4th edition. First edition used spelling of 'Impolity' in subtitle.
The text of this edition is in the public domain. Picture of Jeremy Bentham courtesy of The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University.
LETTER II. Reasons for Restraint. Prevention of Usury.
LETTER III. Reasons for Restraint. Prevention of Prodigality.
LETTER IV. Reasons for Restraint. Protection of Indigence.
LETTER V. Reasons for Restraint. Protection of Simplicity.
LETTER VI. Mischiefs of the anti-usurious laws.
LETTER VII. Efficacy of anti-usurious laws.
LETTER VIII. Virtual Usury allowed.
LETTER X. Grounds of the Prejudices against Usury.
LETTER XII. Maintenance and Champerty.
Crichoff, in White Russia, January 1787.
the liberty of making one's own terms in money-bargains. From so general and universal a neglect, it is an old notion of mine, as you well know, that this meek and unassuming species of liberty has been suffering much injustice.
In a word, the proposition I have been accustomed to lay down to myself on this subject is the following one, viz.
any body hindered from supplying him, upon any terms he thinks proper to accede to.
This, I say, would be a short and very easy method with an individual: but, as the world has no mouth of its own to plead by, no certain attorney by which it can "come and defend this force and injury," I must even find arguments for it at a venture, and ransack my own imagination for such phantoms as I can find to fight with.
In favour of the restraints opposed to the species of liberty I contend for, I can imagine but five arguments.
3. Protection of indigence against extortion.
4. Repression of the temerity of projectors.
5. Protection of simplicity against imposition.
Of all these in their order.


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Is there a real Candy Cane Lane?
A Seattle institution since 1949, Candy Cane Lane (otherwise known as N.E. Park Rd., just off the main drag of Ravenna Blvd. at the cross street of 21st Ave.
When can you see Candy Cane Lane?
When does Candy Cane Lane and Lollipop Lane start? It can vary a bit from year to year, but visitors are encouraged to enjoy the sights from December 1st on, and the decorations are at their best after dark.
Where is Candy Cane Lane located?
Candy Cane Lane Still as Sweet. Woodland Hills Candy Cane Lane, located off Winnetka Avenue and Oxnard Street, has been a holiday favorite since 1948!
Can you walk Candy Cane Lane?
Yes, it's free, just find street parking around there and walk to it. Santa Clause is there if you want to visit also.
Is Candy Cane Lane Open 2020 Seattle?
Candy Cane Lane is open until January 1, 2021. Bring a food donation for Food Drive (University District Food Bank) and Warm Accessory Drive (Ravenna Popup Kitchen). Put donations in the bin located at the end of the street.
How long does it take to get through Candy Cane Lane?
The drive thru experience is approximately 25-30 minutes once you drive through the gates of the garage.
Who is candy cane Creepypasta?
Origins of Candy Cane. Candice Wulf was a little German girl born in the '40s, who suffered a lot of hunger and the destitution after the second World War. But she found happiness and confidence in circus art, it was her only way to escape to her parents.
What are candy canes?
The ingredients for candy canes are sugar and corn syrup, which are stored in stainless steel tanks.
What is a Candy Cane Lane?
Candy Cane Lane is the name given to the 200 block of Summer Street in Duboistown in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania when it is decorated for Christmas from Thanksgiving to The Epiphany each year.
How much does it cost to get into Candy Cane Lane?
More HOW TO ENTER: All you have to do is visit Candy Cane Lane tonight (Monday) between 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. for a chance for your vehicle to be randomly selected to receive the gift card. Tickets are $20 a vehicle.
How do you drive through Candy Cane Lane?
Candy Cane Lane is located at the intersection of Lubao and Oxnard Streets in Woodland Hills. Visitors drive slowly down the street with their headlights dimmed so that everyone can enjoy the lights. The closest exit is Winnetka, off the 101 freeway.
What do you call the game of candy canes?
The Candy cane game is a fun twist on an old game that is a load of fun for the holiday season! Use them to play a game of "Spoons", or for the Christmas Season, "Candy Canes." Play a game of "Candy Canes," for loads of fun and laughs. This is an elimination game, and the more people that play, the more fun it is!
Where to see Santa at Candy Cane Lane?
Santa has been seen posing for photos with children and some of Santa's elves have been seen roaming. of ligts, figures and artificial snow.
Which is the closest exit to Candy Cane Lane?
The closest exit is Winnetka, off of the 101 freeway. and 11pm on weekends. Many residents turn off their lights after this time to discourage viewing.** exit at Winnetka Avenue. on Oxnard Street. If there is a traffic jam try parking and walk. have tried to outdo each other with their light displays each year. Santa has been seen
When did Candy Cane Lane start in Woodland Hills?
Candy Cane Lane has been a tradition in Woodland Hills since 1952 and the residents have tried to outdo each other with their light displays each year. Santa has been seen posing for photos with children and some of Santa's elves have been seen roaming.
Is Autentico a chalk paint?
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Despite being written fifteen years ago, Blue/Orange seems as fresh a statement on mental health care as if it was penned last month. Canoe Theatre's production of Joe Penhall's play introduces Christopher who has borderline personality disorder and is twenty-four hours away from being released from a psychiatric hospital. But his doctor, Bruce, believes his patient should be reclassified and further detained. When he enlists the support of his supervising consultant, Bruce finds there are political and economic influences at work and despite Christopher's disturbing behavior, Bruce's supervisor is adamant that he be released. What follows is a dark satire of National Health Service mental health care. Penhall's brilliant dialogue bounces off the hospital walls as rapidly as the schizophrenic Christopher switches from clarity to confusion.
Simon Mokhele plays a mercurial Christopher, aware of his rights, eager for release one minute, but reluctant the next. He claims that oranges are blue and that Idi Amin is his father. And we are never truly sure whether he is sane or not. When Bruce pushes for a Section Three order, his boss reasons that there are no beds available; that they'll have patients on trolleys, like the wacky races. Craig Pinder plays the chauvinistic, stereotypical senior consultant Robert, who threatens 'You have to play the game and keep your nose clean… or I'll never make professor and you'll never complete your specialist registrar training'. Bruce is told to be business-like and to write down the pro's and con's of re-diagnosing his patient; the cost of mental care versus the danger to society. As the earnest professional, Bruce, played by Matthew Bulgo, is gradually beaten into compliance and his career brutally destroyed.
Julia Thomas's interpretation of this three-act play, which takes place within the confines of a consulting room, is well done. By placing the audience around the edge of the room, she introduces a guilty intimacy; we are party to the private doctor /patient relationship and though we ought to leave, it's compelling viewing. The office clock signifies the twenty-four hours within which Bruce fights for his patient and his career. When he fails to protect both, we feel his frustration. Bulgo's portrayal of gradual despair as he's forced out of his job is as excellently executed as Pinder's arrogant senior consultant. The audience sits on the edge of its seat as the cast maintains the tension right to the end; the applause, when it comes, is fully deserved.
Penhall's challenge to NHS policies of placing psychiatric patients in the community was written in 1999. Fifteen years later, the number of murders by misdiagnosed schizophrenic patients returned to the community continues to rise. This superbly played three-hander leaves us questioning the sanity of the professionals who determine who is sane and who is not. And for how much longer the Government will allow its mental health care policies to rebound to bite its own bottom.


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Cryo-electron microscopy sheds new light on batteries
By Tom Fleischman |
The interface of the solid anode and the liquid electrolyte plays a crucial role in the performance of a lithium-metal battery, but characterizing the processes that happen at that intersection has been a challenge.
To study the surface of the anode, generally the liquid electrolyte is removed and the surface is washed and dried before analysis. But this washing and drying fundamentally changes the structure and chemistry of the interface; to get an accurate picture of the interface, it must be viewed in its natural state.
Researchers in the lab of Lena Kourkoutis, assistant professor of applied and engineering physics, have developed and demonstrated a technique for direct visualization of solid-liquid interfaces in an effort to better understand a major problem with Li-metal batteries: dendrite growth on the anode, which can cause short-circuiting and, in extreme cases, catastrophic battery failure.
Michael Zachman, Ph.D. '18, a member of the Kourkoutis lab, is lead author of "Cryo-STEM Mapping of Solid-Liquid Interfaces and Dendrites in Li-Metal Batteries," which will publish Aug. 15 in Nature.
Credit: Kourkoutis Lab
Key contributions were made by the lab of Lynden Archer, the James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Zhengyuan Tu, Ph.D. '17, and Snehashis Choudhury, Ph.D. '18, both of the Archer group, constructed and analyzed the performance of the batteries used in the study.
The method developed by Kourkoutis' lab involves rapid freezing of the electrolyte on the electrode, and a suite of cryogenic microscopy techniques to analyze the morphological, chemical and structural information at the solid-liquid interface. This work has implications for systems well beyond energy storage, the researchers say.
"The technique we developed really just allows us to have an undistorted view of what is going on at these very complex interfaces," Kourkoutis said. "And that is key in order to understand not only that particular interface, but also the implications of the reactions or processes that occur."
Kourkoutis said this work was inspired by her experience in a biology lab at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, where she used a method called cryo-FIB (focused ion beam) to look at processes inside cells. At Cornell, her group adapted cryo-FIB for solid-liquid interfaces and combined it with cryo-STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) to access the intact structure of dendrites at the nanoscale.
For this work, coin cell batteries were opened and the electrode immediately plunged into a cryogen to rapidly freeze and preserve the structure. Zachman, who prepared the samples and performed the experiments, discovered two distinct types of dendrites on the anode surface: Type I was relatively large (approximately 5 microns across) with low curvature; type II was hundreds of nanometers thick and tortuous.
In addition, the type I dendrites displayed an extended solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) – a soft layer thought to be a precursor to dendrite growth – approximately 300 to 500 nanometers thick, much larger than has been previously observed. Discovery of this layer – which the study suggests is mostly lost during the washing and drying necessary in traditional analysis – signals that more lithium is irreversibly lost to the SEI layer than previously thought.
The group's technique also revealed that the type II dendrites were composed of lithium hydride. "Only dendrites composed of lithium metal were assumed to be in batteries," Zachman said, "and now we see that there are actually lithium hydride dendrites present as well, and they should have significant performance effects on the battery."
Archer said these discoveries should help provide "important clues about how one might approach chemical design of battery electrolytes."
The collaboration between the Kourkoutis and Archer groups stemmed from a joint proposal written to secure $2.7 million from the National Science Foundation to obtain the scanning transmission electron microscope used in this research.
"This is an outstanding demonstration of the legacy of radical collaborations that have come to define materials science research at Cornell, and which differentiate Cornell from its peers as the place to do such work," Archer said.
This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Packard Foundation and the Department of Energy. It made use of the Cornell Center for Materials Research Shared Facilities, an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, as well as the KAUST-CU Center for Energy and Sustainability, which is supported by a grant from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Additional support came from the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and the Energy Materials Center at Cornell.
'Elegant' design could lead to more powerful, safer lithium metal battery
Next-generation rechargeable battery made with tin


Deaf (And Related) Dating With Matchmaking and Local Search Mapping Options - Name Contest. Pick the perfect name.
A new type of dating site solely for the Deaf community (and Hard of Hearing, ASL fans, hearing people interested in community, etc). There will be options for matchmaking for easy pairing choices, and tools for searching for local people on maps. Must contain a ".com" availability and be simple as possible. Must not contain words like "tag", "love", "book", "space", or any other generic names.
A new type of dating site solely for the Deaf community (and Hard of Hearing, ASL fans, hearing people interested in community, etc). There will be options for matchmaking for easy pairing choices, and tools for searching for local people on maps.
Must contain a ".com" availability and be simple as possible. Must not contain words like "tag", "love", "book", "space", or any other generic names.
I currently own Deaf.ly and a couple others, but looking for a good related ".com" domain.


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Q: two squares suming to 17009... There are two positive integer sets $(b,a),(a,b)$ which satisfy $a^2+b^2=128^2+25^2$ and neither $a$ nor $b$ equals to $128$ and $25$. Find these two sets.
I don't even have a idea how to do this so I would love some help.
I have tried to find nearby large numbers such as $130$ and $129$ but both of them don't work. Also will inequality (AM-GM or Cauchy work here?) This is a contest question so I need a preferably fast solution.

A: Here is one way to proceed:
Render $25^2=5^4, 128^2=4\times 8^4$.  Then:
$u^4+4v^4=(u^2-2uv+2v^2)(u^2+2uv+2v^2); u=5, v=8$
$25^2+128^2=5^4+4(8^4)$
$=(5^2-2(5)(8)+2(8^2))(5^2+2(5)(8)+2(8^2))=73\times 233$
Then $73=8^2+3^2$, $233=13^2+8^2$, and we get two product expressions.  One gives the original sum of squares and is included as a check, the other gives a second pair:
$(8^2+3^2)(13^2+8^2)$
$=((8\times 13)+(3\times 8))^2+((8\times 8)-(3\times 13))^2=128^2+25^2$
$=((8\times 13)-(3\times 8))^2+((8\times 8)+(3\times 13))^2=80^2+103^2$
Since the factors $73$ and $233$ are prime, this solution is unique apart from trivial operations.

A: $25^2+128^2$ is of the form
$$a^4+(a^2+b)^2=2a^4+2a^2b+b^2=2(a^2+b)a^2+b^2$$
As luck (or intelligent design) would have it, in this case we have
$$2(a^2+b)=2\cdot128=16^2$$
Thus
$$25^2+128^2=5^4+(5^2+103)=16^2\cdot5^2+103^2=80^2+103^2$$
This doesn't rule out the possibility of a third pair of squares summing to $17009$, but the problem, as stated, doesn't ask for that.  If you do want to rule out other possibilities, you can give a proof based on the fact that the only primes less than $\sqrt[3]{17009}\approx25$ congruent to $1$ mod $4$ are $17$, $13$, and $5$, none of which divide $17009$.  (It's immediately clear that $5$ and $17$ aren't divisors.  As for $13$, I reduced $17009=13000+4009$, then $4009=3900+109$.)  Fermat's sum-of-two-squares theory does the rest.
Note, this approach gets an answer without factoring $17009$, but only because we got lucky in that $a^2+b$ in this case is twice a square.
To give credit where credit is due, I got the key idea for this approach from a deleted answer by user Xam.

A: One may note that by taking both sides modulus $3$, it is clear that $x,y$ must not be a multiple of $3$.
Taking both sides modulus $2$, it is clear either $x$ is odd and $y$ is even or the other way around.
Taking modulus $5$, it is clear that either $x$ is a multiple of $5$ and $y$ is equivalent to $2$ or $3$ modulus $5$.
Putting these hints together, and assuming $x$ is the multiple of $5$, we find
$$x\stackrel?=5,10,20,25,35,40,50,55,65,\dots,130$$
One may also note that if $x<91$, then $y>90$, likewise, if $x>90$, $y<91$.
From here, checking term by term isn't very hard, and one can deduce solutions $(80,103)$.

A: Since this is a contest question, I think I am doing no harm in showing a solution that is the Gaussian integers version of that of Oscar Lanzi.
$128^2+25^2 = 17009$ factorizes as $73 \cdot 233$. Both primes are congruent to $1$ modulo $4$ so they can be written as the sum of two squares
$$
73 = 8^ 2 + 3^ 2 = (8 + 3 i)(8 - 3 i), \quad
233 = 13^2 + 8^2 = (13 + 8 i) (13 - 8 i).
$$
If we group
$$
(8 + 3 i)(13 - 8 i) = 128 + 25 i
$$
we obtain $17009 = 128^2 + 25^2$. If we group
$$
(8 + 3 i)(13 + 8 i) = 80 + 103 i
$$
we obtain $17009 = 80^2 + 103^2$.

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Don't forget that we're at Westchester Lagoon with the Conoco Phillips Family Skate every Saturday afternoon this month, letting kids try out our speed skates on Westchester Lagoon! The Family Skate event runs from 1-3 pm, and Anchorage Parks and Rec provides free coffee and hot chocolate, as well as helmets for kids who are skating at the Lagoon.
For kids to try out our skates, they just need to be under 18 years of age, bring a parent to sign the waiver, and we can provide a helmet if you don't have your own. We love seeing kids try our skates and realize that they can easily join our evening speed skating program at Cuddy Park! And don't forget, the Olympics start this weekend!!


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Home Entertainment Netflix Cancels Santa Clarita Diet After Three Seasons
Netflix Cancels Santa Clarita Diet After Three Seasons
Timothy Hudson
Drew Barrymore, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Skyler Gisondo, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson at the "Santa Clarita Diet" Premiere at Arclight Cinerama on February 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA- Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com
Drew Barrymore, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Skyler Gisondo, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson at the "Santa Clarita Diet" Premiere at Arclight Cinerama on February 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA- Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com
Netflix is pretty well-known for its zany shows. If you are ever looking for a television premise that would never possibly be aired on a daytime TV channel, you can probably find it on Netflix. Some of these shows are received well, and others have a tendency to fall a little flat. While Barrymore's Santa Clarita Diet was received well enough to have three seasons, Netflix is now giving it the boot.
The show, made by Better Off Ted writer Victor Fresco, starred Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant as parents trying to deal with a Barrymore's newly found, irrepressible urge to eat human flesh. Like we said, zany, if you're putting it mildly. It's not every day that you see a sitcom starring a face-eating zombie, especially considering the juxtaposition between the generally quirky and humorous setting of a sitcom and the massive body count of a sitcom about eating people.
In the end though, the show's cancellation might not actually have anything to do with its ratings at all. Rather, Netflix seems to have settled on three seasons as being the ideal 'runtime' for a show that they are supporting. This could possibly be because back-end royalties really begin to start stacking after a third season, but whether or not that is the only reason Netflix is booting three season shows is unclear.
Regardless, the Santa Clarita Diet isn't the only show to be axed after a third season, just the most recent, and one of the more interesting. How many other shows will end up on such a chopping block is a mystery, as it is possible that Netflix might choose to continue shows that have hit three seasons if their ratings are high enough.
The real issue might be the dropping interest of Netflix streamers if more and more shows get cancelled just because of their 'runtime'. If you're scared of starting new series on Netflix because you can't be sure if they'll even continue past a third season, one's investment in the service could drop, and Netflix already has enough competition in companies such as Hulu as it is. Of course, Netflix will probably still offer plenty of other good, lengthy shows, so it might only be an issue for those that enjoy getting attached to series that are just starting out.
In any event, The Santa Clarita Diet has finished its run, but at least it managed to do so in a manner befitting its themes. The season finale was suitably wild, violent, and goofy, hitting all the same notes of the show itself. If you have to go out at all, it's definitely better to do so with the same flair and appeal that attracted viewers to your show in the first place. Not every good show gets an opportunity to go out on their own terms, or even good ones.
Here's a little taste of what the 3rd and final season had to offer:
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This symposium, Bridging Science and Policy in the Sustainable Development Era, addressed the commitments of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In 2015, the U.N. established 17 sustainable development goals to reach by 2030. Those goals – in areas related to health, education, affordable and clean energy, climate action and others – were adopted to end poverty, protect the environment and ensure prosperity for all.


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Colleague Brag Thursday – Romance, poignancy, history.
On June 21, 2018 By gtvoiceIn Audio Book, audio-book, Audiobook, Colleague Brags, Greg Tremblay
My awesome colleagues are still pumping out FANTASTIC books for your summer reading!
From Megan Tusing and author Denise Grover Swank
https://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/Blazing-Summer-Audiobook/B07CYCPFYL
Summer Butler is killing it in the ratings – and all of America is tuning in as New York Times best-selling author Denise Grover Swank greenlights a new season of TV's hottest sleuth…
Summer Butler had no idea that Darling Investigations would be such a smash. But ratings don't lie – fans love watching the former star solve real-life crimes in her hometown. With the first season wrapped, the reality-show PI is feeling the pressure to make the next one an even bigger success.
Though finding a new case won't be easy – it's not like another dead body will just fall in her lap – Summer's willing to give it a try. Besides, reconciling with her family – not to mention her old flame, police chief Luke Montgomery – is a nice way to spend her downtime.
But Summer's rekindled romance isn't the only thing burning up Sweet Briar. It seems the town is harboring an arsonist, and all the smoldering signs point to the same culprit: her cousin Dixie. Although this case may be too close for comfort, it seems season two is already bringing the drama – and for Summer it could also be too hot to handle.
©2018 Denise Grover Swank (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Amy Landon and author Thorn Osgood bringing you:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Ephemeral-Passage-Audiobook/B07DRQCND3
Arriving in the passage is a frightful, uncertain experience where unknowns abound. It is a strange place, and many are alarmed at the things they learn. Dissension between organizational members and allegiants keep them apart.
Corilan and Swain work to find ways to smooth the friction while Jacob works on his own solutions. They can't succeed in Organic Earth if they don't unite.
©2018 Mind Wings Audio (P)2018 Mind Wings Audio
Heavy, but important listening from Paul Heitsch and author Robert Fieseler
https://www.audible.com/pd/History/Tinderbox-Audiobook/B07DM96P8B
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of 31 men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016.
Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue-collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic – families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors' needs – revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.
©2018 Robert W. Fieseler (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
And finally, Deepti Gupta and author Fatima Farheen Mirza with critically-acclaimed:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/A-Place-for-Us-Audiobook/B07BZF6BSX
The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging
As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia, their headstrong eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister's footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride.
What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best? A Place for Ustakes us back to the beginning of this family's life: from the bonds that bring them together to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla's own arrival in America from India to the years in which their children – each in their own way – tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world as well as a path home. A Place for Us is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.
©2018 Fatima Farheen Mirza (P)2018 Random House Audio
Loss, Pain, Swearing and Suicide. Adieu Tony.


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Q: CORS - Using AJAX to post on a Python (webapp2) web service This is going to be long:
Ok so I'm developing a google calendar gadget which sends requests to a Python webapp2 REST api hosted on Google App Engine.
The problem comes when I try to POST something it doesn't allows me because of CORS.
In Chromes' DevTools it says:
Method: OPTIONS.

Status: (failed) Request header field Content-Type is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers.

Origin https://hq34i4geprnp5vci191ljfuhcoerscl4-a-calendar-opensocial.googleusercontent.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

I'm aware that this is because of CORS. Here:
Ajax - 'Origin localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin'
It says that I have to add
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

To the headers, but then again I'm new to ajax and I wonder if it's done this way:
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "https://myapp.appspot.com/service",
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        data: data,
        beforeSend: function (request)
        {
            request.setRequestHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
        }
        success: function(data) {
              alert("AJAX done");
        }
    });

Adding this headers the output is different (which makes me wonder if the origin has been allowed, though I don't really know):
Method: OPTIONS.

Status: (failed) Request header field Content-Type is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers.

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://myapp.appspot.com/service. Request header field Access-Control-Allow-Origin is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers.

I've even found this:
http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/cross-domain-requests-with-jquery/
Which lets me do GET requests, but I'd like to learn how to do them without this.
Also on my webserver I have this:
...
    class webService(webapp2.RequestHandler):
         options(self):
               self.response.write('options')

         post(self):
               self.response.write('post')

    application = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
        ('/', MainPage),
        ('/service', webService)
    ], debug=True)

I don't know if I must add something more to the webserver, nor I've found info saying that I have to.
Also I think I'm near to achieve the CORS request but, I can't find THE Example that explains it all.
Please help.

A: Ok I fixed it.
First of all I realized here that the headers were sent by the server so I was doing wrong when sending those headers in the AJAX request.
Finally, after searching around the worldwide web I found what I was missing. It was something stupid. I found the page that fixed it all:
http://enable-cors.org/server_appengine.html
So finally everything looks like this:
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "https://myapp.appspot.com/service",
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    data: data,
    success: function(data) {
        alert("AJAX done");
    }
});

And in the webService:
class webService(webapp2.RequestHandler):

    def get(self):
        self.response.headers.add_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
        # do something

    def post(self):
        self.response.headers.add_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
        # do something

    def options(self):
        self.response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = '*'
        self.response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Headers'] = 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept'
        self.response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = 'POST, GET, PUT, DELETE'

A: I just want to point out a detail that might help others:
Browsers differ in how they handle the "Access-Control-Allow-Orgin" header. For example, I found that Chrome blocks cross domain posts when the header value is a wildcard (*) as in the solution code above. It considers it too liberal and wants a specific origin. Yet, other browsers such as IE and FireFox did not care.
So if you want to build a cross browser solution it would be best set the value of "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" to the Origin value sent with the request.
If you're using SSL then you'll encounter some other differences that will need to be tested as well.
And if you need a lightweight solution this can all be done with POJS (plain-old-JavaScript) without resorting to jQuery. Just wire up the window.XDomainRequest for IE8+ and the window.XMLHttpRequest for other browsers and you're in business.

A: Can simpler with dispatch method
class BaseRequestHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def dispatch(self):
        self.response.headers.add_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        self.response.headers.add_header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type')
        webapp2.RequestHandler.dispatch(self)

class LoginHandler(BaseRequestHandler):
    def login(self):
        #code here


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Exciting things are happening in the Walsh University Music Department!
Our bands continue to grow and have become key components to raising school spirit at athletic games and other events.
The Walsh University Chorale performs a wide variety of musical selections, showcasing their vocal talent during their seasonal concerts and at various campus events. In June 2011, our Chamber Singers, a select group of Chorale members, traveled to Rome and performed at the Papal Audience.
The biggest news, however, is the addition of Walsh's Birk Center for the Arts, which debuted in January 2012. The new building includes the Dorothy Ling Rehearsal Hall and storage space for the band and choir as well as a visual art studio for drawing, painting and sculpture courses, and a spacious atrium to showcase artwork.
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We had a pretty good day on Saturday while fishing the higher river current. We caught 1 smallish musky and lost a giant walleye and another musky at the edge of darkness. Water temps have really dropped quickly. Taking today off to go watch my daughters play basketball but will be chasing trout and walleye tomorrow.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House readied its last-ditch effort to salvage health care legislation Sunday while the Senate's Republican leader warned Democrats against the go-it-alone approach.
The White House was expected to post a version of President Barack Obama's plan for overhauling health care on its Web site today, ahead of his critical and daring summit at Blair House on Thursday. The plan, which was likely to be opposed by the GOP, was expected to require most Americans to carry health insurance coverage, with federal subsidies to help many afford the premiums.
Hewing close to a stalled Senate bill, it would bar insurance companies from denying coverage to people with medical problems or charging them more. The expected price tag is around $1 trillion over 10 years.
The conference at the White House guest residence is to be televised live on C-SPAN and perhaps on cable news networks. It represents a gamble by the administration that Obama can save his embattled overhaul through persuasion - a risky and unusual step.
It was forced on the administration by the Senate special election victory of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown in January. He captured the seat long held by Democrat Edward M. Kennedy, who died last year. Brown's victory reduced the Democrats' majority in the Senate to 59 votes, one shy of the number needed to knock down Republican delaying tactics.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday he would participate, but that Obama and congressional Democrats would be wrong to push the bills they wrote in the House and Senate.
"The fundamental point I want to make is the arrogance of all of this. You know, they are saying, 'Ignore the wishes of the American people. We know more about this than you do. And we're going to jam it down your throats no matter what.' That is why the public is so angry at this Congress and this administration over this issue," said McConnell, R-Ky.
While the House and Senate had passed its own version of a health overhaul, lawmakers had yet to settle their differences and produce a single bill acceptable to both chambers when Brown won.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, hoped a compromise - "sweet spot," he called it - was possible.
"If you really want to serve the people and not just your party, I think you will find that sweet spot and you can get it done," he said.
Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania appealed to Republicans to offer their own proposals. "You take some of our ideas. We'll take some of your ideas. We may not love your ideas, but we'll take them. If they don't do that, I think this whole dynamic of this political year could turn around," he said.
Rendell and Schwarzenegger spoke from the sidelines of the National Governors Association meeting. Four leaders of the group, two Republicans and two Democrats, later summoned the media to a news conference and offered to strike a compromise between the warring factions in Washington.
"We are making an offer to help and are very willing to roll up our sleeves and help if that's what Congress and the president decided," said Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat.
The governors' plea was an implicit acknowledgment that Obama and the Democratic-led Congress have frozen governors out of the process.
The Blair House meeting takes place nearly a year after Obama launched his drive to remake health care - a Democratic agenda item for decades - at an earlier summit he infused with a bipartisan spirit. The president will point out that Republicans have supported individual elements of the Democratic bills.
Under the expected Obama plan, regulators would create a competitive marketplace for small businesses and people buying their own coverage. The plan would be paid for with a mix of Medicare cuts and tax increases. It would also strip out special Medicaid deals for certain states, while moving to close the Medicare prescription coverage gap and making newly available coverage for working families more affordable. The changes would cost about $200 billion over 10 years. It's unclear what the total price tag for the legislation would be; the Senate bill was originally under $900 billion.
McConnell spoke on "Fox News Sunday." The governors appeared on ABC's "This Week."


Discussion in 'iOS 11' started by x34, Jun 15, 2017.
hey, dont know this came up here... but can anyone on ios 11 tell me if that stickers drawer is always there, even when you dont have any stickers activated?
Not only is it always there but the editing option doesn't work yet. It's so ugly and doesn't sit well.
and then it's still deactivated next time you re-open messages?
If you are talking about iMessage bar underneath the keyboard, please tell me there is a way to turn it off.
I am not a sticker or iMessage guy. And would like to not have the UI bloating.
I wished you could conpletly deactivate this app drawer in the settings.


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Episode 1 "Car Wash"
"There are no mistakes in love..."Without ever engaging in conversation, Ally has a steamy fling with a guy who works at the car wash. Back at the office, Fish assigns her to a case in which a big clients daughter, Risa, is trying to save her wedding. Her minister refuses to perform the service (which is two days away) because he walked in on Risa having sex with a man who is not her fianc although Risa claims it was just one last fling. Now Risa fears that she will have to tell her fianc everything. Because of all the female sexual activity in the office, John becomes insecure about his sexual ability. As a result of his insecurities he "loses" the spirit of Barry White. Meanwhile, Renee quits her job to open her own practice. Inspired by Renees new freedom, Whipper joins the firm as counsel.
Buried Pleasures
Episode 2 "Buried Pleasures"
The men in the office just call her, "The Yummy One..."Lings curiosity is piqued when she dreams about kissing Ally. Under the pretense of becoming better friends, Ling and Ally go on a "date". Meanwhile, Cage overhears Nelle talking about her fantasy, which sends him back into the depths of sexual insecurity. It seems everyone in the office is pre-occupied with the topic of sex and Billy and Renee feel they are the only people actually working. Renee defends a woman who is accused of sexual harassment by her female co-workers. The co-workers claim that she has turned the office into a sexual arena and is suing. Billy represents the company, but finds that he and Renee do not see eye to eye on the case or on the issue of a womans sexuality in general.
Seeing Green
Episode 3 "Seeing Green"
Ally is plagued with hallucinations of Al Green. She talks about these hallucinations with Dr. Shirley Flott, who is seeing patients while Dr. Tracy is away. Shirley has no patience for Allys daydreams and wants desperately to put her on Prozac. Wrestling with the idea of going on medication leads Ally to question what is so wrong about hallucinations: they bring her comfort and keep her in perspective? Meanwhile, Nelle and John defend a boy suspended for impulsively kissing one of the most beautiful girls in his class. During all this, Billy has had a series of "off the book" appointments and refuses to tell anyone, including Georgia, where hes going.
Episode 4 "Heat Wave"
"I think Im gonna love you for a long, long time..."Risa, the bride whose wedding Ally destroyed, decides to sue Ally for intentional infliction of emotional distress. The amount is enough to keep Ally working for Risa for the rest of her life. Ally tries to get Risas ex-fianc, Joel, to help her, but he tells her that he really did love Risa and that Ally ruined his life.
Episode 5 "Troubled Water"
"I have sought this, only dreamed thee..."The day before Thanksgiving, Billy goes completely crazy, driving Georgia to kiss "George" in the bar. Ally invites everyone over to her place for a holiday dinner that proves to be explosive, at the very least. Ally cannot take any more of this chaos and makes an emergency appointment with Tracey. Allys other guests exit her apartment to finish dinner at Fishs place.
Episode 6 "Changes"
Richard and Ling officially break up. Billy and Cage represent a sexy, middle-aged woman whos suing her employees for sexual harassment. The woman, Robin Jones, claims that the staff of her magazine held a "sick out" and delayed the May publication because they didnt want to work for a "nymph," which led to her being fired. After they lose the case, she and Billy argue over his chauvinism, but settle their differences with a kiss... just as Georgia walks in on them.
Episode 7 "Saving Santa"
The first case Georgia brings to Renees new firm pits them against Cage and Fish. Georgia defends Newmans, an upscale department store against Steve Mallory, who worked as the stores Santa for seventeen years. Cage represents Mallory, who claims that he was wrongfully fired because Newman wants to hire a younger, thinner Santa. Meanwhile, Ally is haunted by visions of herself as a little girl. Ally manages to bring Georgia and Billy together to talk, and Billy sees that he wants Georgia back. But Georgia is not as eager to work things out yet.
Episode 8 "Blue Christmas"
Elaine finds a real, live six-week-old baby in a nativity scene manger and wants to keep him. Cage and Ally represent Elaine in her fight to gain custody, while the rest of the office (full of child-less lawyers) become enchanted with the baby. Even Ling considers having children. Billy attempts to reconcile with Georgia. Meanwhile, Ally and Renee bet $1000 that one can "out-sex" the other by singing suggestive holiday songs on stage at the bar.
Out in the Cold
Episode 9 "Out in the Cold"
Ally befriends a homeless man who turns out to be a writer doing research on homelessness. They hit it off and just when Ally starts to think the man could be Mr. Right, she is stunned by what she finds about him. Meanwhile, Ling is arrested for running a brothel when one of her escorts has sex with a high school boy. Billy, still on his pro-testosterone kick, hires six of Lings escorts to follow him around and be his assistant. to add to the office disruption, Cage and Nelle have a post break-up argument.
Episode 10 "Just Friends"
Ally has a romantic dream about Cage and wakes up thinking that he may be the one for her. When she finally gets up the courage to tell him, he admits that he often thought she might be the one for him also. Meanwhile, Elaine goes on a date with a great guy only to learn that he asked her out because his friend said she was easy.
Episode 11 "Over the Rainbow"
"...And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true."Georgia sues Cage, Fish and the firm for the destruction of her marriage. She cites many issues as leading to Billys breakdown and the ultimate dissolution of their marriage.
In Search of Pygmies
Episode 12 "In Search of Pygmies"
Ling defends a dear old friend who is asked to leave his retirement home because the director finds his exuberant imagination disruptive for other residents. While Ling tries to decide whether her friend truly believes in his make-believe world or just pretends to, he suffers from a hallucination that has fatal results. Meanwhile, Ally spots a potential cute guy and proceeds to go after him.
Pursuit of Loneliness
Episode 13 "Pursuit of Loneliness"
Ally is pursued by Hammond, the server at her usual coffee shop, but is turned off by his forwardness. When pressed, she admits that a coffee server is not necessarily that attractive to her. She also learns he owns a chain of coffee joints. Still not impressed, Ally continues to snub Hammond, only to walk into an appeals court and find he is also a presiding judge in her case. When Ally is rude to him in court, Hammond throws her in jail for contempt. When she gets out of jail the two of them get together and kiss. Meanwhile, John begins to worry that Nelle is a snob and Billy finally kisses his assistant Sandy.
The Oddball Parade
Episode 14 "The Oddball Parade"
Cage and Fish represent a group of "oddballs" who were fired by a boss who claims their "oddities" were preventing them from fulfilling a new job requirement to bring in new clients, even claiming they offended some clients. Cage begins to take the case personally, considering himself an oddball. Meanwhile, Ally and Elaine enter a dance contest in which the winner gets to perform as one of Tina Turners back-up singers at the bar and, in the end, both ladies win. Despite their differences, Billy and Ally agree to move their relationship in a different direction.
Episode 15 "Prime Suspect"
Cages oddball client (from the previous episode) is accused of murdering his old boss and the firm gets involved in their first murder trial. Suspecting hes been set up, Ally plays detective and goes snooping for additional information. Meanwhile, back at the office, Nelle has a few surprises up her sleeve.
Episode 16 "Boy Next Door"
Billy represents a woman in an annulment action case, whos deeply religious husband wants out of the marriage. Meanwhile, John gets trapped in an elevator with his legs dangling out the door. Nelle pulls another sleazy stunt.
Episode 17 "I Will Survive"
Gloria Gaynor stalks Ally around singing I Will Survive. Meanwhile, Ally and Ling team up to represent a woman who beat her cheating husband to death with his prosthetic leg. Fish brings in a new lawyer and assigns him to Allys case.
Turning Thirty
Episode 18 "Turning Thirty"
The firm defends a woman accused of murdering her eighty-nine-year-old husband by suffocating him...with her breasts. Meanwhile, Ally struggles with turning thirty. She goes to church to find God, but instead finds an angry Reverend Newman who has a pet peeve about women who only need God between relationships. Allys next stop at a plastic surgeon has even more devastating results.
Do You Wanna Dance?
Episode 19 "Do You Wanna Dance?"
Ally engages in a little virtual sex, with a guy shes been writing to online for the past few months. At Renees prompting, Ally tries to arrange a meeting. Eventually, she does. By this time, Ally, or Lover Lips as she calls herself, thinks shes found her Thunder Thighs. Upon seeing Brian, the opposing counsel in a case she and Mark are trying, she immediately is drawn to him. Later, Ally is in hot water when she realizes shes been chatting with underage kid.
Episode 20 "Hope and Glory"
Nelle schemes to leave Cage & Fish in order to start her own firm and it leaves both Richard and John furious. Elaine accepts Nelles offer to leave the firm and go with her. Ally dates Brian Selig.
Ally McBeal: The Musical...
Episode 21 "Ally McBeal: The Musical, Almost"
Things go awry when Ally introduces Brian to her parents, resulting in conjuring up old pains and hurt feelings. Nelle regrets her decision to leave Cage and Fish, and takes steps to rectify it. A good season ender -- emotional, entertaining, and lots of musical numbers.


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Think of something observable - countable - that you care about with only one outcome or another.
Let's call this phenomenon .
Let's also define a number, , as the total number of occurances of . So it is the total number of shots taken, the total count of people diagnosed, the total number of votes cast.
Now remember, is something you care about. It is likely, since you care so much about , that you have some preference for one of the two possible outcomes. For the purposes of this example, let's say we prefer . is a shot made, a vote recieved, a survival. is a "success", from your perspective. And an outcome of is a failure.
Lets define another value, given that we prefer outcomes over outcomes. is the number of outcomes out of all the times happens. It is the number of votes that your candidate is going to get in that election, the number of free throws the big man makes, the number of cancer patients who survive.
Of course, we can define this kind of process in this way even if we don't actually prefer one outcome over the other. In the case of the gender of newborns, for instance: we can define as the birth of a girl and as the birth of a boy, and treat the birth of a boy as a failure, just for the purposes of our model and not because all little boys are born clinically insane.
It would be nice, probably, to have an actual number as an estimate for , or perhaps a range of numbers you can be confident contains the value of .
And perhaps you want to make some prediction about future occurances of . You want to know if someone you know with that particular form of cancer is likely to still be alive five years from now.
Or maybe your friend, also a fan of that same basketball team, thinks that your guy actually only misses about half the time. Or a political talking head says that your candidate is going to lose big. You probably want a way to compare your beliefs with theirs.
Essentially, we would like to estimate the unknown quantity , preferably with some additional estimate of our uncertainty of this value, use that estimate to predict future values of trials of , and, given that estimate, get an idea of who is more likely right about that quantity given disagreements.
where is number of trials - the total number of cancer patients, shots taken, votes cast - is the number of successes or cases where the outcome equals A, and is that unknown value between 0 and 1 that equals the proportion . This distribution describes the probability that equals times in occurances (also called trials) of .
And in fact this product simplifies to the formula for the binomial distribution above.
It is important to realize that the value most useful for us to know the most about in the formulas above is not or or any single but .
That function call generates a single pseudo-random number between 0 and 1 from a uniform distribution, meaning that the value is equally as likely to be anywhere in that (0,1) interval.
I can't calculate from that understanding, at least not just by looking at it. It probably wouldn't be possible to count all the outcomes up there, given how jumbled they are, and even if it was, there's no way I can count them in any reasonable time. Maybe most of them haven't even happened yet, in which case I definitely can't count them. Actually, I don't even know what the total value of N is.
But I can tell some things from that picture, right? For instance, I know that there are definitely at least some trials where the outcome of is . I know that there are at least some trials where the outcome of is . In this case, actually, outcomes look pretty rare and it seems a pretty safe bet to say even more than that: our boy misses most of his free throws, or our guy is going to lose this election.
Since our random variable stores outcomes as successes or 1's and outcomes as failures or 0's, we can easily obtain our sample - by summing up all our occurances of .
Which in this case turns out to be 26.
We could just calculate the sample proportion of and take that for our estimate of . In this case, that would be 0.052.
But that estimate only allows us to achieve part of one of our three goals above. We can't really compare our opinions to anyone elses with any meaning, and we can't use that number by itself to predict future values.
But what if we treat our parameter as a random variable? What if we assign it a 'mean' or a most likely value, and a variance, or some quantification of uncertainty around that mean?
In this case, the posterior probabilility is the conditional probability distribution we get for given the data and our prior distribution for .
because we know that it, with respect to the conditional distribution of - - is just a constant. And since is a probability distribution, we know that it has to integrate to 1 in the end, so determining that normalizing constant after we have the non-normalized distribution shouldn't be a problem.
The posterior is proportional to the product of the prior and the likelihood.
This is the central - really the only - tool of Bayesian statistical inference. And it suggests one of the central appeals, to me, of the approach: every input into a Bayesian framework is expressed as probability and every output of a Bayesian framework is expressed as probability.
To use this generalization of Bayes' theorem to answer our above questions, we first need to come up with a model for 's distribution. There are a number of ways that could be distributed. In fact, any distribution that ensures that the value of will be between 0 and 1 will do.
In this first example, we will take advantage of the fact that there exists aconjugateprior for the binomial distribution: the beta distribution.
except it represents the probabilities assigned to values of in the domain given values for the parameters and , as opposed to the binomial distribution above, which represents the probability of values of given .
This also is a beta probability distribution, with equal to and equal to .
But how do we choose our beta priors?
The shape of a beta distribution is dictated by the values of those and parameters and shifting those values can allow you to represent a wide range of different prior beliefs about the distribution of . Priors can be ``uninformative'' or ``informative'', meaning we can weight our prior probabilities very low in relationship to the data or we can weight them higher, informing our outcome - the posterior - more as we weight them more.
Essentially, higher values of the ratio of to weights higher values of higher, lower values of that ratio place greater weight on lower values, and higher value of indicates higher certainty.
Still, choosing these 's and 's may seem a bit arbitrary. Perhaps a more intuitive way to choose an informative prior is to allow ourselves the ability to calculate analogous values to and - essentially a value that actually quantifies our prior belief about the likelihood of success and a value that quantifies how strongly we weigh that belief as a prior ``sample size''. We want to be able to express the 'mean' of our prior distribution - its most likely value - and something like a variance or how tightly clustered it is around that mean.
where, again, expresses how large our prior ``sample size'' is - i.e. the higher it is, the stronger our beliefs - and expresses our actual prior belief for the value of .
And expressing the likelihood - a binomial - as a beta where equals and equals is another simple function.
can all be accomplished using functions of similar structure.
where the dotted gray lines indicate the outer bounds of our credibility interval and the dotted blue line indicates our mean.
The mean of our posterior distribution equals 0.052, the mode equals 0.05, and the standard deviation equals 0.01.
This gives us a 95% (normal-approximation) credibility interval of 0.033 to 0.071.
Our posterior and our likelihood distributions are almost identical, as would be expected, since our prior is essentially that we have no idea and the data should give us all of the information in our posterior.
The mean of our posterior distribution equals 0.059, the mode equals 0.057, and the standard deviation equals 0.01.
This gives us a 95% (normal-approximation) credibility interval of 0.039 to 0.08.
Our mean and mode is a bit higher than before, as we weighted our prior beliefs a little bit, but our posterior is very close to our likelihood, meaning that most of the result was informed by the data.
The mean of our posterior distribution equals 0.276, the mode equals 0.275, and the standard deviation equals 0.014.
This gives us a 95% (normal-approximation) credibility interval of 0.248 to 0.303.
The mean of our posterior distribution equals 0.201, the mode equals 0.2, and the standard deviation equals 0.016.
This gives us a 95% (normal-approximation) credibility interval of 0.169 to 0.233.
The mean of our posterior distribution equals 0.05, the mode equals 0.049, and the standard deviation equals 0.009.
This gives us a 95% (normal-approximation) credibility interval of 0.033 to 0.068.
So how did each of our models do, in this case? Well, since we simulated this data, we can discover that actually equals 0.042, or about 4% of all occurances of result in outcomes.
And it is obvious that our two initial priors - the non-informative uniform and the weakly informative equal proportions - and our last prior - the medium confidence of a low proportion of success outcomes - all gave fairly accurate estimates of .
Our strong, equal proportions prior and medium, high sucess prior - what could be called, with a terminology nod to John Myles White, our "strong, wrong" priors - gave pretty bad estimates, obviously, though the likelihood moved our posterior much closer to the truth in the second case, and our updated belief is much better in both cases than where we started.
And if I didn't know anything about or I had an idea but not a lot of confidence in it, why wouldn't I choose either of my first two priors, both of which arrived at perfectly serviceable estimates for ?
It would be easy to establish that my analysis was based on those flawed assumptions. It could even be done by someone who has only a cursory understanding of how I actually arrived at those estimates.
In future posts, I would like to continue this example and examine the effects of smaller sample sizes and the ease of updating beliefs using a series of smaller samples, much as Kruschke and Bolstadt do in their texts. I think their choices for visualizations and some of the explanations in Bolstadt are sometimes more confusing than necessary, and establishing a stronger single thread through the explanations would make things more intuitive, so I'm going to attempt to actually do that here. Krushke and Gelman have excellent explanations for all of this that are well worth the read. I would also like to look at comparing beliefs and predicting future values in binomial proportions as well.
At his seminar on Bayesian methods back in April, John Myles White said something about traditional statisticians being better at actually getting things done over the course of the development of modern statistics. I didn't really understand what he meant until recently.
The basic toolkit of Bayesian statistics produces intuitive, easier to understand - and use and update and compare - outputs through comparatively difficult computational and mathematical procedures. Everything in and out of a Bayesian analysis is probability and can be combined or broken apart according to the rules of probability. But understanding code and sampling algorithms - really understanding algorithms and computation generally - and a much deeper grasp of probability distribution theory are much more important in understanding Bayesian inference much earlier on.
Basic traditional statistical methods produce output that is fairly difficult to understand through comparatively simple computational and mathematical procedures. Most results in traditional statistics depend on logical appeals to unseen - really un-see-able - asymptotic properties of the estimators being used and assumptions and relationships between samples and populations that may be valid or not in any given case.
This is a very real catch-22: always easier to understand and use, much harder to do initially versus always harder to understand and use, much easier to do initially. I think that much of the difficulty so many have when faced with statistics comes from the fact that traditional OUTPUTS are so unintuitive and seem to exist in isolation or only in relationship to something with a touch of the `other' about it.
The concept of maximum likelihood and the MLE methods that comprise the basis of much of traditional methods are very elegant - actually quite beautiful - logical constructs that manage to give one the ability to say SOMETHING when faced with the problem of lots of data and not a lot of computational power.
But that's not our problem anymore. Now we have lots of data AND lots of computational power. Our problem now is statistical literacy, and building on the body of human knowledge in a way that is both rigorous and democratic.
Hadley Wickam's ggplot2 - this R package is something of an obsession of mine. Learn it well and essentially any static visualization is available to you. Incredibly powerful tool.
Scott Lynch's Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists - This book wasn't on my original list, but it has become my first stop. Especially if you think in code instead of equations, his explanations are fantastic and his walkthroughs of sampling algorithms and MCMC are great. It can be purchased here.
and of course the Bolstadt, Kruschke and Gelman books and the work of John Myles White mentioned in my initial post here.
Amazing explanation, with pretty pictures *and* R-code. Thanks!
Thanks for the very detailed illustration you have described in this page. I have tried to use your code and replicate the charts (I'm loading ggplot2), but without success.
I have tested that ggplot2 is otherwise working well. It is. To avoid confusion, I have also copied all the different piece of your code into a single R script document and sourcing it.
Your feedback / help would help tremendously.
This is an excellent article! One minor suggestion: in a couple of spots, I was thrown off momentarily by the use of a single dash for a parenthetical, because it appeared between math symbols and could be mistaken for a minus. It might be clearer to use an em dash for those parentheticals—it looks less like a minus sign (see what I did there?).
Thank you very much for the clear explanation and the R code.
However I copied it, all run correctly, but I do not obtain the graphs.


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A Calling of the Warrior
Ira High Elk Answers the Call and Takes on Challenges of United States Marine Corps
Diz High Elk embraces her son PFC Ira High Elk at the Bismarck Airport after he disembarked his plane
By Logan J. Davis
The exuberant crowd of people at the Bismarck Airport was full with excitement and when United States Marine Ira High Elk came out of the main gate exit, the honoring song echoed its first drum beats.
The 19-year-old soldier was surprised to see the honor guard and scores of friends, relatives and veterans at the gate, but he immediately stood at attention as the honor song was sung by the Wise Spirit Singers. The military honor guard contingent standing at attention and saluting PFC High Elk during the honor song was the Frank Jamerson American Legion Post 259, Little Eagle, South Dakota.
After the honor song ended, PFC High Elk's mother, Caroline "Diz" High Elk moved forward to give her son a long hug that emitted powerful emotions between mother and son. It was a moment that was a memorable one for all who were there to witness it that day. PFC High Elk's mother has been a solid rock in his life who has always known her son has many gifts to share with the world and that he is a true warrior.
US Marine Ira High Elk receives a sacred eagle feather from a spiritual leader in ceremony in Bismark
Military veterans honored PFC Ira High Elk as part of his eagle feather ceremony
"Diz" High Elk is a proud mother and she made certain his return home for his leave would be something special and taking special care to have her son be surprised at the reception she planned for him. She had carefully arranged to have the entourage of supportive people there who wanted to be part of an honoring of her son in Bismarck that afternoon. She later hosted a dinner at Famous Dave's Restaurant where everyone had the chance to talk with Ira and wish him well on his military journey. They all were also part of a powerful ceremony outside the restaurant where the young U.S. Marine was bestowed with the highest honor possible of a sacred eagle feather by U.S. Marine veterans and a tribal spiritual leader. High Elk's Lakota given name is "Scares the Eagle".
"From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank everyone in attendance, all the calls and messages – especially those from out of state," stated Diz High Elk. "This really meant a lot to me to see all the support for him. All of the love, all our family and friends. Thank you to the Wise Spirit brothers and Frank Jamerson post and Marine veterans who showed up to bring their brother home a warrior."
To be honored by fellow veterans and your family after completing an important stage in your military career is certainly a memorable occasion. In his young life, becoming a U.S. Marine is one of the goals PFC High Elk has kept in his list of goals and it is one that takes commitment and strength. He has already experienced many great things in life being a champion traditional dancer in the pow wow arena and an honor student all through school. In his military career, PFC High Elk will continue his training as a communications specialist. That is training that he can use when he returns to civilian life. In the meantime, he has four years of service to the country and evolve as a young warrior from the MHA Nation and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes.
PFC High Elk enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in August of last year, but did not begin boot camp until October 26th at Camp Pendleton, California. However, because of COVID-19, he ended up being quarantined in a hotel for an entire month. Once he was back on track, High Elk met all of the training and challenges head-on starting on Dec. 1st to become a United States Marine. He completed all of his boot camp training on Feb. 26th. He then went on to 29 Palms, California where he completed his training in communications on June 30th.
High Elk graduated with honors from Bismarck High School in 2019, but even as a fourth grader, his intelligence and leadership skills were recognized. In 2012, he was chosen from over 11,000 fellow students to bring in the Maryland Day flag because of his outstanding character, leadership ability, exceptional grades and the appreciation he holds for his native culture. At the Nuxbaaga Celebration, he also was asked to model the Pharell Williams clothing line. In 2018, he was voted in as President of the North Dakota Indian Youth Leadership Academy.
While PFC High Elk was home, he was honored at the White Shield Celebration and Pow Wow by veterans and the MHA Nation community, along with fellow U.S. Marine Ella Wilkinson. On the last day of the White Shield Pow Wow, PFC High Elk donned his native regalia and danced in the arena which will be another special memory for his family and many friends.
"I was tremendously happy to see him dance. We all were," stated Diz High Elk. "I know when he hears the drum, he is grounded – that everything is okay and he is home. I admire him for everything he does, what he stands for and what is in front of him."
He reported to his unit on July 12th and is now stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina where he is a member of the Fleet Marine Force.
PFC High Elk has strong family ties and his native blood runs strong from proud heritages. His grandfather is Alvin High Elk of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, who was there at the Bismarck Airport to greet his grandson and the Cheyenne River tribal elder spent as much time as he could with the young Marine while he was on leave. PFC High Elk's grandmother is the late Roberta High Elk and his great grandmother is Caroline Chase Pleets. In his early years of life, PFC High Elk was born and raised in the Four Bears Segment on the MHA Nation.
At the White Shield Celebration US Marines Ella Wilkinson and Ira High Elk were brought into the arena by relatives and local veterans


Did a bunch of actual paying work today. Head was terribly fried so I went out to the pier. As I was going out there was a kid around 8 years old, all tangled up in fish line. It was pretty funny in that he was cussing up a storm.
Got back to the hostel, it was a little quiet. Keep thinking I should hae maybe stayed at the other hostel, this one is a little too quiet. I did have a very long and detailed conversation with a guy about bricklaying. He was impressed that I knew what "mud" was and why they payed left handed brickies more money in some cases. If it wasn't for him the social scene at the hostel would have been pretty dead.
Rest of the evening was answering email, then off to bed.


SEATTLE, July 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WatchGuard® Technologies, a leader in multi-function integrated security appliances, today announced a variety of visibility and ease-of-use enhancements to its award-winning threat intelligence platform, WatchGuard Dimension®. This release also allows customers to preview several brand new network control features designed to make it possible for IT administrators to translate network visibility into immediate action.
New enhancements to WatchGuard Dimension(TM) adds a suite of big data visibility and reporting tools that instantly identify and distill key network security threats, issues and trends; includes a preview of several new control and security configuration capabilities that translate visibility into immediate action.
"Over the years WatchGuard has brought a number of game-changing innovations to the marketplace, and Dimension continues that tradition of innovation and bringing solutions to our customers that they can put to use immediately," said Prakash Panjwani, president and CEO, WatchGuard. "Visibility is security and by distilling oceans of data into the thimbleful of information that matters in real time, we've set the bar for how our customers expect to see and stop threats in their networks."
The company's Dimension platform aggregates data from all WatchGuard appliances across a customer's network and translates that data into visually rich and actionable threat intelligence. This release builds on the platform's award-winning visibility capabilities with increased performance, detailed system health reports, and new, visually stunning cyberloafing dashboards.
Dimension is intended to not only help identify security risks but to also enable IT pros to rapidly mitigate those risks. Dimension Command, a premium add-on to Dimension slated for release in late 2015, will unlock instant network control and security configuration capabilities within the platform. With the current release, WatchGuard is offering a preview to a subset of those control features including one-click configuration changes, the ability to 'jump back' to previous configurations, direct access to individual appliances through a web UI, and VPN management tools.
"WatchGuard has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to delivering easy-to-use solutions for empowering IT administrators to monitor and protect their networks. The addition of control features to our Dimension platform will take that power to the next level. We are excited to allow customers to preview some of that power with this release and look forward to constantly adding more features to this platform, which has received rave reviews from analysts and customers alike," Panjwani continued.
Enhanced UI Throughout: With input from thousands of users worldwide, a new, brighter design with UI modifications makes it even easier, faster and more intuitive to spot problems and make changes.
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WatchGuard Dimension has been gaining rapid market adoption since it was first launched in late 2013, and has continually won industry recognition from leading analyst firms and top tier trade publications. Customers have used the network security visibility tool to monitor and gain critical and timely insights about network security threats, bandwidth and Internet usage, as well as related traffic trends. What are you waiting for? Take Dimension for a test drive today!
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* New Dimension 2.0 features are only available for customers with an active support contract that are running Fireware® version 11.10.1 or later.
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'SUPERFICIAL'
Hillary Clinton Supporters Torn as Ivanka Trump Picks Up Some of Her Work for Women
'It's hard to take Ivanka seriously when she's promoting this one thing while her government is propagating these draconian cuts,' says one critic of the first daughter.
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Republicans have been slow to champion women's issues, but then along came Ivanka, and as with all things Trump the party has found a lot to like about programs they once cast aside as nanny state indulgence or wasteful foreign aid now that they have the First Daughter's imprimatur.
The administration's budget includes $100 million for Ivanka's pet project, the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative that aims to help 50 million women with job skills and access to credit. Who could oppose that?
"I can't quibble with the fundamental premise," says Melanne Verveer, executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and a longtime adviser to and confidante of Hillary Clinton. Ivanka's program has its roots in initiatives launched by Clinton as Secretary of State to boost the health and economic power of women and girls in developing countries.
"Generally these are good things to do, but at the same time we shouldn't be cutting the budget for other women's programs," Verveer told the Daily Beast. "You can't go to the workplace and be productive if your health is failing and you're a victim of domestic abuse."
To accommodate his daughter's pet project and other priorities, like building the wall on the southwest border, President Trump would cut the SNAP program (better known as food stamps) by a third, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by a third.
"It's as though the right hand says one thing, and the left says another," Verveer says of the contradictory messages associated with funding Ivanka's program while cutting other popular and established programs with track records. "This is something that nobody disagrees with fundamentally, but where do you go with the money, how do you measure success, what other programs do you build on? This initiative doesn't have a lot of specifics."
Congress last year passed the bipartisan Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act, which includes a micro-credit gender bank, long promoted by Clinton. How does Ivanka's program mesh with that?
"Her work is superficial," says Shilpa Phadke, who runs the Women's Initiative at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. "She has this role as an adviser, she has a very visible presence and immeasurable resources. There's this public narrative that she's this moderating influence where she works behind the scenes, but she's done very little to drive an agenda and create an infrastructure and really press for coordinated, concrete policies."
The slapdash quality of Ivanka's work may be at odds with serious policymaking, but then her father's entire administration is a rebuke to how things have been done. Trump's budget was pronounced dead on arrival, which is not unusual for White House budgets in the modern hyperpartisan era. Even so, his got even less respect than was shown to President Obama because the cuts are so blatant, so at odds with what Trump the candidate said he would do, and so potentially politically explosive, like cuts to Medicare and other safety-net programs.
"She wants us to focus on her signature issue and ignore that USAID is being cut by a third. It's hard to take her seriously when she's promoting this one thing while her government is propagating these draconian cuts," Phadke says.
The White House has also finally nominated a candidate, Kellie Eckels Currie, to serve as ambassador-at-large for global women's issues, a post created by Obama in 2009, and which has been vacant since he left office. Currie is the current representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is awaiting likely Senate confirmation.
"People are going to disagree on a range of issues," says Verveer, appointed by Obama as the first to serve in the post, "but she is serious, tough and credentialed."
With 2020 and Trump's reelection approaching, "It's not lost on them that they need to appeal to suburban women," says Phadke. "But they're doing it in such a way that it's hard to talk about it seriously. There's no real meat beyond the politics."
Women who supported Clinton's initiatives are conflicted. They want to support what might be a new awareness among Republicans that helping women in developing countries contribute to the economy is not just good for women, it's good for all of society. They want to support the president's daughter, but at what cost? How many other programs that work toward a social good have to be set aside to make room for Ivanka?
@eleanorclift


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Google AI System Could Used to Detect Breast Cancer Detection
Enterprise & IT	 Jan 2,2020	 0
A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms.
Screening mammography aims to identify breast cancer before symptoms appear, enabling earlier therapy for more treatable disease. Despite the existence of screening programs worldwide, interpretation of these images suffers from suboptimal rates of false positives and false negatives.
Radiologists miss about 20% of breast cancers in mammograms, the American Cancer Society says, and half of all women who get the screenings over a 10-year period have a false positive result.
According to a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, Alphabet Inc's DeepMind AI unit developed a system that could help early detection of breast cancer.
A team of researchers at Imperial College London and Britain's National Health Service trained the AI system to identify breast cancers on tens of thousands of mammograms.
The researchers compared the system's performance with the actual results from a set of 25,856 mammograms in the United Kingdom and 3,097 from the United States.
The study showed the AI system could identify cancers with a similar degree of accuracy to expert radiologists, while reducing the number of false positive results by 5.7% in the U.S.-based group and by 1.2% in the British-based group.
It also cut the number of false negatives, where tests are wrongly classified as normal, by 9.4% in the U.S. group, and by 2.7% in the British group.
These differences reflect the ways in which mammograms are read. In the United States, only one radiologist reads the results and the tests are done every one to two years. In Britain, the tests are done every three years, and each is read by two radiologists. When they disagree, a third is consulted.
In a separate test, the group pitted the AI system against six radiologists and found it outperformed them at accurately detecting breast cancers.
The study has some limitations. Most of the tests were done using the same type of imaging equipment, and the U.S. group contained a lot of patients with confirmed breast cancers.
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