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Q: Matplotlib CDF goes back to zero While trying to plot a cumulative distribution function (CDF) using matplotlib's hist function, the last point goes back to zero. I read some threads explaining that this is because of the histogram-like format, but couldn't find a solution for my case.
Here's my code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = [7.845419,7.593756,7.706831,7.256211,7.147965]

fig, ax=plt.subplots()
ax.hist(x, cumulative=True, normed=1, histtype='step', bins=100, label=('Label-1'), lw=2)
ax.grid(True)
ax.legend(loc='upper left')

plt.show()

which produces the following image

As you can see, the stepfunction goes to zero after the last bin of the histogram, which is undesired. How can I change my code so the CDF does not go back to zero?
Thank you

A: One option you always have is to calculate the histogram first and then plot the result the ways you like it, instead of relying on plt.hist.
Here you would use numpy.histogram to calculate the histogram. Then you can create an array with each point repeated in it, as to obtain a step-like behaviour.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = [7.845419,7.593756,7.706831,7.256211,7.147965]

h, edges = np.histogram(x, density=True, bins=100, )
h = np.cumsum(h)/np.cumsum(h).max()

X = edges.repeat(2)[:-1]
y = np.zeros_like(X)
y[1:] = h.repeat(2)

fig, ax=plt.subplots()

ax.plot(X,y,label='Label-1', lw=2)

ax.grid(True)
ax.legend(loc='upper left')
plt.show()

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Tips for Fathers: How to Care for Your Daughter's Curly Hair
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"Every time I finish my daughter's hair, I make sure to tell her how pretty her hair is and how beautiful she looks. She is a reflection of me so I have to keep her hair looking good or else I'm not fully committing to my role as a parent."
— Darren
Darren is the father of a beautiful seven-year-old named Amelia. He acknowledges that hair care usually falls into the "mom category" but he explains that his wife is Puerto Rican/Honduran, and she genuinely struggled with understanding how to care for curly hair effectively. Darren was a bit more familiar with it, so he decided to educate himself further on how to care for curly-haired kids' hair.
Curly hair is so beautiful, but it can often be overwhelming for fathers to understand how to master what is deemed as such a feminine skill set. However, Darren is a perfect example of someone who has taken a keen interest in caring for his daughter's beautiful curly hair.
THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO LEARN THIS SKILL
The world can be problematic when it comes to race and gender. For instance, women are sometimes expected to cook and clean quite a bit more than men are, even if they work full-time. In the same vein, mothers are usually thought to be the ones who should care for their daughter's hair.
While this division of tasks may seem rather innocent in everyday life, the implications are not great. However, it's incredible when a man can cook, clean, and care for his daughter's hair, at least some of the time. Women tend to find it this very attractive, and you're actually contributing to more equal gender roles in the future. This is a good thing for all genders because we'll likely all feel freer to explore every side of ourselves!
The act of learning how to style your daughter's hair and care for it is one of courage, and even rebellion, because there are so many assumptions surrounding men who know a lot about women's hair. Honestly, we need more Darrens in the world!
HOW TO DEVELOP A SOLID REGIMEN FOR YOUR CURLY-HAIRED KIDS
When curly hair is too dry, it often doesn't look that great. However, it's absolutely gorgeous when it's thoroughly hydrated, soft, and buoyant! Darren says that he only washes Amelia's ringlets once every two weeks, and he usually co-washes them with a moisturizing conditioner. He also deep-conditions her tresses at least once per month. This is an excellent regimen, particularly for people with extremely curly hair!
You may want to incorporate the following tips and tricks into your routine when you're caring for your little girl's locks:
Avoid excessive shampooing
Choose her shampoo wisely
Do a pre-shampoo treatment
Don't brush her wet hair
Use a wide-tooth comb instead of a regular hairbrush before shampooing her curls
Limit heat styling
Opt for cold water whenever possible when washing her hair
Trim her curls to avoid split ends
It's important to note that this routine may vary depending on the type of curls your daughter has: Some kinds of ringlets need to be washed more frequently than others! You can find her curl pattern here.
HOW TO USE CURLFORMERS
According to Darren, the key is to section your little girl's hair properly. If you do that, the process should be a breeze! He was inspired by this video on YouTube, but he doesn't use curlformers very often because his daughter finds them difficult to sleep on.
Curly hair can be challenging to work with sometimes, so it's important to practice patience with yourself and with your child. Darren says that sectioning his daughter's hair is the most effective method when it comes to applying products.
THE TROUBLING IMPLICATIONS OF YOUR DAUGHTER YEARNING FOR STRAIGHT HAIR
Your daughter may yearn for straight hair because her friends flaunt theirs, or she may see a lot of TV shows that idealize people with certain types of tresses. Fortunately, there are increasingly more shows celebrating diversity in all of its many beautiful forms, but it's still important that you encourage her to celebrate her unique beauty.
In a touching turn of events, Darren had to explain to his daughter Amelia that straightening her hair wasn't good for it and that he would likely have to cut off the burnt ends if he did. Because she loves her hair, she eventually stopped asking him to straighten it, and instead requested that he "let her hair free." This is such a beautiful tale about a young girl learning how to accept herself and her curls! A lot of us could learn a thing or two from the wonderfully liberated Amelia!
QUICK AND EASY HAIRSTYLES THAT ARE SUPER FASHIONABLE
Darren usually opts for quick and easy styles that are super cute. These include wash n go's, twist-outs, and curlformers. He very rarely straightens his daughter's hair because he finds that doing so severely damages her ends. He's also made a point of letting her know that her curls are a magnificent part of who she is, and she should embrace them!
4 ADDITIONAL LOOKS YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY
If you're feeling adventurous, or if your daughter wants to try something new, you may want to experiment with these hairstyles.
1. THE CLASSIC UPDO
Let her hair air-dry.
Apply a serum that is specifically formulated for her type of curls.
Tie her hair into a ponytail between the nape of her neck and the crown of her head.
Wrap the ponytail around the base of her hair to form a bun
Secure the updo firmly with bobby pins.
Use hair spray if desired (this is totally optional!)
2. THE ULTRA-HIGH PONYTAIL
Get her hair together at the crown of her head
Tie it up with a hair tie
Use bobby pins if you want to keep it tight (this is optional).
Use a curl-defining cream if you want to enhance her gorgeous ringlets.
3. THE SIDE-BRAID
Part her hair into three sections on one side of her head.
Start braiding
Tie it up with a pretty hair tie!
4. THE MESSY HALF-BUN
The messy half-bun is totally in style right now by the way! Chances are, your daughter will strut to class feeling super cool. Here's how you can recreate this super stylish look:
Take the section of her hair near her hair and make tie a ponytail
Coil the ponytail until you have a bun (Don't bother to keep it neat: Messy is fun!)
Secure the bun with bobby pins.
These are fun ways to change things up a bit, and most of these styles are relatively simple.
DARREN'S FAVORITE YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Naptural85 is an excellent YouTube channel that covers natural hair care and styles for beautifully melanated women with curly and coily hair! The woman who shoots these videos is very dedicated to using natural products so that her hair remains as healthy and hydrated as possible!
HYDRATION IS KEY
Curly hair can often become frizzy, and it can dry quite quickly, so it's essential to condition it regularly. You may also want to use a hair mask or coconut oil on her curls. This deeply moisturizes them, helping her tresses maintain their buoyancy, health, and shine!
HOW TO FIND A REGIMEN THAT WORKS WELL FOR YOU AND YOUR DAUGHTER
The best way to master this skill is to experiment with different products on your daughter's hair and read various blogs or watch YouTube videos on the subject that is simultaneously informative and entertaining: You'll most likely learn through trial and error. That being said, it's probably in your best interest to opt for natural products, because many shampoos and conditioners are laden with chemicals that could be toxic to your little girl's curls.
HOW TO HELP YOUR WONDERFUL DAUGHTER EMBRACE HER NATURAL HAIR
Society might be challenging for your little girl: She may be looked down upon sometimes because of her hair, and it could even be deemed as unprofessional in some cases. For these reasons, it's incredibly important to tell her frequently how beautiful her curls are and to steer clear of making playful jokes about her curls or saying anything remotely negative about them: Making demeaning comments, even if they're lighthearted ones, could affect her self-esteem more than you might realize. It's also essential to educate her about the struggles she may face in society, and how to stand up for herself: Everyone deserves to be treated equally, and that's more likely to take place if individuals continue to eloquently speak up about the many injustices that are present in our society.
While the road ahead may be a difficult one, there is also a lot of beauty in a woman owning who she is unapologetically, and many would argue that adversity builds character. That's not to say injustice in any form is fair — it's completely unacceptable!— but it will likely make your daughter stronger and bolder in standing up for what's right. Fortunately, progress is gradually being made and America is finally heading in the right direction: Teaching your daughter how to love herself for who she is—embracing her culture and her curls—is simultaneously a personal and political act!
It's important to teach her about her culture and her hair so that she can be proud of where she came from!
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1. "Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions." Tony Robbins
2. "You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted." Ruth E. Renkl
3. "The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing." Socrates
4. "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." John Wooden
5. "Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed." Abraham Lincoln
6. " If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary." Jim Rohn
7. "Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain." Anonymous
8. "When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch." Anonymous
9. "Screw it, Let's do it!" Richard Branson
10. "Be content to act, and leave the talking to others." Baltasa
11. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs
12. "The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have." Norman Vincent Peale
13. "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it!" Jonathan Winters
14. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing – that's why we recommend it daily." Zig Ziglar
15. "Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." John Wayne
16."Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." Les Brown
17. "The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom." Silvio Berlusconi
18. "The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job." Michael Gerber
19. "A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." Henry Kravis
20. "Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality." Ross Perot
21. "My son is now an 'entrepreneur'. That's what you're called when you don't have a job." Ted Turner
22. "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." Bill Gates
23. "As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big." Donald Trump
24. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." Thomas J Watson
25. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison
26. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon
27. "Capital isn't scarce; vision is." Sam Walton
28. "Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners." Robert T. Kiyosaki
29. "Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them." Anonymous
30. "I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." Warren Buffet
31. "Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier." Paula Nelson
32. "Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library." Jim Rohn
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34. "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." Vinnie Rege
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43. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." Maya Angelou
44. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
45. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader
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On me recherche est une chanson de Johnny Hallyday, diffusée en 45 tours le . Face B du single Jésus Christ, elle est écrite par les mêmes auteurs, Eddie Vartan pour la musique et Philippe Labro pour le texte.

La chanson
« Johnny Hallyday dans la peau d'un truand ».

Le thème n'est pas vraiment nouveau pour le chanteur, déjà en 1964 et 1965, avec les chansons Le pénitencier et Toi qui t'en vas, il évoque la délinquance juvénile puis le quotidien d'une maison d'arrêt. En 1966 avec Je me suis lavé les mains dans une eau sale, il se fait délinquant et se laisse entrainer dans son premier hold-up, espérant échappé à sa condition sociale...

Avec On me recherche on change de catégorie dans la dangerosité, le voilà gangster et dans la peau d'un ennemi public en cavale, avide de vengeance et traqué par toutes les polices de France :
J'avais trois copains de cavale / Un salaud les a donnés / Ils pourrissent en centrale / Et j'ai juré de les venger

Le propos n'est pas tendre avec les forces de l'ordre :  ; l'irrévérence aurait pu susciter la polémique, mais celles qu'engendres le titre Jésus Christ focalisent les attentions et le trait ne sera pas relevé.

Au-delà de la froide agressivité du personnage, pointe le désarroi, la quête de repère, d'un refuge : , car, il le sait, ce Road movie musicale, le conduit irrémédiablement vers une mort violente :
On me recherche à Créteil / [...] / dans les faubourgs de Marseille et les clandés de Saint-Malo / [...] / On me cherche à Besançon, On me cherche à Montpellier, s'ils veulent toucher ma rançon, faudra d'abord me tuer...

(paroles Philippe Labro, extraits)

Discographie
  : 45 tours Philips 6009042 : Jésus Christ - On me recherche

Réception
Le 45 tours Jésus-Christ (sur lequel On me recherche est en face B) se classe n°1 des ventes en France durant 4 semaines au mois de juin et s'écoule à plus de  exemplaires.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Discographie de Johnny Hallyday

Chanson interprétée par Johnny Hallyday
Chanson composée par Eddie Vartan
Chanson écrite par Philippe Labro
Chanson de 1970
Single musical sorti en 1970
Single publié par Philips Records

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Why it makes sense to have different captains for ODIs and Tests
Posted in Crapbage	by Mayur
The recent results in overseas (and also domestic) test matches have again led me to think that we need different captains for the longer and shorter versions of the game of Cricket. There is no questioning the commitment of MSD– Maverick Singh Dhoni. But the facts, recent records and his own admittance shows that he is not fit to lead the team in the longer versions of the game. And to prevent fists of fury from some of my readers, I have reasons to prove.
One, remember when he won the inaugural T20 world cup for India? He was given a team sans the big names and players with international experience except Sehwag and Harbhajan. Every one else including Dhoni himself was either new or still very fresh at international scene. They were all domestic players, the Ranji class. Besides it was the first T20 world cup. No team knew the best strategy. So every one played to their potential without being too much into the 'strategy' thing. There were no egos to be buttered, no conflicts to be resolved. Just 3 hours of pure, cheeky cricket. Dhoni thrived (and eventually mastered the art).
Two, remember his innings of 183 not out very early in his career? Dhoni, to me, looks like a warrior with a cool head. He believes in individual brilliance than team games. T20 is about individual brilliance. Misbah ul Haq had almost single handedly won the world cup for Pakistan. But he goofed up at crucial junctures in both semis and finals. And we won the world cup. Even in the ODI world cup, he stepped up, said I want to hit the winning runs… and did. But was there a strategy for including or not including Piyush Chawla or Sree Santh? I wonder.
Three, ODIs and T20s are about quick decision making while tests are about patience and perseverance. Dhoni, to me, is a "I knock you out with one punch" guy. But that strategy can win fights not battles. To win battles, you need to plan your future, even if it is at the cost of few losses. Dhoni always accepted whatever team was given to him and played with it. He won the fights, but lost the battles… most of them. He hardly introduced young players, and didn't stand by some of them who he managed to introduce (read Rohit, Pujara, Rahane, Mukund, Varun Aaron etc.) To build a world beating team, he needs to choose his players.
Remember the battle of Troy? I can compare Dhoni to Hector, prince of Troy. He managed to fend off the might of Sparta with astute, but short term strategies. Every one knew Troy couldn't be a world beater… and they eventually lost to Sparta. But Hector is still known as one of the best warriors. Dhoni too is one of the greatest players India has had. But all his successors (Rahul, Anil Kumble or Ganguly) were all better test captains than him, sans Sachin Tendulkar. Without hurting any one's sentiments, Sachin is (and will remain) the greatest batsman in the world. But he was equally bad captain.
India plays the next test series only in September 2012. I hope we find a worthy head to lead us in Tests while Mahi continues to pour success in the ODIs and T20s. Amen!
India, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Need Separate captains for ODI & tests, Sachin Tendulkar, Test cricket	1 Comment


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Next smartphone patent suit: MyPort IP vs. HTC, LG, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony
Earlier today I reported on patent threats that a company named Lodsys sent to various iOS app developers, but there's also an actual smartphone patent lawsuit that was filed today: Texas-based MyPort IP, Inc. filed a patent infringement suit with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against HTC, LG, Nokia, RIM, Samsng, Sharp, and Sony.
All defendants are accused of infringing U.S. Patent No. 7,778,440 on an "apparatus and method for embedding searchable information into a file for transmission, storage and retrieval" by capturing, geotagging and transmitting information on a cell phone as described and claimed in that patent.
Geotagging is a functionality that's already at issue in other smartphone patent suits including Tierravision's lawsuit against Google, Microsoft and RIM, Nokia's second ITC complaint against Apple (investigation no. 337-TA-771), and Skyhook's patent infringement suit against Google (which is also a response to Google's alleged bullying of Android device makers). While not smartphone-related, it's worth noting that GeoTag Inc. has already sued hundreds of companies over geotagging functionality.
The accused devices run different operating systems. Most of the accused HTC products are Android-based; so are the Galaxy S, one of the accused Samsung products, and the Xperia x8, one of the accused Sony devices. The accused products also include a few products based on Windows Mobile, which became obsolete when Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 7. The accusations are phrased in a way that other products than the ones specifically named are also included.
Even though this lawsuit is not Android-specific, it is in no small part Android-related. By my count, this takes the number of Android-related patent infringement suits filed since March 2010 to 42. Five of those were filed during the last six weeks, so there's no slowing down just yet...
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GCHQ Gaffer database goes open source
The British intelligence agency GCHQ has released the Gaffer database as an open source project.
Gaffer is sort of database written in Java that makes it "easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes and edges have statistics such as counts, histograms and sketches.", its code is available for download on the code-sharing website Github.
"Gaffer is a framework that makes it easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes and edges have statistics such as counts, histograms and sketches. These statistics summarise the properties of the nodes and edges over time windows, and they can be dynamically updated over time." states its description on the Github.
In reality the Gaffer is much more, it implements a framework for creating mass-scale databases, it is a powerful tool for the storage and analysis of the relationships between different pieces of data.
"Gaffer is a graph database, rather than a graph processing system. It is optimised for retrieving data on nodes of interest." continues the description "Gaffer is distinguished from other graph storage systems by its ability to update properties within the store itself."
The Gaffer implements features to carry out our several :
Allow the creation of graphs with summarised properties within Accumulo with a very less amount of coding.
Allow flexibility of stats that describe the entities and edges.
Allow easy addition of nodes and edges.
Allow quicker retrieval of data on nodes of interest.
Deal with data of different security levels – all data has a visibility, which is used to restrict who can access data based on their authorizations.
Support automatic age-off of data.
Gaffer is based on the Apache Accumulo that is a computer software project that developed a sorted, distributed key/value store based on the BigTable technology developed by Google.
Accumulo was created in 2008 by the US National Security Agency and it is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Gaffer is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license that allows anyone to modify or distribute it.
Security experts speculate that Gaffer is used by the GCHQ for analyzing data related to a specific entity that could be a terrorist or any other element under investigation.
"Each node might be a surveilled terrorist or other source of data, and analysis of the graph might then show who or what is at the 'center' of that network," said Andrii Degeler, a journalist at Ars Technica.
It is impossible to understand the motivation behind the release of the platform, but it is likely that the agency is trying to be attractive for young talents in the hacker community.
The GCHQ is currently working on Gaffer 2, as reported on Github:
"The version of Gaffer in this repo is no longer under active development because a project called Gaffer2 is in development. "
(Security Affairs – Gaffer, GCHQ)
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Months when gaining traction from over three hundred million daily active users, Instagram Stories can currently begin mercantilism merchandise. The contemporary development has dilated the looking expertise on Instagram as antecedently its feed was solely serving ads to let customers purchase new merchandise while not deed the photo-sharing platform.
The Facebook-owned company can show stickers with a paper bag icon on merchandise featured during a story. looking on Instagram has been evaluated for an extended time to create it a profitable social media model. significantly, Instagram Stories, that arrived as a Snapchat-inspired feature back in August 2016, had started attracting businesses in barely one year when its launch.
Select international brands, cherish Adidas, Aritzia, and Louis Vuitton, can receive the looking feature on Instagram Stories at the initial stage, although it's expected to roll bent on regular users within the returning future. there'll be a sticker with a paper bag icon that users got to the faucet to check additional details regarding the merchandise featured during a story.
"Today we're starting to expand looking on the far side Feed to Instagram Stories," Instagram said during a journal post.
Citing a recent survey conducted by MetrixLab, Instagram highlights that its users typically watch stories to remain in-the-know with brands they are inquisitive about, get associate business executive read of merchandise they like, and find out about new merchandise that is relevant to them. this is often apparently the prime reason behind the new development. However, the corporate additionally claims that brands are among the first adopters of its story model and make a number of the foremost viewed and interesting content on the platform.
Last month, Instagram intercalary the power to let users share posts from totally different public accounts right among their stories. An APK teardown of the Instagram app was conjointly noticed to possess a feature to feature music stickers to stories to reinforce the user expertise.


SUSPECTED firebugs caused £100,000 worth of damage after setting light to a mobile classroom at All Hallows School in the early hours of Monday morning.
Two fire engines were called to the Brooklands Avenue site at 5.30am - THREE HOURS after it was believed to have been started - after a member of the public saw flames when the blaze had taken hold.
Detectives are currently closely inspecting CCTV footage taken around the school premises on the night and they are appealing for witnesses.
They want to speak to two white youths wearing casual clothing, who were wandering around the area shortly before the fire.
The mobile unit - which has been on the site for 12 years - consisted of two classrooms and an office, it was totally gutted by the flames. The building will now have to be removed and replaced by another one next year, causing major disruptions to the school timetable.
"It was totally burnt to the ground," said headteacher Richard Weremczyk. "We are devastated that something like this has happened. The school is overcrowded as it is, so this is the last thing we needed.
"Fortunately, a lot of the pupils are currently taking mock GCSE exams or are on work experience so that has helped us a little because there are not as many children to think about.
"We have to take each day as it comes by rearranging classrooms in order to fit all of the pupils in lessons. We are not looking forward to the New Year because that is when we will have bigger problems."
The mobile rooms are used five days a week and are essential to the everyday running of the school.
Mr Weremczyk added: "Everybody is quite shocked about this. We really are upset that the children's education will be disrupted for a considerable amount of time.
"I would appeal to anyone who has any information about the incident to contact the police as soon as possible."
Anyone with any information should contact DC Stuart York on 01244 613659, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.


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Pentagon Reportedly Establishes Investigative UFO Task Force
In June, US President Donald Trump teased that he might declassify some "very interesting" information regarding a UFO-related incident in Roswell, Nevada... 13.08.2020, Sputnik International
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In June, US President Donald Trump teased that he might declassify some "very interesting" information regarding a UFO-related incident in Roswell, Nevada, that took place in 1974. Now, reports of aliens might be examined more closely, as the Pentagon is reportedly stepping into the investigation.
The Pentagon will set a task force to investigate UFO sightings spotted by US military aircraft, CNN reported, citing unnamed defence sources.
According to the report, David Norquist, the Deputy Secretary of Defence, will head a newly-established task force set to be officially announced in the next few days.
The reported initiative is thought to have emerged particularly due to the release of three short videos by the Pentagon earlier in April, showing what it described as "unidentified aerial phenomena". In June, a committee was established by the Pentagon to analyse these encounters.
"We have things flying over our military bases and places where we are conducting military exercises, and we don't know what it is and it isn't ours, so that's a legitimate question to ask," said GOP Senator Marco Rubio, who chaired this committee.
The three videos, released in April, showed encounters with "unidentified aerial phenomena" that took place in 2004 and 2017.
Earlier in 2007, a program to study recordings of observations of unknown aerial objects was launched at the behest of former Democratic Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, but ended in 2012 because "higher priorities" required available funding.
As of today, the Pentagon is reportedly returning to the idea of investigating UFO sightings. US President Donald Trump teased in June that he might know some "very interesting" facts about one of the most intriguing supposedly-alien incidents, which occurred in Roswell in the early 1970s.
Noting that "a lot of people would like to know what's going on", Trump hinted that he may declassify Roswell-related information but did not offer specifics.


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After receiving scathing advice from a sour interior designer, Sydney-based interior designer Gillian Khaw was determined to prove him wrong. When she first considered taking the leap from a career in finance, and asked this acquaintance for advice, she says his charming demeanour changed. He suggested Gillian would be better to contact the "housewives who dabble in interior design", she says. "That put-down has motivated me ever since." It has also propelled her from Sydney to Paris and London before returning to her home town, where she had studied interior design at the Enmore Design Centre. While in the UK she gained experience with Anouska Hempel and has also spent time in the offices of Burley Katon Halliday. Now Gillian is out on her own and has been busy working on a range of residential projects.
Which five words best describe you? Contemplative, sensitive, idiosyncratic, innumerate.
How did you get your career start and what path have you taken since? My career start was working in European antiques. Since then I've been fortunate to have worked in two very different offices, aesthetically speaking - the highly decorative and layered style of Anouska Hempel in London and the contemporary, exquisitely edited style of Burley Katon Halliday. It's a strange pedigree, but I couldn't have hoped for better.
What's the best lesson you've learnt along the way? Design concepts need time to incubate - that is, ideas need to be put aside for a while to improve. It seems obvious but designers often don't work this stage into a project's timetable.
What's your proudest career achievement? Rather than one epiphany, every time a project is completed is a renewed moment of pride.
What's been your best decision? It's too early to tell.
Who inspires you? Anybody doing their own thing - with original thought. There's so much media to take inspiration from this is increasingly harder to achieve.
What are you passionate about? Creating beautiful, thoughtful interiors.
What dream do you still want to fulfil? A commission for a house… on an isolated site overlooking the Mediterranean. Any James Bond villains looking for a designer please get in contact.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? I would have liked to have met the Bloomsbury set: the group of artists, writers, thinkers and even an economist that influenced and promoted each other in the early 20th century. I love that they cross-pollinated ideas, despite the dissimilarity of their fields.
What are you reading? The Lady in Gold - the story of Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. I also like to read the week's At Home column in the Financial Times - it's a stickybeak into interesting people's interesting homes and a potted biography rolled into one.
images courtesy of gillian khaw; photography michael wickham and justin alexander
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Q: Proof of the existence of the Ramanujan–Soldner constant I know that the Ramanujan–Soldner constant is the positive zero of the Logarithmic integral defined as
$li\left(x\right) = \displaystyle\int_{0}^{x} \frac{dt}{\log t}$
and that it is equal to: $\mu \approx 1.4513692348\cdots$ but i can't seem to find a proof of its existence or value. Does someone know how to prove this constant exists?

A: Given that $li(x)$ is continuous on the interval $(1,\infty)$, we could test values of $x$ that are to the left and right of $\mu$. Lets have $x_0=e^{\frac{1}{4}}\approx1.284$. Using the series expansion of the logarithmic integral
$$li(x)=\gamma+\ln(\ln(x))+\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{(\ln(x))^n}{n!n}$$ we get $$li(e^{\frac{1}{4}})=\gamma-2\ln2+\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{4^{-n}}{n!n}$$
We have to show that this value is less than zero.
We have that $$\gamma-2\ln2+\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{4^{-n}}{n!n}<\gamma-2\ln2+e^{\frac{1}{4}}-1\approx-0.525$$ So $li(e^{\frac{1}{4}})<-0.525$. Next lets have $x_1=\sqrt{e}\approx 1.649$.
$$li(\sqrt{e})=\gamma-\ln2+\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{2^{-n}}{n!n}>\gamma-\ln2+\sinh\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)\approx 0.405$$
Since the logarithmic integral is continuous on this interval and it goes from negative to positive, it is garunteed that there is a zero in the interval $(e^{\frac{1}{4}}, e^{\frac{1}{2}})$ and that $1.284<\mu<1.649$. By choosing $x_0$ and $x_1$ that are closer to each other in the interval and making the right comparisons, we can get better approximations of $\mu$.


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Democratic National Convention continues in Baltimore locked in debate over credentials and slavery
The reconvened Democratic National Convention continued in Baltimore locked in a debate over credentials. Seven states which had bolted the Convention in Charleston in May were requesting recognition, some with competing delegations. The debate on participation continued over several days and led ultimately to an even larger defection of Southern representatives who left to hold their own convention. (By John Osborne)
John G. Parkhurst, Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, held in 1860, at Charleston and Baltimore .... (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1860), 104.
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07/19/1860 Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "An Important Change," July 19, 1860
04/19/1861 Newark (OH) Advocate, "Speech of Hon. Alex H. Stephens," April 19, 1861
How to Cite This Page: "Democratic National Convention continues in Baltimore locked in debate over credentials and slavery," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/32283.


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PDConform
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`PDConform` converts `NSObject` subclasses into `NSDictionary` key-value mappings and
`NSDictionary` key-value mappings back into `NSObject` subclasses by using Objective-C
runtime introspection.

Quick start
-----------

Turn an instance of `Person` into an `NSDictionary`:

    @interface Person : NSObject

    @property (copy,   nonatomic) NSString *firstName;
    @property (strong, nonatomic) NSDate   *dateOfBirth;

    @end
    @implementation Person @end

Your person's name is "Alfred" and he was born today:

    Person *alfred = [[Person alloc] init];
    alfred.firstName = @"Alfred";
    alfred.dateOfBirth = [NSDate date];

You want to turn `alfred` into an `NSDictionary`.  So you make a `PDEntity` instance describing your `Person` class, and then create a `PDConform` instance to perform the transformation:

    id <PDConform> conform = [[PDConformProvider new] conform];

    id <PDEntity> personEntity = [[PDEntityProvider new] entityWithClass:[Person class]];
    NSDictionary *alfredDictionary = [conform propertiesWithInstance:alfred entity:personEntity];

`alfredDictionary` is now an `NSDictionary` who looks like this:

    {@"firstName": @"Alfred", @"dateOfBirth": <NSDate: 0xasdf123>}

Whitelist keys
--------------

If you only want some of `alfred`s properties, you can ask for a whitelist:

	id <PDConform> conform = [[PDConformProvider new] conform];

    id <PDEntity> personEntity = [[PDEntityProvider new] entityWithClass:[Person class]
                                                              keyAliases:nil
                                                       valueTransformers:nil
                                                           relationships:nil
                                                         whiteListedKeys:@[@"firstName"]];

    NSDictionary *alfredDictionary = [conform propertiesWithInstance:alfred entity:personEntity];

`alfredDictionary` now only has only the white-listed `firstName` key that you requested:

    {@"firstName": @"Alfred"}

Alias keys
----------

Want `alfredDictionary`s first name key to be slightly different?  Just set up a
`keyAlias` for it on `personEntity` before `conform`ing, like so:

    id <PDEntity> personEntity = [[PDEntityProvider new] entityWithClass:[Person class]
                                                              keyAliases:@{@"firstName": @"first_name"}
                                                       valueTransformers:nil
                                                           relationships:nil
                                                         whiteListedKeys:@[@"firstName"]];
    id <PDConform> conform = [[PDConformProvider new] conform];

    NSDictionary *alfredDictionary = [conform propertiesWithInstance:alfred entity:personEntity];

Now `alfredDictionary` looks like this:

    {@"first_name": @"Alfred"}

Transform values
----------------

If you want to transform the value of property, use an `NSValueTransformer`
subclass, mapped to the Objective-C property name.  For example, if `alfred` was born on
July 4, 1970 and you'd like to turn his `dateOfBirth` `NSDate` property into a
`yyyy-MM-dd` string representation, you could write a custom transformer, like this:

    @interface SimpleDateTransformer : NSValueTransformer
    @end
    @implementation SimpleDateTransformer

    - (id)transformedValue:(id)value
    {
        NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"];
        NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
        dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:value];
        return dateFromString;
    }

    - (id)reverseTransformedValue:(id)value
    {
        NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"];
        NSString *stringFromDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:value];
        return stringFromDate;
    }

    @end

And then assign the transformer to the value stored in `dateOfBirth` by setting
`valueTransformers`, like so:

    id <PDEntity> personEntity = [[PDEntityProvider new] entityWithClass:[Person class]
                                                              keyAliases:@{@"firstName": @"first_name", @"dateOfBirth": @"date_of_birth"}
                                                       valueTransformers:@{@"dateOfBirth": [[SimpleDateTransformer alloc] init]}
                                                           relationships:nil
                                                         whiteListedKeys:@[@"firstName"]];

    id <PDConform> conform = [[PDConformProvider new] conform];

    NSDictionary *alfredDictionary = [conform propertiesWithInstance:alfred entity:personEntity];

Now `alfredDictionary` looks like this:

    {@"first_name": @"Alfred", @"date_of_birth": @"1970-07-04"}

Add Relationships
-----------------

Maybe your application's domain objects are related to each other, that's cool too:

    @interface Car : NSObject

    @property (copy,   nonatomic) NSString *name;

    @end
    @implementation Car @end

    @interface Person : NSObject

    @property (copy,   nonatomic) NSString *firstName;
    @property (strong, nonatomic) Car      *car;

    @end

    @implementation Person @end

Let's say a person named "Michael" has a car named @"KITT":

    Car *kitt = [[Car alloc] init];
    kitt.name = @"KITT";

    Person *michael = [[Person alloc] init];
    michael.firstName = @"Michael";
    michael.car = kitt;

To get a dictionary representing `michael`, just specify the relationship
using two `PDEntity`s:

    id <PDEntity> carEntity = [[PDEntityProvider new] entityWithClass:[Car class]];
    id <PDEntity> personEntity = [[PDEntityProvider new] entityWithClass:[Person class]
                                                              keyAliases:nil
                                                       valueTransformers:nil
                                                           relationships:@{@"car": carEntity}
                                                         whiteListedKeys:nil];

    id <PDConform> conform = [[PDConformProvider new] conform];
    NSDictionary *michaelDictionary = [conform propertiesWithInstance:michael entity:personEntity];

Now you have `michaelDictionary`, a nested `NSDictionary` representing `michael` and his
relationship with `kitt`:

    {@"firstName": @"Michael", @"car": @{@"name": @"KITT"}}

Deserializes too!
-----------------
Finally, `PDConform` also lets you turn `michaelDictionary` back into a `Person` instance.
Using the setup from the previous example, you could do the following:

    Person *michaelAgain = [conform instanceWithProperties:michaelDictionary entity:personEntity];

And `michaelAgain` will be a `Person` instance with the correct `firstName` and
`car` properties.

Adding `PDConform` to your iOS project
--------------------------------
`PDconform` requires at least XCode 4.5 and iOS 6 SDK to build the iOS framework

    git clone https://github.com/prairiedogg/PDConform.git
    cd PDConform
    rake frameworks
    cp -r build/Release-iphoneuniversal/PDConform-iOS.framework path/to/yourproject

Then, in XCode, add `PDConform-iOS.framework` to your target's `Link Binary With Libraries`
build phase.  From there on, you should be able to just `#import <PDConform-iOS/PDConform.h>`
and have direct access to the `PDConform` and `PDEntity` classes.

Adding `PDConform` to your OS X project
-------------------------------------
`PDConform` requires at least XCode 4.5 and OS X 10.8 SDK to build the OS X framework

    git clone https://github.com/prairiedogg/PDConform.git
    cd PDConform
    rake frameworks
    cp -r build/Release/PDConform.framework path/to/yourproject

Then, in XCode, add `PDConform.framework` to your target's `Link Binary With Libraries`
build phase.  From there on, you should be able to just `#import <PDConform/PDConform.h>`
and have direct access to the `PDConform` and `PDEntity` classes.

Running `PDConform`s tests
------------------------

    git clone https://github.com/prairiedogg/PDConform.git
    cd PDConform
    rake

Other libraries that do something similar (haven't tried many, just keeping the list here):
------------------------
- https://github.com/jamztang/JTObjectMapping
- https://github.com/kevinejohn/NSObject-KJSerializer
- https://github.com/mbrandonw/OPObjectMapping
- https://github.com/raffael/NSObject-DictionaryPropertyMapping
- https://github.com/QBurst/KVCObjectSerializer
- https://github.com/aashiks/OBJC_JSONSerializer
- https://github.com/confidenceJuice/KVMapper
- https://github.com/uacaps/NSObject-ObjectMap
- https://github.com/abacigil/NSObject-ABJsonConverter
- https://github.com/joshuaLareta/JLCustomClassDisassembler

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Now Hear This: Seattle's Military Blog
U.S. soldiers exposed to toxins at site KBR knew was contaminated, senators say
By mike_barber on February 12, 2009 at 10:21 AM
As two U.S. senators Wednesday were saying more soldiers than previously reported have been exposed to a toxic carcinogen in Iraq, the Oregon National Guard Wednesday sent out letters to 433 soldiers to tell them they may be among those affected.
The chemical is hexavalent chromium, which has figured into some OSHA settlements.
It is also the same toxin infamously found in elevated levels of groundwater in the town of Hinkley, Calif. in 1991, sending a then-unknown law firm file clerk named Erin Brockovich on a now-famous fight on behalf of residents against the utility behind the chemical's presence. The result was the largest tort settlement in U.S. history, $333 million, in 1996.
Fast forward to Iraq shortly after the war began in 2003, when U.S. troops assigned to protect KBR contractors working on an Iraqi water pumping plant in Basra were exposed to hexavalent chromium, which can cause lung cancer.
Saying they want more answers, U.S. Sens. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., on Wednesday said Houston-based contractor KBR Inc. allowed soldiers to be exposed to the chemical for more than two months even though KBR knew the site was contaminated, according to The Associate Press.
They also said Indiana National Guard troops didn't learn of possible exposure until they saw KBR workers wearing special clothing, AP reported.
Other Guard troops affected include those from Oregon, South Carolina and West Virginia.
Last month, The Oregonian reported that a senior officer in Oregon first sounded the alarm on behalf of Oregon soldiers in 2003 who passed through Fort Lewis after their service in Iraq:
"Concern for Oregon soldiers was first raised by Lt. Col. B.J. Prendergast, who served as executive officer of the 1st Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment in Iraq in 2003. His soldiers had already been reassigned when he saw a command e-mail alert about the exposure. He immediately demanded an occupational health assessment for the troops. They were evaluated in Kuwait, and their history was noted in post-deployment reports at Fort Lewis. No blood or urine tests were conducted."
Mike Barber


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Eolas (acrónimo para "Embedded Objects Linked Across Systems", y "conocimiento" en irlandés) es una empresa estadounidense de tecnología. Fue fundada en 1994 por Dr. Michael David Doyle.

Controversia

Caso Eolas
Se conoce popularmente como Caso Eolas a la jurisprudencia surgida a partir de la reclamación por parte de la empresa estadounidense EOLAS de su invención y subsiguiente patente, y por tanto la exigencia de derechos no satisfechos previamente, con respecto al software consistente en la incrustación de objetos en navegadores, más comúnmente conocida como tecnología de plug-in.

En concreto, se trata de la patente denominada Method and system for hypermedia browser API simulation to enable use of browser plug-ins and applets as embedded widgets in script-language-based interactive programs, asignada a Eolas Tecnologies con Michael D. Doyle, profesor de la UCLA, como inventor del objeto de la patente.

En ella se describe a grandes rasgos un sistema genérico para adaptación, integración, interacción y control de componentes entre cliente (navegador web) y servidor, en un entorno distribuido de hipermedia/web, destinado a que sistemas genéricos integrados en navegadores web puedan extender su funcionalidad mediante la posibilidad de ejecución de otros componentes interactivos que deleguen parte del proceso de cálculo implícito a la aplicación (considerada globalmente), en el servidor.

Microsoft, la principal afectada, con ayuda del W3C (dado que esencialmente afecta a todos los navegadores, aunque solo es posible realizar atribuiciones económicas sobre Internet Explorer) ha remitido a los tribunales en defensa propia casos de prior art, como el sistema pionero usado por ViolaWWW, que no han sido aceptados de todos modos por los tribunales como suficientes para deslegitimar la patente.

Enlaces externos
Sitio oficial de EOLAS
La patente en cuestión
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Empresas de informática de Estados Unidos
Patentes
Derecho de Estados Unidos


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"""DAG definition for recserv model training."""

import airflow
from airflow import DAG

# Reference for all available airflow operators:
# https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/tree/master/airflow/contrib/operators
from airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_operator import BigQueryOperator
from airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_to_gcs import BigQueryToCloudStorageOperator
from airflow.hooks.base_hook import BaseHook
# from airflow.contrib.operators.mlengine_operator import MLEngineTrainingOperator
# above mlengine_operator currently doesnt support custom MasterType so we import our own plugins:

# custom plugins
from airflow.operators.app_engine_admin_plugin import AppEngineVersionOperator
from airflow.operators.ml_engine_plugin import MLEngineTrainingOperator

import datetime

def _get_project_id():
  """Get project ID from default GCP connection."""

  extras = BaseHook.get_connection('google_cloud_default').extra_dejson
  key = 'extra__google_cloud_platform__project'
  if key in extras:
    project_id = extras[key]
  else:
    raise ('Must configure project_id in google_cloud_default '
           'connection from Airflow Console')
  return project_id

PROJECT_ID = _get_project_id()

# Data set constants, used in BigQuery tasks.  You can change these
# to conform to your data.

# TODO: Specify your BigQuery dataset name and table name
DATASET = ''
TABLE_NAME = ''
ARTICLE_CUSTOM_DIMENSION = '10'

# TODO: Confirm bucket name and region
# GCS bucket names and region, can also be changed.
BUCKET = 'gs://recserve_' + PROJECT_ID
REGION = 'us-east1'

# The code package name comes from the model code in the wals_ml_engine
# directory of the solution code base.
PACKAGE_URI = BUCKET + '/code/wals_ml_engine-0.1.tar.gz'
JOB_DIR = BUCKET + '/jobs'

default_args = {
    'owner': 'airflow',
    'depends_on_past': False,
    'start_date': airflow.utils.dates.days_ago(2),
    'email': ['airflow@example.com'],
    'email_on_failure': True,
    'email_on_retry': False,
    'retries': 5,
    'retry_delay': datetime.timedelta(minutes=5)
}

# Default schedule interval using cronjob syntax - can be customized here
# or in the Airflow console.

# TODO: Specify a schedule interval in CRON syntax to run once a day at 2100 hours (9pm)
# Reference: https://airflow.apache.org/scheduler.html
schedule_interval = '' # example '00 XX 0 0 0'

# TODO: Title your DAG to be recommendations_training_v1
dag = DAG('',
          default_args=default_args,
          schedule_interval=schedule_interval)

dag.doc_md = __doc__

#
#
# Task Definition
#
#

# BigQuery training data query

bql='''
#legacySql
SELECT
 fullVisitorId as clientId,
 ArticleID as contentId,
 (nextTime - hits.time) as timeOnPage,
FROM(
  SELECT
    fullVisitorId,
    hits.time,
    MAX(IF(hits.customDimensions.index={0},
           hits.customDimensions.value,NULL)) WITHIN hits AS ArticleID,
    LEAD(hits.time, 1) OVER (PARTITION BY fullVisitorId, visitNumber
                             ORDER BY hits.time ASC) as nextTime
  FROM [{1}.{2}.{3}]
  WHERE hits.type = "PAGE"
) HAVING timeOnPage is not null and contentId is not null;
'''

bql = bql.format(ARTICLE_CUSTOM_DIMENSION, PROJECT_ID, DATASET, TABLE_NAME)

# TODO: Complete the BigQueryOperator task to truncate the table if it already exists before writing
# Reference: https://airflow.apache.org/integration.html#bigqueryoperator
t1 = BigQuerySomething( # correct the operator name
    task_id='bq_rec_training_data',
    bql=bql,
    destination_dataset_table='%s.recommendation_events' % DATASET,
    write_disposition='WRITE_T_______', # specify to truncate on writes
    dag=dag)

# BigQuery training data export to GCS

# TODO: Fill in the missing operator name for task #2 which
# takes a BigQuery dataset and table as input and exports it to GCS as a CSV
training_file = BUCKET + '/data/recommendation_events.csv'
t2 = BigQueryToCloudSomethingSomething( # correct the name
    task_id='bq_export_op',
    source_project_dataset_table='%s.recommendation_events' % DATASET,
    destination_cloud_storage_uris=[training_file],
    export_format='CSV',
    dag=dag
)

# ML Engine training job

job_id = 'recserve_{0}'.format(datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M'))
job_dir = BUCKET + '/jobs/' + job_id
output_dir = BUCKET
training_args = ['--job-dir', job_dir,
                 '--train-files', training_file,
                 '--output-dir', output_dir,
                 '--data-type', 'web_views',
                 '--use-optimized']

# TODO: Fill in the missing operator name for task #3 which will
# start a new training job to Cloud ML Engine
# Reference: https://airflow.apache.org/integration.html#cloud-ml-engine
# https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/tensorflow/machine-types
t3 = MLEngineSomethingSomething( # complete the name
    task_id='ml_engine_training_op',
    project_id=PROJECT_ID,
    job_id=job_id,
    package_uris=[PACKAGE_URI],
    training_python_module='trainer.task',
    training_args=training_args,
    region=REGION,
    scale_tier='CUSTOM',
    master_type='complex_model_m_gpu',
    dag=dag
)

# App Engine deploy new version

t4 = AppEngineVersionOperator(
    task_id='app_engine_deploy_version',
    project_id=PROJECT_ID,
    service_id='default',
    region=REGION,
    service_spec=None,
    dag=dag
)

# TODO: Be sure to set_upstream dependencies for all tasks
t2.set_upstream(t1)
t3.set_upstream(t2)
t4.set_upstream(t) # complete


Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. In this week's email, we look at why there's been a sudden surge of adjustable drivers in recent years and we ask you to consider something about your own game.
It was an incident packed June Medal on Sunday, and maybe the sun got to a few golfers heads as we had the unusual occurrence of the winner being disqualified.
Unfortunately Paul Underwood's brilliant round of 63 didn't stand as the winning score after he realised he had signed for a wrong score and brought it to the Committee's attention - with the inevitable result of disqualification. This should take nothing away from a great round from Paul and his handicap has still dropped to a career low of 13. On a bittersweet day Paul's son Kieran also suffered by the rules with a two shot penalty in his cracking round of nett 68, maybe we should have a whip round to buy the Underwood's a new rules book!!
It was left for Julie Daines to claim the Medal victory with a nett 65 which included five pars and with that she claimed a coveted spot in the season-ending Hartford Masters.
In form Chris Whalley continued his steady season with a nett 67 including a two on the 16th hole and Antony Green completed the top three on nett 68.
It must be said that the golf course was again in pristine condition and the greens were running fairly fast and true after a double hand cut in the morning. This Saturday we play another board competition - the Maddock Trophy starting at 11am.
The ladies played a sun soaked 18 hole stableford last Thursday and the winning score came from Rita Milburn (pictured here) with 39 points. Rita had finished runner-up in the last ladies competition so it was nice to see her go one better here & claim top spot. Rita's new handicap is 30.
The Clare Cup winner - Alaine Britton continued her good form with a 38 point score. Alaine's handicap has dropped 2.5 shots so far this year and she is down to the verge of 25. Third place went to Lady Captain Sue Gunning on 37 points.
The next ladies competition is the big one as it is the Club Championship, it takes place on Sunday starting at 12:04pm.
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12 handicapper Gary has used his newly fitted irons in his last four competitions and has scored no worse than a nett 72. In the Bank Holiday Stableford he scored 40 points and on Sunday he had a nett 68 in the Medal.
He has reported to us that he is hitting straighter and longer iron shots than ever and in fact the extra distance has taken a bit of getting used to. On the 8th hole on Sunday he caught an 8 iron that flew 170 yards to the flag and on the 10th hole he hit a 5 iron through the back of the green from level with the pond.
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15 times Major winner Tiger Woods is back and playing great golf again, in last week's Memorial Tournament on the PGA Tour he showed real signs of his best form and despite a somewhat cold putter, at one stage he got to within 2 shots of the lead. Surely a Tiger victory is only round the corner.
Click here and take a look at this perfect 95 yard wedge shot Woods hit in the second round that resulted in an eagle. No wonder he is now only rated at 14/1 to win next week's US Open at Shinnecock Hills.


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Józef Pułaski herbu Ślepowron (ur. 17 lutego 1704, zm. w Kopance nad Dniestrem w lutym lub ok. 20 kwietnia 1769) – twórca i marszałek związkowy konfederacji barskiej, starosta warecki w 1739 roku, wielokrotny poseł na sejm, ojciec Kazimierza Pułaskiego.

Życiorys
26 czerwca 1736 ożenił się z Marianną Zielińską, był ojcem: Kazimierza, Antoniego i Franciszka Ksawerego.

Od 1724 był burgrabią nurskim, był też jednym z najbardziej wziętych palestrantów w Trybunale Koronnym, w Piotrkowie. Związał się z Czartoryskimi. W 1732 kupił starostwo wareckie. Zgromadził też starostwa: świdnickie i mszczonowskie oraz królewszczyzny na Podolu i w województwie ruskim, a także liczne wsie i miasteczka m.in. Piaseczno pod Warszawą. Posiadał też sieć zajazdów zwanych wareckimi.
W 1733 roku był posłem z ziemi czerskiej na sejm elekcyjny, podpisał elekcję Stanisława Leszczyńskiego. Delegat i konsyliarz województwa mazowieckiego w konfederacji dzikowskiej w 1734 roku. W 1736 uznał Augusta III. W 1744 roku był posłem na sejm grodzieński z ziemi czerskiej, w 1748 roku posłował na sejm Boni Ordinis, gdzie reprezentował interesy Czartoryskich. Posłem był jeszcze w 1750 i 1754.
W 1752 roku został pisarzem nadwornym koronnym i pisarzem skarbowym.

W 1764 roku podpisał wybór Stanisława Augusta Poniatowskiego, pozostał jednak stronnikiem Sasów. W 1767 jako przedstawiciel Podlasia podpisał akt konfederacji radomskiej. Śmiało wystąpił przeciwko groźbom posła rosyjskiego Nikołaja Repnina wprowadzenia do Rzeczypospolitej 50 000 wojska rosyjskiego. Miał wtedy odpowiedzieć ambasadorowi "Niech stanie sto tysięcy, naród wolny krew przeleje". W odpowiedzi wściekły Repnin kopnął go publicznie. Według innej wersji była to publiczna utarczka słowna między Józefem Pułaskim a posłem Repninem Józef Pułaski: "Mości książę raczy się mylić. Niech stanie i 100 tysięcy, naród wolny krew przeleje! Nasze stare, z trzynastego ... wieku ... zawołanie głosi, że należy raczej dom spalić i z bronią w ręku po lasach sie poniewierać, niźli samowładnej mocy sie poddać" Repnin: "Jednym kopnięciem usunę takich przeciwników" Józef Pułaski: "Strzeż się książę, aby ostatnia na was nie wybiła godzina!".

Zagrożony aresztowaniem przez Rosjan wyjechał na Podole. Jako zwolennik domu saskiego, konsyliarz konfederacji radomskiej, przeszedł następnie do opozycji wobec Rosji z powodu forsowania przez nią sprawy dysydenckiej, należał wraz z biskupami Kajetanem Ignacym Sołtykiem i Krasińskim do głównych inicjatorów konfederacji barskiej 29 lutego 1768, po której utworzeniu został marszałkiem związku wojskowego, przyczynił się wybitnie do nadania jej piętna głębokiej religijności i legalizmu szlacheckiego, opracowując jej akty i manifest do narodu.
Spieniężył większość swych dóbr, dla zaciągu wojska. Stanął na czele pułku Krzyża Świętego. Rozpoczął wówczas akcję dyplomatyczną, wysyłając korespondencję do dworów europejskich. Pokłócony z przywódcami konfederacji, został odsunięty od funkcji wojskowych.

Był organizatorem obrony Baru, po zdobyciu go przez Rosjan uszedł wraz z innymi na Wołoszczyznę, tam oskarżony przez Joachima Potockiego i Krasińskiego o nieposłuszeństwo i zdradę, został pozbawiony władzy i wtrącony do więzienia w Jassach przez baszę chocimskiego, gdzie dokonał życia. Prawdopodobne przyczyny śmierci to epidemia, rozważano również otrucie. Pochowany przez syna Franciszka Ksawerego, "...w stepie, (nad Dniestrem wówczas po tureckiej dziś po mołdawskiej stronie) przy kurhanie w pobliżu traktu w stronę Mohylowa".

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Linki zewnętrzne
  opis kurhanu na miejscu śmierci hetmana Stanisława Żółkiewskiego – domniemanego miejsca pochówku Józefa Pułaskiego

Burgrabiowie grodzcy (województwo mazowieckie)
Członkowie stanu rycerskiego I Rzeczypospolitej
Delegaci konfederacji dzikowskiej
Elektorzy Stanisława Leszczyńskiego (1733)
Elektorzy Stanisława Augusta Poniatowskiego
Konsyliarze konfederaccy (województwo mazowieckie)
Konsyliarze konfederacji dzikowskiej
Konsyliarze konfederacji radomskiej
Ludzie związani z Piotrkowem Trybunalskim (I Rzeczpospolita)
Marszałkowie konfederacji barskiej
Palestranci I Rzeczypospolitej
Posłowie na Sejm I Rzeczypospolitej (ziemia czerska)
Posłowie na sejm elekcyjny 1733
Posłowie na sejm zwyczajny 1744
Posłowie na sejm zwyczajny 1748
Posłowie na sejm nadzwyczajny 1750
Posłowie na sejm zwyczajny 1754
Pisarze skarbowi koronni
Starostowie wareccy
Józef Pułaski
Urodzeni w 1704
Zmarli w 1769


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Donja Vrućica je naselje u Republici Hrvatskoj, u sastavu Općine Trpanj, Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija.

Stanovništvo

Prema popisu stanovništva iz 2001. godine, naselje je imalo 48 stanovnika te 25 obiteljskih kućanstava.

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice

Naselja u Dubrovačko-neretvanskoj županiji


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Home » News » Hacker Gets 20 Years for Providing Islamic State with U.S. Military Data
Hacker Gets 20 Years for Providing Islamic State with U.S. Military Data
A hacker will serve out 20 years in prison for providing the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) with data pertaining to members of the U.S. military.
Ardit Ferizi (Source: McClatchyDC)
On 22 September, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema handed down the sentence to Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo.
The hack occurred back on 13 June 2015 when Ferizi gained administrator access to a victim company that stored the personally identifiable information (PII) of tens of thousands of its customers, including U.S. military personnel.
Ferizi extracted all of the data relating to the U.S. military and built a list consisting of 1,300 service people's information. He then handed his "hit list" to Junaid Hussain, a former ISIL recruiter who tweeted out a link to the list along with the following message:
"…[W]e are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move, we have your names and addresses, we are in your emails and social media accounts, we are extracting confidential data and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!"
Malaysian authorities arrested Ferizi back in October 2015 and later extradited him to the United States, where he faced a maximum sentence of 35 years in prison for a number of charges, including providing material support to a terrorist organization and aggravated identity theft.
Assistant Attorney General Carlin believes Ferizi's sentence sends a strong message to committed terrorists and their sympathizers. As quoted in a statement released by the Department of Justice:
"This case represents the first time we have seen the very real and dangerous national security cyber threat that results from the combination of terrorism and hacking. This was a wake-up call not only to those of us in law enforcement, but also to those in private industry. This successful prosecution also sends a message to those around the world that, if you provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations and assist them with their deadly attack planning, you will have nowhere to hide. As this case shows, we will reach half-way around the world if necessary to hold accountable those who engage in this type of activity. I want to thank the corporation that worked with law enforcement to solve this crime, and the agents, analysts and prosecutors who worked on this groundbreaking case."
As of this writing, it's unclear when Ferizi will begin serving out his sentence.
Tags Hacker, ISIL, PII, terrorist, U.S. military


Once again I'm behind with these blog posts, but in my own defence, I've been very busy. Since I last wrote a post, I've had a second eye surgery, been dealing with a lame horse, and bringing a horse home! (but you can read about that in my next blog post which I will also be writing today, that's if my fingers don't fall off from the cold first though).
On January 7th, after a night of cold temperatures, we had planned to take Bonnie schooling to Eric Pele's all weather XC. However, when we were a mere 5 minutes away, we got a call telling us not to come – because the place was frozen solid.
When we got there, we had about a 2 hour wait until the show was over and we were able to tack up. When we did, Bonnie was a little spooky at first in the warm up but behaved impeccably and only bucked once! Result. Especially since bucking was her new favourite thing (but if you follow me on Instagram, which you should, you would know that already!). I uploaded a video on my second channel of Bonnie schooling, which I have embedded below.
We had so much fun schooling around the course that it was time to take her to our first show of 2018! How exciting. Particularly since I was still blind in one eye – I could see absolutely nothing out of my left eye. So on January 14th, we trekked back down to the East side of Lough Neagh to Portmore once again.
Bonnie was an angel in the warmup, and went into the ring and felt absolutely amazing…until she decided she did not like the look of the shoot jump at the far end of the arena. That caused us to get eliminated and it just went downhill from there really. She jumped nice, don't get me wrong, but just not well. She didn't feel on form, but she didn't feel lame, just nappy, so I rode her through it. Coming to a very skinny skinny, my vision issues combined with Bonnie spooking abit resulted in me taking out the wing with my knee. I then lost a stirrup in the course and my right knee rolled out of the place, but I was able to pop it back in with relatively no pain (the next day, however, it did roll out of place again and it turned out to be an MCL sprain. All healed up now though, since I'm such a bad blogger and have ended up telling you about my January adventures on March 1st).
Following her napping fit in the 85cm, we had lengthly discussions on what to do. She was jumping fine, and flew some pretty hefty fences in the warm up (100-110) and so we put her in the 1m class. Well, it went even further downhill! She got abit close to the first fence, but cleared it, then said nah and began to nap. Now, it just so happens that fence 2 was right beside the gate – but upon later inspection, she actually landed lame from fence 1. So she was napping, but it was for a genuine reason (perhaps combined with a little 'my friends are out there, why am I in here!?' thinking from Boo). We knew something was up, and that was the last time that she jumped.
Because she was lame again, it was time to go through everything once more. So, we phoned the chiropractor and he was in the area (he comes from down South, so it was pure luck). Well, that couldn't have went worse either! In her first trot up, she looked lame (shocker) and so we did a second to try and pin point it. Only Bonnie, the delightful little madam she is, spooked and quite literally fell to the ground and rolled on concrete. My face was a treat. I had injured my leg at this point, and so it was my mum doing the trot up – I got to see the entire scene unroll before me while thinking "please be okay, please don't have ruined yourself Boo bear".
She had nothing structurally wrong with her and once again, we were told to get a physio. So we did – we contacted the physio most local to us (who would rather not be named), and she came out and outlined everything that was wrong. Quite a lot.
When Bonnie got kicked in August (her original injury, which I blogged about on this site. You can go read blogs from back then by clicking here), the ligament in her right bum cheek shortened and so she over-compensated with her left, which was the leg she was now lame on. We were advised light work, long reining, hacking for 6 weeks but that she could canter and doing raised poles were a must either on the lunge or on her back. No jumping – it just so happened I got called for eye surgery, so my mum took over the majority of rehab as I was forbidden from riding by my consultant for 4 weeks.
I have attached her physio report below, since to be honest, I can't remember every single detail as so much has happened since then. I leave you with this lovely piece of information all about my accident prone mare who is trying to make me go grey before I'm even 20 years old.
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Meiotic cells of triploid male rainbow trouts were analyzed by a surface-spreading SC technique in order to show the process of chromosome synapsis. At zygotene the formation of SCs involved, almost exclusively, two sets of lateral elements (LEs), and the remaining set of LEs presented different synaptic configurations involving one, two, three, or four LEs. The absence of SCs involving more than two LEs from mid- to late pachytene indicates that the multivalents produced by synapsis involving more than two LEs, are eliminated before the end of pachytene; thus, the mechanism of chromosome pairing in triploid male rainbow trouts produces, almost exclusively, bivalents with a probable extensive nonhomologous synapsis involving the extra set of chromosomes.
Oliveira, C. et al. Synaptonemal complex formation in spermatocytes of the autotriploid rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Pisces, Salmonidae). Hereditas, v. 123, n. 3, p. 215-220, 1995. Available at: <http://hdl.handle.net/11449/64683>.


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Hello, and welcome to the next edition of Player Interview! Today's interview is with @Velvet Blood, the Battle Factory 6v6 Gym Leader for the PO League! Battle Factory 6v6 is a tier that gives both players a random team with competitive sets from one of PO's main tiers. Without further ado, let's get started!
1. How did you get introduced to Pokémon?
Velvet Blood: Well, when I was 8 years old, I went to visit my aunt in Hanoi, which is in Vietnam, and she had a Nintendo 64 then, and the games she had were really fun such as Super Mario 64, but what really got my attention was when I saw Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Stadium, and through that, I discovered more about Pokémon.
2. How did you first discover PO?
Velvet Blood: I discovered PO through my sister who had previously played on here; she started in 2010 while I started in 2011, but I wasn't active at all nor was I very interested in PO until later on.
3. What is your favorite and least favorite tiers to get in Battle Factory?
Velvet Blood: Personally I like SM UU a lot more than all the other tiers my opponent and I get in our matches mainly due to the sets being better than other tiers. My least favorite would be SM Ubers because whenever my opponent and I get it, either one of us always get a team that's weak to, let's say a Ho-oh, like in my match vs Mysterious M—he got a team weak to Ho-oh alone, since his whole team was Steel types + Muk and Groundceus.
4. Are there any Battle Factory sets that you particularly like or dislike getting on your team?
Velvet Blood: I like it when I get Weak Armor Vullaby because I can use it as a late game sweeper if I play it right, its movepool is great, and Nasty Plot makes it even more threatening.
Velvet Blood: I hate getting a Darkrai on one of my teams due to its chances to miss a Hypnosis. The Dark Void nerf really did hit Darkrai hard. Other than that, I have no problems with other sets.
5. What has being a Gym Leader for Battle Factory been like so far? Have there been any moments that were particularly memorable?
Velvet Blood: It's been kinda hard but fun at the same time, mainly due to the teams me or my opponent gets, but it's a fun tier, and it's meant to be enjoyed in my opinion. There has been one memorable moment when I faced Hassin627—before doing our match he was looking for a place to sit down to play and was quite funny. In our game, he completely dominated me in both SM LC games, and I never loved Onix a lot until now. What made this a really fun experience is how he had good sportsmanship and kept a good mood even after a crit or two. It was just good to enjoy the match really.
6. What is it about Battle Factory that you find most appealing?
Velvet Blood: What appeals to me is how you can get the worst team ever in Battle Factory, yet you can still enjoy the matches mainly because of how it's meant to be fun.
7. If you could be a Gym Leader for a different tier, which would you choose?
Velvet Blood: I don't mind being a Gym Leader for any other tier, but I think I'd have to know the tier if I wanted to be a Gym Leader for it, but really I don't mind being Battle Factory Gym Leader again for next season.
8. Do you have anything else to say to our readers?
Velvet Blood: Good luck to those who have already made it to the Elite Four!
Thanks, Velvet Blood, for taking the time to tell us a bit about yourself and Battle Factory 6v6! For anyone interested in challenging Velvet Blood's Battle Factory 6v6 Gym, make a post in the Challenge Log, and make a post in the Battle Factory 6v6 Gym. Be sure to read the rules for the PO League as well! This edition of Player Interview is coming to an end, but there will be more to come. To nominate players to be interviewed, post here or contact @E.T. on the PO forums.


John Bischoff is an early pioneer of live computer music. He is known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis as well as his development of computer network music. Bischoff studied composition with Robert Moran, James Tenney, Robert Ashley, and David Behrman. He has been active in the experimental music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 40 years as a composer, performer, and teacher. His performances around the US include NEW MUSIC AMERICA festivals in 1981 and 1989, Roulette and Experimental Intermedia in New York, and Lampo in Chicago to name a few. He has performed in Europe at the Festival d'Automne in Paris, Akademie der Künste in Berlin, STEIM in Amsterdam, and Fylkingen in Stockholm among other places. He is a founding member of the League of Automatic Music Composers, the world's first computer network band.
Michael Flora explores sound both as a conceptual subject and as a medium for phenomenological study. Working within the intersections of art, science, music, and mathematics, he is interested in research related to sonic morphology, spatialization, and human perception. He uses custom built software for sound synthesis and the plasticization of field recordings. Algorithmic and mathematical procedures allow the audio to be pulled, stretched, and folded until reaching a desired spatial and temporal form. Work is often presented in site-specific multi-channel installations and performances which reveal the unique sonic footprint of the space and allows for the choreography of sound through speaker placement and animation of movement. Compositions alternate from meditative to jarring; minimal to complex, yet always seek to provoke the listener's subjective experience.


This is 42.7 mile cycle route, starting and finishing at Halton Station, there are four off-road sections (allow about two hours to do the Salter Fell Track, it may take longer depending on the weather conditions) and one café stop at Dunsop Village Hall (Which only open in Summer months on Sundays). You can see more photos of the route and read ride report which this route is based on at this link. The map you need on this ride is Ordnance Survey Explorer Map OL 41 Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale. You can click here to download the route in Tracklogs Format or click here to download the route in GPS Exchange Format.


Passed Through Fire is a class for young men between the ages of 13 and 18 that teaches them what it means to be a man and serves as a right of passage for their transition into manhood.
This ministry seeks to counteract the negative messages of society regarding what manhood is by teaching young males what it means to be men of God at home, in society, and in the church.
The class is 6 weeks long, consisting of video teachings and small group discussions followed by a wonderful, emotional, and powerful weekend retreat to conduct their right of passage.
The classes are held on Wednesday nights from 7-8:30 pm during the Fall, and the cost is $79 per person.
The class is limited to 8 participants, and the boys' fathers are welcome to be actively involved in the class as well (though this is not required).


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