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A Baltimore hospital is under fire for its disturbing treatment of a patient, which was partially captured on video.
According to FOX 5, Imamu Baraka was near Baltimore's University of Maryland Medical Center when he saw hospital staff dump a barely clothed patient and her belongings at a bus stop. Baraka pulled his phone out to document the incident.
He confronted the hospital staff, asking why they were leaving the clearly disoriented woman out in the cold without anyone to help her.
He posted the disturbing videos on Facebook.
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Q: System of derivative equations best way to solve $$
f_x = 2x\sin(z)\\
f_y = 3y^2\sin(z)\\
f_z = (x^2+y^3)\cos(z)\\
$$
Where the indexes represent the partial derivative with respect to the letter.
What we did in the solutions was the following:
We integrated $f_x$ and got $f = x^2 \sin(z)+g(y,z)$
Then we also integrated $f_y$ and got $g = y^3\sin(z)+h(z)$
Why is it in the second case that there is only $h(z)$ and not $h(y,z)$ as it is in the first case.
And then for $f_z$ we did: $(x^2+y^3)\cos(z) \implies x^2\cos(z)+g_z = (x^2+y^3)\cos(z) \implies g_z = y^3\cos(z)$
And then we somehow got: $f(x,y,z) = (x^2+y^2)\sin(z)+c $
However I do not understand this procedure. Can somebody explain or if there is a better procedure.

A: $$f_x = 2x\sin(z)$$
Integration gives:
$$f = x^2 \sin(z)+g(y,z)$$
Differentiate with respect to the variable $y$:
$$f_y = \dfrac {dg(y,z)}{dy}$$
Now use $f_y = 3y^2\sin(z)$:
$$ 3y^2\sin(z)=\dfrac {dg(y,z)}{dy}$$
Adter integration:
$$ y^3\sin(z)+h(z)=g(y,z)$$
Since $g=g(y,z)$ the variable $x$ is not involved.
In the first case you have that:
$$f_x = 2x\sin(z)\\$$
$f=f(x,y,z)$ that's why you have the $g(y,z)$ after integration:
$$f(x,y,z) = x^2\sin(z)+g(y,z)$$

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For nearly a year, I've wandered my life as an agnostic, or something unidentifiable.Labeling my deep disillusionment with a religion founded on a deeply immoral theology detailing the existence of hell for the "unbelieving" seems arbitrary. Some Christian would accost me, and label me an inveterate sinner for honestly admitting that I have deep doubts in Christian dogma . Rooted in Christianity is an overzealous belief that anyone that mentally diverges from the belief of the masses have committed the paradoxical sin that cannot be forgiven. I have tirelessly tried again and again , to no avail, to perhaps carve out belief within this establishment, but it has become nearly impossible. Instead, I have started to see the church as a whole as being something that greatly held me back both ethically, philosophically, and psychologically. Above all, the belief within eternal damnation for those whose beliefs have no foundation in Christianity is unconscionable. This notion of there being a hell, for me, completely trivializes Jesus, and I would go to the extent of declaring it as something "heretical." It certainly became an injurious belief in the lives of many. In other religions, hell has always been the reflection of our hatred which is ruled principally by our fear of the unknown. When my Christian faith was based off this fear of the forensic God, scrupulously analyzing my mind for undesirable traits that made me worthy of being in hell, I thought of Yoda's words in Stars Wars that go something like this:"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to something else that ushers us into the "dark side." We don't all have to literally don a black suit and mask of villainy to sense our "dark side" When I was the Christian who feared eternal wrath for having any shred of doubt, which led me to becoming masochistic, I lived deeply within my "dark side," and was entombed in a state of crippling depression.
I feel like it would be impossible to step within a church, knowing that the mainstay theology that once coerced me to stay was "grave fear," that God was obdurate when it came to his wrath, but flexible with his love. His "love" seemed to be trivialized by the very notion that his believers must fearfully remain steadfast in their doubtless belief within a litany of unproven doctrines that are largely metaphorical. I've tried reading theology only to become emotionally frustrated by the lack of emotional truth found within these doctrines.
Madeleine L'Engle has remained my anchor, even as an agnostic, sometimes as an atheist, or generally just a seeker. She's one of those few writers whom I find to deepen their stories with a sense of "emotional truth." The gravity of love for "God," in any of her stories is not based on dogma, but is indistinctly viewed through our embittered hearts, and our innumerable frustrations with a world that is so astonishingly mysterious that it saddens her that our religious rhetoric untruthfully shapes God, and the universe as being simplistically known without any questions, or grievances. Her characters are loved for their deep mystery, the type of complex mystery that intuitive Shakespeare characters like Hamlet begged Rosencratz and Guildenstern, the newly employed cronies of King Claudius, not to maliciously deprive him of.
I'm always poring over books about parallel universes, quantum physics, history to grant my mind the type of nourishing knowledge that grants me a profound sense of our world. I can still vaguely recall that moment when I was first visiting the Smithsonian museum, and shouting invective words of outrage over the heretical Evolution display. Looking back, I find the situation to be ludicrous, and even shameful when compared to where I am now. It was then where I was beginning to hate my inquisitiveness. All my ideas were on loan from Sunday School who strictly lectured to us about the dangers of Evolutionary science. While I knew Evolution only to the extent to pass a Biology test, I was never mystified by the grandeur of what I now see as a beautiful theory. It took me till I was 20 (I'm 22 now) to be able to comprehend it, and appreciate it. Part of the tragedy of my Christian life lied with purging all bad ideas, and failing to examine them for myself. I've always passively accepted everything, without any real thoughts or considerations of my own.
Fascinatingly, Karen Armstrong had a similar experience during her religious fallout. In Spiral Staircase, a wonderful memoir of hers, she elaborates upon her embarrassing experience when trying to reclaim her mind. It took me a long time to reclaim my own mind. Some Christians might see this as my slow process of idolizing myself, rather than God. That idea is rubbish, since we all have minds, and I've soon witnessed that many religious followers excel in the art of unconsciously projecting their fears and desires upon this God. None of us, including myself, are ever going to completely escape the clutches of our minds unless we literally kill ourselves. Also, if we have no ounce of self-respect for ourselves, How can we ever learn to have compassion for them? To me, I really believe this has become an unneeded stumbling block for some Christians: this insistence to escape "our minds." Its simply neurotic.
For this reason, I still suffer from the paranoia that any stray unholy thought will cause destruction to my family. I fear everyday that there will be a F-5 Tornado that will devastate our homes. Sometimes, I am overtaken with blood-curdling fear that I might die unpredictably, and paradoxically cease to "be." After leaving Christianity, I have not departed from my fear of death, but I do feel like I am able to not behoove that fear as being inspired by Satan. Instead, I see it as the major motivation behind our need for transcendence. Everyday, I find transcendence by reflecting upon the immensity of the universe, the mind-numbing mathematical concept of there being multiple "infinities", stretched confusedly beyond the initial "infinity," that we can't logically count to during the course of our timed lives. This fear of death, above all, makes me feel more humble, and strangely more motivated to seek to love, but not hate others. How did the ideal of compassion in Christianity, and many other religions become ruined by dogma, or an obsessive hatred of homosexuality and feminism?
When the thought of "death" pervades me, I think of the story of Orpheus. Towards the beginning of his life, he felt pure, unadulterated euphoria because he was able to live enjoy music without the terrorizing knowledge of mortality. He meets an awe-inspiring woman named "Eurydice" who is freed from a tree that is profoundly moved by Orpheus' music. Sadly, Eurydice dies one day, and Eurydice ventures to Hades to retrieve his soul. Hades remains emotionally unmoved by Eurydice's heartfelt pleas to salvage Eurydice's soul. Finally, after Hade's queen convinces him to show some mercy, Hades finally permits Orpheus to be able to gain her soul back, as long as he can walk walk out of Hades without looking behind him to see if her soul is following. Eventually, as he makes his arduous journey out of Hades, he succumbs to deep desire to see her again and finds that she's not there. Suddenly, he becomes despondent, and the people of his village are greatly saddened that Orpheus' misery has kept him playing festive music anymore that gave people a transcendent experience. When he regains some parcel of his happiness, he begins playing for the villagers and finds himself sensing Eurydice's spirit within him.
What does this myth grant me, and others? This wonderful myth, like many Greek myths, validates the transient nature of our lives. More importantly, it shows the virtue of "living our lives to the fullest," without becoming consumed with the misery from nihilism. None of us will ever know where the dead venture to. Perhaps, we just die, and decompose along with a crumbling Earth, and a universe that is set to be destroyed by the destructive force of entropy. We don't need a specified view of religion to cull these truths from myths, or stories. Harry Potter, Star Wars, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and many superhero comics have the ubiquitous concept of the "chosen one." Why are we so edified by these stories? These heroes often reflect ourselves, and even our journey as human beings. More importantly, they don't have restrictive religious connotations behind them because our lives are always similarly framed by the question of "Who we Are, and what is the purpose behind our lives?" How do we endure in a life that seems so unendurable, and worthless by the menace of "death?"
I'm always asking these questions, and will continue to even when outside the boundaries of a church. It doesn't matter whether I don't have a certain prescribed religion. My life is enriched by my questions, and my yearning for knowledge. I'll never forget the year that I took an Astronomy course, and we watched a video with Stephen Hawkings. While, I'm not an atheist by any means (the potential for a God hasn't left me), the video contained mesmerizing images of our universe. Its staggering for me to consider "Creationism Science," to be preferable to the naturalistic beauty of our universe. We don't need God to "conjure" things into existence. Our very existence being sourced from one subatomic particles, or perhaps of myriad number of them is truly awe-inspiring. Within Madeleine L'Engle's books, she describes the peace, and stimulating vision of watching the stars and wondering about their origins or whether they exist or not anymore (according to Einstein's theory of relativity) There are many scientific theories that are constantly widening our vantage of the world, and ironically, this body of knowledge is also increasing the mystery of the universe. As an agnostic, this is a deep appreciation that I could never have incorporated in my world view as the type of doubtless Christian I formerly was.


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The grand opening for the retail complex took place in late September 2015.
K2 Electric, based in Phoenix, Arizona, won the bid for the shell build-out and associated site work with a 12-month build time. "It's noteworthy because it's the largest project on which we have estimated, and the largest I've done," explained John Jordan, K2's chief estimator.
At $4.5 million electrical, the Premium Outlets' approach is something new for most of Southern Arizona: It provides outdoor mall space where people can relax, hang out, and participate in events. The indoor space is estimated to be 320,000 sq. ft.
Swallowing hard, Jordan related the problems, twists, and turns that made this job stand out among others he's worked on.
Included in the bid's costs was the need to rent a house near the Center construction site. What drove the need for a house rental is K2's company policy, which is to avoid creating the need for workers to commute more than 50 miles each way each day. And Tucson and Phoenix happen to be 115 miles apart. Due to the long distance between Phoenix and the construction site, manning the job for K2 Electric was a mixed crew. There were as many as eight of its regular electrical workers, plus another 35 to 40 people recruited in the Tucson/Marana area. Thus, the job peaked with a crew of roughly 45.
So in this case, the Phoenix-based electrical workers were able to avoid a longer commute by sleeping locally during the week.
But that wasn't what made this project stand out.
Bidding the job was an adventure of sorts for K2. Normally, the company does not like to pursue jobs on which there are more than 20 other electrical contractors submitting bids.
But with things being slow, the company elected to make an exception. But not, however, before doing its due diligence. "We actually interview the general contractors involved in most jobs, and we did for this one, too," Jordan said. "They're very important, of course – they'll run the project.
Obviously, with so much competition, it was really important to get the bid just right. To get it done in a timely manner, Jordan got help.
So what made the project stand out? Fate had played a hand.
One piece of the project involved work that K2 normally subcontracts out. Without naming the company or the business it is in, the piece here was fairly significant (work-wise and dollar-wise).
Jordan took the normally reliable subcontractor's bid and incorporated it in his estimate...except, in this case, there was a disconnect.
What happened, of course, was that everything was reviewed. The electrical pieces looked right, but the subcontractor piece was...too cheap. Jordan asked the subcontractor to go back and review its bid.
Shortly thereafter, a sinking feeling hit Jordan – and others at his company – right in the gut. The subcontractor had missed an entire page of requirements in the documents. The subcontractor's bid was way too low… by many tens of thousands of dollars.
To do so, Jordan immediately went to work on revising his estimate. Originally, he and Kotzenmacher had done their work using standard electrical estimating software. By the time it became clear that a detailed review was needed, K2 had acquired a new estimating product – On-Screen Estimating Pro (OSE Pro) – from the same software provider as their WIN 6000 software.
Jordan believed that he had found enough build-it-this-way ideas and other savings to ensure that the Premium Outlets project would not be a disaster for K2.
And then Fate decided to get back into the game.
What emerged was that a code requirement for retail stores had been overlooked in the designs and specifications. It was a huge change order, involving installation of more than 600 electrical outlets.
Jordan said his company didn't initially see this as a "lottery ticket." The fact that it wasn't in the bid documents was learned after the bid was submitted.
The value of the electrical work that had to be installed (after the walls were finished, of course) was significantly more than the cost of the subcontractor's bid error – by many times the aforementioned tens of thousands of dollars.
The 600 added electrical outlets were just one of several major change orders in this huge project. In fact, Jordan noted, there were an even dozen. "And there were 150 pages of detail to review with each of these major changes," he said.
Here's where the new OSE Pro came in really, really handy, he noted. To make sure K2 caught every single difference in every single change order, he was able to use OSE Pro's capabilities to overlay the "new" changed drawings over the "old" PDF of a given part of the project.
Voila! Alterations made in the new change order popped right off the PDF on the screen.
Bottom line: On these additional items throughout the project, K2 missed nothing.
While it is great when projects run smoothly, it is important to know how to work with your budget when fate throws a wrench into your best laid plans. Through the utilization of new technology and their own ingenuity, K2 Electric has developed an effective blueprint on what to do when things go wrong in the future.
Salimando is a Virginia-based writer/editor for McCormick Systems and other electrical construction industry clients.


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Feb 11, 2019 @ 11:58am
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Some Alaska taxidermists have been busy repairing animal mounts that were damaged in the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck the state's south-central region.
Anchorage television station KTUU reports taxidermists also have repaired Alaska Native art and other artifacts that were damaged in the Nov. 30 quake.
Russell Knight, who owns Knight's Taxidermy in Anchorage, is among those being called to repair animal trophies.
He says his shop has taken in about 75 mounts. That includes 30 mounts that were brought in immediately after the quake.
Knight says damaged trophies included broken sheep necks and deer with horns knocked off.
He says the shop was able to repair all but two of the damaged mounts.
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Australia Hit Again by Severe Flooding
Southeast Australia has been struggling as it faces its third year of flooding in a row. Thousands of homes have been flooded or cut off by flood waters. Because the ground is already soaked, and more rain is on the way, more flooding is expected.
WWF Report: Wildlife Numbers Have Dropped Sharply
A recent report by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London shows that, on average, wildlife numbers have dropped sharply since 1970. The main cause of the drop is human activity. The report is alarming, but there are some signs of hope.
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In an effort to help out important insects like bees and butterflies, bus stops across the United Kingdom and Europe are getting living roofs. Small gardens on bus shelter roofs are being planted with flowers chosen to help support the struggling insects.
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India Works to Bring Cheetahs Back
Cheetahs, the world's fastest animals, died out in India over 70 years ago. Now a new project is trying to bring cheetahs back to India. Eight of the animals were turned loose in Kuno National Park last week.
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STONEVILLE, Miss. -- The Delta Agricultural Weather Center launched its real-time weather data website just as cotton producers were completing the 2017 harvest and anticipating next spring's planting season.
Cool, wet weather in the state associated with the remnants of three hurricanes -- Nate, Irma and Harvey -- slowed maturity and boll opening this fall, said Darrin Dodds, cotton specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service.
For cotton growers, the website has a planting recommendation map, based on the number of days when the temperature is above 60 degrees, the minimum level at which cotton grows. The map suggests times that are unfavorable, marginal or favorable for planting cotton. Planting recommendations are available through the site for many of Mississippi's most common crops -- such as corn, soybean and rice -- as well as up-to-date results from various variety trials around the state, Silva said.
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Definitely going to miss those leisurely cups of coffee in the morning!
Thank you, Kim! Same to you!
Getting up early enough to have some quiet time and coffee is the most difficult for me. Once I'm on my way, I'm all in!
Me too ... that's the toughest part for me! Same to you for that great year!


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package de.oglimmer.game.logic.unit;

import de.oglimmer.game.logic.Player;
import de.oglimmer.game.logic.board.Field;
import de.oglimmer.game.logic.board.Fields;

public class RamUnit extends RangedUnit {

	public RamUnit(Player owningPlayer, int y) {
		super(owningPlayer, "Ram", y, 0, 25, 5,
				"Inflicts great damage to enemy units whenever in 1 fields range,"
						+ " useless when fighting in melee range.");
	}

	public Units getPossibleTargets() {
		Field baseField = getCurrentPosAsField();
		Fields nearbyFields = baseField.getAdjacentFields();
		return nearbyFields.getEnemyUnits(getOwningPlayer());
	}
}

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[Trending] The Way This Man's Body Looks After He Swam 163 Km In 55 Hours To Raise Money For Cancer Research Is Terrifying
From a young age, Maarten van der Weijden from the Netherlands was known as a promising swimming talent. However, before his career could be...
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From a young age, Maarten van der Weijden from the Netherlands was known as a promising swimming talent. However, before his career could begin he faced a challenge that could have ended it all. At only 19 years old Maarten was diagnosed with cancer. The doctor's prognoses wasn't promising and they said there was a very small chance the young man would survive the leukemia. But Maarten proved them wrong. Not only did the resilient swimmer beat cancer, he made a rapid comeback, swimming only 2 years after the diagnosis. To everyone's surprise, the cancer-survivor managed to take his career even further by becoming a gold medalist at the Olympic Games in 2008 Beijing.
Most athletes are known for pushing themselves to the limits and Maarten is no exception. Recently the swimmer attempted to swim the entire 200 kilometers (120 mi) long track of the Elfstedentocht in the Netherlands. The sole reason behind the event was to raise funds for cancer research, a cause close to Maarten's heart.
The swim was scheduled to take 3 days, including very short naps to rest. However, as Maarten swam further he fell ill and the water was deemed too polluted for him to continue. He had managed to swim a distance of 163 kilometers in 55 hours. And despite not being able to reach his 200-kilometer goal, the fundraising campaign was a huge success. The swimmer raised a stunning sum of more than $4 million!Scroll below to see how he made it all happen!
More info: 11stedenzwemtocht.nl | twitter.com
From a young age, Maarten van der Weijden from the Netherlands was known as a promising swimming talent
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However, before his career could begin he faced a challenge that could have ended it all
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At only 19 years old Maarten was diagnosed with cancer
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But the resilient swimmer beat cancer and 7 years later he became a gold medalist at the Olympic Games in 2008 Beijing
Most athletes are known for pushing themselves to the limits and Maarten is no exception
Recently the swimmer attempted to swim the entire 200 kilometers (120 mi) long track of the Elfstedentocht in the Netherlands
The sole reason behind the event was to raise funds for cancer research, a cause close to Maarten's heart
The swim was scheduled to take 3 days, including very short naps to rest
Image credits: Evelien de Bruijn
However, as Maarten swam further he fell ill and the water was deemed too polluted for him to continue
He had managed to swim a distance of 163 kilometers in 55 hours
Image credits: hartvannederland.nl
Here's how his hands and feet looked like after 55 hours in the water
The fundraising campaign was a huge success. The swimmer raised a stunning sum of more than $4 million!
Image credits: dailynews.openwaterswimming.com
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In 2017, the University of Liechtenstein has successfully conducted the Green Summit with the focus on sustainability in society, politics, the economy, and especially finance. Last year's presentation and discussion about sustainable investing & finance, led by the University of Liechtenstein, will again take place and we would be happy to have you here.
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With our Call for Papers we invite research oriented scholars at universities (PhD students, lecturers, professors etc.) as well as academically interested persons working in businesses, consulting firms, associations, market authorities etc. to contribute with papers on sustainable issues in banking & finance. Analytical, theoretical, and empirical papers are welcome. As an example, topics could be on sustainable investing & finance, ESG related finance, (social) Impact Investing, renewable energy finance etc.
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Quantum for AI
Representation of data path for the quantum computing classification experiments
UX Design / Science Communication (2018-19)
Quantum for AI is an interactive demo developed for the NIPS 2018 conference that allows people to test the performance and accuracy of quantum classification algorithms developed by IBM researchers. I led a 6-person design + development team to create an interactive experience that would allow technology enthusiasts and the general public to explore quantum classification.
Our goals were the following —
A person needed to have a meaningful interaction within one minute of arriving to the demo, and remain engaged enough to stay longer
The research shown in the demo should be reflected clearly and accurately
No prior knowledge of quantum computing or AI should be required to enjoy the demo
Initial Prototype
We were given one week to build a fully functional prototype, as part of an internal IBM Research hackathon. I was tasked with reading relevant publications and working with the science team to develop an engaging and easy to understand narrative around the research, while my development team examined what was data feasible to generate with the quantum classification algorithms in the limited time available.
Initial concept sketches were created in the collaborative online design tool Figma
Notes in Figma on the four classifier versions that motivated our final concept and design
After iterating and testing a few different concepts, we converged on a demo that would allow people cycle between four different versions of the quantum classifiers, and then test each classifier's performance. This setup would allow people to interact with the quantum component of the Quantum + AI demo — the classifiers themselves — while observing first-hand that as the quantum complexity of the classifier increased, so too does its accuracy.
Initial user experience flow of hackathon demo prototype, built in sketch and tested with users with Invision
Based on this concept, I created a clickable UX prototype to demonstrate intended user flows and functionality to the development team. I then worked with the researchers and IBM's Communications team to develop a narrative and visual graphics to provide context and clear calls to action for the demo contents. Our final coded prototype won first place in the IBM AI Hackathon and earned a spot at IBM's NIPS 2018 demo booth.
Final NIPS Demo Design
To ready the demo for NIPS, I collaborated with the team visual designer to update the layout, aesthetic, and visual assets to match IBM's design branding guidelines.
Final design for NIPS 2018 demo
The final demo consists of four major sections —
An introductory section provides a broad overview of the demo's contents and the value of the research conducted, with links to an external talk on the subject matter.
The interactive demo allows users to immediately start engaging with the research without getting bogged down by upfront exposition. Users can select each of the four classifiers developed by the research team and test them to compare the performance of the classifier with its initial training set.
An explanatory section provides additional context about the quantum classifiers, how they are implemented, and what makes the experimental results compelling.
A concluding section summarizes the potential impact of quantum AI applications more broadly, and provides relevant calls to action for those who wish to learn more or start working with the open-source python framework used in this research.
The final demo went live on December 1st as part of IBM's AI Research Showcase for NIPS 2018. In March of 2019, a version of the demo was made live on the IBM Research AI website, so that the experience could be enjoyed by the general public.
To learn more and try the live demo, visit:
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Mnangagwa thanks General Chiwenga, Obert Mpofu and Jacob Mudenda for helping him oust Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has paid tribute to Vice President General Constantino Chiwenga (Retired), Home Affairs Minister Dr Obert Mpofu and Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda for playing leading roles in burying former President Robert Mugabe's dark era and bringing about the new political dispensation.
He said the intervention by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), then led by Gen Chiwenga (Rtd), greatly aided Zimbabwe's return to constitutionalism.
Addressing a bumper crowd at Nabushome Primary School on Friday, the President said the three leaders took brave decisions in their capacities to guide the nation towards a peaceful transition that culminated in Mr Mugabe's resignation.
He said Gen Chiwenga (Rtd) in his capacity as ZDF commander understood the responsibility of the security sector in protecting the constitution.
"The security sector found it necessary that the flouting of the constitution by members who were not in the executive was not proper.
"The criminals who had surrounded our former President had to be removed in order for this country to go back to constitutionalism," said President Mnangagwa.
He said Dr Mpofu, who is Zanu-PF secretary for administration, guided the party accordingly as the most senior at that time while Adv Mudenda led Parliamentary processes.
"There are two men amongst us here that I want you to take note of. There is Obert Mpofu and Speaker of Parliament (Jacob) Mudenda," said Cde Mnangagwa, calling on the two leaders to stand up.
He went on: "You see these two men, Mudenda is head of Parliament. When things got bad, in the party we had the Central Committee, which saw thousands of Zimbabwe taking to the streets demanding Mugabe to step down. What they demanded had to happen, but there is a proper way to do things".
Cde Mnangagwa said out of the 300 Central Committee members, 260 met at that time to discuss the state of affairs in the country and Government.
"The most senior among them was Obert Mpofu who chaired that meeting, which expelled the entire G40 cabal and those who were insulting us and left pure Zanu-PF cadres," he said.
"In Parliament, Mudenda appreciated that the constitution of the country must be protected and defended. He is the man who defended the constitution.
"When Parliament decided to go for impeachment, there was an appeal from the former President not to proceed but the Speaker (Mudenda) stood his ground and said I am guided by the law and not wishes of an individual. He could have succumbed to that pressure but he stood by the law, by the constitution and was ready to suffer the consequences of standing by the law."
At the end of the day, Cde Mnangagwa said the former President decided not to face impeachment and resigned. After Mr Mugabe resigned, the President said, the ruling party, Zanu-PF, led by Dr Mpofu resolved to call him back from exile where he had fled for safety after threats to eliminate him following his firing from both Zanu-PF and Government. The party also reinstated him as its Vice President.
In terms of the constitution, the party with a majority in Parliament should nominate the person to assume the Presidency. Again President Mnangagwa said Dr Mpofu led Zanu-PF to nominate him to take up the position of the President of the country.
"This is why I am here. I then came and was sworn in on the 24th of November last year. From that day 24th November Zimbabwe is different, Zimbabwe has a vision, it has hope and is united," he said.
"We should move forward together as Zimbabwe, a unitary state and not a federation, with one flag and one national anthem. This is the Zimbabwe we know, Zimbabwe we are living and will leave to the next generation."
He dismissed claims that his administration assumed power through a "bloody coup" saying the entire transition process was peaceful.
"No blood was shed, not even a glass was broken. Our people throughout the transition period were peaceful," he said.
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Liquid Telecom Targets Registration of 2,000 School Domains
Liquid Telecom has successfully connected 152 schools to sc.ke website domains as part of a broader effort to enhance schools abilities to deliver online learning and services across the country in partnership with Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC).
"The pandemic has heightened the need for digital adoption to improve our current education systems. The need for schools to be connected and have an online presence to be able to conduct classes has never been more important than right now," said Mr. Joel Karubiu, CEO – KeNIC.
The programme, launched in May 2020, features schools from across 19 counties including Bungoma, Trans Nzoia, Migori, Homabay, Kakamega, Narok, Busia, Kisii, Nandi, Kiambu, West Pokot, Nyamira, Siaya, Uasin Gishu, Turkana, Vihiga, Elgeyo Marakwet, and Kilifi.
"Through this programme in partnership with Liquid Telecom, we aim to reach at least 2,000 schools and register them on a unique identifier sc.ke. A domain name extension for schools that will give access, enable and empower educators with the relevant digital skills to teach effectively," Mr. Karubiu continued.
About KeNIC
KeNIC is the registry mandated with the management of Kenya's Country Code Top Level Domain (CCTLD). Its role is to ensure that Kenya has a unique identifier online, offers reliable and sustainable infrastructure.
"Creating domains for the institution within Kenya's school systems is directly addressing the changing digital landscape of this country."
The organisation is also responsible for granting every individual, organisation, and learning institution a gateway to the internet by having a Kenyan domain name. The domain identity designated for schools in Kenya, delivers website domain names that end in .sc.ke
Speaking about the programme, Ben Roberts, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Liquid Telecom said, "Creating domains for the institution within Kenya's school systems is directly addressing the changing digital landscape of this country. Not only does it set the scene for the new global digital economy, it allows for greater security and integration as instructors can use school domain emails instead of personal emails."
Through this programme, Liquid Telecom has empowered schools to have credible online identities and take one more step forward in building Africa's digital future.
The programme provides the selected schools with a platform to onboard domains on Liquid Telecom's robust anycast Domain Name System (DNS) platform for free. It then administers the domains to get them working, along with free hosting for basic school websites and training about internet identities and domain security.
School domains act as a trusted address book to verify the identity of school websites, teachers' emails, e-learning platforms, and can even offer school learners with a trusted online identity. Teachers will now have access to official designated school domains instead of personal emails enabling a more secure digital environment.
"The use of online collaboration tools to effectively instruct learners digitally is necessary. It enables schools with websites that serve as an essential channel to provide information and connect with the community," continued Ben Roberts.
Over the last two years, Liquid Telecom has taken the centre-stage in driving Africa's digital transformation through launching several initiatives and projects in Kenya and across Africa.
The company has also been the Nairobi Garage innovation partner for a while now, providing all our spaces with fast and reliable internet connectivity.
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Under the Cross….
Isaiah 53:4-5:
" Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
When the rumble and crack of fireworks comes on July 4th, we will be reminded that our nation was born in battle and painfully often has had to preserve its freedom—and redeem the freedom of many others—through war.
Indeed, this June marked seventy-two years since thousands of Americans, Brits, and Canadians stormed ashore at Normandy, fighting for freedom…with many of those men swiftly losing their lives at the very fringe of France.
Weeks later, my father also went to war in Europe. Passing the first few days at a replacement depot, he was assigned to a convoy of trucks trundling to a nearby nameless field. The task: recover bodies from that field; bodies of Americans who fell in a now-forgotten firefight the night before.
The empty trucks of morning returned at dusk, sagging under the weight of some two hundred-fifty bodies, more or less; bodies stacked as neatly as one might stack the mangled men, stiff in rigor mortis.
As that day had passed and the toll mounted, dad had worked farther and farther to the ends of the field, there finding yet another dead American soldier.
Gazing at this crumpled body clad in olive drab, he saw that unlike the others he'd recovered, this man had had his wounds bandaged—despite which, sometime in the long night hours, he had died.
With that body recovered, dad returned and found, a few yards farther on, closer to the epicenter of battle, another American soldier: one who had been wounded, bandaged, and yet died from those wounds.
Dad now stood and scanned the grass; moving a few yards forward he found yet another American: wounded, bandaged, and dead from his wounds.
And then, a few more paces through the battle-blasted green grass, there was yet a fourth American soldier: wounded, dead. And yes, this man also had a bandage. Not, however, wrapped about his body, but clutched in his lifeless hand.
For this man in Army green lay face down, arm outstretched, clenching the bandage, reaching out to the last wounded, now-dead soldier that he had sought to serve on that bitter night: a soldier whom he would have succored and bandaged had he not been himself mortally wounded.
Unsurprisingly, the man stretching out with the bandage wore an American tin pot helmet that was emblazoned with a red cross on a field of white. But dad was surprised to see what the patient wore—for on that fallen warrior's head sat a stahlhelm—the scuttle bucket helmet that distinctively marked Nazi soldiers.
There, that night, at the crux of the battle, this man who bore the cross gave his life for the sake of his enemy.
We Christians too bear a Cross—the Cross by which Christ claims us as his kin. Yet kinship is not without cost; it brings with it a duty: to commit our entire life to the cause of the Cross and yes, to love even our enemies.
While the dangers before most of us are not those of imminent death on a battlefield, the duty is no greater, nor less, than the medic's. It is the duty to give all, for the Cross.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.
2d Cavalry, Christ's death, medic, World War II
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Bridging life….


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Athiya Shetty Shares 'Farewell' Post from England, Anushka Sharma Teases Her With Epic Comment
Athiya Shetty and Anushka Sharma had a blast in England with the latter's husband Virat Kohli and other Indian cricketers. While Anushka was seen leaving for the English country with Virat and their daughter Vamika, Athiya surprised fans with her social media posts from the country. Both the actresses have been in the United Kingdom since last month where Team India has been stationed for their cricket series. Athiya reportedly accompanied Indian batsman KL Rahul, who she is apparently dating for over two years.
However, while Anushka continues to be with Virat in England, it seems Athiya is returning to India as she recently posted a picture of herself along with the caption "Hate goodbyes." On Monday, Athiya shared another post wherein she talked about her 'Monday blues'. Taking to Instagram, Athiya shared pictures in which she is dressed in a grey Mount Holyoke College sweatshirt paired with black leather pants and a black Prada handbag. However, her face isn't visible. In the first picture, Athiya Shetty holds a sipper cup containing a pale sky blue liquid. In the second photo, she posted just the picture of her drink. She captioned the picture, "Monday blues" followed by blueberries emoji.
Reacting to the picture, Anushka Sharma commented, "You're really stepping up on your fitness goals in the last leg" followed by a face with a stuck-out tongue and winking eye emoji. Athiya replied, "@anushkasharma had to bid farewell" followed by a tear emoji.
A few days back, Athiya had turned photographer for Anushka Sharma. Anushka Sharma had shared a series of happy pictures clicked by Athiya. Anushka was seen wearing a pair of ripped jeans, a white T-shirt, and a white denim jacket for her day out with Athiya.
Earlier, Athiya's father Suniel Shetty had said that she was vacationing with Ahan in England. "Yes, she is in England, but she is with Ahan. The brother-sister duo has gone there for a holiday. Rest you may check with them," Suniel said to a leading daily earlier this month.
On the work front, Athiya was last seen in 'Motichoor Chaknachoor' in 2019. On the other hand, Anushka Sharma was last seen in Aanand L Rai's Zero, opposite Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif. She is currently producing late Irrfan Khan's son Babil's debut film 'Qala'.
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A Fresh Start on Wings of Song (and Arias!)
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Charlottesville Opera launches its second decade at The Paramount
By Gus Edwards
Charlottesville's 42-year-old hometown opera company is getting a reboot as it begins its second decade at the Downtown Mall's fabled Paramount Theater this summer, and its newly minted General Director David O'Dell, who assumed the mantle of leadership in February, says, "We want the Charlottesville Opera to represent a commitment to community engagement and education."
Many good things start small and spiral upward into something substantial. So has it been with the Charlottesville Opera. It began In 1978 as a smallish summer musical event at President James Monroe's "Highland" estate near Charlottesville. A group of local musicians, led by Priscilla Little, began to present chamber performances at the venue that was then known as Ash Lawn-Highland. These performances evolved into the Ash Lawn-Highland Opera Festival, which, according to the group's website history, grew dramatically after Judy Walker became the general director in 1987. At that time, the festival began performing full-length operas and musical theater productions in the historic home's boxwood gardens.
Marriage of Fagaro by Janet Moore Coll
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Over the years, with the support of Ash Lawn-Highland's owner, the College of William & Mary, the festival grew and flourished. In 2002, the Ash Lawn Opera Festival Foundation was incorporated, independent of the college, with the mission of performing opera and musical theater, developing young artists and administrators for professional careers in opera, and providing educational programs in opera.
In the summer of 2009, Ash Lawn Opera relocated its performances to The Paramount, allowing the company to grow even further artistically and professionally. In January, 2017, Ash Lawn Opera became Charlottesville Opera, and embarked on its most ambitious season yet. In recent years, the company has partnered with a number of other local arts groups, including the Oratorio Society of Virginia, the Wilson School of Dance, the Virginia Consort, the Virginia Festival of the Book, and Charlottesville Ballet. It has also expanded its season to include occasional winter and spring performances.
O'Dell arrives at the opera company with a long resume as a singer and in arts administration, most recently with the Amarillo Opera in Texas. A St. Louis native, he has performed at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Santa Fe Opera, and the San Francisco Opera Center.
In Charlottesville, he is keenly interested in presenting shorter, youth-oriented performances of operas in an effort to build future audiences and help educate. "A shorter repertoire of works of about 90 minutes or so seems to be about right for keeping the interest and attention of younger audiences," he says. He adds, though, that this doesn't mean the company will move away from the presentation of full-length opera productions.
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Rigoletto by Natalie Krovetz
Fiddler on the Roof by Natalie Krovetz
Cosi Fan Tutte by Natalie Krovetz
He also strongly supports the company's annual apprentice program, which he hopes to expand, that brings in about 250 young people from around the country pursuing careers in performance and arts administration. But he resists the idea of driving the Charlottesville Opera to become a national musical powerhouse. "I think Charlottesville should look different from Cincinnati or San Francisco. I want it to reflect a regional perspective. We'll be the best at what we do and put that out and share it with the world," he says.
In addition to the company's desire to reach new audiences through youth programs, O'Dell passionately believes that "…we have a responsibility to those who built the institutions we benefit from today. Kids have tons of great opportunities to experience music, but I think we should also embed ourselves in the senior community by taking our music to them in retirement and adult care centers," he says, "particularly where people are dealing with memory loss. Music has an amazing ability to help."
Above all, O'Dell laments what he describes as "…the loss of a generation of arts institutions that are affiliated with civic engagement." He says it seems in recent years as the public civilized discussion has coarsened that the arts have been somewhat excluded. "I want to help reclaim the arts' position in civic discourse," he says.
For its 10th anniversary summer at the Paramount, the company will kick off with a gala event on June 9, followed by "Encore!–Charlottesville Opera Favorites" on June 29-30, featuring the music of Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, and Bernstein; "The Tragedy of Carmen," a condensed musical adaptation of the Bizet opera by famed stage director Peter Brook that focuses intensely on the story and the relationships of key characters (July 3 in Grisham Hall at St. Anne's-Belfield School); and, finally, Lerner & Lowe's beloved musical, "Camelot," inspired by the ancient Arthurian legend.
For tickets and information, visit the Charlottesville Opera website at www.charlottesvilleopera.org or call (434) 293-4500.
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Wild: Not Feeling the Film or Reese Witherspoon
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If you're looking for another version of Eat, Pray, Love, here you go. Wild is the film adaptation of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, a memoir about real-life Cheryl Strayed (played by Reese Witherspoon), who embarks on a 1,100-mile hike up the Pacific Crest Trail while fighting addiction, coping with death, and going through a divorce alone. Movies like this are crack for white, middle-class suburbanites.
It's clearly also crack for major film awards, as we've already seen Reese Witherspoon garner a Screen Actors Guild nomination and a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Wild (and I'm sure an Oscar nod will follow). And with Laura Dern in a supporting role and screenwriter Nick Hornby (of About a Boy and An Education), it's possible the film could snag Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and maybe Best Picture, too. But the real question is…does Wild deserve that kind of recognition?
While I think it's a good-looking film—that is, the cinematic shots of the Pacific Crest Trail are gorgeous and kind of make me want to hike the damn thing, though I've never hiked in my life—it's not a great movie. Sure, it has the appearance of an Oscar-worthy film. It's got Witherspoon and Dern, it's based on a true story of personal redemption, and the hiking scenes are interwoven with flashbacks of Strayed's complicated life to really pack the punch that this walk is a giant reflection for Strayed. However, all of the sentiment and "moral of the story" juice gets lost in Witherspoon's performance.
Strayed is supposed to be a good-girl-gone-bad type trying to escape the self-absorbed, heroin-addled adulterer she turned into after her mother's death to become the sophisticated girl with potential her mother admired. But Witherspoon completely misses that mark. Her version of Strayed is more petulant and cocky than conflicted and repentant. Where she should have showed us the suffering behind the mask of a bold face, she came off as entirely aloof. And honestly, it makes it difficult to view this movie as a tale of overcoming character flaws and hard times because of it.
Also, the juxtaposition of Dern as Strayed's mother, Bobby, makes Witherspoon seem even more unsympathetic in her role. Bobby was abused by her husband and had to live on nothing to escape him, yet she wanted her children to know love and positivity. Now, we could argue that it's unfair to compare them since Dern played a person immortalized as a saint in Strayed's memory. But Dern managed to take a character who's supposed to be one-dimensional and added suffering behind every smile and conversation. This is the subtlety Witherspoon was unable to capture in her own performance.
Again, it's not that this movie is particularly bad. It just feels like it's trying so hard to bait those award nominations that it forgets to feel.
Overall, Wild lacks the necessary heart to sell a film about personal growth. While it looks beautiful from a writing and cinematography standpoint, Reese Witherspoon doesn't play Cheryl Strayed (writer of the Wild memoir) as sympathetically as she should. I never felt like her character was truly suffering, let alone reflecting on her life with remorse—kind of a requirement for redemption stories. The fact that Witherspoon is being nominated for Best Actress left and right is disappointing, too, now that I've seen this movie. Because I bet other actresses put in serious, more deserving efforts beyond "Look how dirty I got playing Eat, Pray, Hike a Goddamn Trail."
Wild: B
For my radio review of Wild on "Pat & JT in the Morning," visit this link (starts around the 24:17 mark).
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Q: Xcode: Why can I #import a file from my static library that is a 'Project' header? I have two projects in my workspace. A framework project I'm developing and also a different application. For some reason in my application project I can't include the Public Headers of my framework project, but I can include the only Project Header file.
How I would like to import my framework:
#import <MyFramework/MyFramework.h>

What Xcode will only allow me to compile:
#import <MyFramework/SuperSecretClass.h>

In my framework I have my Public headers and project headers configured correctly in the 'Copy Headers' section of my Build Phases (public header in public, other 'private' header in project.
Anyone have any ideas?


I rewrote the cppyy CMake modules to be much more user friendly and to work using only Anaconda/PyPI packages, and to generate more feature-complete and customizable Python packages using CMake's configure_file, while also supporting distribution of cppyy pythonization functions. I then rewrote the existing k-nearest-neighbors example project to use my new system, and wrote bindings generation for bbhash as an example with a real library. Finally, I wrote a recipe for cookiecutter to generate project templates for CMake-built cppyy bindings.
I've been writing Python bindings for C++ code for a number of years now. My first experiences were with raw CPython for our lab's khmer/oxli project; if you've ever done this before, you're aware that it's laborious, filled with boilerplate and incantations which are required but easily overlooked. After a while, we were able to convince Titus that the maintenance burden and code bloat would be much lessened by switching to Cython for bindings generation. After a major refactor, most of the old raw CPython was excised.
Cython, however, while powerful, is much more suited for interacting with C than C++. Its support for templates is limited (C++11 features are only marginally supported, let alone newer features like variadic templates); it often fails with more than a few overloads; and there's no built-in mechanism for generating Python classes from templated code. Furthermore, one has to redefine the C/C++ interface in cdef extern blocks in Cython .pxd files, before dealing with many issues converting types and dealing with encodings. In short, Cython obviates the need for a lot of the boilerplate required with raw CPython, while requiring its own boilerplate and keeping three distinct layers of code synchronized.
While discussing this eldritch horror of a build system, my labmate Luiz mentioned a project he'd heard of in passing called cppyy. I began looking into it, and then tested it out on my project. I quickly came to the conclusion that it's the darkest bit of code art I've ever laid eyes on, and I can only assume that Wim Lavrijsen and coauthors spent many a long night around a demon-summoning circle to bring it into existence. Regardless, when it comes to projects that so nicely solve my problems, I can work around Azazel being a core dev.
cppyy is built around the cling interactive C++ interpreter, which itself grew out of the ROOT project at CERN. It uses Clang/LLVM to generate introspection data for C++ code, and then generates and JITs bindings for use in Python. A demo and some more explanation is available on the Python Wiki, though I believe the cppyy docs and their notebook tutorial are more up to date.
Python metaclasses for C++ template classes: the C++ templates become first-class objects in Python, and used the bracket operators for type selection.
C++ namespaces as Python submodules.
C++17 features. It handles templates so well it can even wrap BOOST.
Ability to pass Python functions into C++ by converting them to std::function!
Everything is generated lazily. This adds some startup time the first time classes are requested, but it's all JIT'd after that.
And remember that this happens automatically. Awesome!
This post isn't meant to be a complete tutorial on cppyy. For that, you should look through the documentation and tutorial. Rather, I'm aiming to head off problems that I ran into along the way, and then provide some solutions. So, read on!
Now, with much love to our colleagues at CERN and elsewhere, my experience interacting with code written by physicists, or even touched by physicists, has been checkered at best. cppyy suffers from some of that familiar lack of tutorials and documentation, but is greatly served by an extremely responsive developer who also happens to seem like a nice person. wlav was very helpful during my experimentation, and I thank them for that.
With that said, I'm going to go through some of the problems I ran into. Ultimately, I decided that if I was going to solve those problems for me, I ought to solve them for everybody, hence this post and the associated software.
To start testing, I immediately began trying to run the associated tools on my own code to see if I could get a few classes working. First, I would need to install cppyy, which turns out to be quite simple. Unfortunately, there is not a recent package on conda-forge, but PyPI is up-to-date, and you can install with pip install cppyy. This will build cppyy's modified libcling.
The documentation suggested running the code through genreflex, which would require an interface file #includeing my headers and explicitly declaring any template specializations I would need. genreflex runs rootcling with a bunch of preconfigured options, which ends up calling into clang and hence needs properly configured includes and library paths. It's likely it will fail at first, due to being unable to find libclang.so or some variant; this can be solved by a sudo apt install clang-7 libclang-7-dev, or whatever the equivalent for your distribution. You can then go on to run genreflex and then compile with your system compilers as described in the docs.
The cxx-compiler and c-compiler packages bring in the conda-configured gcc and g++ binaries, and libcxx, libstdcxx-ng, and libgcc-ng bring in the standard libraries. Finally, clangdev brings in libclang.so, which is needed down the line, as is the Python clang package. Then we install cppyy from PyPI with pip, which will build its own cling and whatnot.
At this point, you should be able to generate and build bindings, and then load the resulting dictionaries, as described.
As opposed to the documentation, which uses genreflex for introspection generation, followed by a call to the compiler to create a shared , the cppyy_add_bindings function provided by FindCppyy.cmake calls rootcling directly. This means you can't use a selection XML to select and unselect C++ names to bind, and I was completely unable to get rootcling's LinkDef mechanism working. This resulted in invalid code being generated, and I was ultimately unable to get it to compile.
cppyy includes a script called cppyy-generator which parses your headers and provides a mapping so that a provided initializor routine can inject all the C++ bindings names into the Python module's namespace; this allows you to call dir() on a namespace and see what's available before the names are requested and lazily compiled. This script, however, uses the Python clang bindings (pip install clang), which need to find a libclang.so. You can do a conda install clangdev to get the dynamically linked library in a conda environment, but this will still fail, because it also needs the clangdev headers. The conda package tucks these away in $CONDA_PREFIX/lib/clang/<CLANG_VERSION>/include, which is not in any default include path, and so the provided FindLibClang.cmake fails. Minor modifications are not enough: if you add this directory to the provided INCLUDE_DIRS argument to cppyy_add_bindings, it will be passed to the rootcling and g++ invocations as well, which will fail with all sorts of compilation and linking errors because you've just mixed up several standard library versions.
If you get it all working, the resulting bindings library will fail to find symbols, as described here. This is because CMake needs the LINK_WHAT_YOU_USE directive to instruct ld not to drop the symbols for your C++ shared library.
The provided setup.py generators provide no ability to customize for your own target. They dump a string directly to a file with only a few basic package and author options.
There is no ability to package pythonization routines. These are sorely need to make some of the directly-generated C++ interfaces more Pythonic. The autogenerated package also lacks things like a MANIFEST.in.
So, I went about fixing these things. I took a step away from my rather more complex project, and aimed at wrapping a smaller library (which happens to be one of my dependencies), bbhash, which provides minimal perfect hash functions. This also gave me the chance to learn a lot more about CMake. The results can be found on my github. Essentially, this implementation solves the problems listed above: it uses genreflex and a selection XML; it properly finds and utilizes all the conda compilers and libraries; it allows for packaging pythonizations with a discovery mechanism similar to pytest and other such packages; and it uses templates for the generation of the necessary Python package files. The end result also provides installation targets for the both the underlying C++ library and the resulting bindings. Finally, it's portable enough that I even have it running and continuous integration.
The bbhash example above, while more complex than the existing toy example, does not use a dynamically linked library: rather, the underling header-only library is stuck into a static library and bundled directly into the bindings' shared library. I figured I should also apply my work to the existing example, and at the same time fix the previously mentioned issue, so I went ahead and used the same project structure from cppyy-bbhash for a new knn-example. This time, a shared library is created for the underlying C++, and dynamically linked to the bindings library.
Now that I'd worked out most of the kinks, I figured I ought to make usage a bit easier. So, I created a cookiecutter recipe that will sketch out a basic project structure with my CMake modules and packaging templates. This is a work in progress, but is sufficient to reproduce the previous two repositories.
If you got this far, thanks for your patience and happy hacking!


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They chose to sit back and watch how Roy and Jofra Archer draw through in their last practice session before the game to settle on a choice. Morgan conceded that they'd go out on a limb on both if there was no threat of long haul damage. Those sessions however shown that the last could pass up a great opportunity, having bowled next to no of his full run-up and none at all in the nets, which brings Liam Plunkett into the condition.


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George Davis (* 1. März 1820 im New Hanover County, North Carolina; † 23. Februar 1896 in Wilmington, North Carolina) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und letzter Justizminister der Konföderierten Staaten von Amerika. Seine Familie lebte seit mehr als einem Jahrhundert im Cape Fear District.

Herkunft und Werdegang
Davis war der Sohn von Thomas Frederick Davis und seiner Frau Sarah Isabella (geb. Eagles). Er graduierte 1838 als erster seiner Abschlussklasse auf der University of North Carolina und eröffnete zwei Jahre später eine Anwaltskanzlei in Wilmington, wo er sich bald einen beachtlichen Ruf als Jurist erwarb. Aus seiner am 17. November 1842 mit Mary A. Polk geschlossenen Ehe entstammte ein Sohn. Nach ihrem Tod heiratete er am 9. Mai 1866 Monimia Fairfax. Sein Bruder war Bischof der Episkopalkirche von North Carolina.

Politische Laufbahn
Vor dem Krieg war Davis überzeugter Whig in einer mit den Demokraten sympathisierenden Gruppe und lehnte die Übernahme jeglicher Ämter ab, obwohl er 1848 zum Kandidaten für die Gouverneurswahlen hätte nominiert werden können. Er war anfangs gegen die Sezession. Deshalb war er auch Anfang 1861 einer der Delegierten auf der erfolglosen Friedenskonferenz in Washington. Aber am 2. März 1861 drängte er zur Sezession und half, den Cape Fear Distrikt hinter den Kriegsanstrengungen zu vereinen.

Sezessionszeit
Als Mitglied des Provisorischen Konföderiertenkongresses unterstützte er im Jahr 1861 Maßnahmen, die die Besitzanteile schützen sollten. Er saß auch für North Carolina von 1862 bis 1864 im CS-Senat, wo er Vorsitzender im Ausschuss für Ansprüche war, und auch in den Ausschüssen für Bauten, für Finanzen, für Angelegenheiten der Marine und für Besprechungen saß. Weil er ein Demokrat und Unterstützer der Sezession wurde, scheiterte er in der Wiederwahl für den CS-Kongress gegen William Alexander Graham, einem unionistischen Whig. Die anderen ehemaligen Whigs in der NC-Delegation für den Kongress nannten ihn einen "Schlachtenbummler der Übereiltheit" ("Camp follower of the precipitators"), d. h. einer von denen, die den Krieg mitverursacht haben. Allerdings muss man fairerweise sagen, dass er einer der entschlossensten konföderierten Nationalisten in Florida war. Die meisten seiner Gesetzentwürfe, die er vorlegte, zielte auf die Schaffung einer größtmöglichen und so effektiv wie möglichen Armee. Mit Ausnahme seines extremen Konservativismus in finanziellen Angelegenheiten wurde er von der konföderierten Zentralregierung unterstützt. Er war in Wirklichkeit einer der nur vier CS-Senatoren, die gewillt waren, einem Obersten Gerichtshof die Rechtsmittel über dem Zuständigkeitsbereich der Gerichtshöfe der Staaten zuzubilligen.

Präsident Jefferson Davis, für den es ein charakteristischer Zwang war, eine loyale, lahme Ente zu belohnen, machte ihn am 4. Januar 1864 zum Justizminister. Er hielt sich gut als Minister, obwohl er die meiste Zeit als Berater für den Präsidenten und der anderen Kabinettsmitglieder fungierte. Er schrieb selten Gutachten, in denen er aber die Ansprüche der Einzelstaaten favorisierte, und wurde außerdem ein kompromissloser Südstaatennationalist. Immer wieder ergriff er Partei auf Seiten des Präsidenten gegen den Kongress. Er trat am 27. April 1865 von seinem Amt zurück.

Er verließ den CS-Präsidenten auf dessen Flucht in Charlotte. Er hatte nicht den geringsten Zweifel, dass Unionstruppen ihn verhaften wollten. Deshalb verließ er North Carolina. Am 3. Juni 1865 erreichte er die Plantage seines Cousins in nördlichen Zentralflorida. Von dort ging er nach Gainesville und Ocala in Florida. Er wanderte fast drei Monate durch das Sumter County, um letztgenannte Stadt, die sehr weit am Rande der Zivilisation lag, zu erreichen. Als er hörte, dass ein Boot nach Nassau, Bahamas die Hafenstadt New Smyrna verlassen würde, eilte er dorthin und heuerte auf diesem Schiff an, um für seine Passage mit Arbeit zu bezahlen. Jenes war aber zu klein und nicht seetüchtig genug, um die Überfahrt zu den Bahamas wegen des stürmischen Atlantik zu wagen. Stattdessen segelte das Schiff mit ihm am 18. Oktober 1865 an der Küste hinab nach Key West. Dort hätte sich der ehemalige Justizminister eine Schiffspassage ins Ausland besorgen können. Als er aber erfuhr, dass bereits einige CS-Kabinettsmitglieder, die interniert worden waren, wieder frei waren, beschloss auch er zu kapitulieren.

Während er auf eine Möglichkeit wartete, wieder nach Norden zu segeln, wurde er erkannt und arretiert. obwohl er nicht wusste, was sein zukünftiges Schicksal sein würde, erleichterte ihn die Tatsache, dass er nun das Leben eines heimatlosen Wanderers und Flüchtlings hinter sich gelassen hatte. Für Gründe, die seiner Meinung nach nur "Gott und die Republikanische Partei" kannten, wurde er als Gefangener nach New York City ins Fort Lafayette gebracht, obwohl die meisten anderen Mitglieder des CS-Kabinetts bereits wieder frei waren. Er wurde aber erst am 1. Januar 1866 aus der Haft entlassen.

Nachkriegszeit
Davis kehrte nach seinem Treueeid für die Union wieder zu seiner Anwaltstätigkeit in Wilmington zurück, wo er als Rechtsberater bei der Atlantic Coast Line Railroad tätig war. Er mied es, öffentliche Ämter zu bekleiden, setzte aber seine Arbeit als erfolgreicher Anwalt fort. Auch hielt er Vorlesungen über die weitgehenden konföderierten Kriegsanstrengungen. 1878 lehnte er aus Geldgründen die Ernennung zum Präsidenten des Obersten Gerichtshofs von North Carolina ab. Er starb am 23. Februar 1896 in Wilmington und wurde dort auf dem Oak Dale Cemetery beigesetzt.

Quellen

Literatur
 Jon L. Wakelyn: Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge ISBN 0-8071-0092-7
 Ezra J. Warner + W. Buck Yearns: Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress Greenwood Press, Westport, CT + London, GBR ISBN 0-8371-6124-X
 Rembert W. Patrick: Jefferson Davis and his cabinet Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1944

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Mitglied der Demokratischen Partei (Vereinigte Staaten)
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Central at the Plymouth County Historical Museum, located in Le Mars at 335 1st Avenue SW. Attendees are encouraged to enter the facility through the South doors of the complex. The Plymouth County town hall will be the eighth of the 39 scheduled town halls King is holding this year.
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The defendant was arrested without incident and charged with felon in possession of a firearm, driving while license revoked, possession of drug paraphernalia, OWI 1st, and theft 2nd. He is currently being held at the Plymouth County Jail on a $10,000 bond.