Princess Charlotte of Cambridge is the younger child and only daughter of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. She is fourth in line to succeed her paternal great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, after her grandfather, father. Clarence House announced on 8 September 2014 that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were expecting their second child, the next month, Kensington Palace announced that the baby was expected to be born in April 2015. On 2 May 2015, at 08,34 BST, the Duchess gave birth to a daughter at St Marys Hospital, the Duke of Cambridge was present at the birth. The Duchess had been in labour at St Marys Hospital since 06,00 BST, Thorpe-Beeston, and Godambe were present at the birth of the Cambridges first child, Prince George, in 2013. The baby was shown to the public for the first time outside the hospital with her parents, on 4 May, gun salutes were fired at Hyde Park and the Tower of London. Later that day, her name was announced as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 5 July 2015, Princess Charlotte was baptised by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St.
The Crown is thus is the foundation of the executive and judicial branches of the Vincentian government. The Vincentian monarchy has its roots in the French and British crowns, the Queen is the only member of the Royal Family with any constitutional role. The Saint Vincent Constitution Order 1979 was made under the West Indies Act 1967, under the new constitution the Oath of Allegiance to the sovereign was to continue. Upon a demise of the Crown, the late sovereigns heir immediately and automatically succeeds, following an appropriate period of mourning, the monarch is crowned in the United Kingdom in an ancient ritual, but one not necessary for a sovereign to reign. After an individual ascends the throne, he or she continues to reign until death. Though her authority stems from the people, all Vincentians live under the authority of the monarch, the Crown sits at the pinnacle of the Royal Saint Vincent Police Force. The monarch and viceroy do not, participate in the process, save for the granting of Royal Assent.
In 1948, the British Colony of Ceylon was granted independence as Ceylon. In 1972, the became a republic within the Commonwealth. It is a country in South Asia, located about 31 kilometres off the southern coast of India. The country was a centre of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times as well as having a strong Hindu presence, during World War II, Ceylon served as an important base for the Allied forces in the fight against the Japanese Empire. Following World War II, public pressure for independence increased, the British Colony of Ceylon achieved independence on 4 February 1948, with an amended constitution taking effect on the same date. Independence was granted under the Ceylon Independence Act 1947, military treaties with the United Kingdom preserved intact British air and sea bases in the country, British officers continued to fill most of the upper ranks of the Army. Don Senanayake became the first Prime Minister of Ceylon, in 1948, when Ceylon applied for United Nations membership, the Soviet Union vetoed the application.
In 1949, with the concurrence of the leaders of the Sri Lankan Tamils, in 1950, Ceylon became one of the original members of the Colombo Plan, and remains a member as Sri Lanka. Don Senanayake died in 1952 after a stroke and he was succeeded by his son Dudley, however, in 1953 – following a massive general strike or Hartal by the leftist parties against the UNP – Dudley Senanayake resigned. He was followed by John Kotelawala, a politician and an uncle of Dudley. Kotelawala did not have the prestige or the political acumen of D. S. Senanayake. He brought to the fore the issue of national languages that D. S. Senanayake had suspended, the Queen of Ceylon, Elizabeth II, toured the island in 1954 from 10–21 April. Bandaranaike was a politician who had fostered the Sinhala nationalist lobby since the 1930s and he replaced English with Sinhalese as the official language. He was the chief Sinhalese spokesmen who attempted to counter the communal politics unleashed by G. G. Ponnambalam, the bill was known as the Sinhala Only Bill, and made Sinhalese the language taught in schools and universities.
Queen Elizabeth II opening a session of the New Zealand Parliament on 12 January 1954 in the Legislative Council Chamber, Parliament House. She is accepting a vellum copy of her speech from the throne from Sir Sidney Holland (Prime Minister, 1949-1957).


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The money merry-go-round that is Anglo- NAMA
Has NAMA received a bailout to cover almost €300m of interest payments due 7 days ago?
By http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/author/namawinelake/
It came as a surprise earlier this year that NAMA was given a €250m "recoupable advance" authorised by the Department of Finance. This was in addition to the €49m state investment in the NAMA special purpose vehicle and €51m of private investment in the same. When responding to Richard Bruton's question in the Oireachtas which prompted the revelation of the €250m advance (though the next day it was confirmed in the May Exchequer Statement) Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan said "The second [payment to NAMA – the first being the €49m capital payment to the NAMA SPV] was an advance of €250 million, which must be repaid to the Central Fund by 31 October 2010, to provide the Agency with a liquidity buffer to meet working capital demands pending the establishment of its own funding programme". So next month NAMA is expected to repay €250m.
Of course NAMA was required to pay on 1st September, 2010 the coupon on its NAMA bonds and a rough estimate is that it needed to pay €290m (see below). The €290m is probably an underestimate as it appears NAMA has been transferring tranches in, erm, mini-tranches and the dates shown are the dates when the total tranche has been declared transferred. Luckily for NAMA, the first coupon on the subordinated debt is only payable on 1st March 2011 – I say luckily because the subordinated debt has quite a nasty rate of interest at the 10-year government bond rate – that's the one that's at 6.1% today – plus 0.75% – if banks are getting 7% per annum on subordinated debt for 10 years then why not having the debt honoured at the end if NAMA makes a loss might not be such an issue?
These type of moneys are regularly transferred to NAMA and believe it or not Anglo Irish Bank as well
Is there anyone asking the questions why we are paying these huge sums out to an entity that has no idea what to do with the countless of boxes of documents coming from the Banks that are supposed to contain the relevant deeds and convaincing documents needed to show ownership of property and any outstanding charges on the properties concerned .
I am reliably informed that this documentation is no where near complete and the question has to be asked why are NAMA paying for property that has no proper documentation?
At this stage we the taxpayers may have an even bigger problem on our hands if we are taking control of property that has no proper convaincing, no proper or up to date deeds and that may in most cases have been compromised by having multiple charges already over the same properties
Of course the banks are delighted to be rid of such toxic assets.
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Where have all the performing loans gone?
August 7, 2010 by namawinelake
The last two weeks have seen suggestions that perhaps as much as €8bn of largely performing loans that were NAMA-bound will no longer come within the agency's control, which would be very bad news for NAMA's finances.
First we found out that NAMA had agreed not to transfer Paddy McKillen's loans pending the outcome of Paddy's judicial review proceedings which are scheduled for October 2010, though with appeals, could take considerably longer. This week we learned Paddy's Metrospa Limited has sold a property on Old Bond Street in London for GBP £18.2bn and also that another of Paddy's companies Maybourne has been "inundated" with expressions of interest to provide finance that might redeem the €600m-odd Anglo and Bank of Ireland loans apparently outstanding to the group. Come October, Paddy mightn't have any NAMA eligible loans. Paddy has assured us all his loans are performing. Paddy has an estimated €800m outstanding to Anglo alone and exposures with at least one other NAMA bank.
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We are slowly been subjected to a gradual change of what NAMA was supposed to be
With the siphoning off the entire choice bits (performing loans) and leaving the toxic stuff in NAMA for the taxpayers, don't be surprised to hear calls from the Insiders for a new bank and guess who will have a major share holding of this New bank why our old corrupt pals in Allied Irish Bank, Irish Life and permanent and Bank of Ireland
This will conclude the socializing of all the toxic assets and the privatisation of the profitable assets
This is stealing on a massive scale and no one will do a thing about it
Or will they?
stop this wholesale fraud now.
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Paddy Mc Killen and NAMA (2)
Is NAMA capitulating to to-paddy-mckillen
namawinelake | August 3, 2010 at 1:35 pm
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News today that Paddy McKillen has at last made the sale of that Bond Street property on which pesky Bank of Ireland had previously put the kibosh. The Irish Times had reported previously in relation to Paddy's judicial review application: "Mr McKillen claims the loans are "fully performing" and their transfer will have "a seriously detrimental impact" on the value of the underlying properties. For example, he said he planned to sell an investment property on Old Bond Street in London for €18.2 million last May, but when he went to enter a contract on the deal he was told by Bank of Ireland that the sale had to be approved by Nama, even though the loan on the property had not yet been acquired by Nama."
Well NAMA finally seems to have agreed the sale and Paddy has got his €18.2m which is being described as "exceptional". The company that sold the freehold in the building on Bond Street was Metrospa Limited which is one of the 15 companies joined with Paddy in his application for a judicial review. And with news that the Maybourne group is close to securing finance from the US property company Westbrook Partners and one other unnamed property trust, one wonders whether there will be any NAMA-eligible loans by the time the application for the judicial review is finally heard.
So Paddy may well keep his assets away from NAMA. Certainly bad news for NAMA as they are increasingly depending on performing loans to avoid having to go cap in hand back to the Department of Finance for yet another handout. Being deprived of €800m-plus of Paddy's performing loans will hurt.
This is bad news for the Taxpayers as we will now end up with all the Toxic stuff and the developers will run away with the choice bits just like I expected they would.
NAMA is a Fraud and a con on the Irish taxpayers
Plain and simple it's a bailout for the FF Backed developers and Bank fraudsters
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Why is NAMA calming that it was not a public authority?
EU Commissioner's preliminary decision on NAMA
Who is controlling NAMA?
Is it in order to be able to escape having to supply information on its activities to the public via Freedom of information act?
see what the EU Commissioner's preliminary decision is 35189551-NAMA-Preliminary-Decision-Reply
to recap this is what NAMA is suposed to be according to the finance Minster
10. NAMA is established as a separate corporate body with a board appointed by the
Minister for Finance under the control of the NTMA. NAMA as a corporate entity will
arrange and supervise the identification of property-backed loans on the books of the
qualifying financial institutions in the State but will delegate under its control the
purchase and management of those loans to a separately created special purpose
vehicle (the "SPV")2. 95% of the consideration for the purchase of the loans will be
financed by securities guaranteed by the government and the remainder with non-
State guaranteed debt.
11. The SPV will be a separate legal entity with a subscribed capital of !100 million
with private investors owning 51% of the equity and the remainder owned by NAMA.
Given that the SPV is 95% funded by the State however, NAMA representatives on
the board of the SPV have a veto over all decisions of the SPV board that could
affect NAMA or the Government.
12. The SPV will seek to make a profit through the management of the acquired
assets during the lifetime of NAMA, however given that the SPV debt will be
guaranteed by the Government the distribution of the SPV profits to the private
shareholders will be capped and the remainder will accrue to the State.3 The details
of the distribution of the SPV profits are not publicly available.
Now who is in control of this SPC?
Why the investment arms of the three major Irish financial institutions (IL&P, BOI, AIB) thats who! The very vehicle that is there to rescue their own corrupt companies.link here
This is outrageous! Lenihian and his cronies has pulled a con on us all,
The same gangsters that have caused this whole financial collapse are now running NAMA.(The Bankrupt Banks ,have effectively taken control of 80 billion worth of assets for 100 million investment )the barging of the millennium
And it should come as no surprise to see the NAMA board try now to extract themselves from having to answer the hard questions from the probing general public through the Freedom of information act
When will the Irish people rise up and stop this fraud?
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Central Bank report for Quarter 2
Just more lies?
Central Bank report for Quarter 2, NAMA's resident and non-resident borrowers
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source http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/central-bank-report-for-quarter-2-nama%e2%80%99s-resident-and-non-resident-borrowers/
The wide-ranging quarterly Central Bank report and forecast published yesterday contains some interesting nuggets on NAMA and Irish property in general. On NAMA, it publishes information on the first tranche which hasn't been publicly seen before, namely a split of the first tranche loans between resident and non-resident borrowers and also gives the provision the banks held for the loans transferred. The information is on page 39 of the report and is summarised here.
Of note is that the writedown by NAMA on the loans (49.6% in total) comprises a writedown by the banks themselves (23.7%) and NAMA's additional write-down (26.9%) – given that Anglo's accounts were published on 31st March, 2010 and INBS's accounts were published on 9th April, 2010 and they each contained the government's recapitalisations announced on 30th March, 2010, it is indeed amazing that they were showing their provisions at such a low level – was it a case that the accounts were produced many months earlier and only amended for the government's injections of capital – wasn't there any attempt to show the imminent NAMA haircuts? As to the split between resident and non-resident, I'm not sure how much can be deduced. For information the following were reported by the media (not confirmed by NAMA and indeed Paddy McKillen's spokeswoman has denied that Paddy was in tranche 1) as being the Top 10 developers in the first tranche – spot the non-residents!
Bernard McNamara
Sean Mulryan
Derek Quinlan
Treasury Holdings
Michael O'Flynn
Joe O'Reilly
Gerry Gannon
As to what the Central Bank say in their report on page 39 about the write-downs with respect to residents and non-residents they are talking rubbish – the figures show that the resident loans had greater write-downs at both the banks and at NAMA.
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NAMA's "high rollers"
NAMA's John Mulcahy under the spotlight
namawinelake | July 25, 2010 at 8:49 am | Categories: NAMA | URL: http://wp.me/pNlCf-r1
Brendan McDonagh should consider issuing a diktat to his staff that the only yachts they're to be seen on are ones being repossessed from NAMA developers. The Mail on Sunday is investigating claims that NAMA's Head of Portfolio Management, John Mulcahy, was holidaying on businessman (and sometimes developer) Paul Coulson's yacht in the Mediterranean. The Mail are pursuing the story with some gusto visiting the homes of all nine NAMA board members ("I appreciate your job but my family is my family" Brendan McDonagh is reported as saying when doorstepped). The Mail even rang John Mulcahy at home after 9pm interrupting his family dinner apparently to discuss the claims and John hung up on them.
The Mail's story comes two days after NAMA-bound developer, Paddy Kelly, revealed that it was John Mulcahy who valued his property in Ballsbridge at €350m in 2007, only for it to fall in value to €80m two and a half years later. NAMA had previously taken steps to distance John Mulcahy from the valuation of the Irish Glass Bottle site at €412m.
John Mulcahy is arguably the agency's most senior property man and has had a sterling and long career in property. Insinuations about his involvement in the Irish Glass Bottle site have overlooked the fact that he seemed to get a fabulous result for his client, Paul Coulson's South Wharf PLC. In restrospect property values during the property boom were highly inflated and some property may be worth 2% of its value just 4 years ago. However this overlooks the professional responsibility of a valuer – to assess what the property would fetch between willing buyers and willing sellers with both parties being in possession of perfect knowledge – and the fact is that John Mulcahy's valuations (if we believe Paddy Kelly) were no different in character to those of his peers.
The Mail story does highlight an issue for NAMA which is if NAMA is to attract experienced staff, it will need accept that the experience of those staff will include a period in our history which is now having devastating consequences on our economy. John Mulcahy's value to NAMA will include his vast address book, and we will expect him to use that address book when seeking to maximise the return to the taxpayer from NAMA's assets. Should the fact that Paul Coulson is apparently in that address book be a source of concern? No, I would say – Paul Coulson is apparently one of the businessmen to emerge from the property crash in a financially healthy condition and he may conceivably be a buyer of NAMA property or an investor in NAMA developments. The only way for NAMA to deal with this issue would have been to employ people who were not involved in Ireland's property industry which would have meant that there were either a) inexperienced in property or b) inexperienced in Ireland and do we really want people who are learning on the job with a €50bn State exposure or who don't know the players in Irish property (some, perhaps many, are still investing and expanding) – sure the likes of India's WGA may invest in our property but the betting would be that much of the investment will be domestically sourced.
So this story should teach NAMA two lessons – one optics are significant, no yachts, fine wines, beef Wellingtons. And two, take steps to demonstrate that the conflict of interest codes are transparent, enforced and worthy of public trust.
Is there still anyone gullible enough to believe that the whole NAMA fraud in the best interest of the country
When we have the board members of that den of corruption and the likes of Enda Kenny, been obviously fated by the very people they are supposed to be independently assessing
The means of these developers with the view to getting the best deal for the taxpayers of this country
Not even one mile from my home a woman with 5 children home is been repossessed by the bank,
To date I have not seen the local bank manager been fated in her home with tea and cake
Nor was she invited to a round of golf at the K-Club by the repressors of her home
These Latest actions of a member of the board of NAMA only proves to me that this set up (NAMA) is only a boys club for the rich and the boys will and are been well looked after
Even the latest report coming from Europe a-la the bank stress test clearly shows that the Irish government have allowed NAMA to over pay to the tune of billions for the toxic assets NAMA is getting from the gangsters in the country's banks.
There is clearly a policy to allow the banks to recoup their gambling losses by a deliberately hiking of interest rates and squeezing their customers dry even at the cost of making some of the homeless.
Along with the recently highlighted proposes tolls on the national roads network, thenew tax on every home, the new water charges, and now new cuts to come in the public health services, and our children's education
We are now one of the highest taxed people in the western hemisphere and the shower in the Dail is not finished yet!
It's time for a complete sweep out of the leaches that are residing there.
Why are there no protests on the streets by the so called opposition parties?
Why are the Unions not on the streets with their downtrodden members?
Because the leaders of these instustions are all part of the same corrupt system and they are all drinking from the same trough!
Remember FAS there were top Union officials and opposition party members on the board that helped themselves for years to various generous perks
This is true of all state boards and guanos
Take action to-day get started and talk to your friends and neighbours and get organise and field your own new candidates in the next general elections. But please do not vote in any of the current lot back into the Dail as a sheet of paper could not pass between their policies
It's time we got ordinary people to go into the Dail and work for the people that sent them there and not get quick merchants with expense accounts that would pay the dole for twenty men or more every year
Ordinary people and not friends of friends should be call to serve on the boards of the various state bodies and any other areas that are in need of manpower after all its the peoples service and it's the ordinary people who are paying the salaries through their taxes
we need to bring back to the people of Ireland ,"A peoples government" and the constitution must be amended again so that the people can fire any and all servants of the people if they are found not to be capable of carrying out their duties to the satisfaction of the Irish people
These changes must also include the judiciary as I believe no arm of public service is above the soverne people
It is just not acceptable that so called servants of the people can walk away and leaves total devastation behind them as a result of their corrupt practices or incompetence and then expect the Taxpayers of this country to pay them pensions for the rest of their lives
I say no this cannot go on and must be stopped and reversed
The country cannot afford these entitlements voted in to law by self serving Law makers and politicians anymore
It is obscene to think that Unelected Taoiseach Brian Cowen is one of the highest paid politicians in the world and his incompetence is just mind boggling!
Change is coming because the people have had enough. If enough of this new kind of public servant (TD) is voted into the next Dail, no politician will get rich serving the people and no politician will receive more than one pension and no pension will be more than the average pension and only paid out at the national pensionable age period!
I believe it should be an honour to serve your country and not expect the hard pressed taxpayers to fund you for the rest of your life having done you service for your country.
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Sick pig farmer's vile phone calls
Hawke has already spent a year in custody.
by Amber Wilson
WARNING: Disturbing content
AN HIV-POSITIVE Victorian former pig farmer repeatedly phoned a woman in Thailand to procure sex with her two-year-old granddaughter, a court has been told.
Kangaroo Flat man Howard John Hawke, who is due to turn 70 next month, was intercepted by police in 2016 talking about "extremely depraved sexual activity" with the toddler during his next trip overseas.
According to phone intercepts, Hawke told the woman to whip the child, saying he "likes to see young ones hurt".
The County Court of Victoria was told on Friday that Hawke had sold his West Australian piggery in 2006 for more than a million dollars, funding his retirement.
He travelled extensively through South East Asia, becoming "involved in the extremely sexualised environment" of Thailand.
But when he was raided in March 2017 at what was "basically a boarding house" in Victoria, he had only $6500 in cash, $13,000 in credit card debt and an unregistered car to his name.
Crown prosecutor Krista Breckweg said during the phone calls, the child's "impoverished" grandmother had shown reluctance, saying the child was too young for penetration.
But Hawke denied he planned to have sex with the child, claiming the phone calls were "fantasy" or like "phone sex", and that he was just "a bit of a pervert". Ms Breckweg argued the behaviour was "not a fantasy".
"He talks about extremely depraved sexual activity," she said. "He talks about the baby being held down by her own mother and grandmother. "This behaviour was premeditated. He wanted to go overseas with the intention of procuring babies."
Hawke also made a violent video of the woman's 16-year-old daughter - the toddler's mother - the previous year in which she was whipped while screaming, wearing a dog collar and with her wrists bound.
Ms Breckweg said Hawke was found with 32 child porn images and seven videos when he was raided, and was also charged with transmitting 13 extreme child porn images.
He was also charged with sexual assault against an intellectually impaired woman in Australia.
Defence lawyer Robert Timms said Hawke had contracted HIV but would not transmit the virus as long as he stayed on his medication.
He urged Judge Trevor Wraight to not impose "a crushing sentence" on Hawke, who would eventually be released from prison as an aged pensioner with a large credit card debt.
Hawke, who has already spent a year in custody, has pleaded guilty to some charges and will likely be sentenced to an immediate term of imprisonment by Judge Wraight on Thursday.
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Q: How to determine if an affine transformation would cause reflection? I have a list of affine transformation matrices and I want to write a code to delete the transformation matrices that applying them on an image would cause reflection.
after seeing this image in Wikipedia I get the intuition that if

mat[1][1]*mat[2][2] < 0

then the matrix should be deleted. but in some cases this test fails: link to image
so what is the correct way to do this test?

A: Calculate the determinant and if it's negative, then there's a reflection.  The determinant for a 2x2 matrix $$\left(\begin{array}{ccc}a & b \\ c & d \end{array}\right)$$ is $ad-bc$.

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Do women empowerment workshops work?
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Women empowerment workshops are spreading throughout the world. The question is, do they have the intended effect? Discover this unique methodology that does work!
I don't remember the first time I heard the question, "What is women empowerment?" but it was in connection with women empowerment workshops. I do remember thinking that it must have something to do with improving self-esteem. What else could it be? If you have to empower women it must mean they feel disempowered, right?
At the Red Shoe Movement, we don't call our programs women empowerment workshops, because everything we do is based on mutual empowerment. We believe everyone has the ability to teach and learn at all stages of their lives and careers. Practicing this principle makes everyone feel powerful and it helps develop good leadership qualities. The acknowledgement that age, years of experience, or background are not factors that determine how much you have to offer is a great self-esteem boost for your female employees. Knowing that at 25 you have as much to teach as someone in her forties who's had a very successful career pushes you to raise your hand for stretch assignments. Conversely, knowing that at 49 you can learn new things from your twenty-something-year-old colleague (and not just be her mentor) can give a new jolt to your career.
We believe that knowledge is always in the room. That's the reason we developed a methodology that favors a two-way empowerment approach rather than the more traditional approach supported by most women empowerment workshops. It allows us to tap into people's internal motivations and interest, which is the only way to sustain their career engagement in the long run. Because when you depend on external experts to provide motivation, participants' initial high level of enthusiasm wears off over time. Until they receive another injection of short-lived excitement from another series of women empowerment workshops.
Do women empowerment workshops work? Only when you promote mutual empowerment.
To drive engagement and productivity, nothing can compare to your employees sitting in the driver's seat of their careers. Identifying where their passions and interests reside and matching them with their skills, knowledge and experience is a necessary step to establish career goals that each individual team member will be able to fulfill. This is not a process that can be achieved by a sprinkle of women empowerment workshops here and there. To that effect, our approach focuses on training your trainers to conduct sustainable, ongoing programs that you can measure. The RSM Circles invite small groups of women to meet every two weeks for nine structured sessions during which they work together to help each other figure out their individual career goals, they build camaraderie and trust which are the backbones of mutual long-term support. In the end, you'll have a group of highly engaged women ready to tackle their next career challenge.
So the next time you need to offer corporate leadership development programs for the women in your organization, think twice about the sustainability of the effort. Ask yourself, "What is women empowerment?" Am I really empowering women when I send the message that the power lives elsewhere and not within themselves? Are there ways in which we can create a culture of mutual empowerment rather than continue to act as though power is unidirectional? Once you answer those questions you'll realize you might need to start making some changes in the kind of programs you offer and develop.
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Q: Convert SID's to usernames/groups? I'm looping through a network directory and trying to output the user/group names (permissions) associated with each file/folder. I'm getting the SID's back but I want the names like "group_test" and not "S-1-5-32-544". Here's my code -
var files = Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);

                foreach (var f in files2)
                {
                    var fileInfo = new FileInfo(f);
                    var fs = fileInfo.GetAccessControl(AccessControlSections.Access);

                    foreach (FileSystemAccessRule rule in fs.GetAccessRules(true, true, typeof(System.Security.Principal.NTAccount)))
                    {
                        var value = rule.IdentityReference.Value;
                        Response.Write(string.Format("File: {0} \t Usergroup: {1} <br/>", fileInfo.Name, value));
                    }  }

I get SID's from the above code but in the foreach loop, if I use this instead -
(NTAccount)((SecurityIdentifier)rule.IdentityReference).Translate(typeof(NTAccount)).Value

I get this exception -
Some or all identity references could not be translated.
It appears that the Translate method does not work on remote shares. How do I retrieve the real names of the SID's? The remote server does not have LDAP.
Thank you.

A: The problem is that you are trying to resolve a SID that is local to a remote machine.  As the answer to this question states:

The SecurityReference object's Translate method does work on non-local SIDs but only for domain accounts...

This link provides an example for remotely resolving a SID using WMI which is probably the best method for accomplishing your task.

A: If you can use WMI you should be able to do it via the Win32_UserAccount class I think. It has a Name property and a SID property.
Or the Win32_Group class for the groups.
Here's an article for connecting to a remote pc using WMI that has C# code: How To: Connect to a Remote Computer


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Quotes From the First Day of Dallas Stars Training Camp: Val Nichushkin Injury, Rich Peverley's Status
News about a minor injury to Valeri Nichushkin was the main headline from the first day of Stars training camp, which also featured a high-scoring scrimmage to end the day.
By Erin Bolen@ErinB_DBD Sep 19, 2014, 2:30pm CDT
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The first day of Dallas Stars training camp is officially in the books, at least from an on-ice perspective.
We got our first bit of news out of the early Group A practice, as it was revealed the Valeri Nichushkin has been battling a groin injury for the past week or so and is being carefully managed as far as his skating goes. He participated in the first part of practice before leaving early.
Also participating, though wearing the red no-contact jersey, was Brett Ritchie and his broken pinky.
The second session was scheduled to be a practice but turned into a scrimmage, much to the delight of the large group of kids from Fort Worth ISD in attendance. Goal scorers included Matej Stransky (twice), Jason Spezza, Antoine Roussel, Curtis McKenzie, Jordie Benn and Erik Cole.
Team White, which I believe was the players from Team B, won the scrimmage 8-5. They got a quick couple victory laps while Team Green had a much more spirited bag skate to make up for the shameful effort of their failure.
Brandon will be back with all the observations a little later today, but here's some quick hit quotes he picked up out in Fort Worth to tide you over until then.
Lindy Ruff on the change in Val Nichushkin, who left the first session a little early as part of nursing a groin injury:
I think there is a big difference in just being able to understand the language. For myself, being able to communicate with them is very important. He's been struggling a little bit with a groin issue, so he hasn't skated for the past week. Today, he practiced through three-quarters of practice, which is good. I think from the standpoint of putting on some muscle and getting stronger, understanding how to play the game right out of the chute, where it probably took 20 games last season to understand how tough of a league this is, how strong these guys are, how much back pressure there is in our game. I think he's got a pretty good handle now of where the game is at.
Ruff on the youngster/veteran mix on the team:
I think, for the most part, our group up front is on the younger side. If you look at the age of Jamie and Tyler and some of our key guys – we have some veteran guys that are a little bit older. I think any time your younger guys can go on and win a championship and play well – some of those players got some games last year and you know they'll definitely get some games this year. Good possibility maybe one or two of them will make the team.
Jim Nill on what feels different this year:
That's a great question because I remember last year was just a big blur. We didn't know the team. Lindy and I didn't know each other. We put a staff together, we put a team together. We knew the players, but we didn't know them. We've had a chance now to get a feel for guys. Lindy and his staff have done a great job putting the pieces together. We've made some additions and there is a little bit of freshness again. That's going to create a buzz for us moving forward.
Nill on if Rich Peverley's status improved over the summer:
Yeah, I would say he has improved. He's been monitored over the summer, he's been working out and to get the green light now that he can continue his training and ramp it up is probably the best news we can get. We'll go from there.
Jamie Benn if the tight knit nature of last year's team has carried over:
Yeah, we've got such a tight group here. It's awesome. A lot of us keep in touch through the summers. We have a little bit of a golf tournament in the summer which a lot of guys come to. The chemistry is still there. With the new guys coming in, they are already a part of this team and this family. We're looking forward to this year.
Benn on if he considers himself a veteran player yet
I was talking to Ralphie about this. I don't know if I'm still a young guy or a veteran yet. I think I'm kind of a tweener. I'm not sure what I am. I'll let you guys decide.


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Q: Extract Cell Editor Name and Write it to Corresponding Row Similar to the question here, I have a specific usecase,
I have a spreadsheet(GSheets) that contains 600 rows in column A, my work is to right click on each cell and identify the person who last edited that cell and paste his/her name to the adjacent row in column B.
Can someone help a workaround to automate this task using AppScripts?

A: function onEdit(e) {
  var sh=e.range.getSheet();
  if(sh.getName()!="Sheet Name")return;
  if(e.range.columnStart==1) {
    e.range.offset(0,1).setValue(Session.getActiveUser().getEmail());
  }
}


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Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, född den 24 oktober 1854, död den 26 mars 1932, var en irländsk politiker, yngre son till 16:e baronen Dunsany.

Plunkett var 1874-89 godsägare i Montana i Förenta staterna och förvärvade under denna tid grundlig kännedom om moderna metoder för jordbruk och boskapsskötsel. Efter sin hemkomst till Irland sökte han samla män av olika politiska partier till gemensamt arbete för öns ekonomiska utveckling, särskilt jordbrukets höjande, och stiftade i detta syfte 1894 Irish agricultural organization society, ett sällskap, som sedermera uträttade storverk för andelsverksamhetens främjande bland irländska arrendatorer och småbrukare. Han var 1892-1900 medlem av underhuset och slöt sig där till unionistpartiet. År 1899 genomdrev Plunkett med stöd av irländska politiker av skilda partier upprättandet av ett irländskt departement för jordbruksärenden och teknisk undervisning samt blev som dess vicepresident det nya departementets faktiske ledare (under ministern för Irland som president och nominell chef).

Vid det politiska systemskiftet 1905 ombads Plunkett att kvarstå på sin post under den nya liberala ministären, men nationalisterna gjorde så småningom hans ställning alltmer ohållbar genom politiska angrepp i underhuset, och han lämnade sommaren 1907 ledningen av det departement han skapat för att i Irish agricultural organization society, där han alltjämt var den ledande själen, fortsätta sitt framgångsrika arbete för Irlands ekonomiska uppryckning. Plunkett blev 1897 medlem av Irlands privy council och erhöll 1903 knightvärdighet. Han skrev bland annat Ireland in the new century (1904) och The rural life problem of the United states (1910). Han var ordförande i det irländska "nationella konvent", som juli 1917–april 1918 förgäves sökte vinna allmänt samförstånd om ett självstyrelseförslag. Efter den irländska fristatens bildande satt han i dess senat.

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Michael Cohen Has a Big Problem
It takes strong evidence to execute a search warrant against an attorney representing a subject in a federal investigation, let alone the president's personal counsel.
By Adam Serwer
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Updated at 12:11 p.m.
Whatever evidence federal prosecutors have collected concerning Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime attorney, it is most likely extraordinarily strong.
Before federal agents raided Cohen's home, hotel room, and office Monday afternoon, they would have had to convince high-ranking officials at the Department of Justice and a federal judge that a search warrant was necessary to obtain the evidence sought.
"Doing a search warrant rather than a subpoena suggests the investigators thought Cohen, if given a subpoena, would possibly destroy evidence or withhold key evidence, particularly if it were incriminating," Clinton Watts, a former FBI agent and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said.
Under normal circumstances, obtaining a search warrant on an attorney for the subject of a federal investigation is an incredibly aggressive move. When the attorney's client is the president of the United States, the stakes couldn't possibly get any higher.
"These things are not anonymized, so you know you're talking about Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney for the person who is now president of the United States, so you know you're in very deep water," John Q. Barrett, a former associate special counsel in the Iran-Contra affair and a law professor at St. Johns, said. "Any law-enforcement official would proceed very carefully."
The raid, first reported by The New York Times, is an extraordinary development in a story that was already incredibly strange. Cohen wired $130,000 to adult actress Stormy Daniels in late 2016, during the waning days of the presidential campaign, in order to prevent her from speaking out about her alleged affair with Trump. A longtime employee of the Trump Organization and one of the president's personal attorneys, Cohen has reportedly been under scrutiny by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating the Russian effort to sway the 2016 election on Trump's behalf, and whether the Trump campaign aided that effort. It's unclear whether the raid is related to the special counsel's investigation, or a separate inquiry being pursued by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York.
The raid was reportedly conducted after Mueller went to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with evidence, and Rosenstein referred the matter to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District, Geoffrey Berman (Berman reportedly recused himself). According to the Times, federal agents seized "business records, emails, and documents related to several topics," including Cohen's payment to Daniels, and "privileged communications" between Cohen and his clients, according to Cohen's attorney.
"You don't just have to have the evidence that the documents may or may not exist, you have to show that there's no other way to get them besides serving a warrant on the attorney, because of the sensitivity of attorney-client privilege," David Gomez, a former FBI agent and a fellow at George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, said.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted "WITCH HUNT" and "Attorney–client privilege is dead!"
Some of the president's supporters in the conservative press have been invoking attorney-client privilege, the legal rule that says communications between an attorney and a client are typically protected. But there are important exceptions.
"Records of conversations between Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump are not necessarily privileged," Bruce Green, a former federal prosecutor and a law professor at Fordham University, said. "If the conversations do not relate to a legal representation, but Mr. Cohen was providing business assistance or other non-legal services, the privilege probably will not apply."
There is also something known as the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege. "When the communications between an attorney and client are in furtherance of criminal activity, it's viewed as an exception to attorney-client privilege," Barrett said.
In cases where an attorney's records are seized, a separate team of federal investigators, known as a "taint team," will go through those records and sort out which are protected, and which prosecutors will be allowed to see or use. "There are various other limitations and exceptions that could make the privilege inapplicable. If it isn't clear whether documents are privileged, the issue may get litigated," Green said.
One thing prosecutors are reportedly examining are Cohen's payments to Daniels. Cohen has said he drew on his home-equity line of credit from First Republic Bank in Manhattan to obtain the funds. Even if the evidence seized from Cohen was sought for a different investigation, if federal prosecutors uncover evidence related to the special counsel's Russia inquiry, Mueller will have access to it. "Whatever the returns of these searches are, if relevant to Mueller's work, it will become available to him," Barrett said.
Trump was furious about the raid, calling the move "an attack on our country, in a true sense," and "an attack on what we all stand for." He also said that the prosecutors involved "have the biggest conflicts of interest I have ever seen. Democrats—all. Either Democrats or a couple of Republicans who worked for President Obama."
Being a Republican, of course, has never stopped Trump from calling for criminal investigations of his Democratic political rivals, no matter how flimsy the pretext. But as my colleague David Graham points out, virtually all the major players involved here are Republicans. Mueller is a Republican who was appointed by George W. Bush to run the FBI. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, is an appointee of Trump himself, and so is Chris Wray, the current director of the FBI. Berman, the U.S. attorney whose office executed the raid, is a former law partner to Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani, who was hand-picked by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The warrant sought not only would have had to have been approved by officials at the Department of Justice, but a federal judge would have had to sign off on it, knowing that he would be sanctioning a raid against the personal attorney of a sitting president.
Evidently, they all signed off anyway.


Contest Directions: If you are near Boston in the coming weeks, we advise you to visit the wonderful exhibition of Francisco Goya art in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The exhibition features more than 160 of Goya's most significant paintings collected from different museums all over the world. While 60 of those paintings are on permanent display in the MFA, the other 120 Goya works have never been shown together before. The paintings on loan from other galleries are handled with extra care so that they are not damaged during the transportation and exhibition.
Photoshop this photo of two museum employees hanging a Goya painting (The Duchess of Alba) any way you wish.
Hahaha, I like how the employees faces are protected!
Total freaked chop, very impressive illusion in each pixel.
A masterpiece,that had to be done by a pro! Congrats on the Gold Preemie!
It looks like Rick, Corey and Chumlee of the "Pawn Stars" show, have screwed things up this time.
Yes, Newsy...that's a Mafia guy from the early days of Las Vegas. This pawn shop is in Las Vegas!
Send this off to those guys. Sign it for them. I love the show and love the chop! Silver!!!!
Thanks, everyone! I wish I could email it to them, Tim! Thanks, everyone!
Kerry and Biden, expanding their skill-sets!
Caricatures are excellent but obama's feet are really too big.
very funny! love the feet on the bottom!! Congrats on the Bronze Uncle!!!
Thanks Newsy, Pcrdds, and MsgtBob! Thanks Hits and DDB yea, his lips say Fudge haha! Thanks ItsHere,and Preemie thanks, your very kind!
I thought this would surely score higher, Tim. It's beautifully done and extremely clever!
Well Bro, I'd offer you my gun again but this is not low enough for you to shoot yourself over. So I'll Grats ya for a top 5 finish. Truth is I'd love to be up here as ofter as your down here.
I understand about the convenience store, I was 2 years here with this as my only means of income too. Only I don't chop so good, so if you see my picture in the post office you'll know why.
Great chop, but why you made the ground so blurry ?
Thank you NewsMaster, Burnsey, ericnorthend, balodiya, lucianomorelli, & pcrdds lucianomorelli, the ground is not blurry, it is mist, fog, dankness.
You did a Fantastic Job, Its420here! Love the broken glass and painting work!
Then you should clone her out of the painting, hidden.
I remembered seeing this effect on a science fiction show I watched as a young child, and well, picture accomplished!
Love the concept and execution. Very clean work!
Excellent as always. Maybe the knife is too big.
Out-freaking standing Out-Of-Bounds work. Love that knife and the cut out part of the painting. The only thing that may need correction is the shadow from a kitten (the part of the shadow that's on the wall)- it makes it seem like the kitten is flat. Perhaps make the shadow bigger to show the distance between the kitten and the wall?
Calm guys I lose my wife !
Awesome chop, but who are these people in the painting and what is "Davai Ceas"?
Maybe spider on th wall is unnecessary.
Super Clean! Great honey-comb wall design, DDB!
Wow Thanks Newsy, this is one of my favorite movies as well! I loved Javier Bardem's performance in it!
Thank you Hits and Its420Here, I really appreciate you guys!!!


CareAlert Security Siren - used where an alarm is needed to attract urgent attention. When the emergency red buttons are activated on the pendant a very loud siren is heard along with a strobe light. Can be used in various applications ranging from factory to domestic use. Is commonly used to highlight immediately that there is an emergency situation whilst the Smart Dialler is calling for help.


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Q: FloatingPointError: overflow encountered in double_scalars I've set up numpy.seterr as follows:
np.seterr(invalid='raise', over ='raise', under='raise')

And I'm getting the following error:
    c = beta[j,i] + oneminusbeta[j,i]
FloatingPointError: overflow encountered in double_scalars

I've checked what beta[j,i] and oneminusbeta[j,i] are at the point of crash, and these are their values:
beta: -131.340389182
oneminusbeta: 0.0

Please note, this line of addition (beta[j,i] + oneminusbeta[j,i]) has run for thousands of lines in a loop (that performs image classification) before crashing here at this point.
How can I deal with this? Is it necessary to change the type of the numpy arrays?
This is how I've initialized them:
beta = np.empty([m,n])
oneminusbeta = np.empty([m,n])

Is it possible to cast the individual values before adding them up? Rather than changing the entire array declarations? Or is this even a serious issue? Would it be safe to simply turn off the numpy.seterr configuration and let the calculations go ahead without raising the error?
Edit
Someone suggested below, and I suspected as well, that the values being added shouldn't cause an overflow. Then how can I find out where the overflow is really happening?
This is my code:
epthreshold = 709
enthreshold = -708

f.write("weights["+str(i)+", " + str(j)+"] = math.exp(beta: " +str(beta[j,i])+ " + oneminusbeta: " + str(oneminusbeta[j,i])+")\n"  )
c = beta[j,i] + oneminusbeta[j,i]
weights[i,j] = math.exp(np.clip(c, enthreshold, epthreshold))

And when I check my log file, this is the line I get:
weights[5550, 13] = math.exp(beta: -131.340389182 + oneminusbeta: 0.0)

Edit 2
Here's the rest of my code, where variables n,m and H have already been initialized to integer values:
import numba
import numpy as np
import statsmodels.api as sm

weights = np.empty([n,m])
for curr_n in range(n):
    for curr_m in range(m):
        weights[curr_n,curr_m] = 1.0/(n)

beta = np.empty([m,n])
oneminusbeta = np.empty([m,n])
for curr_class in range(m):
    for curr_sample in range(n):
        beta[curr_class,curr_sample] = 1./m

epthreshold = 709 # positive exponential threshold
enthreshold = -708

for h in range(H):
    print "Boosting round %d ... " % h
    z = np.empty([n,m])
    for j in range(m):    # computing working responses and weights, Step 2(a)(i)
        for i in range(no_samples):
            i_class =  y[i] #get the correct class for the current sample
            if h == 0:
                z[i,j] = (int(j==i_class) - beta[j,i])/((beta[j,i])*(1. - beta[j,i]))
                weights[i,j] = beta[j,i]*(1. - beta[j,i])
            else:
                if j == i_class:
                    z[i,j] = math.exp(np.clip(-beta[j,i],enthreshold, epthreshold))
                else:
                    z[i,j] = -math.exp(np.clip(oneminusbeta[j,i], enthreshold, epthreshold))

                f.write("weights["+str(i)+", " + str(j)+"] = math.exp(beta: " +str(beta[j,i])+ " + oneminusbeta: " + str(oneminusbeta[j,i])+")\n"  )
                c = beta[j,i] + oneminusbeta[j,i]
                weights[i,j] = math.exp(np.clip(c, enthreshold, epthreshold))

    g_h = np.zeros([1,1])
    j = 0
    # Calculating regression coefficients per class
    # building the parameters per j class
    for y1_w in zip(z.T, weights.T):
        y1, w = y1_w
        temp_g = sm.WLS(y1, X, w).fit()  # Step 2(a)(ii)
        if np.allclose(g_h,0):
               g_h = temp_g.params
        else:
                g_h = np.c_[g_h, temp_g.params]
        j = j + 1

    if np.allclose(g,0):
        g = g_h
    else:
        g = g + g_h # Step(2)(a)(iii)

    # now set g(x), function coefficients according to new formula, step (2)(b)
    sum_g = g.sum(axis=1)
    for j in range(m):
        diff = (g[:,j] - ((1./m) * sum_g))
        g[:,j] = ((m-1.)/m) * diff
        g_per_round[h,:,j] = g[:,j]
    #Now computing beta, Step 2(c)...."
    Q = 0.
    e = 0.
    for j in range(m):
        # Calculating beta and oneminusbeta for class j
        aj = 0.0
        for i in range(no_samples):
            i_class = y[i]
            X1 = X[i].reshape(1, no_features)
            g1 = g[:,j].reshape(no_features, 1)
            gc =  g[:,i_class].reshape(no_features, 1)
            dot = 1. + float(np.dot(X1, g1)) - float(np.dot(X1,gc))
            aj = dot
            sum_e = 0.
            a_q = []
            a_q.append(0.)
            for j2 in range(m): # calculating sum of e's except for all j except where j=i_class
                if j2 != i_class: # g based on j2, not necessarily g1?
                    g2 = g[:,j2].reshape(no_features, 1)
                    dot1 = 1. + float(np.dot(X1, g2)) - float(np.dot(X1,gc))
                    e2 = math.exp(np.clip(dot1,enthreshold, epthreshold))
                    sum_e = sum_e + e2
                    a_q.append(dot1)

            if (int(j==i_class) == 1):
                a_q_arr = np.array(a_q)
                alpha = np.array(a_q_arr[1:])
                Q = mylogsumexp(f,a_q_arr, 1, 0)
                sumalpha = mylogsumexp(f,alpha, 1, 0)
                beta[j,i] = -Q
                oneminusbeta[j,i] = sumalpha - Q
            else:
                alpha = a_q
                alpha = np.array(alpha[1:])
                a_q_arr = np.array(a_q)
                Q = mylogsumexp(f,a_q_arr, 0, aj)
                sumalpha = log(math.exp(np.clip(Q, enthreshold, epthreshold)) - math.exp(np.clip(aj, enthreshold, epthreshold)))

                beta[j,i] = aj - Q
                oneminusbeta[j,i] = sumalpha - Q

and the function mylogsumexp is:
def mylogsumexp(f, a, is_class, maxaj, axis=None, b=None):
    np.seterr(over="raise", under="raise", invalid="raise")
    threshold = -sys.float_info.max
    maxthreshold = sys.float_info.max
    epthreshold = 709 # positive exponential threshold
    enthreshold = -708

    a = asarray(a)

    if axis is None:
        a = a.ravel()
    else:
        a = rollaxis(a, axis)

    if is_class == 1:
        a_max = a.max(axis=0)
    else:
        a_max = maxaj

    #bnone = " none "
    if b is not None:
        a_max = maxaj
        b = asarray(b)
        if axis is None:
            b = b.ravel()
        else:
            b = rollaxis(b, axis)
        a = np.clip(a - a_max, enthreshold, epthreshold)
        midout = np.sum(np.exp(a), axis=0)
        midout = 1.0 + np.clip(midout - math.exp(a_max), threshold, maxthreshold)
        out = np.log(midout)

    else:
        a = np.clip(a - a_max, enthreshold, epthreshold)
        out = np.log(np.sum(np.exp(a)))

    out += a_max
    if out == float("inf"):
        out = maxthreshold
    if out == float("-inf"):
        out = threshold
    return out


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Q: How can I use an array as a feature element? I've made a feature consisting of a boolean arrays, so the weights are adjusted for the string they represent. But the arrays aren't being accepted as they are.
These are the two features I'm using. Targets are "genres" and training feature is "install_per_review"
9516    23.8
7236    20.4
5781     4.0
2409    12.5
6052    59.4
        ...
9648     inf
6125   196.5
3305    11.7
8841     7.1
720     29.0
Name: install_per_review, Length: 500, dtype: float64
9516    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
7236    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
5781    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
2409    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
6052    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
                              ...
9648    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
6125    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
3305    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
8841    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
720     [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
Name: genres, Length: 500, dtype: object

This converts an array of strings into an array of boolean arrays
genre_features = apps_dataframe["genres"]

# Multi-hot encoding
genres = set()
for genre in genre_features:
    genres.add(genre)

encoded_features = []
for genre in genre_features:
    genre_feature = []
    for g in genres:
        if g == genre:
            genre_feature.append(1)
        else:
            genre_feature.append(0)
    encoded_features.append(genre_feature)

apps_dataframe["genres"] = encoded_features

The data is then used in the model training
    my_feature = input_feature
    my_feature_data = apps_dataframe[[my_feature]]
    my_label = "genres"
    targets = apps_dataframe[my_label]
    .....
    sample = apps_dataframe.sample(n=500)
    feature_sample = sample[my_feature]
    label_sample = sample[my_label]
    print(feature_sample)
    print(label_sample)
    plt.scatter(feature_sample, label_sample)

But Tensorflow complains because I'm setting each element to an array (even though I want to)
  File "/Users/lukire01/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.3.6558/pythonFiles/ptvsd_launcher.py", line 45, in <module>
    main(ptvsdArgs)
  File "/Users/lukire01/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.3.6558/pythonFiles/lib/python/ptvsd/__main__.py", line 391, in main
    run()
  File "/Users/lukire01/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.3.6558/pythonFiles/lib/python/ptvsd/__main__.py", line 272, in run_file
    runpy.run_path(target, run_name='__main__')
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 263, in run_path
    pkg_name=pkg_name, script_name=fname)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 96, in _run_module_code
    mod_name, mod_spec, pkg_name, script_name)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/Users/lukire01/Code/tf_demo/app_store_model.py", line 207, in <module>
    input_feature="install_per_review"
  File "/Users/lukire01/Code/tf_demo/app_store_model.py", line 97, in train_model
    plt.scatter(feature_sample, label_sample)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 2862, in scatter
    is not None else {}), **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1810, in inner
    return func(ax, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py", line 4297, in scatter
    alpha=alpha
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/collections.py", line 899, in __init__
    Collection.__init__(self, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/collections.py", line 155, in __init__
    offsets = np.asanyarray(offsets, float)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/numpy/core/numeric.py", line 591, in asanyarray
    return array(a, dtype, copy=False, order=order, subok=True)
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As George Burns once said, it is better to fail at something you love than succeed in something you don't enjoy. All of us as human beings are passionate about something. Whatever it is, we need to ensure that we can also earn a living out if. Sharing healthy ideas is a noble passion. It is centered on helping and guiding consumers to grow by providing information. Some individuals have taken the hobby to a whole new level. For most of them, it has now become a full-time job that earns them a living. The following are various ways that you can make money by sharing your healthy ideas.
What a better way to share your ideas than in blogging. Blogging provides you with an online platform to share your thoughts with the readers. You will need to open an information website where you can communicate with your readers. Social media platforms allow you to reach a large customer base. People can visit your website to find out specific information. You can write articles dealing with different areas that you know about and post them regularly.
Blogging is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to start sharing your ideas with other people online. It allows you to gain followers and a stable customer base for your brand. You are also able to market your brand and create trust with your followers. Once you grow a considerable number of followers who believe in your content, you can take it a notch higher.
Premium gated content is an option that can get you paid while you do what you do best. It allows you to research on various topics and combine findings into an e-book for example. You, therefore, charge your visitors before they can access your content. Given the nature of the information in the industry, getting genuine information could prove expensive. You will need to buy products so that you can test their effectiveness before recommending them. Such a platform allows you to earn and cover up for your costs.
You can set up a mode of payment for your customers. The best mode of payment is that of paid membership. Paid membership allows you to charge the members differently from visitors. In that way, you create a steady income and following.
A resource page will require you to get practical. You will have to try out various products and services related to your subject. The testing will give you an insight into what the healthy products are and how they operate. You can then post your reviews on the resource pages for your followers.
On top of that, add resourceful links that your followers can click on to access the various products and services related to health. You have to communicate with the respective companies so that you can receive payments on purchases made by your followers. Apart from sharing ideas on what you love, you will receive money on top of that.
Site sponsorship gives you an opportunity to earn money while still sharing your healthy ideas. The people you allow to advertise on your site must have products or services related to your field. The aspect will enable you to still maintain your followers as they can gain from the adverts. You can choose between an embedded or interruptive advertisement. Selling your ad space could also work. However, if your website has grown, do not sell but rent. Renting gives you an opportunity to take advantage of the prices movements in the market. You can always change depending on how much companies are willing to pay you. You can rent ad space on your blog, email newsletter, or on your website.
After developing a broad customer base, you can increase your revenue by selling merchandise. Even after recommending products and services related to your ideas to the public. It may be sometimes hard for them to find genuine products by themselves. When you notice the gap, merchandising can become an option to serve your followers better.
You can get the products yourself and sell it to your followers at an affordable price. The revenue can supplement other sources such as selling e-books, guides, and white paper.
Sometimes you may find some content regarding your area of interest that is valuable and precious. You can decide to take the opportunity and offer it to the public as a course. In case you have a background education that qualifies your content, it works best for you. You can extend the classes as a professional to the public as you charge them.
Create different packages for the courses that you offer. You could charge your followers per hour for example. Provide face talk coaching or email courses to benefit your followers. Another option if you don't have a large following is to liaise with an established online educational site.
A job board is one of the ways to make serious money once you establish your presence online. A job board works best when you have a large following. The option allows you to let other people list jobs on your site related to your area of interest. As your followers visit your page, they can also access additional services that could help them.
You can decide to charge the job listings per month. The pricing will depend on your negotiations with your clients. A job board does not use up most of your money and resources to establish.


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15 Hanukkah Traditions Everyone Should Observe
There's a lot more to the Festival of Lights than, well, lights.
By Ari Notis
Hanukkah, as the story goes, celebrates a miracle. There are countless tellings, of course, but among the most basic is this: In the 2nd century B.C.E., the Maccabean Jews revolted against the reign of the Seleucid Empire. After one key battle, wherein the Jewish army banished opposing forces from occupying the Second Temple in Jerusalem, the victors found only one jar of ritualistic oil—just enough to keep candles alight for a single night. But, against all odds, the flames burned strong for eight. Hence, "eight crazy nights."
Now, before you assume some goy is lecturing you on the Festival of Lights, let's get something out of the way: I'm Jewish. Well, kinda. You wouldn't be wrong in calling me Jew-ish: definitely Jewish through technicality (my mother), though I could certainly be better about making it to Temple. (I could also probably devote more time to learning Yiddish words beyond oy vey and schmuck.)
This year, however, I wanted things to be different—not exactly to be more in touch with my faith, but to at the very least learn about it. So I went deep on mining info about all of the Hanukkah traditions I may have been missing out on. Here's what I learned. If you're anything like me, this should serve as an essential primer for making the most of the holiday.
Eating a ton of fried potatoes.
According to The Jewish Home: A Guide to Jewish Living, by Rabbi Daniel B. Syme, it's customary to eat foods drenched in fried oil—specifically, potato latkes, a savory concoction of shredded potatoes and green onions, done up in pancake-style—during Hanukkah. The oil is delicious, yes, but it's also symbolic of the oil that miraculously lasted more than a week. Culturally mandated fried foods? Yeah, that's one Hanukkah tradition I can certainly get behind.
And washing them down with jelly donuts.
Jelly donuts (sufganiyot, in Hebrew), a Hanukkah staple, also tend to be fried in oil—and are similarly consumed by the bucketload. Sign me up!
Spinning the Dreidel.
Driedel is a Jewish game that, yes, technically, you can play any day of the year. But it's both expected and encouraged that you play during Hanukkah; the Festival of Lights was one of the only times of year rabbis of old would sanction games of luck.
For the uninitiated, here are the rules: Each player antes up a number of tokens. The number of tokens vary game by game and house by house, but they can be anything—pennies, quarters, pieces of chocolate gelt. Then, players take turns spinning a four-sided top, inscribed with different characters on each side. (That's the Dreidel.)
If it lands on N, nothing happens. If it lands on G, the spinning player takes the entire pot. If it lands on H, the spinning player takes half the pot (in the case of an odd-number split, the smaller half). If it lands on S, the spinning player has to contribute a token to the pot. It sounds simple, but it can lead to uproarious fun, which is probably why the game has survived for thousands of years.
Winning the Dreidel.
A pair of researchers from Rutgers University, writing in the journal Advances in Applied Mathematics, found that the number of spins per game of Dreidel is equivalent to the squared amount of tokens placed in the middle of each game. So if there are 100 tokens total in the game, that's 10,000 spins.
Now, to apply this knowledge in practice, you'd need the world's keenest eye and sharpest memory. But if you do, you should be able to win big. You're welcome.
Singing Hanukkah songs.
Yes, there's the old Adam Sandler classic ("Put on your yarmulke, here comes Hanukkah"). But, when it comes to traditional Hanukkah music, that silly tune won't cut it. I'm talking more about songs like "Sevivon Sov Sov Sov," the ancient folksong, and "Light One Candle," the tune by Peter, Paul and Mary. Oh, and of course "I Have A Little Dreidel," the the nursery rhyme that's permeated into wide popular culture.
Lighting the menorah.
When lighting a menorah, there's an order to things; you can't just light all nine at once and call it a night. According to the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, the first candle—not including the shamash, the center candle—should be placed on the far right. Then, each subsequent night, you should place candles in leftward order. But wait! You'll want to light the candles left-to-right, like you're reading a book. (Do keep books far away from the menorah though. Flames and paper aren't friends.)
Keeping the shamash burning.
Wait—nine candles? But it's eight nights! That's right: The shamash is kept burning the entire time to commemorate the. Today, the shamash is used to light all the other candles each night. Don't let a breeze into your home.
Hewing to a few more highly specific menorah rules.
One: make sure the menorah is at least a foot off the ground. Two: make sure each candle stays alight for at least 30 minutes after sunset. (You might have to light the menorah right at sunset to guarantee this.) Three: make sure the candles are blue and white, like the Israeli flag.
Giving gifts!
One of the best traditions of Hanukkah is this: You get a ton of gifts—one for each night. Generally, they're small. No reveler should expect something as over-the-top as a Nintendo Switch each night. But the excitement of unwrapping a gift every day for more than a week is matched by no other holiday.
Hiding gifts.
During Passover, it's customary to "hide the matzoh" (usually with a few bucks near it) for one reason: It's fun for the kids, kind of like a Jewish version of an Easter Egg hunt. Some families port this tradition to Hanukkah, too, and hide their gifts each night. But, on Hanukkah, it can symbolize more than just a little game. Hiding presents serves as a stand-in for the Torah, back when Jewish people had to keep it hidden, secret and safe, out of fear of persecution.
Practicing graciousness.
"Giving is one of the things that Jewish people are supposed to work on during Hanukkah," says Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Bregman. "And that doesn't mean something tangible, like an iPhone or what have you. It could be time. It could be love." For ideas on how to reach out in a non-materialistic manner, here are 23 Ways to Help Someone Who's Alone for the Holidays.
Handing out chocolate gelt.
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Handing out pieces of gelt—circular chocolate discs wrapped in gold foil, so they look like coins—is a nod to the fact that, after the Maccabean revolt, Jewish people were finally allowed to mine their own gold for the first time in history. Today, they're pretty much only used for fun and games (specifically: Dreidel) and, of course, eating.
Moving the date around.
In 2016, it overlapped with both Christmas and New Year's. (For some people: double gifts!) In 2013, it started on Thanksgiving, which meant "Thanksgivukkah." (For some people: double face-stuffing!) This year, it kicks off on December 2nd.
Praying.
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Prayer is a huge part of Hanukkah celebrations. Turns out, there are three prayers in Hanukkah. The first blesses the candles and the fire itself. The second is an expression of gratitude for the Hanukkah miracle. The third is an expression of gratitude for all mirth in life. The first two are uttered every night throughout the whole Festival of Lights. The third is uttered just on the first night. If you're interested, the folks at the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center have a thorough breakdown on all three prayers.
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Jonathan Sanchez will try to resurrect his career in Pittsburgh, agreeing to a minor-league deal with the Pirates that includes an invitation to spring training.
Once upon a time Sanchez looked like a very promising young left-hander, but control problems have consistently wrecked any chance he had of emerging as a front-line starter and he was an absolute mess last season with an 8.07 ERA in 65 innings for the Royals and Rockies.
Kansas City gave up Melky Cabrera to get Sanchez from San Francisco last offseason and then he walked more batters than he struck out, was traded to Colorado, and then shut down in August with arm problems.
Sanchez had a 3.75 ERA in 458 innings from 2009-2011, so he's not that far removed from being a plenty useful pitcher, but last season was so bad that it's tough to imagine a successful bounce back.


I have received a phone call at my mobile number (8800449887) from an unknown number (9651522159). The given number is from Airtel company, I had received a call on Tuesday (6-11-2018) at around 1:40 PM in the noon.
A lady was asking about my wife when I had received the call on that time. I have the call recording of discussing with the phone call.
After that I investigated about the unknown number from another mobile number, the lady has denied that she did not call me on Tuesday and making unnecessary stories for it and she is not accepting that she had called me on Tuesday.
I have doubt that someone is trying to take personal information about my wife.


In the news, we always hear about problem tenants and rogue landlords. I am not dismissing that these exist; however, I would argue that the vast majority of landlords and tenants abide by the conditions of the contract set up in the lease agreement, albeit SAT or PRT.
The news and media in general feeds off sending out negativity and we, as media consumers lap it up like strange, self-sabotaging individuals, intent on discovering how the world is conspiring against us. I contend that in reality, most tenants are happy (I know the ones we manage are) and that most landlords are happy with their tenants. The landlords that we manage properties for are responsive to any problems in their properties as they realise that they need to keep their properties ship-shape in order to attract both the best tenants and the best rents.
The article is entitled "In praise of tenants" for a reason; tenants are often maligned in landlord circles and I think this is wrong and unfair. As an agent, our client, legally, is the landlord. However, the person who pays our bills and pays the landlords' mortgages, is the tenants. When the tenants withhold rent, fall into arrears or vanish, the agency doesn't get paid, nor do our landlords. Therefore, looking after our tenants, without kow-towing to their every whim, is the name of the game at Evergreen Property.
It is important that you make your tenants feel like it is their home; give them ownership (not legally, of course) and treat them as a client. You are providing a service and they pay you (sometimes via an agency) accordingly for that service.
We see tenants as custodians of our landlords' investments. Contrary to news reports, in our experience, tenants do not trash or damage their homes; in fact, they often enhance them through love, care and spending their own money upgrading facilities. Good tenants, willing to settle for a few years and invest in 'their home' are worth their weight in gold.
In landlord circles, we often hear about 'sweating your property' for as much money as you can. I believe that being a landlord can either be an investment or a business. My landlords, rightly, see it as an investment; they are in it for the long run. They clamour for a settled tenant and no voids.
As an agent, we am keen to avoid voids too. They make Evergreen Property no money and create much more work – viewings, references, upgrades etc.
ld. Landlords will often want large rent increases (sometimes 10% or more) to get their property in-line with what they have heard they should be getting. Rent increases are a negotiation. No tenant wants one. And all landlords do want one. Regularly. This is where having fostered strong relationships with the tenants over the months and years, becomes essential. By looking after (y)our tenant, they become more amenable to rent increases and you get the double positive impact of being able to increase your rent whilst avoiding the dreaded void as they feel unfairly treated.
At this point I wish to draw an analogy of the use of the agent in this negotiation.
Why do footballers and film stars have agents?
In my mind, they have agents because they would not feel comfortable asking for £X million for simply kicking a ball about, or pretending to be someone else. The agent, in these cases, removes that social awkwardness of asking something that they may not feel they deserve. Likewise, a good agent, will always keep an eye on market rent, and at regular intervals, suggest that a rent review is due and initiate a discussion and negotiation with the tenant, whilst ensuring both sides come away happy. The landlord does not need to get involved. They do not have to ask for more money; they don't have to justify it to the tenants that they may or not have a relationship with, why they are asking for more rent. They leave it to the professional, the agent, to negotiate on their behalf.
So, take away top tip.
Treat your tenants as clients who deserve a safe, comfortable place they can feel secure in and the law of reciprocity will 99 times out of a 100, lead to a happy, long tenancy.


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