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Those who lost relatives to Covid-19 in China angry at failure to protect elderly
Former high school teacher Ailia was devastated when her 85-year-old father died after displaying Covid-like symptoms as the virus swept through their hometown in the southeastern province of Jiangxi.
While her father was never tested, Ailia and her mother were both confirmed positive around the same time and she believes Covid-19 was a cause in his death.
As hundreds of millions of Chinese travel to reunite with families for the Lunar New Year holiday starting 21 January, many will do so after mourning relatives who died in the Covid-19 wave that has raged across the world's largest population.
For many, bereavement was mixed with anger over what they said was a lack of preparation to protect the elderly before China suddenly abandoned its "zero-Covid" policy in December 2022 after three years of testing, travel restrictions and lockdowns.
Ailia, 56, said that she, like countless Chinese, had supported reopening the economy. Her father died in late December, weeks after China dropped its Covid-19 restrictions.
"We wanted things to open up, but not to open up like this - not at the expense of so many elderly people, which has a huge impact on every family," she said by phone.
On Saturday, China announced that there had been nearly 60,000 Covid-related hospital deaths since the end of "zero-Covid" - a 10-fold increase from previous figures - but many international experts say that is an undercount, in part because it excludes people who died at home, like Ailia's father.
Among those fatalities, 90 percent were 65 or older and the average age was 80.3 years, a Chinese official said on Saturday.
Many experts have said China failed to take advantage of keeping Covid-19 largely at bay for three years to better prepare its population for reopening, especially its hundreds of millions of elderly - criticism that China rejects.
Shortcomings cited included inadequate vaccination among older people and insufficient supplies of therapeutic drugs.
A Chinese official said on 6 January that more than 90 percent of people above aged 60 had been vaccinated, but the share of those over age 80 who had received booster shots was only 40 percent as of 28 November, the most recent date for which that data was available.
"If only they used the resources used for controlling the virus for protecting the elderly," said Ailia, who like many people interviewed declined to use their full name given.
Reuters reports Chinese officials have repeatedly cited the importance of protecting the elderly, announcing various measures, from vaccination drives to setting up a task force in Shanghai, China's biggest city, to identify high-risk groups.
Beijing's decision to end "zero-Covid" came after rare widespread street protests against the policy in late November, but public complaint over China's handling of the end of Covid curbs has largely been via heavily censored social media.
Several analysts said China's handling of Covid-19 had eroded confidence in the government, especially among upper-middle class urbanites, but they did not see it as a threat to the rule of President Xi Jinping or the Communist Party.
Patients are treated with intravenous infusion in a community healthcare institution in east China's Shanghai, 4 January, 2023. Photo: Fang Zhe / XINHUA / Xinhua via AFP

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The preparatory reading ahead of time consisted of a mountain of medical articles concerning the gamut of opiates, natural, semi, and fully synthetic. Half scared to death about the potential for serious addiction, I decided that an every other day dose would be sufficient to build up metabolites in my system, but not be so bad to taper down at the end. This way, I would have to deal with withdrawals of a significant nature and a routine revolving around scheduling doses. This was done for a simple reason, to reproduce dependence to the point of addiction, without the "addictive personality" associated with it. Simply put: how would a regular guy react to the opium tea, with easily obtained information and supplies?
The recipe is well known. For my purposes, I would grind up an entire box to homogenize the product. Use calculated in a rough way was 4.5 Tablespoons of pulverized dried material (about 4 golf ball sized poppies) every other day. Chemically speaking, I know the pH lemon thing to be of little consequence to extraction of material, but did it anyway because it seems that everyone else did. It didn't help much with the taste.
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Counterfactuals and cotenability
Counterfactuals and cotenability Gleb, Gary Timothy
If philosophers had an acceptable theory of counterfactuals, counterfactuals would be an extremely useful philosophical tool. Unfortunately, analysis of the truth-conditions of counterfactuals has proved to be a difficult task. I examine Nelson Goodman's attempt in Fact, Fiction, and Forecast to develop a criterion of truth for counterfactuals, an attempt which ended with the discovery of a notorious problem, that of cotenability. This problem arises directly out of Goodman's inclusion of what is known as the "cotenability condition" within his tentative criterion. I explore in some detail the evidence that Goodman adduces in favour of this condition, and in doing so, argue that the cotenability condition as it stands is viciously circular. However, I also argue that this evidence is best seen as giving rise to two distinct problems, of which the solution to neither requires use of the cotenability condition. Resolution of the first, I claim, ultimately depends on the notion of explanation. With respect to the second, on the other hand, I contend that if the approach I suggest is borne out, then no modification of Goodman's criterion is necessary, other than that required to resolve the first problem.
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Learn the song
'From the Mud to the Stars': Learn the chorus
The first of our instructional videos for learning the song 'From the Mud to the Stars'
'From the Mud to the Stars': Learn the chorus actions
The second of our instructional videos for learning the song 'From the Mud to the Stars' .Here, learn the actions, that accompany the chorus.
Sing 'From the Mud to the Stars' along with the piano
The third of our instructional videos for learning the song 'From the Mud to the Stars'. Here learn how the song sounds with piano accompaniment.
Write your own verse!
In our final instructional video, learn how to use the Songwriting Template (In 'Downloads' below) to write your own verse for 'From the Mud to the Stars'.
From the Mud to the Stars is the title song for the whole project. We chose this name because it is a loose translation from the Latin motto of the Royal Air Force (per ardua ad astra) which means 'through adversity to the stars'. In other words, striving to achieve success despite challenges or difficulties.
The dictionary definition of a motto is 'a short sentence or phrase chosen as encapsulating the beliefs or ideals of an individual, family, or institution'. You might like to open discussions before tackling this activity by asking the young people to think about a good motto for their school (if it doesn't have one) or for a sports team or other special interest group to which they belong.
The first objective of this task is to teach the young people the song, which is written from the point of view of the pilots of the RAF as they fly their aircraft ' high above the clouds'. The sheet music is included in the resources for this task, but don't worry if you don't read music; the four short films above will guide you through every stage of learning the song. In addition, we have recorded a 'guide vocal' backing track with basic piano accompaniment that you can use to teach your class or group the tune. When they are confident singing with this version, you can move on to using the full orchestral version of the song that we have also provided in the 'Audio downloads' section below.
A key extension of this task is to encouraging your participants to have a go at writing new lyrics for the verse of the song. Video four above explains a very simple way of doing this, making use of the 'Songwriting Template' below, to great effect. This will add to their enjoyment of singing the song and give them a sense of achievement and of ownership as they perform it.
CfE Experiences and Outcomes this exercise covers are: LIT 2-02a, LIT 2-05a, 06a, LIT2-09a, LIT2-15a, LIT2-20a, 22a, 23a, 24a, ENG 2-03a, ENG 2-12a, EXA2-01a, EXA2-16a, 17a, 18a, 19a
Song writing template | Sheet music & lyrics for 'From the Mud to the Stars'
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Guide vocal track - verse Download Guide vocal track - verse
Piano backing track - chorus Download Piano backing track - chorus
Piano backing track- verses Download Piano backing track- verses
Chorus only demo track (orchestra) Download Chorus only demo track (orchestra)
Chorus & verse demo track (orchestra) Download Chorus & verse demo track (orchestra)
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Virtual Music Not Welcome at Lincoln Center's Newhouse Theatre
Volume CIV, No. 7/8July, 2004
Mary Donovan
mdonovan@local802afm.org
Local 802 and Lincoln Center have reached a collective bargaining agreement that includes a ban on virtual orchestra machines. At the same time, an independent producer has agreed to ban virtual orchestra machines for a new production at Gramercy Theatre.
The Lincoln Center agreement will cover musicians working at the 299-seat Mitzi E. Newhouse theatre for all productions there over the next year. Currently running at the Newhouse is "Barbara Cook's Broadway." Upcoming are "Nothing Is Forever" and "The Ballad Of Dessa Rose."
It is not the first time Local 802 has reached an agreement with Lincoln Center for a musical production, but it is the first time the union has won a full-season agreement.
And although Local 802 has achieved agreements with other employers banning virtual orchestra machines, the fact that Lincoln Center was willing to sign such a prohibition indicates that not only are smaller theatrical companies willing to sign such a ban, but larger companies as well.
Local 802's fight for live music is out there and not unknown to even new producers. Lee Summers, the producer of "From My Hometown," recently reached an agreement with Local 802 to ban virtual orchestra machines. Even though new to producing, the employer was around during our Broadway struggle last year and is a member of Actors' Equity. The message that live music is important did not fall on deaf ears.
"From My Hometown" started rehearsals in July and goes into the Gramercy Theatre — a 499-seat house.
The understanding by these employers of the importance of maintaining the integrity of live music is encouraging.
These are the sixth and seventh contracts 802 has achieved that ban the machine and guarantee live musical productions. The Lincoln Center theatre's voluntary signing of the ban is particularly significant considering that past productions in its larger house, the Vivian Beaumont, have included the 2001 production of "Contact," which was performed to taped music.


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Az Apostoli Konstitúciók (latin: Constitutiones Apostolorum) ál-apostoli irat, mely az egyházi fegyelemre és keresztény életre vonatkozó szabályokat tartalmaz. A korai keresztény ókornak legnagyobb egyházjogi és liturgikus szabálygyűjteménye.

Tartalma: keresztény erkölcsök, papság, özvegyek kötelességei, szegények és árvák gondozása, eretnekségek, liturgia.

Görög nyelven volt írva és 8 könyvből áll. Az első hat könyv (Didascalia néven) erkölcsi szabályokat foglal magában; szól a püspökök jogairól s előadja a püspökök, presbiterek és diakonok kellékeit; a 7. könyvben erkölcsi és liturgiái rendeletek vannak; a 8. könyv a felszentelésről, a püspöki renddel járó cselekvónyekről szól, megtoldva néhány fegyelmi szabállyal. E 8 könyvhöz csatolták később az apostoli kánonokat.

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Posted by Catharine Cellier-Smart (Smart Translate) in language, translation October 31, 2016
October 9th was world Hangeul Day. Do you know anything about Korea's alphabet, which – because it was deliberately invented – is sometimes called the most scientific writing system in the world? Anyway, here's your October round-up of popular articles about language and translation.
When is it time to say goodbye to a client?
What are the Do's and Don'ts for sending your CV to outsourcers and translation agencies?
Separated by a common language blogger Lynne Murphy published three interesting posts: what do Americans call dandelion clocks? Do Americans use commas more than Brits? (Or vice versa?) and What are the differences between UK & US uses of 'lewd'?
Donald Trump has been criticised for his lewd remarks about women
Why should you attend events outside the translation industry?
Several British tabloid newspapers reported on prospects of war with Russia after The Daily Star mistranslated (using Google Translate) an obscure Russian website.
What words in other languages seem like English but aren't?
Der 'Oldtimer' is a German word for a classic or vintage car (Credit: Alamy)
Is Hungarian Europe's most complex language?
What are the reasons involved in re-naming countries, cities and streets?
Stradbroke Island in Queensland, Australia, faces a campaign to refer to it only by its Indigenous Australian name, Minjerribah. Photograph: naphakm/Getty Images
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Here are 30 words, phrases and neologisms popularised by cinema.
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Q: How do I add another folder to my Node.js project? I want to add another folder or drive to my Node.js server, but as I'm a noobie with Node.js I just can't wrap my head around it. Here's what I've done so far, but it keeps crashing. Tried several versions of the code below, but it just doesn't seem to work.
var http = require("http");
var fs = require("fs");
var server = http.createServer(function(request, response) {
    fs.readFile("C:/public" + request.url, function(error, data) {
            response.writeHead(200, {"Content-type":"text/html"});
            fs.readFile("D:/images" + request.url, function(error, data) {
                response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"image/jpg"});
                response.write(data);
            });
            response.end(data);
    });
});
server.listen(1337, "127.0.0.1", function() {
    console.log("Listening on port 1337");
});

In the future I'd love to add even more folders from both internal and external sources, but as I can't seem to even add one, that's probably going to be a bit of a stretch...
Here are the error messages.
Error message from the cmd prompt:
Request received: /index.html

http.js:851
    throw new TypeError('first argument must be in a string or Buffer');
          ^
TypeError: first argument must be a string or Buffer
    at ServerResponse.OutgoingMessage.write (http.js:851:11)
    at C:\serverpath\script.js:31:14
    at fs.js:107:20
    at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)

Error message from Console:
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

A: You are probably looking for a library like this:
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It will allow you to do async operations over an Array.
Edit: Found this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/9449669/1236086

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In elementary school every year we had physical fitness day. It was a day filled with horrible fitness activities that always made me feel terrible about myself. I KNOW I'm not flexible. Do my classmates need to know the specifics of how far past my knees I can reach? Pull ups? With my spaghetti arms? I'd be lucky to do one. But the worst was the running. We had to run one lap around the field and I always, always threw up. I even used to think "Oh this run. I'm going to throw up. Yep. Here I go. I'm throwing up." It was like clockwork.
I wouldn't say I was a lazy kid either. I did TONS of exploring in our suburban DC neighborhood. I'd ride my bike or scooter to my favorite hills or parks or friends' homes. My mom took us the pool every day in the summer and I prided myself on how far I could swim without coming up for air. I had my fitness activities…that I never thought of them as fitness activities…I was just having fun.
When I was in high school we lived in Vermont, and although I did not attend one of the schools that brought the kids skiing every Friday for their stand-in PE class (that was Dave's school…lucky!), I did go to school with sporty kids. And because of their sporty peer-pressuring ways, I joined a softball team. Then a field hockey team. And I ran track one season too. I still wasn't thrilled with running just for runnning's sake…but I enjoyed being active.
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You're Going To Meet Some People: The Sparrow Men
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During 2015, Improv Conspiracy member Mike Brown is going to have a chat to every single member of the Conspiracy - about life, about improv, and everything in between. This is: You're Going To Meet Some People.
Today, Mike chats with Marcus Willis and Andy Balloch of two-man team The Sparrow Men, who will be seen together at the Butterfly Club this Tuesday through Sunday.
Mike Brown: Get comfortable, I'm here with Andy and Marcus, The Sparrow Men. Guys.
Marcus Willis: Hey
Andy Balloch: Hi!
A: Thanks for letting us.
Marcus you just made me a smoothie, it's pretty good.
M: Yeah, my pleasure.
The things you can do in your own house.
M: Yeah it's really nice.
You don't make many smoothies you said.
M: Well normally people say no, like you.
A: [laughs]
M: Then after three or four times people don't give in, but I could sense weakness in you.
A: [laughs] So Marcus went in for the kill.
I'm always interested in origin stories. How did The Sparrow Men come together?
A: Do you want to field this? I've told this story many a time.
M: You go ahead.
A: So Cage Match opened, and there were registrations. And Marcus wanted to do a two person team, and so he sent a couple of people messages and I replied with yes yes yes yes, and I think I was still in level two?
M: Yeah I wanted to choose some students and do like a different two-man thing, or a different two-person improv team with a whole bunch of different students.
Yeah from memory Andy you hosted Harold Night during [Melbourne International] Comedy Festival [2014], so that was your on stage exposure for Conspiracy up until then.
A: I was the loudest of all the students. I got to intern on the door so I got to know everyone, and Marcus said yes, Andy, that's a good idea, and I went ok cool, and then we had our first training [laughs], I had had one half-conversation with Marcus at my level one grad show where I sat down next to him and he said "good show" and I said "thank you, what level are you?"
[laughs]
A: "I have graduated and am on a team", and I said "oh that must be nice", and that was it. Then he sent me that message and I said yes. And we had our first training session and that was the first, we had two training sessions for that Cage Match, and that was our first conversation that we actually had, was when we had training. And then we went out and got drunk. And then we did Cage Match and we lost, but we had lots of fun.
So yeah, you [Marcus] planned on doing Cage Matches with different people.
M: Yeah I'm still going to do it, I haven't given up on doing that!
A: [laughs] I bullied Marcus! From that point on I bullied Marcus into doing stuff with me.
M: Yeah.
A: Because he's amazing and I'm a bully.
[Andy] you mentioned something that I've had happen to me - having students come up to you and ask you what level you're in. Have you had that happen to you since joining a Harold team?
A: No I've had the opposite happen to me. When I was still in level two I had team members ask, like Lucy Horan came up to me "I can't remember what team you're on." And I say "I'm in Level 2, I'm not on a goddamn team yet." Yeah, I just faked it. Yeah I'm really good, I'm definitely good, I'm team-worthy, and everyone just believed me.
So growing up, what did your parents each want you to be, and what did you to be?
M: My dad owns a horse stud, so he wanted me to be a vet so that it would cut his expenses in half.
[all laugh]
A: So it would cut his expenses in half. Your future is a budget plan.
M: And actually there was a girl in my high school who own, her parents own the feed company, they own the feed company, like the horse food company, and he was like "get friendly with that girl".
M: That would be financially, that would be great.
What I like about that Marcus is that it's not like Dad's like "I want you to join the family business." It's "I want you to work in a different area to assist the family business."
A: In tandem with my plans. That's genius.
M: So I never really had an interest in that. Then I wanted to be a lawyer for a little bit, and I kinda did that and then I changed my mind and now work in marketing.
Did you study?
M: Yeah I did, yeah.
And work in law?
M: No I just did the first part of the degree.
A: You studied law?
M: Yeah, I did.
A: [high pitched] Oh okay!
M: And then I...
A: We're all learning something here.
M: Yeah it was really hard because I had to do legal studies, I had to study so hard to transfer into law and as soon as I transferred I realised "oh this isn't for me." Yeah, then I was just like "yeah I should have been a vet dad was right."
A: Dad was right this whole time. God damnit.
What about you Andy?
A: Yeah, look. My parents are, I love my parents they are amazing. They have said time and time again is all they want is for me to be happy, so they just let me run free and let me do whatever the hell I wanted and just supported me. So I did, I did like I was a child actor so I did drama classes when I was a kid, and I did some stuff, I was like in Bell's Shakespeare Company, I dubbed over cartoons, I was the voice of a horse in the Silver Brumby cartoon, random stuff. I did that until I went to high school, and I still loved drama and still continued to do drama, and went I went to uni I studied linguistics and teaching secondary for two years, so I always wanted to do drama and words. I hated teaching so I dropped out, and I just drank for a whole bunch of years. Then I got my heart broke so I decided to do something fun, so I decided to join Conspiracy. And now I'm here, on Marcus' couch, sans smoothie.
So the question for each of you: How would you describe how each other plays? Andy, what do you like about watching Marcus play, and vice versa, Marcus what do you like about Andy?
A: I love... Marcus just generates so much so fast, and so freely. It's something I have been working on and I'm nowhere near his level, but I try to keep up. It's just so easy for him, and it's sorta logical steps, but I think playing with him so much I can see how he gets to everything it's just so fast but it's all logical.
And it's all specifics, I've noticed that as well.
A: It's all specifics and details and that's really really fun to play with. Playing with him I guess because we've trained so much now there's this infinite level of trust, that was my favourite thing when we last did the show when I was waiting at the bus station and you didn't even come on stage. There was no point in that when I was like "Fuck I'm out here by myself!" I thought "I'll do this for a while and I'll heighten what I'm doing and suddenly Marcus will make a move at some point." So, yeah, I think that just the support is sorta quite incredible.
M: I like playing with Andy because he just has so much energy and is really really fun. Like he's always having fun and is excited about something. And it's good on stage but it's really good off stage, every time we finish a show we are like "oh well that was just fun" it didn't feel like work.
Not laboured in any way.
M: Yeah exactly. He's always happy to be there, he's always smiling and laughing, even when he's supposed to be in character.
M: I like trying to make him laugh and try to ruin a scene basically just to try and break him.
A: [laughing] It's so true tho!
Any examples come to mind that you really enjoyed breaking him?
M: I feel like, sometimes when he has an idea for a scene I'll just, "oh we've played that before, let's ruin that." Especially those kinda boring-ish scenes we've done a thousand times we just see how weird we can make it.
A: There was one scene - the first time we did cops, when I was sorta, we were at a murder scene and I just sorta came, I was investigating and about ten seconds in, I said "I'm sorry I slept with your wife sarge." From then I was like squatting on the ground and Marcus was giving all these ridiculous specifics and kept on going on. I almost literally peed myself because of the position I was in and because I was laughing too much. There was a point where I had to say "stop," and it was half in character and half out of character.
M: Stop talking.
A: Stop saying words. Yeah, that was fun. What a memory.
If the two of you bought a boat together, what would you call it?
[long silence, Andy laughs]
M: It's hard to go past Sparrow Men.
A: Yeah!
A: I was thinking more like Terry.
M: Oh yeah! Hmm..
A: The S.S. Sparrow?
M: Yeah the S.S. Sparrow is pretty solid.
So you can have three S's?
A: Yeah.
M: The S.S.S.
A: Is that a Nazi reference?
M: Yeah!
A: Cool! 'Cause Marcus is a big fan of nazis. [laughs]
M: I think it's funny to have a boat named after a bird. Something that can fly.
A: Or something that hates water. Is anything allergic to water?
M: Cats don't like water.
A: Yeah. What's like the worst thing to put in water? Like, there's an element that has a violent reaction to water.
M: Alright we'll find out.
A: Whatever that element is, The S.S. That Specific Element.
M: Deal.
A: Yeah, like the S.S. Hydrogen Chloride.
You're both on Harold teams. What makes doing a two person show different to performing a Harold? Apart from things like the format or having six people on the sidelines.
M: You just have to listen so much more and be on the same wave length. Just naturally the more people you have in your group the harder it is to have the exact same idea. But when you just have two people a lot of the time we know exactly what each other is saying, we don't really need to use words. So it's more exciting just that, intense level of connection between us.
A: Especially, we've done a whole bunch of times in training when we call back to characters, we know that we're calling back to the characters without using names. Oh sometimes we do, when we call back to Jessica on her wedding day in training, all you said is "Jessica you look beautiful," I know I'm the sister of the two character that were in the previous scene, I know I'm pregnant, he's probably my dad, yeah great this is perfect. So it's just, yeah, it's easier?
M: Yeah for me probably. It's just different, I wouldn't say it's easier, so different.
A: It's got it's own challenges. I mean when you're on a Harold team you've got six other people so you're doing one-seventh of the lifting, whereas a two-man team you're doing half the lifting.
Do you find it more exhausting because you're always on the stage generating, you haven't got that time to pause and think?
M: Yeah I like not having that time to pause and think. Because when you're off-stage in a Harold you think "oh what is the strongest move, what's happened, what are we doing"
You're doing more analysing than doing.
M: Yeah but in two-man you're constantly in the moment, you're always in the character, living breathing being very present. You never have that time to reflect. So it actually means that you're actually improvising more and planning less.
A: Yeah. I feel the same.
M: Cool.
A: [laughs]. That's all! Yes. Everything that Marcus said. Write that down.
If The Sparrow Men were ever asked to endorse a product, what product would you agree to and why?
A: I'm a whore, so all of them. I don't care. And then by proxy Marcus would have to go along with that.
M: Ok...
M: Well I mean...
A: What wouldn't you endorse?
M: No I would endorse gin.
A: I was going to say booze, yeah.
M: Because in our first training we practically drank gin for six hours, so I think it's like...
That's a long training session.
M: It's a product that's very close to our hearts.
Any particular brand?
M: Hendrick's. Definitely.
A: Uhh, yeah. Hendrick's in summer, Tanqueray Ten in winter.
M: We have two different endorsement deals.
A: Well because you can't really drink Hendrick's in winter.
M: I can.
A: It's a cucumber, it's a summer gin, it's cucumber enfused.
I would agree with that.
M: Really? Wow.
A: Because you have Hendricks and Tonic in summer with cucumber.
You want a spicier gin for winter.
A: Where with Tanq Ten you have it with, with true gin you have it with lemon, but I have mine with shit-heaps of lime.
M: Right...
A: I used to be, I used to write for an online bar magazine. I know drinks.
M: I didn't know that!
What do you drink your gin with [Marcus]?
M: Cucumber. I'm just a Hendrick's, tonic, cucumber, all seasons kinda guy.
You're just all about that gin.
M: Yeah. [laughs]
A: [singing] I'm all about that gin, bout that gin, bout that gin, no vodka.
A: Yeah, although my favourite drink is vanilla vodka and Coke. Because it just tastes like Vanilla Coke, and you can mix it half-half and it still tastes like Vanilla Coke. And then before you know it you know you've drank an entire bottle of vodka. Time to go out ladies! [laughs]. I drink a lot. I'm a professional drinker.
We've got plenty of people on Conspiracy teams who are thinking about putting together their own two-person teams. Do you have any tips or advice for them?
M: Yeah. Have as many characters as you can. Know the person as well as you can. Spent a lot of time not doing improv together. I think that the more characters that you can do in two-prov, the better. I think that's something that we learnt. You need a giant variety of scenes and ideas and different styles to make it last, especially for us when we're doing an hour.
A: Yeah. yeah. I agree with all of that.
M: Watch TJ & Dave, as much as you can.
A: Yeah, I guess. I mean, watching TJ & Dave obviously they are amazing. But they've been doing it for a thousand years. So I guess my advice would be don't aim to be another version of a two-prov. Because we just kind of went TJ & Dave are great, that would be great to do. But we are nothing like them. We don't do anything that they do, really.
M: Yeah, find your own style.
A: Do what you want to do, and I guess let the style come to you. We just had a lot of ideas, this is how we wanted the style to be, and then we just kinda just abandoned all of those ideas. Let's just do some stuff.
As you do more work, you find the style organically.
A: Now the form of our show, we just understand it more. And I'm in love with it, because it came about quite naturally. Just out of trainings and how we like to play together. So my advice would be - just do it, and do it lots, and see where it takes you. And don't aim to be someone else. Is that ok?
M: Yeah I like it.
A: Is that ok Dad? Now will you love me? [pause]. My dad loves me.
M: Oh god.
We have a question from the Improv Conspiracy Student Group. Adam M asks: Who would win - miniature pony or snapping turtle?
A: Uhhhhhh great. Great question. I would like to thank Adam M. Can I start by saying I don't play, I want to say Pokemon. Is that.
M: I was going to say snapping turtle.
A: I was going to say snapping turtle regardless because look.
M: No let's just say snapping turtle and leave it at that.
You don't want to elaborate what-so-ever?
A: Mystery is better on this. When it comes to this specific question, the mystery is better.
Ok, Adam can chase you both up privately to find out your logic.
A: He can do whatever the hell he wants but he's not going to get more of an answer than snappy turtle. Have a good night.
Snappy Turtle?
M: Snappy Turtle [laughs].
Snappy Turtle!
A: Is that not what it is?
Snapping Turtle.
A: Oh Snapping Turtle! That changes the game. I thought it was Snappy Turtle.
M: I'm going to stand by Snapping Turtle.
A: I'm going to stand by Snapping Turtle as well.
You've just invented your own answer.
A: I vote for Snapping Turtle.
M: I vote for S-T.
S-T. Also we have a question from the last person interviewed. Hayley Tantau asks: What would your lives be like if you hadn't found improv?
M: That's very scary to think about. I wouldn't have any of the close friends I have, I would be doing different for work, I wouldn't live with the person I live with, I wouldn't have anything that I have and I probably wouldn't own the shirt I own now, it would be completely different. And I think about it a lot, it's really scary because when I was in uni someone just told me to read this book, and I didn't know what it was, and it was Tina Fey's Bossypants, and then I heard about this improv thing and then I was like "aw that's interesting," and then I Google'd it and Impro Melbourne had a class starting the next week. So it's just all such a crazy..
A lot of circumstance.
M: Yeah! It was amazing! So every-time I think about that it's terrifying. I don't know, I would be so different and I don't think I'd have the confidence to do any of the stuff I do outside of improv as well. It would be horrendous, I would be terrible.
A: Uhhhhhhh I would be pretty much the same.
M: [laughs]
A: My life went bang-on track.
M: Wow.
A: What would I? I would realistically be performing, I was performing before I started improv. So I would probably be doing, I don't know. It would probably be something along the lines of, like I might do drama or VCA or something along those lines. It would still be writing and performing. So it would be different but it still would be similar. I have a lot more friends now tho. I have a lot of a friends tho. [pause] I'm good. [laughs]. Yeah. I'm still new to this.
What interviews?
A: No improv. [laughs] So I'm only a year old when it comes to improv, and I'm ancient anyway. I already had stuff. I'd probably be doing more stand-up.
M: Gross.
Before we go, anything you'd like to plug?
M: We're doing a show...
Let the record state that a greasy look was shared by Marcus towards Andy after saying No.
M: Oh yeah. We're doing a show Midsumma, 27 Feb, 1st of Jan [Note: Actual dates are 27th of January to 1st of February]. Can you put a link to the website?
M: I'll send you a link to the website.
I can find it.
M: You can find it. And that's very exciting, it's my first Midsumma show, and it's called The Sparrow Men.
And where's it at?
M: At The Butterfly Club.
A: Which is great. And we're hosting the main stage of Pride on the 1st of Feb.
And where's that at?
A: That is in St Kilda. Just follow the f*ggots. We can say that, can't we?
M: [high pitched] Yeah!
A: Four and a half hours, I am going to get in so much trouble.
M: It's going to be concerning.
A: This is the worst idea ever, to give - thank god you're there. 'Cause if I was just given free reign with a microphone for four and a half hours, people would throw things at me.
Oh that could still happen.
A: And probably will, let's be honest. I'm going to turn Grindr on at the start, and tell people that I'm looking for a boyfriend.
M: Wow, that's dangerous.
A: Yeah, thousands of people. I'm going to tell them all to message me, they know where I am.
And we always finish with this one question: What question would you like to ask the next person in this series to answer?
M: Ok.
[long pause]
M: I like to, I think there's like a moment in a lot of improvisers lives when they are like "oh wow," something just clicks for them, and they have a breakthrough.
A: What's was a click moment, because I've had loads, where I've been like "ohhhhhhhhhh yeaahhhhhhh". What was a click moment.
What was your improv 'click' moment? So what was yours, Marcus.
M: Yeah. I just want to describe it properly.
A: I know what mine is, I can answer quickly.
M: Yeah yeah.
A: Mine is also something that I taught level two's that I call "How Do You Feel Microwave?" Because I was watching a show, a Harold team do a show, and the suggestion was microwave. And they were doing stuff, and I was sitting next to Charlie Sturgeon. And it was going on and I was like "this feels a bit clunky" but didn't say anything and Charlie was eating lasagna, and under his breath went "but how do you feel microwave?" and I went "what!?" and he goes "how do you feel microwave, personify it, give it emotion, give it feeling, it's really important in an opening." And I was like "ohhhhhhh FUCK." From then on every time I do an opening that's always sitting in the back of my head, if I was the microwave, how do I feel, because it's easy to play off emotion. So for me that was a big click moment. That "How Do You Feel Microwave". Thanks Charlie.
M: Mine was very recently, my most recent one was when I watched Dan [Pavatich], he did a show where he just sat and watched the audience for twenty minutes.
What is Art? which he put up for Cage Match.
M: Yeah it was beautiful and it taught me so much. Like I learnt more then I had in the past twelve months just watching that. So that's my most recent moment.
A: What did you learn?
M: I learned that you don't need to do everything, you just need to be real, you need to be a person, do less. Less is more.
A: Truth in Comedy.
That was a delicious smoothie Marcus.
M: Oh! Do you want another one?
I have to go.
M: I'm sensing that you want another one!
I really should leave.
A: You should have another one.
Goodbye.
Mike Brown is an Improv Conspiracy alumnus currently living, working and improvising in Chicago.
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Q: Topologies for which $\mathcal{M}(X)\otimes \mathcal{M}(Y)$ is dense in $\mathcal{M}(X\times Y)$ Are there complete TVS topologies for which $\mathcal{M}(X)\otimes \mathcal{M}(Y)$ is dense in $\mathcal{M}(X\times Y)$
This question is strongly linked to

is the space of all borel measures on $\mathbb{R}^n$ isomorphic to the tensor ...
where my answer was (too) quickly accepted and turned out to
be more a plan than a a satisfying answer.
Let me elaborate a bit, let $X,Y$ be two locally compact spaces
We consider the corresponding spaces of measures
$\mathcal{M}(X),\mathcal{M}(Y),\mathcal{M}(X\times Y)$
and the canonical map
$$
can : \mathcal{M}(X)\otimes \mathcal{M}(Y)\rightarrow \mathcal{M}(X\times Y)
$$
defined by
$$
can(\mu\otimes\nu)(f\otimes g)=\mu(f)\nu(g)
$$
As I am not an expert in measure theory (and after having searched and discussed a bit), I ask the following questions whose clarification might be enlighting to read.

Q1) Is $can$ always into ? (generalization/discussion for measurable spaces ?)
Q2) For which complete TVS topology on $\mathcal{M}(X\times Y)$ is the image of $can$ dense in $\mathcal{M}(X\times Y)$ ? (well-known or hand-made answers are accepted).
Q3) Same questions for bounded measures as
  $$
can(\mathcal{M}^{1}(X)\otimes \mathcal{M}^{1}(Y))\subset \mathcal{M}^{1}(X\times Y)
$$

Please give references and/or proofs.

A: Q1 has a positive answer and your question about density has a simple positive answer in both cases by using appropriate weak topologies.  One can give your queries more content  by looking for COMPLETE structures.  Again the responses are both positive as I thought I had pointed out in my response to the question you mention.  In the case of bounded measures, then we have the dual of a Banach space (of continuous functions which vanish at infinity) and you can use the bounded weak star topology which is the finest locally convex (or, indeed, any) topology which agrees with the weak star topology on bounded sets.
In the unbounded case it is standard that the space of measures is, in a natural way, the projective limit (in the category of vector spaces) of the spaces $M(K)$ as $K$ ranges over the compacta.  One then regards it  a lcs by taking the projective limit of the above complete topologies.

A: In stereotype theory there is an isomorphism of stereotype spaces (or, what is the same here, an isomorphism of locally convex spaces)
$$
{\mathcal C}^\star(X)\circledast {\mathcal C}^\star(Y)\cong{\mathcal C}^\star(X\times Y),
$$
where $X$ and $Y$ are arbitrary paracompact locally compact spaces, ${\mathcal C}(Z)$ the algebra of continuous functions on $Z$ ($Z=X$, or $Y$, or $X\times Y$) with the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets in $Z$, and ${\mathcal C}^\star(Z)$ the stereotype dual space (here the space of all compactly supported measures on $Z$ with the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets in ${\mathcal C}(Z)$). This is proved here (Theorem 8.4).
As a corollary (again, here, Proposition 7.2), the map
$$
{\mathcal C}^\star(X)\otimes {\mathcal C}^\star(Y)\to {\mathcal C}^\star(X\times Y)
$$
is injective and has dense image in ${\mathcal C}^\star(X\times Y)$.
If by ${\mathcal M}(Z)$ you mean the space of all measures, then for compact $Z$ it coincides as a set with ${\mathcal C}^\star(Z)$,
$$
{\mathcal M}(Z)={\mathcal C}^\star(Z)
$$
and this endows ${\mathcal M}(Z)$ with natural topology satisfying the properties that you want (I mean, always Q2 and, if "into" means injectivity, then Q1).


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Small Platforms Key to Turbojet Engine's Future
September 20, 2016 November 15, 2019 - by Forecast International
by Carter Palmer, Power Systems Specialist, Forecast International.
The end of the Second World War marked the beginning of a new era in aviation. Turbine-powered aircraft were a vast improvement over previous piston-engine designs in a great many respects and could fly higher and faster. The Jet Age was marked by record-breaking aircraft doing the seemingly impossible. The jet engine had arrived, and its basic form, the turbojet, would power some of the most iconic aircraft of the time.
A turbojet is a simple turbine engine whereby all of the air ingested is combusted for thrust. Turbofans, the current norm for both civil and military aircraft, use an enclosed fan in conjunction with the turbine to produce thrust. The former is simple but is rather inefficient at lower speeds, whereas the turbofan is more efficient at subsonic through low Mach numbers and has the added benefit of being quieter, an important plus for civilian aircraft.
Today, the turbojet is seen as a thing of the past. It is an antiquated design not even utilized in military aviation outside of a few older designs still in service. Does this form of propulsion still have a place in the aviation world?
The simple answer is yes, but one might need to think small. Missiles, aerial targets and drones are the primary designs that still employ turbojet powerplants. Turbojets offer a high power-to-weight ratio, making them ideal for these small air vehicles. Their simplistic nature also makes the turbojet more reliable. Despite its positives, the turbojet is no longer the main propulsion for piloted aircraft; however, surprisingly, it has application on some well-known designs.
Teledyne J402 turbines power the Navy's venerable Harpoon anti-ship missile and the Air Force's JASSM cruise missile. Pratt & Whitney's TJ-150, an upgraded version of the TJ-50, is used in the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy, or MALD. The block 3 version of the Exocet is propelled by a TR 40 turbojet manufactured by Microturbo of Safran. Despite their wide range of uses, the market for these engines is narrow and is dominated by the aforementioned manufacturers.
Over the next 10 years, Teledyne, Pratt & Whitney AeroPower, and Safran's Microturbo and Turbomeca are forecast to have about 90 percent of the market, with Teledyne leading. Other manufacturers exist as well, both foreign and domestic, which make up the remaining 10 percent. China Aviation Gas Turbine Co, India's Hindustan Aeronautics, and Taiwan's Nationalist Chinese Arsenals are a few of the other players producing turbojet engines. In some cases, the demand for these engines is significant. Although anti-ship missiles are rarely used, target drones are often destroyed and replaced in sizable numbers.
Aviation has indeed come a long way since the early days of jets; however, these early designs still have a home. The turbojet will soldier on, albeit on a much smaller scale.
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Summer migrants set to arrive in force
Migrants have continued to trickle in during the last week but it has been slow. Most of our early arriving summer visitors are running two to three weeks behind, as can be seen in the BirdTrack reporting rate graphs for Chiffchaff , Sand Martin, Willow Warbler and Swallow. However, with a change in the weather other species have arrived bang on cue.
Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler and Grasshopper Warbler all have an average arrival date around mid-April and all have been seen in the last few days. Large numbers of visible migrants have also been seen, largely comprising Meadow Pipit and Woodpigeon, 5000 of the former and 2000 of the latter were counted flying over Portland, Dorset on 9 April.
Despite the cold conditions and strong easterly winds, BirdTrack shows that the arrival of Ring Ouzel has been spot-on. Conversely, it may come as no surprise that the classic winter thrushes, Redwing and Fieldfare, are late leaving.
Fieldfare by Edmund Fellowes
The average arrival date for Whinchat is the 17 April. We aren't aware of any in the country yet but we expect the first arrivals next week. We still need more help to monitor this species in Wales. Could you help with the second year of the Welsh Chat Survey?
Whinchat by Edmund Fellowes
Two more Cuckoos were reported this week, in East Sussex and Kent, and our first satellite tagged Cuckoo won't be far behind. Chris is currently in southern central France but he could make his move for the UK any day now- read his blog here.
Woodchat Shrike by Ron Marshall
We should finally see the back of the cold easterly airflow this weekend and the forecast is looking good for southern migrants. By Saturday we should be enjoying warm winds from the south which will bring migrants that have been held up with them. This weekend has the potential to be one of the most exciting of the spring. Summer migrants will be able to make their final dash to their breeding grounds, and winter visitors may finally get an easy passage across the North Sea. With the winds coming from so far south I wouldn't be surprised if the two Hoopoes reported in the last couple of days aren't joined by more Mediterranean birds. Woodchat Shrike is always a favourite at this time of the year.
The migration floodgates open
Migration getting back to normal
Migration still slow


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The Business Observer recently profiled partners from Shutts & Bowen LLP's Tampa office, including R. Alan Higbee, Sally Woodward, Olga Pina and Woodrow "Woody" Pollack, in a feature article describing teaching roles that the individuals have assumed over the years to benefit the students at Stetson University College of Law.
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Despite the challenge of balancing a busy legal practice with the time commitments of preparing for lectures and teaching classes, the Shutts partners insist that the experience is very rewarding. "I'll continue as long as Stetson keeps asking," said Woody Pollack.
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About Shutts & Bowen LLP
Shutts & Bowen, established in 1910, is a full-service business law firm with approximately 300 lawyers in offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Tampa, and West Palm Beach. Learn more about Shutts & Bowen at www.shutts.com.
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Q: Lambda is missing a field in a response I have Python3 script that pulls information from AWS regarding to the AWS Network Firewall Managed Rule Group -
def get_current_version(rule_group_arn):
    response = network_firewall.describe_rule_group_metadata(RuleGroupArn=rule_group_arn)
    return response

print(get_current_version("arn:aws:network-firewall:eu-central-1:aws-managed:stateful-rulegroup/ThreatSignaturesDoSStrictOrder"))

When I execute it, I get response:
{'RuleGroupArn': 'arn:aws:network-firewall:eu-central-1:aws-managed:stateful-rulegroup/ThreatSignaturesDoSStrictOrder', 'RuleGroupName': 'ThreatSignaturesDoSStrictOrder', 'Description': 'Signatures that detect Denial of Service attempts.', 'Type': 'STATEFUL', 'Capacity': 200, 'StatefulRuleOptions': {'RuleOrder': 'STRICT_ORDER'}, 'LastModifiedTime': datetime.datetime(2022, 6, 21, 12, 54, 12, 241000, tzinfo=tzlocal()), 'ResponseMetadata': {'RequestId': 'a4ea84ee-f908-4f2c-9ff1-6b4542b1313c', 'HTTPStatusCode': 200, 'HTTPHeaders': {'x-amzn-requestid': 'a4ea84ee-f908-4f2c-9ff1-6b4542b1313c', 'content-type': 'application/x-amz-json-1.0', 'content-length': '354', 'date': 'Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:10:26 GMT'}, 'RetryAttempts': 0}}

I want to run similar function in the Lamda, so I wrote this code:
def lambda_handler(event, context):
    response = network_firewall.describe_rule_group_metadata(RuleGroupArn="arn:aws:network-firewall:eu-central-1:aws-managed:stateful-rulegroup/ThreatSignaturesDoSStrictOrder")
    return response

However, response I get is different than previous one, namely one field is missing: LastModifiedTime and this field is crucial for my code's logic.
{
  "RuleGroupArn": "arn:aws:network-firewall:eu-central-1:aws-managed:stateful-rulegroup/ThreatSignaturesDoSStrictOrder",
  "RuleGroupName": "ThreatSignaturesDoSStrictOrder",
  "Description": "Signatures that detect Denial of Service attempts.",
  "Type": "STATEFUL",
  "Capacity": 200,
  "StatefulRuleOptions": {
    "RuleOrder": "STRICT_ORDER"
  },
  "ResponseMetadata": {
    "RequestId": "45bafe6f-8df4-479a-b0bb-c4572dc7f039",
    "HTTPStatusCode": 200,
    "HTTPHeaders": {
      "x-amzn-requestid": "45bafe6f-8df4-479a-b0bb-c4572dc7f039",
      "content-type": "application/x-amz-json-1.0",
      "content-length": "354",
      "date": "Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:37:07 GMT"
    },
    "RetryAttempts": 0
  }
}

I've read documentation and it states that field should be present. Maybe I'm missing some point.
Thanks in advance for help!

A: This problem is from the version of boto3 in the Lambda function.
The default version of boto3 for Python3.7 to 3.9 is boto3-1.20.32 botocore-1.23.32 (doc)
We cannot find the dict item like LastModifiedTime in the version of boto3. There is no such response for that version.
This so answer might help to upgrade boto3.


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what i dun understand is what is "WD"?
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