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World Billionaires Get Poorer, Lose A Staggering $388Bn - NY Times
According to a recent report by the New York Times, the world's richest people became a little 'poorer' last year.
This is happening even as the geopolitical turmoil and volatile equity markets reduced the wealth of billionaires for the first time in a decade.
Billionaires' wealth fell by $388 billion globally to $8.539 trillion, the UBS and PwC Billionaires Report found, with a particularly sharp decline in Greater China – the second-biggest home for billionaires after the United States – and the Asia-Pacific region more broadly.
Private banks including the world's largest wealth manager UBS have felt the effects of U.S.-China trade tensions and global political uncertainties, as clients last year shied away from trading and taking on debt in favor of hoarding more cash.
"Billionaire wealth dipped in 2018 for the first time since 2008 because of geopolitics," UBS's head of ultra-high net worth clients,
Josef Stadler, said in the report published on Friday.
The net worth of China's richest dropped 12.8% in dollar terms on the back of tumbling stock markets and a weaker local currency and as growth in the world's second-largest economy slowed to its lowest level in nearly three decades in 2018, the report found, knocking dozens off the billionaires list.
In spite of the drop, China continues to produce a new billionaire every 2-2.5 days, Stadler said.
Worldwide, the number of billionaires fell everywhere except in the Americas, where tech entrepreneurs continued to buoy the ranks of the United States' wealthiest.
"This report shows the resilience of the U.S. economy," where there were 749 billionaires at the end of 2018, said John Matthews, head of private wealth management and ultra-high net worth business for UBS in the United States.
While a stock market recovery from a steep drop in late 2018 has helped wealth managers increase their assets, the world's richest families remain concerned about global affairs from trade tensions and Brexit to populism and climate change and are continuing to keep more of their money in cash.
"It is likely that billionaire wealth will go up again this year," said Simon Smiles, UBS's chief investment officer for ultra-wealthy clients, adding it would likely be a more muted increase than the wider financial market rally might suggest.
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Shopping Via Voice Assistant From Walmart's Owned Flipkart
BigBasket and Grofers are the leading companies for digital grocery shopping in India. The two powerhouses have updated their websites with voice assistant search options.
Consequently, Amazon and Flipkart have been unable to boost growth in their grocery categories.
In fact, according to data from RedSeer in September 2019 e-commerce has captured around 80% of India's online grocery market. However, Flipkart and Amazon only managed to capture 5% of the same market.
However, while this may seem like a big jump, it's actually a very small part of the overall food and retail market. To be exact, the penetration is just 0.2%.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Indians are almost forced to come online to get their basic needs and necessities. E-commerce giants have resumed their previous services, especially in green and orange zone areas.
With many being uncomfortable with English and/or typing, voice search has become an important feature.
Last year, the feature was growing by 270% in India.
Three months ago, Amazon introduced the same voice-search option for its users in order to enhance the overall shopping experience. To maximize the benefits of this feature, Amazon India extended support for Hindi.
Later, Alexa-enabled speakers and other smart devices obtained this addition. Accordingly, Walmart-owned Flipkart has slowly started following their footsteps.
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On Tuesday, the company announced English and Hindi voice assistance that was built by the company's technology team. It's been designed for natural language understanding, text-to-speech solutions, speech recognition, and machine translation.
Flipkart's grocery vertical known as Supermart is the first to utilize this new voice option. Therefore, this feature will probably get extended to different categories soon.
The solution has been built in such a way that the language is automatically detected and the voice assistant can transcribe, understand, and translate what the user is trying to say.
Once users type the mic icon in the app, they can give commands like "go to checkout" or "show me 10 kg maida". Android devices have received this feature and the same will be made available soon for iOS and their website.
Jeyandran Venugopal, Chief Product and Technology Officer of Flipkart adds, "While we have seen great adoption for our video and vernacular offerings, the next step in that direction is to solve for the voice capability for e-commerce."
The digital grocery stores are predicted to increase by $10.2 billion by 2023.
Manish Kumar, SVP Grocery and General Merchandise & Furniture of Flipkart say that "Grocery is one of the most underpenetrated categories in Indian e-commerce and has a huge potential to grow and solve for customer adoption."
He also adds that the grocery category has grown a large amount over the last year.
The voice assistant will hopefully boost that growth even further. "Voice-led shopping is natural and we wanted to give our users a truly conversational experience, in the most natural way possible," Kumar says.
Earlier this month, the government rejected the company's application for a license in food retail. The reason they cited was that Flipkart doesn't suit FDI norms.
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Q: Avoid implicit capture of this? Is it possible to write a type such that it can't implicit capture itself this with a lambda inside itself:
[&]{}

I currently have a situation where a temporary object is used as a factory to create another object. Inside this a lot of lambda's exist - it would be great to avoid capturing data members by mistake.
(note that this is also about future proofing the code a bit as this can result in some very hard to find bugs - another programmer can come along and not realize this quite easily)
(also note, it would actually be great to capture everything with [&] in this case as I actually do want to capture everything else by reference as this binds correctly to all the new stuff being created by the factory - [=] would be incorrect.)

A: I don't really see a way to either forbid capturing this or detect it in the language (I don't really see a type trait for this, even with more creative use). Maybe there is tooling for this, but I haven't found anything. I think you have to overthink your design in some way:

*

*Do not capture with [&]. Capturing all by reference is nice for local lambdas that never leave the scope, but personally, I would never use it for any lambda that is returned from the function.

*Delegate lambda construction to a non-member function (but this is only "Do not use [&]" with extra steps)

*If you do not want to capture this, why is the factory even an object? I do not really see, where you would use that then. Refactor the whole thing to use a static member function or even a free function (C++ ain't Java, namespaces with free functions are a great thing).

*Not so robust, but somewhat working: Use a very recognizable naming scheme for the factory member variables (i.e. F_*), then you will recognize immediately if you are using one.

(Personally, I prefer the third point. In my opinion, classes are overused for such stuff)
EDIT: Seems like there was a pull request to llvm that adds a warning for this (or at least for captured local variables, I am unsure how that resolves with member variables). The change was seen positively but got lost on track, so it seems like someone just needs to rebase and review it to make it current. https://reviews.llvm.org/D24639

A: If it is important, you ought to explicitly write each variable you capture by reference/copy instead of just spamming [&] for all lambda captures.
What if they used a variable in the lambda and then used the lambda after the variable got destroyed? Isn't it the same issue as capturing this with usage of member variables? You just need to be very careful when capturing variables if you intend to forward the lambda elsewhere and stop with the bad practice of capturing everything without thinking.
Note: If you don't use any member variable then this isn't captured via [&].

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Unter dem Dawn-Phänomen (von  = Morgendämmerung) versteht man bei Diabetikern einen Blutzuckeranstieg in den frühen Morgenstunden. Die Ursache dieses Anstieges ist ein relativer Insulinmangel, der durch die nächtliche Ausschüttung von Gegenspielern des Insulins bedingt ist. Sie erreicht in der Pubertät ihren Höhepunkt.

Definition
Der Anstieg der Blutzuckerkonzentration tritt meist etwa zwischen 3 und 6 Uhr morgens ein. In diesem Zeitraum erhöht der Körper die Produktion kontrainsulinärer Hormone, wie etwa Wachstumshormone, Kortisol, Katecholamine, Adrenalin und Glukagon; durch diese werden Glykogenolyse und Glukoneogenese intensiviert. Das Dawn-Phänomen ist also durch das Zusammenwirken dieser Prozesse zu erklären. Diese Besonderheit kann grundsätzlich bei jedem Menschen in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß auftreten, stellt jedoch bei Diabetikern oftmals eine besondere Herausforderung in der Diabetestherapie dar. Während die Bauchspeicheldrüse beim Stoffwechselgesunden die temporär geringere Insulinwirkung automatisch durch eine vermehrte Insulinsekretion ausgleicht, führt dies beim Diabetiker durch die fehlende körpereigene Insulinproduktion (Typ-1-Diabetes) bzw. Insulinresistenz (Typ-2-Diabetes) zu erhöhten Nüchternblutzuckerwerten.

Diagnose

Die Abgrenzung zu anderen Besonderheiten in der Diabetestherapie ist oftmals nicht einfach. Morgendlich hohe Blutzuckerwerte können auch durch eine nächtliche Hypoglykämie (Somogyi-Effekt) bedingt oder das Resultat einer nicht zufriedenstellenden Blutzuckereinstellung sein. Ebenfalls sind spät abends eingenommene Mahlzeiten als Ursache in Betracht zu ziehen. Die Unterscheidung gelingt meist durch nächtliche Kontrollmessungen, als Ergänzung kann jedoch der Einsatz eines kontinuierlichen Glukosemonitorings erwogen werden.

Therapie
Die Behandlung variiert je nach Ausmaß des Dawn-Phänomens. Während es bei leicht erhöhten Werten ausreichend sein kann, spät abends (zusätzliches) Verzögerungsinsulin zu spritzen, ist bei stark erhöhten Nüchternblutzuckerwerten immer an eine Insulinpumpentherapie zu denken, die durch die stundengenaue Einstellung der Basalrate die bis dato beste Behandlungsmöglichkeit darstellt. In manchen Fällen kann der Verzicht auf spät abends eingenommene Mahlzeiten zielführend sein. Zum Teil zweckmäßig, jedoch weniger praktikabel ist auch spätabendliche körperliche Betätigung, die einen glukosesenkenden Effekt besitzt.

Siehe auch
 Diabetes Mellitus
 Insulintherapie
 Somogyi-Effekt

Einzelnachweise

Diabetologie

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America still has a long way to go to close the gaps in levels of participation between people with and without disabilities. But the landscape has changed dramatically, and much has been accomplished over the last four decades since our founding. More than ever before, people with disabilities are present throughout American society—carrying on their daily lives as workers, consumers, students, neighbors, and volunteers—and contributing greatly to our national and community life. The National Organization on Disability is proud to have been at the center of this progress and is committed to even greater advancements in the decades ahead.
FORMATION OF NOD (1982)
The United Nations proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons, to promote the full and equal participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of life. At the year's conclusion, representatives from 48 states met in Washington, DC, and formed the National Office on Disability to continue the momentum towards the UN's goal. Alan A. Reich was appointed to lead the new organization, and the following year the name was changed to the National Organization on Disability (NOD).
NOD'S PUBLIC OPINION SURVEYS (1986)
NOD's public opinion surveys, conducted by Harris Interactive, have provided an essential baseline for the nation on disability issues, helping both to set goals and measure accomplishments. NOD has commissioned comprehensive surveys of the participation of people with disabilities in American life in 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2010. The 2010 Kessler-NOD Survey was the first to benchmark employment equality, along with community participation. The participation gaps identified by these surveys have guided NOD's programs and have been used by many disability organizations, business leaders, legislators, government at all levels, and the news media to help understand disability issues.
THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (1990)
As NOD built its programs and its reputation, the nationwide call for a new civil rights law to ensure the full equality of Americans with disabilities began to gain momentum. NOD joined with other disability organizations in a campaign for a new disability law—the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In 1989, James Brady, President Ronald Reagan's former Press Secretary and an impassioned advocate for all Americans with disabilities, joined NOD as Vice Chairman. Brady and other NOD leaders gave speeches, lobbied Congressional Committees, and enlisted nationwide grassroots support for the bill, which was signed into law in 1990. The ADA gave new impetus to the disability movement and a fresh public awareness of the critical issue of the employment of people with disabilities. NOD enlisted prominent business leaders to help make the case that hiring people with disabilities is good for business. The CEO Council, founded in 1992 under the chairmanship of BusinessWeek President and NOD Board Member Jack Patten, sponsored a series of conferences across the country to acquaint the business community with ADA requirements. Renamed in 2016, the NOD Corporate Leadership Council is still working actively in corporate America, and includes corporate leaders such as Walmart, Xerox, and Sodexo.
START ON SUCCESS (1994)
In 1994, NOD launched its student internship program, Start on Success, to help high school students in underprivileged communities gain paid internship experience and achieve a foothold in the working world. Start on Success alumni went on to further education or employment opportunities at more than double the rate of their peers.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL (1995)
Beginning in 1995, NOD led a campaign to have a statue of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his wheelchair added to the FDR Memorial in Washington, organizing demonstrations and enlisting the support of FDR's descendants, biographers, the media and the American public. Upon winning a Congressional mandate for the statue, NOD successfully raised $1.65 million for the new statue, which is now a popular landmark in the nation's capital and an inspiration to visitors from throughout the world.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS INITIATIVE (2001)
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, NOD took the lead in ensuring that emergency planning in communities across the country included provisions for people with disabilities. NOD distributed thousands of emergency preparedness pamphlets and educated businesses on how they could best equip their employees with disabilities. When Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans four years later, NOD's Emergency Preparedness Initiative was in place to quickly respond to the needs of people with disabilities.
A NEW FOCUS ON EMPLOYMENT (2005)
With the death of Alan Reich in 2005, NOD lost its founder and the disability community lost a tremendous advocate and inspirational leader. But the great work he started at NOD continued with a focus on employability that he initiated in his final years. In 2006, with the leadership of the Kessler Foundation, NOD began to expand its work in the employment arena. NOD expanded its Start on Success (SOS) program and launched signature employment programs to help corporate America recruit, hire, and retain talented employees with disabilities and to provide career supports to severely injured and disabled veterans.
WOUNDED WARRIOR CAREERS (2007)
As increasing numbers of service members returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious injuries, NOD and the US Army signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2007 to launch the Wounded Warrior Careers Demonstration, which provided career support to hundreds of severely injured Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families.
BRIDGES TO BUSINESS (2010)
Beginning as a pilot program called Bridges to Business, NOD has worked to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities by forging more effective links between employers and organizations that represent jobseekers with disabilities. NOD developed an industry-standard model to help companies recruit, hire, and retain individuals with disabilities by matching their abilities to locally available positions. In the years since, NOD has become a trusted partner to over a dozen leading brands, such as Lowe's and Toys"R"Us, seeking to expand the diversity of their workforce and gain a competitive edge in the race for talent.
DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT TRACKER™ (2013)
NOD partnered with the National Business and Disability Council (NBDC) at The Viscardi Center and Sirota to develop and debut a tool for companies to confidentially assess their disability and veteran employment practices. The Disability Employment Tracker™ introduced in 2013 with lead support from the Exelon Foundation and guidance from research firm J.D. Power, helps companies identify opportunities to improve their employment practices and reap the benefits of an inclusive workforce. In 2014, DiversityInc announced that it would require companies to complete the Disability Employment Tracker™ for consideration for its Top 50 Companies Diversity List.
LEADING THE WAY (2016)
Recent federal regulations mandating the inclusion of workers with disabilities into federal contractors' workforce has elevated the issue of disability employment to corporate board rooms and the C-Suite. In response, NOD has launched a suite of services designed to help companies tap into the talent pool of working-age people with disabilities. From assessing policies and procedures to strategy and roadmap development, NOD is ready to help companies launch or grow a disability employment initiative, no matter where they are in their disability-inclusion journey. And we applaud those that are leading the way through the annual awarding of the NOD Leading Disability Employer Seal™.
NOD President Carol Glazer is often called on by government leaders and the media to discuss the reality of disability in America today. While NOD Chairman Gov. Tom Ridge recently released an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal advocating for passage of a UN disability treaty. These efforts have solidified NOD's place as a thought leader within the disability field, and as a trusted advisor to companies seeking to bring disability-inclusion into the nation's workforce.
CAMPUS TO CAREERS (2017)
In response to a bleak national employment outlook facing college graduates with disabilities, NOD launched the Campus to Careers program to bring higher education professionals and employers together in Boston, to both identify more employment opportunities for students with disabilities and to develop new methods of college recruiting to address the issue long-term.
#LOOKCLOSER (2018)
Launched in October 2018 with a billboard in New York City's Times Square, the Look Closer campaign is breaking down the stigma of disability, and recasting Americans with disabilities as a capable and untapped talent pool – ready, willing and able to supply the ingenuity needed in the 21st century.


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Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the language of customer experience. I have hundreds of conversations with clients every year, and my job is to efficiently get to the heart of a CX problem and expeditiously offer practical guidance. My advisory sessions start with clients describing their CX goals or challenges, and I've come to realize there are a handful of words that catch my attention and suggest an area of possible concern worthy of further exploration. Those words are digital, personalization, and buyer.
Before we explore why those words might signify a potential problem with your CX efforts, let me first point you to last month's two-part blog series examining the language of customer experience. Part 1 was about thinking like a customer and part 2 about framing your marketing and business strategies from the customer's perspective. Today's blog post is again focused on language and seems like an appropriate conclusion for the series.
Your brand must constantly strive to get its digital channels, interactions, and experiences right, but a single-minded preoccupation on a "digital journey" can lead your CX program astray. Customers may be embracing digital channels, devices, and habits, but none of us are wholly digital. We are all analog creatures living in an increasingly digital world. As a result, it is rare for customers to complete an end-to-end journey–from need to purchase to loyalty to advocacy–entirely in digital channels. Understanding the ways customers want to navigate back and forth between physical and online interactions permits you to best define your brand's opportunities in both domains.
It's easy to find examples of how merging the best of the real world and digital helps brands. For example, Best Buy, a brand many thought would be "showroomed" out of existence a few years ago, has thrived thanks to a strategy that combines the best of e-commerce and physical retail for customers. Retailers have seen tremendous growth in "click-and-collect" behaviors where customers buy online and pick up at a store; Adobe found that click-and-collect orders grew 46% year over year during a recent one-month period. Meanwhile, another study found that opening and closing a physical store can have a measurable impact on online traffic and image.
Like "digital," the word "personalization" represents a positive approach to customer experience–people want and appreciate personalized experiences. The reason this word can raise CX concerns is in how personalization is used by marketers. The critical question is whether your personalization strategies are intended to improve the brand or the customer. The two are not at all mutually exclusive, but a CX strategy is not a CX strategy if it is measured only in increased revenue and not in changes to customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy.
To do personalization right for CX, it is essential to be "outside-in," which means understanding and meeting customer expectations and measuring the impact to the customer. One place to start is to develop, study and understand your different personas, which helps you to define the varied sorts of content, experiences, and features desired by different groups of customers.
The last and most concerning term is "buyer." This is a red-letter word that implies a client may not be striving to improve CX, at all. Buyer personas, buyer journeys, buyer touchpoints and other language concentrating on the "buyer" suggests the intent is to improve the traditional marketing funnel to increase acquisition of prospects and not to improve the entire end-to-end journey to enhance satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy for customers.
Obviously, you have to first acquire a customer to convert them into a loyal advocate, and for this reason, the Buy cycle is an essential portion of the journey. But an obsession with buyers in the Buy cycle and not what happens after prospects become customers leads to weak CX strategies and outcomes. It is why our research demonstrates that clients who focus on the entire customer journey enjoy stronger results than do those who focus on a smaller portion of the journey (subscription required).
In the end, it's not that the words "digital," "personalization" and "buyer" are bad or wrong but what they may imply–a plan to perilously narrow the focus or produce brand results without considering the impact on the customer. Getting CX right requires you develop and measure your brand's impact on the customer throughout their journey with your brand. There are lots of ways for your brand to increase sales or improve a specific touchpoint, but you will foster the most robust customer relationships when you look at the entire journey across all channels and identify the ways your brand builds or destroys customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy.
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Another dash through across the silver screen. Here are some of the more notable films I've watched recently.
The Best of Everything, Jean Negulesco (1959, USA) Three women are employed at a New York publishing house. One makes the jump from secretary to reader to editor. The first half of the film is one of those beautifully-photographed 1950s melodramas, with some lovely shots of the New York of the time. Disappointingly, the second half trades that in for soap opera office politics.
Elysium, Neill Blomkamp (2013, USA) Rich people live in the lap of luxury in the eponymous space habitat, while everyone else suffers in abject poverty on Earth – but that's as far as the social commentary goes. This is really just another implausible actioner with a nice line in visuals and a bad handle on the laws of physics.
Ga, Ga – Chwała Bohaterom, Piotr Szulkin (1986, Poland) Barking mad sf film, in which an astronaut lands on another world… which proves to be just like this one, except they treat their heroes somewhat differently. Not so much black comedy as fulginous.
Head-on, Fatih Akin (2004, Germany) Marriage of convenience between young Turkish-German woman and older Turkish-German man, so she can live the life she wants away from her traditional family, turns sour when the pair fall in love and he accidentally kills an ex-lover of hers. Not the most sympathetic of lead characters, but the actors playing them carry the film. Excellent.
Argo, Ben Affleck (2012, USA) You know when Canada rescued those US hostages from Iran back in 1980? Well, it wasn't Canada that did it, it was the CIA. Yes, Americans. The whole film feels like a petulant grab to correct misplaced credit decades after the fact. And we'll not mention the stupid race-against-time at the end to get the hostages out of the country…
The Killers, Robert Siodmak (1946, USA) Classic noir told through flashback, which explains why a pair of killers drove into town and killed garage mechanic Burt Lancaster. Turns out Burt used to be involved with a bad crowd, who pulled off a payroll robbery which turned nasty. Ava Gardner vamps it up, but I thought Rita Hayworth was better in Gilda (also released in 1946).
Villa Amalia, Benoît Jacquot (2009, France) Pianist Isabelle Huppert walks away from her life and settles down in the eponymous run-down villa in Italy. Beautifully shot, elegantly told. There something about the feel of the film which reminds me of François Ozon's Under the Sand.
The Bank Dick, Edward Cline (1940, USA) WC Fields inadvertently catches a bank robber, is employed as the bank's security guard as reward, and promptly cocks that up – much as he does everything. Mildly amusing, though not a patch on Laurel & Hardy.
Follow The Boys, Eddie Sutherland (1944, USA) Hollywood stars entertain the troops at training camps throughout the US during WWII, plus back-story showing how it all came about (entertaining the troops, that is, not WWII). Lots of cameos by big names. WC Fields is genuinely funny, Orson Welles puts on a magic act that clearly relies on camera trickery, and there's a good tap dance in the rain from star of the film George Raft.
The Ugliest Woman In The World, Miguel Bardem (1999, Spain) Near-future thriller about a female killer which seems to have been inspired by so many other films it makes it difficult to remember what you're watching. The premise is iffy – ugly young woman undergoes experimental gene therapy, which turns her beautiful… so she murders a contestant in the Miss Spain beauty pageant, takes her place, and proceeds to kill the other contestants. But the film is so odd, it sort of hangs together.
The Neptune Factor, Daniel Petrie (1973, Canada) Stone-faced grump Ben Gazzara is captain of a model submersible which is menaced by magnified tropical fish while searching for an underwater habitat lost during a seaquake. Oh, and there's a giant crab too. They manage to find a pair of survivors, although how they didn't get squished by the pressure is never explained. Jacques Cousteau it's not.
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Joachim Boaz
I loved The Killers…. I recommend reading the Hemingway short story (if you haven't). The story is ONLY the first sequence in the dinner. And, it's fantastic seeing what elements are shown and which aren't in a sort of micro way. Some of the dialogue is lifted but some of the sexual innuendos are reduced (but a few, like the gun through the door are still there). Unfortunately, that first sequence is the best of the film. I have trouble remember the rest.
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The Fannie May candy has arrived. We have delivered most of it, excluding the ones we need to ship. It is coming soon, I promise. The school made $19k + on it, so thank you. This is their only major fundraiser, and every dollar counts.
Tori and Eli were very good deliverers. They took the candy to the neighbors willingly, and delivered it to the people next door all on their own last night. Eli has no qualms about ringing doorbells or speaking to people. He also helped the scouts last week place sacks for a canned food drive in people's doors.
Tori got an A on her spelling test last week. Hooray, Tori! Huts found an app that has been helping her practice her spelling. Now, we need to find an app that will help her with multiplication.


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Welcome Organisation's new mobile health vehicle will help homeless in Belfast
Belfast Live has partnered up with homeless charity The Welcome Organisation to help fund a new Street Outreach van
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Removing barriers to health and support, a new mobile health vehicle could bring massive changes for the homeless population in Belfast.
Belfast Live has partnered with Belfast-based homeless charity The Welcome Organisation to raise £25,000 to fund their new Street Outreach van .
But this vehicle will offer drastically different facilities to the charity's current van which is on the streets 17 hours a day, every day of the week.
Sandra Moore, CEO of The Welcome Organisation, told Belfast Live the van will provide a primary care clinic to some of Belfast's most vulnerable homeless people.
North Belfast dad and daughter support Belfast Live Opening Eyes On Homelessness with special song
The specially fitted vehicle will replace their existing five-year-old van which has been providing support services on the streets of Belfast day and daily.
"The current vehicle does not support clinical screening sessions which requires privacy, we don't have an examination couch or chair, good lighting or appropriate equipment, we don't have anything like that on the bus at the moment," she said.
"It is just a transit mini bus.
"It really limits us and often opportunities are lost in detecting disease in such a transient group. Provision of an appropriated fitted out medical vehicle would allow those things to take place on the streets, in the community, by nurse practitioners and qualified staff.
"A lot more minor, acute ailments and injuries could be deal with by these people on the streets and would reduce the high attendance of homeless people at A&E departments and improve the health interventions for them.
"As you can imagine some of the people we work with don't have the capacity to sit in long queues at A&E, they can be disruptive to other people but also how they present can further stigmatise with people.
"To be able to treat people appropriately and in a comfortable setting with privacy and dignity, no stigmatisation, and be able to improve the quality of service but also access those who are particularly difficult to reach or engage.
"We want this to be a service that captures the attention of the homeless population and gives them open access and flexible hours that meets their needs."
The Welcome Organisation Street Team operate 365 days and nights of the year to provide a service to people living on the street with the aim of moving them out of homelessness and into independent living.
Homeless people suffer extreme health inequalities and barriers in accessing mainstream healthcare. Ill health can be both a cause and consequence of homelessness, although it is not always identified as the trigger of homelessness.
Heartbreaking message from woman whose sister died on Belfast streets
The mobile clinic will target rough sleepers who are not linked in with any hostel or health service. The Welcome Organisation staff have been providing it's street outreach program for more than 20 years during which time the needs presenting have greatly changed.
Welcome's Outreach Team work closely with the Belfast Trust's homelessness services team and have been facilitating the delivery of health interventions to the street population.
The new van will compliment the homeless health hub which is due to open in Belfast soon.
"This vehicle will bring services out of the clinical setting and into the community and onto the streets, to wrap care around the people who need it most, where they need it," said Sandra.
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"The provision of an appropriately fitted out vehicle will facilitate greater testing, screening, prevention, education and occupational medicine services to the homeless community in Belfast initially, we would hope to extend the service to other areas."
She added: "There is an equality issue here, just because you have challenges doesn't mean to say you shouldn't be able to access health services which are a right to the rest of the population.
"It could be anything from them getting treated for leg ulcers, issues with their feet, diabetes, there will be health screening, inoculations, trying to get early signals of diseases that cause morbitity.
"It also allows the health teams to improve communications with the hospitals and GPs and other referral agencies to help establish client held records to enable health to deliver services continuously and efficiently.
"It would mean there is a persistent health record.
"Overall it is about giving people the equality of opportunity to access health services and taking pressure off A&E."
In a plea to get people to supporting the fundraising for the van , Sandra said the campaign was about "saving lives and ensuring the limited resources we have are used effectively".
Homeless in Belfast - men and women who have slept on the streets open up about their experiences
She said: "Open your eyes, people who find themselves homeless for whatever reason very often they live day to day. People are inclined to ignore health issues until they become acute and that is even more prevalent in the homeless population than the settled population.
"It means when people are going to A&E or into hospital their symptoms and recovery periods are much greater and they are higher risk than the settled population. The other thing is the life expectancy of a rough sleeper is 30 years younger. A rough sleeper's life expectancy is 47, for a male in the settled community it is 77."
Belfast Live has partnered up with homeless charity The Welcome Organisation and over the coming months we will be Opening Eyes on Homelessness .
We need our readers to get involved and help to make a positive difference to the fantastic work carried out by this Belfast-based charity.
Your donation to Belfast Live's Opening Eyes on Homelessness will help fund a new Street Outreach van for The Welcome Organisation that will be able to provide medical support to the most vulnerable on the streets of Belfast.
Watch this short video to see how you can get involved.
Donate via this link and help us spread the awareness by:
Taking a selfie opening your eyes
Upload to social media with #EyesOnHomelessness and nominate a friend
AND please donate to the JustGiving page
How to follow us on social media
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On Twitter, you can follow our account by clicking here.
If you're a lover of photos, then check out our Instagram.
We've also got dedicated Facebook pages for North, South, East and West Belfast, as well as courts and crime.
Sports fans can find all the latest local action over on our Belfast Live Sport Facebook and Twitter and also on Match Online on both Facebook and Twitter.
Keep up-to-date with all the very latest news, what's on, sport and everything else in Belfast and beyond with the Belfast Live app.
Only select news that interests you by picking the topics you want to display on the app's homepage. Plus, our enhanced user experience includes live blogs, video, interactive maps and slick picture galleries. Download it now and get involved.
Click here to get it from the App Store or here for Google Play .


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It's made up of Aspartic acid, Phenylalanine (an Amino acid) and Methanol and lacks the bitter taste of saccharin.
It's sold as a tabletop sweetener under the brand names 'Nutrasweet' or 'Equal'.
It upsets just a few people who have 'Phenylketonuria' (PKU), a congenital hereditary condition caused by the body's inability to oxidise Phenylalnine to Tyrosine due to a defective enzyme. Such people risk brain damage if they use these products.


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org.apache.lucene.codecs

Codecs API: API for customization of the encoding and structure of the index.

org.apache.lucene.codecs.blocktree

BlockTree terms dictionary.

org.apache.lucene.codecs.compressing

StoredFieldsFormat that allows cross-document and cross-field compression of stored fields.

org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50

Components from the Lucene 5.0 index format
 See org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene53 for an overview
 of the index format.

org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene53

Components from the Lucene 5.3 index format
 See org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene54 for an overview
 of the index format.

org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene54

Lucene 5.4 file format.

org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene60

Lucene 6.0 file format.

org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield

Postings format that can delegate to different formats per-field.

org.apache.lucene.index

Code to maintain and access indices.

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.codecs

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BlockTermState

Holds all state required for PostingsReaderBase
 to produce a PostingsEnum without re-seeking the
 terms dict.

Codec

Encodes/decodes an inverted index segment.

CompoundFormat

Encodes/decodes compound files

DocValuesConsumer

Abstract API that consumes numeric, binary and
 sorted docvalues.

DocValuesFormat

Encodes/decodes per-document values.

DocValuesProducer

Abstract API that produces numeric, binary, sorted, sortedset,
  and sortednumeric docvalues.

FieldInfosFormat

Encodes/decodes FieldInfos

FieldsConsumer

Abstract API that consumes terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
 payloads postings.

FieldsProducer

Abstract API that produces terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
  payloads postings.

LiveDocsFormat

Format for live/deleted documents

NormsConsumer

Abstract API that consumes normalization values.

NormsFormat

Encodes/decodes per-document score normalization values.

NormsProducer

Abstract API that produces field normalization values

PointsFormat

Encodes/decodes indexed points.

PointsReader

Abstract API to visit point values.

PointsWriter

Abstract API to write points

PostingsFormat

Encodes/decodes terms, postings, and proximity data.

PostingsWriterBase

Class that plugs into term dictionaries, such as BlockTreeTermsWriter, and handles writing postings.

SegmentInfoFormat

Expert: Controls the format of the
 SegmentInfo (segment metadata file).

StoredFieldsFormat

Controls the format of stored fields

StoredFieldsReader

Codec API for reading stored fields.

StoredFieldsWriter

Codec API for writing stored fields:

   For every document, StoredFieldsWriter.startDocument() is called,
       informing the Codec that a new document has started.

TermVectorsFormat

Controls the format of term vectors

TermVectorsReader

Codec API for reading term vectors:

TermVectorsWriter

Codec API for writing term vectors:

   For every document, TermVectorsWriter.startDocument(int) is called,
       informing the Codec how many fields will be written.

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.codecs.blocktree

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FieldsConsumer

Abstract API that consumes terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
 payloads postings.

FieldsProducer

Abstract API that produces terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
  payloads postings.

PostingsReaderBase

The core terms dictionaries (BlockTermsReader,
  BlockTreeTermsReader) interact with a single instance
  of this class to manage creation of PostingsEnum and
  PostingsEnum instances.

PostingsWriterBase

Class that plugs into term dictionaries, such as BlockTreeTermsWriter, and handles writing postings.

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.codecs.compressing

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StoredFieldsFormat

Controls the format of stored fields

StoredFieldsReader

Codec API for reading stored fields.

StoredFieldsWriter

Codec API for writing stored fields:

   For every document, StoredFieldsWriter.startDocument() is called,
       informing the Codec that a new document has started.

TermVectorsFormat

Controls the format of term vectors

TermVectorsReader

Codec API for reading term vectors:

TermVectorsWriter

Codec API for writing term vectors:

   For every document, TermVectorsWriter.startDocument(int) is called,
       informing the Codec how many fields will be written.

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50

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BlockTermState

Holds all state required for PostingsReaderBase
 to produce a PostingsEnum without re-seeking the
 terms dict.

CompoundFormat

Encodes/decodes compound files

FieldInfosFormat

Encodes/decodes FieldInfos

FieldsConsumer

Abstract API that consumes terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
 payloads postings.

FieldsProducer

Abstract API that produces terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
  payloads postings.

LiveDocsFormat

Format for live/deleted documents

PostingsFormat

Encodes/decodes terms, postings, and proximity data.

PostingsReaderBase

The core terms dictionaries (BlockTermsReader,
  BlockTreeTermsReader) interact with a single instance
  of this class to manage creation of PostingsEnum and
  PostingsEnum instances.

PostingsWriterBase

Class that plugs into term dictionaries, such as BlockTreeTermsWriter, and handles writing postings.

PushPostingsWriterBase

Extension of PostingsWriterBase, adding a push
 API for writing each element of the postings.

SegmentInfoFormat

Expert: Controls the format of the
 SegmentInfo (segment metadata file).

StoredFieldsFormat

Controls the format of stored fields

StoredFieldsReader

Codec API for reading stored fields.

StoredFieldsWriter

Codec API for writing stored fields:

   For every document, StoredFieldsWriter.startDocument() is called,
       informing the Codec that a new document has started.

TermVectorsFormat

Controls the format of term vectors

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene53

Class and Description

NormsConsumer

Abstract API that consumes normalization values.

NormsFormat

Encodes/decodes per-document score normalization values.

NormsProducer

Abstract API that produces field normalization values

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene54

Class and Description

DocValuesConsumer

Abstract API that consumes numeric, binary and
 sorted docvalues.

DocValuesFormat

Encodes/decodes per-document values.

DocValuesProducer

Abstract API that produces numeric, binary, sorted, sortedset,
  and sortednumeric docvalues.

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene60

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Codec

Encodes/decodes an inverted index segment.

CompoundFormat

Encodes/decodes compound files

DocValuesFormat

Encodes/decodes per-document values.

FieldInfosFormat

Encodes/decodes FieldInfos

LiveDocsFormat

Format for live/deleted documents

NormsFormat

Encodes/decodes per-document score normalization values.

PointsFormat

Encodes/decodes indexed points.

PointsReader

Abstract API to visit point values.

PointsWriter

Abstract API to write points

PostingsFormat

Encodes/decodes terms, postings, and proximity data.

SegmentInfoFormat

Expert: Controls the format of the
 SegmentInfo (segment metadata file).

StoredFieldsFormat

Controls the format of stored fields

TermVectorsFormat

Controls the format of term vectors

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield

Class and Description

DocValuesConsumer

Abstract API that consumes numeric, binary and
 sorted docvalues.

DocValuesFormat

Encodes/decodes per-document values.

DocValuesProducer

Abstract API that produces numeric, binary, sorted, sortedset,
  and sortednumeric docvalues.

FieldsConsumer

Abstract API that consumes terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
 payloads postings.

FieldsProducer

Abstract API that produces terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
  payloads postings.

PostingsFormat

Encodes/decodes terms, postings, and proximity data.

Classes in org.apache.lucene.codecs used by org.apache.lucene.index

Class and Description

Codec

Encodes/decodes an inverted index segment.

DocValuesProducer

Abstract API that produces numeric, binary, sorted, sortedset,
  and sortednumeric docvalues.

FieldsProducer

Abstract API that produces terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
  payloads postings.

NormsProducer

Abstract API that produces field normalization values

PointsReader

Abstract API to visit point values.

StoredFieldsReader

Codec API for reading stored fields.

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Codec API for reading term vectors:

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Alexandria Symphony Opens 75th Anniversary Season & Welcomes Violinist Alexander Kerr | News Release | Alexandria Symphony Orchestra
Alexandria Symphony Opens 75th Anniversary Season
ASO Welcomes Violinist Alexander Kerr
Alexandria, VA—The Alexandria Symphony Orchestra (ASO) opens its 75th Anniversary Season on September 29, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. (Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center) and Sunday, September 30 at 3:00 p.m. (George Washington Masonic Memorial). Throughout the year, the ASO will mark the celebration of its 75thAnniversary with special appearances and events with new Music Director Maestro James Ross and members of the ASO.
The concert opens with a mystery piece, which Maestro Ross will introduce from the podium. The program continues with Michael Torke's Javelin, commissioned for the 1996 Olympics held in Atlanta and later recorded by John Williams with the Boston Pops. Violinist Alexander Kerr joins the ASO as soloist for Dvořák's Romance in F minor and Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo capriccioso. Dvořák originally composed the Romance as a string quartet; he dedicated the concerto to František Ondříček, who premiered the work. Also composed for a soloist, Saint-Saëns' composition showcases the talent of a musician of Kerr's caliber.
Kerr is Concertmaster of both the Dallas and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras. Raised in Alexandria, Alexander Kerr's expressive and charismatic style has made him one of the most accomplished and versatile violinists on the international music scene today. Kerr will conduct a master class for T. C. Williams High School music students during the concert week.
The concert will culminate with Beethoven's patriotic and well-loved Symphony No. 7. Beethoven composed the work while on bed rest during the winter of 1811, and the piece premiered as a tribute to German soldiers who survived a hard-fought victory over Napoleon. Composed after his complete loss of hearing and while severely ill, the Seventh Symphony is a testament to the human spirit. "By the time Beethoven wrote the first chords of this piece, he already knew that success in his life was only achievable through Olympian striving and then only transiently," comments Maestro Ross. "This quality of overcoming struggle is a major theme of his music."
The fully-professional Alexandria Symphony Orchestra performs Saturday evenings at Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center and Sunday matinees at the George Washington Masonic Memorial. Season subscriptions start at $68. Single-ticket prices range from $20 to $80 for adults, and there are $5 youth and $10 student tickets. Military, senior and group discounts are also available. To order tickets and for more information, visit www.alexsym.org or call (703) 548-0885.
James Ross, Music Director
Alexander Kerr, violinist
TORKE: Javelin
DVOŘÁK: Romance in F minor
SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A major
Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall
Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.
MENDELSSOHN'S SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
Tanya Anisimova, cellist
KRASH: Cello Concerto (world premiere)
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"
BERNSTEIN: Overture to West Side Story
BERNSTEIN: "Three Dance Episodes" from On the Town
Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.
MOZART'S PRAGUE SYMPHONY
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 1 "Classical"
J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
STRAVINSKY: Concerto in E-flat major "Dumbarton Oaks"
MOZART: Symphony No. 38 "Prague"
Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 3:00 p.m.
RACHMANIONOFF'S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3
Marianna Prjevalskaya, pianist
REZNICEK: Overture to Donna Diana
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 "Spring"
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3
Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 3:00 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$80 for adults. Student tickets $10 (with ID). Youth tickets $5 (age 18 & under). Military, senior and group discounts available. Purchase online at www.alexsym.org or call 703-548-0885.
Free parking provided by the ASO at both venues. The Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center is accessible by Metro bus lines 7A, 7B, 7F, 7Y, 25A, 25C and 25E, as well as DASH bus line AT6. The George Washington Masonic Memorial is accessible by the Blue and Yellow metro line (King Street station), numerous Metro, Dash and Richmond Highway Express bus lines, and the King Street Trolley in Old Town, Alexandria.
For soloists' biographies, please visit: http://www.alexsym.org/about/musicians/
Tagged Alexander Kerr, Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, ASO, Kerr
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Tear-down plan gets historic review
by Andy Zagastizábal • June 22, 2007 • 0 Comments
JACKSON SQ.—The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation's (JPNDC) plan to tear down a late-1800s apartment building to build new affordable housing will be the focus of a Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC) hearing next week. [See JP Agenda.]
The six-unit building stands at 266-268 Centre St. at the corner of Lamartine Street, across from the Bromley-Heath housing development. The JPNDC plans a four-story mixed-use building on the site, which includes the vacant lots surrounding the building between Lamartine and Wise streets. The plans include 30 units of affordable rental housing and a new home for the Hyde/Jackson Square Main Street office.
JPNDC Executive Director Richard Thal told the Gazette that the current plan is for a fall start on new constructions.
At the hearing, the BLC will consider imposing "demolition delay," or a 90-day waiting period to consider ways to preserve the building instead of demolishing it. If demolition delay is imposed, the JPNDC could still demolish the building sooner if it convinces the BLC that preservation is infeasible. Otherwise, demolition is allowed after the 90-day wait.
The building appears to have no historic protections. The strongest form of protection would be landmark status, which residents can petition the BLC to impose.
The JPNDC's original plans, more than a half-decade ago, included saving the building.
"Initially, we hoped we could renovate the existing buiding site," Thal said. "It turns out, for a number of reasons, it wasn't feasible."
A major obstacle is that the building doesn't meet various current building codes, including unit size.
The three-story building is made of wood, with a partial mansard roof. It retains decorative details on the windows and other areas.
Thal said three of the units remain occupied. Tenants forced to move out because of the demolition reportedly will get priority in renting units in the new building, if they're income-eligible. One tenant complained to the Gazette last year that he didn't understand the plans and didn't want to move.
The overall redevelopment covers 266-270 Centre St. and combines seven small parcels along with the existing building. Known as the Centre Wise Lamartine project, it is part of the so-called scattered sites redevelopment, in which the JPNDC is turning former city lots around Jamaica Plain into affordable housing. It is not part of the larger Jackson Square redevelopment that JPNDC is also involved with. [See related story.]
"That site's been vacant for decades, most of it," Thal said, adding the JPNDC is ready to start putting it in use again.
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Q: Function and classes in python I have surfed online but still not sure when we do
import matplotlib.pyplot

matplotlib is a file ? and pyplot is a class ? Could some one explain how they are structured.
Also all libraries that we get, can we see code for them .In Pycharm I just need to press ctrl+left click. But will it work for lets say a base function like casting operator - int().
Also for above example for file matplotlib how can I see all the possible functions and classes in them , is there any such function ?

A: matplotlib is a package, when you you import it, to Python it looks like any module.
pyplot is a module as well, but it's a module inside the matplotlib package.
You can ask Python itself:
>>> from matplotlib import pyplot
>>> type(pyplot)
<class 'module'>
>>> import matplotlib
>>> type(matplotlib)
<class 'module'>

A class would just be a type:
>>> from matplotlib import Parameter
>>> type(Parameter)
<class 'type'>

And to see what a module (or a class) has to offer, use dir():
>>> dir(matplotlib)
['LooseVersion', 'MatplotlibDeprecationWarning', 'MutableMapping', 'Parameter', 'Path', 'RcParams', 'URL_REGEX', '_DATA_DOC_APPENDIX', '_DATA_DOC_TITLE', '_ExecInfo', '__bibtex__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', '__version__', '_add_data_doc', '_all_deprecated', '_check_versions', '_cm', '_cm_listed', '_color_data', '_constrained_layout', '_create_tmp_config_or_cache_dir', '_deprecated_ignore_map', '_deprecated_map', '_deprecated_remain_as_none', '_ensure_handler', '_error_details_fmt', '_get_config_or_cache_dir', '_get_data_path', '_get_executable_info', '_get_xdg_cache_dir', '_get_xdg_config_dir', '_image', '_init_tests', '_label_from_arg', '_layoutbox', '_log', '_logged_cached', '_mathtext_data', '_open_file_or_url', '_path', '_preprocess_data', '_pylab_helpers', '_rc_params_in_file', '_replacer', '_version', 'afm', 'artist', 'atexit', 'axes', 'axis', 'backend_bases', 'backend_tools', 'backends', 'bezier', 'blocking_input', 'category', 'cbook', 'checkdep_dvipng', 'checkdep_ghostscript', 'checkdep_inkscape', 'checkdep_pdftops', 'checkdep_ps_distiller', 'checkdep_usetex', 'cm', 'collections', 'colorbar', 'colors', 'compare_versions', 'container', 'contextlib', 'contour', 'cycler', 'dates', 'dedent', 'defaultParams', 'default_test_modules', 'docstring', 'dviread', 'figure', 'font_manager', 'fontconfig_pattern', 'ft2font', 'functools', 'get_backend', 'get_cachedir', 'get_configdir', 'get_data_path', 'get_home', 'get_label', 'get_py2exe_datafiles', 'gridspec', 'image', 'importlib', 'inspect', 'interactive', 'is_interactive', 'is_url', 'legend', 'legend_handler', 'lines', 'locale', 'logging', 'markers', 'mathtext', 'matplotlib_fname', 'mlab', 'mplDeprecation', 'namedtuple', 'numpy', 'offsetbox', 'os', 'patches', 'path', 'pprint', 'projections', 'pyplot', 'quiver', 'rc', 'rcParams', 'rcParamsDefault', 'rcParamsOrig', 'rc_context', 'rc_file', 'rc_file_defaults', 'rc_params', 'rc_params_from_file', 'rcdefaults', 'rcsetup', 're', 'sanitize_sequence', 'scale', 'set_loglevel', 'shutil', 'spines', 'stackplot', 'streamplot', 'style', 'subprocess', 'sys', 'table', 'tempfile', 'test', 'texmanager', 'text', 'textpath', 'ticker', 'tight_bbox', 'tight_layout', 'tk_window_focus', 'transforms', 'tri', 'units', 'use', 'validate_backend', 'widgets']

A: import matplotlib

means that matplotlib is a "module", which is a namespace.
it also means that
matplotlib.pyplot is a module, because that's what the import statement does. It loads modules.
So pyplot is not a class. And Python classes should start with capital letters, too.
If this import succeeds, it means that "magically", python at runtime knows what matplotlib is, because python has a path of places in your filesystem to look. The list of places is determined when Python is installed.
If you think of it as matplotlib.py, you'll conceptually be correct. When you import a module, python will look for a file with that name in its path. As with most library packaging systems, the import statement could be abstracting some actual complexity. Big libraries can be split over multiple files and so on.
The module pyplot can only be found by first accessing matplotlib.  This could be mapped to a subdirectory in the file system. Directories which contain sub-modules are marked via an __init__.py file and if you search to learn more about __init__.py files, you will learn about the topic of python modules.
The import statement you gave as an example lets you refer to matplotlib.pyplot to access actually useful things, such as functions and classes.
So if there was a function "show()" you could refer to
matplotlib.pyplot.show()

in your code
def show_chart():
    matplotlib.pyplot.show() #made-up example

if you had instead done
from matplotlib import pyplot

you would refer to
pyplot.show()

which saves some typing.
if pyplot has a class "Chart", you could do
my_chart = pyplot.Chart()

PS there is a version of the python console called ipython
If it is installed on your system, Pycharm will use it when you do Tools -> Python Console.
Try
>>> import datetime
>>> ??datetime

the ?? query tells you a lot about the module, although it actually just accesses documentation that you can also access in other ways, as you have discovered
If that example doesn't work, ipython is not installed, so google for that. It has some very nice shortcuts.

A: You can get the detailed structure of the matplotlib project at https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/master/lib/matplotlib
Make sure that your IDE has path set to where you have installed the libraries.


Hit that owambe in the most breathtaking gele style this month. June signifies the end of the first half of the year and that is equivalent to so many things for example, checking to see if you are ticking all the goals you set for yourself at the beginning of the year. These list includes the fashion goals too and you know one of the fashion goals involves being among the very best at every occasion.
You have to be very aware of your environment because the fashion-sphere changes shape at every turn. One day something is trending and the next it is out of "fashion" so you have to have a certain devotion for your self professed love for fashion. Remember that you owe it to yourself to always look good and you know that the heart of the world revolves around attraction and before you take a step further you have to be easy and pleasing to the eyes.


text:
from js.backbone import backbone
from js.cropper import cropper
from js.handlebars import handlebars
from zeit.cms.browser.resources import Resource, Library
import fanstatic
import zeit.cms.browser.resources

lib = Library('zeit.content.image', 'resources')
Resource('drag-images.js', depends=[zeit.cms.browser.resources.base])
Resource('imagegroup.css')
Resource('variant.css')
Resource('variant.js', depends=[
    variant_css, zeit.cms.browser.resources.base,
    backbone, cropper, handlebars])

Resource('form.js', depends=[zeit.cms.browser.resources.base])

test_lib = fanstatic.Library('zeit.content.image.test', 'tests')
test_variant_js = fanstatic.Resource(
    test_lib, 'test_variant.js', depends=[variant_js])


text:
Triple Murder in D.C.: Ziang Sung Wan & the Unsolved Mystery that Shocked the Nation
in DC by Karis Lee
As far as Chinese immigrants go, Dr. Theodore Ting Wong, Chang Hsi Hsie, and Ben Sen Wu were doing alright for themselves. All three were well educated, hailed from affluent Chinese families, spoke nearly fluent English, and served as diplomats for the Chinese Legation. Ushering in the Chinese New Year on the evening of January 29, 1919, the three men had much to celebrate and even more work to get to the next day. But by morning, the mission house was eerily quiet. The postman rang the doorbell in vain; the milk delivery was left sweating on the stoop; the laundry package sat unattended by the door. Concerned, a neighbor entered the house through an open window. What he found sparked a case that would headline papers for years, reach the Supreme Court, and even pave the way for our "right to remain silent." It was January 31, 1919, and the three residents of the mission had been dead two days.


On Thursday, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was officially sworn into Congress, changing history as the youngest woman to ever have a seat. Most would agree that's something worth celebrating.
Of course, this being Trump's America, no good thing ever goes unspoiled, and naturally, some right-wing troll attempted to ruin her day by sharing a video in which she's parodying The Breakfast Club by dancing to Phoenix's "Lisztomania".
"Here is America's favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is," @AnonymousQ1776 tweeted with the edited video, which dates back to 2009, when Ocasio-Cortez was an undergraduate at Boston University.
As expected, the entire plan backfired and only helped humanize the politician, who has since received digital high fives from all over the Internet, including from the very entertainers that inspired her to create the video.
Film stars Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy invited her to join The Breakfast Club, while the French rockers offered their own congratulations, both of which you can see below. No word yet on members of War, who she recently danced to on Thursday.


text:
Q: How should I read a file line-by-line in Python? In pre-historic times (Python 1.4) we did:
fp = open('filename.txt')
while 1:
    line = fp.readline()
    if not line:
        break
    print(line)

after Python 2.1, we did:
for line in open('filename.txt').xreadlines():
    print(line)

before we got the convenient iterator protocol in Python 2.3, and could do:
for line in open('filename.txt'):
    print(line)

I've seen some examples using the more verbose:
with open('filename.txt') as fp:
    for line in fp:
        print(line)

is this the preferred method going forwards?
[edit] I get that the with statement ensures closing of the file... but why isn't that included in the iterator protocol for file objects?

A: if you're turned off by the extra line, you can use a wrapper function like so:
def with_iter(iterable):
    with iterable as iter:
        for item in iter:
            yield item

for line in with_iter(open('...')):
    ...

in Python 3.3, the yield from statement would make this even shorter:
def with_iter(iterable):
    with iterable as iter:
        yield from iter

A: There is exactly one reason why the following is preferred:
with open('filename.txt') as fp:
    for line in fp:
        print(line)

We are all spoiled by CPython's relatively deterministic reference-counting scheme for garbage collection.  Other, hypothetical implementations of Python will not necessarily close the file "quickly enough" without the with block if they use some other scheme to reclaim memory.
In such an implementation, you might get a "too many files open" error from the OS if your code opens files faster than the garbage collector calls finalizers on orphaned file handles.  The usual workaround is to trigger the GC immediately, but this is a nasty hack and it has to be done by every function that could encounter the error, including those in libraries.  What a nightmare.
Or you could just use the with block.
Bonus Question
(Stop reading now if are only interested in the objective aspects of the question.)

Why isn't that included in the iterator protocol for file objects?

This is a subjective question about API design, so I have a subjective answer in two parts.
On a gut level, this feels wrong, because it makes iterator protocol do two separate things—iterate over lines and close the file handle—and it's often a bad idea to make a simple-looking function do two actions.  In this case, it feels especially bad because iterators relate in a quasi-functional, value-based way to the contents of a file, but managing file handles is a completely separate task.  Squashing both, invisibly, into one action, is surprising to humans who read the code and makes it more difficult to reason about program behavior.
Other languages have essentially come to the same conclusion.  Haskell briefly flirted with so-called "lazy IO" which allows you to iterate over a file and have it automatically closed when you get to the end of the stream, but it's almost universally discouraged to use lazy IO in Haskell these days, and Haskell users have mostly moved to more explicit resource management like Conduit which behaves more like the with block in Python.
On a technical level, there are some things you may want to do with a file handle in Python which would not work as well if iteration closed the file handle.  For example, suppose I need to iterate over the file twice:
with open('filename.txt') as fp:
    for line in fp:
        ...
    fp.seek(0)
    for line in fp:
        ...

While this is a less common use case, consider the fact that I might have just added the three lines of code at the bottom to an existing code base which originally had the top three lines.  If iteration closed the file, I wouldn't be able to do that.  So keeping iteration and resource management separate makes it easier to compose chunks of code into a larger, working Python program.
Composability is one of the most important usability features of a language or API.

A: Yes,
with open('filename.txt') as fp:
    for line in fp:
        print(line)

is the way to go.
It is not more verbose. It is more safe.


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Prey – They're coming for Yu
May 24, 2017 lefranzine
When Prey was finally announced, the idea of being trapped on a space station with an alien organism filled me with a sense of dread. Mainly because I had flashbacks to my attempts at playing Alien Isolation before I gave up because I didn't think my bank balance would appreciate the hit for the new underwear I would need to purchase. I have told myself I will try again someday but I'm not sure I'm ready. Surely, I would be able to cope with the Typhon in Prey though, right? I played the demo of the opening hour as soon as it became available. I realised then that the Typhon were going to be a bit of a challenge, especially with mimics around that can pretend to be ordinary objects around the Talos 1 space station. There's nothing more terrifying than going to the bathroom and wondering if the toilet roll is going to try and kill you, is there? The demo left me wanting more. So when Bethesda kindly provided us with a review copy of the latest Arkane Studios title, I was ready and willing.
You play as Morgan Yu and you will take he or she (depending on who you pick) on a mission through Talos 1 while fighting the Typhon threat that has consumed almost everyone on board. You will have weaponry and skills at your disposal to assist you in this task and you may even choose to acquire Typhon powers in order to play them at their own game… but at what cost? Prey incorporates a lot of elements from titles which have been thoroughly enjoyed by gamers previously, namely Dishonored series and System Shock but it takes it a step further. The first thing you will notice quickly is that combining your weapons and skills will help you immensely in your journey through the troubled Talos 1. The aptly named GLOO gun, a multipurpose aid that allows you to fire a substance which can slow down enemies but also be used to create sturdy blocks to let you climb and get to out of reach places.
Similarly to the Dishonored games, Arkane's style of allowing you to choose the way you play shines through. You can look for alternative routes that don't require keycards and pick your powers as you go without feeling pressured to go with something in particular. You can choose to enhance your abilities through the use of Neuromods that unlock your potential to be faster, stronger and eventually when you locate a Psi-scope, you'll have the opportunity to obtain Typhon abilities if you wish by scanning the creatures. The more Typhon powers you acquire, the more aware your enemies become of you and once friendly turrets, will become hostile as they detect the alien material that lies within. On my playthrough, I opted to only have two Typhon powers this time around but next time, I will take the plunge and acquire a lot more of the 'aptitudes' available to me. These ranged from mind control to kinetic blasts but I only picked the mimic powers allowing me to turn into coffee cups in order to get into the security booths. The Typhon can be tricky and fast. Mimics appear out of nowhere as they imitate chairs, equipment and items you just want to pick up. Phantoms come in a variety of guises each presenting you with a new challenge. Then you have Poltergeists (which I just couldn't help but laugh at), Weavers, Telepaths and the Nightmare. Just when you think you have these aliens sussed, they corrupt an operator bot which turns against you forcing you to change your approach and use some of the additional weaponry you have picked up. I became a fan of the GLOO gun/shotgun combination but occasionally the recycler grenade came in very handy and provided some much needed materials to fabricate more ammo. Alternatively, you could go through the first playthrough and entirely miss one of the weapons… because that's what I did so I would suggest not doing that and ensuring that you pick up every item in order to make the most of your experience.
The recycling element of the game is really interesting. It took me a few minutes to fully appreciate its simplicity and once I had fabrication plans for the items I used constantly, I was always on the lookout for a recycling and fabricating machine. Usually where there's one, there's the other nearby. So don't ignore those flashing items that you might not want to take up valuable inventory space because when the time comes and you need more GLOO, medkits, bullets or grenades, you'll wish you hadn't sneered at all those banana peels and used cigars. You can also pick up chips for your suit and Psi-scope to improve them which can be particularly helpful if you're on the lookout for mimics or have a tendency to get hit a lot by enemies. Overall, I was impressed with the inventory aspect as you still have to do a little work in order to upgrade everything but it continues the theme of playing the way you want to instead of forcing you to have certain perks that might not suit your needs. My only issue was that I found myself near the end of the game with not a lot in the way of materials to fabricate items. This was more my own doing so be sure to make the most of what you can find and use the Recycler Charge to create more useful materials out of enemies and your surroundings.
The further you progress through the story, the trickier things become. With your brother Alex causing issues by sealing all of the exterior airlocks making your space walks a little bit frustrating, you'll have to figure out other ways of completing your missions. You'll come across survivors who you can help or kill. Some humans aren't so trust worthy though and you'll end up deciding whether you wants to bother helping them at all depending on how you play that game of course. There is an achievement for not killing any humans but there's also one for killing every human so you can take your pick. The sheer number of enemies seems to increase too as you return to areas you've already cleared so you always need to be on your guard. But my main tip to is explore everywhere. Every table, nook, cranny, locker and computer will conceal something you need. Be it ammo, food, junk for recycling, fabrications plans or just the passwords and codes for safes, you will benefit from taking a little time to have a look around before moving on. Searching bodies is also advised as they may have useful items on them too so if you do a spacewalk, be sure to check out the corpses that are floating around the exterior of Talos 1 too.
I'm not going to ruin the story for you, but all I can say is that not all is what it seems. With January, your personal operator and guide, filling in the gaps in your memory caused from the experiments that have been carried out on Talos 1, you start to piece together what has to be done and you might not like it too much. I don't want to spoil anything but if you've been following my Preythrough streams since release then you'll know what will happen and there are some different endings that are influenced by the way you have played throughout. It feels like you can do the campaign in your own time but I did find that towards the end, I ignored side missions entirely which I feel was an error on my part and I will most certainly want to play it again to try and finish them. As the space station is open world, with the exception of the times when airlocks are shut, you can pick up side missions which you can choose to finish or ignore. I do like the open world aspect because even though you are in one location, it's nice to go off task for a while to get into an area which looks to be cut off but clearly has something useful in it. My only regret is that I didn't explore everywhere as I feel that I missed out on a lot of items and side mission completion as a result. I guess I'll just have to play the game again, oh woe is me.
Graphicly, Prey retains the familiar Arkane style seen throughout the Dishonored games but has been applied in a more futuristic setting. While it isn't the best looking game in comparison to titles such as Horizon Zero Dawn (and it isn't trying to be from what I gather) the Talos 1 looks pretty impressive during a spacewalk where you can take a few moments to appreciate its sheer size before turning around to see the Earth and moon just out of reach. The Typhon have a creepy ethereal effect during combat but are reduced to black goo once defeated which looks suitably gross against the crisp, clean and almost clinical look of the space station… well the areas that aren't covered in blood, corpses and GLOO residue that is. The use of sound in this game has the ability to keep you on edge by preparing you for the inevitable moment when a chair turns out to be a mimic. You can hear Phantoms talking to themselves, mind-controlled humans telling you to stay away and operators running system checks. I found the sound cues would be so effective that I would suddenly be worried of imminent death just hearing a turret spring into action or even hearing a door open or close. This coupled with the soundtrack just creates an eerie atmosphere confirming that you probably aren't alone wherever you are.
I have really enjoyed playing Prey and will definitely aim to do more playthroughs in the future to try a different approach by taking on more Typhon powers to see how that changes the game (seeing as I was a big chicken this time around and didn't want the Typhon being more aware of me or turrets trying to kill me!). The open world approach delivers the freedom of exploring the environment and shows off Arkane's talent for designing interesting play spaces and offering extended game play hours. I completed the campaign in around 14-15 hours but could easily have racked up more play time had I worked through more side missions and taken a break from the story to have more of a look around in some of the areas that would have been unavailable to me at the beginning of the game. This open world aspect coupled with the ability to take a peek into the lives of the other inhabitants of Talos 1 through reading notes and emails gives the game the light hearted, human element that you could lose while surrounded by ever present danger. My favourite day to day item found on the Talos 1 was most certainly finding the character sheets for a role-playing game some of the crew had organised.
My only frustration at times was that I had so many objectives on my screen that I couldn't decipher where I needed to go next and during a spacewalk which resulted in me spending 10-20 minutes flailing around outside trying to find a way in just felt a little irritating. This also extended to the space station interior when there were several objectives and no matter which door I went through, I was still going the wrong way! You wouldn't think it was possible to get lost on a space station, but I managed it. Other than that, I didn't come across many issues that weren't my own doing and the urge to replay for trophies and achievements is most certainly there. Arkane have built a place that they want you to explore, so my tip would be to do so and enjoy yourself while doing it, you'll certainly be satisfied if you do.
If you would like to watch some of my Preythrough videos, head to the link below to get started!
Our thanks to Bethesda for providing us with a review copy of Prey for PS4.
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The Honda Asimo robot has recently got a HMI upgrade. Instead of using joysticks and buttons the Asimo can now be controlled using mind control! We have seen this mind control technology in the past but not controlling a physical robot.
"Japan scientists at the Honda Research Institute have unveiled the world's first brain to machine interface. Dubbed BMI short for Brain Machine Interface this new technology system will enable people to control robots using their mind."
Didn't I see that in the beginning of The Empire Strikes back?
It works for me. Give it a try again I think Youtube may have been doing some work on the system.
no it is same but it is more complex because not only you are moving mouse in x and y but you are moving hand in x,y and z so in real 3d world i do not see anything in this vid but i think the human will be able to control each robot joints by that machine. know think every joint in x,y and z. how much data you have to capture from human brain?
think know not same huh?
I wonder what happens if you wear it while you're asleep?
Wonderful innovation. Especially the video presentation was really excellent.
what I think it does is use the brain interface to trigger pre-programmed movements. imo, this isn't any more complex then using the interface to trigger a mouse movement in + or -, x or y directions. you're just telling the computer "trigger left hand wave" or "trigger song and dance" or "trigger kill all humans!". it's no more complex then moving a mouse cursor. lets see some more complex thought reading. this video is awesome, but I know we can do better!


Has the Internet of Things impacted your life? The answer is yes, if you own a FitBit, thermostat, alarm system or other device that communicates with your smartphone. First coined in 1999, the term Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the way physical devices are increasingly built to collect and exchange data over the Internet – with profound and growing implications for the business world.
As the McKinsey Quarterly put it, "When objects can both sense the environment and communicate, they become tools for understanding complexity and responding to it swiftly." The potential for improved accuracy, efficiency and profits across almost all business sectors is incredible.
The Wall Street Journal explains how early adopter Harley Davidson is using IoT technology in its recently renovated York, Pa. manufacturing facility. Manufacturing execution systems (MES), a form of software, tracks and documents all of the information gathered by sensors and other applications monitoring every step of the production process. Important environmental details like humidity and temperature are measured, and machinery automatically adjusts as needed to maintain optimal conditions. The data allows the company to streamline production, eliminate bottlenecks, and even anticipate problems before they happen – and in fact, Harley Davidson is now able to complete a new bike every 86 seconds.
One of Harley Davidson's competitors, Zero Motorcycles, is utilizing IoT technology by manufacturing bikes that are connected. Information Week explains that a mobile app allows the owner to transmit data from the bike to service professionals and to Zero in the event of mechanical trouble. Not only does this result in customers better able to maintain these high-end bikes, the resulting data is invaluable to Zero in product development.
As we can see from these examples, the IoT utilizes a two-part process: gathering of information and utilization of that information. At the moment, the business world is doing a better job gathering the information than utilizing it, but this will change dramatically as the technology develops. The IoT is expected to have a huge impact in almost every field of business, but especially in infrastructure and energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics. Media and advertising will become even more targeted, as data will enable advertisers to further refine when and where their ads are served, ensuring that they reach the most promising customers at the best possible time.
Growth predictions for the IoT are staggering. The IoT Consortium expects that 30 billion devices will be online by 2020, and the worldwide market will grow from $591 billion in 2014 to $1.3 trillion in 2019. The volume of data will reach 403 ZB per year by 2018, up from 113.4 ZB in 2013. New and exciting uses for the data will continue to be refined — particularly in the area of automation, where human involvement with the data is not necessary for improved efficiency — which will spur further growth in the longer-term.
Those growth statistics indicate the profound impact the IoT will have on the networking world, and on your business. IPv4's limited address space will be exhausted as the number of online objects continues to multiply, which means the adoption of IPv6 will be imperative. Most importantly, the IoT is driving a drastically increased need for reliable, secure bandwidth.
The implications of the IoT will be felt throughout your entire business model. The IoT can be used right now to improve energy efficiency at your facilities, and in some cases to optimize business processes. In the longer term, the IoT's ability to capture and analyze enormous amounts of data will enable better control and automation of business operations, and creates a tantalizing potential to sell data as well as products. Network speed and data security will be imperative, both internally and on the customer side. Data storage will also become more and more important as the IoT gathers increasing amounts of information.
With the coming of the IoT, DQE can help. Increasing bandwidth to provide the speed your customers demand — and that the IoT requires — is imperative. Fortunately, DQE offers a highly secure fiber network with unparalleled reliability, with business solutions that grow as your needs and the IoT require. Talk to a DQE network service representative about a customized network solution today!


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