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"Awash in Mimicry": The Excess of Translation
by Johannes Goransson on Feb.05, 2015
[I don't think I ever got around to announcing that I had an essay, "Awash in Mimicry: On the Deformation Zone of Translation" in the last issue of the fine translation journal Two Lines (highly recommended). So I'll paste in the first half here and hope that it will want to make you go and buy the journal. Also, I have written a sequel of a sorts that will be in a special translation issue of the Volta, edited by Rosa Alcala.]
"AWASH IN MIMICRY": ON THE DEFORMATION ZONE OF TRANSLATION
"Poetry is that which is lost in translation": I am fond of pointing out that the most canonical definition of poetry in American literature depends on translation. This suggests that translation – even if it is through negation – is essential to the American concept of poetry. We know poetry through translation, its opposite. It may seem strange to assert the prominence of translation in an age when we know – thanks to critics and activists like Lawrence Venuti, Chad Post, Don Mee Choi and Lucas Klein – that the translator and her translations are "invisible" in our culture: marginal, infrequent, debased. But somehow the translator and translation is both marginal and central, both invisible and hyper-visible – if only as a threat, a ghost, kitsch.
If we want to find out why translation is such a fundamental threat to poetry, we might ask ourselves: What IS this something that is "lost" in translation?
The short answer: the singular text, the singular author, the single lineage. In other words: the illusion of a perfect wellwrought urn of a text that cannot be paraphrased – or rather that is not paraphrased – written by one original author who expresses his or her views in full control of language. And perhaps even worse further: we lose the illusion of a patriarchal lineage, the objectivity of that lineage: What if we don't know who is influencing who? What if a writer is influenced by a text that is alien to her? Can she really be influenced correctly? Is she misreading it? The threat of translation is the threat of excess: too many versions of too many texts by too many authors from too many lineages. Poetry, it appears, is lost in a noisy, violent excess.
Over the past two hundred years, western (not just American, if I am perfectly honest) theorists have repeatedly discussed the excess produced by translation in terms of a violence. In Walter Benjamin's classic essay "The Task of the Translator," this excess becomes a violent alien-ness within the text itself:
If in the original, content and language constitute a certain unity, like that between a fruit and its skin, a translation surrounds its content, as if with the broad folds of a royal mantle. For translation indicates a higher language than its own and thereby remains inadequate, violent, and alien with respect to its content.
In this metaphor: the act of translation transforms the peel of a fruit into clothes, into excess no longer organically in balance with itself. In that case, it seems to be not a lack (what is lost) but an accumulation, an inflation and an infection of the alien. An alien-ness that is violent in part because it is alien, somewhat like an infection or a disease.
The violence of translation is even more central to George Steiner's canonical study of translation, After Babel. Steiner portrays the translation itself as a violent act: the translator must, in an act of "aggression" and "penetration," "extract" the meaning (as if it were gold in some colonial enterprise). However, the translator must take care not to lose his sense of self, before incorporating the new text in the target culture. Steiner warns that translating might – like a sexual intercourse – lead to "infection": "No language, no traditional symbolic set or cultural ensemble imports without the risk of being transformed." And this transformative infection may ruin our sense of self: "we may be mastered and made lame by what we have imported."
Steiner makes an important addition to this discussion by asserting that the problem posed by translation is one of economics. Not only must the translator be aware not to lose him or herself, but the greater culture has to incorporate the translation into its context and literary lineage in order to avoid "inflation." If this is not avoided, the literary culture might be "awash in mimicry." That is to say, Steiner sets up an economic model for translation: "Fidelity," he argues, "is ethical, but also, in the full sense, economic." The translator must create "a condition of significant exchange…. ideally, exchange without loss." It seems the threat of translation is that it might produce an excess that would ruin the economy of meaning.
Our culture has consistently been wary of this "mimicry flood," this inflation. We have guarded our literature well and we have been able to do so through a political and economical power that has made the US central and the rest of the world peripheral. So deeply entrenched is our opposition to translation that even translators and translation critics seem to believe in the impossibility of translation. Even Lawrence Venuti himself – one of the most influential translation activists and critics of the past 20 years – is fundamentally aligned with the impossibility of translation. Even as he calls for better legal status and more "visibility" for the translator, Venuti keeps repeating that translation is impossible. The most important reason why Venuti sees it as impossible because the "original context" it lost:
… a reader of a translation can never experience it with a response that is equivalent or even comparable to the response with which the source-language reader experiences the source text, that is to say a reader who has read widely in the source language and is immersed in the source culture. Not even a bilingual reader familiar with both the source and the translating cultures will experience the two texts in the same or a similar way. (180)
Throughout his work, Venuti insists on an original "context" with an original reader, an "educated," native reader who can fully appreciate the text through her mastery of the context. This model is frequently repeated in translation discussions: the translator is a foreigner who has gained mastery of the foreign culture, a mastery often shown by attention to cultural differences (for example, Venuti finds flaw with a Calvino translator for translating "ricotta" as "cream cheese"). Although Venuti introduces Derrida's idea of "iterability," he insists on an original text that is stabilized through its original reader and context.
The good translation for Venuti is a translation that reveals that this context is lost, a translation that informs, that does not fool us. A good translation tells us instead that we do not have access to the context, reminds us that there is another world out there that is not ours. This is the idea of the "foreignizing translation," a translation that through syntactical, linguistic noise calls attention to its status as a translation: "The point is rather to develop a theory and practice of translation that resists dominant target-language cultural values so as to signify the linguistic and cultural difference of the foreign text." It doesn't fool you into thinking it's poetry; it won't absorb but distance.
Venuti posits this translation model as opposed to the "domesticating' practices that tended to make the foreign seem American by smoothing out translation noise, but paradoxically, in so doing he prescribes a way of presenting the foreign text (thus domesticating it) and instrumentalizes our experience of the text. The foreign text is made to serve a definite purpose: to remind Americans that there is a foreign world out there. Venuti writes: "Foreignizing translation signifies the difference of the foreign text, yet only by disrupting the cultural codes that prevail in the target language… deviating enough from the native norms to stage an alien reading experience…" (20). In Venuti's work, the inflationary threat of translation is dealt with by making it serve a specific purpose: to reveal its own ghostly threat.
Both "domesticating" and "foreignizing" translation models (and virtually every talk or discussion about translation I've ever read or witnessed) depend on a stabilizing model of "context." But what is "context"? In Venuti's essays, the "original context" is equated with how an "educated reader" in the "original culture" would have originally read the original poem. Lots of originals there and also a lot of presumptions: What is an "educated reader"? Is there only one way to be educated? What if the poet was uneducated? What if the poet was a foreigner? What if the poet's aesthetics were influenced by a foreign literature? What if the poet – as often is the case – lived in a foreign country? And isn't it true that we are often foreign to ourselves? Poetry –and in particular poetry in translation – destabilizes notions of a stable context and authorship. We "lose" ourselves, we become "lame" in Steiner's words. Poetry is inflation. It teems.
For Venuti, the violence of translation comes from removing a poem from its original context, but I agree with Steiner that there is a violence in how we are affected by translations (and even language, communication): We come undone, our selves are corrupted, infected, made un-whole-some and even "shattered" (as Leo Bersani has put it). Just as the translator enacts a kind of violence on the foreign text, the text enacts a violence against the translator. Or I might add: Just as a reader enacts a violence against a poem, so the poem enacts a violence against the reader. The recipient of any artwork is in danger of being infected, or even of having the top of their head taken off, of being made part of the artwork. And when that happens, writers may indeed start channeling foreign writers, overflowing our own literature with a "wash in mimicry." Hierarchies and lineages will be troubled by writing that is "mimicry," ie overwhelmed instead of original, having lost its true self.
But I don't think this violence is something we should seek to balance or stabilize.
To me, George Bataille's theories of excess provides an important alternative view of the urge for a balanced economy. Bataille argued: there are two economies, the one based on use and the one based on waste, a "restricted" economy and a "general" economy, "represented by so-called unproductive expenditures: luxury, mourning, war, cults, the constructions of sumptuary monuments, games, spectacles, arts, perverse sexual activity… these represent the activities which, at least in primitive circumstances, have no end beyond themselves." Bataille sees in the wasteful luxury of the nonproductive economy a rejection of capitalism: Poetry is on the side of loss, inflation, waste, excess.
One of the most important contemporary poets now writing is Korean poet Kim Hyesoon. I know of her work through Korean-born translator, poet and activist Don Mee Choi's translations….
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February 7th, 2015 on 8:16 pm
Nice essay, Johannes. I like how you connect Bataille's general economy to the idea of translation…very intriguing. I also like Benjamin, whom you quote, because it seems to me that his notion of "pure language" makes us realize that all languages are fragmented and incomplete — or, in other words, all language is mimicry. Pace Brooks and Warren — we only have shattered urns. To approach translation in Benjamin's terms means that we have to come at the forest of language from the outside, facing, as he says, the wooded ridge, listening for alien echoes — that is, we come to language per se as a foreigner.
I can see how you are trying to trouble the perhaps too neat binary of domestic and foreign but I had a question about your critique of Venuti's concept of "foreignizing translation." I really like what you do in translating Aase Berg in rendering kräldjur as "crawlanimal." But wouldn't Venuti consider that a defamiliarizing ("foreignizing") translation?
February 9th, 2015 on 12:21 am
It's a great question. I'll try to reply tomorrow, Michael.
February 8th, 2015 on 2:59 am
I like "crawanimal" too regardless of what Swedish it's replacing; wouldn't it be foreignizing–sort of a weird concept given how often etymologies are "foreign"–regardless being translation? It seems akin Dine–accent mark missing–linguistics, with the noun having great verbness. Which, ML, is supporting not disputing you, oops lol-smiles.
I translated "Kräldjur" (amphibian) as "kräl" (crawl) + "djur" (animal). Swedish is funny that way – just have a few words and then recombine them endlessly…
Crawl not craw–oops; craw makes the noun nounier; I wish the crawl could be crawls without making dubious muddle; crawlsanimal reads like a really clipped sentence. OK, I've run away with the word: apologies, word!
February 10th, 2015 on 4:18 am
I never would have guessed crawlanimal is amphibian–I guess because of the swimming part (though humans have their "crawlstroke" if I'm remembering vernacular right). I'm not a huge fan of the word amphibian so this is good to the good.
February 10th, 2015 on 7:27 pm
Kent Johnson, who seems to have been banned from our blog somehow, asked me to post the following comment:
I'd like to offer a little quibble in relation to the Benjamin quote Johannes offers from "The Task of the Translator."
The quote (and as a few other famous ones in WB's essay are) is often taken as endorsement of the kinds of translation "excess" and inflationary "infection" that Johannes defends in his post: that such "alien" draping of the original in array of (well, sort of) "royal" drag is what translation should do, even must do, modally speaking. Johannes, here, seems to take Benjamin's quote in that very spirit and to use it as a corrective, of sorts, to Venuti's lament for the entropic energies immanent to the practice.
But this isn't quite right, I don't think–or at least, one could say, the interpretation has some genetic complication to it. Because Benjamin is also a very Schleiermachian/Venutian sort of guy, even if his quasi-mystical and highly tropic framing leaves a lot of space for analogical license and productive cherry picking, some of which has no doubt been propitious for recent poetry. Indeed, in "Task of the Translator," Benjamin calls for a mode of translation that is emphatically literal– one, even, that should aim to follow the syntactic order of the source language with exact precision (a somewhat ultra-Schleiermachian move to "foreignize" that not even he could quite live up to in his own poetry translations). Benjamin's reasons for this are very much in line with Schleiermacher's: Such target faithfulness to difference and strangeness in the "foreign" source expands the target tongue, and thus assists total language towards its purer, higher unfolding.
Which is to say that the destabilizing folds of translatory excess argued for by Johannes are not necessarily antithetical, at all, to the principles of foreignization and their (albeit always partial and faint) attempts to transfer elements of "context"; in fact, the two can be complexly entwined, as they seem to be in Benjamin. As well, Venuti's gloom on loss of source "context" might be best addressed, really, through radically free approaches to translation… Translation is full of overlaps and rabbit-duck oscillations between "camps."
Not that such complications are some kind of frustrating space we need to fill in… All in all (and I suspect JG would agree), no one's come near to figuring out the nature of translation, any more than anyone has come close to figuring out the nature of poetry. Which is a good thing, for sure, for both.
Hi thanks for the comments everyone.
In short, my difference with Venuti is that he is so tied up in an idea of a stable "context" which determines the meaning, and that he then totally instrumentalizes the foreign texts to perform duties for American readers (teach them that there is a foreign world out there). it is as if translation is so impossible that it can only reveal its impossibility.
All this revealing itself is totally antithetical to art (I think): art conjures illusions and hallucinations.
More importantly: contexts and artworks are constantly changing and rearranging themselves. Translation opens up new contexts that did not exist before, thus Joyelle and I writing about "deformation zones" of translation that includes contexts and texts but not in such a stable, deterministic ways.
I don't think I say I agree with Benjamin, thought I certainly think he comes up with very insightful metaphors about translation (the idea of a pure language is so strange, especially if one reads the essay that is about pure language).
At the heart, I think this conflict is about the importance of the strange, the weird, the foreign. For Venuti to make something "foreign" means to distance the reader; but in my experience the foreign can seduce, repulse, intrigue etc. It is much more complex.
As I have written elsewhere, Venuti becomes institutionally important at the same time as the language poets, and i think that connection is important. He advocates an "anti-absorptive" model of translation (Bernstein's famous essay "The Artifice of Absorption" plays around with these models), just as Silliman, Hejinian and others use the idea of their writing as a foreign language, as an untranslatable text.
Well, I'm going on for too long. I also got some interesting comments on facebook and email and I hope to respond to those in the not so distant future.
In short, I agree with Kent J: part of what this essay is about is exactly how translation is "frustrating" all kinds of models – not just of translation, but of art and poetry. I think that's what draws me to thinking about translation, why I welcome its "lame"-making pathologies.


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Is today the TEOTWAWKI perhaps but let today be the start of revival!
Do you know what today will hold? We will probably not know all of what will go on. Today I hope is the start of revival. There is a tremendous amount of talk and scaremongering that the end of the world is coming. Take your pick and someone has talked about the end of civilization is coming.
It certainly sounds good and is making some people money but do we really know what it entails. There will always be wars, famine, natural disasters, etc but there has always been. Leave no doubt in your mind I think we live in a precarious time as we are utterly dependent on a fragile technical world and the country is very divided with a monumental election coming this fall.
As concerned as I am the interworking of society I have a source for the truth and what will happen. The Bible tells us exactly what is going to happen and additionally warns us that no man knows the exact time. Their is comfort and safety in knowing, but their is a far better thing that God gave us. He graced us with salvation!
Today my friends could be the start of revival in America. For today is the day that One Cry launches. Billed as a nationwide call for spiritual awakening it very well could be the start of revival. We know we need it and God will provide us a place to lay our burdens and help carry the weight if we know his son Jesus.
Join me as I pray today for revival to truly take hold.


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was a railway station on the Kashima Railway Line in Hokota, Ibaraki, Japan, operated by the Kashima Railway operator Kashima Railway. And, now, this station is used as a bus terminal by Kantetsu Green Bus.

In 2000, the station was selected as「関東の駅百選」by Ministry of Transport (Japan)(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). But the station was abolished in 2007 because of abolition of Kashima Railway, and at present there is a platform which was used on the station.

Since the station was discontinued, a bus terminal which was located in front of the station has been used by Kantetsu Green Bus. But, the bus terminal has called Hokota Station since Kashima Railway
was open to traffic.

Outline
This station was a ground station. And, decorated a triangle of objet d'art on the roof. There were a stand-up soba noodle shop and a sold fish-shaped pancale filled with sweet bean paste shop that were operated by Kashima Railway.

As the station was selected「関東の駅100選」, there was a plan of keeping the station building, but the station building was demolished since the station building was a rather decrepit old facility. Volunteers have established "鉾田駅保存会" since 1 February 2008 and they tenanted the former site of the station and have purchased two vehicles of Kashima Railway from Kanto Railway. So, they operated and showed the vehicles once a month. But, they expired with Kanto Railway, so they moved the vehicles from this station to Hotpark Hokota(a facility for bathing) in 2009. And, they have donated the vehicles to Hokota, Ibaraki, but the vehicles have been maintained.
A shop for sold fish-shaped pancale filled with sweet bean paste had been moved to the bus terminal. But, in 2011, the platform has been damaged due to Great East Japan Earthquake and the platform wasn't repaired, and the shop was closed and removed on August in the year.

Surrounding area

Shin-Hokota Station
Kantetsu Green Bus Hokota office

Buses
There is a bus terminal.

History
16 May 1929 - This station was opened as a station of 鹿島参宮鉄道-Kashima Sangū Railway
1 April 1939 - This station moved the station to urban area where was presently place.
1 June 1965  - 鹿島参宮鉄道-Kashima Sangū Railway  常総筑波鉄道-Jōsō Tsukuba Railway was merged into the former Kanto Railway。
1979 ‐ This station had belonged to Kashima Railway Line because Kanto Railway Hokota Line was split into Kashima Railway。
2000 - This station was selected as「関東の駅百選」
2007 - Abolition

Adjacent stations

References

External links

 The meeting of preserving Kashitetsu
 Guide

Railway stations in Japan opened in 1929
Railway stations in Ibaraki Prefecture
Kashima Railway Line
Railway stations closed in 2007

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Metropolis: The Chase Suite, sometimes known as Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase),  is the debut extended play (EP) by American recording artist Janelle Monáe, released August 24, 2007 on Bad Boy Records. Produced by Monáe, Control Z, and Chuck Lightning, the EP constitutes the first installment of Monáe's seven-part Metropolis conceptual series.

The EP debuted at number 115 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 5,200 copies in its first week. It was re-released as a special edition on August 12, 2008 and produced three singles, "Violet Stars Happy Hunting!!!", "Sincerely, Jane.", and "Many Moons".

Upon its release, Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) received critical acclaim from music critics, with "Many Moons" being nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.

Concept
Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) is the first installment of Monáe's seven-part Metropolis conceptual series, inspired by Fritz Lang's science fiction classic film, Metropolis (1927). It follows a fictional tale of android Cindi Mayweather who is mass-produced in the year 2719 for a market filled with severe social stratification. Mayweather falls in love with a human, and is sentenced to disassembly.

Critical reception

Metropolis received critical acclaim upon its release. Mark Nero from About.com gave the EP a positive review saying "Though she's new to the mainstream, the quirky, highly-talented singer Janelle Monae has been putting out music for years. ... If you've heard the original version of the EP, there's no need to pick this up unless you're a diehard fan, but if this is your first exposure to Janelle's music, you're in for a treat. Hip-Hop DX gave the EP a positive review saying, "Even without the random interplanetary references and notions of forbidden robot love, Metropolis has the type of production that takes its cues from something made in the past, as well as the future. The drums hit hard, and when combined with the synth keys, strings and the occasional electric guitar, they make for an oddly enjoyable mix." The Kansas City Star gave the EP a positive review.

Commercial performance
Metropolis: Suite I had minor success in the United States where it peaked at number 115 on the US Billboard 200 chart and fared much better on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart at number 20. The album also charted on the Top Heatseekers chart at number two. The EP spent one week on the Billboard 200, but spent 9 weeks altogether on both the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and the Top Heatseekers chart.

Track listing

Personnel
Credits for Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) adapted from AllMusic.

 Terrence Brown – piano, strings
 Control_z – engineer, drum programming, mastering, mixing
 Cutmaster Swift – scratching, cut
 Brian Davis – graphic design, concept, layout design, creation
 Provi Fulp – concept, stylist, creation
 Bernie Grundman – mastering
 Jaspects – horn section, trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax
 Chuck Lightning – concept, story, creation
 Lord Of The Cybersoul Patrol – executive production
 Lord Mitchell A. "MitchOW!ski" Martian – mastering, mixing, concept, assistant, creation
 Janelle Monáe – hammond organ, vocals, background vocals, production, executive production, concept, soloist, creation, voiceover
 Emily "Widget" Parker – concept, creation
 Kellindo Parker – concept, creation
 Kellis Jr. Parker – guitar, soloist
 Antwan "Big Boi" Patton – executive production
 Donna Permell – photography, concept, creation
 George "Rico" Rodriguez – concept, creation
 Ben Rose – photography, concept, creation
 Skunks – snaps
 Chris Stanford – photography, concept, creation
 Delvin Stanklin – concept, creation
 Sweetfish – bass
 Wolfmaster Lightning – arranger, vocals, production, associate production, associate arranger
 Wolfmaster Z – organ, synthesizer, guitar, piano, arranger, keyboards, electric piano, programming, vocals, production, artwork, graphic design, mastering, mixing, concept, layout design, instrumentation, creation
 Wolfmasters – executive production
 Wondaland Arts Society – creative director, concept, creation

Charts

References

External links
 Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) at Discogs

2007 debut EPs
Bad Boy Records EPs
Metropolis albums
2007 debut albums
Contemporary R&B EPs
Funk EPs
Dance music EPs
Dance-punk albums
New wave albums by American artists
New wave EPs
Pop music EPs
Soul EPs


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Q: Python Pandas: Vectorized Way of Cleaning Buy and Sell Signals I'm trying to simulate financial trades using a vectorized approach in python. Part of this includes removing duplicate signals.
To elaborate, I've developed a buy_signal column and a sell_signal column. These columns contain booleans in the form of 1s and 0s.
Looking at the signals from the top-down, I don't want to trigger a second buy_signal before a sell_signal triggers, AKA if a 'position' is open. Same thing with sell signals, I do not want duplicate sell signals if a 'position' is closed. If a sell_signal and buy_signal are 1, set them both to 0.
What is the best way to remove these irrelevant signals?
Here's an example:
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "buy_signal": [1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0],
        "sell_signal": [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
    }
)
print(df)

   buy_signal  sell_signal
0           1            0
1           1            0
2           1            1
3           1            1
4           0            1
5           0            0
6           1            0
7           1            0
8           1            1
9           0            0

Here's the result I want:
   buy_signal  sell_signal
0           1            0
1           0            0
2           0            1
3           0            0
4           0            0
5           0            0
6           1            0
7           0            0
8           0            1
9           0            0

A: As I said earlier (in a comment about a response since then deleted), one must consider the interaction between buy and sell signals, and cannot simply operate on each independently.
The key idea is to consider a quantity q (or "position") that is the amount currently held, and that the OP says would like bounded to [0, 1]. That quantity is cumsum(buy - sell) after cleaning.
Therefore, the problem reduces to "cumulative sum with limits", which unfortunately cannot be done in a vectorized way with numpy or pandas, but that we can code quite efficiently using numba. The code below processes 1 million rows in 37 ms.
import numpy as np
from numba import njit

@njit
def cumsum_clip(a, xmin=-np.inf, xmax=np.inf):
    res = np.empty_like(a)
    c = 0
    for i in range(len(a)):
        c = min(max(c + a[i], xmin), xmax)
        res[i] = c
    return res

def clean_buy_sell(df, xmin=0, xmax=1):
    # model the quantity held: cumulative sum of buy-sell clipped in
    # [xmin, xmax]
    # note that, when buy and sell are equal, there is no change
    q = cumsum_clip(
        (df['buy_signal'] - df['sell_signal']).values,
        xmin=xmin, xmax=xmax)

    # derive actual transactions: positive for buy, negative for sell, 0 for hold
    trans = np.diff(np.r_[0, q])
    df = df.assign(
        buy_signal=np.clip(trans, 0, None),
        sell_signal=np.clip(-trans, 0, None),
    )

    return df

Now:
df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "buy_signal": [1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0],
        "sell_signal": [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
    }
)
new_df = clean_buy_sell(df)

>>> new_df
   buy_signal  sell_signal
0           1            0
1           0            0
2           0            0
3           0            0
4           0            1
5           0            0
6           1            0
7           0            0
8           0            0
9           0            0

Speed and correctness
n = 1_000_000

np.random.seed(0)  # repeatable example
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.choice([0, 1], (n, 2)),
                  columns=['buy_signal', 'sell_signal'])

%timeit clean_buy_sell(df)
37.3 ms ± 104 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

Correctness tests:
z = clean_buy_sell(df)
q = (z['buy_signal'] - z['sell_signal']).cumsum()

# q is quantity held through time; must be in {0, 1}
assert q.isin({0, 1}).all()

# we should not have introduced any new buy signal:
# check that any buy == 1 in z was also 1 in df

assert not (z['buy_signal'] & ~df['buy_signal']).any()

# same for sell signal:
assert not (z['sell_signal'] & ~df['sell_signal']).any()

# finally, buy and sell should never be 1 on the same row:
assert not (z['buy_signal'] & z['sell_signal']).any()

Bonus: other limits, fractional buys and sells
For fun, we can consider the more general case where buy and sell values are fractional (or any float value), and the limits are not [0, 1]. There is nothing to change to the current version of clean_buy_sell, which is general enough to handle these conditions.
np.random.seed(0)
df = pd.DataFrame(
    np.random.uniform(0, 1, (100, 2)),
    columns=['buy_signal', 'sell_signal'],
)

# set limits to -1, 2: we can sell short (borrow) up to 1 unit
# and own up to 2 units.
z = clean_buy_sell(df, -1, 2)

(z['buy_signal'] - z['sell_signal']).cumsum().plot()


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I have published three law review articles including "The Empire Forgotten: The Application of the Bill of Rights to U.S. Territories," 57 Case W Res L Rev 147 (2006), "Ninety Miles from Freedom?: The Rights of the Guantanamo Bay Detainees," 18 St. Thomas L. Rev. 77 (2005); and "The Susceptibility of Municipalities to Suit Under the False Claims Act," 33 Pub. Contracts L. J. 625 (Spring 2004).
I have provided pro bono assistance on a brief before the United States Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008).
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Q: Where to add custom methods for controller in rails 4? I have a controller called bookmarks_controller
It has all RESTful actions.
My new.html.erb has 4 fields

*

*Url

*Title

*Descripion

*Thumbnail url

I have a fetch button right next to url field. When the user click fetch button I need to fetch title, content and populate it in the form.
This feature require some additional methods. So I need to define some additional methods.
But i'm confused since I have no idea where to add those methods.
Some says helper methods defined in bookmarks_helper only available in views and not in controllers.
So what is the proper way to add my custom methods for controllers?

A: You can add a custom action in bookmarks_controller as
#bookmarks_controller.rb

  def fetch_bookmark
    #code to fetch bookmark
  end

modify the routes.rb file
#routes.rb
resources :bookmarks do
  collection do
    get :fetch_bookmark
  end
end

and then call the action from new.html.erb
<%= link_to fetch_bookmark_bookmarks_path, remote: true %>

hoe this helps


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In the footsteps of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
By Sara Mantovani
You are here: Art & Culture > In the footsteps of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Her Imperial Majesty The Empress Marie Louise, after Napoleon's abdication in April 1814, was made the ruler of the duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla.
She arrived in Colorno in 1816, the palace was restored during 18th century by a French architect who tried to emulate in the interior the decor of the Palace of Versailles; with more than 400 rooms, courtyard and a magnificent French garden it became the summer residence of the Duchess.
Marie Louise found in Parma a warm welcome, the same feeling you will have visiting the city today. And she brought to the city a special flair, it seems that Parma wears its elegant, well-kept streets and buildings as a prosperous, self-conscious woman would wear her jewels.
One of them is the Regio Theatre (initially called Ducal Theatre) commissioned by Marie Louise, it was inaugurated in 1829 and became one of the birthplaces of Italian melodrama. Every season in this world-famous opera house is rich and it suits to every tastes: opera, concerts and above all the Verdi Festival in October each year.
Parma Cathedral | Ph. @nar_nehc
Regio Theatre, Parma | Ph. Paolo Barone
Another little jewel is the "violetta" (the little violet): it seems that Marie Louise, just arrived in Parma, was personally in charge of their cultivation. The first bottles of the perfume "Violetta di Parma" were produced after a long and patient work by the monks of Annunciata supported by the Duchess, they were made solely for the personal use of Maria Luigia.
The formula was intended to be kept secret, for private use only, but today it is available to the public. It is no accident that Parma houses the first Italian Perfume Museum, inside Palazzo Borsari.
It was around 1870 when Mr Borsari obtained the secret formula, but that's a different story.
itineraries - Parma
[Emilia-Romagna Art Cities] Parma in 3 Minutes
What to eat in Parma
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#ifndef _ASM_SIGNAL_H
#define _ASM_SIGNAL_H

#include <uapi/asm/registers.h>

extern unsigned long __rt_sigtramp_template[2];

void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs);

#include <asm-generic/signal.h>

#endif

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When is CANCEL THE WEDDING coming out?
The scheduled release date is August 5, 2014. That happens to be one day after school starts for my girls. Yes, I know that's too early for school to start, but they didn't ask me. Also, my oldest will be starting high school. I can't believe it either. Someone send me chocolate.
Will you come to my book club?
If you'll have me then I would love to come! Assuming that I can, of course. I mean, if you live in Canada I probably can't get there on a weeknight. I don't really know what to do as an author at a Book Club but I'm sure we can figure it out together. Plus I think you Book Clubbers drink a lot of wine so you may not notice what I'm doing anyway. Email me and we'll see what works.
Will you be doing readings or book signings?
I believe so, but I don't have the schedule yet. Seeing as the release date is right after school starts and I'll have two girls fighting over school clothes…I may just head out on a book tour road trip whether I'm invited or not. I'll just start driving around the southeast and stop when I run low on gas. Check back for updated schedules or pleas for help.
I have other questions for you, where can I reach you?
Email me. I'm happy to answer questions or just chat!


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Credit Crunch To Blame For Rise In Same Sex Divorce
Number of civil partnerships dropped
A Sheffield family law expert says the credit crunch could explain the fall in civil partnerships and rise in same sex dissolutions.
New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the number of couples entering a civil partnership has dropped 18 per cent – from 8,728 in 2007 to 7,169 in 2008. Dissolutions, the equivalent to a heterosexual divorce, have increased fourfold – from 42 to 180.
Alison Fernandes, from the Family law team at Irwin Mitchell in Sheffield, said: "While the figures are disappointing, it is not surprising to see that the number of couples entering a civil partnership have fallen and those seeking dissolution are increasing.
"Gay couples face the same pressures as heterosexual couples and alongside traditional causes of relationship breakdown such as falling out of love and infidelity, couples are also facing the effects of the credit crunch.
"Couples are likely to delay entering a civil partnership until they feel more financially secure and those who are in a civil partnership are likely to be feeling the strain of financial pressures with worries of redundancy and belt tightening.
"In the summer months there is usually a slow down in people seeking legal advice on relationship breakdown. However at Irwin Mitchell we have seen a rise in new client enquires. Concern about financial behaviour is an increasingly common reason for seeking advice and this is likely to increase."
Since the civil partnership law was introduced, 33,965 couples have taken advantage of it.
In Yorkshire the number of civil partnerships has dropped by over 50 per cent since 2006 and 18 per cent from 2007 (to 496 civil partnerships in 2008).
In South Yorkshire Sheffield sees the highest figures for civil partnerships with 61 in 2008 a fall of 10 per cent from 2007. Barnsley is the only place in South Yorkshire where figures for civil partnerships have risen over the past year, albeit from a low base (23 in 2007 to 28 in 2008). In Rotherham, civil partnerships have fallen by 58 per cent from 2007 to 2008 (from 24 to 10 in 2008).
Government Announces No-Fault Divorce To Be Implemented 'As Soon As Parliamentary Time Allows'
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Miró el Vell, Miró I de Rosselló o Miró I de Conflent (? - 896) fou senyor del pagus de Conflent (870 - 896) i comte de Rosselló (878 - 896).

Era fill del comte Sunifred I de Barcelona, Urgell, Cerdanya i Besalú, i d'Ermessenda, i per tant, germà de Guifré el Pelós i de Radulf de Besalú.

Guifré va heretar, el 870, el comtat d'Urgell i el de Cerdanya del seu oncle Salomó I però va deixar el govern del pagus de Conflent al seu germà Miró. Aquest el 876 es va revoltar contra el marqués Bernat de Gòtia amb ajut de Lindoí vescomte de Narbona i Guifré d'Urgell i Cerdanya, i va envair Rosselló. Encara que condemnat pel Papa el 878, en caure Bernat va aconseguir veure reconegut el seu domini del comtat del Rosselló per part del rei Lluís II de França. Va ser protector del monestir de Sant Andreu d'Eixalada i en ser destruït per una riuada, pel monestir de Sant Miquel de Cuixà.

Miró va presidir el març de l'any 874 un plau (placitum) o assemblea a Vernet, al Conflent. Es va jutjar la condició d'una persona que el procurador del comte pretenia que era serf.

Es va casar amb Quíxol de la que només va tenir una filla, Godlana, muller del futur comte Benció, fill de Sunyer II de Rosselló. Va morir el 896 i el comtat del Rosselló, escapçat de la part interior, va passar al seu gendre Benció, mentre que la resta: Vallespir, Capcir i Fenolleda, amb el Conflent, va passar al seu germà Guifre I el Pilós, i a la mort d'aquest el 897 al seu fill Miró II el Jove.

Vegeu també
 Abadia de Sant Jaume.

Comtes de Conflent del casal de Barcelona
Comtes de Rosselló
Comtes catalans històrics
Polítics catalans històrics


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Recently, there's been a stir in the scientific community.
World Famous Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku claims to have scientific proof that God exists.
During a recent interview, Theoretical Physicist and City College of New York professor Michio Kaku, one of the originators of the famous String Theory, was asked what he thought the meaning of life was, as well as his beliefs in God.
His answer was nothing short of surprising.
Kaku revealed that many top physicists do, in fact, believe in a God due to the intelligent design and order of the universe.
He explains that this world could be one of chaos and disorder when, in reality, it is one of beauty and life and credits this as evidence of the Creator.
"This means that, in all probability, there is an unknown force that governs everything," Michio Kaku states.
Kaku came to this realization after he concluded tests on his self-named "primitive semi-radius tachyons." In viewing the results, he came to the remarkable conclusion that the only explanation for his results was that there was a very real God.
This statement proves that science can be used to point to the existence of God, rather than to try and disprove His existence.
Psalm 19:1 states: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
The very universe declares the Glory of God in its complexity.
Only the Lord of all would be able to perfectly knit everything together to form galaxies and planets and life from nothing.
These recent statements have caused quite a ripple in the scientific community, where there are those who do not believe that science and faith can co-exist. Kaku is one of the most well-known and well-respected scientists alive, renowned for his work on the string theory.
Dr. Kaku is not the only one to see that the order of the universe points to the existence of a perfect creator.
Albert Einstein held some of the same beliefs, that this universe is a sign of an intelligent creator.
Today, Dr. Kaku continues Einstein's "Theory of Everything" work, working towards unity of the four fundamental forces of the universe.
In his video, The Awe Factor of God, Pastor Francis Chan uses computer simulation to show the vastness of our known universe. He speaks on Psalm 19:1.
Only God could create a world of such beauty that is perfect for us. This world we live in provides everything we need, from air, to water and food.
Life on Earth is not the result of some random accident, where all the right factors happened to create life, but of an intelligent, loving God who created us and created the perfect environment for us to live in.
More and more physicists and scientists are coming to believe this and see the universe as proof of the Creator.
You can watch Dr. Kaku's complete interview below.


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Q: Updating dynamically added textview in a table layout I am having a TableLayout to which I am adding a linearlayout dynamically, which contains a textview on a button click. When each linearlayout is added. I need to update the textview of the last added linearlayout. How can I achieve that?
TableLayout tableLayout= (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.table_layout);
View subView = (LinearLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_view, container, false);
tableLayout.addView(subView);
txtVal = (TextView)imageView.findViewById(R.id.txt_val);

I need to set text for the txtVal in the last added subView when a button is clicked

A: You can get the last child of the tableLayout = LinearLayout.
Then get the last child of the LinearLayout = TextView.
Then set the TextView's text. Here's how:
ViewGroup mainLayout = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.tableLayout);
int childrenCount = mainLayout.getChildCount();
ViewGroup lastLayout = (ViewGroup) mainLayout.getChildAt(childrenCount-1);

childrenCount = lastLayout.getChildCount();
TextView textView = (TextView) lastLayout.getChildAt(childrenCount-1);
textView.setText("hello");

NOTE
this code selects the last child on your TableLayout and the last child of your LinearLayout.


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151Audit of accounts of larger groupsE+W
(1)This section applies where group accounts are prepared for a financial year of a parent charity under section 138(2) and—
(a)the aggregate gross income of the group in that year exceeds the relevant income threshold (see section 176(1)), or
(b)the aggregate gross income of the group in that year exceeds the relevant income threshold and at the end of the year the aggregate value of the assets of the group (before deduction of liabilities) exceeds the relevant assets threshold (see section 176(2)).
(2)This section also applies where—
(b)the appropriate audit provision applies in relation to the parent charity's own accounts for that year.
(3)In this section "the appropriate audit provision", in relation to a financial year of a parent charity, means—
(a)(subject to paragraph (b), (c) or (d)) section 144(2) (audit of accounts of larger charities);
(b)if section 149 (audit or examination of English NHS charity accounts) applies in relation to that year, section 149(2);
(c)if section 150 (audit or examination of Welsh NHS charity accounts) applies in relation to that year, section 150(2);
(d)if the parent charity is a company—
(i)section 144(2), or
(ii)(as the case may be) Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006.
(4)If this section applies in relation to a financial year of a parent charity by virtue of subsection (1) or (2), the group accounts for that year must be audited—
(a)(subject to paragraph (b) or (c)) by a person within section 144(2)(a) or (b);
(b)if section 149 applies in relation to that year, by [F1a person, appointed by the charity trustees of the parent charity, who is within section 149(2)(a), (b) or (c)] ;
(c)if section 150 applies in relation to that year, by the Auditor General for Wales.
(5)If this section applies in relation to a financial year of a parent charity by virtue of subsection (1)—
(a)(subject to paragraph (b)) the appropriate audit provision applies in relation to the parent charity's own accounts for that year (whether or not it would otherwise so apply);
(b)if the parent charity is a company and its own accounts for that year are not required to be audited in accordance with Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006, section 144(2) applies in relation to those accounts (whether or not it would otherwise so apply).
(6)[F2Section 149(6) applies] in relation to any appointment under subsection (4)(b) as [F3it applies] in relation to an appointment under section 149(2).
(7)References in this Act to an auditor have effect in relation to subsection (4)(c) as references to the Auditor General for Wales acting under subsection (4)(c) as an auditor.
F1Words in s. 151(4)(b) substituted (1.4.2017) by Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (c. 2), s. 49(1), Sch. 12 para. 120(2); S.I. 2015/841, art. 4 (with Sch. para. 11) (as amended (27.6.2016) by S.I. 2016/675, art. 2)


I'm just brain storming for ideas because obviously some folk are going to be rural. Some folk are going to have bus passes/transport, other's not. Some folk currently may live outwith Grampian and may even be down as far as the Lowlands.
Possible ideas from my point of view = arrange social 'meets'. I know of another board who does this - more in the central belt than in our area but still.
Posting of events that may be relevant to the politically inclined (in terms of service user representation. I'm talking about mental health politics on all levels not encouraging you to join a political party).
Thanks for that but there's already a forum type thing in the form of the Mental Health User Network (that's on it's last legs) etc. etc. amongst others. Ummm.....I guess it's just a question of checking the board until ppl write something.
Been a service user ( hate that term ) of a well established mental health service since 1992 - 1993 ish.
I am pretty sure I know the local forum moderator for here, from the same place I attend.
The reason for this post is to find out mainly if it is still active, and wether it will in time obviously, be a useful resource in collating the sparse information that is available to users of Mental Health organisations within Aberdeen and the shire.
As I am just starting off on the on-line side of things, I will bookmark this and keep an eye open for further opportunities to get conversing with others within Aberdeen and the shire, and possibly Scotland wide in the future.
Please do not take it upon yourselves to remove my name, nickname, location information or the likes from any of my posts please.
I am a real person, with a wide open book in regards to my own way of "getting on with it" in regards to my current and on-going mental health state.
Yeah thanks Wayne. I maybe after the meeting on Tuesday want to do some online/local resources on here or on my blog. You up for that. Yes you do know me LOL. Keep my ID secret though.
Do you deal with SA Scotland board? I find that quite good and we're hoping to have an Aberdeen meet beg of July.
Also the chaplain at RCH is v good and I've just found some christian counselling in the form of Lighthouse (they're in Yell.com) so I'll let you know how that goes.
Anyhow keep in touch. If you want to PM me at any point I'm here for you.
Does this local area still get used or is it pretty much defunct?
Hi guys im a newbie from Aberdeenshire looking to get chatting with ppl maybe join a support group??


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FHA to relocate squatters in FESTAC, sustain demolition
By Bertram Nwannekanma
The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has pledged to sustain the demolition of illegal construction in FESTAC Town, Lagos and other parts of the country.
Some of the demolished houses
The Managing Director, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, who spoke during a stakeholders' meeting at FHA Zonal office, Lagos, said some squatters would be relocated, while ongoing restoration of estates would be extended to other part of the country.
Represented by FHA Executive Director, Project Implementation, Mr. Chinonso Omoke, he revealed successes recorded in the restoration of FESTAC master plan and moves to return the estate to its lost glory.
He said that the trespassers defied all warnings and notices, thereby undermining FHA's authority. "Though painful but inevitable, we will not fold our hands and cheer the distortion of our master plan under any guise, no matter how highly placed the defaulter might be."
Ashafa warned that the agency would adopt all possible measures to avert building collapse and forestall any loss of life in FESTAC Town.
He said management was touched by several appeals from owners of contravening buildings and had decided to relocate those with genuine cases.
Also, the President, FESTAC Town Residents Association (FTRA), Mr. Shola Fakorede, said the demolition exercise was in the interest of the citizenry.
According to him, those who have encroached on the right of way are deterring development.
The Area E Commander, ACP Afegbai Igbafe, cautioned the FHA allotees against indulging the land grabbers in their requests, as the land belongs to the Federal Government.
Chinonso Omoke
Gbenga Ashafa
FG confers most outstanding traditional ruler award on Benin monarch
Federal Government, through the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), has awarded the 'Most Outstanding Traditional Ruler on Arts and Culture in Nigeria' award to the Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare II.
Art As An Alternative Investment: The Place Of National Commission For Museum and Monuments
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Mass housing economic masterstroke, social security, says FHA
Managing Director of Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Sen. Gbenga Ashafa, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration's decision to build thousands of affordable homes for the masses is not only an economic masterstroke...
Ondo Seaport will be actualised–Dabiri-Erewa
Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NidCOM), says the Ondo Seaport will soon be actualised. Dabiri-Erewa made this known at the end of a 3-day Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit
FG to deliver housing scheme in December
To increase housing stock, the Federal Government plans to complete its 748 housing units, which is 97 per cent completed by December.
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To increase housing stock, the Federal Government plans to complete its 748 housing units, which are at 97 per cent stage, by December.


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Q: Efficient algorithm to find the largest rectangle from a set of points I have an array of points, and my goal is to pick two so that I maximize the area of the rectangle formed by the two points (one representing the low left corner and the other one the right top corner).
I could do this in O(n^2) by just doing two for loops and calculating every single possible area, but I think there must be a more efficient solution:
max_area = 0
for p1 in points:
    for p2 in points:
       area = p2[0]p2[1] + p1[0]p1[1] - p2[1]p1[0] - p2[0]p1[1]
       if area > max_area:
           max_area = area

It's clear that I want to maximize the area of the second point with the origin (0,0) (so p2[0]p2[1]), but I'm not sure how to go forward with that.

A: Yes, there's an O(n log n)-time algorithm (that should be matched by an element distinctness lower bound).
It suffices to find, for each p1, the p2 with which it has the largest rectangular area, then return the overall largest. This can be expressed as a 3D extreme point problem: each p2 gives rise to a 3D point (p2[0], p2[1], p2[0] p2[1]), and each p1 gives rise to a 3D vector (-p1[0], -p1[1], 1), and we want to maximize the dot product (technically plus p1[0] p1[1], but this constant offset doesn't affect the answer). Then we "just" have to follow Kirkpatrick's 1983 construction.

A: Divide and conquer.
Note: This algorithm presumes that the rectangle is axis-aligned.

*

*Step 1: Bucket the points into a grid of 4x4 buckets. Some buckets
may get empty.

*Step 2: Using the corners of the buckets, calculate
maximum areas by opposite corners between not empty buckets. This may result in
several pairs of buckets, because your work with corners, not points. Notice also that you use left corners for left buckets, and so for bottom, right, top corners for those b,r,t buckets. That's why an even number is used for the size of the grid.

*Step 3: Re-bucket each bucket selected in step 2 as a new, smaller, 4x4 grid.

*Repeat steps 2 & 3 until you get only a pair of buckets that contain only a point in each bucket.

I have not calculated the complexity of this algorithm. Seems O(n log(n)).

A: Say you have a rectangle formed by four points: A (top left), B (top right), C (bottom right) and D (bottom left).
The idea is to find two points p1 and p2 that are the closest to B and D respectively. This means that p1 and p2 are the furthest possible from each other.
def nearest_point(origin, points):
    nearest = None
    mindist = dist(origin, points[0])

    for p in points[1:]:
        d = dist(origin, p)
        if mindist > d:
            mindist = d
            nearest = p

    return nearest

Call it for B and D as origins:
points = [...]

p1 = nearest_point(B, points)  # one for loop
p2 = nearest_point(D, points)  # one for loop

Note that there can be multiples closest points which are equally distant from the origin (B or D). In this case, nearest_point() should return an array of points. You have to do two nested for loops to find the furthest two points.


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vignette design: Keep Calm And Get A Flu Shot!
You know, the kind where your whole body aches--even your skin and hair, with a very high fever?
The CDC urges everyone over 6 months old to get a flu shot, and for the last two weeks, I've been putting it off, thinking it's still pretty early.
Meanwhile, while the dishes and laundry are piling up, I'm catching up on TV shows like "Breaking Bad" and "House of Cards."
So do yourself and family a favor.
Get a flu shot ASAP!
Thanks for the reminder. On my list to get done aoon. Sorry the "bug" got you - Not fun for sure. Feel better soon.
That is suppose to be "soon" NOT "aoon". Geesh!
Hope that you feel better soon, Delores!
I've been sick with something gnarly for the last two and a half-weeks! Sore throat, coughing, runny nose, headache, exhausted - but no aches or fever!
hope you feel better soon. the last flu shot i got made me sick as a dog for almost 3 months...although i think i had a sinus infection when i got it so that might have had something to do with it....but i haven't had a flu shot since.
I did get my flu shot last month...the flu season must be early this year, too bad it got you! Feel better SOON!!
Sorry you got sick. But don't feel bad - the flu shot does not protect you 100%! And there are risks with all vaccines.
Ahhh... the flu! Not a fun thing to have at all, but you are better off actually having the flu than putting the vaccine in your body. Lots of research out there. No flu shots for us, but plenty of Vitamin D3, among other things. Hope you feel better soon!
I hope you kick this flu bug and are feeling good again.
I hope you and everyone else suffering feels better very soon! Think healthy thoughts and watch funny movies, laughter is the best medicine.
Though it's moot at this point, there's no guarantee a flu shot would have prevented your current illness; they're just guessing at the flu strain every year.
I'm so sorry to hear you're sick, but don't blame yourself for not getting the flu shot. It won't necessarily protect you from getting the flu. Depends on the strain. Personally, I don't believe in the flu vaccine not only because of this fact, but also due to the toxic stuff they put in them, but I know this is a hot topic and is "each to their own". ;-)I hope you feel better soon!


GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. -- Now that the presents have been opened, many of you are probably anxious to get rid of that pile of wrapping paper and Christmas decorations.
It's important to know that not all of your holiday items can be recycled, and for those that can be, there are rules you have to follow.
We contacted the City of High Point and the City of Greensboro to find out which festive pieces can be recycled.
Artificial trees can't be recycled, but natural ones can be recycled.
"Natural trees that are undecorated, garlands, or wreaths that have nothing artificial or no metal left in them, those can actually be disposed of with your yard waste, so that comes on the same day as your garbage," said Laura McCoy, beautification coordinator with the City of High Point.
The City of High Point will accept Christmas lights, but they cannot be placed in recycling containers, they must be brought to the Material Recovery Facility at 5875 Riverdale Drive in Jamestown.
In Greensboro, lights would have to go to the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center located at 2750 Patterson St. in Greensboro.
Generally, paper gift boxes and cardboard packages are recyclable.
Wrapping paper may or may not be recyclable.
The City of High Point accepts it, but the City of Greensboro has a different policy.
"A lot of times gift bags and gift wrap have layers of foil or plastic, and so just to kind of make it easy for everyone we just say a blanket "no" to that wrapping paper, so that must go in your garbage can," said Tori Carle, waste reduction supervisor for the City of Greensboro.
Plastic bags cannot be recycled.
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This 2017 paper provides a good overview of the latest trends in DNN (Deep Neural Networks) by our friends at MIT. For those not reading all of the research papers, this will serve as a kindler gentler introduction into the latest.
This broad survey packs a lot into its 32-pages and has most of latest and of course a great reference section (162 references). After the 1st 12-13 pages it has more of a focus on HW design implications.