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Also in today's roundup, Kirby and Stoney take home awards, and Huerta named NWSL Player of the Week.
The Washington Spirit will take on the Portland Thorns at Audi Field, the brand-new home of DC United, on August 25, reports Steven Goff of the Washington Post. The 20,000-seat stadium is scheduled to open on July 14, replacing the aging RFK Stadium, and is located in southwest Washington, DC. In contrast, the Maryland SoccerPlex, which the Spirit have called home since the NWSL's opening day, has a capacity of only 5,200 and is located 30 miles outside of DC.
DC United has played at the SoccerPlex on numerous occasions for US Open Cup matches, and the venue made its MLS debut earlier this year when DC United hosted the Houston Dynamo for their 2018 home opener.
The Spirit are 1-2-1 for the year, sitting in fifth place with four points. They host the Chicago Red Stars this Saturday at the SoccerPlex.
Kirby and Stoney nab PFA awards
Honoured to be the first recipient of this award, against some of the best players not only in the country but the world. Thank you to all those who had voted for me, and to the @theofficialfwa for introducing a women's award, shows how far women's football has come. ☺⚽ https://t.co/H6w1UeaZ2J
— Fran Kirby (@frankirby) April 24, 2018
The Professional Footballer's Association, the world's longest established professional sportsperson's union, located in the UK, held their annual PFA Awards banquet yesterday, and Casey Stoney and Fran Kirby took home big awards.
Stoney, a centurion and former captain of England's women's national soccer team, was given a Special Achievement Award. The former defender retired in February and now assists Phil Neville in coaching the England WNT. She won numerous domestic cups with Charlton Athletic Ladies, and served for one season as a player-manager of Chelsea Ladies. Internationally, Stoney appeared in six major international tournaments and captained Team Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics.
Fran Kirby was named the women's Players' Player of the Year. The striker scored Chelsea Ladies' first ever Champions League goal, in October 2015, and has been with the squad ever since. Chelsea is currently in the semifinals of this year's Champions League, having dropped a 1-3 decision to Wolfsburg in the first leg. Internationally, Kirby made her first appearance for England's senior team in 2014 and scored in both the 2015 World Cup and the 2017 Euros.
Additionally, Kirby was named the first-ever Women's Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers Association, a UK-based, soccer-focused media association. She won over half of the vote with the Reign's Jodie Taylor, a former Arsenal player, coming in second. Kirby has scored 22 goals for Chelsea in FAWSL competitions this year, leading them to the top of the table and next week's final of the 2018 Women's FA Cup.
Huerta named Player of the Week
✌ goals in 2⃣ games, plus 6 shots on goal and 4 chances created. @schuerta was everywhere for @chiredstarsPR in Week 4, and is the Player of the Week as voted by @NWSLmedia! pic.twitter.com/3Jjd5Fx8lO
— NWSL (@NWSL) April 24, 2018
Sofia Huerta has been named the Week 4 Player of the Week by the NWSL Media Association. The Red Stars forward dominated the midweek game against Houston, scoring the third goal after several strong attempts. She put in a solid performance as well in Saturday's 1-1 draw against Sky Blue FC, kicking off the scoring in the very first minute of play. It was the second-fastest Red Stars goal and fifth-fastest NWSL goal ever. Huerta has been everywhere for the Red Stars this season, stepping up in the absence of some of the team's biggest stars, and appears well on her way to a Best XI campaign. She is tied for second in the league for goals scored with two, tied for first in the league with two assists, and is fourth on shots with 11. In five games, Chicago has picked up eight points and sits in second place.
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The family was locked up in an astral plane, and it quickly emerged that Hope was the one behind it, while Freya helped her out.
The family had to bring keys to the door to move on to the next chapter.
It helped them all get to grips with the past, and we learned that Hayley was keeping up to speed with Klaus while she was apart from him.
We also learned that Elijah had a hand in picking Hope's name.
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Against All Odds - Ballerina Michaela DePrince's Remarkable Journey
Michaela Mabinty DePrince is a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer. With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, Michaela authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina. She rose to fame after starring in the documentary First Position in 2011, following her and other young ballet dancers as they prepared to compete at the Youth America Grand Prix. She formerly danced with the Dance Theatre of Harlem as the youngest dancer in the history of the company and currently dances as a soloist for the Dutch National Ballet.
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Proud Dad Defends Son's Cruella de Vil Halloween Costume
Liam is a talented 9-year-old with a passion for the arts and theater.
The talented dancer has two dads, a twin sister and an older sister. Every Halloween, Liam loves to go all out in creating his very own costumes. "He takes part in designing and drawing them out," his father, Will, told The Gaily Grind. "We encourage him to do what he wants. He's a kid and halloween is a great creative outlet." The last few Halloweens, he has chosen a not so traditional boy's costume. He has been a Black Swan, Cleopatra, Medusa and this year, he was Cruella de Vil.
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Writing over at Bloomberg Businesweek, Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking out publicly for the first time about his sexual orientation.
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"While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me".
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Please light a candle in memory of anyone you know who has been struck down by Cancer or is still living with it. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle but it certainly helps create awareness of the disease and the need to fight back.
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Michael Phelps: Role Model for Future Athlets
American swimmer Michael Phelps swam his final Olympic race on Saturday August 4, 2012, winning his 18th gold and 22nd overall medal with his United States teammates in the the 4x100 medley relay. Young swimmers and athlets will be looking at Michael Phelps as the greatest olympian of all times. Let's take a look at 22 facts about Michael Phelps' 22 career Olympic medals.
1. Only eight countries have won as many gold medals in London as Phelps.
2. Michael Phelps won his first Olympic medal in 2004. His 18 golds since the Athens Games would rank 12th overall for all nations, ahead of Olympic powers like Romania, Poland, the Netherlands, Cuba and Spain.
3. Speaking of the Spanish, with tennis powers, World Cup champions and Tour de France winners, the nation is generally thought of as a world leader in athletics. Phelps has 10 more golds than Spain since 2004.
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ASHENVEIL Featuring SYMPHONY X Bassist: New Video To Be Filmed This Month
ASHENVEIL, the new "ambitious" female-fronted metal band out of New Jersey featuring OPERATIKA drummer Yuri Liakhovitch and SYMPHONY X bassist Mike LePond, will film a video for one of the songs of their upcoming debut album, "Black Of Light", on June 16 in Hightstown, New Jersey. The clip will be shot by an established videographer and scenes will involve a crowd.
Any interested parties who would like to participate and be in the video, please send an e-mail to ashenveilinfo@gmail.com.
"Black Of Light" was mixed by Jeremy Krull (DARK EMPIRE) and is currently being mastered at Finnvox studios (NIGHTWISH, CHILDREN OF BODOM) in Helsinki, Finland. A late June release is expected.
Described by LePond as "heavy metal-sounding BLACKMORE'S NIGHT," ASHENVEIL was formed in the summer of 2009 when a group of friends met up for a jamming session. They clicked and the chemistry between the players was obvious to all. At that point, the songwriting process began and the direction of the band was musically defined and established. Eager for great things to happen, after a series of extensive rehearsals, the band — under its former name, TRACE OF EMPTINESS — performed several shows locally to get their foot in the door, gain exposure and start building the fan base. However, it wasn't until singer and songwriter Christine Greenwood joined in March 2010 to take over the vocal duties that the band was able to maximize its potential and reach the point where "only sky was the limit." With Christine's unique voice handling operatic soprano or alto singing styles, modified and tailored for each individual song, the band went on to record its first demo that was completed by the end of April 2010. After a series of lineup changes, Rich Fischer on the guitar joined the band in 2011 and brought much-needed technicality and versatility to complete the band's unique and multidimensional sound.
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Rebecca Aris interviews pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer patient Lindsey Miller on what it's like to live with the disease at such a young age.
Lindsey Miller is only 27 and suffers from pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are very rare and relatively slow growing, but for Lindsey, who was diagnosed just after her 25th birthday, the tumor had spread from her pancreas to both lobes of her liver by the time she was diagnosed.
Whilst there is no cure for Lindsey's disorder there are many treatment options such as surgery and radiation treatment.
'With cancer', Lindsey explains, 'there are generally only two categories of living patients: those in treatment (patients) and those who have finished treatment (survivors).' As Lindsey doesn't fit into either category she has made up a new one – 'i am a liver', which is the title of her blog.
Lindsey famously invited celebrity Joseph Gordon-Levitt out on a date by posting a video on her blog, a move which gained over 400,000 views on YouTube and an abundance of media attention.
Here she speaks with pharmaphorum on her experience as a patient and the areas of unmet need for patients with neuroendocrine cancer.
RA: Lindsey thanks very much for joining me today. Can you start by giving me a bit of a background and explain how you came to be a vocal e-patient?
LM: I started out with my blog about a year after I was diagnosed as a way to tell people who didn't already know that I had cancer. Because I didn't have typical chemo during my first year of having cancer, nobody knew that I had cancer unless I told them.
It was also therapeutic, because I hadn't written much about my cancer. It was therapeutic to write it all down and then get feedback from people. A few months after I started my blog my friend thought it would be fun to make a video to ask Joseph Gordon-Levitt on a date after the movie 50/50 came out. I made that video and posted it to my blog, I thought my friends would see it and think it was funny. But it became viral and ended up all over the internet, and people who I haven't seen in 10 years were contacting me. I heard from a lot of newspapers, and it was at that time that I became a more known and recognised e-patient and I could do something with my platform.
RA: Can you tell me more about your blog, i am a liver, and the kind of things you blog about?
LM: The idea of i am a liver is that I didn't feel comfortable with the words that are generally used to describe cancer patients. I have a cancer that is considered chronic. Most patients are either survivors, which to me means you survived having cancer, or they're patients and I didn't want to be a patient forever, because that just sounds exhausting. Most of the cancer that I still have is in my liver so I decided to call myself a liver.
At the beginning I posted a lot about the juxtaposition between living a normal life and also having cancer, so the disconnect that often occurred when I spoke to my friends. I felt and still feel a little bit out of sync from everyone else who is my age.
So a lot of my posts are about specifically being a young adult and being diagnosed with a life-changing illness.
Now that I have transitioned into a period where I'm not feeling quite as well I blog a lot about topics that more cancer blogs deal with, like fatigue.
RA: Would you say there's been any information sources or groups that you found useful and supportive?
LM: The non-profit organisations that exist for either pancreatic cancer or carcinoid neuroendocrine cancer. Also some young adult cancer organisations have all given me a lot of information at certain points in my diagnosis. The Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research has been very helpful, and they have conferences that I've been to. The Caring for Carcinoid Cancer Foundation, also has conferences that I have been to.
I don't do a lot of web research anymore, but I like to go to the patient conferences and hear what other doctors have to say besides my own.
RA: What would you like to see made available in terms of support or information?
LM: There's probably not really a way to get around this but there is a lot of information out there that's wrong about cancer, or a lot of misinformation about alternative cures.
The American Cancer Society tries to dispel myths. It's nice to see information on trusted company websites rather than reading journals articles because those aren't really readily available to the public and they're hard to read.
RA: How has social media helped you as a patient?
LM: Getting to know other people who have the same disease as me has been useful. The cancer I have is fairly rare, but through my blog I have heard from 20 to 30 people who have what I have. I have also connected with other people who live near me with the same disease. It sometimes helps to talk to other patients who have what you have, especially if it's rare, to compare notes.
The treatment that I'm currently receiving in Germany, peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT), is not something that they offer in the United States. You have to be plugged in to the patient network in order to get the full story about what you're getting into when you go abroad for medical treatment. Other patients who had been were a big help in making me feel better about my first couple of trips, and now that I've been a couple of times I know the ropes so I can help other people.
RA: What was your impression of the pharmaceutical industry before your illness and has your perception changed at all?
LM: I definitely respect the pharmaceutical industry more, because I have personally benefitted greatly from some of the drugs that are available. I was on a course of oral chemotherapy for a little over a year, and it shrunk everything, and I was able to attend grad school and basically live a normal life, which was wonderful. It's so exciting that drugs like that are out there. Also I made a friend through one of my support groups who works for the pharmaceutical industry and she tells me a lot about the education that pharmaceutical companies do about their drugs with doctor's offices, and that's an aspect of industry I didn't know about before. So there's a lot more respect.
RA: One last question, what would your key message be to the industry, how can it better meet patient needs?
LM: Well I don't think this is something the industry can necessarily control, and this isn't as much of a problem in Europe as it is in North America, but some of the drugs that I'm on are astronomically expensive. I know that it costs a lot to develop drugs and I understand why the costs are high. I'm lucky that I have good insurance, and am able to afford the drugs, but some people aren't as fortunate as I am and they should be available to everyone who needs them.
Lindsey Miller lives in San Diego, CA. She has just graduated from grad school and has a masters in urban planning.
She is a pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer patient and blogs at i am a liver.
How can pharma better meet the needs of patients with rare cancers?


In the winery the grapes were predominantly destemmed before going to small vats for cold soaking prior to fermentation, allowing the exstraction of soft tannins and colour at the juice stage, rather than in the harsher alcoholic stage during and after fermentation. The grapes were then fermented solely with indigenous yeasts, offering a wide variety of flavours and helping us to attain great texture.
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Welcome back to Ugly Talk! We've got one more to close the year out, focusing some feel good TV. Black Mirror is a project by the great Charlie Brooker, humorist, satirist, critic, etc, etc. Brooker has produced many short run television series, mostly comedies, but all of which seem to deconstruct the world of entertainment around us and call into question that which we have either ignored or normalized. Black Mirror is the extreme of this deconstructivism as via a Twilight Zone lens of sci-fi conceits to shine a light on some element of media we already live with.
In the episode, Travis and Matt look at how Brooker's deconstructive nature and its influence from the British culture and how you can apply these mindsets to your games.


Cenotes are surface connections to subterranean bodies of water or springs. Most "cenotes" or sink-holes are underground in caves, but many like the Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza are open-air sink holes with a fully collapsed roof and great deep limestone wall reaching many feet in depth. Most cave cenotes have clear fresh water with great visibility, while open-air cenotes generally have large blue green algae build up due to the exposure to constant sunlight. Such blue-green algae is rich in nutrients and an excellent source of minerals, vitamins, and proteins that nourish the body as food and as skin cells protection. To read more about this blue-green algae & its skincare properties, please click here.
Cenotes are springs found in natural sinkholes that formed as natural acidic ground water seeping through the limestone bedrock's cracks; thus, the softer rock beneath erodes creating a dome. Over hundred of years, cenotes normal water flow gets obstructed due to organic and mineral built-up; then the area becomes a dry shallow basin, which supports trees and other vegetations' growth, these dried-stage of a cenote is known, in Yucatan, as a "Rejoyada" and houses a rich diversity of flora and fauna. Yucatan's wildlife: mammals, birds and other reptiles, butterflies and other creatures find in cenotes and rejoyadas the perfect habitat.
What was the significance of the cenote to the ancient Maya and what role did it play in ancient Maya healing?
The Spanish term "cenote" is derived from the Yucatec Mayan word "dz'onot", which refers to any location where ground water is accessible; in fact, no other Mayan language has a comparable term as cenotes are exclusive to the Yucatan Peninsula. Yucatan's cenotes were the main source of fresh water for the ancient Mayans in the Lowlands and had a great significance in their religious beliefs. Not only were cenotes associated with the Maya Underworld due to being underground to some degree or another, they were connected to the goddess Ixchel and the moon. The blessing of cenote water during full moon ceremonies or in anticipation of a wedding are still practiced to this day by many Maya X-men, of female senior Maya healers.
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Геннадій Львович Зайчик ( 11 лютого 1957, Тбілісі) – грузинський шахіст, представник США від 2002 року, гросмейстер від 1984 року.

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Перших значних успіхів почав досягати на початку 1980-х років. 1982 року в Телаві поділив 2-ге місце (позаду Рафаеля Ваганяна, разом з Георгієм Агзамовим) у півфіналі чемпіонату СРСР. Рік по тому на зіграному в Юрмалі чемпіонаті СРСР до 26 років посів 3-тє місце (позаду Віктора Гаврикова і Андрія Харитонова), а також здобув перемогу на міжнародному турнірі в Кечкеметі. У 1984 році досягнув значного успіху, одноосібно перемігши на Меморіалі Акіби Рубінштейна в Поляниці-Здруй. В 1985 році посів 2-ге місце (позаду Михайла Цейтліна) на турнірі Bohemians у Празі, 1987 року повторив це досягнення на турнірі B Меморіалу Капабланки в Камагуей і переміг (разом з Вішванатаном Анандом) у Коїмбатурі. 1989 року поділив 2-ге місце (позаду Зураба Азмайпарашвілі, разом з Уве Беншом) у Берліні, а в 1991 році поділив 1-ше місце (разом із, зокрема, Джонні Гектором, Жужею Полгар, Елізбаром Убілавою і Зурабом Азмайпарашвілі) на турнірі за швейцарською системою в Сан-Себастьяні. Тричі представляв збірну Грузії на шахових олімпіадах 1992, 1994 і 1996 років, яка кожного разу посідала в командному заліку місце в першій десятці. 1998 року взяв участь у зональному турнірі (відбіркового циклу чемпіонату світу), який відбувся в Панорно, посівши віддалене місце, а з наступного року практично припинив брати участь у турнірах під егідою ФІДЕ. Одним з останніх успіхів Геннадія Зайчика була перемога на меморіалі Річарда Аронова у Філадельфії 2002 року.

Найвищий рейтинг Ело в кар'єрі мав станом на 1 липня 1996 року, досягнувши 2550 очок займав тоді 4-те місце серед грузинських шахістів.

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Vivo likely to launch 'V17 Pro' in Bangladesh market soon
Dhaka, Sept 24 (UNB)- Smartphone V17 Pro made by multinational Chinese smartphone maker Vivo is likely to be introduced in Bangladesh market soon.
Though the specialised smartphone V17 Pro has been already introduced in some countries including India, Bangladeshi smartphone lovers are happy with some billboards of V17 pro in some showrooms in the capital.
Industry insiders said V17 Pro is Vivo's 9th Phone in its V series lineup. In addition to the number of cameras and selfie camera technology, there are many variations on this new phone.
The phone will be full packed with 8 GB RAM, 128 GB ROM which can be amplified up to 256 GB. It features 6.44 inches display with a resolution of 1080x2440, 4100 mAh dual-engine fast-charging battery, face unlock and fingerprint scanning technology, said a press release.
Vivo is bringing new technologies every year, due to its increasing passion on smartphone camera variety and style. Vivo brought elevating camera technology to smartphone for the first time in global phone industry. This year's popup selfie camera has been added in Vivo phones.
Emphasizing on smooth experience of playing games, this Chinese technology company continuously developing the style and capacity of display and battery.
Walton launches affordable new 4G phone
Dhaka, Sep 16 (UNB)- Bangladeshi mobile handset maker Walton has launched an affordable 4G smartphone in the country's tech market.
The attractively designed 'Primo F9', priced at only TK 5,199, is available in three different colors of Cyan, Oxford Blue and Red.
Asifur Rahman Khan, Chief of Walton Cellular Phone sales department, said the new smartphone feathers a 5.45-inch full-view display, 1.3 GHz Quad Core processor, 1 GB DDR3 RAM, PowerVR Rogue GE8100 GPU, 2500 mAh battery, 16 GB internal storage with extra slot for up to 64 GB micro SD card.
The new device with Android 9 Pie (Go Edition) operating system has BSI 5 megapixel camera with LED flashes on both sides along with various attractive features.
It has full HD video playback, FM radio with recorder, notification light, adaptive battery, light/dark theme, one-had mode, speed booster, gesture navigation etc. functions.
Customers will enjoy instant replacement warranty for 30 days for the phone along with one-year regular service warranty.
Apple's new offerings: Cheaper iPhone, streaming TV
Cupertino, Sept 11 (AP/UNB) — Apple is dangling deals for its new phones and TV streaming service as it seeks to offset slumping device sales with new services.
Here's a look at what Apple unveiled Tuesday at its product event in Cupertino, California.
iPhone 11: An update to last year's iPhone XR, but $50 cheaper at $700. It now gets a second camera lens, with a wider angle to squeeze more of the landscape or a group of people into the picture. Stays at 6.1 inches, as measured diagonally. Comes out Sept. 20.
iPhone 11 pro and pro max: Updates to the XS and XS Max, with prices staying the same at $1,000 and up. Last year's phones had a telephoto lens for better zoom compared with the regular lens. A third lens now offers wider angles. The display stays at 5.8 inches for regular model, 6.5 inches for Max. Comes out Sept. 20.
Apple watch: The Series 5 watch catches up with rivals in offering an always-on display. There's also a new Compass app for gauging location. New titanium and ceramic models available. Comes out Sept. 20, starting at $399. Cellular models are $100 more.
ipad: Slightly larger screen than before, at 10.2 inches. Comes out Sept. 30, starting at $329.
Apple tv plus: Challenger to Netflix and other streaming services. The service will launch with nine original shows and movies, with more expected each month. Comes out Nov. 1 at $5 a month. Free year for buyers of any new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod Touch.
Apple arcade: Video game service with more than 100 games, curated by Apple and exclusive to the service. Games can be downloaded and played offline — on the Apple-made iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Comes out Sept. 19 at $5 a month. Games available through a new dedicated tab in the app store.
Software updates: Free iOS 13 update for existing iPhones on Sept. 19, iPadOS for existing iPads on Sept. 30.
Unspoken: Apple didn't provide any updates on its Mac computers, including a launch date for Catalina, the next version of macOS. And Apple didn't announce any iPhone with support for the faster cellular network known as 5G; while Samsung and other Android makers already have 5G versions for a few hundred dollars more, 5G iPhones aren't expected until next year.
Samsung folding phone to launch after screen problem delay
London, Sept 5 (AP/UNB) — Samsung's highly anticipated folding phone will go on sale Friday, after the original launch date was delayed by months because of embarrassing problems with the screen.
The South Korean tech giant had put the Galaxy Fold's launch on hold after reviewers encountered problems with the device's innovative folding screen, which the company said on Thursday have now been resolved.
"During the past several months, Samsung has been refining the Galaxy Fold to ensure it delivers the best possible experience," with improvements to the phone's "design and construction," the company said in an announcement at the start of a consumer electronics fair in Germany where it was showcasing the device.
The nearly $2,000 phone will launch on Sept. 6 in South Korea, and Sept. 18 in France, Germany and Britain, with versions for next generation 5G networks available in the latter two countries.
Other markets including the U.S. and Singapore will follow, but the company did not specify dates.
The Galaxy Fold's original April launch was pushed back after reports that some reviewers' phones were breaking.
Journalists who had received the phones to preview said the folding screen started flickering and turning black before fizzling out. Two reviewers mistakenly removed the screen's protective outer plastic layer.
The Galaxy Fold is slightly longer and narrower than a standard smartphone when folded, but opens up to the size of a small tablet, with the internal screen display bisected by a crease. It also has another screen on the outside so it can be used when closed.
Samsung has said the composite polymer screen can be opened and closed 200,000 times, or 100 times a day for five years.
"We've had to make some really high-tech adjustments in how we're going to make this device," said Mark Notton, Samsung's European portfolio director.
They include adding protective caps to the top and bottom of the hinge, extending the screen protector to better ensure sure it stays in place, and slimming down the hinge and narrowing the gap between the hinge and the body when the phone is closed, Notton said.
The delay was a setback for Samsung and for the broader smartphone market, which had been looking to folding screens as one way to catalyze innovation in the industry.
China's Huawei also announced its own folding screen phone, the Mate X, at around the same time, but it hasn't yet set a launch date.
Samsung's 2016 launch of its Galaxy Note 7 was also troubled, with the company forced to eventually recall the phone because its batteries were catching on fire.
Apple apologizes for use of contractors to eavesdrop on Siri
San Francisco, Aug 29 (AP/UNB) — Apple is apologizing for allowing outsiders to listen to snippets of people's recorded conversations with its digital assistant Siri, a practice that undermined its attempts to position itself as a trusted steward of privacy.
As part of the apology posted Wednesday, Apple reiterated an earlier pledge to stop keeping audio recorded through Siri unless consumers give their permission.
When permission is granted, Apple said only its own employees will be allowed to review audio to help improve the service. Previously, the company hired contractors to listen to some recordings.
"We realize we haven't been fully living up to our high ideals, and for that we apologize," Apple said.
Apple would not say how it will seek permission. In the past, the Cupertino, California, company has typically requested permissions through prompts during software update installations.
In recent months, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple have all acknowledged that people have been reviewing users' interactions with artificial intelligence assistants in order to improve the services. But users aren't typically aware that humans and not just computers are reviewing audio.
The use of humans to listen to audio recordings is particularly troubling to privacy experts because it increases the chances that a rogue employee or contractor could leak details of what is being said, including parts of sensitive conversations.
The backlash to the industry practice prompted Facebook and Google to stop relying on people to transcribe recorded conversations. Amazon is continuing the practice unless users of its digital assistant Alexa explicitly demand that humans be blocked from listening. Microsoft also is still doing it, too, contending it has adequate privacy safeguards in place for the Cortana digital assistant.
Apple intends to continue to rely upon computer-generated transcripts of what's being said to Siri as part of effort to improve services, even if a user hasn't explicitly granted permission, or opted in.
Unlike Facebook, Google and Amazon, which track what people are doing and where they are going to sell ads and merchandise, Apple has conspicuously emphasized that that it has no interest in peering into its customers' lives.
CEO Tim Cook repeatedly has declared the company's belief that "privacy is a fundamental human right," a phrase that cropped up again in Apple's apology.
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BMW large soft bag, £175
Time tested: Three weeks/1000 miles
What's good: I didn't think this would be as good as a conventional hard top box, but it's better. It's huge – the 50-55 litre capacity is more than BMW's topbox. Unlike a top box it has several internal compartments, great for separating clean clothes from dirty shoes. The main section is 100% waterproof and the four side pockets are water resistant. For £175 I think it's good value, and the quality is up to BMW's standards.
What's not: It's not lockable – it would be easy to unzip and walk off with it. It offers some support for a pillion, but can't be used to lean on for added comfort.
Contact: www.bmw-motorrad.co.uk
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Pedro Roberto da Silva Botelho dit Pedro Botelho, né le  à Salvador de Bahia (Brésil), est un footballeur brésilien qui évolue au poste de milieu de terrain au Real Noroeste.

Biographie
En juillet 2007, un accord entre Arsenal et le Figueirense FC portent Pedro Botelho à l'Emirates Stadium. Il est immédiatement prêté par Arsenal à UD Salamanca (deuxième division espagnole) car il a besoin d'un permis de travail pour jouer en Angleterre. Les saisons suivantes, il est successivement prêté au Celta de Vigo, au Cartagena FC, au Rayo Vallecano puis au Levante UD.

Le , Botelho signe en faveur de l'Atlético Paranaense.

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Naissance en décembre 1989
Naissance à Salvador (Bahia)
Footballeur brésilien
Joueur du Figueirense Futebol Clube
Joueur du FC Cartagena
Joueur de l'UD Salamanque
Joueur du Celta de Vigo
Joueur du Rayo Vallecano
Joueur du Levante UD
Joueur du Club Athletico Paranaense
Joueur du Clube Atlético Mineiro
Joueur du GD Estoril-Praia
Joueur du Clube de Regatas Brasil
Joueur du Esporte Clube Vitória


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France Laure is the optimal line for the Dermatologist or skin care professional who is looking for highly specialized and proven to be effective anti-aging and anti-blackhead treatments. The Dermolyse is the ultimate chemical peel!


A hood scoop is the upraised part of the hood with an opening that allows air to flow directly into the engine compartment. With this, the engine can have more sufficient supply of air for use in engine combustion. Some hood scoops don't have an opening, thus purely decorative. This hood accessory is made from different types of materials such as carbon fiber, fiberglass, and abs plastic. Units made from carbon fiber are known for being lightweight, stiff, and durable while those made from high impact ABS material are hard wearing and heat resistant. When searching for a hood scoop for your ride, it is wise to get one that requires easy, no-drill installation. Paintable scoops are also good because you'll be able to match it to your vehicle color and styling. There are many various hood scoops available for sale on the market. To help you with your choice, we have compiled a list of top 5 best hood scoops for your car.
We start our review of the best hood scoops for cars with Amico Universal Air Flow Vent by TOOGOO(R). This hood scoop is made of plastic, color is black with silver tone. Dimension of this product is 25.7 x 18 x 3.5cm / 10.1″ x 7″ x 1.4″(L*W*H) with a weight of 181 g. With this unit, you will capture the look and style of today's top performance vehicles with long lasting universal hood scoops. This item will not be affected by extreme weather or car washes. Customize your vehicle with Amico Car Hood Scoop Universal Air Flow Vent Black with Mesh and experience for yourself the satisfaction this simple customization body trim accent can provide. It is a durable and top quality hood scoop you may consider to buy.
The Wade Smooth Hood Scoop gives your truck a completely new look, making it look sleeker, faster like it is slipping effortlessly through the air, the air passing by so efficiently that the engine has to scoop air down to get enough oxygen to breathe freely. The Wade scoops offer you a wide range of possibilities. You decide how to use them, where to put your scoops, painting them to look like they are part of the hood or painting them to stand out. You decide! Make your truck truly yours! Use the Wade hood scoops to create a design that stands out and tells the world who is coming! The Wade hood scoops will fit on any surface that is larger than the product dimensions. Hood Scoop measures 11.5 inches x 30.0 inches x 2.0 inches and is hi-impact ABS in a smooth finish.
From ventvisors/side window deflectors, hood protection and tonneaus to toolboxes and premium floor liners, Lund International brands offer more vehicle application coverage in the ventvisor and hood protection categories than any other brand on the market today. Unique and universal designs have been developed to transform truck and SUV stock hoods into simulated performance hoods, providing a high-performance style without the high-performance cost. These are manufactured with a heat-resistant, UV-protected ABS thermoplastic material to allow for maximum strength and flexibility, with no chalking. The finish is a smooth black with chrome trim accents that are paint-ready and is easily adhered to the hood with 3M automotive-grade adhesive. They feature easy no drill installation and all scoops can be painted to match any factory color. The size of these medium pair hood scoops is 13″W x 28″L x 2.5″H.
Neverland 2 x ABS Intake Scoop Turbo Bonnet Vent Cover Hood Auto a budget priced set of two decorative hood louvers that can be universally fit on any car. This set is made of durable ABS plastic with different colored finishes. The options are White, Silver and two different shades of black. At such a cheap price, these can be the perfect replacement louvers for your car if the existing ones have busted or if you are looking for an inexpensive replacement that is easy to install. These set of louvers come with preinstalled double sided 3M automotive grade adhesive tape that sticks perfectly to the car. It has a very good customer rating and does not come off even if the engine gets extremely hot or you leave the car out in rain. This looks stylish, is inexpensive and you can choose the color to match your vehicle. This item will add an intimidating and sporty look to the car.
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Doctor Who Magazine (abreviado como DWM) es una revista dedicada a la longeva serie de ciencia-ficción británica Doctor Who. Su editor actual es Tom Spilsbury. Está actualmente en el Libro Guinness de los Records como la revista más longeva dedicada a un programa de televisión.

Historia

Oficialmente aprobada por la BBC, la revista comenzó con el título de Doctor Who Weekly (Doctor Who Semanal) en 1979, publicada por la editorial británica de Marvel Comics. El primer número fue publicado el jueves 11 de octubre con la portada fechada el 17 de octubre, al precio de 12 peniques.

La revista pasó de la periodicidad semanal a la mensual a partir del número 44 en septiembre de 1980, con el título simple de Doctor Who y un precio de 30 peniques. El título cambió a Doctor Who Montly en el número 61 y The Official Doctor Who Magazine en el número 85 en febrero de 1984. Tomó el título The Doctor Who Magazine en el número 99 en abril de 1985, y adquirió el título actual de Doctor Who Magazine en el número 107 en diciembre de 1985. La revista ha seguido publicándose desde entonces hasta la actualidad con ese título, con la excepción del número 397 de junio de 2008 cuando la portada sólo llevaba las palabras Bad Wolf tras la transmisión del episodio de Doctor Who Gira a la izquierda el 21 de junio de 2008. En 1990 la revista comenzó a publicarse una vez cada cuatro semanas (13 veces al año). A pesar de que la BBC canceló la producción de Doctor Who en 1989, la revista continuó siendo publicada, proporcionando nuevas aventuras en forma de cómics. El programa de televisión regresó en 2005, proporcionando una nueva generación de fans que la revista buscaba atraer.

Originalmente dirigida a niños, DWM se ha convertido en una revista más madura explorando aspectos detrás de las cámaras de la serie. Por su longevidad, es vista como fuente de referencia de información oficial y exclusiva, compartiendo una relación muy cercana con el equipo de producción de la BBC. En 2006, sin embargo, perdió la exclusividad cuando BBC Worldwide lanzó su propio cómic, Doctor Who Adventures, dirigido a un público más joven.

DWM es publicada ahora por Panini Comics, que compró el título junto con todo el catálogo de Marvel UK en 1995. Panini ha comenzado a restaurar digitalmente e imprimir cómics antiguos de DWM en forma de tomos. Hasta el momento se han impreso trece volúmenes, dos con las aventuras del Cuarto Doctor, una con las del Quinto, dos con el Sexto, uno con el Séptimo, cuatro con el Octavo, y tres con el Décimo. Panini también ha publicado una edición exclusiva en el formato original de revista de las tiras completas del Noveno Doctor en 2006 y la mayoría de las del Décimo Doctor y Martha Jones en 2008. DWM en el número 426 publicó que la serie había sido postpuesta; finalmente se reanudaría con "The Crimson Hand" en mayo de 2012.

DWM publicó su número 400 en septiembre de 2008, y la publicación celebró su 30 aniversario en octubre de 2009. En abril de 2010, se confirmó en el número 420 que Doctor Who Magazine tenía el récord Guinnes a "La revista más longeva basada en una serie de televisión."

En abril de 2011, Panini Comics lanzó una nuewva publicación mensual titulada Doctor Who Insider; aunque hecha en Reino Unido, era para ser publicada en Norteamérica. El 27 de enero de 2012 se anunció el cierre de esta publicación tras nueve números.

Contenidos

DWM presenta un cómic continuo protagonizado por la encarnación correspondiente del Doctor, aunque durante el periodo entre 1989 y 1996, cuando la serie no se emitía, presentaba a Doctores anteriores. Escritores y artistas notables que han trabajado en el cómic incluyen a John Wagner, Pat Mills, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Dave Gibbons, Mike McMahon, John Ridgway e Ian Edginton. Historias seleccionadas del cómic fueron también reimpresar en Norteamérica por Marvel Comics. Personajes secundarios que han pasado del cómic a spin-offs en otros medios incluyen a Frobisher, el compañero de forma cambiante del sexto y séptimo Doctor, Abslom Daak, el asesino de Daleks; el Ejecutivo Especial, que aparecería en Captain Britain de Marvel; y el villano Beep the Meep.

La revista también ha presentado otros cómics a lo largo de los años, destacando "Doctor Who?", una mirada humorística a la serie por Tim Quinn y Dicky Howett. Esto era una tira cómica habitualmente de tres viñetas, aunque a veces se publicaban parodias de una página completa. Actualmente la tira cómica que se publica, como sucesora espiritual de Doctor Who? es una tira de una viñeta titulada "Doctor Woah!" por Baxter. Embebida dentro de la página de cartas de Galaxy Forum, satiriza algún episodio reciente, algún lanzamiento en DVD o cualquier otro evento mostrando una alternativa exagerada o expandida de escenas de Doctor Who. Por ejemplo, tras la emisión de Compañeros de delitos en 2008, la tira mostró la llegada del Doctor al "planeta de los sombreros" al que se refería el episodio. La tira es conocida porque sus personajes son publicados sin pupilas en los ojos. Entre 1989 y 1992, "The Comic Assassins" ("Los asesinos del cómic") fue una serie de tiras paródicas por Steve Noble y Kev F. Sutherland.

En los años noventa un cómic serio secundario era presentado en la cubierta interior; durante muchos números fue "The Cybermen", una serie de cuentos que tienen lugar en Mondas antes de los eventos de The Tenth Planet explicando la historia de fondo de los Cybermen. También se resucitó el comic "The Daleks" de TV Century 21 continuando la historia donde lo había dejado, mostrando a los Daleks atacando la Tierra; incluso estaba dibujado en el mismo estilo que el original de los años sesenta.

Otras presentaciones regulares de la revista incluyen la sección de noticias "Gallifrey Guardian", que ha funcionado casi desde el principio de la revista; la página de cartas "Galaxy Forum" que, además de la tira cómica "Doctor Whoah!" incluye una pequeña sección llamada "Ask DWM!" ("Pregunta a DWM"), donde las preguntas de los lectores sobre el programa eran respondidas; críticas de los episodios de televisión y merchandising ( en "The DWM Review", conocida en distintos momentos como "After Image", "Off the Shelf" y "Shelf Life"); el "Time Team", que involucra a cuatro fanes viendo cada una de las historias de Doctor Who en orden desde el principio; y, desde que la producción de la serie se reinició en 2004, una columna regular titulada "Production Notes" ("Notas de producción") por el productor ejecutivo del programa. De 2004 a 2009, la columna era escrita por Russell T Davies, y desde enero de 2010, Steven Moffat es el que se encarga de la página, aunque otros guionistas y gente de producción han escrito de vez en cuando en la columna. Además, en la página final de la revista, hay una sección llamada "Wotcha!" (compilada por 'The Watcher'), una página cómica con presentaciones recurrentes como, 'Historia de Doctor Who en 100 objetos', 'Artista de reparto del mes', una parodia de 'Top Ten' y un cuestionario de verdadero o falso, "The Six Faces of Delusion". Antes de esto, el espacio fue tomado por una página llamada "Who on Earth is..." ("Quién diablos es..."), presentando una entrevista corta con alguna persona involucrada en el pasado o presente de Doctor Who (por ejemplo, algún miembro del reparto).

Alguna columna de opinión también ha formado parte de la revista - columnas pasadas han incluido a "Fluid Links" de Matt Jones, "The Life and Times of Jackie Jenkins" por Jackie Jenkins, "It's the End... But" por The Watcher y "You Are Not Alone" por Neil Harris.

El formato ha cambiado a lo largo de los años, pero las noticias, cartas, críticas y la tira cómica han estado presentes continuamente desde principios de los ochenta.

La revista también presenta entrevista con el reparto y el equipo de la serie de televisión (incluyendo de los episodios antiguos), y reportajes del set de rodaje de la serie actual, escrito por Benjamin Cook o Jason Arnopp. Las historias del "cómo se hizo" de todos los episodios entre 1963 y 1989 han sido documentadas por Andrew Pixley en "DWM Archive", y el análisis detallado de ciertos seriales significativos fue cubierto por "The Fact of Fiction", normalmente escrito por el antiguo editor de DWM Alan Barnes, o David Bailey. "The DWM Review" suele ser predominantemente escrita por Graham Kibble-White, el antiguo editor Gary Gillatt, Vanessa Bishop, y Matt Michael. Anteriores críticos incluyen a Craig Hinton (que acabaría escribiendo novelas de Doctor Who) y Gary Russell, que acabaría siendo el editor de la revista.

En 2004, Russell T Davies ofreció a la revista la posibilidad de escribir y publicar la escena oficial de regeneración entre el octavo y el noveno Doctor como parte del cómic antes de comenzar la nueva época de la serie. A pesar de que se hizo trabajo en esta historia, el entonces editor Clayton Hickman y el escritor Scott Gray finalmente rechazaron la oferta ya que sentían que no podían hacer justicia a un evento tan importante con el corsé impuesto por la continuidad de la serie de televisión.

Editores

* Hasta la actualidad (fecha del número 451)

Referencias

Series derivadas de Doctor Who
Revistas de ciencia ficción del Reino Unido
Revistas de historietas del Reino Unido
Publicaciones fundadas en 1979


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This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
This Will Be My Undoing is a powerful blend of memoir, cultural critique, self-reflection, and celebration. Jerkins explores the experience of black girlhood and womanhood through a kaleidoscope of lenses. She writes frankly about sex, relationships, and dating, and the intersection of blackness and womanhood and sexuality. She writes eloquently about the various spaces she's inhabited throughout her life–suburban New Jersey, Harlem, Japan, Russia–and how it has felt to be a black woman in each of those spaces. She writes about Beyonce and Michelle Obama, about books and film, but also about her own deeply personal journey of self-discovery. Always, she centers her specific experience living as a black woman in America.
This centering of black womanhood is what makes this book so brilliant. At its heart, it's an examination of the black female body, and what it is like to move through the world (physically, spiritually, emotionally) in that body.
In these essays, Jerkins is both vulnerable and unapologetic. There is so much smart writing here about identity, culture, and appropriation, and especially about the experience of black women in America, both historically and currently. Part of what makes it so powerful, I think, is the way Jerkins is able to balance self-reflection and analysis with a kind of immutable knowledge of race and racism that comes from being a black woman in America. She willingly examines her own perspectives, she's willing to be wrong, and though she explores the many experiences shared by black women in America, she never generalizes or reduces those experiences to something simple and monolithic. Her work is unyielding. I'm going to be unraveling this book for a long time to come.
Although there are occasional moments of transcendence, for the most part, Jerkins' prose is conversational and familiar. I thought this worked extremely well. She tackles big topics, but she approaches them from personal experience, and from the vantage point of a young writer, still in the midst of discovering herself and the world. Her tone struck me as specifically millennial, although I cannot now pinpoint exactly what that means.
The essays meander; they make big circles, and this, too, suited the material. This book is wise and full of compelling ideas and arguments, but it is not poetic. Don't get me wrong–the writing is lovely–but it's Jerkins' curiosity, conviction, and openness that really shines in these pages. I loved the audiobook. Jerkins narrates it, and hearing her tell her own story and articulate her thoughts heightened the impact for me.
Ultimately, this book got me thinking about black womanhood in ways I haven't before. Like some of the most compelling works about race I've ever encountered, Jerkins' strength lies in her refusal to cater to a white audience. She is not concerned with trying to explain, dilute, or simplify the experience of black womanhood for white people. The work speaks for itself, and it speaks loudly.
I am a white woman, and this book was not written for me. But it is my job to listen, and listening to this, though sometimes painful or uncomfortable, was a joy.
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Following a project on HIV/AIDS awareness among youth, Eritrean Minister of Education Osman Saleh called the Rapid Results approach "a new movement." In Kenya, an independent evaluation by the AIDS Research and Treatment journal reported that "significant improvement in PMTCT [prevention of mother-to-child-transmission] services can be achieved through introduction of an RRI [Rapid Results Initiative], which appears to lead to sustained benefits for pregnant HIV-infected women and their infants."

Due to its success in a variety of contexts, the Rapid Results approach has been adopted by the World Bank, as well as by many Kenyan government ministries.

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There has already been a little bit of scattered discussion on the pull request (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11189), but per NEP-0 let's try to keep high-level discussion here on the mailing list.
(Autograd, Tangent), higher order array factorizations (TensorLy), etc.
that add additional functionality on top of the Numpy API.
arbitrary callable object rather than a ufunc instance and method.
that the function is not implemented by these types.
keyword in the examples below.
be inspected for ``__array_function__`` implementations.
be supporting Python 2 for `very much longer <http://www.numpy.org/neps/nep-0014-dropping-python2.7-proposal.html>`_.
array-implementation generic functionality in SciPy?
``scipy.linalg``) similarly to how they wrap NumPy.
``do_array_function_dance()`` above as a public API.
period of time, the development cycle of a single NumPy release.
otherwise bug-fix only releases of NumPy.
controversies for discussion by interested parties.
- universal functions, which already have their own protocol.
coercion to actual ``numpy.ndarray`` object.
``__array_function__`` to the more specialized ``__array_ufunc__``.
that currently have ``__array_function__`` methods, which should be rare.
``__array_ufunc__`` for cohesive subsets of Numpy functionality.
either inside or outside of NumPy.
don't think this approach makes sense for NumPy in the near term.
``__array_function__`` implementation in terms of multiple dispatch.
The internal implemenations of some NumPy functions is extremely simple.
of ``np.sum()``, ``np.divide()``, ``.astype()`` and ``.shape``.
the work required for new array implementations.
``np.concatenate()`` internally would now become a breaking change. 2.
then we should be reluctant to rely on these properties.
behavior of casting with ``np.asarray()`` for all other functions.
the high level NumPy API from adopting this proposal.
please speak up on the mailing list!
optional keyword argument would break existing overloads.
freeze NumPy's API in stone any more than it already is.
pass on ``**kwargs`` would entail public facing changes in NumPy.
libraries that consume the NumPy API such as xarray.
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) <https://bids.berkeley.edu/>`_.
this NEP as an example) or licensed under the `Open Publication License`_.
Perhaps I missed this but I didn't see: what happens when both __array_ufunc__ and __array_function__ are defined? I might want to do this to for example add support for functions like concatenate or stack to a class that already has an __array_ufunc__ defines.
This is mentioned in the section "Non-goals", which says that ufuncs and their methods should be excluded, along with a few other classes of functions/methods.
Thanks for posting. Overall, this is great!
A. Two "namespaces", one for the undecorated base functions, and one completely trivial one for the decorated ones. The idea would be that if one knows one is dealing with arrays only, one would do `import numpy.array_only as np` (i.e., the reverse of the suggestion currently in the NEP, where the decorated ones are in their own namespace - I agree with the reasons for discounting that one). Note that in this suggestion the array-only namespace serves as the one used for `ndarray.__array_function__`.
B. Automatic insertion by the decorator of an `array_only=np._NoValue` (or `coerce` and perhaps `subok=...` if not present) in the function signature, so that users who know that they have arrays only could pass `array_only=True` (name to be decided). This would be most useful if there were also some type of configuration parameter that could set the default of `array_only`.
Note that both A and B could also address, at least partially, the problem of sometimes wanting to just use the old coercion methods, i.e., not having to implement every possible numpy function in one go in a new `__array_function__` on one's class.
1. I'm rather unclear about the use of `types`. It can help me decide what to do, but I would still have to find the argument in question (e.g., for Quantity, the unit of the relevant argument). I'd recommend passing instead a tuple of all arguments that were inspected, in the inspection order; after all, it is just a `arg.__class__` away from the type, and in your example you'd only have to replace `issubclass` by `isinstance`.
Note that any `ndarray.__array_function__` might also help solve the problem of cases where coercion is fine: it could have an extra keyword argument (say `coerce`) that would call the function with coercion in place. Indeed, if the `ndarray.__array_function__` were used inside the "dance" function, and then the actual implementation of a given function would just be a separate, private one.
Again, overall a great idea, and thanks to all those involved for taking it on.
``np.NotImplementedButCoercible`` be a part of the standard from the start.
If all implementations return this, only then should it be coerced.
In the future, it might be good to mark something as coercible to coerce it to ``ndarray`` before passing to another object's ``__array_ufunc__``.
This is necessary if libraries want to keep old behaviour for some functions, while overriding others.
Otherwise they have to implement overloads for all functions. This seems rather like an all-or-nothing choice, which I'd like to avoid.
It isn't too hard to implement in practice.
Objects that don't implement ``__array_function__`` should be treated as having returned ``np.NotImplementedButCoercible``.
This has the effect of coercing ``list``, etc.
At a minimum, to maintain compatibility, if all objects don't implement ``__array_function__``, the old behaviour should stay.
Also, I'm +1 on Marten's suggestion that ``ndarray`` itself should implement ``__array_function__``.
I think that in the proposed scheme this is effectively what happens.
Ah, I didn't think of the first solution. `coerce=True` may not produce the desired solution in cases where some arguments can be coerced and some can't.
When calling ``np.func(array1(), array2())``, ``array1`` would be coerced with your solution (because of the left-to-right rule and ``array1`` choosing to coerce itself) but not with ``np.NotImplementedButCoercible``.
Not really, the current scheme is unclear on what happens if none of the arguments implement ``__array_function__`` (or at least it doesn't explicitly state it that I can see).
My more general comment is one of speed: for *normal* operation performance should be impacted as minimally as possible. I think this is a serious issue and feel strongly it *has* to be possible to avoid all arguments being checked for the `__array_function__` attribute, i.e., there should be an obvious way to ensure no type checking dance is done.
I agree that all we should try minimize the impact of dispatching on normal operations. It would be helpful to identify examples of real workflows, so we can measure the impact of doing these checks empirically. That said, I think a small degradation in performance for code that works with small arrays should be acceptable, because performance is an already an accepted limitations of using NumPy/Python for these use cases.
In most cases, I suspect that the overhead of a function call and checking several arguments for "__array_function__" will be negligible, like the situation for __array_ufunc__. I'm not strongly opposed to either of your proposed solutions, but I do think it would be a little strange to insist that we need a solution for __array_function__ when __array_ufunc__ was fine.
A. Two "namespaces", one for the undecorated base functions, and one completely trivial one for the decorated ones. The idea would be that if one knows one is dealing with arrays only, one would do `import numpy.array_only as np` (i.e., the reverse of the suggestion currently in the NEP, where the decorated ones are in their own namespace - I agree with the reasons for discounting that one).
I will mention this as a possibility.
I do think there is something to be said for clear separation of overloaded and non-overloaded APIs. But f I were to choose between adding numpy.api and numpy.array_only, I would pick numpy.api, because of the virtue of preserving the existing numpy namespace as it currently exists.
B. Automatic insertion by the decorator of an `array_only=np._NoValue` (or `coerce` and perhaps `subok=...` if not present) in the function signature, so that users who know that they have arrays only could pass `array_only=True` (name to be decided).
Rather than adding another argument to every NumPy function, I would rather encourage writing np.asarray() explicitly.
The virtue of a `types` argument is that we can deduplicate arguments once, rather than in each __array_function__ check. This could result in significantly more efficient code, e.g,. when np.concatenate() is called on 10,000 arrays with only two unique types, we don't need to loop through all 10,000 again objects to check that overloading is valid.
1. A check to verify that every argument is a Quantity (or something coercible to a Quantity). This could use `types` and return `NotImplemented` when it fails.
2. A check to verify that units match. This will have custom logic for different operations and will require checking all arguments -- not just their unique types.
For many Quantity functions, the second check will indeed probably be super simple (i.e., verifying that all units match). But the first check (with `types`) really is something that basically very overload should do.
Ufuncs actually do try to speed-up array checks - but indeed the same can (and should) be done for `__array_ufunc__`. They also do have `subok`. This currently ignored but that is mostly because looking for it in `kwargs` is so damn slow!
Anyway, my main point was that it should be explicitly mentioned as a constraint that for pure ndarray input, things should be really fast.
Good point. Overall, the separate namespaces probably is not the way to do.
Good point - just as good as long as the check for all-array is very fast (which it should be - `arg.__class__ is np.ndarray` is fast!).
I think one might still want to know *where* the type occurs (e.g., as an output or index would have different implications). Possibly, a solution would rely on the same structure as used for the "dance". But as a general point, I don't see the advantage of passing types rather than arguments - less information for no benefit.
Not sure. With, Quantity I generally do not worry about other types, but rather look at units attributes, assume anything without is dimensionless, cast Quantity to array with the right unit, and then defer to `ndarray`.
The current proposal is to copy the behavior of __array_ufunc__. So the non-existence of an __array_function__ attribute is indeed *not* equivalent to returning NotImplemented: if no arguments implement __array_function__, then yes they will all be coerced to NumPy arrays.
I do think there is elegance in defining a return value of np.NotImplementedButCoercible as equivalent to the existence of __array_function__. This resolves my design question about how coercible arguments would be coerced with NotImplementedButCoercible: we would fall back to the current behavior, which in most cases means all arguments are coerced to NumPy arrays directly. Mixed return values of NotImplementedButCoercible and NotImplemented would still result in TypeError, and there would be no second chances for overloads.
This is simple enough that I am inclined to update the NEP to incorporate the suggestion (thank you!).
My main question is whether we should also update __array_ufunc__ to support returning NotImplementedButCoercible for consistency. My inclination is yes: even though it's easy to implement a fallback of converting all arguments to NumPy arrays for ufuncs, it is hard to do this correctly from an __array_ufunc__ implementation, because __array_ufunc__ implementations do not know in what order they have been called.
The counter-argument would be that it's not worth adding new features to __array_ufunc__ if use-cases haven't come up yet. But my guess is that most users/implementors of __array_ufunc__ are ignorant of these finer details, and not really worrying about them. Also, the list of binary operators in Python is short enough that most implementations are OK with supporting either all or none.
Actually, a return value of NotImplementedButCoercible would probably be the right answer for some cases in xarray's current __array_ufunc__ method, when we encounter ufunc methods for which we haven't written an implementation (e.g., "outer" or "at").
I think one might still want to know *where* the type occurs (e.g., as an output or index would have different implications).
This in certainly true in general, but given the complete flexibility of __array_function__ there's no way we can make every check convenient. The best we can do is make it easy to handle the common cases, where the argument position does not matter.
Possibly, a solution would rely on the same structure as used for the "dance". But as a general point, I don't see the advantage of passing types rather than arguments - less information for no benefit.
Maybe this is premature optimization, but there will certainly be fewer unique types than arguments to check for types. I suspect this may make for a noticeable difference in performance in use cases involving a large number of argument.
For example, suppose np.concatenate() is called on a list of 10,000 dask arrays. Now dask.array.Array.__array_function__ needs to check all arguments to decide whether it can use dask.array.concatenate() or needs to return NotImplemented. By using the `types` argument, it only needs to do isinstance() checks on the single argument in `types`, rather than all 10,000 overloaded function arguments.
Although I'm still not 100% convinced by NotImplementedButCoercible, I do like the idea that this is the default for items that do not implement `__array_function__`. And it might help avoid trying to find oneself in a possibly long list.
I think those cases may not be as common as you think - most functions are not like `concatenate` & co... Indeed, it might be good to add some other examples to the NEP. Looing at the list of functions which do not work with Quantity currently: Maybe `np.dot`, `np.choose`, and `np.vectorize`?
> Maybe this is premature optimization, but there will certainly be fewer unique types than arguments to check for types. I suspect this may make for a noticeable difference in performance in use cases involving a large number of argument.
One also needs to worry about the cost of contructing `types`, though I guess this could be minimal if it is a `set`. Or should it be the keys of a `dict`, with the value something meaningful that has to be calculated anyway (like a list of sequence numbers); this may all depend a bit on the implementation of "dance" - the information it gathers might as well get passed on.
It is probably a good idea to add some of these considerations to the NEP.
Mixed return values of NotImplementedButCoercible and NotImplemented would still result in TypeError, and there would be no second chances for overloads.
I would like to differ with you here: It can be quite useful to have second chances for overloads. Think ``np.func(list, custom_array))``: If second rounds did not exist, custom_array would need to have a list of coercible types (which is not nice IMO).
It can also help in cases where performance/feature degradation isn't an issue, so coercing all arguments that returned ``NotImplementedButCoercible`` would allow ``__array_function__`` to succeed where it wouldn't normally. I mean, that's one of the major uses of this sentinel right?
If done in a for loop, it wouldn't even slow down the nominal cases. It would have the adverse effect of not allowing for a default implementation to be as simple as you stated, though.
One thing we could do is manually (inside ``__array_function__``) coerce anything that didn't implement ``__array_function__``, and that's acceptable to me too.
2. Not implementing __array_ufunc__ or __array_function__ at all.
Changing __array_ufunc__ to do multiple rounds of checks could indeed be useful in some cases, and you're right that it would not change existing behavior (in these cases we currently raise TypeError). But I'd rather leave that for a separate discussion, because it's orthogonal to our proposal here for __array_function__.
Should there be discussion of typing (pep-484) or abstract base classes in this nep? Are there any requirements on the result returned by __array_function__?
As written would not work for ndarray subclasses, because the subclass will generically change itself before calling super. At least for Quantity, say if I add two quantities, the quantities will both be converted to arrays (with one scaled so that the units match) and then the super call is done with those modified arrays. This expects that the super call will actually return a result (which it now can because all inputs are arrays).
But I think it would work to return `NotImplementedButCoercible` in the case that perhaps you had in mind in the first place, in which any of the *other* arguments had a `__array_ufunc__` implementation and `ndarray` thus does not know what to do. For those cases, `ndarray` currently returns a straight `NotImplemented`.
Though I am still a bit worried: this gets back to `Quantity.__array_ufunc__`, but what does it do with it? It cannot just pass it on, since then it is effectively telling, incorrectly, that the *quantity* is coercible, which it is not. I guess at this point it would have to change it to `NotImplemented`. Looking at my current implementation, I see that if we made this change to `ndarray.__array_ufunc__`, the implementation would mostly raise an exception as it tried to view `NotImplementedButCoercible` as a quantity, except for comparisons, where the output is not viewed at all (being boolean and thus unit-less) and passed straight down. That said, we've said the __array_ufunc__ implementation is experimental, so I think such small annoyances are OK.
Overall, it is an intriguing idea, and I think it should be mentioned at least in the NEP. It would be good, though, to have a few more examples of how it would work in practice.
I agree that second rounds of overloads have to be left to the implementers of `__array_function__` - obviously, though, we should be sure that these rounds are rarely necessary... The link posted by Stephan  has some decent discussion for `__array_ufunc__` about when an override should re-call the function rather than try to do something itself.
This is a good question that should be addressed in the NEP. Currently, we impose no limitations on the types returned by __array_function__ (or __array_ufunc__, for that matter). Given the complexity of potential __array_function__ implementations, I think this would be hard/impossible to do in general.


Summer is barreling down on us. I say that as one who anticipates summer and the relaxation that I always dream of. The school year winds down, then sports and music commitments all come to a halt over summer break. I always love looking at my calendar and seeing all that sweet, sweet freedom before me. And then I get a little panicked as I watch the calendar fill back up again, almost twice as fast as it does in the fall.
All winter long, I look forward to the camping trips, day adventures, and late nights with friends around a fire in the backyard. They're all things that for me, have come to represent summer. And I really believe that the Lord delights when we take time out of our regular lives, pause from the hectic paces and demands, and slow down to enjoy the beauty of his creation and rejoice in the gifts he has given us.
Just a change of scenery?
As a Mom, though, it can be so hard to face the reality of what summer vacation means. I've heard it said that for a mom, a vacation is just a change of scenery while you wash the dishes. It's true, isn't it? We can head out on holidays, but we don't leave all the work behind us. We take our best and hardest work right along with us!
I tend to start to feel resentful of all the work that accompanies a holiday – the co-ordinating, the meal planning, the finding a laundromat to do a week's worth of filthy clothes… the list goes on. Endlessly. I know I'm not the only one.
Because really, who are our friends? Our people. Our tribe. The closest ones we lay our lives down for every day.
And if laying our lives down every single day glorifies God, that counts on vacation, too. God is glorified when we cheerfully track down the closest laundromat and toss in a pack of cards and a sweet treat to share to make the time pass.
"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it," Jesus tells us in Matthew 16:25 (KJV). If we cling to our idyllic dreamworld vacation, we will lose our life. We might be physically present, but we will be dragging around the long list of burdens and disappointments that are ruining it for us.
If we can trust God – if we can trust him to be there with us even if it feels like we will disappear – we will find our life. We will find the joy and freedom that there is in turning on your family's favorite music and making washing dishes with the sulky teen into a dance party. We might find deep conversations while we get elbow-deep in soapy water with our husbands standing alongside us.
And let's get a bird's eye view for a minute here. In Matthew 15, we see Jesus feeding the 5000 on a hillside. What happens after everyone is finished eating and gone home? What do we see the disciples doing?
They collected 7 baskets of leftovers. They had to clean up! I cannot even fathom how much work that was!
But part of the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5000 was all the clean up that follows after it.
With this in mind, we can count our blessings, one by one.
It's a miracle that we have a family to welcome home for the summer, and to go on holidays with.
It's a miracle that our children can have an education, and that there are periods of rest from learning.
It's a miracle that we live in a time and place and culture where vacation is a normal part of most people's lives. When was the last time in the last 100 years of history that you can remember this being a possibility? I can think of places in the world today where our North American camping conditions would be better than their everyday living conditions.
So let's remember to thank the Lord and go on vacation with hearts full of gratitude. He is the one who has set the work before us, and he will supply the strength to do it and the joy to fill our hearts as we pour ourselves out.
Each day is a gift! And the gifts that the Lord gives us come with work. Let's cast off the resentment and the eye rolls and the big sighs because someone needs the potty NOW. Let's spend the summer holidays all in – let's love on our neighbors, our tribe. And let's look to Jesus as we lay our lives down with great love.
Alyssa Donovan is a wife to an outdoorsman, and tames tangles on the heads of their five beautiful children. She's grown up on the Alberta prairies, and captures wild yeast from the air to bake bread. She loves Jesus because He first loved her. Alyssa drinks coffee, homeschools, sweeps the floor, and dreams of one day having chickens. Alyssa also serves on the WE vision team and is the blog submissions editor. You can connect with her on Instagram @mrsalyssa.


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Q: Integration in state space models - Is this internal integration? I'm reading a book labeled "Predictive Control System Design and Implementation Using MATLAB®, by. Liuping Wang." It's an easy book for basic understanding in linear Model Predictive Control.
Anyway! According to the book, the book is learning out Predictive Control with integration included in a augmented state space model:
$$
\begin{bmatrix}
\Delta x_m(k+1) \\
y(k+1)
\end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix}
A_m & 0_m^T\\
C_mA_m & 1
\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}
\Delta x_m(k) \\
y(k)
\end{bmatrix} + \begin{bmatrix}
B_m\\
C_m B_m
\end{bmatrix} \Delta u(k)
$$
$$y(k) = \begin{bmatrix}
0_m & 1
\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}
\Delta x_m(k) \\
y(k)
\end{bmatrix}
$$
Where $$\Delta x_m(k+1) = x_m(k+1) - x_m(k)$$
$$\Delta u(k) = u(k) - u(k-1)$$
$$\Delta x_m(k) = x_m(k) - x_m(k-1)$$
Question:
How can this be integration? Why cant the augmented model be:
$$
\begin{bmatrix}
x_m(k+1) \\
y(k+1)
\end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix}
A_m & 0_m^T\\
C_mA_m & 1
\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}
x_m(k) \\
y(k)
\end{bmatrix} + \begin{bmatrix}
B_m\\
C_m B_m
\end{bmatrix} u(k)
$$
$$y(k) = \begin{bmatrix}
0_m & 1
\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}
x_m(k) \\
y(k)
\end{bmatrix}
$$
Why is $\Delta$ important?

A: You start of with the dynamics
$$
\left\{
\begin{align}
x(k+1) &= A\,x(k) + B\,u(k) \\
y(k) &= C\,x(k)
\end{align}\right. \tag{1}
$$
so
$$
y(k+1) = C\,x(k+1) = C\,A\,x(k) + C\,B\,u(k) \tag{2}
$$
but your augmented model would give
$$
y(k+1) = C\,A\,x(k) + C\,B\,u(k) + \color{red}{y(k)} \tag{3}
$$
which is incorrect (at least inconsistent with the dynamics you started with).
By instead using $\Delta x(k) = x(k) - x(k-1)$ and $\Delta u(k) = u(k) - u(k-1)$, so $x(k) = \Delta x(k) + x(k-1)$ and $u(k) = \Delta u(k) + u(k-1)$, then equation $(2)$ can also be written as
$$
y(k+1) = C\,A\,\left(\Delta x(k) + x(k-1)\right) + C\,B\,\left(\Delta u(k) + u(k-1)\right). \tag{4}
$$
When using the definition of $y(k)$ and $x(k)$ then the terms of equation $(4)$ containing $x(k-1)$ and $u(k-1)$ can be rewritten as
$$
C\,A\,x(k-1) + C\,B\,u(k-1) = C\,x(k) = y(k) \tag{5}
$$
therefore
$$
y(k+1) = y(k) + C\,A\,\Delta x(k) + C\,B\,\Delta u(k). \tag{6}
$$

One could of course also augment the model by using equation $(2)$, which gives
$$
\begin{bmatrix}
x(k+1) \\ y(k+1)
\end{bmatrix} =
\begin{bmatrix}
A & 0 \\ C\,A & 0
\end{bmatrix}
\begin{bmatrix}
x(k) \\ y(k)
\end{bmatrix} +
\begin{bmatrix}
B \\ C\,B
\end{bmatrix} u(k) \tag{7}
$$
but in this case there is not really any direct integration in $y$, since normally for integration you have something of the following form $y(k+1) = y(k) + \Delta y(k)$, for example in forward Euler you have $\Delta y(k) = \Delta t\,\dot{y}(k)$. This is not the case in equation $(7)$, but is in equation $(6)$.

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