tokyo COVID Cases Rise Again
By Rebecca Klapper On 6/24/21 at 11:02 AM EDT
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Japanese Emperor Naruhito is "extremely worried" about the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics being held as the number of COVID-19 cases increase in the city, the head of the Imperial Palace said Thursday.
The grand steward of the Imperial Household Agency, Yasuhiko Nishimura, shared the emperor's concerns at a news conference.
"His majesty is extremely worried about the current situation of the COVID-19 infections," Nishimura said.
"While there are voices of unease among the public, I believe (the emperor) is concerned that holding the Olympics and Paralympics ... may lead to the expansion of the infections."
Though the emperor is only a symbol of the state with no political power, Naruhito's words are highly respected, and the emperor himself has gained popularity just like his father.
Nishimura also spoke to organizers about the containment of the virus, urging them to "take every possible anti-virus measures so as not to cause the spread of the infections at the Olympics and Paralympics, where the emperor serves the Honorary Patron."
For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.
A man wearing a face mask, amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, stands before the Olympic rings from an observation point in Tokyo's Odaiba district on March 25, 2020, the day after the historic decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Emperor Naruhito voiced his concerns about holding the Olympics next month as COVID cases rise again in Tokyo. Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images
The games will bring thousands of foreign athletes, officials, sponsors and journalists to Japan during a pandemic, despite caution raised by experts about the risk of infections and the public's persistent calls for cancellation or further postponement.
The delayed games open July 23, and the Paralympics begin a month later.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is determined to hold the Olympics despite concerns from the public and public health experts.
Adding to their concern, officials in Izumisano, a western Japan town hosting the nine-member Ugandan Olympic team for training, said a second member of the team tested positive for the virus. The first, reportedly a coach, was detected upon arrival Saturday in Tokyo. The rest of the team have been isolating at an Osaka hotel.
Suga eased a third state of emergency in Tokyo that had been in place since late April and switched to less-stringent measures focusing on shorter bar and restaurant hours. But experts said Wednesday that infections are already bouncing back in the Tokyo region and could accelerate in coming weeks.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, downplaying the impact of emperor's concern, said he believed the grand steward expressed "his personal views."
Naruhito, 61, also expressed his concern about the pandemic in his speech at an academic award ceremony Monday: "In order to overcome this challenge, it is important for all of us, in and outside of Japan, to bring our hearts together and cooperate."
Under the plan before a one-year postponement, Naruhito was scheduled to declare the start of the Olympics at the opening ceremony, but details, including his presence at the games, are yet to be finalized, palace officials said.
FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2020, file photo, Japan's Emperor Naruhito wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus attends to formally open an extraordinary Diet session at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo. Naruhito is "extremely worried" about the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics being held as the number of COVID-19 cases increase in the city, the head of the Imperial Palace said Thursday. Koji Sasahara, File/AP Photo
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Shopify introduces AI-powered fulfillment network for SMB partners
Shopify, an e-commerce SaaS provider has reportedly introduced an AI powered fulfillment network for its merchants as the company is working to differentiate its product portfolio from other industry contenders.
Seemingly, the fulfillment network was announced along with a group of platform and product updates at the annual partner conference of Shopify. The network is powered by machine learning, uses inventory-allocation technology for matching orders, negotiating rates, and routing inventory.
Sources familiar with the matter mentioned that the cost of shipping is believed to be a barrier to growth for various merchants. With its own fulfillment network, Shopify claims it will be able to provide merchants with lower-cost shopping which would be completely managed through the system of Shopify.
According to Jean-Michel Lemieux, Shopify CTO, the fulfillment network will include a combination of distribution centers owned and shared by Shopify and is a first for the company, as its merchants previously had to work with third party logistics providers to ship inventory. In addition, Lemieux pointed out that products shipped through fulfillment network of Shopify will reach in merchant-branded boxes and will cover purchases made across channels.
Apparently, after launch, the fulfilment services of Shopify will mainly target small and medium sized businesses and access to the program will depend on product type of a merchant and fulfilment requirements. The network will develop for supporting merchants of all sizes, Lemieux added.
Sources informed that for enterprise brands, Shopify also updated the Shopify Plus platform and unveiled more worldwide capabilities, including an updated Translations API, support for 11 new languages, and the ability to sell in various currencies. As for Shopify Plus, the modernized platform will make it simpler for merchants to operate several sub-brands in stores, with all stores visible from a single interface and an easier workflow for adding new stores.
Supposedly, Shopify is also allowing merchants to display products in video, 3D models, and augmented reality, and has enabled support for 3D models within Shopify.
Source Credit: https://www.zdnet.com/article/shopify-creates-ai-powered-fulfillment-network-for-smb-merchants/


I felt a clear call into education while I was at Calvin College. I was blessed with my first job teaching high school Bible at Manhattan Christian School in Montana in 2003. After four great years at MCHS, I took a job teaching 8th grade algebra and science at Westminster Christian Academy in St. Louis. Most recently, I taught 5-8th grade students math, science, and Bible at Jenison Christian School, where I taught for 8 years. I finished up my Masters in School Counseling through GVSU in 2018, and was hired as the College and Career Counselor at CCHS. I feel blessed and excited to be serving students and families in this role. I am so thankful for a life-giving relationship with my savior Jesus Christ. God has poured out rich, undeserved blessings in my life like my amazing wife Sheila, our four incredible kids, and opportunities to enjoy His creation as an outdoorsman, traveler, athlete, and musician.


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So, it's only five months to Boxing Day – no we haven't actually mentioned the 'C' word yet, but it's a sobering thought that time is marching on!
It has been a quieter time for us this week as the hot weather has either dissuaded people from coming to Preston this last week or slowed down those who did turn up. Or they were away on holiday (and see below..).
Tim spent his time cleaning off the muck deposited by the seagulls of Barrow on FR 20 when it was on display. He then turned to removing loose scale from the tender coal space in readiness for a coat of paint.
Neil appeared on Saturday to paint the inlaid sections of the works plates. These have been taken home so that a full two coats of paint can be applied.
Fred manfully braved the heat on Friday and is seen here adding further paint to the water column.
Keith has been busy manufacturing a new back lower section for Wootton Hall's ashpan.
Following on from last week's sad news, John Dixon informs us that Jean's funeral will be held at 2.30 pm on this Wednesday, 28th July, at St. Mary Magdalene Church at Ribbleton, Preston. The committal will take place afterwards at Preston crematorium.
Finally, back to the promised mention of holidays. Alan has been away in the far South West, and found a giant deck chair to his liking at the Bodmin and Wenford Railway….
Now, it would be cruel to suggest that "pride comes before a fall", because actually "falling" was that last thing that poor Alan could do. When he tried to stand up he quite simply could not. He was stuck and couldn't get out of the darned thing….
There is video evidence, and if there is sufficient demand, money may be changing hands and we may post it on here….
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Monday 19th July 2021
It is with great sadness that we start this week's blog with the news that Jean Dixon, wife of John, passed away on Friday afternoon after losing her fight with cancer. Jean was Membership Secretary of the Lakeside Railway Society in the early days and has always since been part of our wider family. We offer our sincere condolences to John, Andrew, Linda and Sam. Funeral arrangements will be published when available.
Last week was the run up to the Festival of Transport at Barrow, which this year was celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Furness Railway and at which at which Furness Railway No. 20 was due to make its first public appearance for three years.
Simon Reid of Reid Freight was keen that this should be one of his more leisurely moves, as he had arranged for his family to be with him at Barrow over the weekend – rather a busman's holiday! Simon appeared at Preston after lunch by which time Adrian had shunted FR 20 on to the loading road, which had been helpfully cleared by the Ribble Rail staff. The loco departed at 16.10 for its journey to Barrow and an overnight stopover at a secure location there – thanks to David Stubbins of the FR 175 committee, Wicks Waste Management and the Barrow Transport Group for their help.
FR 20 was skilfully reversed to its allotted position behind the Dock Museum at 08.45 on Saturday morning with the sales team of Jim Kay, Andrew Furness and part time assistant Neil Smith turning up to set up the stall nearby the loco and with Peter van Zeller also making the trip down from Ravenglass to join in the fun.
There wasn't a cloud in the sky and everyone agreed that FR20 looked splendid in this historic and picturesque setting nearby the old Barrow graving dock. Certainly sun tan lotion was the order of the day!
With such a sparkling loco on his rig, Simon was to be seen giving his lorry some TLC of its own!
There was a well organised free bus service operated by preserved vehicles which brought new visitors to the site every 20 minutes throughout the day so, without being overrun, there was a steady flow of people who came to take photographs, chatted to us and bought souvenirs from the stall.
Tom Jones brought his beautiful 5″ gauge working model of FR 20 for it to be displayed alongside the 12″ to the foot version and which received many accolades.
Nearby there were also stalls operated by the FR 175 committee, Community Rail Cumbria and the Lakes Line Rail User Group amongst others. There were children's entertainers and, in the afternoon, Tim took the opportunity to reprise some of the songs from the FR 150 road show The Iron Road.
One of the great things about the day was the opportunity to meet up again outside and also to catch up with the many friends who came to visit throughout the day, most of whom we hadn't seen since before the first lock down. All too soon though, 16.00 hrs arrived and it was time to pack up and then wave goodbye to FR 20 as, with a farewell toot on the Reid Freight horn, it left the site by the towering Devonshire Dock Hall of the shipyard, where FR 20's restoration took place from 1996 to 1998. All in all, a very successful and memorable day at a very well organised event.
We are pleased to be able to report that Ade was once again on hand at Preston on Sunday to shunt FR 20 back into the FRT shed. It only remains to thank everyone who prepared the loco for exhibition, special thanks to Ade for undertaking the shunting, Simon Reid, and also the sales team for their efforts. We leave you with a topical photo taken by Ade last Wednesday which we hope you will like:
It's holiday time again so, apologies, we missed a blog last week.
Anyhow, back home now to dry out (from the rain, not the alcohol!?!) and to issue a short reminder to everyone that Furness Railway No. 20 is due to appear on the back of a Reid Freight low loader at the Festival of Transport in Barrow-in-Furness next Saturday, 17th July. Whilst the Festival is an annual event, usually orientated towards vintage cars, it is this year also celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Furness Railway, hence the appearance of FR 20.
Those of you with good memories will recall that 25 years ago, at the 150th anniversary of the Furness Railway, Furness Railway Number 3, aka Old Coppernob was brought "home", posing outside Barrow station where it had stood for over 4o years in a glass building after retirement, and visiting the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway (above).
It was also announced at that same event that the Heritage Lottery Fund and the PRISM Fund of the Science Museum had both made grants to enable FR 20 to be restored to its original engine and tender configuration from the incomplete remains of a Barrow Iron & Steel Works tank locomotive.
It therefore seems doubly appropriate that FR 20 should return to Barrow this year, if only for a day, as part of the 175 celebrations.
FR 20 will be exhibited at the Dock Museum in Barrow and the FRT will have a stall there to sell souvenirs and to explain the work of the Furness Railway Trust. Volunteers to assist would be most welcome. Please contact Tim Owen so that arrangements can be made.
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One possibility is population growth. As factions gain membership, they advance in level. This would be cool because it means adaptive, egalitarian, socially-inclusive, and fast-breeding factions should win the day, right?
I mean, one of the problems with using population growth to measure faction growth is that plenty of demihuman tribes like goblins and kobolds don't necessarily "advance" merely by breeding, do they?
I don't know. Maybe they do.
Orcs too, y'know? It'll be hard to say until I have more of the mechanics on paper — despite my progress, a lot of the mechanics are based on supposition.
My thinking here, is that you ought to be able to socially-engineer your faction so that it's more inclusive and admitting of outsiders so it can expand its power base, right? Utilizing 'Ages' to alternately grow or stabilize a faction.
Moving past population growth, there's technological development.
I mean, even if "teching your way to victory" isn't the main thrust of the game, I think it should at least be a viable path to supremacy.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in school.
Knowledge may be equally discovered and stolen. Making use of it is a different matter. I think any time a faction acquires technology from another faction (or from a dungeon), they ought to gain progress toward the next level.
You know, when I think about it, that in-game leader board from Alpha Centauri might be a good place to look to for ideas about how factions gain experience.
So, steal a bit of technology for XP?
Expand to (or conquer) a new hex for XP?
Enfranchise some new people for XP?
Raid enemy treasuries for XP?
I think those are surefire ways to advance a faction's level. Naturally, you don't get XP from a faction's natural growth or technological development.
In fact, maybe that's why fast-breeding demihumans like orcs and kobolds don't advance more, or more quickly, than other races.
If you have to bring in population from outside your faction, as opposed to well, reproducing, that's a sufficient limiter on faction growth?
Then again, if the XP gained from population growth only occurs at specific milestones (like, per 1,000 new population), it's also sufficient?
Obviously, it'll become more apparent whether these things work once the mechanics are in place and can be vigorously tested. When it comes to populations, there's immigration to consider as well. I mean, look at Dwarf Fortress.
And again, that's where Dark and Light Ages come in — when you have a faction that's welcoming, it experiences all this lovely growth. But like, ideological dissension and biological disease become more prominent issues.


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E2-Chat: A Web-Based End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Service; The Limitations of Consumer Data Agency Under the California Consumer Privacy Act
Pathi, Ashwin, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
Sun, Yixin, EN-Comp Science Dept, University of Virginia
Behl, Madhur, EN-Comp Science Dept, University of Virginia
Rogers, Hannah, EN-Engineering and Society, University of Virginia
Baritaud, Catherine, EN-Engineering and Society, University of Virginia
Internet data collection has made corporations and society more productive, but at the expense of individual privacy and control over personal data. Public perception regarding data privacy has slowly gained prominence in public discussion, especially in the wake of recent data privacy and security incidents. As such, many new technologies have sought to build their product with end user privacy in mind by using techniques such as end-to-end encryption.
The technical portion of this paper aims to create a fully end-to-end encrypted web messaging service that is easily accessible on a myriad of devices, and supports the transfer of a variety of file types. The app, called E2-Chat, would fill a niche not supported by other end-to-end-encrypted messaging applications, which rely on the usage of an auxiliary mobile device. E2-Chat, uses end-to-end encryption to ensure that only the devices of the end users of the service have the ability to decrypt content, meaning the server does not have access to any user-generated content. This would prevent administrators of the messaging server and potential third parties from parsing user messages. This would preserve user privacy, while still providing a service with all the key components of a modern chat application.
The sociotechnical portion of the paper aims to ¬analyze how privacy legislation in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may have fallen short of allowing consumers to have more agency over their internet data. The Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) is used to analyze how the first iteration of the CCPA was formed, and to elucidate how various key social groups ascribed their meaning of privacy into the legislation. From this analysis, the paper discusses how privacy issues brought up by the CCPA's legislative process can be mitigated, how legislation can be improved moving forward, and the implication of enhancing data privacy for end users.
Both the technical and sociotechnical projects focus on enhancing user privacy and data protection. The technical portion of the project focuses on how privacy can be practically and technologically implemented, and to show that privacy conscious technology can be as accessible as normal internet services. However, full end-to-end-encryption is not viable for all types of internet services, and in cases where data is not guaranteed to be inaccessible by third parties, consumers should be aware of what information is being collected on them. The sociotechnical portion of the paper discusses this aspect of privacy, specifically through the analysis of the CCPA and the legal ability of consumers to handle their own data. Both the sociotechnical and technical aspects of the project allowed me to learn about the shortcomings and advantages of current legal and technological privacy solutions.
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Technical Advisor: Yixin Sun
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Career Offender
A defendant is a Career Offender if (1) he or she has been convicted in federal court of a felony crime of violence or drug-trafficking offense committed as an adult, and (2) has at least two prior felony convictions for either a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense or both that receive criminal history points under the guidelines. A Career Offender's guidelines sentence ordinarily is required to be at or near the statutory maximum for his or her federal conviction.
Categorical Approach
The method for determining whether a defendant's offense (usually a prior conviction) fits within a given definition, such as for a "crime of violence," "violent felony," "drug trafficking offense," or other term describing a specific type of offense. The categorical approach requires the court to compare the elements of the prior offense to the relevant definition. The court is not permitted to look to the conduct underlying the prior conviction to determine the elements of the prior offense. Rather, the court must examine the elements of the relevant penal statute. Also see Modified Categorical Approach.
One Commissioner is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate as the Chair of the Commission and is responsible for presiding over Commission meetings and for seeking and spending congressional appropriations.
Chapter Three Adjustment
Adjustments such as Role in the Offense (Chapter Three, Part B), Obstruction of Justice (§3C1.1) and Acceptance of Responsibility (§3E1.1) that could apply to a defendant after application of the Chapter Two guidelines.
The power of the President in the federal system, or a Governor in the state system, to pardon a criminal or commute a sentence.
An officer of the court responsible for clerical and administrative matters, for example maintaining case files, making certified copies of documents for the public, etc. Each federal district has one Clerk of Court, who in turn has Deputy Clerks responsible for day to day court activities.
An individual who is appointed by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as a voting member on the United States Sentencing Commission. By statute, there also are two non-voting ex officio Commissioners (the Attorney General or his or her designee and the Chair of the United States Parole Commission).
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Common Scheme or Plan
Offenses that are outside the offense of conviction but are Relevant Conduct because they are substantially connected to each other by at least one common factor, such as common victims, common accomplices, common purpose, or similar modus operandi. See USSG §1B1.3(a)(2) and Application Note 5(B).
Community Confinement
Residence in a community treatment center, halfway house, mental health facility, or some other similar community facility. Community confinement may be imposed as a condition of probation or supervised release and also may be a substitute for some or all of the term imprisonment for guideline sentences in Zones B and C of the Sentencing Table. See USSG §5C1.1.
Service work in the community that may be ordered as a condition of probation or supervised release and generally should not be imposed in excess of 400 hours.See USSG §5F1.3.
Compassionate Release
18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)A) allows the Bureau of Prisons, or a prisoner, to petition the court for a reduction in a term of imprisonment under limited circumstances. For example, the prisoner may be elderly, or may be facing a life-threatening illness or experiencing extenuating family circumstances. Candidates for compassionate release must have served a significant portion of their sentence and cannot be a danger to another person or to the community.
Concurrent Sentence
A sentence for a conviction that a court orders a defendant to serve simultaneously with the defendant's sentence for a different conviction. A sentence may be fully or partially concurrent.
Consecutive Sentence
A sentence for a conviction that a court orders a defendant to serve only after he has discharged a sentence for a different conviction A sentence may be fully or partially consecutive.
An agreement by two or more people to commit an unlawful act. For many types of conspiracy one of more conspirators also must commit at least one "overt act" toward to the goal of the conspiracy for there to be criminal liability.
Controlled Substance Offense
Generally, an offense involving an illegal drug. However, in the specific context of the guidelines, a "controlled substance offense" is offense under federal or state law punishable by imprisonment exceeding one year that prohibits the manufacture, import, export, distribution or dispensing of a controlled substance or possession with intent to do so. See USSG §4B1.2(b).
The result of a criminal court proceeding which ends in a judgment that the defendant is guilty as charged.
Costs of Prosecution
Some statutes require the court to impose the costs of prosecution on a defendant.
Breaking into a secure computer system, frequently to do damage or for financial gain. However, cracking is also employed to protest government policies or to make social statements.
Crime of Violence
Any offense under federal or state law, generally punishable by imprisonment exceeding one year, that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another. Crime of violence also includes certain enumerated offenses such as murder, voluntary manslaughter and kidnapping. Different variations of the definition of crime of violence are found in federal statutes. The Guidelines' definition is found at USSG §4B1.2.
Criminal History Category
The category assigned to the defendant based on the defendant's prior criminal history. The criminal history category (sometimes referred to as "CHC") is determined according to rules contained in Chapter Four of the Guidelines Manual. The criminal history category is reflected in the horizontal axis of the sentencing table. A higher criminal history category increases the guidelines range.
Criminal Justice Sentence
A sentence countable under §4A1.2 having a custodial or supervisory component, although for the latter active supervision is not required. Two points are assigned in the calculation of the defendant's criminal history under §4A1.1(d) if he/she committed any part of the instant offense while under a criminal justice sentence.
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Criminal Livelihood
A Chapter Four "override" that applies when the defendant commits an offense as part of a pattern of criminal conduct engaged in as a livelihood. See USSG §4B1.3 (Criminal Livelihood).
Fraud can affect critical infrastructures. Critical infrastructures are systems and assets vital to national defense, national security, economic security, public health or safety. Examples include gas and oil production, water supply systems, electrical power delivery systems and emergency services such as fire and rescue and police. See §2B1.1(b)(19) and App. Note 15(A). Section 2B1.1(b)(19) enhances a defendant's sentencing range for certain types of fraud affecting critical infrastructures.
An instruction to apply another offense guideline. Cross references are found in several Chapter Two guidelines and often instruct that such a reference should be used only if it results in a greater offense level.
The broad name for digital currencies that use blockchain technology to work on a peer-to-peer basis. Cryptocurrencies don't require a bank to carry out transactions between individuals. The nature of the blockchain means that individuals can conduct transactions even if they don't trust or know each other. The cryptocurrency network keeps track of all transactions and ensures that no one reneges.
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Matching Result: A term of imprisonment that a federal sentencing judge anticipates that a state court judge will impose after the federal sentence is imposed. In Setser v.
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If you have questions that need to be answered about the topic a fixed term of incarceration is called what?, then this section may help you solve it.
The judge has little discretion in sentencing and must adhere to the sentence guidelines established by law. A "determinate sentence" is a jail or prison term that has a set length and cannot be reviewed or changed by a parole board or any other agency.
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An individual convicted of a crime may serve more time than the fixed sentence but not less. A fixed sentence is defined as "a sentence of imprisonment for a specific or minimum period specified by statute."
In jurisdictions with indeterminate sentencing, the judge imposes a minimum and maximum term of incarceration rather than a predetermined number of years. Sentencing laws can be divided into three categories: determinate, presumptive, and indeterminate.
Probation, fines, brief periods of incarceration, suspended sentences (which only become effective if the offender violates certain conditions), restitution to the victim, community service, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation for minor offenses are some examples of sentence types.
Parole Early release based on the behavior of the offender. Determinate sentencing A sentencing structure in which the offender is sentenced to a specific term.
A determinate sentence is a jail or prison term that has a set length and cannot be altered by a parole board or other agency.
Sentences to prison that have a set duration are known as determinate sentences.
Determinate (a fixed amount of time) or indeterminate (a minimum and maximum amount of time) sentences are sentences that are deferred until a later date.
: the act of imprisoning someone or the state of being imprisoned; confinement in a jail or prison.
Police still make over 1 million drug possession arrests each year, many of which result in prison sentences, and drug convictions continue to be a distinguishing feature of the federal prison system, accounting for the imprisonment of almost 400,000 people for drug offenses.
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States fire back at Texas over case backed by Oklahoma attorney general
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Two dozen states pushed back hard on Thursday against a lawsuit filed by Texas and supported by Oklahoma aimed at overturning election results in four states that favored President-elect Joe Biden.
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia — the targets of Texas' legal action — all told the U.S. Supreme Court that Texas' claims shouldn't be entertained. And 20 other states, along with the District of Columbia and some U.S. territories, weighed in against the Republican effort to challenge the elections in those four states.
The U.S. Supreme Court had not decided by Thursday evening whether to allow Texas to sue the four battleground states that helped Biden defeat President Donald Trump. The high court rarely grants a state permission to sue another state, and those cases have often involved boundaries or natural resources. Texas wants to sue four states over the way they handled their elections.
"Texas seeks to invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees," Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro told the court in written arguments on Thursday.
"Its request for this Court to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas's preferred candidate for President is legally indefensible and is an affront to principles of constitutional democracy."
Texas claims the four states expanded mail-in voting without express approval from the state Legislature, thereby violating the U.S. Constitution's provisions regarding the selection of electors and leading to voter fraud.
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter joined 16 other states, mostly in the South and Great Plains, on written arguments to the high court supporting Texas' claim. Hunter, a Republican, said in a news release that Texas had raised "questions of great public importance" that warrant the Supreme Court's attention.
In its response to the Texas suit, the state of Georgia told the court on Thursday, "Contrary to Texas's argument, Georgia has exercised its powers under the Electors Clause. Georgia's legislature enacted laws governing elections and election disputes, and the State and its officers have implemented and followed those laws.
"To ensure the accuracy of the results of that process, it has completed three total counts of the vote for its presidential electors, including a historic 100 percent manual recount — all in accordance with state law."
All states but Wisconsin have certified their election results, and presidential electors are scheduled to make Biden's victory official on Monday.
President Donald Trump has sought to intervene in the case, which he has praised on social media. A group of Republican members of Congress also sought Thursday to express their support for the Texas lawsuit; Oklahoma Reps. Kevin Hern, of Tulsa; and Markwayne Mullin, of Westville, were among the GOP members.
Alicia Andrews, chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, said Thursday that Hunter's involvement in the case, and the public support for that by some state Republican legislators, were "just another stunt to gain long-term favor from Trump and protect their seats, at a cost to Oklahomans and voters writ large."


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Coca Cola unveils light-up OLED Rey and Kylo Ren lightsaber bottles
by: Christian Smith
In anticipation of new Star Wars movie Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Coca Cola Singapore has unveiled some very special limited edition bottles.
Per Hypebeast, the OLED sugar-free Coca Cola bottles feature Rey and Kylo Ren brandishing lightsabers, thanks to light-up smart labels.
Get excited for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker by watching the epic final trailer right here:
Featuring a suitably cinematic, epic promo trailer, Coca Cola Singapore took to Instagram to share news of the collab, writing;
"Keep your eyes on these Limited Edition Lighted Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Coca-Cola No Sugar Bottles! In anticipation of the upcoming movie, we will be releasing 5 clues to 5 locations per day on our FB, IG, and website on where to get your hands on one over the next 3 weekends (Fri - Sun) from 6 to 22 Dec."
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Ahead of the release of the brand new Star Wars movie, director JJ Abrams spoke to Collider to tease the significance of Kylo Ren's helmet. He said;
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Take a look at this incredible birds-eye footage of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge at Disney's Hollywood Studios:
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker is in cinemas from December 19 in the United Kingdom.


I'm starting to get a better feel for the flow of the episodes, and this is the second almost enjoyable episode. With three episodes left, maybe it'll improve enough to have been worth it. This is also the first episode where I don't think I noticed the background once. It's the same background as every episode prior, but there was enough going on to keep it from standing out for me.
Takahashi tells about wanting to make simple movies, where the focus is a story to touch ones heart. While he might have been making things up as he spoke, this looks to sum up the Miu's story. Piano playing is more like a chore than a hobby at times, and she isn't putting her heart into it. When she admits so much to Takahashi, and he requests she play for him with feeling sometime, Miu's joy of playing the piano returns. She isn't playing simply to play. She isn't playing because it's the only thing she can do (although I'd say playing piano can have a greater impact on people than running like Yuuki and the guys do). Miu is finally going to play because she wants to play, and because someone wants to listen. She's been challenged to do her best, and it's a challenge she wants to meet.
On the other side, there's Mr. Shirakawa. I'm still wondering his age and Akiko's age. They have a fairly comfortable conversation, keeping in mind Mr. Shirakawa's lack of talking skills. Akiko knows him, knows his habits. I expect to see another visit from Akiko, for the recital, and perhaps this time around she'll stay to visit Mr. Shirakawa.
After Miu played The Christmas Song, a melancholy look held place as her expression. Everyone complimented her playing and talked about how great it was, how lucky she is to be able to play so well. On the inside, Miu knew she hadn't put any energy into the piece. She knew it was lacking. If all this praise is in essence false praise–praise for playing poorly–then how can she know if someone really means it when they compliment her playing? About the only one who could commend her efforts and have it mean something to Miu would be Mr. Shirakawa. He actually has done just that. He's said, "Miu, you have a wonderful talent. You're being held back simply playing other composers' works. You have a talent in composing and playing your own original pieces. This is what needs to be played at the recital. Nothing else will do. I will not accept anything less. If you don't play, if you don't play an original, then I can't even send a student to the recital at all." Only, he didn't say it in so many words. His general bad mood, his inability to hold a conversation, or to express himself in words the way he can through music, it's no wonder Miu has difficulty around him.
There are three months and three episodes remaining. With things the way they are now, what can go wrong? The recital should be in the final episode, and things are looking up for Miu. This leaves one episode for her world to come crashing down all around her (or the equivalent for this series), and one episode for her to find herself and begin to piece together a resolve. This would lead up to a resolve in the final episode.
So, what's it going to be? Finding out Takahashi has someone he likes? Or someone else confessing her feelings to Takahashi? Or will Mr. Shirakawa find another student for the recital, meaning Miu won't be able to play her piece for Takahashi? Yuuki will be there for Miu no matter what happens, right? If she knows something happened, she will be, but what if she doesn't know about it?
The outlook Takahashi has, where he's preparing for studies so much he doesn't have time to think of his future, I'm reminded of Yuichi in Seven of Seven and Nanaka in Nanaka 6/17. They both, especially the latter, focused on their studies with no certainty of what they'd do after completing their schooling.
Three episodes left, and the series is finally starting to catch my attention. And Mew had more screen time, always a plus.


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Ronnie O'Sullivan 'better mentally' after win over emotional Peter Ebdon
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Ronnie O'Sullivan insists he is mentally better prepared to deal with any dips in form after he brushed aside old rival Peter Ebdon 10-4 in the first round of the world championship.
Ronnie O'Sullivan cruised past old foe Peter Ebdon at the World Championships (Picture: AFP/Getty)
O'Sullivan led 7-2 overnight but would have remembered Ebdon's amazing recovery from 8-2 down to win their infamous 2005 quarter-final clash.
But the three-time champion made no mistake this time, and, while he tried to quell expectations, pointed to the improved mental side of his game.
'It would be nice to win a few matches here,' said O'Sullivan. 'I'm not going to get carried away though.
Emotional: Peter Ebdon (Picture: AFP/Getty)
'I'm definitely much better mentally. I've not been beating myself up too much if things aren't going right for me. I've been working on that side of my game for the last year or so.
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An emotional Ebdon broke down afterwards as he spoke about his father Michael, who died last year.
'I miss my dad so much. I know he'd have been so proud that I've achieved 21 consecutive years at the Crucible.'
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[MAY 5, 2006] SPRINGFIELD -- On May 13, Springfield's Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will unveil "Mrs. President: From Martha to Laura," a one-of-a-kind exhibit on American first ladies. The exclusive exhibit will be seen only at the Springfield site and will include more than 100 artifacts -- some more than 200 years old -- all holding a significant place in history, as do the first ladies who owned them.
"This exhibition brings to life the individual stories of the first ladies in a way that has yet to be told, providing insight into the collective story of women in America and how their roles have evolved over the past two centuries," said Dr. Thomas F. Schwartz, interim executive director of the presidential library and museum.
Abigail Adams' bullet mold: Although John Adams successfully defended the British soldiers who killed American revolutionaries in the Boston Massacre, he would later become one of the great leaders of the American Revolution. Often referred to as "Mrs. President" because of her influence and feminist outlook, Mrs. Adams aided the cause by offering her husband advice in their correspondence and by making lead bullets for soldiers.
Mary Todd Lincoln's coral necklace: Mrs. Lincoln believed that in order to gain support from European nations for the Union cause during the Civil War, she must first gain their respect, which she did by keeping up an extravagant appearance, including wearing expensive clothing and jewelry. Her hand-carved coral necklace -- on display to the public for the first time -- is part of a larger ensemble of coral jewelry worn by the charming yet temperamental first lady.
Lucy Hayes' college essay: Mrs. Hayes was the first woman to be accepted and enroll at Ohio Wesleyan University. Her college experience and deep interest in public affairs led her to conclude, "Woman's mind is as strong as man's … equal in all things to his and superior in some."
Caroline Harrison's hand-painted fan: The daughter of a Presbyterian minister and a gifted artist, Mrs. Harrison was encouraged by her father to engage in educational and cultural pursuits. She designed many items used in the White House, including a unique pattern of official White House china and a hand-painted fan.
Grace Coolidge's Girl Scout uniform: The warm and outgoing former teacher became one of America's most popular first ladies. Active in the Girl Scout organization, Mrs. Coolidge also was a teacher of the deaf. Like her husband, "Silent Cal," she was reticent in public. She gave but one public speech -- in sign language.
Lou Hoover's rifle: Herbert Hoover's early career as an international engineer and businessman frequently placed his family in troubled parts of the world. Mrs. Hoover became an expert markswoman and also sported a brace of pistols that protected her in many of the world's hot spots. She was reported to have swept spent shell casings off their front porch when they lived in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
Lady Bird Johnson's beautification and Head Start materials: As a young girl, Claudia Alta Taylor received the moniker "Lady Bird" from a family cook. Mrs. Johnson is best known for her efforts to beautify the American roadside landscape by restricting the blight of billboards. She also took a great interest in the Head Start preschool program to help disadvantaged youth receive a quality education.
Barbara Bush's literacy and childhood AIDS materials: A tireless advocate for children and literacy, Mrs. Bush promoted an interest in reading at an early age. She also authored a best-selling children's book about the family dog, Millie. Additionally, recognizing that AIDS was more than an adult disease, she worked diligently to raise awareness of the growing number of children born infected.
To celebrate the exhibit opening and offer firsthand insight into the role of the American first lady, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation will present a conference and luncheon on May 11 at the presidential library. The event will feature a keynote address by Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower, and a panel discussion led by social secretaries of several administrations, including those of Johnson, Ford and George H.W. Bush. The cost is $50 per person. For reservations, call (217) 558-8881.
"Mrs. President: From Martha to Laura" is sponsored by A&E Television Network and will run from May 13 through Oct. 29. Exhibit access is included with a general admission ticket to the museum.
For more information on the exhibit and related events, visit www.alplm.org or call (800) 610-2094 or (217) 782-5764.


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Oprah's ultra-PC 'Wrinkle in Time' stung with bad reviews as 'cringeworthy' $100M Disney movie could bomb, experts say
By Brian Flood, | Fox News
'A Wrinkle in Time's' diverse cast draws attention
Fox411: Director Ava DuVernay's adaptation of 'A Wrinkle In Time' has some on social media wondering if the casting was meant to push a political agenda
Disney's $100 million gamble to turn the classic children's book "A Wrinkle in Time" into a politically correct film filled with liberal talking points on feminism and diversity may be backfiring badly, with the poorly reviewed Oprah Winfrey-starring movie possibly teetering toward a tank job at the box office this weekend, according to some predictions.
The film is currently rated a "rotten" 43 percent on "Rotten Tomatoes," but "woke" cultural critics don't seem to mind. They say that the movie, directed by anti-Trump filmmaker Ava DuVernay, is so important in terms of its social justice messages that whether it's a terrible movie or not just doesn't matter.
Parade Magazine said the film is a "crinkled, jammed, over-crammed hot mess," but praised the casting of Hollywood's favorite 2020 presidential possibility.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay told The New York Times that Disney will "be fine" if people don't like her movie. (2018 Invision)
"There's 20-foot Oprah, and what she represents in America as a self-made black billionaire, media mogul, philanthropist, and a living symbol of survival and success. She radiates empowerment—even when, later in the film, her character 'shrinks' down to regular size," Parade's Neil Pond wrote.
Madeline L'Engle's science fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" was published in 1962 and is considered a literary classic. DuVernay's aggressively uplifting version of the dark, sophisticated novel is far from a straight adaptation, and the obvious differences are deliberate -- at least when it comes to the appearance of several main characters.
"I just wanted a cast that reflects the real world," DuVernay told CinemaBlend.
The movie's main character, Meg Murray, is described in the novel as a redheaded girl, but DuVernay cast African-American actress Storm Reid. DuVernay's Meg is supposed to be biracial, with a white father (played by "Star Trek" actor Chris Pine) and a black mother (played by "Black Mirror" actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw).
DuVernay, who directed the civil rights film "Selma," told the New York Times she selected Australian actor Levi Miller to play Meg's friend "because that was so powerful, to show a white boy following a black girl" throughout the movie.
Australian actor Levi Miller was selected to play Meg's friend "because that was so powerful, to show a white boy following a black girl" throughout the movie, according to Ava DuVernay. (© 2017 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
"The diversity of its cast is both a welcome innovation and the declaration of a new norm," the New York Times' A.O. Scott wrote.
The Federalist applied a more critical eye, with writer James Dawson calling the film "the latest victim of diversity-deranged stunt casting in which no respect is paid to the race or sex of existing literary characters. But that's only one reason why this frustrating fiasco is such an embarrassing failure."
The film is often billed as "the first $100 million movie directed by an African-American woman," and DuVernay, who's well known for her Twitter attacks on President Trump, doesn't seem to mind if it bombs at the box office.
"I don't care what anybody thinks about it," she told the Times. "I know it's $100 million for the studio. They'll be fine."
That's would be a first for the famously parsimonious Walt Disney Company. According to the New York Observer, "Long-range forecasts initially pegged A Wrinkle in Time for a good-not-great opening between $50 million and $80 million, but now that number has slumped to around $35 million. With a budget north of $100 million and a strong marketing push from the Mouse House, that would be dangerously close to flop territory."
It would be a rare and painfully expensive misfire for Disney, which has enjoyed a succession of hits by turning beloved fairy tales and children's books into live action movies such as "The Jungle Book" and "Beauty and the Beast."
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It doesn't help that "A Wrinkle in Time" must compete with "Black Panther," which in addition to being acclaimed for featuring an overwhelmingly black cast has also gotten stellar reviews just for being a great movie.
As for a "Wrinkle in Time," cultural critics are trying to look away from the movie's problems and instead fawn over its politicized message. Marie Claire published a headline, "'A Wrinkle in Time' isn't a great movie, but that's completely irrelevant."
The review by Yolanda Machado features the quote, "Because of this film, my daughter will never question that she can be strong."
Free Beacon reporter Alex Griswold noticed this has become a common theme, writing that, "If you want insight into why early handpicked reviews for movies are often useless, consider how obviously these reviewers are incapable of saying they thought the movie sucked," with screen grabs of several similar assessments.
Griswold added, "Even the people out there admitting 'yeah the movie sucks' have to go out of their way to talk about how great the people who made it are."
One reviewer called it a "big bold beautiful mess" before praising DuVernay for "swinging for the fences" with a "not great" script, while another said it "has its flaws" but they're "secondary to its genuine ambition and earned emotion."
The Daily Texan added that "the film quickly goes from cringeworthy to crowd pleasing."
Ironically, early reviews based on a trailer were glowing with words such as "gorgeous" used to describe the film lauded as an example of Disney "looking forward, not backward." However, once critics actually saw "A Wrinkle in Time," most of the acclaim revolved around risk taking and social justice issues.
"There are few contemporary directors who have been more willing to explore profound social wounds than DuVernay," NPR's Linda Holmes wrote.
It seems that DuVernay -- whose Oscar nominated documentary "13th" took a hard-hitting look at the high rate of incarceration for African-Americans -- cares more about advancing social issues than making money for Disney.
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Every year around this time the nation's colleges and universities fill up with students from all around the world. These students not only study, they buy cars, shop, and need medical care, all of which cost money.
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Nomad Credit also works with international students attending school in countries other than the United States, Mr. Hoffman said. They have helped a student from India obtain financing in Singapore and another apply in the Netherlands.
"We're starting with international students in the United States, but we have plans to get into other countries too," Mr. Hoffman said.
Nomad Credit's marketing efforts are focused on India, which has the second largest pool of students coming to study the STEM disciplines, business development director Nathan Treadwell said. Other strong student countries of origin are China, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and Canada.
"We also cater to international workers," Mr. Hoffman said. Some of those people are used to taking out loans at double-digit rates, only to get to the United States and find options at less than half that, he added.


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Q: Create a new table every time though a stored procedure I want create a new table every time though a stored procedure.
declare @datetime datetime
declare @date varchar(20)

select @datetime = (GETDATE() - 1)
select @date = convert(varchar(10), @datetime, 112)

print @datetime
print @date

create table #businessmster+'_'+@date
(
    contentid int
)

Table name which I want is #businessmaster_20171103

A: You can use this query.
Declare @strTableName varchar(500)
SET @strTableName = 'create table businessmster_' + @date +'( contentid int )
    GO
    INSERT INTO  businessmster_' + @date +' Select Field FROM <<YourTable>> WHERE <<Condition>>
    GO'
Print @strTableName
Exec(@strTableName)

A: You can use dynamic query as:
DECLARE @TableName NVARCHAR(MAX);

SET @TableName = N'CREATE TABLE businessmaster_'+
                 CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),GetDate()-1,112)+
                 N' ( contentid int )';
SELECT @TableName
EXEC(@TableName);

According to your comment I remove the # symbol.

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A.M. Best Affirms Credit Ratings of INPEX Insurance, Ltd.
HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A.M. Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "a-" of INPEX Insurance, Ltd. (IIL) (Bermuda). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.
The ratings reflect IIL's balance sheet strength, which A.M. Best categorizes as very strong, as well as its adequate operating performance, neutral business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management.
IIL's very strong balance sheet assessment mainly reflects its low underwriting leverage and conservative investment portfolio. Given the volume of risks that the company currently writes and retains, the capital required to support its current book of business is relatively modest.
IIL's underwriting results over the most-recent five-year period have been consistently positive, contributing to an average combined ratio of under 40%. Despite very strong underwriting margins, loss and combined ratios have been volatile, owing primarily to a relatively small in-force portfolio. A.M. Best expects IIL's operating performance to remain profitable, although the company's underwriting results also likely will remain volatile until the company can achieve much greater scale.
IIL is a single-parent captive of INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX), which is the largest oil and gas exploration and production company in Japan. In its role as a single-parent captive, it provides coverage that mainly consists of property damage, third-party liability and operator's extra expenses for its parent, its affiliates and joint-venture companies. The types of business written expose the company's performance to high-severity, low-frequency losses. Nevertheless, IIL has managed this risk through prudent underwriting and a robust reinsurance program with conservative retention levels and limits.
The stable outlook reflects A.M. Best's expectation that IIL will continue to deliver consistently positive operating results, supported by a return to growth with strong underwriting margins and stable investment yields.
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Current members of Israel's security cabinet issued fresh warnings to Iran on Wednesday, hours after the country publicly acknowledged for the first time that the air force blew up a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007.
The official confirmation ended a 10-and-a-half-year policy of referring to the strike, known to much of the world as Operation Orchard — in the area of Deir Ezzor in the pre-dawn hours of September 6, 2007 — with a smirk and a wry "according to foreign reports."
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, who was minister of strategic affairs in 2007, said that "the historic and brave decision we took proved that we cannot be deterred on matters of security.
"Try to imagine what would have happened had we not acted," Liberman tweeted. "We would be facing a nuclear Syria."
Hinting at Iran's current nuclear ambitions and threats to destroy Israel, the defense minister added that "our enemies' motivation has increased in recent years, but so has the might of the IDF… This equation should be understood by anyone in the Middle East."
Intelligence Minister Israel Katz was more explicit, linking the Syria strike specifically to Iran.
"The courageous decision of the Israeli government almost 11 years ago to destroy the nuclear reactor in Syria and the successful operation following it sends a clear message: Israel will never allow countries like Iran who threaten its existence to have nuclear weapons," Katz tweeted.
MK Amir Peretz (Zionist Union), who had been defense minister until he was replaced by Ehud Barak two and a half months before the operation, wrote on Facebook that the strike "demonstrated that the State of Israel will not stand helplessly and will take any action needed to eliminate an existential threat."
Another minister, Gila Gamliel (Likud), similarly commented that "the footage from the strike on the reactor in Syria in 2007 highlights the immense power of the IDF, in an act that combined excellent intelligence and accurate attacking capabilities by the Air Force… We will not let the Iranians entrench themselves on the northern border and we won't allow our enemies to become stronger or threaten our existence."
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There has been and there is still a lot of heated debate, with partisans lined up on both sides, and many competing claims surrounding singularity: what it means, when it might happen, and what the implications are.
My view is that we will reach a "crossover" point of human versus computer intelligence.
But first, I'd like to step back and explain how I frame this and why I don't think anyone can say with certainty when that point might be. I definitely don't believe the "it's right around the corner" crowd. It also seems simplistic to try to pin down a date: whether that's Kurzweil's 2045 prediction or some other fixed date in the future .
Just as step changes in innovation, or simultaneous discovery, very often emerge independently in more than one location before hitting an inflection point at a specific locus of time and place that carries them to the masses, so trying to specify a fixed date to reach singularity, seems incorrect to me. Actually, the concept of singularity itself followed this path: first popping up in a couple of references, then taking hold decades later after being popularized by computer scientist and writer Vernor Vinge.
What reason do we have to believe that Moore's Law doesn't have a point at which, to put it in economic terms, it reaches "diminishing returns?" Why should we assume it is constant and immutable?
And does Moore's Law, observed as it has been for computer hardware, have any relevance for the multiple fields — scientific, biology, software — to which it would need to apply to have any predictive value for AI development and singularity? Paul Allen's piece, in which he references "the complexity brake," is a good reminder that certainly in the scientific field, advances occur in fits and starts, not at a uniform predictable rate.
What weight are people giving to how exogenous, unforeseen events might affect things?
What other "law(s)" might be key?
Is technological development the only factor we need to consider when making predictions for and thinking about singularity?
How does this impact startups and entrepreneurship?
Planning for and moving constructively toward the singularity will require both incremental and exponential advancements in multiple fields. On the technological front, we need some big wins analogous to what occurred with the rise of semiconductors, the Internet, personal computers and smartphones.
The possibility for big breakthroughs and the deep benches of intense multidisciplinary teams needed to affect change will require human and financial capital on a large-scale and the participation of entrepreneurial minds drawn from private, public, and government talent pools. This is already happening, but again it's impossible to draw neat extrapolations of timeframes.
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Q: Avoiding artefacts (gaps) between contiguous shapes in TikZ If I draw two squares side-by-side in TikZ, there will be a small gap between them at some zoom levels.
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
    \fill[black] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
    \fill[black] (1,0) rectangle (2,1);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Produces:

Is there a way to avoid this gap without making each square slightly bigger / adding a thin stroke (as this feels like an ugly hack)?

A: *

*I assume it is possible that it is a function of the PDF viewer and the zoom level.

*See my screenshot.

*You can maybe create an actual overlap to avoid that.

*In Adobe Reader, there is even an option for that.


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Q: r- mean over variables using ddply I have a table (t02f) with a character variable ("t02.clase") and numeric variables. I need to create another table with the mean of each variable for each value in the column t02.clase.
Example table:
t02.clase Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_1 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_2 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_3
1        AK                          0                 0.00000000                0.051311597
2        AK                          0                 0.01303586                0.003442244
3        AK                          0                 0.00000000                0.017347593
  Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_4 Std_A_CLI_promociones Std_A_CLI_dias_cliente Std_A_CLI_sucursales
1                          0             0.4736842             0.57061341           0.05555556
2                          0             0.5000000             0.55492154           0.05555556
3                          0             0.0000000             0.05991441           0.05555556
  Std_A_CLI_promos_enviadas Std_A_CLI_promos_compras Std_A_CLI_produni Std_A_CLI_flagret
1                 0.6363636                0.2727273        0.14749987                 0
2                 0.6363636                0.1818182        0.05973218                 1

I need to end up with sth like:
t02.clase   Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_1  Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_2  Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_3
AK               0.3                                0.001                       0.2
AM               0.2                                0.02                        0.3
ES               0.5                                0.001                       0.0001

I used:
a1<-data.frame(NULL)
a<-data.frame(NULL)
for (i in (colnames(t02f)[-1])) {a1<-ddply(t02f, .(t02.clase), summarize, mean(i))
                          a<-cbind(a1,a) }

But I get numbers from 1 to ncol(t02f) insted of the means.

A: Or using data.table
library(data.table)
setDT(t02f)[, lapply(.SD, mean, na.rm = TRUE), by = t02.clase]
#    t02.clase Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_1 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_2 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_3 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_4 Std_A_CLI_promociones Std_A_CLI_dias_cliente
# 1:        AK                          0                0.004345287                 0.02403381                          0             0.3245614              0.3951498
#    Std_A_CLI_sucursales
# 1:           0.05555556

Frankly, you could do it quite efficiently using base R by and colMeans combination, something like (don't run it if already converted your data set to data.table class)
do.call(rbind, by(t02f[, -1], t02f$t02.clase, colMeans,  na.rm = TRUE))
#    Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_1 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_2 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_3 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_4 Std_A_CLI_promociones Std_A_CLI_dias_cliente
# AK                          0                0.004345287                 0.02403381                          0             0.3245614              0.3951498
#    Std_A_CLI_sucursales
# AK           0.05555556

Or (just for fun)
vapply(t02f[, -1], function(x) tapply(x,  t02f$t02.clase, mean, rm = TRUE), double(1))

A: Try summarise_each from dplyr
library(dplyr)
res <- t02f %>%
            group_by(t02.clase)%>%
            summarise_each(funs(mean=mean(., na.rm=TRUE)))

as.data.frame(res)
#  t02.clase Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_1 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_2
#1        AK                          0                0.004345287
#   Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_3 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_4 Std_A_CLI_promociones
#1                 0.02403381                          0             0.3245614
#  Std_A_CLI_dias_cliente Std_A_CLI_sucursales
#1              0.3951498           0.05555556

If you want to use ddply, there is an option colwise
 library(plyr)
 ddply(t02f, .(t02.clase), numcolwise(mean, na.rm=TRUE))
 #  t02.clase Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_1 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_2
 #1        AK                          0                0.004345287
 #  Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_3 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_4 Std_A_CLI_promociones
 #1                 0.02403381                          0             0.3245614
 #  Std_A_CLI_dias_cliente Std_A_CLI_sucursales
 #1              0.3951498           0.05555556

Or using aggregate from base R
 aggregate(.~t02.clase, t02f, mean, na.rm=TRUE)

data
t02f <- structure(list(t02.clase = c("AK", "AK", "AK"),
 Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_1 = c(0L,0L, 0L), Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_2 =
 c(0, 0.01303586, 0), Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_3 = c(0.051311597,
 0.003442244, 0.017347593), Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_4 = c(0L,
 0L, 0L), Std_A_CLI_promociones = c(0.4736842, 0.5, 0), Std_A_CLI_dias_cliente =
 c(0.57061341,0.55492154, 0.05991441), Std_A_CLI_sucursales = c(0.05555556,
 0.05555556, 0.05555556)), .Names = c("t02.clase", "Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_1",
 "Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_2", "Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_3",
"Std_A_CLI_monto_sucursal_4","Std_A_CLI_promociones", "Std_A_CLI_dias_cliente",
"Std_A_CLI_sucursales"), row.names = c("1", "2", "3"), class = "data.frame")