A manner where any portion of the firearm or holster in which the firearm is carried is visible.
A holster that is wholly or partially visible.
A scabbard or case designed for carrying weapons that is wholly or partially visible.
A case, holster, scabbard, pack or luggage that is carried within a means of transportation or within a storage compartment, map pocket, trunk or glove compartment of a means of transportation.
"Printing," where the imprint of your gun shows through your clothing, is not illegal anywhere in the United States.
Arizona is a 'Constitutional Carry' state, meaning that a permit is not required to carry a concealed firearm. There is no law authorizing this; the language requiring a concealed weapon permit to carry a firearm was repealed by a 2010 bill. A concealed weapon permit grants additional privileges and the ability to carry legally in states that recognize Arizona permits. Permitless concealed carry in Arizona is limited to those 21 or older.
Constitutional carry recognizes that the right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right (that of self-defense) and that government cannot authorize it, but only regulate it or improperly prohibit it. Many citizens object to having to pay to exercise a constitutional right. A permit is does three things: 1, it tells police the permittee isn't a bad guy; 2, it allows the police to arrest bad guys carrying concealed without a permit; and 2, it allows the government to take it away if the permittee does something wrong. A permit does not magically make citizen carriers better people or better shots, nor does it stop criminals from carrying illegally.
Carrying a non-visible firearm is not going to suddenly transform a decent person into a criminal. Those who cannot legally possess a firearm, including criminals and felons, are still prohibited. The main effect of permitless concealed carry is that the general unlicensed public can conceal a firearm instead of being limited to just open carry. Women can now carry a firearm in their purse without needing a permit. The idea that one can legally openly carry a firearm, but the second a shirt or jacket covers the weapon or a woman puts it in her purse, the carrier is now a criminal, is absurd. Not requiring a permit allows many more people to carry firearms who would not openly carry otherwise.
No obstacles or delays exist for law-abiding citizens who choose to protect themselves, such as mandatory training or waiting for a permit to be approved and issued. While training and background checks are good things, they can be abused to deny or delay citizens from protecting themselves, as examples from other states have shown. The right to free speech does not require an education or permit. Training was never mandatory for mere ownership of firearms or open carry; this lack of a training requirement has not lead to widespread deaths, injuries, or crimes. Since Arizona enacted constitutional carry, the crime rate has actually fallen.
Permits are issued by the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) and are available to both residents and non-residents.
Permits are valid for five years, but deployed service members have 90 days to renew after returning home. Permittees' information is not public information. Permittees qualify for exemption from the Brady background check.
Fees: new permits are $60, renewals are $43, replacements are $10, and LEOSA certifications are $20.
Is a resident of this state or a United States citizen.
Is twenty-one years of age or older or is at least nineteen years of age and provides evidence of current military service or proof of honorable discharge or general discharge under honorable conditions from the United States armed forces, the United States armed forces reserve or a state national guard.
Is not under indictment for and has not been convicted in any jurisdiction of a felony unless that conviction has been expunged, set aside or vacated or the applicant's rights have been restored and the applicant is currently not a prohibited possessor under state or federal law.
Does not suffer from mental illness and has not been adjudicated mentally incompetent or committed to a mental institution.
Is not unlawfully present in the United States.
Has ever demonstrated competence with a firearm and provides adequate documentation that the person has satisfactorily completed a training program or demonstrated competence with a firearm in any state or political subdivision in the United States.
DPS has shall complete all of the required qualification checks within 60 days after receipt of the application. DPS has 15 days working days to issue a permit after completing the qualification checks.
If an application is denied, DPS shall notify the applicant in writing within 15 days after completing the qualification checks and state the reasons why the application was denied. The applicant must submit additional documentation in response to a denial within 20 days; DPS then has 20 days to reconsider and reply. After a subsequent denial, an applicant may request an administrative hearing.
DPS has 15 days to notify a permittee their permit has been revoked or suspended and and shall state the reasons for the revocation or suspension.
Completion of any firearms safety or training course or class that is available to the general public, that is offered by a law enforcement agency, a junior college, a college or a private or public institution, academy, organization or firearms training school and that is approved by DPS or that uses instructors who are certified by the NRA.
Completion of any hunter education or safety course approved by the Arizona Game and Fish Dept. or a similar agency of another state.
Completion of any NRA firearms safety or training course.
Completion of any law enforcement firearms safety or training course or class that is offered for security guards, investigators, special deputies or other divisions or subdivisions of law enforcement or security enforcement and that is approved by DPS.
Evidence of current military service or proof of honorable discharge or general discharge under honorable conditions from the United States armed forces.
A valid current or expired concealed weapon, firearm or handgun permit or license that is issued by another state or a political subdivision of another state and that has a training or testing requirement for initial issuance.
Completion of any governmental police agency firearms training course and qualification to carry a firearm in the course of normal police duties.
Completion of any other firearms safety or training course or class that is conducted by a DPS approved or NRA certified firearms instructor.
The person shall carry the permit at all times when the person is in actual possession of the concealed weapon and is required by section 4-229 or 4-244 (establishments that serve alcohol) to carry the permit (see below).
If the person is in actual possession of the concealed weapon and is required by section 4-229 or 4-244 to carry the permit, the person shall present the permit for inspection to any law enforcement officer on request.
Arizona law defines two type of retailers: off-sale retailers, liquor stores/package stores where consumption on the premises is illegal, and on-sale retailers, such as bars and restaurants.
A common misconception is that it is legal for a concealed weapon permittee to carry a firearm inside an establishment that serves alcohol (bar/restaurant), as long as the firearm remains concealed and the carrier does not drink alcohol. This only applies when there is not a 'no-guns' sign posted. A 'no-guns' sign means no guns, period. If the sign does not meet the below requirement, 4-229 is not enforceable.
A person may carry a concealed handgun on the premises of a licensee who is an on-sale retailer unless the licensee posts a sign that clearly prohibits the possession of weapons on the licensed premises. A person shall not carry a firearm on the licensed premises of an on-sale retailer if the licensee has posted a 'no guns' sign.
The signs required by this section shall be composed of block, capital letters printed in black on white laminated paper at a minimum weight of one hundred ten pound index. The lettering and pictogram shall consume a space at least six inches by nine inches. The letters constituting the words "no firearms allowed" shall be at least three-fourths of a vertical inch and all other letters shall be at least one-half of a vertical inch.
You may enter an establishment that serves alcohol to seek emergency aid or determine whether a 'no guns' sign has been posted. Generally, no 'guns' signs are posted at the entrances.
Concealed weapon permittees may carry a concealed handgun only when the establishment has not posted a 'no guns' sign pursuant to section 4-229. If there is a proper 'no guns' sign, you cannot carry a firearm, even if you are licensed.
A licensee or employee cannot knowingly permit a person in possession of a firearm to remain on the licensed premises or to serve, sell or furnish spirituous liquor to a person in possession of a firearm while on the licensed premises of an on-sale retailer. It shall be a defense to action under this paragraph if the licensee or employee requested assistance of a peace officer to remove such person. Concealed weapon permittees may stay as long as there is not a 'no guns' sign posted and they do not consume alcohol.
Arizona recognizes a concealed weapon, firearm or handgun permit or license from another state if the license is valid in the issuing state, the permittee is legally present in Arizona, and the permittee is not prohibited from possessing a firearm under Arizona law.
A person with a concealed weapons permit from another state may not carry a concealed weapon in this state if the person is under twenty-one years of age or is under indictment for, or has been convicted of, a felony offense in any jurisdiction.
Vermont does not issue or require concealed weapon permits. Arizona only recognizes the Idaho Enhanced permit.
The advantage of concealed carry lies in the fact that it may be possible to carry in places where open carriers would be shunned or asked to leave. Legally speaking, the advantage is with open carry, yet due to modern sensitivities, the discreet option of undetected concealed carry would prevent any debates with anti-gunners or objections to having the weapon on private property where the owner/management might prohibit it. Also, given one's choice of dress or activities, concealed carry may be more appropriate.


The quality or state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable.
"absurdities can be as equalities."
"absurdities can be on pricings."
Late Middle English (in the sense 'dissonance'): from Latin absurditas, from absurdus (see absurd).


What a sad blog title...sounds like she died or something. Don't worry...its not that bad...but almost. After an amazing year together the ESBS is saying a sad goodbye to Katie and John Francis. Katie was one leg of our three legged staffing stool this year, and she was a HUGE part of the success of the program. She has an amazing heart for discipleship, and she brought a ton of professionalism and solid Biblical knowledge to the mix...not to mention that her office was a model of cleanliness and orderliness...a real example for us all.
Katie and John are moving to Richmond Virginia to be close to family as they prepare for the birth of their first child (I think they said they would name it Tom Phillips Francis..?..even if its a girl.). We're going to miss them both a ton, and we are so thankful to have spent a year with such an amazing couple.


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\section{Introduction}

Neural networks are currently deployed in many production systems from image classification to natural language processing (NLP). While they show impressive results, many of such systems are also susceptible to adversarial examples. These examples are close in space to data points that are classified correctly, but due to small changes are classified incorrectly. This corresponds to the local non-smoothness noted by \citet{szegedy2014intriguing}.

 \citet{chen2017zoo} present a zeroth order optimization-based (ZOO) attack that significantly outperforms other black-box attacks for image processing. An initial goal of our work was to investigate whether a ZOO approach that guides the search for adversarial examples by approximate gradient information can be transferred to adversarial attacks in NLP. To this end,  we implemented a ZOO-inspired algorithm in the TextAttack framework \citep{morris2020textattack} and compared it with their benchmark results \citep{yoo2020searching}. Surprisingly, we found that search guided by a ZOO approach only yields minimal improvements, whereas heuristic search exploiting nearest neighbors yields competitive success rates at minimal query count.
We conclude from these results that the victim models in current benchmark tasks are too easily broken and imperceptibility constraints are too strict, thus defeating meaningful research on black-box search methods for adversarial attacks.

\section{Related Work}

Black-box attacks on NLP systems generally attempt to search over discrete tokens and, instead of bounding the perturbation in Euclidean space, use linguistic constraints over the selected tokens.

\citet{alzantot2018generating} implement a discrete genetic algorithm where genes are  tokenized sentences (Genetic Alg in Table \ref{tab:all_results}). Two genes can crossover by sampling a parent for each position in the sentence and selecting the corresponding token. Mutations are performed by sampling from nearby tokens in embedding space. The embedding space they use is the counter-fitted GloVe embeddings \citep{pennington2014glove,mrksic-etal-2016-counter}. \citet{zang-etal-2020-word} also work with a discretized search algorithm, in their case Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO in Table \ref{tab:all_results}). Each particle is again a tokenized sentence and has a velocity associated with each token. Instead of moving in continuous space according to its velocity in each step, a position in the sentence ``jumps'' from one token to another. Instead of operating over embeddings, they use the lexicon HowNet \cite{dong2003hownet} to find synonyms of current words.
\citet{jin2020bert} create a powerful baseline for adversarial attacks which first determines an importance ranking over words and then changes each token in order (Word Importance Ranking, WIR in Table \ref{tab:all_results}). Tokens can be changed to one of the $50$ nearest neighbours in embedding space but are subject to constraints. The replacement token must have a cosine similarity of at least $0.7$ in the attack's embedding space, again in the counter-fitted GloVe embedding space by \citet{mrksic-etal-2016-counter}. Additionally, replacement tokens must have the same part of speech and a sentence level similarity score given by a Universal Sentence Encoder \citep{cer2018universal} above a given threshold. The word importance ranking is determined by the difference in output when a given token is removed from the input.

The above black-box attacks on NLP systems along with greedy and beam search are re-implemented by \citet{morris2020textattack}. Their library, TextAttack, seeks to be a test bed for comparing adversarial attacks on NLP systems. To this end, a companion paper comparing different attacks has been released by \citet{yoo2020searching}.

\section{Zeroth Order Optimization-Based Attack (ZOO)}

\citet{chen2017zoo} work under the adversarial attack framework of \citet{carlini2017towards} and use a zeroth order optimization method to work in a black-box setting to attack images. The ZOO idea is to create pseudogradients using zeroth order estimates of the true gradient. Their method performs point-wise perturbations on individual pixels by adding a scaled one-hot vector $e_i$ to the image $x$ and computing the difference between the outputs. The derivative of this single perturbed pixel can then be calculated by $\frac{f(x + \mu e_i) - f(x - \mu e_i)}{2\mu}e_i$, where $\mu$ controls how far apart the two queried points are.

\citet{chen2017zoo} use coordinate descent \citep{poljak1973pseudogradient} and perturb a single pixel at a time to construct a gradient. Instead of having to query the model $2m$ times, this method can be optimized by perturbing all pixels simultaneously with a vector $u$ sampled from a multivariate Gaussian distribution \citep{NesterovSpokoiny:15}. This two-point function evaluation in expectation approximates the true gradient of the function but can also be applied in situations where the function is unknown but smooth, which is the case in black-box attacks on neural networks. The estimated gradient can then be used in standard gradient descent:
$$
x_{t+1} = x_{t} - \lambda \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i = 1}^n \frac{f(x + \mu u_i) - f(x)}{\mu}u_i.
$$
Inspired by the zeroth order optimization-based attack of \citet{chen2017zoo} and the interpretable displacements of \citet{sato2018interpretable}, we developed a discretized version of zeroth order optimization for attacks on NLP systems, dubbed DiscreteZOO.

\section{DiscreteZOO for Black-Box Attacks on NLP Systems}

Zeroth order optimization assumes nothing about the function to optimize other than the fact that it is smooth. We add the assumptions here that we possess a surrogate embedding space and that there is a smooth transformation from this embedding space to the internal embedding space of the target model. Continuous zeroth order gradient estimation requires that any arbitrary point be queryable in order to use Gaussian noise as perturbations. In the discrete case, however, the system only allows us to query with tokens. Instead of sampling from a Gaussian distribution then, we sample from the nearest neighbours around the target token in the surrogate embedding space.

Given the current token $t$, we can perturb its embedding $e_t$ with a vector $\mu u_{k,t}$, with $\mu = ||e_k - e_t||$, $u_{k,t} = \frac{e_k - e_t}{\mu}$, and $e_k$ being the embedding of another token.
We can use this to calculate the finite differences between two different function evaluations.
Sampling a set of multiple neighbouring tokens $\mathcal{N}$ for displacements yields the update rule \[e_{t+1} = e_t - \lambda \frac{1}{|\mathcal{N}|}\sum_{k \in \mathcal{N}} \frac{f(e_t + \mu u_{k,t}) - f(e_t)}{\mu}u_{k,t}.\]
Adding this estimated direction vector to the current embedding then moves towards an area of increasing goal function values, where we would hope to find a token suitable for flipping the label. Once the direction vector is added to the embedding, we snap it to the nearest existing token by cosine similarity.

In addition to the ZOO-inspired search, we use the word importance ranking of \citet{jin2020bert} and \citet{yoo2020searching}, which replaces each token in the text with an $\texttt{unk}$ token to decide which tokens to attack first. Additionally, we noticed that often label-flipping tokens are already available within the sampled tokens $\mathcal{N}$. In this case, we should accept the sampled token and return early, saving queries to the model, instead of continuing to sample and construct a direction vector. Another optimization prevents the algorithm from snapping to the nearest token if that token decreases the goal function value.

A detailed algorithm is given in the appendix. Code implementing the algorithm can be found at \url{https://github.com/StatNLP/discretezoo}.

\section{Experiments}

\subsection{Baselines}

In addition to the methods from \citet{yoo2020searching}, we also implement a \textit{random} baseline. Firstly, instead of determining the importance by deleting each token or replacing it with \texttt{unk}, the indices are randomly shuffled and taken as the attack order.  Secondly, replacement tokens are chosen randomly as well. In the \textit{constr.} setup, the random choice is over the Top-N tokens ranked by proximity in the counter-fitted GloVe embedding space \citep{mrksic-etal-2016-counter}, filtered by the constraints. In the \textit{unconstr.} setup, the same method is used to generate the list of tokens, but no filtering is applied. Instead of iterating over them and selecting the token with the highest goal function value, the random baseline samples a single token from the list, inserts into the sentence, and returns if the token flips the label along with the goal function value. If the goal function values is improved then the token is kept and if not it is discarded--the goal function value is returned with the label and does not change the query count. If the label is not flipped, it moves on to the next target position.

Two additional baselines are picking the \textit{farthest} or \textit{closest} token at each step. They function similarly to the random baseline, but instead of sampling from the list of replacement tokens, they immediately pick the farthest or closest token in embedding space, respectively. If all tokens that pass the constraints are equally acceptable, then picking the most dissimilar acceptable token should be a good heuristic.

The baselines and the WIR methods \cite{yoo2020searching} all iterate over the indices of the target sentence once. In order to see the effects of random continued sampling until the label flips, we also introduce a method called \textit{random, CS}. This method iterates over the indices multiple times and samples tokens until a label flip is achieved or until a maximum number of tokens has been sampled. For this method to work, the \texttt{RepeatModification} constraint has to be removed. Therefore, it is a stronger attack, as it can make changes that are not available to the other methods. Still, this should illustrate the upper bound achievable with random sampling and keeping tokens that improve the goal function.

\subsection{Constraints}

In \citet{yoo2020searching}, a number of constraints are used to maintain semantic similarity of the adversary with the original text. The main constraints of interest are cosine similarity, BERTScore \citep{zhang2015character}, and part of speech tagging. In the \textit{constr.} setting, replacement tokens must have a cosine similarity of $0.9$ with the original token, the two sentences must have a BERTScore of $0.9$, and the part of speech can not be changed. We also introduce a \textit{unconstr.} setting, where all constraints are removed.

\subsection{Target Models and Goal Functions}

All of the attacks in this paper target multiclass BERT models \citep{devlin2019bert} fine-tuned on SNLI \citep{bowman-etal-2015-large} or Movie Reviews \citep{10.3115/1219840.1219855}. Both are provided by the TextAttack library \citep{morris2020textattack} and are used in the comparison done by \citet{yoo2020searching}.

\citet{morris2020textattack} use a goal function that seeks to minimize the probability of the true label:
\[\mathcal{G}_{TextAttack} = 1 - f(x)_l,\]
where $f(x)$ is the neural network with a probability vector as output and $l$ is the index of the true label. Working from the zeroth order optimization-based attack of \citet{chen2017zoo}, we also implement their goal function:
\[\mathcal{G}_{zoo} = - \max(\log f(x)_{l} - \max_{l' \neq l}\log f(x)_{l'}, -\kappa).\]
In our experiments we found no difference in running all attacks on both goal functions, so here we report only results on the $zoo$ loss.

\tabcolsep=0.1cm
 \begin{table*}[t!]
     \centering
     \begin{tabular}{|c|c|rr|rr|rr|}
     \hline
         $\qquad$  & Method & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Attack Success\% $\uparrow$ ($\pm\sigma$)} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Avg \# Queries $\downarrow$ ($\pm\sigma$)} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\% Words Changed $\downarrow$ ($\pm\sigma$)} \\
          &  & constr. & unconstr. & constr. & unconstr. & constr. & unconstr. \\
    \hline
    \hline
          \parbox[t]{1mm}{\multirow{15}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{Movie Reviews}}} & Greedy & 20.6 &  100.0 & 35.0 & 1111.5 & 9.6 & 9.2 \\
              & Beam 4 & 21.4 & 100.0 & 95.1 & 1688.1 & 10.0 & 8.9 \\
              & Beam 8 & 21.8 & 100.0 & 174.9 & 2504.1 & 10.1 & 8.9 \\
              & WIR(\texttt{UNK}) & 17.8 & 99.6 & 30.1 & 153.8 & 11.8 & 16.6 \\
              & WIR(\texttt{DEL}) & 17.0 & 99.8 & 30.2 & 147.5 & 11.7 & 16.4 \\
              & WIR(\texttt{PWWS}) & 18.6 & 99.6 & 44.2 & 894.4 & 10.6 & 10.0 \\
              & WIR(\texttt{RAND}) & 16.8±0.5 & 99.6 & 12.5±0.1 & 172.8 & 12.9±0.5 & 20.2\\
              & Genetic Alg & 19.4 & 99.6 & 2658.6 & 2578.6 & 10.6 &  10.3 \\
              & PSO & 22.0 & 100.0 & 2456.4 & 4010.2 & 11.1 & 10.5 \\
              & \textbf{DiscrZOO} & 20.4±0.0 & 97.9±0.4 & 33.2±0.0 & 118.7±2.5 & 13.7±0.0 & 17.8±0.2 \\

              & Random & 11.5±0.7 & 68.3±1.8 & 5.4±0.0 & 12.2±0.2 & 11.9±0.7 & 50.6±1.0\\
              & Random, CS & 17.3±0.2 & 98.7±0.6 & 15.1±0.1 & 15.9±0.4 & 13.9±0.4 & 37.5±0.4 \\
              & Farthest  & 12.3±0.7 & 78.3±0.3 & 5.3±0.0 & 10.6±0.1 & 11.2±0.3 & 27.1±0.4\\
              & Closest & 11.1±0.4 & 55.5±0.7 & 5.4±0.0 & 13.1±0.2 & 12.2±0.7 & 30.0±1.0 \\
     \hline
     \hline
          \parbox[t]{1mm}{\multirow{15}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{SNLI}}} & Greedy & 19.9 & 100.0 & 7.2 & 422.0 & 6.1 & 5.9 \\
              & Beam 4 & 20.1 & 100.0 & 12.3 & 563.0 & 6.1 & 5.9 \\
              & Beam 8 & 20.1 & 100.0 & 17.8 & 739.0 & 6.1 & 5.8 \\
              & WIR(\texttt{UNK}) & 19.6 & 100.0 & 26.2 & 84.9 & 7.0 & 6.5 \\
              & WIR(\texttt{DEL}) & 18.7 & 100.0 & 26.2 & 85.3 & 7.3 & 6.6 \\
              & WIR(\texttt{PWWS}) & 19.1 & 99.9 & 30.5 & 407.2 & 6.0 & 6.8 \\
              & WIR(\texttt{RAND}) & 18.3±0.1 & 100.0 & 5.0±0.0 & 85.9 & 7.3±0.2 & 8.7\\
              & Genetic Alg & 19.7 & 99.9 & 1328.5 & 998.5 & 6.1 & 6.4 \\
              & PSO & 20.0 & 100.0 & 1262.4 & 815.2 & 6.2 & 6.4 \\
              & \textbf{DiscrZOO} & 21.2±0.1 & 98.1±0.2 & 26.9±0.0 & 58.3±0.1 & 6.7±0.0 & 6.8±0.1 \\

              & Random  & 10.1±0.3 & 70.0±0.4 & 2.6±0.0 & 5.6±0.0 & 7.3±0.2 & 17.7±0.4 \\
              & Random, CS & 18.7±0.4 & 99.9±0.1 & 6.8±0.04 & 7.3±1.0 & 8.0±0.1 & 16.3±0.2\\
              & Farthest & 11.6±0.2 & 81.0±0.7 & 2.6±0.0 & 5.1±0.0 & 7.2±0.2 & 12.3±0.2\\
              & Closest & 7.9±0.2 & 58.0±0.7 & 2.7±0.0 & 6.4±0.1 & 7.4±0.3 & 15.8±0.1 \\
     \hline
     \end{tabular}
     \caption{Adversarial attack using ZOO loss on both Movie Reviews and SNLI. DiscreteZOO averaged over three runs; Random, Farthest, and Closest Nearest Neighbor baselines averaged over seven runs; standard deviation denoted by $\pm$. With constraints, the DiscreteZOO attack samples up to 10 neighbors, while the unconstrained attack samples up to 25 neighbors.}
     \label{tab:all_results}
 \end{table*}

\section{Results}

Results for the baseline attacks and \textit{DiscreteZOO} are summarized in Table \ref{tab:all_results}.

In the \textit{constr.} setup on SNLI, \textit{DiscreteZOO} outperforms all other methods in terms of success rate. On Movie Reviews,  \textit{DiscreteZOO} achieves slightly higher results than the \textit{WIR} methods with comparable query counts, but it is not as successful as the \textit{beam} search or \textit{PSO} methods.
For \textit{DiscreteZOO}, the standard deviation is either very low or actually zero. This suggests that there is not a large enough space from which the algorithm can sample. The \textit{farthest} baseline already achieves a success rate of $12.3\%$ on Movie Reviews and $11.6\%$ on SNLI, while \textit{random} and \textit{closest} achieve 11.5\% and 11.1\% on Movie Reviews and 10.1\% and 7.9\% on SNLI, respectively. Thus, simple heuristics already accomplish a substantial amount of the achievable success rates at minimal query count, while the generally low success rates across all algorithms suggests that the constraints are too strict, preventing exploitation of more sophisticated search techniques. The \textit{continued sampling} version of the random baseline achieves a success rate of $17.3\%$ on Movie Reviews and $18.7\%$ on SNLI. This is directly competitive with the search based methods.

In the unconstrained setup, all search methods, including \textit{DiscreteZOO}, approach success rates of $100\%$. The methods are only able to evaluate the $50$ nearest neighbors, however, the \textit{farthest} baseline reaches success rates of 78.31\% and 81.04\% on Movie Reviews and SNLI, respectively. \textit{Random} and \textit{closest} follow \textit{farthest} in terms of success rate, with a query count that is an order of magnitude lower than other methods. The \textit{continued sampling} version of the random baseline achieves nearly $100\%$ success rate on both datasets with a similarly small query count.
The relative success of the baseline heuristic methods shows that the nearest neighbor structure in the embedding space is already powerful enough to flip the label. Much of the success of the other methods can already be attributed to these simple heuristics, showing that search is not always necessary.

\section{Analysis}

The results of the previous experiments show slight improvement over previous methods but they appear curious. For example, some of the results have no variation on repeated runs even with a stochastic algorithm. Additionally, random token selection appears to be competitive with \textit{greedyWIR} methods.

The counterfitted GLoVE embedding space \citep{mrksic-etal-2016-counter} is  a very sparse embedding space, containing a total of $65713$ tokens. Using the neighborhood threshold given by the \textit{constr.} constraints, a cosine similarity of $0.9$ or higher, then the average token in this embedding space has $0.72$ neighbors. Among tokens that have neighbors, the average rises to $2.63$. Histograms showing number of tokens over neighborhood size with different neighborhood definitions can be seen in figure \ref{fig:neighborhood_graphs} in the appendix. These values are an upper bound on the actual average number of neighbors as the constraints also include BERTScore and a Part of Speech constraint which further restrict the space.

The sparsity of the space coupled with the size of the neighborhoods induced by cosine similarity of $0.9$ or higher could explain why the naive methods are able to perform so well compared to more sophisticated optimization methods. There are so few valid replacement tokens in the space that it is entirely feasible to try every option with the \textit{greedyWIR} or \textit{beam} methods.

With a large enough sample size, \textit{discretezoo} already observes all allowed replacement tokens during sampling and is able to stop if one of them flips the label. In this case, \textit{discretezoo} and \textit{greedyWIR} should produce similar results. This is effectively demonstrated by the \textit{random} baseline, which chooses a replacement token randomly and is unable to use information from the goal function to decide between multiple replacement tokens. Because there are so few possible replacement tokens, randomly selecting from the few that are available is roughly as good of a strategy as beam search or greedily selecting the best replacement token from all options. The results given by the random baseline are close to those reported by \citet{yoo2020searching} for their \textit{greedyWIR} baselines. This suggests that the success of their attacks compared to the more advanced search methods is not because of their algorithm finding good texts but rather because the search space has been so restricted that any choice will work. Methods besides \textit{greedyWIR} are allowed more flexibility. Instead of just considering one target position at a time, they are allowed to consider the best replacement for all positions. This turns the attack into a combinatorial problem of finding which combination of positions is best to attack instead of which replacement tokens are the best.

Additionally, this shows that the models being attacked are very brittle. Given a single target token that has replacements, there are on average only three to choose from. Selecting one of these three very similar tokens is already enough to flip the label in many cases.

\section{Conclusion}

Zeroth order optimization methods have been shown to yield superior performance for black box attacks in continuous spaces such as images \cite{chen2017zoo}.
In attacks on NLP systems, only a discrete set of tokens are admissable as input but they are still processed as vectors in continuous space. This allows for optimization in the continuous space instead of in the discrete token space.
We implement a zeroth order optimization algorithm in the TextAttack library \citep{morris2020textattack} and compare with the results of \citet{yoo2020searching}. While our method appears to be competitive, we find that the linguistic constraints imposed on the search methods are so tight that nearly no optimization is necessary.  Instead, selecting the farthest allowable token or a random token is already enough to flip the label in many cases. We argue that more robust tasks are required for meaningful research on black-box adversarial text attacks

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At this year's STSA 65th Annual Meeting, the following individuals were recognized at the Dinner Gala held on Friday, November 9, 2018 at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort. Please join STSA members in congratulating this year's award and scholarship recipients.
Does Mitral Valve Repair Restore Normal Life Expectancy?
The Ethics Debate is a wonderful component of the STSA Annual Meeting each year. In honor of Dr. Robert M. Sade's contributions to these outstanding ethics debates, the annual event has been named the Robert M. Sade Ethics Lecture.
For a narrative of each award and a list of past recipients, please visit stsa.org/awards.
Award accepted on behalf of Dr. Wolfe by Dr. Judson Williams.
Award proudly accepted by Mrs. Murray.
Dr. Jeff Jacobs, presents the 2017-2018 STSA President, Dr. Kevin Accola, with the presidential plaque, and Mrs. Carolyn Accola with a gift of appreciation.


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Revision as of 15:01, 12 January 2008 by Mglovesfun (talk | contribs) (→''Le mot le plus long'' ("the longest word"))
2 UK version
3 Spanish version
Numbers given : 8 — 4 — 4 — 6 — 8 — 9
Target number : 594
6 − 4 = 2
66 × 9 = 594
T O C E D A M I T
it is possible to get the French words dictat and amodie.
R U R E T E C E R
it is possible to get the French words recruter and erecteur.
There are several variations of the "duel" section:
the classic version, which consists of finding two words on the same theme after 9 letters have been given,
"l'un dans l'autre" ("one within the other"): with nine given letters, find a nine-letter word and another word, within the first; one a proper noun, the other a common noun.
"la bonne orthographe" (the "correct spelling"): a word is proposed and the winner is the one who spells this word correctly first,
"le calcul mental" ("mental arithmetic"): the players must complete a calculation (for example, 24 × (32 − 5 × (42 ...) in their heads.
UK version
The long-running United Kingdom TV show Countdown began in 1982, and is a close adaptation of the same format. The main differences are that the rounds last only 30 seconds instead of 45; only one contestant chooses the letters in each round and the "duels" are replaced with the "Countdown Conundrum", a nine-letter anagram.
The style of presentation is notably (and deliberately) more old fashioned, and prides itself on featuring no computerised elements whatsoever, other than a random number generator for the numbers round. Whereas contestants on Des Chiffres Et Des Lettres use computer touch-screens to registers their words / number solutions, Countdown contestants use pen and paper. Unlike Des Chiffres Et Des Lettres' computerised displays, Countdown's letters and numbers are displayed on boards, with the time limit being measured using a huge clock face at the back of the set. The clock, and the music played during rounds, have become icons of the UK show, and have become very famous.
No major prizes are offered, with contestants mostly receiving a dictionary, and a special Countdown teapot depicting the show's clock face. The winner of each series receives a leather bound complete set of the Oxford English Dictionary. The low-tech and low-budget nature of the production is a subject of numerous jokes within the programme.
The Spanish TV show Cifras y Letras (Digits and Letters) is another adaptation of Des chiffres et des lettres. There are four rounds consisting of a number game followed by two letter games . Between the second and third round there is a duel that consists of finding two words on the same theme from the nine letters provided.
Words are worth one point per letter, but a nine-letter word is worth double; that is, 18 points.
The correct sum gets 9 points.
The duel is worth 10 points. Just like the French show, only one answer is accepted, but if the answer is wrong the other player gets 10 points.
The winner wins 602 euros and gets to play again the next day. If both players tie, they both get to play again the next day and each player wins 301 euros.
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Third graders' reading results in water well
Third-grade student Hunter Jarrett walks with a jug of water on his head as part of Morgan Elementary School's Walk for Water event Thursday. Submitted Photo
Third-grade students at Morgan Elementary School raised enough money to fund the building of a well in a third-world country this school year by reading an average of 100 books each.
Kat Whinery, who teaches one of the school's three third-grade classes, said for the past couple of years she has read 'A Long Walk to Water' by Linda Sue Park in class. In the book, which is based on a true story, an 11-year-old South Sudanese girl named Nya must walk twice a day, for about eight hours, to an alligator-filled pond to fetch water for her family.
'It was hard for (students) to relate to someone who does not have the convenience of clean water,' Whinery said. 'With the permission of a teacher, they can frequently visit a water fountain 10 feet from their classroom door.'
She said when students learned 800 children die each day from preventable diseases caused by unsafe drinking water, they asked her how they could help. That's when she had the idea to talk to the other third-grade teachers, Jennifer Kintner and Kathy Wallace, about presenting a reading challenge for a fundraiser. Kelly Stewart, a third-grade aide, also assisted with the project.
First, Whinery needed sponsors.
Samtec, in New Albany, which has worked with water-focused charities in the past, donated $2,500 for the project. Individual donors then added to that to reach a total of $4,800, the amount required to build a well.
Whinery and her colleagues challenged each student to read 80 books and pass a comprehension test over each to earn the money.
'Each child has their own colorful paper bucket that is used as a progress chart to record how many books they have read,' she said. 'For each five books read and a computerized test taken, they receive a paper drop of water.'
She said students ended up smashing the 80-books-each goal, and many went on to read at least 125 books.
Water for Life, a program by the charity Life Today, will facilitate the construction of the well. Whinery said the money will ensure the well is drilled to the correct depth, lined with steel casings and ready to go with a properly installed water pump.
Last Thursday, the students participated in their own 'Walk for Water' at the school playground, where they carried water jugs on their heads while walking for a quarter mile.
'The kids were amazed how heavy the water felt on their heads and how tired their arms got,' Whinery said. 'There weren't, however, any wild animals to dodge like in the book.'
Whinery said the class might never know exactly where the well will be built, but the students were excited to help people across the world.
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One who is fit for receiving Wisdom of the Self shall receive it 'in due time'. Self-effort and passage of time work simultaneously and one cannot be dis tinguished from the other, for Providence and Personal exertion cannot be separated as they both work simultaneously and are interdependent. Rather, these are only two names for one and the same force of action.
Sri Sankaracharya had already exhorted that one has to undergo the disciplinary stages of Viveka, Vairagya, Sama, Dama, Uparati, Titiksha, Sraddha, Samadhana, and Mumukshutva before getting initiated into the mystery of Existence. One should not be initiated into the Truth of the Absolute unless he is found well developed in all these qualities. Nowadays generally we find that aspirants do not have a strong desire for Liberation. They may have a ray of Viveka and Vairagya of a mild variety. But it is very difficult to find an aspirant who cares for nothing but final Emancipation, who treats the whole world and its contents as mere straw, who meditates incessantly upon how to attain Salvation from embo died existence. It is not easy to understand the mea ning of Liberation. How can it be possible for raw men of the world to realise the nullity of earthly existence and of worldly activities? Even advanced aspirants sometimes have got a strong desire for doing something wonderful in this world, something which none has done before. Such people cannot have a real desire for liberation. And such people are unfit for receiving Brahma Vidya. It is only the Uttama-Adhikari, the best qualified, who cares for nothing, who is totally indifferent to the ways of the world, who is ever silent and serene due to the dawn of pro per knowledge, who is ever the same among the di verse men of the world, who is undisturbed by the distracted activity of the world, who is calm and peaceful, who has withdrawn himself from the bustle of life, who cares not for either death or life, who is unmindful of what is happening in the world, who is careless towards either this or that, that is really fit to receive the Ultimate wisdom of the Absolute! Even if there is the slightest desire lurking inside other than for the Realisation of the Absolute, that man will not be able to comprehend the true import of the Vedantic instructions by the Spiritual Teacher (Preceptor). He will have thousand doubts and dis tractions in the mind which will entirely pull him down from Vedantic Meditation. A person should desire for nothing else, than the Realisation of Brah man. There should be no other thought throughout the day than of the way of attaining Self-realisation. Every thought, every speech, every action, nay, every breath of the person should illustrate the method of realising the Absolute. Such a person is fit to receive Vedantic Wisdom.
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As a novelty the unit is equipped with a multiphase motor (step motor). The machine does have a total of 4 valves which can be individually switched on or off. The maximum spray area is 40 cm in width and 60 cm in length. The width can be regulated by switching the 4 valves on or off. Therefore the minimal spray width is 12 cm – the ideal width for chest prints. The length can be regulated in 2 cm intervals. Spraying is possible uni- and bi-directional. This will allow each user to setup the unit according to their needs.
Within the carriage we have implemented an additional filter which traps dirt from pump and tubes. This innovative filter will help to minimize blockage of the nozzles from deposition from within the system.
Another novelty is the new switch-valve which allows the user to use two different precoating liquids. An additional switch is used to clean the precoating pump (incl. pipe system). For that purpose the machine offers an automatic cleaning function within the touchpad menu. All drawer rails are now equipped with an improved protection system.
The PRETREATmaker IV is available with an optional scale which can be connected to the machine. After each cycle his innovation will show in the display the amount of precoating used. A useful feature to see if nozzles and system are working right. An additional feature is unlocked and will show low volume levels of precoating on the display.
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Team RWBY : The Hidden Gastronome Chronicles by SanguisAnima
Anime » RWBY Rated: K, English, Parody, Ruby R., Weiss S., Blake B., Yang X.L., Words: 2k+, Favs: 8, Follows: 9, Published: 10/12/2013 Updated: 10/15/2013}
8 Chapter 1: 1: Yang's Hidden Talent
A/N : This actually came outta nowhere, while I was nomming a loaf of soft bread. I was contemplating how seemingly easy, yet actually complicated, the business of baking was... And then it hit me.
Enjoy this li'l one-shot I finished in, what, five minutes...?
DISCLAIMER : I DO NOT OWN RWBY. ALL CREDIT GOES TO (RWBYGOD) MONTY OUM AND ROOSTERTEETH.
I sincerely hope you enjoy.
Yang huffed as she made her way back to their table. Lunch was the usual fare, nothing too special or noteworthy, but for some reason she just felt something was off with the slice of bread that came along with her tray of food.
Ruby immediately noticed her sister's somewhat dour mood. "Hey sis, why the long face at lunch? Something wrong?"
The blonde smiled gently and shook her head. "Nah... Just... Something's not quite right..."
Nora pointed at Yang's plate with her fork. "I know what's not right there. You're not eating a balanced meal!"
Ren simply shook his head before spearing a few carrots on his own fork. "Don't talk with a full mouth, Nora. You know that already." He then turned to Yang, who still eyed her plate rather disdainfully. "But she's right, you must balance your diet. Yin and Yang must be in perfect balance to achieve harmony, inside and out."
Pyrrha glanced sideways, thoughtfully chewing on a mouthful of steak. "Is that one of your mystical philosphies, Ren?"
The conversation went on around them, Blake not really participating, but keeping an eye on the blonde. She still hadn't touched her plate.
Blake inwardly sighed and was about to close her book, when a sudden slam of palms on their table shook her back. Yang was now standing up, eyes still on her plate, but with a look that implied she had found a cure for all illness. "I've got it!"
"You've got what?" Weiss asked, rather uninterested, as she continued her meal in silent grace, unaffected by the blonde's sudden burst of energy.
Yang grinned at them and grabbed the bread slice, then popped it in her mouth. "Tomorrow, you'll see what I mean." She then proceeded to sit and wolf down the rest of her meal.
The next day, all of team JNPR and Ruby, Weiss and Blake were at their table, but Yang was nowhere to be seen. Ruby kept on turning her head, trying to spot her sister's unmistakable cowlick across the sea of heads. "Where is she...? Yang said yesterday..."
Blake was also discreetly searching, but failed to find her partner's bright hair. That is, until about three seconds later when she saw a rather surprising sight.
Yang was approaching them, her normal clothes covered by an apron and her head with a chef's toque blanche set on top. She was pushing a trolley and something divinely fragrant was coming from the platter it held.
The aroma was simply enticing, as everyone the blonde passed stopped whatever they were doing and turned, eyes closed and taking a deep whiff. Even Weiss couldn't help but do the same and whisper, "That is certainly heavenly..."
Ruby was on her feet, standing by the trolley. "Er... What's in this, sis?"
Yang grinned and put one flour-dusted hand on top of the shiny cover. "I proudly present to y'all..."
She paused for dramatic effect. Feeling the eyes of everyone on her, she lifted the cover with a flourish, unleashing the full aroma of the platter's content. "Ta-daaah! My own specialty baked buns!"
The platter held eight pieces of round bread, each one roughly two hands' full, and quite obviously freshly made. On the surface, nothing was too special about the appearance of the golden brown crust, but even Blake's mouth was starting to water when the blonde cut into one and halved it. Inside was a filling of a combination of soft meat, steamed vegetables, and a few peas.
Jaune was the first to comment and reach out for one. "Wow, you made these?"
Yang grinned triumphantly as she handed out one for each. "Yup, and I'm damn proud of 'em!"
Blake tried to hide the eagerness in her voice, but her eyes belied it. "I never knew you could do something like this." Ruby nodded assent as she bit into the bun in her hands, savoring the meaty and savory aroma.
"Eh, not like I could do this everyday. Besides, nobody asked."
Weiss rolled her eyes. "Showoff." However, she herself couldn't hide the satisfaction in her face as she slowly chewed.
Yang clapped her hands in front of her. "Alright, mission accomplished! Oh, and I also taught the cooks how to do that. They liked it so much, said they'll make this once a week." With that, Yang took a big bite out of her own bun, chewing in contentment. Hey, it's not everyday I get to do something like this, she thought to herself. Besides, you don't see a brawler baker everyday, do ya?
Heh, I wasn't really thinking while my hands typed all that out. I put all blame to the sinfully soft bread I was snacking on earlier.
Oh, and toque blanche means 'white hat' (literally) in French, and if you do a Google image search you'll see that this is the chef's hat everyone's so familiar with.
Now that I have had a few moments to read through this, I think it makes sense. After all, innately warm hands make for a good batch of loaves. (Yakitate Ja-Pan, anyone?)


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Q: Print prime number satisfying following equation I want to find prime number satisfy the following equation. Equation is : pn = 2^k +1 , k <= 32
I can't get any output. Where am I doing wrong? Can you show it on the code?
def  is_prime(x):
for k in range(1, 32 + 1):
    if k > 1:
        for i in range (2 , k):
            if (k % i) == 0:
                break
            else:
                p = 2**k+1
                if is_prime (p):
                    print (p)

A: Ok, what I wanted ta say was:
Instead of iterating over every single number from 1 to 2^32, rather iterate over the 32 exponents of your numbers of interest only and check them against being prime or not.
E.g.
from math import sqrt
def is_prime(x):
    for i in range(2, int(sqrt(x))+1):
        if x%i == 0:
            return False
    return True

for k in range(1, 33):
    p = 2**k+1
    if is_prime(p):
        print(f'{k:2}: {p}')

#  1: 3
#  2: 5
#  4: 17
#  8: 257
# 16: 65537

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Integration is an important feature of retroviruses and retrovirus-based therapeutic transfection vectors. The non-primate lentivirus equine infectious anaemia virus (EIAV) primarily targets macrophages/monocytes in vivo. Investigation of the integration features of EIAVDLV121 strains, which are adapted to donkey monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs), is of great interest. In this study, we analysed the integration features of EIAVDLV121 in equine MDMs during in vitro infection. Our previously published integration sites (IS) for EIAVFDDV13 in fetal equine dermal (FED) cells were also analysed in parallel as references. Sequencing of the host genomic regions flanking the viral IS showed that reference sequence (RefSeq) genes were preferentially targeted for integration by EIAVDLV121. Introns, AT-rich regions, long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs) and DNA transposons were also predominantly biased toward viral insertion, which is consistent with EIAVFDDV13 integration into the horse genome in FED cells. In addition, the most significantly enriched Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways, specifically gag junctions for EIAVDLV121 and tight junctions for EIAVFDDV13, are regulators of metabolic function, which is consistent with the common bioprocesses, specifically cell cycle and chromosome/DNA organization, identified by gene ontology (GO) analysis. Our results demonstrate that EIAV integration occurs in regions that harbour structural and topological features of local chromatin in both macrophages and fibroblasts. Our data on EIAV will facilitate further understanding of lentivirus infection and the development of safer and more effective gene therapy vectors.
A novel basophilic bacterial strain, designated as SCSIO 08040T, was recovered from a deep-sea sediment sample collected from the Indian Ocean. The strain was Gram-stain-negative, vibrioid or spiral, light pink, 0.6–1.0 µm wide and 1.0–2.5 µm long. Growth occurred at 20–45 °C, pH 7–11 and <5 % (w/v) NaCl, with optimum growth at 28–37 °C, pH 7 and 0–3 % (w/v) NaCl. Catalase-, oxidase and urease-positive, nitrate reduction-negative. Analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequencing revealed that strain SCSIO 08040T had the highest similarity of 95.3 % to Rhodocista pekingensis 3-pT. Phylogenetic analysis based on nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the novel isolate formed a distinct phylogenetic lineage in the family Rhodospirillaceae . The whole-cell hydrolysate contained meso–diaminopimelic acid, galactose, mannose and xylose. The total cellular fatty acid profile was dominated by C18:1ω7c and C19:0cycloω8c. Q-10 was the predominant ubiquinone. The major phospholipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. The DNA G+C content of strain SCSIO 08040T was 66.82 mol%. Based on these polyphasic data, a new genus, Indioceanicola gen. nov., is proposed in the family Rhodospirillaceae with the type species Indioceanicola profundi sp. nov. and the type strain SCSIO 08040T (=DSM 105146T=CGMCC 1.15812T).


Are you ready to go beyond the obligatory box of chocolates, plush bear and red roses this Valentine's Day? Come treat your love (and you!) to an unforgettable Romantic Winter Getaway in beautiful Friday Harbor!
Leave the car behind in Anacortes, walk on the ferry or easier yet, take Kenmore Air from Lake Union/Seattle and be here in just 45 minutes. Enjoy our romantic, small town and all it has to offer. You deserve it.
When making your hotel reservations at the Earthbox Inn & Spa also reserve a chilled bottle of champagne, a fresh bouquet of flowers, island made chocolate truffles or whatever else your heart desires. If we can find it and put it safely in your room, consider it done!
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Everything in Friday Harbor is in walking distance to the Earthbox Inn & Spa. Maybe you want to experience Gustatory Rapture at the COHO Restaurant--they'll put on a five course, price fixed menu for Valentine's you can't help but fall in love with.
Jackson's Beach, a delightful drift wood beach with an old salmon cannery on its spit, is only a mile from the Earthbox. Take a leisurely stroll there or can we dare you to take our Beach Cruiser Bikes on a ride?
Friday Harbor is a hub for art galleries and museums. The San Juan Island Museum of Art, just a block from the Earthbox, is dedicated to showing arts of the Pacific Northwest and Southern British Columbia, emphasizing our unique environment and a sense of place.
It is not the high season to see our resident killer whales, but their big brothers the Humpbacks have been around, as well as Steller seas lions, porpoises, bald eagles and every sea bird you can possibly imagine. Capt. Our friends at Maya's Legacy Whale Watching go out year-round.
Go visit the Whale Museum, a fantastic natural history museum overlooking the harbor. Maybe you will adopt an Orca whale together for Valentine's?
Earthbox Inn & Spa is the only hotel on San Juan Island with an indoor heated pool, dry sauna & hot tub. What a perfect way to warm up after playing on the beach all day!
When was the last time you went bowling? Paradise Lanes, Friday Harbor's quaint, old-fashioned bowling alley, is across the street from the Earthbox.
Herb's Tavern has live music on weekends. Push those tables aside, grab the one you love and dance like nobody is watching.
Life is too short not to choose love. We can't wait for your visit.


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Where is the smallest country in the world located? What does it mean, if we are talking about the "IKEA-effect"? And what is the meaning of "scripophily"? Anyone who deals with questions like this or is, more general, in search of information should have a look to online-encyclopedia Wikipedia. In the German Wikipedia alone, you can find more than 2 million articles. How is an article created, when it´s getting serious and what is about licences and sources? On the occasion of the "digital month November" the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria stages the Eastern European Edit-a-thon. The Edit-a-thon will take place the 10th of November. Our aim is to answer all the questions about Wikipedia.
Participants from Serbia, Ukraine, Romania, Macedonia, Greece and of course Bulgaria are interested to share their knowledge with newbies, so in the end of the day they will be able to write their first article in Wikipedia. Goethe-Institut Bulgaria announces an open call for participation in the Eastern European Edit-a-thon, which will take place on Saturday, November 10th 2018, at Goethe-Institut in Sofia.
For the Edit-a-thon we are cooperating with Wikipedians from Bulgarian Wikipedia and Global Libraries Bulgaria Foundation.
Subject of the Edit-a-thon will be "European Heirlooms". Aim of the day is to write and edit articles which should cover issues of European history, heritage or culture. Focus should be on the subject of libraries.
We offer 20 places for participation for newbies from Bulgaria. For people who are not from Sofia, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria will bear the costs for journey (only bus or train) and accommodation for two nights. During the Edit-a-thon we will offer catering services.
We are interested to share our knowledge, so we will have a film crew filming the event during the day.


Early Goat Story | Early Goat Coffee Co.
Early Goat Coffee Co. was founded in 2018, by two southern boys with a calling to do something helpful for their community.
Born in Travelers Rest, SC, Troy Styles spent over ten years traveling the globe in hopes of experiencing every culture in it's raw form. After his world travels, he had gained a new perspective on how others lived and what makes people tick. Venturing into the coffee business in 2017, was foreign territory, but that's just what he was used to and created not only a challenge, but also a bit of an excitement. "It was one thing to learn about coffee and how many consumed it each day, but to submerge myself into the culture around coffee was what really brought things full circle." Troy began remember back to his college days, specifically world history and the impact coffee had on trade.
Troy and his partner, Damian came up with the name "Early Goat" in early 2017, but it was not and easy sale says Troy. "Damian hated the name at first and said it would never work, but I knew Early Goat embodied something bigger than just coffee." Sure, it has a farm rendition to it, and coffee is farmed, but something still lingered in the path that was unidentifiable at the time.
After adopting three children along with surviving a long term illness, health and nutritional stability became staples in their lives and Troy had to figure a way to tie the two to coffee. They began volunteering in their local community garden and quickly became enthused with how they could use that platform to infuse health, nutritional stability, and coffee into their local community of "Sans Souci," which means worry-free in French.
Realizing the needs of the community became a even more powerful calling to do something to help others through coffee. There, in the "Sans Souci Community Garden," the idea was born. To open a coffee shop that would serve as a community staple and center for those less fortunate and to also be able to provide affordable nutrition to all within it. The local schools are Title I, which is made up mostly of children and youth who face obstacles and render them less likely to finish their education. A workforce that faced employment crisis and housing needs spread throughout community also made them want to make a difference.
"My goal is to bring people together through coffee while offering art, nutrition, and entertainment to the stage and our heart is set on Sans Souci and seeing it flourish!" In 2018, the brand, Early Goat Coffee Co. is born and the offerings of coffee will blow your mind!
Troy says, "Now that we have the brand on the market, we have an opportunity to start development of our Early Goat Coffee Cafe in the heart of Sans Souci and will be stepping towards bringing all of our visions together, under one roof. We will have a stage, produce, coffee, everything fresh! We are planning a weekly brunch menu and so much more! We can't wait to bring it to life!" It seems that the locals within this community are anxious and excited to see this vision come to life. It's doors will be open to everyone, no matter what, who, or their circumstances.
Damian, a native of Huntsville, Alabama finally jumped on board with the name and from there, it was an absolute go! Damian and Troy both have worked together to build the Early Goat Coffee Co. brand from the ground up. "Implementing our vision of community embodiment within Sans Souci and developing Early Goat Coffee Cafe is the next step of our future and we are a bit anxious to get there." Damian and Troy plan to open Early Goat Coffee Cafe in mid/late 2019.
Using their senses to strategically select each origin of coffee under their brand is ever evolving. Troy and Damian personally cup each roast in a table session every week and discuss variances in the roasting to make their final selections. "We don't always get it right the first time, but we won't put a product out until we feel we find the exact roast that exemplifies all of characteristics of that particular bean." Damian explains how the science of measuring each roast is pertinent in the selection process.
Early Goat Coffee Co. maintains a strong trade relationship with Ally Coffee, who imports and distributes coffee from around the globe. "We work very closely with Ally to uphold buying power from specific origins and them having boots on the ground to facilitate direct trade relationships with local farmers plays an instrumental role in making sure the chain is pure from seed to cup." There is a major difference in Fair Trade and Direct Trade. Fair Trade is generally a charted set price per green coffee; whereas direct trading with farmers themselves allows for no adjustment to worth or value. These farmers have become developed relationships which also creates a history behind each cup.
Coffee has been traded since the beginning of time, originating in Ethiopia as early as the 10th century. It has remained one of the highest traded commodities in all of the world. How each culture has evolved coffee is really interesting. The story of Kaldi and his goats is believed to be the originating factor of coffee and how it actually began.
A video below describes how Kaldi, a goat herder in Ethiopia noticed his goats weren't sleeping at night. They has recently taken a liking to a specific tree and been eating it's cherries. Kaldi opened the cherries from the tree and took the green beans out of them and roasted them. He then boiled the roasted bean and coffee was discovered.
Since, coffee has spread throughout the world and its brewing methods have evolved as has its culture. Turkish coffee is brewed in hot sand, Italian coffee is never to-go, and Americans drink coffee day and night. Everyone loves coffee, but we all prefer it a certain way.
At Early Goat Coffee Co., we will take you around the globe with coffee. We will teach you along the way how to identify the tasting notes within each roasted coffee and provide you with in depth details surrounding each harvest, its origin, and the process in which it has been prepped for roasting. "We take a lot of pride in each roast selection." Specializing in fresh roasted coffee from around the globe, Early Goat Coffee Co. has a niche for providing legendary customer service along with a perfect cup of coffee.


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Elena de Cinque backstage with students.
Elena de Cinque is the founder/director of ED5International.
ED5 International in Sydney is a flourishing school – buzzing with about 500 enthusiastic performing arts students and about 35 equally enthusiastic staff. It is also the personal joy and pride of its founding director, Elena de Cinque. "I've dedicated my whole life to it," she says. "I went with my heart."
Cinque's love of dance began at about age seven, when she started classes at her local school in Leichhardt. By age 13 she had completed all her jazz, ballet and tap classes with honours or high distinction. By the time she had done her HSC, and "mature beyond her years", she had completed her Australian Teachers of Dance diplomas in business and child psychology, and had already found her calling – teaching dance.
After a year expanding her horizons in Rome she returned home (with a new husband, Mario) and wasted no time setting up a school. She chose a sight in Cabarita and took in her first eight students. Now, 20 years later, the school has swelled to a large, five-studio premise in the picturesque old Arnott's Factory site in North Strathfield and boasts dozens of high achieving alumni, particularly in musical theatre.
ED5 International consists of a junior school (up to age 18) and a two-year full-time ASQA accredited Advanced Diploma course for serious students. The course is unique to the school, as Cinque wrote it herself, in response to "a gap we saw in the market where training for the entertainment industry was concerned", she explains. "It goes back to my own experience as a young student, where I felt there was a lack of guidance as to how to make the move from student to professional. I wanted a create place where people could get all the disciplines they require."
Passion attracts passion, as Cinque says, and in 2006 she was thrilled when the sought-after, incredibly prolific choreographer William B Forsythe asked to be on the team. "I first approached Elena and Mario to become their business partner because I loved their work ethic and I felt connected to what they believed in for future performers," he says.
"I loved their drive and ambition but also the amount of heart they had for their students.
I knew we had different skill sets but I knew together we could make something very special and could influence the future of the entertainment business."
The three co-directors consider themselves and their students as "family" and their dedication and has paid off in droves. The number of entertainers now employed around the world, on Broadway, West End and in Australia, is too many to list here, but the school is represented in just about every music theatre show on land, sea and film.
One of the keys to Cinque's approach is in her choice of dance competitions. You will not see ED5 students appearing in a hectic schedule of local eisteddfods. Instead, Cinque prefers to take a group of juniors every two or three years to competitions or workshops in the US or Europe, where they gain invaluable, cultural exchange and experience.
"Apart from what they learn, it just excites the children, gives them a goal, makes them work harder and what they learn in one year is like three years of regular classes." Students can compete in local competitions in alternate years.
For advanced students, the Diploma course offers a unique focus on learning how to audition.
"A lot of people think that with fulltime training you have all the skills and then you go and audition for the show," Cinque says. "But it's not about doing the show – you can do the show. It's whether you have the skills to get through an audition to get into the show."
2020 started as a big year for ED5 International – it is 30th anniversary of
the junior school and the full-time course's twentieth. In addition, Cinque's dedication
to teaching was recognised in April by the Australian Performing Arts Teachers Association, which awarded her with its 2020 Meskell Award, an honorary award which recognises significant achievement, distinction, outstanding and lifetime service.
– KAREN VAN ULZEN
Elena de Cinque is featured in our annual pullout Full-Time Studies Guide in Spring (September/October/November) issue - OUT NOW! Buy your copy from your favourite dance shop or online here.
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Ontente interviewed German producer Hans Robert Eisenhauer following his presentation at the East Doc Platform in Prague.
Hans Robert lives in Berlin and runs the film and TV production company Ventana-Film, focused on international documentary films.
As commissioning editor for ZDF, and Deputy Programme Director and Head of Theme Evenings for ARTE, Hans Robert's commissions include: Buena Vista Social Club, Oscar winner Taxi to the Dark Side, Peabody winner Why We Fight, Sundance winner The House I Live In, and the acclaimed Up the Yangtze and Mama Africa.


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Soon to be an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn! "Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny" (People), the New York Times bestselling novel about sex, love, and identity as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged woman and her college freshman son.A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve Fletcher is struggling to adjust to her empty nest. One night she receives a text from an anonymous number that says, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life—serving as Executive Director of the local senior center and taking a community college course on Gender and Society—Eve can't curtail her own interest in a porn website that features the erotic exploits of ordinary, middle-aged women like herself. Before long, Eve's online fixations begin to spill over into real life, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence. Meanwhile, miles away at the state college, Eve's son Brendan—a jock and aspiring frat boy—discovers that his new campus isn't nearly as welcoming to his hard-partying lifestyle as he had imagined. Only a few weeks into his freshman year, Brendan is floundering in a college environment that challenges his white-dude privilege and shames him for his outmoded, chauvinistic ideas of sex. As the New England autumn turns cold, both mother and son find themselves enmeshed in morally fraught situations that come to a head on one fateful November night. "The sweetest and most charming novel about pornography addiction and the harrowing issues of sexual consent that you will probably ever read" (The New York Times Book Review), Mrs. Fletcher is a timeless examination of sexuality, identity, parenthood, and the big clarifying mistakes people can make when they're no longer sure of who they are or where they belong. "Tom Perrotta's latest might just be his best" (NPR)
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Le Voleur de chevaux (Dao ma zei) est un film chinois réalisé par Tian Zhuangzhuang, sorti en 1986. Comme nombre des premiers films de Tian, il concerne l'une des minorités ethniques en Chine, ici les Tibétains.

Synopsis
Les panoramas du Tibet servent de toile de fond au film.

Le personnage principal, un berger tibétain du nom de Norbu, est un homme très pieux. Toutefois, pour nourrir sa famille, il est amené à voler des chevaux à des religieux, ce qui lui vaut d'être condamné. Il est libéré après une longue incarcération, alors que sa famille meurt presque de faim. Exclus de leur clan, ils errent dans la campagne à la recherche d'un travail honnête, mais ne peuvent survivre que lorsque le père se remet à voler.

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 Titre : Le Voleur de chevaux
 Titre original : Dao ma zei
 Réalisation : Tian Zhuangzhuang
 Scénario : Zhang Rui
 Pays d'origine : Chine
 Format : Couleurs - 2,35:1 - Mono - 35 mm
 Genre : Drame
 Durée :
 Date de sortie : 1986

Distribution
 Daiba : grand-mère
 Jiji Dan : Dolma, femme
 Drashi : grand-père
 Gaoba : Nowre
 Jamco Jayang : Tashi, fils
 Rigzin Tseshang : Norbu

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Prix
 1988 	: Festival international de films de Fribourg, prix d'aide à la distribution.

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Liens externes

Film chinois sorti en 1986
Film dramatique chinois
Film sur le Tibet
Film réalisé par Tian Zhuangzhuang

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Brother, Can You Spare the Time?
The last time brothers Dick and Jerry Van Dyke shared a stage, Dick was starring as that beloved comedy writer Rob Petrie and Jerry was guesting as his brother-in-law, Stacey. Some 50 years later, the sibs met on the set of Jerry's comedy, The Middle.
Craig Tomashoff
There's a newbie on the set of the ABC series The Middle this afternoon, kidding around with series regular Jerry Van Dyke.
It's his first time shooting a single-camera comedy, so to break the ice, he applauds and announces, "Oh, my God! Look there! It's that family from the show The Middle."
The cast — Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher and Atticus Shaffer — smile as they come on set, applauding right back. "I'm glad we're giving this guy a shot. He deserves a break in the business," guips Jerry, beaming at brother Dick.
The elder Van Dyke (he's 89, Jerry is 83) has indeed done well for himself on TV and in films, whether it was winning three of his four Emmys for his legendary sitcom or starring in classic films like Mary Poppins.
Jerry has done well, too, from his early days as a stand-up comic to earning four straight Emmy nominations while on the ABC 1990s series Coach. Still, except for a few episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show more than five decades ago, the brothers have not worked on a television show together until now.
They sat down with emmy contributor Craig Tomashoff to talk about playing bickering brothers on The Middle, why Dick hates modern sitcoms and that time he had to get tough to defend Jerry's honor.
Dick, how did you end up joining Jerry on The Middle?
DVD: I have problems with today's sitcoms. They're only 22 minutes long, whereas they used to be 28. They move so fast, and you have to cram the whole thing in so quickly.
And their canned laughter bothers me. If a door slams, you hear canned laughter. We never did that in my day.
And doing single-camera comedy didn't appeal to me, because comedy without an audience is stifling. But Jerry had this idea and convinced me to try it.
JVD: The difference between Dick and me is like night and day, so I thought it'd be fun to have us actually play that out on the show. He plays someone successful, and I'm not. He's in great shape and I'm a mess. He comes in dancing, and of course my character resents everything he is.
The whole family loves him, Mr. Personality. It resembles real life, except I looked up to him as a brother because he was older. [On the show] he's in the vacuum business, which I don't believe he ever tried in real life.
How's it been working together?
DVD: [Laughing] Well, the arguments between us are working well. We've had plenty of years of rehearsal.
JVD: The truth is, we didn't fight or argue growing up. Dick doesn't do that, even though I love confrontation.
DVD: That's true. It's why he is great playing a curmudgeon on the show. He plays one in everyday life, too.
JVD: Let me make this clear. I have never yelled at a kid to get off my lawn. But then again, I don't really have a lawn.
Are you enjoying your time together?
JVD: I live in Arkansas most of the time when I'm not doing The Middle. So when I was coming out around December to do another episode, Dick said, "Why don't you stay at my home?"
He's stayed at mine but never invited me to stay at his before. He called me several times to get me to stay this time. He was completely going out of his way to connect with me. I think he thinks I'm going to die soon.
DVD: Be honest. We're both kind of circling the drain right now,
JVD: All kidding aside, I've been at his place for a couple of months and I think it's brought us closer together than we've ever been. We see each other every day. He talks to me every day. We never had that in the past. He has saved my life.
DVD: You mean like that time when we were kids and Quinn Frankenburger knocked you down, so I knocked him down and said, "Now, don't be sending your big brother after me"? I'm still not sure why I said that, but we both survived
Jerry, didn't Dick also help you by getting you on The Dick Van Dyke Show when you were starting out?
JVD: That was my first TV appearance. It got me signed to a contract. I don't think I ever thanked him before, so... thanks, Dick! It's ironic that now I finally help him out by getting him on my show,
DVD: I tried to get him a spinoff back then. He should have had his own series, and now he's helping me out. So... thanks, Jerry!
JVD: I've been on his ass all these years to do things with me. Finally, when I'm ready to die, he decides it's time to work with me.
DVD: What can I say? We Midwesterners are not into that touching and hugging type of stuff. We don't say, "I love you." It's taken for granted.
JVD: The other day, I told him, "Dick, I can't tell you how much I appreciate what you've done for me." He said, "Yeah," and moved on to another topic,
DVD: [Laughing] Yeah. How 'bout those Cubs?
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Organizers of this week's British Grand Prix Formula One race say that the competition will go ahead as scheduled despite Thursday's bombings in Central London.
Race organizers said in a statement that the Silverstone course has a well-established set of security measures that have been planned in detail with police and other agencies.
The statement said that organizers are confident the security is adequate to ensure the safety of all attending the race Sunday. Practice for the race is Friday with qualifying on Saturday.
The event was disrupted two years ago when a kilted protester ran onto the track during the race.


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The Kaldor Public Art Projects archive is a rich repository that tells the story of 50 years of making art public.
Since 1969, our 35 temporary projects in public spaces have had a profound impact on Australians' experience of contemporary art. Our vast archive reveals the process of realising large-scale public art projects and includes correspondence, artworks, photographs, plans, models, negotiations with public authorities over sites, documentation of logistics and production processes, planning of public and educational programs, as well as reviews and criticism.
As each of the past Kaldor Public Art Projects has been temporary, the digitisation of our archive and the creation of this website establishes a lasting resource about five decades of public art in Australia.
This project is supported under Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (LP170101175), project title: Digitising the Kaldor Public Art Projects Archive.
The project has been supported by the Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, and School of Art & Design, UNSW with KPAP as industry partner.
Website design: Peter Heery, Inzen Pty Ltd.
Kaldor Public Art Projects seeks to maximise access to our archives. There are approximately 20,000 digitised documents and objects in our collection and we are dedicated to making as much of the collection available online as possible. Some records have been redacted or withheld from online publication. Access to restricted materials may be granted to researchers, on request.
We are committed to ongoing research and scholarship to update and improve the information on this website. If you have more information about items in the archive or believe there is any inaccuracy, please contact archives@kaldorartprojects.org.au.
This website includes content where the copyright is not held by Kaldor Public Art Projects. Except as permitted by copyright law (e.g. for the purposes of research and study), you may not reproduce or communicate any of the content on this website without the permission of the copyright owner. If you believe content for which you are the rightsholder has been made available without permission you may send a takedown request to archives@kaldorartprojects.org.au.
VISITING THE ARCHIVES
Researchers may request an appointment to view our archives, which are held onsite at the KPAP office, located at the Sydney College of the Arts in Lilyfield, NSW.
Enquiries, including reproduction requests and requests for high resolution images, may be directed to archives@kaldorartprojects.org.au.


LeAnne helps diverse groups of people act together to address the complex social issues they are frustrated with and passionate to change. She is co-founder and a partner in Spaces for Change, a firm that specializes in creating the conditions for people to connect in meaningful ways, enabling them to take effective action together around challenges that matter to them. She works closely with the Sustainable Food Lab and the SoL Education Partnership. LeAnne was a co-founder of Reos Partners LLC and worked at its predecessor company, Generon Consulting, contributing to a range of projects using the Change Lab and U-Process methodologies. Before joining Reos Partners, LeAnne was vice president and conference director for Pegasus Communications, the premier resource provider in the fields of systems thinking and organizational learning. Prior to Pegasus, LeAnne spent ten years working for Girl Scouts Patriots' Trail Council in Boston, Massachusetts in a variety of management positions.


A comprehensive numerical study is conducted to explore the dynamic behaviors of a flame stabilized by a triangular bluff body in a straight chamber. The formulation accommodates the complete set of conservation equations with turbulence closure achieved by a large-eddy-simulation (LES) technique. A G-equation-based level-set flamelet approach is employed to model the interactions between premixed combustion and turbulence. Both non-reacting and reacting flows are treated, with special attention given to the effect of inlet boundary conditions on the flame evolution. The flow around the bluff body consists of boundary layers, separated shear layers, a recirculation zone and a wake. Their mutual coupling, as well as interactions with acoustic motion and flame oscillation are analyzed in detail. The physical processes responsible for driving combustion instabilities and the mechanism of energy transfer from chemical reactions in the flame zone to acoustic oscillations in the bulk of the chamber are investigated systematically. Intensive resonance is found to occur between shear-layer instabilities and chamber acoustic waves, when the acoustically reflecting inlet boundary condition is enforced. The resulting complex interplay among acoustic motion, vortex shedding, and unsteady heat release forms a feedback loop and excites combustion instabilities with large flow oscillations.
Combustion Science & Technology 188(6), 924-952.


There are a lot of foreign language resources out there, but finding a foreign language curriculum for high school can be a challenge. Many videos and apps are cartoony, as a result this keeps teenagers from being willing to even try them out. However, with a bit of research and help from another homeschool mom, (me!), you just might find what you're looking for. I've scoured the internet and put together a list of the most grown up, teenager approved foreign language curriculum for high school!
Learning a new language can start a journey for your children that lasts a lifetime. Once you begin studying another language, you'll often find yourself drawn into geography, art, history, culture, food and more. Foreign language is a subject that every child should have the opportunity to experience.
Below you'll find foreign language high school curriculum options featuring live online classes, self paced courses, textbook curricula, streaming video and DVD resources.
For more American Sign Language Curricula, Apps and Resources click here.
Our children's high school years contain the last moments we will have as homeschool moms to give them experiences that will benefit them throughout their lives. Foreign language studies can open doors to countless opportunities! Don't let these occasions pass you by.
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