For weeks now, I've been doing my best, in my own gentle way, to ridicule, lambaste, degrade and otherwise mock the crap out the people who ridiculously call themselves, the "Tea Party". These 'patriots' have been blathering ever since Rush Limbaugh first came out and said he "wanted Barack Obama to fail", warning the rest of America that Barack Hussein Obama is a 'Communist/ Socialist/ Radical Muslim/ Baptist/ Fascist/ Foreign-Born/ Tool of the Big Corporations That His Policies Will Destroy/ And Oh, He's Black Too, But This Isn't About Race.
I've gotten comments back from them; I usually answer them- after all, anyone stupid enough to think this is a legitimate news website is someone you can have a good time with. But what I'm getting these days are weird enough that my wife's worried about our safety.
I'm not sure who, "the rest of us" includes, but I'm pretty sure it's not Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Pakistanis or Indians or any of the new immigrants. Now, all of the comments have one binding thread…the writer's are stupid and only semi-literate, except this last one that's just weird.
don't want a mixed race President raising their taxes. That is, until I read, "The Tea Party's Toxic Take on History-Ignore it at your peril" by Slate's Ron Rosenbaum : http://www.slate.com/id/2251669/. That really got me.
I got mad when I thought about all my family members who fought in WWII against the true Fascist, Nazi and Japanese Imperialist empires. Calling Obama any one of these things insults the memory of and sacrifices these men and the millions of others who've fought our wars over the last 235 years or so have made. All told, the Nazis killed more than ten million people, but Obama's a Nazi because he wants to make you buy healthcare. The Communists under Stalin killed millions more, but Obama's a Commie if you pay some extra taxes. The Japanese killed untold Asians, not to mention al the Allied POWs and soldiers, but Obama's worse- he may regulate the banking industry.
Mr. Rosenbaum's got it right- the Tea Party is filled with people who have no concept of the things they're talking about or the accusations they're making. Even their name makes no sense in relation to their supposed grievances.
As he says, right now it can go either way, the TP's may fade away like mood rings or we can become Germany in the 1930's. Limbaugh, Palin, Beck and Wiener are making millions of dollars inciting hatred with distortions and outright lies, which makes this website more honest than them…at least we admit right up front we're usually making it all up. I just wish this time I was.
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Q: Python os.popen returns 68864 error I am writing a python program to automate certain windows commands which should lead to creation of an iso file which I can execute in Virtual box.
There are 4 commands last of which is "mkisofs -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -o filename.iso -b filename.flp cdiso/"
I used os.popen to execute the commands and I found that everything except this last command works fine.
From the object returned all I can get is the status code of 68864. I know it is not working because Virtual box returns an error when trying to load the iso file.
What might be going wrong here?
Thanks!

A: IIRC, errors returned by popen are the same as the system() library call. To extract the actual error you have to use the WEXITSTATUS macro.
Fortunately you have this functionality available as os.WEXITSTATUS.
>>> import os
>>> os.WEXITSTATUS(68864)
13

I'm not sure of what it means, it probably prints some error to the console before terminating. Did you try to run the program manually?
A wild guess is that this 13 number is actually the errno that causes the failure. If that's the case, then:
>>> os.sterror(13)
'Permission denied'

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Q: Batch File - Drag and drop INTO console window? I know you can use %1 if you drag a file onto a batch file, but can you drag and drop a file INTO the console window? Like if I started a batch file and it said:
Drag and drop a file below:
[   ]

and when you drag a file into the console window it said:
Drag and drop a file below:
[Some File.txt]

Anyone know how you can do this? Even with utilities?

A: You can use this code:
@echo off
echo Drag and drop a file or enter file name with keyboard.
set /P "FileName=Hit ENTER when done: "
echo Dropped file is: %FileName%
pause

But the user of the batch file must hit ENTER respectively RETURN after dropping the file into the console window to continue batch execution.
The last 2 lines are only for getting the file (or folder) name displayed after hitting ENTER or RETURN for verification.
Note: I have read that this does not work on Windows Vista/Server 2008 which I can't verify by myself. But it works on Windows XP and Windows 7 as verified by me.


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Kampania – w wojskowości szereg kolejnych operacji zaplanowanych i ewentualnie modyfikowanych przez naczelne dowództwo i przez nie kierowanych, służących osiągnięciu określonych celów strategicznych, inaczej określanych pośrednimi celami wojny, w wyniku czego uzyskuje się określoną zmianę układu sił i sytuacji militarno-politycznej na zadanym kierunku strategicznym czy też określonym teatrze działań wojennych i na określonym etapie wojny.

Charakterystyka kampanii
Pojęcie kampanii pojawiło się u zarania sztuki wojennej. Na początku było interpretowane jako wyprawa wojenna, w której osiągane są cele konfliktu. W konfliktach globalnych kampania jest interpretowana jako zespół następujących po sobie operacji.

Kampania może składać się z jednej lub kilku operacji albo bitwy strategicznej oraz przedsięwzięć pogotowia operacyjnego i przegrupowań operacyjnych. Niekiedy słowo "kampania" zastępuje się określeniem operacja strategiczna.

Franciszek Skibiński proponuje następującą  definicję kampanii: zmierzający do osiągnięcia określonego celu strategicznego cykl działań wojennych, przeprowadzanych bądź w ograniczonym okresie czasu, bądź na określonym, samodzielnym teatrze działań wojennych. W ujęciu historycznym kampania określała zazwyczaj pewną część czy też etap wojny o dającym się wyraźnie wyodrębnić celu strategicznym. Aleksander Swieczyn określał kampanię jako kilka operacji połączonych w czasie i przestrzeni. W okresie powojennym określano ją zazwyczaj jako całokształt operacji strategicznych.
W doktrynie amerykańskiej kampania zaliczana jest do kategorii sztuki operacyjnej  jako zespół bitew i walk połączonych wspólnym zamiarem dla osiągnięcia narodowego celu strategicznego na teatrze wojny. W tej konwencji wojna w Zatoce Perskiej była kampanią broni połączonych, prowadzoną przez jednego dowódcę operacyjnego na tamtejszym teatrze wojny.

 Etapy kampanii
Kampania to forma polityczno-militarnego osiągania celu wojny lub konfliktu na teatrze działań, którego złożoność ze względów politycznych i militarnych wymaga organizowania wielu etapów jego osiągania.
Zasadnicze elementy kampanii:
 tworzenie koalicji
 określenie celu i zakresu użycia sił
 tworzenie zgrupowań zadaniowych
 demonstrowanie siły (przeciwkoncentracja)
 prowadzenie kilku operacji (wojennej, reagowania kryzysowego lub pokojowej)
  wyprowadzenie sił z rejonu konfliktu po osiągnięciu celu militarnego
 przystąpienie przez organ polityczny do pokojowego unormowania sytuacji.

Przykłady kampanii
W czasie II wojny światowej kampanie były prowadzone w okresie od miesiąca do kilku miesięcy siłami frontu bądź – częściej – kilku frontów na przestrzeni setek kilometrów. Przykłady kampanii:
 kampania wrześniowa 1939 (w literaturze niemieckiej nazywana kampanią polską),
 kampania norweska 1940,
 kampania francuska 1940 (w literaturze niemieckiej nazywana kampanią zachodnią),
 kampania wschodnioafrykańska 1941–1943,
 kampania włoska 1943–1945.

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When Jeanne Long's book the "Universal Clock" sold worldwide, traders who profited from her concepts had only one major request: COMPUTERIZE. After checking the core trading ideas (that had to be hand calculated daily) the feedback from traders was such that computerization was inevitable. Research that took weeks now takes 15 minutes; trading parameters that took hours are now instantly available.
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Planetary cycles and trading tools can be used in a number of ways. Many traders (whether they admit or not) have been using astronomical information for years (including W.D. Gann). In this context it is the price that is the variable and the astronomical data is the fixed at any point in time into the future. It is this fact that gave rise to one of Jeanne Long's revolutionary concepts of changing the Planetary position of the Universe into price lines on screen after splitting it into units of 24.
As these astronomical positions are all mathematical, their transposition as prices onto the screen provide Support/Resistance/Speed Lines that can be measured and plotted into the future. Furthermore, as these Planetary Lines have had their mathematical points fixed for thousands of years, using them to backtest their validity of Support/Resistance for any specific market can be readily checked and used. Obviously one of the strengths of the program ability to backtest the validity of the appropriate Planetary Lines.
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It's halfway through Wimbledon and we're glued to the screens watching the finest tennis players battle it out for the 2017 trophy. It appears to be an open race for the ladies with Serena Williams out of the running, but in the men's game, Donnatella's Space is backing Spaniard, Rafa Nadal all the way.
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Q: Create a 2d array that prints out a snowflake PYTHON I am trying to create a piece of code that will accept a odd number as a input and create a snowflake using this graph of n * n
Enter Integer: 5
* . * . *
. * * * .
* * * * *
. * * * .
* . * . *

Im pretty sure Im on the the right track
n = int(input("Enter odd input: "))
while n % 2 == 0:
  print("Invalid Input.  Input must be odd")
  n = int(input("Enter odd input: "))
snowflake = [["."] * n for i in range(n)]
middle = int((n-1) / 2)
for i in range(n):
  snowflake[i][2] = "*"
  snowflake[2][i] = "*"
  snowflake[i][i] = "*"
  diagnol = 5-i
  snowflake[i][diagnol] = "*"
for i in snowflake:
  for j in i:
    print(j, end=' ')
  print()
print()

But I keep getting this error
snowflake[i][diagnol] = "*"
IndexError: list assignment index out of range

Can someone help edit my code or give me a tip?(This is a homework assignment)

A: After debugging it I found that 5 was too big and that some of the code would only work if the input was 5
n = int(input("Enter odd input: "))
while n % 2 == 0:
  print("Invalid Input.  Input must be odd")
  n = int(input("Enter odd input: "))
snowflake = [["."] * n for i in range(n)]
middle = int((n-1) / 2)
for i in range(n):
  snowflake[i][middle] = "*"
  snowflake[middle][i] = "*"
  snowflake[i][i] = "*"
  diagnol = n -1 -i
  snowflake[i][diagnol] = "*"
for i in snowflake:
  for j in i:
    print(j, end=' ')
  print()
print()

A: I decided not to fix your algorithm, but as a working example to provide my own algorithm:
Try it online!
n = 9
a = [['.'] * n for i in range(n)]
for i in range(n):
    a[n // 2][i], a[i][n // 2], a[i][i], a[i][n - 1 - i] = ['*'] * 4
print('\n'.join([''.join(a[i]) for i in range(n)]))

Output:
*...*...*
.*..*..*.
..*.*.*..
...***...
*********
...***...
..*.*.*..
.*..*..*.
*...*...*


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Q: How to update embedded documents in mongodb using repository pattern How to use Spring Data Repository to update embedded documents in MongoDB.
[{
    "_id": 1,
    "hotel_name": "test_hotel",
    "reviews": [

      {
        "id": 1,
        "rating": "4star",
        "username": "test_user"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "rating": "4star",
        "username": "test_user"
      },
      {
        "id": 3,
        "rating": "4star",
        "username": "test_user"
      }
    ]

  },
  {
    "_id": 2,
    "hotel_name": "test_hotel2",
    "reviews": [

      {
        "id": 1,
        "rating": "4star",
        "username": "test_user"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "rating": "4star",
        "username": "test_user"
      },
      {
        "id": 3,
        "rating": "4star",
        "username": "test_user"
      }
    ]

  }
]

For example, in the above json I want to update 2nd hotel, review id 2.
Could you please help me how to implement the Repository for this requirement. Thanks.

A: using spring stack, you can use SpringData to do it, you just need to implement an interface that extends MongoRepository and do the update using the Update class.
I found a detailed quick start example:
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-data-mongodb-tutorial


This calculator will compute a company's cash flow to long-term debt ratio, given the company's cash flow over a specified time period and the total amount of its long-term debt.
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Cash flow: The amount of money moving into and out of a company over a specified time period.
Long-term debt: The total amount of a company's long-term debt.
where CF is a company's cash flow over a specified time period and DLT is the company's long-term debt.
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Providing dental treatment dental treatment under sedation is a very specialised service involving a number of exceptional skills.
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Unlike general anaesthesia where a patient is completely asleep, patients under conscious sedation are able to respond to commands. It is common for many patients to feel nervous or anxious about their dental procedures. Conscious sedation is very safe and effective.
1. Oral Sedation is administered by taking a pill. All body functions remain normal and the person is able to breathe on their own. The patient will often fall asleep.
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake combat system, voice cast detailed
If FFVII was a TV show, it'd be on the CW.
Square Enix once again confirmed that Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be in parts, with the first focusing on Midgar. Said first part will release on two physical Blu-ray discs and Square Enix doesn't yet know how many parts the full game will span.
"We can't reveal that many details about this, but just to give you a bit of background on it, before we actually started working on this, we knew obviously it was going to be a large amount of content," Producer Yoshinori Kitase said. "To do the whole story was going to be huge. And then when we actually did start planning out the plot for the first game, it hit us again that this is going to be a huge amount of content.
"At that point, we decided we're going to focus this game on Midgar and what happened in Midgar. And unfortunately, we can't say anything more about the future games after that, because we don't know ourselves, really," Kitase continued. "We really are still fleshing out that process and fleshing out what we're going to do for the second game in the project, and what kind of story is going to be in that, so we really can't tell you."
With that out of the way, let's get into combat and the game's voice cast.
Combat systems
Combat was also detailed today. It will be handled in a hybrid action system that uses command-based combat. As an example, a press of the Square button will cause Cloud to swing his sword. As Cloud attacks, ATB bars will fill and allow you to enter a bullet-time-like mode when full. Using items in battle will deplete a whole ATB bar.
Your fellow party members will battle on their own when not controlled, but you can switch between characters at any time or command NPC party members who have full ATB bars.
The game's English voice cast was today confirmed. Here's who to expect in each role:
Cloud, voiced by Cody Christian (All American, Teen Wolf)
Barret, voiced by John Eric Bentley (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Independence Day: Resurgence)
Aerith, voiced by Briana White (Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Occupants)
Tifa, voiced by Britt Baron (GLOW)
Jessie, voiced by Erica Lindbeck (Spider-Man, Persona 5, ThunderCats Roar)
Biggs, voiced by Gideon Emery (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Teen Wolf)
Wedge, voiced by Matt Jones (Breaking Bad)
Sephiroth, voiced by Tyler Hoechlin
Final Fantasy 7 heads to PS4 and maybe Windows PC and Xbox One on 3 March 2020. A new trailer and screenshots are below.
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A South Dakota law permitted persons age nineteen or older to buy beer containing up to 3.2% alcohol. In 1984, Congress passed 23 U.S.C. §158, which directed the Secretary of Transportation, Dole (defendant), to withhold up to five percent of federal highway funds otherwise available to states in which state laws permitted persons under the age of twenty-one to purchase alcohol. South Dakota (plaintiff) sued Dole and the United States government in federal district court seeking a declaratory judgment that Section 158 violated constitutional limits on Congress's spending power and the Twenty-First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The district court ruled that Congress acted constitutionally, and the court of appeals affirmed. The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari.


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While definitely not the complete game. Santoki is still a very playable and fun game and I would like to share the current fun to you all.
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Today In Science History – August 9 – Amedeo Avogadro
This entry was posted on August 8, 2014 by Todd Helmenstine (updated on August 6, 2017 )
Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856) Italian chemist known for his gas law and the constant that bears his name.
August 9 is Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto's Birthday. You may know him by his shorter name: Amedeo Avogadro.
Avogadro was an Italian chemist known by students of science around the world. His gas law and the constant that bears his name is one of the first numbers a chemistry student memorizes. He was one of the first that suggested gas molecules in the air could be combinations of atoms bonded together. In spite of all this, in 1856, when Avogadro died, his work was barely acknowledged. He was actually part of a noble family from Piedmont, Italy. Avogadro was formally educated and served as a lawyer. He learned mathematics and chemistry through private lessons on his own time. He eventually held the chair of physical chemistry at the University of Turin.
Avogadro's Law was based on the work of Gay-Lussac. Gay-Lussac demonstrated when volumes of gases combine at the same pressure and temperature, the volume of the products will be an integer multiple of the initial volumes. Avogadro took it a step further. He theorized equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure would have the same number of molecules. This, in turn, led to the idea that the ratio of the relative atomic weights of two gases would be the same as the ratio of their densities at the same pressure and temperature.
Avogadro proposed gas molecules in the air were made up of 'elementary molecules' or what John Dalton was calling 'atoms'. He felt this would explain why Gay-Lussac found the volume of water vapor was twice the volume of oxygen used to create it. The oxygen molecule was actually two elementary oxygen molecules joined together. This idea was generally ignored since people believed molecules are formed when two parts of opposite electric charge are attracted to each other. If there were two identical parts with the same charge, they should repel each other.
Some have suggested Avogadro's work was often ignored because he was in Italy. Most chemists of note were from Germany, Sweden, France or England. These countries were at the forefront of chemical science, not Italy. It is disappointing his contributions to chemistry were not widely recognized until after his death. Eventually, much of what he said was true. His name is associated with the number of molecules or atoms found in one mole of a substance. Avogadro's number is equal to 6.022 ×1023 mol−1. This is one of the first things a new chemistry student learns along with the name of the man.
Other Notable Events for August 9
2006 – James Alfred Van Allen died.
James Alfred Van Allen (1914 – 2006)
Van Allan was an American physicist who discovered the Van Allen radiation belts. The belts are twin banded regions of high energy ions trapped by the Earth's magnetic field. They were detected because Van Allan convinced NASA to include a geiger counter aboard the first American satellite, Explorer 1.
1969 – Cecil Frank Powell died.
Cecil Frank Powell (1903 – 1969)
Powell was a British physicist who was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the photographic nuclear emulsion plate technique of studying nuclear processes and the discovery of the pi meson or pion. Pions are a class of mesons that help explain the strong nuclear force in particle physics.
1945 – U.S. drops the second atomic bomb on Japan.
Fat Man Atomic Bomb
Credit: National Archive
The United States dropped a second atomic weapon. The 'Fat Man' atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese seaport city of Nagasaki. Nagasaki was a secondary target for the second atomic bomb. The primary target was the city of Kokura, but was covered by clouds that morning. Casualty estimates range from 40,000 to 75,000 immediate deaths and up to 80,000 by the end of 1945.
1911 – William Alfred Fowler was born.
Fowler was an American astrophysicist who was awarded half the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies of nuclear reactions and the formation of elements. He described how elements could be formed and explained their abundance by the process of nucleosynthesis in stars.
1899 – Edward Frankland died.
Edward Frankland (1825 – 1899). Wikimedia Commons
Frankland was an English chemist who was a pioneer in structural and organometallic chemistry. He proposed the theory of valence to show how individual atoms of elements would combine only with certain limited numbers of atoms of other elements. He was also involved with the discovery of the element helium from the Sun's spectra with Norman Lockyer and Pierre Jules César Janssen.
1819 – Jonathan Homer Lane was born
Lane was an American astrophysicist who was the first to build a mathematical analysis of the Sun as a gaseous body. He demonstrated the thermodynamics of pressure, temperature, and density of the gas within the Sun. His work was the basis of the theory of stellar evolution in use today.
1897 – Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff was born.
Wyckoff was an American scientist who was a pioneer of x-ray crystallography of bacteria. He also developed a method of three-dimensional electron microscopy called metal shadowing. He placed a biological sample in a vacuum next to a gold plated tungsten filament. When the filament was heated, the gold would vaporize and coat one side of the sample. The other side would be shadowed from the gold and would reveal details of structure, size, and shape.
1776 – Amedeo Avogadro was born.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in "Passengers"
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Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt set to co-star in "Passengers".
9 Feb – "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Chris Pratt is set to fly back into space, and this time "The Hunger Games" actress Jennifer Lawrence is coming along for the ride.
The two stars are in early talks to lead "The Imitation Game" director Morten Tyldum's sci-fi romance "Passengers", Variety reports.
The script is penned by "Prometheus" writer Jon Spaihts and has been around for quite some time, just waiting for the right actors to fill in the leading roles. Keanu Reeves was one of the leading men previously rumoured to headline the movie, with Reese Witherspoon or Rachel McAdams to star opposite.
Chris Pratt as Star Lord.
Now it seems that Pratt and Lawrence are the ones who finally snagged the roles. If the deals come through, Pratt will be starring as a passenger aboard a spacecraft in the future, who wakes up from his cryogenic sleep of 90 years before any of the other thousands of passengers. Romance blooms when he decides to wake up a female passenger, which would be played by Lawrence.
Pratt's star presence skyrocketed after his role as Peter Quill a.k.a. Star Lord in "Guardians of the Galaxy" last year, while Lawrence made her third return as Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1".
Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games".
"Guardians of the Galaxy" opened at number one in North American cinemas on 1 August. It has to date grossed USD774.1 million worldwide, collecting USD5.8 million of it in Malaysia and USD4.7 million in Singapore. Meanwhile "Mockingjay – Part 1" opened in North American on 21 November, also at number one. It has so far grossed USD714.7 million the world over.
Pratt will be seen next in "Jurassic World" and Lawrence in the final instalment of the "Hunger Games" franchise, "Mockingjay – Part 2".
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This paper investigates convective burst (CB) evolution in Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model simulations of two tropical cyclones (TCs), focusing on the relationship between CBs and TC intensity change. Analysis of intensity change in the simulations shows that there are more CBs inside the radius of maximum winds (RMW) during times when the TCs are about to intensify, while weakening/steady times are associated with more CBs outside the RMW, consistent with past observational and theoretical studies. The vertical mass flux distributions show greater vertical mass flux at upper levels both from weaker updrafts and CBs for intensifying cases. The TC simulations are further dissected by past intensity change, and times of sustained intensification have more CBs than times when the TC has been weakening but then intensifies. This result suggests that CB development may not always be predictive of intensification, but rather may occur as a result of ongoing intensification and contribute to ongoing intensification. Abrupt short-term intensification is found to be associated with an even higher density of CBs inside the RMW than is slower intensification. Lag correlations between CBs and intensity reveal a broad peak, with the CBs leading pressure falls by 0-3 h. These relationships are further confirmed by analysis of individual simulation periods, although the relationship can vary depending on environmental conditions and the previous evolution of the TC. These results show that increased convection due to both weak updrafts and CBs inside the RMW is favorable for sustained TC intensification and show many details of the typical short-term response of the TC core to CBs.
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Ajami Kassem Explains The Difference Between Carbon Steel And Cold Steel?
Ajami Kassem explain In recent times, we have used steel for many decorative purposes apart from making buildings, dishes, and many more things. But in an earlier time, it was only used for the construction of the building. After some time in the early 1990s, steel production became a little more efficient, and the advanced technologies and techniques also made steel quality stronger. Steel production rapidly increases by about millions of tons annually. Metal is one of the most valuable materials in the whole world. In the current situation, the need for steel is too broad as it has muscular strength and a shiny effect.
Do you know that we are using steel to become the fourth most commonly used metal? It is playing a significant role in the country's economy. Keep on reading our informative blog to know how steel is produced in the present time and how it will produce in the future.
There are many different types of steel available in today's world, as we all know that.
But in this post, we will discuss the significant difference between one of the most concrete forms of steel, Carbon steel, and Cold steel.
So, if you are interested, keep on reading without keeping your eyes aside from the post; we will let you know. Let's take a deep look.
First, we will briefly discuss carbon steel, okay.
Which has their three parts and each has its different uses or features, for which they are famous.
To make you're clear about three different types of carbon steel, we have classified the points below, have a look.
Low carbon steel
The first one is low-carbon steel. You may have heard that name before, but this one is also known as 'mild steel.' People who are from this steel industry used to say that low carbon steel is one of the cheapest steels which are now available in the market, apart from this low carbon steel is very easy to bend and to give any shape that makes this the perfect choice for reinforcement bars, sheet, concrete and in other related projects.
This didn't get rust. That's why it can be easily found in kitchens in the form of cookware or dishes; low carbon steel is used as the dishes compared to other steel because it doesn't get rust even after coming in contact with moisture.
Medium carbon steel
It has been given the name medium carbon steel because somewhere, this one is slightly stronger than the low carbon steel, as it contains a much higher carbon component than the lower one. Let me clarify, medium carbon steel contains 0.31% to 60% carbon component on it, but on the other hand, low carbon steel contains 0.04% to 0.30% of carbon component. But it still has numerous uses because of its higher strength or wears resistance, making it perfect for manufacturing car parts or other industrial usage machines.
Suppose these three metals, chromium, nickel, or molybdenum, can be added to medium carbon steel to increase its stress resistance on a peak level. In that case, it will become perfect for manufacturing vital steel items such as studs or gears.
High carbon steel
Now comes one of the strongest carbon steels, high carbon steel, which is more inflexible as well. The reason for its strongness is that high carbon steel contains more and more carbon components than the other two carbon sheets of steel. Let me show you as it has between 0,60% to 1.4% of carbon components in it, and with that, if some amount of alloy would be added to this, it can change the whole properties of high carbon steel.
For avoiding corrosion on its surface, chromium or magnesium should also be added to it.
This type of carbon steel becomes more challenging after coming in contact with heat, but if it is heated continuously for a long, then it will become brittle, so make sure about this.
While on the other hand, cold steel is a more uncompromising metal, and because of its flexibility and strongness, it comes in the use of swords, knives, and some other material like this.
Both carbon and cold steel have different natures and come with different uses, as both have other properties, advantages, and disadvantages.
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#include "IntRgbx.h"
#include "AlphaMacros.h"

#include "IntRgb.h"
#include "IntArgb.h"
#include "IntArgbBm.h"
#include "IntArgbPre.h"
#include "ThreeByteBgr.h"
#include "ByteGray.h"
#include "ByteIndexed.h"

/*
 * This file declares, registers, and defines the various graphics
 * primitive loops to manipulate surfaces of type "IntRgbx".
 *
 * See also LoopMacros.h
 */

RegisterFunc RegisterIntRgbx;

DECLARE_CONVERT_BLIT(IntRgbx, IntArgb);
DECLARE_CONVERT_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_CONVERT_BLIT(ThreeByteBgr, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_CONVERT_BLIT(ByteGray, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_CONVERT_BLIT(ByteIndexed, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SCALE_BLIT(IntRgbx, IntArgb);
DECLARE_SCALE_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SCALE_BLIT(ThreeByteBgr, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SCALE_BLIT(ByteGray, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SCALE_BLIT(ByteIndexed, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_XPAR_CONVERT_BLIT(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_XPAR_SCALE_BLIT(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_XPAR_SCALE_BLIT(IntArgbBm, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_XPAR_BLITBG(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_XOR_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SRC_MASKFILL(IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SRCOVER_MASKFILL(IntRgbx);
DECLARE_ALPHA_MASKFILL(IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SRCOVER_MASKBLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SRCOVER_MASKBLIT(IntArgbPre, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntArgbPre, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntRgb, IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SOLID_DRAWGLYPHLISTAA(IntRgbx);
DECLARE_SOLID_DRAWGLYPHLISTLCD(IntRgbx);

DECLARE_TRANSFORMHELPER_FUNCS(IntRgbx);

NativePrimitive IntRgbxPrimitives[] = {
    REGISTER_ANYINT_ISOCOPY_BLIT(IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_ANYINT_ISOSCALE_BLIT(IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_ANYINT_ISOXOR_BLIT(IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_CONVERT_BLIT(IntRgbx, IntArgb),
    REGISTER_CONVERT_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_CONVERT_BLIT(ThreeByteBgr, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_CONVERT_BLIT(ByteGray, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_CONVERT_BLIT_EQUIV(IntRgb, IntRgbx,
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    REGISTER_CONVERT_BLIT(ByteIndexed, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SCALE_BLIT(IntRgbx, IntArgb),
    REGISTER_SCALE_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SCALE_BLIT(ThreeByteBgr, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SCALE_BLIT(ByteGray, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SCALE_BLIT_EQUIV(IntRgb, IntRgbx,
                              NAME_SCALE_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx)),
    REGISTER_SCALE_BLIT(ByteIndexed, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_XPAR_CONVERT_BLIT(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_XPAR_SCALE_BLIT(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_XPAR_SCALE_BLIT(IntArgbBm, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_XPAR_BLITBG(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_XOR_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SRC_MASKFILL(IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SRCOVER_MASKFILL(IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_ALPHA_MASKFILL(IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SRCOVER_MASKBLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SRCOVER_MASKBLIT(IntArgbPre, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntArgbPre, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntRgb, IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SOLID_DRAWGLYPHLISTAA(IntRgbx),
    REGISTER_SOLID_DRAWGLYPHLISTLCD(IntRgbx),

    REGISTER_TRANSFORMHELPER_FUNCS(IntRgbx),
};

jboolean RegisterIntRgbx(JNIEnv *env)
{
    return RegisterPrimitives(env, IntRgbxPrimitives,
                              ArraySize(IntRgbxPrimitives));
}

jint PixelForIntRgbx(SurfaceDataRasInfo *pRasInfo, jint rgb)
{
    return (rgb << 8);
}

DEFINE_CONVERT_BLIT(IntRgbx, IntArgb, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_CONVERT_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_CONVERT_BLIT(ThreeByteBgr, IntRgbx, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_CONVERT_BLIT(ByteGray, IntRgbx, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_CONVERT_BLIT_LUT8(ByteIndexed, IntRgbx, ConvertOnTheFly)

DEFINE_SCALE_BLIT(IntRgbx, IntArgb, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_SCALE_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_SCALE_BLIT(ThreeByteBgr, IntRgbx, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_SCALE_BLIT(ByteGray, IntRgbx, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_SCALE_BLIT_LUT8(ByteIndexed, IntRgbx, ConvertOnTheFly)

DEFINE_XPAR_CONVERT_BLIT_LUT8(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx, ConvertOnTheFly)

DEFINE_XPAR_SCALE_BLIT_LUT8(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx, ConvertOnTheFly)

DEFINE_XPAR_SCALE_BLIT(IntArgbBm, IntRgbx, 1IntRgb)

DEFINE_XPAR_BLITBG_LUT8(ByteIndexedBm, IntRgbx, ConvertOnTheFly)

DEFINE_XOR_BLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx, AnyInt)

DEFINE_SRC_MASKFILL(IntRgbx, 4ByteArgb)

DEFINE_SRCOVER_MASKFILL(IntRgbx, 4ByteArgb)

DEFINE_ALPHA_MASKFILL(IntRgbx, 4ByteArgb)

DEFINE_SRCOVER_MASKBLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx, 4ByteArgb)

DEFINE_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntArgb, IntRgbx, 4ByteArgb)

DEFINE_SRCOVER_MASKBLIT(IntArgbPre, IntRgbx, 4ByteArgb)

DEFINE_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntArgbPre, IntRgbx, 4ByteArgb)

DEFINE_ALPHA_MASKBLIT(IntRgb, IntRgbx, 4ByteArgb)

DEFINE_SOLID_DRAWGLYPHLISTAA(IntRgbx, 3ByteRgb)

DEFINE_SOLID_DRAWGLYPHLISTLCD(IntRgbx, 3ByteRgb)

DEFINE_TRANSFORMHELPERS(IntRgbx)

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Shabbat Songs Inspiration
May 15, 2004 | by Mrs. Lori Palatnik
Understanding the mystical attraction of song.
Let's face it, unless it's somebody's birthday, when do people sit around singing together?
Yet singing is fun, kids love it, and for everyone it's a real release. And when it's done on Shabbat, it can be another extension of the tremendous pleasure that Shabbat has to offer.
We can even understand the pleasure of singing from a look at the Hebrew language. Lezamer means "to sing," sharing the same root as the word lizmor which means "to prune." The fact that they come from the same word is no accident.
When we prune a bush we are removing old, dead growth that is inhibiting its growth; we're shaping the bush to bring out its own beauty. The same thing happens to us with song.
When we sing, we "prune" away the excess baggage that we carry around, revealing our essence. The harmony of music releases the disharmony within us.
Thus we fill Shabbat with song. We revel in the pleasure of getting rid of the excess, the disharmonious things that have accumulated during the past six days, leaving us, as "Shalom Aleichem," the first song of Shabbat says, with a feeling of shalom -- peace.
When I was single and first went to people's homes on Shabbat, I thought that the singing part of the meal was really beautiful. It was something I never really had in my home-the idea of song and the joy that it brings. In fact, it was so nice that it almost made me embarrassed and uncomfortable. I kept trying to picture my own family singing, and just couldn't imagine.
Today, my husband and I almost always sing, especially when we have guests. Everyone gets into it, even if the songs are new to them. We have NCSY bentchers (song books), which transliterate all the songs. The tunes continually repeat, so people catch on quite quickly.
My kids love it, and every Shabbat they say, "Daddy, sing us wild songs!" My husband will break out into a really lively one, and the kids will dance around, doing cartwheels and flips.
Once you have kids and they're old enough to join in, it's just incredible. I love that they know the songs, and that Shabbat for them is such a joyful experience.
I love a lot of the songs, but my favorite is "Eitz Chaim." The tune is very slow and moving, and sometimes makes me feel like crying.
My favorite song? Kol Ha-Olam. It focuses your attention: Yes, there is difficulty in life, and six days a week we work and experience that. But the seventh day-that's when we're not afraid of anything, because that's the day we know what's important; that's the day God is really in your life.
Everyone at the Shabbat table has a favorite song, and we all vie for the chance to sing ours first. Even the little ones have favorites and light up and clap their hands when they're sung.
I have a daughter who remembers which ones were her favorites as she was growing up. She says, "When I was a baby and Daddy was carrying me around, this was the song he sang to me," and she would sing one of the slow ones, and she would be right! Now she's three and loves the peppy tunes, because for her, Shabbat is dancing around the table. I can imagine her one day all grown up, sitting around her own Shabbat table, saying to her own children, "This is the one my father sang to me, when I was a baby."
Sometimes, when I spend Shabbat at home with my parents -- who don't observe Shabbat -- singing the songs from my bentcher really helps me feel the Shabbat spirit, even when the TV is going in the background, and the phones are ringing. When I sing, no matter what's going on around me, it's Shabbat.
Although I didn't come from an observant home, my husband did. Recently he told me a story that had a real impact on me and made me appreciate what singing at the Shabbat table can really mean.
Last year my father-in-law took ill and was dying. His four grown children went to his bedside to say good-bye and to try and offer him some comfort in his last hours. What did they do? Together they sang him Shabbat zemirot -- all the songs they had shared together as a family growing up.
It was so beautiful and gave him great joy, even at the end. Can you imagine? To me it said so much about their bond and what their family stood for.
That's what I want for my children. I want them to have sweet memories of sitting around the Shabbat table and singing. I want them to know the tremendous pleasure that it gives their parents.
And I think they will. After all, it's their Zaidy's legacy.
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Lori Palatnik is a writer and Jewish educator who has appeared on television and radio. She is the Founding Director of The Jewish Women's Renaissance Project, an international initiative that brings thousands of women to Israel each year from 18 different countries on highly subsidized programs to inspire them with the beauty and wisdom of their heritage (www.jwrp.org). She is a much sought-after international speaker, having lectured in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Central America, South America, South Africa and Israel, including featured talks at Yale, Brown and Penn. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband, Rabbi Yaakov Palatnik, and is the busy mother of five children, ages 25 to 15.
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from __future__ import print_function

import boto3

class ClientError(Exception):
    pass

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    """
    Simple front controller for the few resource methods of this example

    :param event:
    :param context:
    :return:
    """

    ### START :: NEED FILL IN THESE VALUES ###################################
    COGNITO_REGION = ''
    # IDENTITY_PROVIDER_NAME is found under 'Authentication providers' -> 'Custom' Tab
    DEVELOPER_PROVIDER_NAME = ''
    IDENTITY_POOL_ID = ''
    ### END :: NEED FILL IN THESE VALUES #####################################

    USERS_TABLE_NAME = 'ServerlessCafe_users'

    request_payload = event.get('payload')
    print("received event: '{}'".format(event))
    if 'payload' not in event:
        return client_error("'payload' parameter required")

    dynamo = boto3.resource('dynamodb').Table(USERS_TABLE_NAME)
    if 'username' not in request_payload or 'password' not in request_payload:
        return client_error("Missing required parameters 'username' and/or 'password'")
    username = request_payload['username']
    client_supplied_password = request_payload['password']
    user_response = dynamo.get_item(
        Key={
            'username': username
        }
    )
    if 'Item' not in user_response:
        return client_error("username and/or password incorrect", 401)
    user_item = user_response['Item']
    print("User found: {}".format(user_item))
    if not match_password(client_supplied_password, user_item['password']):
        return client_error("username and/or password incorrect", 401)
    # start cognito flow using the "Developer Authenticated Identities" work flow
    # see: mobile.awsblog.com/post/Tx1YVAQ4NZKBWF5/Amazon-Cognito-Announcing-Developer-Authenticated-Identities
    # see: mobile.awsblog.com/post/Tx2FL1QAPDE0UAH/Understanding-Amazon-Cognito-Authentication-Part-2-Developer-Authenticated-Ident
    cognito = boto3.client('cognito-identity', region_name=COGNITO_REGION)
    logins = {}
    logins[DEVELOPER_PROVIDER_NAME] = user_item['username']
    response = cognito.get_open_id_token_for_developer_identity(
        IdentityPoolId=IDENTITY_POOL_ID,
        Logins=logins,
        TokenDuration=900  # default 900 sec (15 min), max 24hrs
    )
    print("OpenIdToken: {}".format(response['Token']))
    # {Token: '', IdentityId: '', ResponseMetadata: {}}
    print("Cognito Response IdentityId: {}".format(response['IdentityId']))
    identity = cognito.get_credentials_for_identity(
        IdentityId=response['IdentityId'],
        Logins={
            'cognito-identity.amazonaws.com': response['Token']
        }
    )
    import pprint
    pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=2)
    pp.pprint(identity)
    return format_credentials_response(identity['Credentials'])

def format_credentials_response(credentials):
    """

    :param credentials:
    :return:
    """
    return {
        'status_code': 200,
        'message': 'Temporary credentials',
        'payload': {
            'access_key_id': credentials['AccessKeyId'],
            'expiration': credentials['Expiration'].strftime('%s'),
            'secret_key': credentials['SecretKey'],
            'session_token': credentials['SessionToken']
        }
    }

def client_error(message, http_status_code=400):
    """
    Simple util function to return an error in a consistent format to the calling
    system (API Gateway in this case.

    :param message:
    :param http_status_code:
    :return:
    """

    client_error = ClientError("status_code:={}|message:={}".format(http_status_code, message))
    raise client_error

def match_password(client_supplied_password, hashed_password_on_record):
    # @TODO issue/#1
    # import bcrypt
    # return bcrypt.hashpw(client_supplied_password, hashed_password_on_record) == hashed_password_on_record
    # ========
    # just clear text for proof of concept phase :|
    return client_supplied_password == hashed_password_on_record


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A lot of the initial reviews of the logo seem to be in consensus that the old logo was bad. The old logo maybe wasn't as cleanly executed as it could have been, but at least it had style. It reminded me of the typography used in the old Warner Brothers cartoons. If I had been in Mayer's shoes, I would have hired someone like House Industries to create a characterful typographic identity: a refresh that reflected the whimsy and playfulness of the old logo.
Also worth reading on the subject. Thanks for sharing, Tony Goff.
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Funnily enough when I actually went to click through to see where it would take me, it went nowhere.
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This Toy Is to Blame for a Huge Surge in Child Injuries
By Maya Rhodan
December 1, 2014 8:00 AM EST
Toy-related injuries have risen dramatically over the past two decades — and one type of toy is largely to blame.
Injuries involving toys increased by 40% percent between 1990 and 2011, a new report from Clinical Pediatrics found, with about 3,278,073 kids sent to emergency rooms for toy-related injuries over the two decades, or about 149,000 cases per year.
The toys most likely to lead to injury: scooters, and other ride-on toys. The popular wheeled toy accounted for 42.5% of admissions to hospitals between 1990 and 2011 and 34.9% of injuries in children.
The report is the first nationally representative study in toy-related injuries over time, though the Consumer Product Safety Commission examines injuries annually. In the two most recent reports, scooters top the list of the most dangerous toys for kids.
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Q: Write a code to calculate Backward Propagation, Deep Learning course by Andrew NG So I've taken the Deep Learning AI course by Andrew NG on coursera.
I am currently working the last assignment in week 2.
I reached the part where I have to write the forward and backward propagation function.
I managed to write the fwd_propagate function which is fairly easy.
This is the code below :
def fwd_propagate(w,b,X,y):
    m = X.shape[1]
    A = sigmoid(np.dot(w.T,X)+b)
    J = (-1/m)*np.sum(y * np.log(A) + (1-y) * np.log(1-A))
    return J

Now I have to write the bwd_propagation function but I don't know where and how to start.
Can someone help and explain to me what I should write.
This is everything I wrote so far with the tests.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import h5py
import scipy
from PIL import Image
from scipy import ndimage

%matplotlib inline

def load_dataset():
    train_dataset = h5py.File('C:/Users/Univ/Desktop/ML Intern/Logistic-Regression-with-a-Neural-Network-mindset-master/train_catvnoncat.h5', "r")
    train_set_x_orig = np.array(train_dataset["train_set_x"][:]) # your train set features
    train_set_y_orig = np.array(train_dataset["train_set_y"][:]) # your train set labels

    test_dataset = h5py.File('C:/Users/Univ/Desktop/ML Intern/Logistic-Regression-with-a-Neural-Network-mindset-master/test_catvnoncat.h5', "r")
    test_set_x_orig = np.array(test_dataset["test_set_x"][:]) # your test set features
    test_set_y_orig = np.array(test_dataset["test_set_y"][:]) # your test set labels

    classes = np.array(test_dataset["list_classes"][:]) # the list of classes

    train_set_y_orig = train_set_y_orig.reshape((1, train_set_y_orig.shape[0]))
    test_set_y_orig = test_set_y_orig.reshape((1, test_set_y_orig.shape[0]))

    return train_set_x_orig, train_set_y_orig, test_set_x_orig, test_set_y_orig, classes

train_set_x_orig, train_set_y, test_set_x_orig, test_set_y, classes = load_dataset()

index = 25
plt.imshow(train_set_x_orig[index])
print ("y = " + str(train_set_y[:,index]) + ", it's a '" + classes[np.squeeze(train_set_y[:,index])].decode("utf-8") +  "' picture.")

print(str(train_set_y.shape[1]) + " This is the amount of elements in the training set")
print(str(test_set_y.shape[1]) + " This is the amount of elements in the test set")
print(str(train_set_x_orig.shape[1]) + " This is the Num_px")
print(f"{train_set_x_orig.shape[1]} This is the Num_px")
print(train_set_x_orig.shape)

X_flatten1 = train_set_x_orig.reshape(train_set_x_orig.shape[0], -1).T
X_flatten2 = train_set_y.reshape(train_set_y.shape[0], -1).T
X_flatten3 = test_set_x_orig.reshape(test_set_x_orig.shape[0], -1).T
X_flatten4 = test_set_y.reshape(test_set_y.shape[0], -1).T

print(X_flatten1)
print(X_flatten2)
print(X_flatten3)
print(X_flatten4)
print(X_flatten1.shape)
print(X_flatten2.shape)
print(X_flatten3.shape)
print(X_flatten4.shape)

print(" Let's standardize our date")
train_set_x = X_flatten1/256
test_set_x = X_flatten3/256
print(train_set_x)
print(test_set_x)

def sigmoid(x):
    s = 1/(1+np.exp(-x))
    return s

print ("sigmoid(0) = " + str(sigmoid(0)))
print ("sigmoid(9.2) = " + str(sigmoid(9.2)))

def initialize_with_zeros(dim):
    shp=(dim,1)
    w = np.zeros(shp)
    b = 0
    assert(w.shape == (dim, 1))
    assert(isinstance(b, float) or isinstance(b, int))
    return w,b

dim = 2
w, b = initialize_with_zeros(dim)
print ("w = " + str(w))
print ("b = " + str(b))

def fwd_propagate(w,b,X,y):
    m = X.shape[1]
    A = sigmoid(np.dot(w.T,X)+b)
    J = (-1/m)*np.sum(y * np.log(A) + (1-y) * np.log(1-A))
    return J

A: The next step is to calculate derivative for back propagation:
dw = 1/m*(np.dot(X, ((A-Y).T)))
db = 1/m*(np.sum(A-Y))


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Manitoba teen who wanted to take up arms with ISIL will not be kept in custody
Teen who made pro-ISIL comments sentenced
Jan. 9, 2017 5:00 p.m.
BRANDON, Man. — A Manitoba teenager who pleaded guilty to counselling terrorism will spend no more time in custody, but will have to live under strict curfew conditions and wear an electronic monitoring device for more than two years.
The teen, who can't be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was 16 when he was charged with posting pro-terrorism comments on social media.
He had been in custody in Brandon since his arrest in November 2015 and pleaded guilty last year to counselling the commission of an indictable offence for the benefit of a terrorist group.
Court was told the boy urged people to fight for the Islamic State and to "strike from within" if they could not go overseas.
Provincial court Judge John Coombs sentenced the teen to six months deferred custody to be followed by two years of probation that is to include counselling, curfews, electronic monitoring and a ban on using computers.
Coombs said the boy's online threats and plans had to be taken seriously, but also appeared to be more theoretical than practical.
"It is also evident that his stated intentions had little connection to reality," Coombs told court Monday.
"For instance, his plans involved the transportation of significant equipment. He had no access to a motor vehicle and had shown no interest in getting a driver's licence."
The boy apologized at a court hearing in November and said he was struggling with his identity when he made the online comments.
He addressed the court briefly Monday.
"I accept responsibility for what I've done," he said.
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