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Tag Archives: public policy
Rolling back the damage: are we a country, or a commodity? | #elxn42 #cdnpoli #TPP
Posted on October 5, 2015 by Sol
Haven't really crystallized this into a coherent argument yet, but I can't remember feeling this disheartened about a federal election since 1997. Ever since then, there's been a growing malignancy in our body politic — a malignancy that goes beyond partisanship.
Successive governments since then have, for whatever reason, surrendered more and more policy tools, and more and more of their innate capacity to advance the public good, in the face of supranational trade and investment regimes. Regardless of who's been in power in Ottawa (and provincial capitals, for that matter), we've been watching the gradual but unmistakable enfeeblement of government, to the point where it may well be irreversible. As awful as Harper's been on so many files — environment, the war on women, civil liberties, First Nations, the economy, health care, immigration, housing, veterans, integrity in government, climate change — this didn't start with him.
What I still don't understand is, why? Why is government, of whatever stripe, voluntarily abandoning its role? Free Trade, NAFTA, MIA, CETA, FIPA, TPP, whatever. Why are public institutions consenting to, and even participating in, their own enervation? Why are we, through our governments, surrendering our ability to protect ourselves and act in the national interest in favour of a few multinational corporations and allowing them to sue us for notional lost profits? Who benefits from this? Who's looking out for the common good here?
And that doesn't even begin to address the glaring faults in our current electoral system. The disfiguring effects of our antiquated, necrotic First Past The Post system have already been discussed, but if there's any sustained discussion of alternatives or efforts to reform the voting system, or the so-called "Fair Elections Act," it's barely being heard above the manufactured controversies and distractions. The conversation's being dragged into the sewer, and that's no accident either.
It's why I've been wondering, perhaps at odds with my arguments about the responsibilities of citizenship, about the efficacy of voting. If civic engagement is reduced to casting a ballot every few years for choices that have, in truth, been set out for us, then are we really participating meaningfully in our own governance? Is voting, even if it manages to end the Harper era, going to undo decades worth of damage to civil society? Is it going to put an end to this misguided fetish for austerity? Is it going to reinvigorate the notion of an activist government committed to using the power of public policy to cultivate the greatest good for the greatest number? Is it going to re-assert the primacy of the public sphere in the face of "free trade" regimes and investor-state protections? How likely is it that any government, even the best-intentioned, will move to roll back the damage in the face of the inevitable backlash from international finance, the small coterie of Serious and Responsible people who decide which ideas are "realistic" and which are "lunatic," and their amplifiers in the media?
I don't want to sound facile, but doesn't it come down to the kind of government we want and the kind of country we want to be? Do we want to be governed by the people we elect, or by a small global oligarchy of unaccountable string-pullers? And is the simple act of choosing a brand on polling day going to affect that?
Civic engagement in the face of democratic deficit
This election, let's talk about the Public Good
In defence of the public sphere
Bloody well right, we need to tax and spend
Let's stop fetishizing "The Market"
| Tagged apparatus of repression, austerity, Canadian politics, civic engagement, civil society, class warfare, democratic dysfunction, democratic governance, electoral reform, free trade, gatekeepers, international finance, manufactured controversy, public policy, the public good, the public sphere, TPP | 2 Comments
Taxis, Uber, and how NOT to make decisions | #TOpoli
Posted on September 30, 2015 by Sol
So I had a chance to observe City Council this morning, consumed as it was by the Uber/taxi debate and the attendant seas of yellow and blue T-shirts.
Let's get this out of the way first: I'm not taking sides on this. I haven't followed it closely enough to craft an informed opinion, and I'm not particularly invested in either side, except to the extent that I want whatever emerges from the process to advance the public good. (For a particularly trenchant viewpoint, however, I'd recommend following Karen Geier on the Tweeter.)
That the Uber/taxi debate is controversial and complex isn't news. It's not going to be resolved here, or elsewhere on this site, or over the course of this council meeting. No, what I took away from this morning's deliberations was more general: the importance of acknowledging and engaging with complexity.
Easier said than done, of course. The council chamber was filled to capacity (particularly notable were the yellow-shirted taxi partisans), and there was a sizeable overflow crowd in the city hall foyer. Every few minutes, a remark from the council floor would trigger a roar audible from downstairs. In a situation like that, it's easy to just play to the galleries.
I don't like clichés, but calling it a charged atmosphere seems fair. (As long as we're talking about clichés, though, I'm told some smartypants suggested that we take a drink every time someone said "level playing field." I thought I also heard someone say "skin in the game.") It was particularly hard not to sympathize with Municipal Licensing/Standards Executive Director Tracey Cook, whose report on the city's taxi industry formed part of the background for the deliberations. At one point, she responded to Frank DiGiorgio with a wry suggestion that if she'd had the crystal ball he was apparently demanding that she consult, she might have thought twice about taking the job. It wasn't the only eyeroll-prompting question she had to field.
Indeed, one has to respect the demands public servants are required to meet. They have to balance impartiality with their professional obligation to deliver the best possible advice in helping their political masters make good decisions. When that has to take place in an atmosphere of hyper-partisanship and demagoguery … well, remember Gary Webster?
The complexities of the Uber/taxi debate need more room than I've got here, but among the factors councillors need to consider are:
training (at one point, someone compared the 17-day training regime for taxis with Uber's supposed requirement that prospective drivers watch a video)
distribution of income within the industry
ridership numbers
amounts of money involved
identification of stakeholders: drivers, operators, owners, brokers, passengers, other users of the roads and transit system
how best to enforce regulations
how to foster a workable business model in an industry badly in need of updating
And I'm not pretending for one second that this is a comprehensive list. The task for city council, with the assistance of Ms. Cook and her staff, is to find a balance among these competing interests, and craft a revised regulatory structure that achieves the greatest good for the greatest number.
As an aside, it's worth noting that while sound decisions should be based on the best possible information, that's a particular challenge in this case. How much can we rely on data collection, and who collects the data? I drove a taxi in Toronto a couple of centuries ago, and while I'm sure technology has evolved, it's hard to imagine how drivers are supposed to record, categorize and analyze data on top of everything else they're doing.
Now contrast the insistence on hard data with more reliance on anecdotal, non-quantifiable, lived experience. It's no less important, but it raises its own set of questions around whose experience gets taken into account and how much weight it's given.
Again: I'm not taking sides on the Uber/taxi debate. But pretending they're exactly the same thing, as was evident in one exchange between the current Chief Magistrate and his predecessor, displays a rather limited grasp of the complications inherent in making policy – and of one's own responsibilities as an elected official.
Ultimately, things turn on your approach to governance. You can't reduce things to wishful thinking, unsupported assumptions, or misleading comparisons, and you can't just repeat slogans. Maybe it's trite to repeat this, but: Public Policy Is Not Simple. Pretending otherwise does no one any favours.
Reviving #ThePublicGood, part 7: Getting around the public-transit roadblock
Getting past the "War On The Car"
| Tagged municipal governance, public policy, public transit, regulation, taxis, the public good, Toronto politics, Uber | Leave a comment
From @alexhimelfarb on Harper's omnibus crime bill / #C10 #cdnpoli
Posted on December 12, 2011 by Sol
This legislation is transformative as it puts punishment and prison at the centre of our criminal justice system.
This has never been the Canadian approach; our balanced justice policies have always focused on safety and justice – and the best evidence of what works. Such a change in direction should never happen without a vigorous debate – a good fight.
That's all the more important because as we have seen in the U.S., this punitive approach leads to more of the same. It feeds our fears and, when we see that we are no more safe, rather than reverse course we opt for even more imprisonment, even tougher sentences. This beast, the more you feed it the hungrier it gets.
In the U.S., state after state is trying to reverse course but that is no easy task once you have built and filled all those prisons, once you have created a permanent underclass on the one hand and gated communities on the other. We do not want to go that way.
via afhimelfarb.wordpress.com
A comment on Alex Himelfarb's blog, which should be required reading for students of public policy and anyone concerned about the direction we're taking on crime and punishment.
Nasty, stupid, counterproductive, divisive, cynical, and very, very dangerous. But then we already knew that.
Harper's been quite open about his intent to rewrite Canada's entire narrative. It's baffling and more than a little disheartening to watch the way we let him get away with it. Here we are, faced with what amounts to an existential threat to the kind of country we are, and we can't even muster the energy for even the most minimal civic engagement?
It can't be just the lingering after-effects of tear gas, truncheons and pepper spray. And it's been clear since last May that the battle's going to have to be fought through extraparliamentary channels.
And that's where I start looking for plans that go beyond the hill-by-hill, street-by-street model. While we're doing that, this bunch is effectively reshaping the very ground on which we're standing. I'm all for fighting the good fight for the right reasons, but it seems to be that we've been doing that — and without much success. If anyone's got any ideas about how to counter this guy, not just tactically but strategically, I'm all ears.
Why conservatism needs to be rescued
Harper Conservatives: stupid on crime, redux | via rabble.ca
Harper Conservatives: stupid on crime | via @pogge411
| Tagged appealing to the lizard brain, atavism, Bill C-10, counterproductive, crime and punishment, cultivation of stupidity, fearmongering, lynch mob, posturing, public policy, rewriting the narrative, Stephen Harper, tough on crime, vindictive | Leave a comment
| Tagged CBC, conflict of interest, freedom of information, lobbying, public policy, rethinking our economy, winning back the words | 1 Comment
Posted on November 6, 2011 by Sol
Ah, nuance.
What a thing it is to contemplate. It's so bracing. Complication. Reflection. Complexity. It's what puts the real in real life.
My friend @cityslikr, who on his worst days is ten times more eloquent and compelling than I will ever be, was involved in one of those Twitter conversations the other night. Initially it was with some tabloid scribbler, but as the evening went on, he was joined by Nick Kouvalis.
Mr. Kouvalis, you may recall, was widely credited as the brains behind Rob Ford's election victory. And full marks to him for that; a lot of people, including me, never thought it would be possible for a guy like Rob Ford to win the mayor's chair. Regardless of what we may think of it, Mr. Kouvalis ran an effective and successful campaign. Whatever's happened in the ensuing year can't change that.
But watching that exchange and reviewing the duelling tweets prompted a couple of related observations: perhaps not especially original, but no less relevant for that, especially given the state in which Toronto now finds itself. The first concerns the difference between electioneering and governing; the second, perhaps more subtle but no less important, concerns the importance of framing (for which I'm also indebted to Trish Hennessy. If you haven't bookmarked her blog, do it now).
Back to @cityslikr and Mr. Kouvalis. Rather than put words in their mouths, I'll let them speak for themselves (guys, if I've left anything out, or if you feel I'm taking your words out of context, please feel free to write. I'll publish your comments as you submit them).
To the extent that you can have a compelling policy debate via 140-character bursts, that's what appears to be going on. And I can't help but contrast that with the themes that dominated last year's mayoral contest, thanks in large part to Mr. Kouvalis: Gravy Train. Respect for Taxpayers. Wasteful spending. We don't have a revenue problem. War on the Car. Those of you bored or desperate enough to read my stuff regularly know what I think of those memes, but that twitter exchange illustrated, beautifully, the gulf between electioneering and governing.
Admittedly, this isn't a new lesson, but it's no less worthwhile for the repetition. Democratic governance, whether it's at the local, provincial, or federal level, is a complex, multifaceted exercise. It involves balancing of multiple interests, looking at issues from both a long-term and short-term perspective, analyzing costs and benefits, identifying opportunities and stakeholders, allocating resources in accordance with needs, recognizing that community is evaluated not just in fiscal terms, but also in terms of aesthetics, cohesion, and sense of common purpose, and above all, trying to fashion public policy in a way that produces the greatest good for the greatest number. Ideally, it's informed by devotion to things like citizenship and stewardship, a resolve to enhance the public good and leave the public sphere just a little better than we found it. In sum, it's complicated. It's not something that can be reduced to sound bites, lapel buttons and bumper stickers.
It's been instructive, watching the direction the conversation's been taking, most notably with the recent comparisons likening Toronto's municipal finances to the impending cataclysm in Greece. Do we really have to go there? We're not Greece. Greece itself isn't Greece, at least not in the apocalyptic way the tabloid brayers have been portraying it. But that's the problem with caricature, hyperbole and simplistic thinking. It may play well on the campaign trail or in tabloid columns written by or aimed at people with limited attention spans and cognitive faculties, but it rarely translates into effective and responsible governance.
Simplistic narratives depend on fudging the truth, on omission of nuance, on leaving out and glossing over anything that complicates things or gets in the way of delivery of an easily digested and manipulative message, like … oh, like "public-sector workers are lazy overpaid unionized thugs. Unions are to blame for the mess. David Miller left the city on the verge of bankruptcy because he was their puppet. Who the hell are these greedy bastards?" It plays right into prevailing attitudes of envy and intellectual laziness. Why bother to think things through? Certainly, it's easier to be a disengaged dullard who gets information from tabloid headlines and Don Cherry's yargle-bargle, if that's the extent of your civic engagement.
Which brings us to the source for most of those simplistic narratives: the city workers' strike of 2009.
It's no great secret that Ford's strategy was to tie it to Miller. (Indeed, he wasn't the only one.) It's also not much of a revelation to suggest that much of Ford's mayoralty is predicated on payback for that, most apparent in the drive to privatize or contract out waste collection. Once again: Respect for Taxpayers. Stop the gravy train. Greedy unions. An easily digested, simplistic message which may be short on facts but resonates emotionally with the target audience. Truth and reality are just a bit more complex than that, but you won't read about that in the tabloid press. It's much easier, and a more effective means of manipulating people, to keep recycling spite, hatred, misdirection and disinformation.
Good for campaigning, no doubt, which may be why the tabloid press seems to be in permanent campaign mode. Not so good for citizenship or governance.
It's all in how you frame things, really. Not to take anything away from Nick. Guy ran a successful campaign, based largely on his ability to frame things. Can't argue with it. He won. His boy's the Chief Magistrate now, ably backed by the drooling cheering section in the tabloid press. But at what cost? I'd argue that it's been at the cost of reasonable intelligent discourse, and of effective and responsible governance. The very tone of public conversation has been debased by the constant flow of bullshit and sloganeering. To the extent that we can, it's worth considering the way issues are framed nowadays, because that's how the stage is set for public discourse.
This isn't about elitist sneering at coarse, loutish, vulgar behaviour any more. At the end of the day that's a matter of personal taste, and that's not what this is about.
Public conversation and civil discourse are the currency of citizenship. They are the means whereby we conduct public business and ourselves as citizens. Maintaining standards for them is in everyone's interest, regardless of whether we're left or right or liberal or conservative or socialist or whatever. Allowing them to degenerate to the level currently practiced by the Ford administration and enabled by the tabloid press (half-truths, distortion, misdirection, name-calling, screeds) makes it that much harder to have civil conversations with one another. Our ability to talk to each other like sane, intelligent and reasonable human beings is undermined.
Effective, responsible governance has suffered as well. (No point in rehashing the campaign-trail guarantee of no service cuts, except to contrast it with current fiscal discussions, dominated as they are by the song of the chainsaw.) The Port Lands clusterfuck may be the most high-profile example, but it's not an isolated one. When you consider the underhanded, sandbagging way that Team Ford does things, it's hard to see how things are better than they were under the previous administration.
Again: framing. It isn't even about whether Rob Ford can grow into the job any longer. If we allow tabloid screed-writers and astroturfing operatives to set the terms of the discussion, we're screwed. We'll waste God knows how much time and energy distracted by Shiny Objects and manufactured controversies (polar bear versus beaver, anyone?) instead of having the conversations we really need to have.
Let's move beyond slogans.
Revisiting #FordNation: some hard truths
Further thoughts on the Long War
If Team Ford's Port Lands plans are truly dead, would someone mind driving a stake through them?
From the Star: Land transfer tax will put Toronto finances in surplus
Beyond the Port Lands: Dragging Swamp Ford for the remnants of civic engagement
Not Your Grandaddy's Conservatism
| Tagged @cityslikr, campaign rhetoric, citizenship, civil discourse, community building, democratic governance, gutter press, long view, Nick Kouvalis, public good, public policy, Team Ford, Toronto politics, Trish Hennessy | Leave a comment
CRTC is peddling broadband Kool-Aid, @peternowak writes
Posted on August 3, 2011 by Sol
http://wordsbynowak.com/2011/08/02/crtc-broadband-communications-internet/
In short, Canada's upload speeds are an embarrassment. Not a good thing if you're trying to foster innovation and creativity.
Once again, the Sex Bombs and Burgers guy shows why he's a must-read.
Sent from my BlackBerry
| Tagged broadband, CRTC, infrastructure, innovation, internet, public policy | Leave a comment
Over at @SixthEstate, an important contribution to the health-care debate
Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sol
The author of this blog has launched something he calls the Doctors Project.
In it, he's attempting to provide a counterpoint to the narrative, pushed by institutions like the Fraser Institute and the like, that says Canada's public health care system is out of control and unaffordable, and that the only solutions lie in privatization, cuts, and "adult conversations" about the "demographic time bomb."
| Tagged health care, manufactured narrative, public policy | Leave a comment
BBC News – Global war on drugs 'has failed' say former leaders
It's a BBC story, but the dynamics are very much reminiscent of all the "tough on crime" rhetoric we're hearing in the context of Canadian politics these days.
It's not as if expensive and ineffective policies are anything new. Other than providing short-term political boosts, one wonders what good they accomplish.
Indeed, the facts seem to indicate that they do more harm than good. This raises the question, of course, of why they're pursued at all, and why governments continue to embrace them in the face of all the evidence that suggests that they don't work …
(h/t Alex Himelfarb)
| Tagged BBC, criminal justice, politics, public policy, war on drugs | Leave a comment


OMG. Have you been following the RIM (Blackberry) outage snafu in the UK? This is an operational crisis accentunated by a communication crisis. And it's an anti-case study in how to be a failed social business that lacks customer centricity.
Dr. Natalie and I are talking about The Business of Social Business in tomorrow's Focus Roundtable. We'll be providing important insight this week and next in how to avoid being a RIM. Because trust me, you don't want to lose customers the way they're going to.
Catch the replay of yesterday's Focus roundtable on Customer Centricity in a Social CRM World, co-hosted with Dr. Natalie and including our guest Emily Yellin.
Stop Dominating Customers. Start Partnering.
Just stop it. Here's why.
P.S. Dr. Natalie and I are going to talk more about customer centricity at next week's Focus roundtable. And Emily Yellin is going to join us. So come. It's going to be good.
P.P.S. I mentioned this WSJ article in my video - BlackBerry Maker's Issue: Gadgets for Work or Play? (Subscription may be required).
Starting on Monday, June 6, 2011, Dr. Natalie and I will host a 3-session tweet up series on the Social Customer Service.
Over the 3 sessions, we'll discuss topics related to thought leadership we shared in our recent white paper Calculating the ROI for Social Customer Service.
Our end goal with our recent paper and coming tweet ups is to help people combine strategy with ROI to accelerate executive approval of social customer service programs.
Of course, each of you have your own experiences and thoughts to share so it won't be complete unless you join in the discussion!
How to Build the Business Case for Social Customer Service – Monday, June 6, 2011 at 3 pm EDT.
Calculating ROI for Social Customer Service – Week of June 13 - TBD.
How Social Customer Service Benefits the Entire Company – Week of June 20 - TBD.
The hash tag for each session will be #smROI.


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Sveti Marko () egy szigetecske az Adriai-tengerben, Horvátországban. Az Adriai-tenger legészakibb szigete Fiumei-öbölben, Kraljevicával szemben. Ma leginkább arról ismert, hogy a Krki híd áthalad a sziget keleti lejtőjén.

Leírása
A sziget eredeti neve Almis, majd Omiš volt és csak 1617, a madridi béke óta nevezik San Marconak, illetve horvátul Sveti Markonak. Sveti Marko szigete a Krk-sziget és a szárazföld között fekszik. Hosszúsága 1,5 km, legnagyobb szélessége 1 km. Legnagyobb magassága 102 m. A sziget háromszög alakú, gerince északnyugatról délkeletre emelkedik, a legmagasabb pontja a Glava a híd felett található. Az északi Brodac-fokon világítótorony áll, a nyugati szorosban Omišalj felé pedig az alacsony Selehovac-sziget található. A keleti és délnyugati part meredek és megközelíthetetlen, északnyugati része sík és könnyebben hozzáférhető. A sziget ma csaknem lakatlan, egyetlen állandó lakossága a híd őrsége. Rajtuk kívül csak néhány halász és turista lakik itt időszakosan.

Története
A szigetet még nem kutatták régészetileg. Vannak olyan vélemények, hogy az őskorban lakott volt. Egyes szerzők az ókorban létező épületeket említik, amelyeket a középkorig használtak. A víztároló a sziget legtetején volt, ahonnan a lakókat vízzel ellátták. Az épület összeomlott falai alatt található egyes leletek arra utalnak, hogy ezek egy csatorna maradványai lehetnek. Feltételezik, hogy létezett öntözőrendszer is. A szigetet az ókorban Almisnak hívták. I. e. 49-ben Krk szigetét blokád alá vonták, és közelében tengeri csata folyt a Pompeius és Julius Caesar között vívott polgárháborúban. Caesar veszített, de Pompeius két évvel később a Hvar melletti Scedra-sziget közelében vívott csatában teljes vereséget szenvedett.

A sziget korábban fontos stratégiai pont volt, mert a sziget tetejéről jól belátható a környező tenger. Déli részén egy Justinianus korából származó bizánci erőd és egy Aranyszájú Szent János templom maradványai találhatók. A sziget másik templomát Szent Mártonnak szentelték és mindkét templom az erőd területén volt. A bizánci erőd a 6. század közepéről származik, és a sziget gerince alatt helyezkedik el. Magának a fellegvárnak az alakja hosszúkás volt, követte a terepalakzatokat, és Krk szigetének kapuja volt, amely a szárazföldi támadások ellen védte a szigetet. A 16. századig a castrum egy része obszervatóriumként szolgálta a velenceieket.

A bencéseknek a sziget délnyugati részén voltak birtokai. A velencei közigazgatás számára egy velencei erődöt építettek, amelynek állandó személyzete volt. Nekik épült a Szent Márk templom. A velenceiek 1480-tól birtokolták a szigetet. A velenceiek az uszkók háborúban innét ellenőrizték a zenggi uszkókok hajóinak forgalmát, így egyetlen hajó sem tudott észrevétlenül hajózni. A szigeten az 1617-es madridi béke után már nem szolgált katonaság, ezt követően a Szent Miklós apátságé lett. Az apátság a tulajdonában lévő szigetet helyi lakosoknak adta bérbe legeltetés céljából. A szigetet többen használták a Krk-sziget vagy a közeli szárazföldi partszakasz meghódítására, így az olasz költő és politikus Gabriele D'Annunzio is, aki lelkes híveivel 1919-ben átkelve a Sveti Marko-szigeten bevonult Krk szigetére. A Krk-híd megépítésének szükségessége miatt számos robbantás történt, ami jelentősen megváltoztatta a sziget formáját. A szigetecske egy részét pontosan azon a helyen "vágták le", ahol az erőd romjai voltak láthatók, amelyek így végleg eltűntek. A bizánci erődből ma csak a sziget legmagasabb pontján levő maradványok láthatók.

Növény- és állatvilág
A sziget merdek lejtőkkel rendelkező felső gerince többnyire csupasz és sziklás, ritka fűvel borított, míg az alacsony északnyugati part mentén már több, félig örökzöld cserje található. E sziget különleges növényvilágában három ritka növényi endémia tűnik ki: a márk szeplőlapu (Cerinthe smithiae), a fiumei szenéció (Senecio fluminensis) és a fiumei bábakalács (Carlina fiumensis). A sziget tele van gyógynövényekkel, amelyek a múltban kiváló alapot adtak a juhok legeltetéséhez, melyek még ma is megtalálhatók a szigeten.

A Sirályok-barlangja
A szigeten a világítótorony közelében található a Sirályok-barlangja (Galebova špilja). A környék lakói előtt régóta ismert, hogy a szigeten van egy nagy barlang, ahol sok sirály található. A barlangnak két bejárata van, melyeket fák és cserjék takarnak, de furcsa növésük elárulja a barlang bejáratának helyzetét. Az egyik bejárat után a barlang járhatatlan, szinte teljesen függőleges, ezért nehéz felszerelés nélkül bejutni. A másikon be lehet jutni, mert lejtős, de felszerelés nélkül így sem ajánlott tovább haladni. Óvatosan kell leereszkedni. 15 méterrel a felszín alatt már világításra van szükség. Itt egy öt méteres mélyedés következik, amelynek alján egy kis kamra található.

Források
Hrvatska enciklopedija – Sveti Marko

Fordítás

Horvátország szigetei

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For example, her piece Valance draws upon the history of glass architecture. This lighted glass sculpture incorporates plant patterns etched directly into the surface. The viewer's reflection merges with the transparent structure, itself a meditation on inside and outside. Her family's farm in Michigan, a historic site where botanists developed hybrid species of apples and cherries, is largely responsible for her plant-based references. Valance was first shown in 2014 at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Richards holds Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Science degrees in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning where she now teaches. She is a co-founder of the art collective Hark + Hark, with Anh Tran. Hark + Hark created an installation for Marchon Eyewear in New York City, that traveled to Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo in 2016 and is now in the company's permanent collection.
Eva Kwong's exhibition of ceramics will include free-standing sculpture and sculptural wall installations made from many elements referencing biological sources such as bacteria, diatoms and cells. Smaller pieces reflect her personal interpretation of the traditional vase form. Working in the material of clay, Kwong explores a philosophical connection to the union of opposites.
Eva Kwong's work is included in numerous collections internationally including the Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Finnish Craft Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Janet Mansfield Collection, Mansfield Ceramics, Gulgong, Australia; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Shigaraki Park Ceramic Museum, Shigaraki, Japan and Fule International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, China.
Kwong received an MFA in Ceramics and Drawing from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 1977 and a BFA in Ceramics and Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975.
References to the macrocosms and microcosms of the natural world abound in the woven paintings of Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson. Painting on silk threads in a process related to ikat, her imagery is loosely based on landscape photographs of her native Iceland. The sources are often close-up images of lichen, but they also abstractly allude to larger swaths of land and sky. By painting with industrial dyes on the detached warp (vertical) threads of her works, attaching these dyed threads to a large-scale loom and weaving in the weft (horizontal) threads, she creates slightly off register, shimmering woven paintings that suggest expansive space rather than any literal sense of place.
Jonsson has received numerous grants, commissions and awards including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2015 Award, the Cleveland Art Prize in 2008, four fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and a public commission from the Hilton Hotel Convention Center, Cleveland in 2016. Her work is included in many collections such as The Cleveland Art Museum, Reykjavik Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, Progressive Insurance Collection and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Solo shows include Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York; TANG Museum, Saratoga, New York; Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; and MOCA Cleveland. She was also included in the 2015 group exhibition, Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.
Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1963 and still maintains a home there. She resides in Cleveland, Ohio for much of the year and makes annual visits to Iceland to gather more source material for her paintings. She received MFA and BFA degrees from Kent State University in 1995 and 1991 respectively. She earlier studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the architecture program of Kent State University.


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ТЕС Махмудія — теплова електростанція на півночі Єгипту, розташована за 50 км на південний схід від другого за величиною міста країни Александрії.

ТЕС у складі восьми газових турбін виробництва компанії General Electric потужністю по 25 МВт ввели в експлуатацію у 1983 році. Вона стала однією з трьох (нарівні з ТЕС Тальха та ТЕС El-Seiuf) газотурбінних станцій потужністю 200 МВт, споруджених у дельті Нілу після початку розробки першого єгипетського офшорного газового родовища Абу-Маді. ТЕС Махмудія використовувала для охолодження воду одного з рукавів дельти та, окрім газу, могла працювати на нафтопродуктах.

У середині 1990-х станцію доповнили двома паровими турбінами потужністю по 59 МВт, кожна з яких живилась від чотирьох котлів-утилізаторів, які в свою чергу отримували енергію після газових турбін. Таким чином створили два блоки комбінованого парогазового циклу, що істотно підвищує паливну ефективність роботи. Можливо відзначити, що ТЕС Махумудія стала одним з трьох об'єктів, де провели подібну модернізацію нарівні зі згаданою вище Тальха та ТЕС Даманхур.

Станом на осінь 2017 року внаслідок зносу обладнання потужність введених у 20-му столітті газових турбін зменшилась з 25 до 21 МВт, а парових з 59 до 50 МВт.

У 2015 році станцію доповнили двома газовими турбінами компанії Ansaldo типу AE94.2 потужністю по 168 МВт, встановленими на роботу у відкритому циклі. В подальшому планується створити на їхній основі парогазовий блок потужністю 480 МВт.

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Q: How to implement freestanding operators for a nested class template I want to define freestanding operators (op==, op<, etc.) for my iterator class, but I'm struggling with the proper syntax:
template<class A>
class Container {
public:
    template<class B>
    class Iterator {
    public:
        explicit Iterator(B value) : value_(value) {};
        friend bool operator==(const Iterator& lhs, const Iterator& rhs);
    private:
        A value_;
    };
};

// Fails to compile:
template<class A>
template<class B>
bool operator==(const typename Container<A>::Iterator<B>& lhs, const typename Container<A>::template Iterator<B>& rhs) {
    return lhs.value_ == rhs.value_;
}

Container<int>::Iterator<double> it1{42.0};
Container<int>::Iterator<double> it2{42.0};
assert(it1 == it2);

A: First things first, the declaration for the operator== that you have(inside the class) is for a non-member nontemplate operator. So you can't implement it the way you're doing outside the class.
There are different ways of solving this.
Method 1
One way to solve this is by making the overloaded operator== a template and defining it inside the class as shown below. Note that the operator== is still a non-member.
Also note the use of typename and template keyword to tell the compiler that Iterator is a type and a template. This is also explained here.
template<typename A>
struct Container{
    template<class B>
    class Iterator {
    public:
        explicit Iterator(B value) : value_(value) {};
        //definition for a nonmember template version
        //------------------vvv-------------vvv-------->default arguments used
        template<typename U = A, typename V = B>
        //---------------------------vvvvvvvv---------->typename used here
        friend bool operator==(const typename Container<U>::template Iterator<V>& lhs,
                               const typename Container<U>::template Iterator<V>& rhs)
        //--------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^------------------>template used here
        {
            return lhs.value_ == rhs.value_;;
        }
    private:
        B value_;
    };
};

Container<int>::Iterator<double> it1{42.0}, it2{42.0};

int main()
{

    assert(it1 == it2);
}

Working demo.
Method 2
Second option is to keep the opearator== as a nontemplate as shown below:
template<typename A>
struct Container{
    template<class B>
    class Iterator {
    public:
        explicit Iterator(B value) : value_(value) {};

        //declaration for a nonmember nontemplate version
        //---------------------------vvvvvvvv------------------------------------------>typename used here
        friend bool operator==(const typename Container<A>::template Iterator<B>& lhs,
                               const typename Container<A>::template Iterator<B>& rhs);
        //--------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^------------------>template used here

    private:
        B value_;
    };
};
//implement the nonmember nontemplate version
bool operator==(const Container<int>::Iterator<double>&lhs, const Container<int>::Iterator<double>&rhs)
{
    return lhs.value_ == rhs.value_;
}

Container<int>::Iterator<double> it1{42.0}, it2{42.0};

int main()
{

    assert(it1 == it2);
}

Working demo.

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#color-picker, #color-picker .label { -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px #000; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 5px #000; background-color:#000; border:1px solid #333 }
#color-picker a { text-indent:-9999px; display:block; float:left; margin:5px; outline:none }
#color-picker a.color { width:20px; height:20px }
#color-picker a.skin { width:51px; height:51px }
#color-picker .label { padding:10px; cursor:pointer; background:#000 url("../images/icons/gear32.png") no-repeat scroll center; width: 32px; height: 32px; display: block; text-indent: -99999px; outline: medium none; position: absolute; right: -53px; top:-1px !important; border-left:0 }
#color-picker h5 { font-weight:bold; color:#fff; margin:0.8em 0 0.8em 0.3em; font-size:16px; }
.colorpicker { z-index:10000; }

/* colors */
#color-picker a.blue    { background-color:#1f5785 }
#color-picker a.brown   { background-color:#714f40 }
#color-picker a.green   { background-color:#99a114 }
#color-picker a.grey    { background-color:#AFAFAE }
#color-picker a.pink    { background-color:#8e5b95 }
#color-picker a.red     { background-color:#b91003 }
#color-picker a.orange  { background-color:#ce8107 }
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Q: Read a XML tree structure recursively in a List I have an XML file with besides other things the following structure.
<start something="1">
    <into intoSomething="1">
    <node nodeAtt="1">
        <thisChanges change="1"/>
    </node>
    <node nodeAtt="1">
        <thisChanges change="1"/>
    </node>
    <start something="1">
        <node nodeAtt="1">
            <thisChanges change="1"/>
        </node>
        <node nodeAtt="1">
            <thisChanges change="1"/>
        </node>
        <start something="1">
            <node nodeAtt="1">
                <thisChanges change="1"/>
            </node>
            <node nodeAtt="1">
                <thisChanges change="1"/>
            </node>
        </start>
        <node nodeAtt="1">
            <thisChanges change="1"/>
        </node>
        <node nodeAtt="1">
            <thisChanges change="1"/>
        </node>
    </start>
    <node nodeAtt="1">
        <thisChanges change="1"/>
    </node>
    <node nodeAtt="1">
        <thisChanges change="1"/>
    </node>
</start>

What would be the best method to read those into a List recursively in .net? There are other things in the XML file too but I will deal with those parts separately. I also want to just parse everything inside "node" into a string instead of reading its attributes.
Thanks in advance.

A: This calls for a Composite pattern.
http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternComposite.aspx#_self1
Doing it with a list would require T to be some type that can be either another list or a node.
As for reading it in have you heard of the DOM?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hf9hbf87%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
It basically parses the xml into a data structure for you.  So you might be reinventing the wheel here.

A: The way i would recommend is to implement IEnumerable<T> on an instance. The implementation would walk the tree in your xml and builds the node instances you are interested it.
Then just call ToList on it.
XDocument xmlFile = //use whatever source you like, doesnt even need to be an XDocument
TreeWalker walker = new TreeWalker(xmlfile);
var list = walker.ToList();

If you do use an XDocument, a really easy way to get all the node elements is XDocument.Descendants(XName). This will do all the 'tree walking' for you.


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Women have it hard. Jobs and stability are often more elusive for them, but not everyone has a choice. These women had to get beyond that by any means necessary… but the reasons why are tragic.
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2. The promoter is Kubota Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 72 005 300 621) of 25-29 Permas Way, Truganina VIC 3029, telephone (03) 9394 4400 ("Promoter").
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Notification of Winners
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Unclaimed Prize Draw (If Any)
28. If a prize is won by an Eligible Entrant and they do not claim their prize by 11:00am AEST on 10 April 2017, a random electronic re-draw will be conducted at 12 noon AEST on that date at the Draw Location by a representative of the Promoter from all remaining entries received in the promotion, subject to any directions from the relevant state/territory gaming authorities.
29. Unclaimed prize draw winner/s, if any, will be notified by phone and via mail or email and the Major Prize unclaimed prize draw winner, if any, will have their name and postcode published in "The Australian" newspaper on 05 May 2017.
30. Eligible Entrants may win a limit of one (1) prize in the promotion (excluding residents of South Australia).
31. All costs associated or arising in connection with the prizes are the responsibility of the respective prize winner.
32. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any variation in the value of the prizes from the time of printing promotion materials.
33. In the event of any breach of these terms and conditions the Promoter reserves the right to refuse entry to this promotion and/or disqualify the entrant in question from any further participation in this promotion, and/or disqualify any entry and the Promoter's decision is final.
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35. If for any reason any aspect of this promotion is not capable of running as planned, including by reason of infection by damage to the website, computer virus, mobile network failure, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures, vandalism, natural disasters, acts of God, strikes, acts of terror or any cause beyond the control of the Promoter which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this promotion, the Promoter may in its sole discretion cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this promotion, or invalidate any affected entries, subject to the approval of relevant state/territory gaming authorities where required.
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Intellectual Property & Privacy
37. Entrants acknowledge that all intellectual property rights in this promotion belong to the Promoter.
38. Each entrant warrants that their entry complies with the terms and conditions of this promotion, and does not infringe any third party intellectual property rights or any Australian law.
39. Any personal information collected about entrants will be used in accordance with the Promoter's Privacy Policy available at available at http://www.kubota.com.au/privacy-policy/ The privacy policy details how a privacy complaint can be made. If an entrant does not provide their personal information, the Promoter will not be able to enter that entrant in this promotion.
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istock/ktsimageHot peppers are the unofficial superfood we all need. They help you lose weight, jumpstart metabolism, and stimulate endorphins as a proven aphrodisiac. And based on a new study, they harness one more superpower: immortality.


Every Monday morning, Crazie Talk culls Duke basketball news, articles, and videos into a half dozen of the best "Deviled Eggs" on the interwebs. They're back, and they're better than ever!
Duke likes Austin Rivers. Austin Rivers likes Duke. Let's make this happen.
How hysterical would it be for all of his haters if Greg Paulus made an NFL roster? And that too, the reigning Super Bowl champions? The kid is alarmingly unathletic. Oh wait.
UPDATE: Greg impressed the Saints coaching staff enough to earn a chance to compete with former Mizzou QB Chase Daniel and Saints 7th round pick Sean Canfield for a spot on the roster (behind the pre-eminent Drew Brees). Congrats to Greg, and good luck GP2!
Obviously Duke won big with Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler choosing to return for their senior years. But more than a few teams returned key contributors to already solid teams, most notably Purdue and Michigan State. National runner-up Butler did lose out on its brightest star in Gordon Hayward, but the Dec. 4th rematch of the two finalists should be more than entertaining.
Michigan State a potential ACC/B10 foe?
Duke is due for a home matchup in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Izzo says it's 'probable' that he and his pre-season number two team in the country will be making a trip to Durham, and we agree. But with the return of Purdue's JaJuan Johnson there's also the possibility of playing Purdue. Regardless, Duke will be playing a fellow top three team this fall in the one and only Cameron Indoor Stadium. It should be fantastic.
UPDATE: We will play MSU according to Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports. Bring it on, Sparty.
The first three time winner of the NBA Sportsmanship Award has made every one of his coaches and teammates gush about him. After a sixteen years in the league, Grant has finally made it to Western Conference Finals with the red hot Phoenix Suns. Here's to hoping Grant can add to his already abundant collection of finger jewelry.
This is absolutely hysterical, but watch out for some profane language. DUI and NdotSmitty are a match made in heaven.
Thanks, Josh! We'll have more on Austin and all of our recruits in the next few weeks. The future is bright.


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are of a complicated order; some depend upon its position in space, others
are mixed up with the history of the same race and population in relation
with other races.
(iv.) All the characters of a human variety or race persist as long as
its mesological adaptation lasts. They vary with the modification of its
conditions of life. Hence, the displacements in space, whether forced or
voluntary, and the relations with other races are the causes of the modifications
and transformations to which ethnic types are subjected in historic times,
deduction being made for the slower effects of physical and geographical
changes. (v.) There is a hierarchy of the human varieties and races, whether from
the static point of view of their morphology and psychology, or from the
dynamic point of view of their predominance and their dissolution in
mixed unions. It is always the races strongest biologically and most
evolved psychologically which impress their characters upon the descendants
of these unions. This fact renders difficult the formation of truly mongrel
or hybrid races. The metamorphosis of ethnic types is understood in a
very restricted sense.
(vi.) A certain degree of difference amongst the parent varieties or
races is necessary for the vitality and the prosperity of mixed or metamorphic
populations : nevertheless, too great a difference, besides rendering unions
more difficult for moral rather than for physical reasons, proves always
injurious to the descendants as much in physique as in mind.
(vii.) Mixed unions exert the same influences upon the mental characters
of race as can be observed in bodily characters : (a) In the descendants will
be found the same mixture of the capacities aptitudes and psychical tendencies
of the parent races; (b) a combination may occur of the same characters
with the formation of intermediate mental qualities : (c) there are sometimes
psychical racial qualities which become " dominant " according to the well-
known " law of Mendel."
(viii.) Every race, people, and nation, being the product of an adapta
tion, whether through the action of external factors, or in consequence of
its historic vicissitudes, all ethnic groupings develop, live, prosper, and dis
appear according to the same laws which regulate the fortunes of other
living beings; all have their destiny marked out by the stage to which they
have attained in the psycho-physical hierarchy of man.
(ix.) It is needful that every race, or population, or nation, when it has
acquired the consciousness and the feeling for its own distinctive characters
and of the part which awaits it in the development of universal civilisation,
should contemplate the preservation of its own ethnic type. The differentia
tion of peoples is one of the causes, if however not the chief cause, of
progress in human evolution.
(x.) The Science of Eugenics, which has for its chief end the establish
ment of means for bringing the species to perfection, ought not to look only
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China Regime's Tough Talk Against US Is to Mask Its Fragility: Sen. Marsha Blackburn (CPAC-Texas)
By Brendon Fallon
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"The Chinese would push as far as they can to steal your intellectual property until you slap their hands, and you call them out on it," Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said of her past encounters with the Chinese regime.
This tendency to violate and exploit unceasingly until its hand gets slapped is reflected in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) human rights abuses and its behavior in relation to the pandemic. But in these cases, its hand has yet to be slapped.
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Polly Toynbee (The powerful invisibles at the heart of the Tory party, 5 May) refers to the "deep chasm" that divides our society. The consequences of that chasm in my community are profoundly distressing. I never thought I would see shanties being erected or families staying in sheds and garages just to put a roof over their children's heads. I didn't think that people would be going hungry or would have to rely on charity to eat, but so many in my town now do. And how wrong I was when I believed the days of landlords evicting families to increase the rent or for simply complaining about the damp were over.
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• It is understandable that Caroline Lucas would urge readers to vote Green (Letters, 5 May). However, what she has not said is that a vote for the Green party will do little to bring about an ambitious global agreement to tackle climate change. Within months of the polls closing on Thursday, world leaders will gather in Paris at the conference of parties to adopt an agreement that must set the world on a path towards limiting global temperature increases to two degrees. That agreement can be negotiated only by the next prime minister. If Caroline Lucas goes to Paris it will be to protest, not to negotiate.
The real choice, therefore, is between David Cameron, who long ago abandoned his promise to lead the "greenest government ever" and has taken to referring to environmental policies as "green crap"; and Ed Miliband, who, as secretary of state for climate change, brought in the first national piece of legislation in the world to set legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions (an approach that is now being replicated around the world) and, as leader, has committed to making climate change one of the highest priorities for a Labour government.
The important point for voters to bear in mind is that it will be the next prime minister, not the Green party, who will be negotiating on behalf of the UK in December. Miliband has committed a Labour government to pushing for an ambitious agreement in Paris, with a goal of net-zero global emissions in the second half of this century. The best way, therefore, for voters to tell world leaders that they support urgent and ambitious action to tackle climate change is to elect a Labour government.
• As the election campaign commenced I was far from undecided (Floating voters: unsure, but definitely not unprincipled, 1 May). I even wrote to our Labour candidate, saying that with Labour willing to spend millions on ways to use nuclear weapons and intending to continue much of the coalition's policy of austerity, I would follow my conscience and vote Green. After closely watching the campaign I became a "don't know". More recently, the dread of living through another five years while a Conservative/Lib-Dem coalition destroys what's left of our welfare state, or of seeing a Conservative government march alongside Ukip, has made the idea of feeding my conscience seem a selfish reason for casting a wasted vote. I'll take a deep breath and do what I think is best and vote Labour.
• Like Gaby Hinsliff I am a floating voter. I don't agree with Tory plans to have more free schools, but I want an EU referendum; I agree with Labour's plans to stop the exploitation of immigrant workers, but disagree with their manifesto commitment to abolish zero-hours contracts. In the end it will come down to trust. Being a floating voter is a perfectly honourable position to take in an election, because it implies a free-thinking open mind. Political conviction should not be confused with a religious belief, where hallowed shibboleths cannot be challenged.
• The otherwise admirable Caroline Lucas misrepresents the electoral realities when she states that people need to vote Green in order for Green representation at Westminster to continue (Letters, 5 May). In 99% of constituencies, progressives wasting their votes on the Greens risk ending up with a Conservative MP and potentially another five years of Cameron, Osborne and Clegg.
• Pace Mandy Rice-Davies, but Caroline Lucas would say that to get Greens, you need to vote Green. She argues: "Greens have been clear that we would never prop up a Tory government", but that is just what Green voters did in 10 constituencies in 2010. For the last five years Tory MPs have been sitting on the coalition benches representing the constituencies of Broxtowe, Camborne and Redruth, Hendon, Hove, Brighton Kemptown, Lancaster and Fleetwood, Newton Abbot, Oxford West and Abingdon, Stroud, Truro and Falmouth and Waveney. Each of them defeated the incumbent party with majorities lower than the Green vote. Who knows, 10 fewer Tories, six more Labour and four more Lib Dems might have changed the arithmetic that begat the premiership of David Cameron.
• The talk now seems to be of deals and "red lines". For undecideds, here's the only line to consider on Thursday. It's the inequality line. Step over one side and you'll be with those who support the underprivileged. A step on the other side lines you up with the privileged and their people. All else – NHS, education, welfare, taxation, justice – flows from this.
• Please no more dubious "red lines" from Nick Clegg (Nick Clegg: we would prevent Tory cuts or reduce Labour's deficit, 28 April). He's crossed more "yellow lines" than I thought possible in the last five years. And now the reality is that he has all but completely aligned himself with a Conservative party that is sleepwalking its way to European Union exit, has threatened to withdraw from the European convention on human rights and seems hell-bent on pushing Scotland towards independence for short-term political gain. An unimaginable position for the Lib Dems before 2010.
For every step forward created by the Lib Dems in government over the last five years, there have been three steps back for the progressive cause in this country. You have to choose a side in big arguments – Europe, human rights, core public services – and the Lib Dem leadership keeps choosing the wrong side.
To be fair I was always more interested in a progressive realignment than being a tribal Liberal Democrat, but writing this saddens me all the same.


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The RM4 capsule is similar to the capsule of the RM2J. It is manufactured in Germany, presumably by Haun/MBHO.


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As you'll see below, Google has been VERY busy this week (of course, it seems that major announcements from Mountain View have been coming out more and more regularly over the past year). This week's Weekly Roundup should give you a good send off to your Memorial Day weekend festivities, with a whole slew of things to think about regarding your own PPC accounts.
On Tuesday, Google announced the launch of a new Auction Insights report that gives advertisers insight into who competes in the same auctions they do and other metrics. The data is provided at the keyword level and includes impression share, average position, overlap rate, and more. Pretty cool.
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Search Engine Roundtable's article Google AdWords Account Audit reminds us that Google can audit third party AdWords management companies at any time as of last April. Barry Schwartz references a discussion at a forum thread at Webmaster World. If you've been audited, please share your experience in the comments section.
Barry is also over at Search Engine Land this week talking about the "1,246,713 removal requests from 24,129 different target domains of 1,296 copyright owners by 1,087 reporting organizations" in the article Google Asked to Take Down Over 1.2 Million URLs Last Month from Search Results.
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registrations is an ArrayList of EventRegistration objects,
each EventRegistration contains an ArrayList of FormField objects,
FormField contains attributes for fieldLabel and fieldValue
In my example I have 32 entries in registrations, in each registration, there are two FormFields in the ArrayList.
When the accordion panel displays, you can open each tab up in turn and the correct values for the fieldValue attributes is displayed, however when the Save button is pressed, the setFieldValue method of the first FormField object of the first registration gets called 32 timesset (once for each registration in the list) so that the  field value gets progressively replaced by the relevant fieldValue for each registration and ends up with the fieldValue of the last registration.
I added the f:ajax after the inputText to see what happened when the field was changed, this worked as expected when focus left the field.
What am I missing?
PF 5.3, faces 2.2.8-10, Java 7


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Q: Deleting items witht the same index from multiple lists inside a dictionary I have a dictionary consisting of lists, for example
mydict={}

mydict['a']=[1,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]

mydict['b']=[2,4,5,6,8,7,5,4,5,6,7]

mydict['c']=[4,5,6,4,6,8,4,3,5,8,7]

Now say that if in 'a' the value is 0, I want to delete the item with that index from every list in the libraby. So for the first 0 that would be removing 0 from 'a', 4 from 'b' and 5 from 'c', for the second 0: 0 from 'a', 5 from 'b' and 6 from 'c' etc.
I've been trying to do this in many different ways, but I just do not manage to find the right way. Does anyone know how to do this? Would be great!

A: Using itertools.compress:
>>> import itertools
>>>
>>> mydict={}
>>> mydict['a']=[1,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]
>>> mydict['b']=[2,4,5,6,8,7,5,4,5,6,7]
>>> mydict['c']=[4,5,6,4,6,8,4,3,5,8,7]
>>> #            ^       ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
>>> mask = mydict['a']
>>> for key, value in mydict.items():
...     mydict[key] = list(itertools.compress(value, mask))
...
>>> mydict
{'a': [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], 'c': [4, 6, 8, 4, 3, 5], 'b': [2, 8, 7, 5, 4, 5]}

A: Simple loop approach:
index = mydict['a'].index(0)

for value in mydict.values():
    del value[index]

but that removes only one item.
For multiple items:
indices = {i for i, v in enumerate(mydict['a']) if v == 0}
mydict = {k: [x for i, x in enumerate(v) if i not in indices]
          for k, v in mydict.items()}

Use dictionary.iteritems() when using Python 2.
Using itertools.compress() supporting arbitrary values:
from itertools import compress

value_to_remove = 0
mask = [v != value_to_remove for v in mydict['a']]
value_to_remove = 0
mydict = {k: list(compress(v, mask)) for k, v in mydict.items()}

A: Here is one possible solution:
mydict={}

mydict['a']=[1,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]

mydict['b']=[2,4,5,6,8,7,5,4,5,6,7]

mydict['c']=[4,5,6,4,6,8,4,3,5,8,7]

toRemove = [i for i,x in enumerate(mydict['a']) if x == 0]

for key in mydict.keys():
    mydict[key] = [x for i,x in enumerate(mydict[key]) if i not in toRemove]

print(mydict)

>>>{'a': [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], 'c': [4, 6, 8, 4, 3, 5], 'b': [2, 8, 7, 5, 4, 5]}

Assuming you also want to remove 0s from the 'a' list. If not adding a simple condition will help.
Alternatively, even more concise but less readable approach:
mydict = {key:[x for i,x in enumerate(value) if i not in indices]
          for key, value in mydict.iteritems()}