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May 4, 2022 /0 Comments/in Lists /by Writey McWordish
"No, that didn't really happen. You made that up!" We all know people who are trying to sell us a tall tale as a fact, only to laugh at us once we buy the story. But life is weird. History is full of events that make you go: "Wait, what?" That's why we're writing about a few moments in history that you'd think are made up, but aren't.
The Cheese Riots of 1766
See what I mean? This sounds like the type of event that the writers for Blackadder would add to Edmund Blackadder's speech about the ridiculousness of something or the other as a reference. "Baldrick, there hasn't been a military action as ineffective as the one you just attempted since the mayor of Nottinghamshire tried to stop the Cheese Riots of 1766 only to get knocked unconscious by a rolling wheel of cheese." Yet, weirdly, the only thing made up in that sentence is the part about Baldrick. There were Cheese Riots in Nottinghamshire in the year of 1766. The mayor did try to stop them. He got knocked unconscious by a rolling wheel of cheese. It started because a bunch of merchants from another town tried to buy up a large part of Nottinghamshire's cheese supply. Since there was a food shortage, the locals wouldn't have it and rioted. This is one of those moments in history that make you go "wait a minute…" By the way, can someone convince Rowan Atkinson to record that sentence?
Selling the Bridge of London to an American
If you're a little familiar with the moments in history that include con artists, the selling of bridges is right up there on your list of scams to look out for. Famously, George C. Parker sold a bridge in Brooklyn over and over again, even though he didn't own a bridge in Brooklyn. Or any other bridge for that matter. Selling the Bridge of London pretty much just sounds like a UK version of this American scam. But it did happen. The London Bridge got sold for 2.4 million dollars to an American oil tycoon in 1968. It was subsequently shipped to Arizona in pieces. It's been reassembled and is now a landmark in Lake Havasu.
The war with only one shot
Typically, wars last a while. The cold war lasted decades. The two world wars lasted several years. There's a 100 year war and an 80 year war, and a number of other wars that were measured in decades rather than years. A war with only one shot just sounds like your friend's drinking match with some guy without any from of alcohol tolerance – who forgot to have dinner before taking the dare to boot. But in the aftermath of a few greater European wars there's a lesser-known war called "The Kettle War". The Holy Roman Empire sought to claim access to the Dutch river "Scheldt" on the 8th of october 1784 and sent three ships convinced that the Dutch wouldn't dare intervene. The Dutch Republic wasn't having any of it and fired a few warning shots. When these got ignored the only shot in this war was fired. It reportedly hit a soup kettle. The Emperor's ships surrendered. The war that followed was short-lived: only the fort of Lillo (at the time a vegetable garden) was invaded by the Austrian army and negotiatons were opened almost immediately.
Playing tennis on the wings of a flying airplane
As far as moments in history go, this one doesn't sound like just a made up thing. It sounds like an absolute nightmare. I don't know how it is for people without a fear of heights, but I'd imagine playing a ball game on the wings of a flying airplane would scare everyone. It sounds like some daredevil version of a WII-game rather than a thing that anyone would actually attempt. And weirdly: it happened. In 1925 two women played tennis on the wings of plane at a 1000 meters height. And though both of them were parachutists and pilots, so they knew what they were doing, neither of them even wore a parachute. It did make them rich, though, as a photo of this extremely dangerous game of tennis was sold around the world.
Without even a parachute
The concert 994 feet under the sea
This is just something from a Disney cartoon, right? Sebastian conducting an orchestra of clams or whatever, playing jazz to the Little Mermaid. Of course the Little Mermaid doesn't give a fuck, as she's horny and predominately interested in having sex with some prince on the shore. Love at first sight? Gimme a break. Ariel is horny enough to give up her voice just to get some. She's slick, wet and ready for some dry land friction. What I'm saying is: if the Little Mermaid's collection of human junk had included a satisfier, this fairy tale would have taken an entirely different turn. Anyway, there actually was a concert 994 feet under the sea. In 2006 Katie Melua played a gig in the dining area of the leg of a drilling platform, setting the world record for the deepest concert below sea level.
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Disney family matters: Hercules and Ariel are related
February 6, 2019 /0 Comments/in Movies /by Wordy von Writish
Did you know that beloved Disney princess and mermaid Ariel and ultimate fitboy and demigod Hercules share ancestors? They are cousins. How do we figure? Well, settle in for a bit of Greek mythological history.
Hercules's father was Zeus. As most of us know, Zeus was quite infamous for sleeping around with all kinds of lovely ladies (or not so lovely ladies and sometimes not even ladies at all) – producing offspring left, right and center. In the Disneyverse however, he's happily married to Hera, who is quite a nice lady in this adaptation. Hercules, by the way, is the Roman name of the mythological Disney-hero. In Greek mythology we know this dude as Herakles. All other characters in the Hercules-movie got their Greek names, but Disney might have liked the sound of Hercules better. That's curious, isn't it? Well, never mind. In mythology the married and mortal Alkmene bore demi-god Hercules. Zeus was such a player.
By the way, Hera wasn't just the wife of the adulterous grecian thundergod: she was also Zeus' sister. Lannisters approve, right? Anyway, how is Herc related to the red-haired beauty whose bottom side is all fishy? Well, take a look at the family tree of old Zeus.
His parents in mythology are the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and his brothers are Hades and Poseidon. Hades rules over the underworld and Poseidon reigns over the seas, leaving Zeus to be the lord of the heavens. Alright, you can already 'sea' where we're going, right?
One of Poseidon's sons is Triton, Ariels short-tempered and kind of racist father. So Hercules and Ariel share a set of ancestors in Cronus and Rhea. There we are. Triton is Hercules' uncle, which makes Ariel and Hercules cousins.
Well, that was easy. A bit of mythological lore, with a little Disney sauce on top, and nobody had to translate any texts from Old Greek. If Pixar movies are interconnected, Disney is going down that road as well.
This theory is discussed by The Film Theorists on YouTube.
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How the live action remake fixed plot holes in Beauty and the Beast
April 4, 2017 /0 Comments/in Movies /by Wordy von Writish
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Getting Started: You may be surprised to find out you have different options to build your in-ground pool.
Gunite pools are common in the Northern Virginia area. The picture above shows a 20' x 48' pool, 10'x 12' spa with a 6" spill over. We built 2 sheer descent waterfalls in the retaining wall on both sides of the spa. We installed a 3000 sqft travertine pool deck that matches the stone veneer on all the retaining walls. We designed and installed on both sides of the spa, fire elements or Fire Bowls with gas inserts. Building pools with gunite can customize the pool shape and size to fit any needs. Gunite, being a concrete product, takes longer to build and cost more to build. Gunite pools have steel reinforcement. This step in the pool build is not necessary in Fiberglass or Liner pools. Fiberglass pools are pre-built and has limits on sizes and shapes. They are great for small backyards as are Liner pools.
When talking to your Landscape Architect or Landscape Designer, ask about these different options for your property. What pools are made out of, could give you more options on the rest of the pool project options. Also, you may be able to qualify for financing the project at a local lender. Another great question for your Landscape Architect or Landscape Designer.


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Kenton Sicchitano Biography and Net Worth
Director of Analog Devices
Former Global Managing Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Mr. Sicchitano retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or PwC, a public accounting firm, in July 2001. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Sicchitano was the Global Managing Partner of Independence and Regulatory Matters for PwC. Mr. Sicchitano joined Price Waterhouse LLP, a predecessor firm of PwC, in 1970 and became a partner in 1979. During his 31-year tenure with PwC, Mr. Sicchitano held various positions including the Global Managing Partner of Audit/Business Advisory Services and the Global Managing Partner responsible for Audit/Business Advisory, Tax and Financial Advisory Services. Mr. Sicchitano served as a director of PerkinElmer, Inc. from 2003 to April 2017 and MetLife, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from 2001 until June 2017.
What is Kenton J. Sicchitano's net worth?
The estimated net worth of Kenton J. Sicchitano is at least $5.82 million as of November 9th, 2020. Sicchitano owns 34,090 shares of Analog Devices stock worth more than $5,823,595 as of January 30th. This net worth approximation does not reflect any other investments that Sicchitano may own. Learn More about Kenton J. Sicchitano's net worth.
How do I contact Kenton J. Sicchitano?
The corporate mailing address for Sicchitano and other Analog Devices executives is ONE TECHNOLOGY WAY, NORWOOD MA, 02062. Analog Devices can also be reached via phone at (781) 935-5565 and via email at [email protected] Learn More on Kenton J. Sicchitano's contact information.
Has Kenton J. Sicchitano been buying or selling shares of Analog Devices?
Kenton J. Sicchitano has not been actively trading shares of Analog Devices within the last three months. Most recently, Kenton J. Sicchitano sold 9,660 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Monday, November 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $140.00, for a transaction totalling $1,352,400.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 34,090 shares of the company's stock, valued at $4,772,600. Learn More on Kenton J. Sicchitano's trading history.
Who are Analog Devices' active insiders?
Analog Devices' insider roster includes James Champy (Director), Martin Cotter (SVP), Tunc Doluca (Director), Bruce Evans (Director), Edward Frank (Director), Joseph Hassett (SVP), Gregory Henderson (SVP), Vivek Jain (SVP), Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah (CFO), Steve Pietkiewicz (SVP), Vincent Roche (CEO), Margaret Seif (SVP), Kenton Sicchitano (Director), and Michael Sondel (CAO). Learn More on Analog Devices' active insiders.
Are insiders buying or selling shares of Analog Devices?
In the last year, Analog Devices insiders bought shares 1 times. They purchased a total of 3,650 shares worth more than $526,184.00. In the last year, insiders at the semiconductor company sold shares 20 times. They sold a total of 109,023 shares worth more than $18,498,929.71. The most recent insider tranaction occured on January, 11th when Director Tunc Doluca sold 1,700 shares worth more than $289,000.00. Insiders at Analog Devices own 0.9% of the company. Learn More about insider trades at Analog Devices.
Kenton J. Sicchitano Insider Trading History at Analog Devices
1/9/2020 Sell 11,860 $120.96 $1,434,585.60 34,255
7/5/2018 Sell 7,210 $95.06 $685,382.60 27,450
10/5/2017 Sell 15,000 $88.15 $1,322,250.00
4/7/2016 Sell 15,000 $58.28 $874,200.00 30,935
4/9/2015 Sell 15,000 $63.68 $955,200.00
6/20/2014 Sell 18,000 $54.79 $986,220.00
Kenton J. Sicchitano Buying and Selling Activity at Analog Devices
This chart shows Kenton J Sicchitano's buying and selling at Analog Devices by year and by quarter.
Analog Devices Company Overview
Analog Devices, Inc. is a global high-performance semiconductor company, which engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of integrated circuits (ICs). It produces a range of innovative products, including data converters, amplifiers and linear products, radio frequency (RF) ICs, power management products, sensors based on micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and other sensors, and processing products, including DSP and other processors. The company was founded by Raymond P. Stata and Matthew Lorber in 1965 and is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

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This charming little bird is poised to send perfectly plumed thank you notes. Pink and peach and soft browns and greens bring Liz's pen and ink drawing to life.
Set of 10 flat 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" flat white vellum note cards and envelopes is packaged in clear plastic box and tied with a fabric ribbon. Choice of crisp white or apple green envelopes.
This note is personalized with fresh green type with a soft mocha outline.
This cute thank you is also available without personalization .


TORONTO – Continuing its leadership in the evolution of green and sustainable building methods, George Brown College plans to construct the province's first Tall Wood institutional building. The planned 12-storey, carbon neutral facility will be home to a Tall Wood Building Research Institute.
The Arbour will serve as a living laboratory both during its construction and once complete, where students and researchers will learn to design, construct, operate and monitor climate-friendly buildings. It will be located on George Brown's Waterfront Campus, to the north of the LEED Gold certified Daphne Cockwell Centre for Health Sciences. The college recently purchased the land from the City of Toronto.
As the first of its kind in Ontario, The Arbour will become a demonstration facility that drives forward advancements in sustainable innovation and helps support the development of green buildings throughout Canada. George Brown also sees the new site as a premier opportunity to build on its commitment to provide environmentally-sustainable campuses.
A key element in the creation of a low-carbon campus will be the integration of smart building systems: networked, intelligent, sensitive and adaptable. With building automation at the forefront of design and development innovation, this project provides an opportunity to create a facility that can integrate, adapt, monitor and test latest technologies and share best practices with industry and students.
Why is there no mention of the Architect in this article?
We weren't given that information at press time. I'm looking to update it.


CAL doesn't sell insurance; they buy it.
CAL Insurance is an insurance broker in the truest sense of the word, purchasing policies and programs from different carriers to best meet clients' needs. CAL buys insurance on your behalf; they don't sell it. The CAL team has expertise in a wide range of commercial, personal and benefits products and coverages to ensure you have the right advisors, solutions and protection. They are known for asking — and answering — a lot of questions to determine your needs and expectations. Then they exceed them.


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Q: Adding test cases to list in Python I have a number of tests cases each defined in separate python files.
<file1.py>
class tc(testcase.tc):
     ....

<file2.py>
class tc(testcase.tc):
     ....

My main processing loop in RunTests.py has the following
class TestTable(wx.grid.PyGridTableBase):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.grid.PyGridTableBase.__init__(self)
        self.cols = "Execute Number Name Status".split()
        self.cases = []
        package = tests
        prefix = package.__name__ + "."
        for importer, modname, ispkg in pkgutil.iter_modules(package.__path__, prefix):
          if 'tests.testcase' != modname:          # skip the testcase.py file/module
              print modname
              module = __import__(modname, fromlist="dummy")
              print module.tc()
              self.cases.append( module.tc() )

I end up getting AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute tc.  My prints show the test case and tc instance
test.xxx

Not sure why....
Thanks

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Around WakeTech
College Offers Answers and Care to Students During Coronavirus
By: Traci Ashley | Web Posted: 04/22/20 11:07am
RALEIGH, N.C. (April 22, 2020) – When Wake Tech closed campuses in mid-March due to the coronavirus, college leaders quickly brainstormed ways to stay student-focused in a remote learning environment.
Administrators knew students would have questions about how to navigate new online classes, and they also knew students needed reassurance that they could successfully finish the semester despite the unprecedented times.
While three-quarters of the student body had completed the EPIC eLearning Orientation to prepare for online classes, the rest would need to be encouraged to take the training to get up to speed. Others would need help with internet access and technology.
The college developed two ideas – a virtual Answer Center and outbound personal phone calls to the 20,000 current students – as a way to help students and let them know that the college cares.
"There was a lot of synthesis of ideas in a hurry," said Brian Gann, Wake Tech's vice president of enrollment and student success. "It really is the result of a tremendous effort by a lot of people at the college doing good group think, teamwork and coming up with solutions."
Since the virtual Answer Center opened March 19, about 75 staff in Enrollment and Student Services have responded to more than 2,000 emails and phone calls from students with questions. Initially, students inquired about technology availability and connectivity but over time questions have transitioned to more process-related topics like enrolling for summer and fall, and dual-enrollment classes.
"The good news is that a lot of the questions we're getting now are very routine business questions now that we are a couple weeks into the delivery," Gann said.
Gann said many of the college's Enrollment and Student Services departments, such as advising, career services, financial aid, and veterans services were already piloting virtual service delivery and this crisis has given other areas like admissions and student activities the opportunity to think of creative ways to operate virtually.
"We've still got work to do on those things, but our folks have worked very hard, very fast to get some level of service up online, and I'm very appreciative of that," he said.
As for the outbound calling campaign, the idea is very simple, said Scarlet Edwards, associate vice president for military, veteran and special programs.
"We wanted to make some personal contact with our students to say, 'how are you doing?' We also wanted to offer them some support during these really unusual times and let them know that we will walk through this together."
The campaign is a college-wide effort. In addition to the 75 Enrollment and Student Services staff, staff in human resources associates and site coordinators have pitched in to call students. So far, the college has contacted more than 14,000, or about two-thirds of current enrollment for the spring semester.
In addition to checking on the well-being of students, Edwards said the outreach allows staff to learn of any students with technology, food assistance, and other emergency aid needs.
It's also been a great avenue to distribute laptops donated to the college from donors Coastal Credit Union, Kramden Institute, and Lenovo and as well as e-gift cards from Food Lion. Local UPS stores in Fuquay-Varina and Garner also offered the college discounts to ship the laptops to students.
"Some of the students have been surprised to get a personal call from Wake Tech, but by and large students have been tremendously appreciative," Edwards said. "Beyond making the connection with students, we've also been able to dig in and see what they need help with. We've been able to share information about available laptops, gift cards for food and also to remind them about general things like registration for summer and fall classes. It's been a great way to connect with students about the current situation but also to support students in these normal routine needs as well."
Nekita Campbell, a Wake Tech student in the Fire Protection Technology program, said she appreciated her advisor taking the time to reach out and check on her during the transition to remote learning.
"It was really a pleasant surprise, and it made me feel connected," Campbell said. "It also gave me this uplifting and encouraging feeling. It made me feel like they really do care," she said. "I thought to myself 'wow my college is actually calling to check on me!'"
In addition to checking on her transition, Campbell said her advisor offered her great advice on how to create a quiet study area in her home. She hopes the college will consider continuing regular check-ins with students even after the pandemic is over.
"This is such a nice touch," Campbell said. "It actually made me feel that I am appreciated and valued as a student and that I'm not just another number."
Gann says both the Answer Center and outbound calling are good student outreach tools for Wake Tech in the future.
"We don't know yet exactly what it will look like, but I think we know when we come out on the other side of this unprecedented event we will have learned a lot of new things, tried a lot of new processes, and used a lot of new technology that we will want to hang on to in some form," he said.
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Le Mosman Rugby Club est un club de rugby à XV fondé en 1890, basé dans la ville de Mosman et représentant tout le Lower North Shore à Sydney, en Australie.

Histoire
Le Mosman Rugby club a été fondé en 1890 et a joué son premier match avec un maillot bleu ciel décoré d'une étoile blanche face au Marylebone Club de Redfern, aujourd'hui défunt. Bien que les premiers résultats furent des défaites, les bons résultats vinrent grâce à une équipe très puissante comme l'illustre la présence du deuxième ligne  qui deviendra une star du rugby international et sera la capitaine de la première équipe nationale de Rugby à XIII à effectuer une tournée en Angleterre. Il évoluera également au sein des Wallabies lors de la tournée des Lions Britanniques en .

Le club a été officiellement inauguré en 1894 et M. J Cannon fut élu le premier président. Il débutera en compétition la même année, évoluant en troisième division junior "B" avec dix autres équipes. Cette année-là Mosman fini en septième position avec quatre victoires pour cinq défaites. Depuis sa fondation, le Mosman Rugby Club a évolué à haut niveau amateur mais a toujours réussi à maintenir l'équilibre entre les succès sur le terrain et d'amitié et de camaraderie hors de celui-ci.

En 1989 le club s'est engagé dans son projet le plus ambitieux, la rénovation de ses installations sportives au Rawson Park. Cela a exigé un effort énorme de la part du comité directeur de l'époque, les négociations avec les gouvernements locaux, fédéraux et de l'État des Nouvelles-Galles du Sud avec des opinions politiques différentes ayant été plutôt difficiles. Quatre ans et  plus tard, avec l'aide du , les portes du Club house se sont ouvertes le .

Aujourd'hui, Mosman compte sept équipes de différents niveaux, une équipe  (moins de 21 ans) ainsi que quinze équipes jeunes. Les équipes évoluent au sein des différents niveaux de la première division de la NSW Suburban Rugby Union. Environ 150 adultes et 250 juniors évoluent au club et sont principalement originaires des banlieues environnantes. Beaucoup d'expatriés installés à Sydney évoluent dans les différentes équipes du club. Un accord d'affiliation existe entre Mosman et le Northern Suburbs RFC afin que les meilleurs jeunes joueurs évoluent à un niveau supérieur. Cependant certains espoirs préfèrent rejoindre le Manly RUFC.

Palmarès
Le Mosman Rugby Club évolue au sein de la première division de la compétition du New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union, surnommée les Subbies.
 Kentwell Cup (1st Grade): 3 - 1923, 1927, 1954
 Burke Cup (2nd Grade): 4 - 1924, 1953, 1996, 2009
 Whiddon Cup (3rd Grade): 2 - 2003, 2007
 Judd Cup (4th Grade): 1 - 2007
 Sutherland Cup (5th Grade): 1 - 1995
 Halligan Cup (6th Grade): 1 - 2009
 Barbour Cup (Colts): 3 - 2002, 2004, 2007
 Under 85kg: 2 - 2007, 2009

Grands Noms
  - 4 sélections avec les Wallabies et 3 sélections avec les Kangaroos
  - Premier Australien drafté en NFL. A joué pour les Cardinals de Saint-Louis puis pour les Oilers de Houston.

Annexes

Articles connexes
Liste de clubs australiens de rugby à XV
Organisation du rugby australien
New South Wales Rugby Union
Shute Shield

Liens externes
  Site officiel du club
  NSW Rugby Union
  NSW Suburban Rugby Union

Club de rugby à XV à Sydney
Club de rugby à XV fondé en 1890

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Eli Shoup
Mason County Eastern - Life Lesson Awards Honorees
Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Track & Field
Eli Shoup, son of Robert and Amanda Shoup, is the Life Lesson Award honoree from Mason County Eastern and selected St. Mary's Caritas Food Pantry as the recipient of the donation given by the MCSHOF in his honor. Eli played basketball, baseball, ran cross country, as well as track & field and maintained a GPA of 4.0 while earning 15 varsity letters. Eli was dual enrolled at West Shore Community Co ...Read More...
Adrianna Malburg
Custer High School - High School Athlete Honorees
Cross Country, Track & Field
Malburg was a standout in cross country and track at Mason County Eastern. She is a four-time state-qualifying runner and twice was All-State, and she is a four-time Class D All-State runner. She captained the cross country team the her Junior and Senior year. f She was All-Western Michigan D League all four seasons. In track, she is a two-time state qualifier and earned All-WMD twice on the fir ...Read More...
Emma Fountain
Ludington High School - High School Athlete Honorees
Emma Fountain earned seven varsity letters in her high school career: four in track and field, two in cross country, and one in basketball. She excelled in track and field, where she was the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 state champion in in 2018, and an all-state runner in 2019 in the 400-meter. She was a part of two all-state 3,200-meter relay teams in 2016 and 2017. Fount ...Read More...
Wally Schafer
Wally Schafer is a 1957 graduate of Ludington High School where he set the state record in the mile run in 1956 with a time of 4:37.04. He was the state runner-up the following spring despite losing a shoe on the first lap. He earned four varsity letters and was the Orioles' track captain his senior year while also being named the All-Around Senior. He went to the University of Michigan on a track ...Read More...
Jacob Shoop
Mason County Central - High School Athlete Honorees
Cross Country, Track & Field, Wrestling
Qualified all four years at the state meet in cross country. All conference champ Jr and Sr year in wrestling. Won 3rd place at state Jr year and state champ Sr year in wrestling. 3.57 gpa, National Honor Society, Gold recipient H.G. Bacon award, MHSAA Scholar athlete award recipient. Active in 4-H and St. Mary's church. Jacob will be attending Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa to continue w ...Read More...
Mason County Eastern - High School Athlete Honorees
Two time state champ in 100 meter dash. State record holder in 100 meter dash. County record in 400 meter dash. Qualified in 4 events at state track meet 2017. 3x class D all state in cross country. Participates in student council, SADD, Homecoming queen. Jordan will be attending Aquinas College to continue running. ...Read More...
Lauren Biggs
State runner up in 800 Jr year, state champ in 800 Sr year. Conference champ in track 6 times and conference champ cross country 3 times. 4.213 gpa Alpha grad,National Honor Society, student council, and plays in the band. Lauren will be attending U.S. Military Academy at West Point to continue running. ...Read More...
Leanna (Wolf) Geers
Mason County Central - MCSHOF Inductee
Leanna (Wolf) Geers shined brightly on the track and the cross country courses for Mason County Central and Ferris State University. Geers graduated from MCC in 2002 and owned four school records (400-meter, 800, 3,200 relay and 1,600 relay) with multiple West Michigan Conference championships in the 400 and 800 runs with the 1,600 and 3,200 relays. She was awarded the female Senior Sportsmansh ...Read More...
Mike Benedict
Bowling, Cross Country, Fast-Pitch Softball, Track & Field
Mike Benedict ran to the 1981 Class B state cross country championship in his senior year at Ludington High School. It was set up by a 19th place finish the year before. In both seasons, Benedict was all-region and all-Seaway Conference. In track, Benedict was a three-time all-Seaway Conference athlete and was the conference champion in the two-mile his senior year. Benedict eventually ran for Sag ...Read More...
Ross Donley
Coach, Cross Country, Track & Field
Ross Donley coached the Ludington High School track teams for 37 years and cross country for 26 years. His track teams won 16 league titles, four regional titles and three times were in the top 10 at the state meet. Donley's cross country teams won six league titles and four regional titles. He is a four-time regional cross country coach of the year and the 1983 track coach of the year. Donley is ...Read More...


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Darknet Buyers Flock to Wall Street as Dream Winds Down
As the darknet's largest market prepares to wind down, its second largest is taking the strain. When Dream closes for good at the end of April, Wall Street will become the largest darknet market (DNM), at least until Dream's successor launches and can prove its legitimacy. Paranoia has pervaded the darknet in recent weeks amidst uncertainty over marketplace integrity and a string of high profile busts.
Also read: The Darknet's Largest Marketplace Is Closing – But a Replacement Is on Its Way
Wall Street Profits from Dream's Demise
While Dream winds down the clock, ahead of a planned shutdown and transition to a new DNM, customers have flocked elsewhere. Many have taken up residence at Wall Street, which has struggled to process the spate of new orders. A notice posted on the site this week warned of address generation, input detection, signing messages and other onchain processes taking longer than normal. Unlike Dream, Wall Street doesn't provide deposit addresses: instead buyers send funds from a personal wallet directly to a two-of-three multisig, created for each unique transaction.
The warning notice posted on Wall Street
Customers have the option to pay with BTC or with monero (XMR), and PGP login is available for added security. The number of vendors and listings on Wall Street is much lower than on Dream, and the success or failure of the first orders placed by former Dream users will be pivotal in determining whether Wall Street can capitalize on its competitor's impending demise.
With DNMs in Turmoil, LEA Launches Crackdown
In addition to facing uncertainty on the darknet, vendors and buyers have been on high alert in the streets. A series of law enforcement raids have added to the sense of disquiet, including a Sacramento operation that netted close to $2M of BTC. "The darknet is not the cloak of secrecy for illegal drug users that they think it is," said U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott at a news conference announcing the busts, which targeted opioid sellers.
Meanwhile, a Canadian drug dealer battling to retain the $1.4M of BTC found in his possession has suffered mixed fortunes. Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly ruled that the BTC should be confiscated, but consented to allow 30-year-old Matthew Phan to keep 7.23 BTC, as the judge was not entirely confident that this sum was associated with criminal activity. The raid which saw Phan's BTC confiscated occurred in 2015, when his digital assets were worth around $65,000. While he has now forfeited the lion's share of the 280 BTC he was found with, Phan's remaining 7.23 BTC should provide some solace upon his release.
Tor Project Supports 10 Cryptocurrencies Including BCH
The past month has provided little cheer for darknet users, with one of the few crumbs of comfort coming courtesy of the Tor Project, responsible for developing the onion browser used for connecting to the darknet. The foundation has expanded the list of cryptocurrencies it accepts, and now takes donations in bitcoin cash, monero, zcash and several more. In addition, donations sent to Tor will now be received directly by the project, instead of going via Bitpay. Thanks to the addition of support for several privacy-centric coins, the darknet's most devout users now have an easier way to support the project whose work makes it all possible.
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A piece I wrote for Egyptian Streets about the rise of a new Egyptian tech start-up called Engezni, started by two friends of mine from university.
A while back, everyone freaked out over Egypt's planned space agency being a waste of money given the nation's other problems. I disagree with that sentiment so I wrote an article for Egyptian Streets explaining my perspective. The link is in the title. Enjoy!
Recently it came to my attention that the US government was planning to decrease funding for NASA. While I was a little taken aback by this news, the decision itself was not what concerned me. The US may very well have good reason to cut its spending (although personally, I cringe whenever any kind of science/research funding is cut in any context) and there are plenty of governments and companies who would continue sending things into space even if the US slowed down. What concerned me was some of the opinions people had on space travel. I noticed that a lot of people view space exploration as a frivolous waste of resources, claiming that "we have enough problems down here" and space is just a distraction. I vehemently disagree. I believe space exploration is not only incredibly exciting but also of massive relevance to average people, whether that exploration is done by NASA or someone else.
To begin with, let's talk about some of the exciting things that are going on in the space industry. With the deceleration of the space race in the decades following the moon landing, individuals from the private sector stepped in with their own ideas for picking it back up. Most famous of the lot is Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic, which if you hadn't heard is a service offering touristic trips to space. He's currently succeeded at garnering millions from ticket sales to thrill-seeking celebrities and his aircrafts have already gone supersonic. Of similar fame is Elon Musk's SpaceX. Known for PayPal, Tesla Motors, SolarCity and most recently his audacious hyperloop idea, Musk is no less an amazing individual than Branson. He ultimately wants to colonize Mars but wanting to be practical, his main focus now is making rockets that are cheap and reusable. So far he's succeeded at making a prototype of the reusable rocket and making SpaceX the first private company to resupply the international space station. Then there are the slightly crazier companies like Mars One which aims to launch and broadcast a Mars colonization mission by 2023, and Planetary Resources which wants to mine asteroids for resources. And of course NASA is ever-present in the field. Their primary focus seems to be Mars; after having discovered evidence it once was capable of supporting life and that life on earth may have actually come from Mars on an asteroid, they're currently making plans to send more robots to study the matter.
As you can see, the space age is far from dead. But how do any of these things help us? So a few rich people get joy-rides to space, what good does that do the rest of us? Well, their main objectives might be a little frivolous but the success of these ventures would bring benefits far beyond those objectives. Virgin Galactic may be selling tickets to the rich but the technology developed could mean planes that can exit the atmosphere, fly without air resistance slowing them down and re-enter. That means a commercial flight from London to Sydney could take as little as 4 hours, revolutionizing global transportation. The plan to mine asteroids might seem like an attempt by a group of rich men to get even richer, but in doing so they would be helping solve the issue of resource scarcity. Unusually enough, the founders of Planetary Resources want to bring back platinum-group metals and lower the market price for them on earth. Currently, these metals cost $23,000 a pound and a reduction in their price would mean reduction in the price of medical devices and renewable energy products (among other products) that utilize them. Additionally, since the mining would require robotics technology that doesn't yet exist, this project's success would result in the development of that technology and consequently its use on earth in a variety of applications. And in the case of both of these companies, SpaceX's work to make cheap, reusable rockets would complement their work and pave the way for other space-related business ideas to surface.
But that's all quite speculative, what has space travel gained us so far? Well, while trying to make space travel possible, a lot of very tough engineering problems are encountered and the scientists and engineers working on them have to come up with creative and innovative solutions (if it costs billions to send another rocket you'd better be sure you're going to think everything through very thoroughly). Much like the asteroid robots, these solutions can be applied to problems that affect everyone here on earth. This is a list of some of the most notable technologies developed/being developed by NASA as a result of space exploration. Some of these were patented and licensed out, earning them money (if you want to make an economic argument for funding the space program, this would be a good place to start) but money aside, some of the items on this list are hugely important! These include, but are not limited to, artificial limbs, heart pumps, water purifiers and high-performance solar cells. We may have plenty of problems "down here" that we need to focus on but space exploration isn't as far removed from those problems as most people would tend to think.
But all of that is just in the short term. We tend to wave away the long-term goals because they seem so far-fetched but they are goals worth striving for in their own right. A Martian colony may seem a little impractical now but imagine after we've got all the technology down and we take that step towards becoming an interplanetary species. A successful Martian colony would serve as an excellent backup for the human race. Granted, the earth is safe at the moment but with the climate changing, natural disasters wreaking havoc on our cities and radioactive material spilling into our oceans, there may come a time when we can't survive here anymore and we'll wish we had colonized Mars. But Mars is nearby and boring, what about the more interesting planets that are farther away? All the potentially habitable planets are light-years away from us but imagine if we could get to them in a few months or years? Although they're still very far away from practical prototypes, physicists have devised plausible physical theories for building warp drives that could take us to the Gliese 667 system, where there are 3 potentially habitable planets, in as little as 2 years. It sounds implausible but NASA is already planning to have interstellar travel by 2100. Then of course there's the holy grail of space travel: the discovery of alien life. Right now our best bet is the possibility of bacteria beneath the surface of Mars but what if we went to one of the Gliese planets and found intelligent life? Not only would it be the greatest scientific discovery in human history but just the knowledge of another intelligent species would have massive religious and philosophical implications.
If that last paragraph has enthused you or gotten you daydreaming about a life aboard the enterprise, that leads me into my last point. Space is one of the few things that still has the power to capture all our imaginations. Think of kids hearing about these sorts of plans and how that gives them something to strive for. Speaking from personal experience, sci-fi and dreams of spacey tech is the reason I got into science. Having things like this going on will create the next generation of scientists and goodness knows we need them. Not just for space and research but in every branch of society. And on top of that, to be human is to dream. Elon Musk said it best when he said a life without dreams is meaningless. We have to dream we have to seek out something new otherwise, what's the point? Nobody says we should invest too much of our effort in this field. At the end of the day, we live on earth, this is our home and there are a lot of problems we need to face. But that doesn't mean there can't be room for space travel as well. Even if it's only 1% or 0.5% of our total activity as a civilization, it easily pays for itself with the technologies it produces, the young minds it inspires and the sense of wonder it instills in us all. And who knows, maybe one day it will change everything.
Last week, I was sitting with some friends as we discussed our newly assigned schedules for the semester. Naturally we were trying to figure out when everyone was free so we could hang out. As we scratched our heads trying to coordinate 6 or so schedules (each one more scattered and hideous than the last) I made a passing comment that it probably wouldn't be too hard to write a program that solved this problem. One of my friends suggested that we instead just write everything down on a piece of paper. Anyone who knows a computer scientist will tell you how much comments like these make us twitch. Why? Because it is our (or at least my) firm belief that any task that can be automated should be automated.
Here's the link to the app if you want to check it out, and below is a walkthrough of the app's functionality.
I made the homepage as simple as possible. Apps should try to guide the user where they want to go and minimize confusion.
Assuming you're a first time user you'll click the right button and be taken to a page where you create a group. Obvious issues: nothing to stop you from messing up your password and nothing to stop a script making tons of groups. Worst case scenario: the app exceeds the datastore write limit and nobody can make new groups for a day. Precautions I DID take: passwords are hashed (with a salt to prevent the use of a rainbow lookup tables) and html is escaped.
Now you have a group, and you want to add your schedule.
Type in your name and click and drag to fill out the table. I tried to program the click and drag functionality myself using jquery so it gets a little funny sometimes. You can click slots individually if it does and submit when you're done.
Once you submit you'll be taken to your group schedule page. A slot is red if at least one person is busy. If you want to plan a group activity, go for white but if you find yourself free during one of the red slots, hover over to see who else is free. You can also navigate to this page from the "View Group Schedule" button. If you go back to the main page from this one you can try it but you'll have to refresh the page or empty all fields except for the group name and password. This is another minor bug but it's a step up from having the entire app crash whenever one field was wrong.
And there you have it! First pet project of the semester. Check it out, play around with it and let me know what you think. More to come soon.
I've been going through a lot of web-comics lately and I decided I'd take a shot at making my own, borrowing from the nerdy style of xkcd. Enjoy!


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Congress leader tells workers to learn discipline from RSS, days after being assaulted by partymen: Reports
The Congress appears to be stumbling into one controversy after another in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh as a fight broke out between party workers in the state over a chair. The state Congress general secretary-in-charge, Deepak Babaria, then advised his party-men to learn something from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, reports NDTV.
When asked by the media to clarify, Babaria saw no issues with his comments. "Yes, I appreciated the way Pandit Nehru used them during the China war, their discipline. If something is good about any organisation there is no harm in appreciating it," he is reported to have said.
The comments come only a few days after Babaria was assaulted by party workers during his visit to Rewa, Madhya Pradesh when he was talking to reporters. Reports indicate that he was roughed up by his own party workers because he declared Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia as the only probable Congress candidates for Chief Minister of the state.
We had earlier reported on the growing fissures within the Congress party in Madhya Pradesh. Despite its attempts to project a united front against the Bharatiya Janata Party, the factional divisions within its state unit due to the Chief Ministerial ambitions of senior Congress leaders, Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia, might well prove to be their undoing.
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State of AlaskaSOA / CommerceDCCED / Corporations, Business, & Professional LicensingCBPL / Corporations / Registered Agents FAQs
Registered Agents FAQs
1. Why is a registered agent required?
Alaska Statutes states a Corporation shall (must) continuously (without interruption) maintain in this state (Alaska only) a registered agent (an individual resident of Alaska or a corporation authorized to transact business in Alaska, depending on your entity type, see question #3) and a registered office (a physical location and a mailing address in Alaska) for the purpose of a registered agent's statutory requirements to receive service of processes, notices, or demands required or permitted by law to be served upon the Corporation.
Who may serve as your registered agent depends upon what entity type you are. See question # 3 (below) for more information.
IMPORTANT: If using an individual as your registered agent, an individual must be a resident of the State of Alaska only. The residency of an individual is defined under AS 01.10.055(a) "by being physically present in the state with the intent to remain in the state indefinitely and to make a home in the state". Note: this means an individual is not: establishing residency or claiming residency in another state, territory, or country; nor obtaining benefits under a claim of residency outside the State of Alaska.
IMPORTANT: If using a corporation as your registered agent, it must be a "corporation", such as: business corporation; professional corporation; or non-profit corporation. An entity cannot be its own registered agent. The registered agent cannot be a non-corporation entity, such as: LLC, LLP, LP; or any other non-corporation enitity.
2. What is the purpose of a registered agent?
Per Alaska Statutes, the registered agent of a corporation is an agent upon who may be served processes, notices, or demands required or permitted by law to be served upon the corporation.
Corporation statutes require some specific department notices and processes to be mailed (to a mailing address). For civil purposes, per Alaska Court Civil Rule 4 , possible methods of service may be in-person (at a physical address) or via certified mail (to a mailing address).
IMPORTANT: Failure to maintain a current and valid physical and mailing address (i.e. as may be demonstrated by return USPS mail to this division) will result in non-compliance status for the entity and may lead to involuntarily dissolution or revocation of the entity's authority to transact business in the State of Alaska.
The registered agent is statutorily responsible for receiving and forwarding processes, notices, or demands on to the last known address of the entity.
3. Who is required to have and maintain a registered agent?
All Corporations types (Business, Professional, Non-Profit, Religious, and Cooperatives), Limited Liability Companies (LLC), Limited Partnerships (LP), and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) doing business in Alaska must have a registered agent.
The registered agent may be an individual resident of this state or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state for the following entity types:
Business Corporation - AS 10.06.150
Cooperative - AS 10.15.025
Non-Profit Corporation - AS 10.20.026
Professional Corporation - AS 10.45.240 and AS 10.06.150
Limited Liability Company - AS 10.50.055
Limited Liability Partnership - AS 32.06.911
Limited Partnership - AS 32.11.830
The registered agent must be an individual resident of this state for the following entity types:
Electric/Telephone Cooperative - AS 10.25.460
Religious Corporation - AS 10.40.130
4. What are the requirements to become a registered agent?
Must be an individual resident of Alaska or a corporation authorized to transact business in Alaska.
Must have an Alaska state physical address.
Must have an Alaska state mailing address.
A corporation may not act as its own registered agent.
Non-corporation entities (such as: LLC, LLP, LP, etc.) cannot serve as a registered agent.
Attorneys and incorporated law firms may act as registered agents.
5. Do other agencies have special requirements for a registered agent?
Alcohol Beverage Statute:
AS 04.11.430(a): Each license shall be issued to a specific individual or individuals, to a partnership, including a limited partnership, to a limited liability organization, or to a corporation. If the license is issued to a corporation or a limited liability organization, the registered agent of the corporation or limited liability organization must [mandatory] be an individual resident of the state.
For more information contact the Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office .
6. Why are a physical address and a mailing address required for a registered agent?
Alaska Statutes states a corporation shall (must) continuously (without interruption) maintain in this state (Alaska only) a registered agent and a registered office (a physical location and a mailing address in Alaska) for the purpose of a registered agent's statutory requirements to receive service of processes, notices, or demands required or permitted by law to be served upon the Corporation..
Corporation statutes require some specific department notices and processes to be mailed (to a mailing address). For civil purposes, per Alaska Court Civil Rule 4, possible methods of service may be in-person (at a physical address) or via certified mail (to a mailing address).
7. Can a registered agent have their mail "held" or "forwarded"?
No, for the following reasons:
the purpose of the registered agent (see question #2);
the requirement for the registered agent to be in the State of Alaska (see question #4);
and the expectation for the statutory duties of the registered agent to be performed in a timely manner to avoid possible impacts to the entity, such as: non-compliance; involuntary dissolution , or revocation; and inactivation to the entity's business license .
IF the registered agent will be absent from the State of Alaska (making them unable to perform the statutory duties and expectations of a registered agent) THEN the entity will need to submit hardcopy via fax or US Mail a Statement of Change along with its $25 filing fee to provide a new registered agent. Statement of Change forms can be found on the Forms & Fees web page.
IMPORTANT: Use the appropriate Statement of Change for your entity type.
For more statutory information pertaining to registered agents see question # 11.
8. What happens if I fail to maintain a registered agent?
A corporation will be non-compliant for failure to maintain a registered agent and may be dissolved involuntarily by the commissioner if the corporation has failed for 30 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent in the state.
Business Corporation - AS 10.06.633(2)
Cooperative - AS 10.15.505 and AS 10.06.633(2)
Non-Profit Corporation - AS 10.20.325(4)
Religious Corporation – AS 10.40.150(a)(2)
Professional Corporation - AS 10.45.240 and AS 10.06.633(2)
Limited Liability Company – AS 10.50.(a)(2)
Limited Liability Partnership – AS 32.06.913
9. How do I change or update my registered agent and/or their address?
Submit a Statement of Change form along with the $25.00 non-refundable filing fee to the Corporations Section. The form can be found on the Forms & Fees web page.
10. How do I resign if I am a registered agent?
Submit a Registered Agent Resignation form along with the $25.00 non-refundable filing fee to the Corporations Section. The form can be found on the Forms & Fees web page. The resignation is effective 30 days after receipt of the notice unless the entity appoints a successor agent sooner.
11. Where can I find a registered agent?
You may search for a registered agent business in: local, state, federal business license and corporation records; internet; telephone directories; Alaska Bar Association; and so on.
See question #4 above for more information on the requirements to be a registered agent.
Below is a courtesy partial alphabetical list of registered agent businesses in the State of Alaska. Please contact them directly for their addresses and rates. This list is not an endorsement or recommendation of any individual or company and is not a complete list.
AK Entity #
AK Business License #
Arctic Business Consultants, Inc. 62417D 965387
DBA Arctic Taxes (907) 743-1040
Baxter, Bruce & Sullivan PC 19076D 286143 (907) 789-3166
Cogency Global Inc. 60341F 2118281 DBA Cogency Global Inc. (800) 221-0102
Complete Corporate Services of Alaska, Inc. 48136D 142332 (907) 790-4956
DLG Services, Inc. 10006669 978310 (907) 258-3224
First Corporate Solutions, Inc. 10026669 1033494 (916) 313-8900
MB Services, Inc. 86871D 307744 (907) 334-5600
Paracorp Incorporated 64730F 992270 (907) 272-3725
Solomon Investments, Inc. 116770 1005883 (907) 258-2228
If you are a registered agent business and would like to have your information included on this courtesy list, please email our office at corporations@alaska.gov and make your request to the attention of the Corporations Section supervisor. Please note: an entity's ability to consistently demonstrate the ability to obtain and maintain a current, active and good standing status with both the Corporations and Business Licensing Sections are reviewed when considering these requests.
12. For more Alaska Statutes information regarding registered agents you may go to:
See: Alaska Corporation Statutes and Regulations
Business Corporation: AS 10.06
Professional Corporation: AS 10.45
Non-Profit Corporation: AS 10.20
Limited Liability Company: AS 10.50
Limited Partnership: AS 32.11
Limited Liability Partnership: Domestic - AS 32.06
Cooperative Corporation: AS 10.15
Religious Corporations: AS 10.40
Electric and Telephone Cooperative : AS 10.25


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Once upon a time, to become a marketer you simply had to go to a good marketing school, get a marketing degree, join the marketing department of a good marketing company and pursue your marketing career.
This week is Advertising Week in NYC. For those of you in Europe who have not been able to jump on a flight to sip cocktails in the Big Apple, two big themes have emerged so far (which won't surprise you): programmatic and native.
Pop-up spaces give marketers free rein to experiment with design and new commercial concepts, while giving people a taste of brand values.
A year into his tenure as L'Oréal UK managing director, Michel Brousset tells Marketing Week about the brand's motto, 'disrupt or don't do', how the global company operates on a local level and why hiring L'Oreal's first UK chief marketing office will be a catalyst for focusing on the consumer.
Prestige beauty brands always see a surge in in-store sales in the run up to christmas but innovation and clever use of social media can do the same for their online efforts.
If you want to get any marketing ideas past Sarah Warby, first you have to pass the "mum test". Sainsbury's marketing director believes everything the supermarket does has to be simple to explain and simple to execute. If her mum can understand it and would approve of it then it gets the go-ahead.
This week I am writing my column from a holiday villa in Italy. It reminds me of Colin Firth writing his novel on a manual typewriter in the film Love Actually.


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Animals, algorithms, and obstacle courses: Welcome to the A.I. Olympics
A.I. has an intelligence problem. More specifically, how do you measure intelligence as computer scientists work toward the dream of a machine with something approaching a mind, as you or I might consider it?
Throughout the field's history there have been multiple hypothetical tests put forward, from the famous Turing Test to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's proposed Coffee Test. But there is little in the way of scientific rigor to these approaches. Could measuring A.I. intelligence using tests designed for animals help?
That's what a new competition, organized by the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence in Cambridge and Prague-based research institute GoodA.I. hopes to find out. Called the "Animal-A.I. Olympics," it will take place for the first time this June. It aims to test autonomous A.I. agents, developed by some of the world's top research groups, by putting them through a series of problem-solving exercises designed by leading animal cognition experts.
"People have long been interested in the question of whether we will ever have artificial systems that are capable of doing everything that humans can do," Matthew Crosby, a postdoctoral A.I. researcher working on the project, told Digital Trends. "Being capable of doing everything that animals can do is considered a stepping stone towards that."
"Will we ever have artificial systems that are capable of doing everything that humans can do?"
Unlike previous A.I. competitions, which focused on single domain challenges like chess or Go, the Animal-A.I. Olympics is made up of 100 different tests, divided into 10 categories. These will range in difficulty, but all are designed to test some aspect of bot intelligence. This includes areas like an A.I.'s understanding of object permanence ("can an A.I. understand that, even when object A moves behind object B, object A still exists"), preference relationships ("is more food better than less food?"), and the ability to memorize a scene so as to complete a maze in the dark. The exact tests planned are being kept secret so that researchers cannot prepare their A.I. systems too well in advance.
The winning agent — whose creators will take home $10,000 for their efforts — will be the one which exhibits high levels of performance across the board. This ability to adapt from one task to the next is intended to showcase a type of broader, more generalized intelligence. In doing so, it will test today's artificial intelligence systems in a whole new way.
Easy problems are hard, hard problems are easy
Much of what the original generation of artificial intelligence researchers thought about intelligence turned out to be incorrect. They believed that building an A.I. which could, for instance, play chess like a math prodigy would result in a machine as intelligent as a math prodigy. A bit like starting a puzzle by piecing together the most complicated parts first, they figured they were bypassing the simplest steps. These could surely be filled in later. After all, once you had programmed your chess grandmaster robot, how tough could it be to backtrack and make a computer that could simulate the learning of an infant? Not very, they reasoned. They were wrong.
This isn't a new observation. In the 1980s, an A.I. researcher named Hans Moravec, today an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, put forward a hypothesis known as "Moravec's Paradox." In an insight that turned the A.I. world upside down, Moravec observed that it is "comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers." On the other hand, it is "difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility."
Animal AI Olympics
To put it another way, the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard.
There are plenty of reasons for this, but one of the big ones is that early A.I. and robotics research focused on elaborate microworlds in which every variable could be perfectly controlled. Chess, to return to an earlier example, is a game based around clearly-defined states, board positions, and moves which are either legal or illegal. It depicts a static world in which both players have access to complete information so long as they know the moves of each piece and can see the board.
Building an A.I. which could play chess like a math prodigy would result in a machine as intelligent as a math prodigy
The real world isn't like chess. We assume that what a child does is simple, because it is something that most of us can do without much thought, but there is an extraordinary amount of abstraction and complexity involved. An idea like object permanence, the concept that when things disappear from view they aren't gone forever, develops in human babies at around 4-7 months. But it is a challenging idea to convey to a computer in an entirely different way to teaching it to play Go. These areas are the ones the Animal-A.I. Olympics will test.
"I think we've identified interesting areas where A.I. is perhaps not doing as well as people might expect from outside the A.I. community," Crosby explained. "That's probably why the tests seem quite simple for people who aren't working with A.I. themselves. But they're limitations that a lot of people working within A.I. are actually quite worried about."
Advances in machine learning
Previously, there would have been no hope of machines being able to complete these tests. In recent years, however, there has been more progress toward an increasingly brain-like type of learning. It's no coincidence that, at the time that Moravec's Paradox was put forward in the 1980s, A.I. was just starting to transition away from the pre-programmed, rule-based world of Symbolic A.I. to a world of machine learning, built around algorithms that mimic the human brain. This was the start of the revolution.
Jump forward to the present day, and there has been enormous promise in fields like deep reinforcement learning, which teaches A.I. to take actions in an environment to maximize some kind of reward. (Here's a look at how far researchers came in 2018.) This is the research area which has given us high profile illustrations of A.I.'s ability to iteratively improve itself in order to learn to play classic Atari video games without being shown to do so.
Crosby said that he expects deep reinforcement learning A.I. to do very well in many of the tests laid out in the Animal-A.I. Olympics. But there will still be challenges. A reinforcement learning A.I. is frequently trained on the same environment over and over again in order to become accomplished at a particular task. It starts as a blank slate and gets smarter by making mistakes and then learning from those mistakes.
In this case, the team is making available "playground" test environments to train the A.I. agents. However, the exact environment the tests will be run on will not be available until the day of the competition.
"There's a big question right now concerning how much innate knowledge should you build into your agent," Crosby said. "Should you start your agent completely from scratch and then expect it to learn everything? Or can you build in some information about the environment? When we are born, we're born with highly structured brains that are already well adapted to existing in the type of world that we find ourselves in. So maybe the correct thing to do is to start an intelligent agent well-adapted for the world it is going to operate in. Some of the attempts to encode this kind of innate knowledge are really interesting."
How to build a mind?
In some ways, it's possible to argue that the animal cognition tests are, in themselves, an abstraction and simplification of the real world. There is continued debate among animal cognition experts over what exactly the tests prove, and whether or not they are capable of establishing a genuine hierarchy of intelligence among animals. Much of the disagreement centers on how much understanding of an environment is necessary to solve a puzzle.
Crosby acknowledges this issue — and the risk of reading intelligence into A.I. behavior that can be explained in simpler ways — but argues that this is still useful. "Having such a wide variety of tests, which have been taken from broad [scientific] literature, is the best we can do at the moment," he said.
One thing that we cannot do is assume that this test will, by itself, prove the existence of a generalized intelligence. As he observes, "a general intelligence should be able to solve all of these tests, but an A.I. that solves all of them would not necessarily have general intelligence."
In some ways, it's related to the question of why it is so difficult to build a model of the brain. The human brain has roughly 100,000 neurons and 900 million synaptic connections per cubic millimeter. This is, evidently, far too much complexity for even the world's biggest supercomputers to process. But a honey bee has 960,000 neurons in total, while a cockroach has — at 1 millions neurons — only slightly more. Why, then, should the world's high compute research groups not yet have achieved, through their deep learning neural networks, a general intelligence (if that is what it would be) on the level of either of these two creatures? Has it already? The answer is no — because that is not the problem that's being worked on. And, even if it was, we're not capable of doing it yet.
"There's a big difference between neural networks as they're commonly used in deep learning, and the neural network of the brain," Crosby said. "When you take a neural network in deep learning, it is highly abstracted to solve mathematical operations. It's also highly optimized to be able to do machine learning, so that you can quickly backtrack through it to update the weights in your network and do so with a simplified calculation. Neurons in the actual brain are very, very complex things. They have all these chemical properties which just aren't modeled in standard deep learning neural networks. When you see a deep learning neural network that has a comparable size to a bee's brain, [what is being computed] is a lot simpler than what an actual neuron is processing. There's still a lot of discussion about the level of detail you need to simulate in a neuron to capture all of its behavior."
As a result, you should be very, very skeptical of any headlines emerging from the Animal-A.I. Olympics claiming that, for instance, A.I. has reached the level of a rat or other animal. But that doesn't make the competition without value. Far from it.
"[I don't want this to just be a one-off] competition, which is then over, but rather a useful ongoing testbed for A.I. researchers," Crosby said. "It's a step towards general intelligence. If, in the future, you're coming up with an approach that you think should be able to solve these problems we're going to make available the ability to test it."
This could turn out to be the beginning of something very exciting for artificial intelligence — particularly if the excitement of building more generalized intelligent agents prompts more work in this area.
"It's the kind of idea where, even if it fails, it's still interesting enough a project that it will be worthwhile," Crosby said. And if it an intelligence agent manages to ace all of the tests? "If you pass all the tests that we're going to set out, it would be a massive breakthrough in A.I."
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Lot 77, American war of Independence poem in praise of Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount in the Irish peerage and commander-in-chief, north America, 1775-1778, single sheet folio printed on one side, €6,500 (€1,000-€1,500). Lot 126, 1916 Defence of Trinity College cup silver presentation cup awarded to Private Garnet Douglas King, €5,000 (€2,000-€3,000). Lot 19, pair of duelling pistols by Obadiah Wisdom of Drogheda, €4,600 (€3,500-€5,000). Lot 30, silver snuff box presented to Samuel Gray for the defence of Ballybay, Co Monaghan from "Popish demagogues" in 1828, €4,000 (€3,000-€5,000).
Sunday (April 29th) Hegarty's Auction Rooms, Bandon, Co Cork.
General auction to include furniture, paintings and jewellery; lot 20, three-stone diamond ring in yellow and white gold, €18,000-€24,000.
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@implementation BRAAnchor

- (NSDictionary *)openXmlAttributesForNewAnchoredDrawing {
    return @{};
}

@end

@implementation BRAOneCellAnchor

- (NSDictionary *)openXmlAttributesForNewAnchoredDrawing {
    return @{
             @"xdr:from": @{
                     @"xdr:colOff": @"",
                     @"xdr:rowOff": @"",
                     @"xdr:col": @"",
                     @"xdr:row": @""
                     },
             @"xdr:ext": @{
                     @"_cx": @"",
                     @"_cy": @""
                     },
             @"xdr:pic": @{
                     @"xdr:nvPicPr": @{
                             @"xdr:cNvPr": @{
                                     @"_name": @"",
                                     @"_id": @""
                                     },
                             @"xdr:cNvPicPr": @{
                                     @"a:picLocks":@{
                                             @"_noChangeAspect": @""
                                             }
                                     }
                             },
                     @"xdr:blipFill": @{
                             @"a:blip": @{
                                     @"_xmlns:r": @"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships",
                                     @"_r:embed": @"",
                                     },
                             @"a:srcRect": @{
                                     @"_t": @"",
                                     @"_b": @"",
                                     @"_l": @"",
                                     @"_r": @""
                                     },
                             @"a:stretch": @""
                             },
                     @"xdr:spPr": @{
                             @"a:prstGeom": @{
                                     @"_prst": @"rect",
                                     @"a:avLst": @""
                                     }
                             }
                     },
             @"xdr:clientData": @""
             };
}

@end

@implementation BRATwoCellAnchor

- (NSDictionary *)openXmlAttributesForNewAnchoredDrawing {
    return @{
             @"xdr:from": @{
                     @"xdr:colOff": @"",
                     @"xdr:rowOff": @"",
                     @"xdr:col": @"",
                     @"xdr:row": @"",
                     },
             @"xdr:to": @{
                     @"xdr:colOff": @"",
                     @"xdr:rowOff": @"",
                     @"xdr:col": @"",
                     @"xdr:row": @""
                     },
             @"xdr:pic": @{
                     @"xdr:nvPicPr": @{
                             @"xdr:cNvPr": @{
                                     @"_name": @"",
                                     @"_id": @""
                                     },
                             @"xdr:cNvPicPr": @{
                                     @"a:picLocks":@{
                                             @"_noChangeAspect": @""
                                             }
                                     }
                             },
                     @"xdr:blipFill": @{
                             @"a:blip": @{
                                     @"_xmlns:r": @"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships",
                                     @"_r:embed": @"",
                                     },
                             @"a:srcRect": @{
                                     @"_t": @"",
                                     @"_b": @"",
                                     @"_l": @"",
                                     @"_r": @""
                                     },
                             @"a:stretch": @""
                             },
                     @"xdr:spPr": @{
                             @"a:prstGeom": @{
                                     @"_prst": @"rect",
                                     @"a:avLst": @""
                                     }
                             }
                     },
             @"xdr:clientData": @""
             };
}

@end
@implementation BRAAbsoluteAnchor

- (NSDictionary *)openXmlAttributesForNewAnchoredDrawing {
    return @{
             @"xdr:pos": @{
                     @"_x": @"",
                     @"_y": @""
                     },
             @"xdr:ext": @{
                     @"_cx": @"",
                     @"_cy": @""
                     },
             @"xdr:pic": @{
                     @"xdr:nvPicPr": @{
                             @"xdr:cNvPr": @{
                                     @"_name": @"",
                                     @"_id": @""
                                     },
                             @"xdr:cNvPicPr": @{
                                     @"a:picLocks":@{
                                             @"_noChangeAspect": @""
                                             }
                                     }
                             },
                     @"xdr:blipFill": @{
                             @"a:blip": @{
                                     @"_xmlns:r": @"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships",
                                     @"_r:embed": @"",
                                     },
                             @"a:srcRect": @{
                                     @"_t": @"",
                                     @"_b": @"",
                                     @"_l": @"",
                                     @"_r": @""
                                     },
                             @"a:stretch": @""
                             },
                     @"xdr:spPr": @{
                             @"a:prstGeom": @{
                                     @"_prst": @"rect",
                                     @"a:avLst": @""
                                     }
                             }
                     },
             @"xdr:clientData": @""
             };
}

@end

@implementation BRAWorksheetDrawing

- (instancetype)initWithImage:(BRAImage *)image andAnchor:(BRAAnchor *)anchor {
    if (self = [super initWithOpenXmlAttributes:[anchor openXmlAttributesForNewAnchoredDrawing]]) {
        self.anchor = anchor;
        self.image = image;
        self.identifier = image.identifier;
    }

    return self;
}

- (void)loadAttributes {
    NSDictionary *dictionaryRepresentation = [super dictionaryRepresentation];

    if ([dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:to"]) {
        //Two cells anchor
        BRATwoCellAnchor *anchor = [[BRATwoCellAnchor alloc] init];

        NSInteger firstCellColOff = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:colOff"] integerValue];
        NSInteger firstCellRowOff = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:rowOff"] integerValue];
        anchor.topLeftCellOffset = CGPointMake(firstCellColOff, firstCellRowOff);

        NSInteger firstCellCol = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:col"] integerValue];
        NSInteger firstCellRow = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:row"] integerValue];
        anchor.topLeftCellReference = [BRACell cellReferenceForColumnIndex:firstCellCol + 1 andRowIndex:firstCellRow + 1];

        NSInteger secondCellColOff = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:to.xdr:colOff"] integerValue];
        NSInteger secondCellRowOff = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:to.xdr:rowOff"] integerValue];
        anchor.bottomRightCellOffset = CGPointMake(secondCellColOff, secondCellRowOff);

        NSInteger secondCellCol = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:to.xdr:col"] integerValue];
        NSInteger secondCellRow = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:to.xdr:row"] integerValue];
        anchor.bottomRightCellReference = [BRACell cellReferenceForColumnIndex:secondCellCol + 1 andRowIndex:secondCellRow + 1];

        self.anchor = anchor;
    } else if ([dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from"]) {
        //One cells anchor
        BRAOneCellAnchor *anchor = [[BRAOneCellAnchor alloc] init];

        NSInteger firstCellColOff = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:colOff"] integerValue];
        NSInteger firstCellRowOff = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:rowOff"] integerValue];
        anchor.topLeftCellOffset = CGPointMake(firstCellColOff, firstCellRowOff);

        NSInteger firstCellCol = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:col"] integerValue];
        NSInteger firstCellRow = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:row"] integerValue];
        anchor.topLeftCellReference = [BRACell cellReferenceForColumnIndex:firstCellCol + 1 andRowIndex:firstCellRow + 1];

        anchor.size = CGSizeMake([[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:ext._cx"] integerValue], [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:ext._cy"] integerValue]);

        self.anchor = anchor;
    } else {
        //absolute anchor
        NSInteger x = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pos._x"] integerValue];
        NSInteger y = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pos._y"] integerValue];
        NSInteger width = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:ext._cx"] integerValue];
        NSInteger height = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:ext._cy"] integerValue];

        BRAAbsoluteAnchor *anchor = [[BRAAbsoluteAnchor alloc] init];
        anchor.frame = CGRectMake(x, y, width, height);

        self.anchor = anchor;
    }

    self.keepAspectRatio = [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:nvPicPr.xdr:cNvPicPr.a:picLocks._noChangeAspect"] boolValue];
    self.insets = UIEdgeInsetsMake([[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:srcRect._t"] floatValue] / 100000.,
                                   [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:srcRect._l"] floatValue] / 100000.,
                                   [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:srcRect._b"] floatValue] / 100000.,
                                   [[dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:srcRect._r"] floatValue] / 100000.);
    self.drawingIdentifier = [dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:nvPicPr.xdr:cNvPr._id"];
    self.name = [dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:nvPicPr.xdr:cNvPr._name"];
    self.identifier = [dictionaryRepresentation valueForKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:blip._r:embed"];

}

- (NSDictionary *)dictionaryRepresentation {
    NSMutableDictionary *dictionaryRepresentation = [super dictionaryRepresentation].mutableDeepCopy;

    if (self.name.length == 0) {
        self.name = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Image %@", self.drawingIdentifier];
    }

    [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:self.drawingIdentifier forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:nvPicPr.xdr:cNvPr._id"];
    [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:self.name forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:nvPicPr.xdr:cNvPr._name"];
    [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:self.identifier forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:blip._r:embed"];
    [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)self.keepAspectRatio] forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:nvPicPr.xdr:cNvPicPr.a:picLocks._noChangeAspect"];

    if (UIEdgeInsetsEqualToEdgeInsets(self.insets, UIEdgeInsetsZero)) {
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:@{@"a:fillRect": @""} forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:stretch"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation[@"xdr:pic"][@"xdr:blipFill"] removeObjectForKey:@"a:srcRect"];
    } else {
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)(self.insets.top * 100000)] forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:srcRect._t"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)(self.insets.bottom * 100000)] forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:srcRect._b"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)(self.insets.left * 100000)] forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:srcRect._l"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)(self.insets.right * 100000)] forKeyPath:@"xdr:pic.xdr:blipFill.a:srcRect._r"];
    }

    if ([self.anchor isKindOfClass:[BRAAbsoluteAnchor class]]) {
        BRAAbsoluteAnchor *anchor = (BRAAbsoluteAnchor *)self.anchor;
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.frame.origin.x] forKeyPath:@"xdr:pos._x"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.frame.origin.x] forKeyPath:@"xdr:pos._y"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.frame.size.width] forKeyPath:@"xdr:ext._cx"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.frame.size.height] forKeyPath:@"xdr:ext._cy"];

    } else if ([self.anchor isKindOfClass:[BRATwoCellAnchor class]]) {
        BRATwoCellAnchor *anchor = (BRATwoCellAnchor *)self.anchor;
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.topLeftCellOffset.x]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:colOff"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.topLeftCellOffset.y]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:rowOff"];

        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)[BRAColumn columnIndexForCellReference:anchor.topLeftCellReference] - 1]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:col"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)[BRARow rowIndexForCellReference:anchor.topLeftCellReference] - 1]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:row"];

        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.bottomRightCellOffset.x]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:to.xdr:colOff"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.bottomRightCellOffset.y]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:to.xdr:rowOff"];

        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)[BRAColumn columnIndexForCellReference:anchor.bottomRightCellReference] - 1]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:to.xdr:col"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)[BRARow rowIndexForCellReference:anchor.bottomRightCellReference] - 1]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:to.xdr:row"];

    } else if ([self.anchor isKindOfClass:[BRAOneCellAnchor class]]) {
        BRAOneCellAnchor *anchor = (BRAOneCellAnchor *)self.anchor;
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.topLeftCellOffset.x]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:colOff"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.topLeftCellOffset.y]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:rowOff"];

        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.size.width]
                                forKeyPath:@"xdr:ext._cx"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)anchor.size.height]
                                forKeyPath:@"xdr:ext._cy"];

        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)[BRAColumn columnIndexForCellReference:anchor.topLeftCellReference] - 1]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:col"];
        [dictionaryRepresentation setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ld", (long)[BRARow rowIndexForCellReference:anchor.topLeftCellReference] - 1]
                                    forKeyPath:@"xdr:from.xdr:row"];
    }

    [super setDictionaryRepresentation:dictionaryRepresentation];

    return dictionaryRepresentation;
}

@end

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Q: Comparing two sets of attributes from two datasets and updating third dataset with matches I have a couple of questions about my code. One is why I'm having trouble with my uber-nested for loops, and the other is if anyone has any tips for improving my code in general.
I'm trying to write code that normalizes a small spatial dataset (inputDs) by comparing columns from it and a huge reference dataset called refDs, and then returns potential matches in a new table called "matches". The fields being compared are:
refDs latitude,
refDs longitude,
inputDs lat (which I copied to a list, inLat),
inDs long (in another list, inLong),
refDs field "nameAttested" (the formal name of a location),
refDs field "nameTransliterated" (for the sake of this code, this is one or more alternate names for the location),
inDs nameAtt (copied to a list, inAtt),
inDs nameTrans (copied to a list, inTrans).
So for those of you who are counting, that's four lists-- one for each inputDs attribute, and four columns in a table, refDs, which are going to be compared. First, if the coordinates line up (within 5 of each other), the refDs and inputDs records are added to the new table "matches." Then, each of the name attributes has to be compared twice-- refAtt to inAtt, refTrans to inAtt, refAtt to inTrans, and refTrans to inTrans, and for each name match, a count attribute in matches ("mCount") gets += 1. Also, some nameTrans fields in both refDs and inDs have 0 names or more than 1.
The code below shows how I'm working on a nested insert cursor for my matches table, which iterates through my inLat and inLong lists, passing them and the refLat and refLong into the great circle distance function (which I successfully added). Take a look:
   # set variables
   lat1 = "reprLat"
   lon1 = "reprLong"
   lat2 = inLat
   lon2 = inLong
   refAtt = refDs.nameAttested
   refTrans = refDs.nameTransliterated

   # insertCursor for matches Table
    rows = arcpy.da.InsertCursor(matches, [lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2, refAtt, refTrans,"inAtt",
    "inTrans", "mCount"])

    #searchcursor for refDs
    refCursor = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(refDs, ["reprLat", "reprLong"])

   for i in lat2:
       for x in lon2:
            for y in lat1:
                for z in lon1:
                    if great_circle(lon1[0], lat1[0], lon2[0], lat2[0]) <= 5:
                        rows.insertRow()
                        for x in inAtt:
                            for y in inTrans:
                                for z in refAtt:
                                    for i in refTrans:
                                        if textdistance.jaro(refAtt, inAtt) >= 0.45:
                                            mCount += 1
                                        elif textdistance.jaro(refAtt, inTrans) >= 0.45:
                                            mCount += 1
                                        elif textdistance.jaro(refTrans, inAtt) >= 0.45:
                                             mCount += 1
                                        elif textdistance.jaro(refTrans, inTrans) >= 0.45:
                                             mCount += 1

I tested the first part (measuring distances), by running it in Juptyer with a simple, if ... <= 5, print"yes", else print "no". And no matter the number I measured the distances against (5, 20, 100, 1000), I either got all yeses or all nos. So I'm clearly doing something wrong. Can anyone tell me how to fix the semantics of that section?
Also, is there anyway to make all this nesting ... more elegant? I only started to learn to code this year, and I'm still learning a lot of basic things and making elementary errors.
Thank you in advance.


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One could argue the purpose of data analytics has always been to achieve business outcomes. Yet, enterprises still struggle to realize the potential business value of their investments. Despite the availability of a wide array of improved technologies, it's easy for company cultures, organizational structures, and even problem-solving approaches to get in the way.
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A circus trapeze artist, Cleopatra, takes an interest in Hans, a midget who works in the circus sideshow. Her interest however is in the money Hans will be inheriting and she is actually carrying on an affair with another circus performer, Hercules. Hans's fiancée does her best to convince him that he is being used but to no avail. At their wedding party, a drunken Cleopatra tells the sideshow freaks just what she thinks of them. Together, the freaks decide to make her one of their own.