Completed (one speculates probably by design!) on 31st October 2007, this is a break with convention (as if Attrition ever did convention!) in that this is pretty much a straight soundtrack to a story in the same way an instrumental score for a film is a soundtrack. Here then are six lengthy compositions that dare to enter into and then explore the psyche of Britain's most prolific female serial killer. The pieces chronologically following the life and eventual death of Mary Ann Cotton.
This is a collection of atmospheres, of moods, of emotions, not a series of songs and as such is most effective when listened to in isolation. On each track, Bowes has laid down an electronic tone backing over which a variety of guest artists have contributed traditional instrumentation. Stromkern's Ned Kirby adds piano, Ute Mansell saxophone, Erica Mulkey cellos, Emilie Autumn violins and vocals. Bowes' children also contribute their voices on the opening What Shall I Sing? chanting a Victorian children's rhyme about Cotton. Laurie Reade also provides voices on a couple of tracks.
Few bands have really earned a retrospective compilation of past highlights as much as Attrition. This sixteen track selection by Mr Attrition himself, Martin Bowes (and released on his own Two Gods label), spans an impressive twenty five years and in doing so is as much a reflection of Bowes personal development as it is a record of Attrition's musical milestones. No one else manipulates and sculpts sound quite like Attrition have over their career to date and this collection is an eclectic reflection of the dark and twisting places Bowes' project has visited in a quarter of a century so far.
"Dante's Kitchen" (Album, 2004) !DSO Recommended!
Any new release from England's finest dark electronic act creates a sense of anticipation. Not least because mastermind Martin Bowes is one of the most original and unique songwriters of his generation. This latest (Attrition's 10th studio album) only goes to prove the point.
If you've ever wondered what drum and bass gothic would sound like then wonder no more. Only Bowes could pull off such a bizarre experiment to so convincing an effect. Dante's Kitchen ranks amongst Attrition's finest work. In many ways it is, perhaps ironically, also one of their most accessible.
Although the complex melange of styles will likely baffle and excite onlookers in equal measure, its the ultimately successful blending of rich influences (as the album's title suggests) that sets Dante's Kitchen apart from all previous Attrition albums and any and all competition. At the same time it demonstrates that operating at the sharp end of the creative spectrum can reap compelling results for those brave enough to work there. Compelling too (fortunately!) for listeners. For those with open minds and ears are lavishly rewarded.


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Check Out Khalid At MECU Pavilion
Tess Abney June 2nd, 2018 Local Share:
Khalid is finishing up The Roxy Tour, but not before a stop in Baltimore!
Catch American singer and songwriter, Khalid, on Monday Jun 4 or Tuesday Jun 5 at 8 p.m. at MECU Pavilion, formerly Pier Six Pavilion (731 Eastern Ave Baltimore).
The Roxy Tour gets its name from Khalid's newly adopted Pitbull mix, Roxy, whom he rescued from a Los Angeles animal shelter. In honor of Roxy, $1 from every ticket sold will be given to local animal shelters on each tour stop.
Khalid was Grammy nominated for Best New Artist, Song of the Year ("1-800-273-8255" – Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid), Best R&B Song ("Location"), Best Urban Contemporary Album (American Teen), and Best Music Video ("1-800-273-8255" – Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid). Khalid also won Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, and recently landed on the cover of Billboard's 2018 Grammy Preview issue. Khalid's "Location" is officially certified Triple Platinum by the RIAA, and his latest single "Young Dumb & Broke" is now certified Platinum.
Ticket prices vary and can be purchased online at https://www.ticketmaster.com/MECU-Pavilion-formerly-Pier-Six-Pavilion-tickets-Baltimore/venue/172104.
Don't miss this amazing and talented young man at the newly named MECU Pavilion!
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14.Nov
The hope of a new Somalia is in its youth
Bob Koigi, Kenya
For a country synonymous with anarchy, bloodshed and turmoil, and whose young have little to live for, news that two of Somalia's youth have won the prestigious World Bank #Blog4Dev competition is music to the ears of many. It also reaffirms the hopes that Somalia can indeed rise from the ashes; but this renaissance can only be successful if the country's young will be steering it.
The two youths, Abdishakur Ahmed and Awil Osman, won the competition for their cutting edge innovations in clean energy and ICT, key sectors necessary to propel the country forward while offering jobs to millions struggling to make ends meet.
The country's desperation has been tapped by the Islamic militant group, Al Shabaab, that has heavily recruited Somali citizens while injecting radicalisation across the nation, all for the promise of quick money.
Those who cannot join Al Shabaab have turned to piracy, making the Indian Ocean waters the most dangerous world over.
Yet Somalia was one of the most peaceful and prosperous nations in Eastern Africa before the civil war broke out in the 1980s. Now, hardly a week passes without news of bombing or hijacking.
When Somalia enjoyed relative peace, the young people were at the heart of its growth and prosperity, with a booming young middle class opening a world of opportunities for the country.
Neighbouring nations and regional bodies like Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) must be proactively involved in pushing and steering Somalia into lasting peace and stability, because the Somalia is unable to do this on its own.
It is in the best interest of these countries to have a stable Somalia, as neighbouring nations have experienced – firsthand – the spillovers of the Somalian mayhem, including some of the most brazen terror attacks.
And even as the new president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo tightens his belt to put the Somalia house in order, he continuously needs unwavering support from the global community. Farmajo's elaborate and ambitious plan to have the youth as a central agenda of his administration is laudable and requires full backing to actualise it. Somalia can return to its former glory, but the hope of that dream lies in its young people.
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#define SkTDArray_DEFINED

#include "SkTypes.h"

template <typename T> class SK_API SkTDArray {
public:
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#ifdef SK_DEBUG
        fData = NULL;
#endif
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        SkASSERT(src || count == 0);

        fReserve = fCount = 0;
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#ifdef SK_DEBUG
        fData = NULL;
#endif
        if (count) {
            fArray = (T*)sk_malloc_throw(count * sizeof(T));
#ifdef SK_DEBUG
            fData = (ArrayT*)fArray;
#endif
            memcpy(fArray, src, sizeof(T) * count);
            fReserve = fCount = count;
        }
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        fReserve = fCount = 0;
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#ifdef SK_DEBUG
        fData = NULL;
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        SkTDArray<T> tmp(src.fArray, src.fCount);
        this->swap(tmp);
    }
    ~SkTDArray() {
        sk_free(fArray);
    }

    SkTDArray<T>& operator=(const SkTDArray<T>& src) {
        if (this != &src) {
            if (src.fCount > fReserve) {
                SkTDArray<T> tmp(src.fArray, src.fCount);
                this->swap(tmp);
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                memcpy(fArray, src.fArray, sizeof(T) * src.fCount);
                fCount = src.fCount;
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    friend bool operator==(const SkTDArray<T>& a, const SkTDArray<T>& b) {
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    void removeShuffle(int index) {
        SkASSERT(index < fCount);
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        for (; iter < stop; iter++) {
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    ArrayT* fData;
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    void resizeStorageToAtLeast(int count) {
        SkASSERT(count > fReserve);
        fReserve = count + 4;
        fReserve += fReserve / 4;
        fArray = (T*)sk_realloc_throw(fArray, fReserve * sizeof(T));
#ifdef SK_DEBUG
        fData = (ArrayT*)fArray;
#endif
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};

#endif

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It's the land you visit nightly, but any souvenirs vanish upon arriving home.
Every animal sleeps in some form, yet the workings of the slumbering mind remain largely a mystery. No wonder the sleeping figure has been a staple of Western painting and sculpture for millennia, suggesting beauty, vulnerability, sexuality or fatigue. Now: forget all that.
This is a major international exhibition that explores how artists have tried to understand sleep not merely as a passive subject but as the cryptic and confronting thing that it is. From bold and dramatic encounters with the subconscious to altered states and wakingdreams, artists from Andy Warhol to Chicks on Speed open windows onto the bizarreand fascinating world we spend a third of our lives within.
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Universal Parks Taps Comcast's MachineQ To Infuse IoT Intelligence Into Park Operations In Universal Orlando Resort
The use of a low power wide area network is enabling projects designed to increase efficiency.
Comcast today announced a collaboration between its enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) service, MachineQ™, and Universal Parks and Resorts, to use low power wide area networking (LPWAN) technology for IoT projects at its Orlando location. Using MachineQ's integrated hardware and software platform, which is being fully deployed at the Orlando resort, Universal's operations and IT teams are able to quickly test and launch IoT projects designed to increase operational efficiency in the park.
"We've identified multiple applications where MachineQ's low-power IoT platform can deliver data to us faster than previous methods, and we're seeing the positive impact that can have for our teams," said Bill McCorey, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Universal Parks and Resorts. "We've conducted a number of pilots for different use cases, and have plans to put several of them into production in Orlando. As our teams continue to take advantage of the MachineQ platform, we anticipate more adoption from our internal teams, and even greater efficiencies as a result."
The MachineQ platform provides IoT hardware and software tools that will be accessible across the entire Universal Orlando Resort. With the network in place, wireless sensors that can detect temperature, location, energy consumption, and more, can be affixed to park assets that operations teams want to monitor or control, such as food refrigeration units, fleet vehicles, and utility meters.
As our teams continue to take advantage of the MachineQ platform, we anticipate more adoption from our internal teams, and even greater efficiencies as a result.
Bill McCorey
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Universal Parks and Resorts
Once activity is recorded by a sensor, it relays that data wirelessly to a MachineQ gateway, which in turn can be delivered over the internet to a digital dashboard used by park operations and IT staff. With this information at park operations teams' fingertips, new efficiencies can be realized in the management of the park. Examples of these efficiencies could include optimizing maintenance schedules, identifying anomalies in the consumption of utilities, or understanding usage patterns of fleet vehicles.
"While we offer a growing number of pre-defined IoT solutions, we are excited to see businesses, such as Universal Parks and Resorts, leverage our platform and APIs to rapidly build and customize solutions unique to them," said Alex Khorram, General Manager of MachineQ. "Universal's adoption of IoT to enhance the guest experience and drive operational efficiencies is similar to what we've seen in other industries where digital transformation is happening – such as agriculture, multi-dwelling housing, manufacturing or food service. Once the platform is deployed, and organizations learn more about the technology and the ability to add new connected use cases with relative ease, the positive impact on the business becomes very real."
The engineering team at Universal is leveraging MachineQ's public APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to build an application that connects storage lockers at the Volcano Bay water theme park. In addition, Universal is piloting a solution to use IoT sensors to improve management of its food and beverage inventory at the Orlando resort using more data. Future use cases for leveraging the platform could include smart outdoor lighting, tracking mobile assets like golf carts, and water leak detection.
MachineQ's B2B IoT platform is deployed using LoRa® network technology. LoRa-based networks are similar to cellular or Bluetooth, but are better-suited for IoT use cases because they require less power and have the ability to send data over wider geographic areas and into hard to reach locations like deep indoors or underground. These characteristics are a primary reason why Universal will be able to cover its entire complex with 15 MachineQ wireless gateways, and why solution providers across the globe are building equipment and solutions that leverage the LoRaWAN® protocol. For more information, visit www.machineq.com.


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Q: how can I display set of sets without showing frozenset I tried to create a set of set by using frozenset, but I wonder that is it possible to display
{{1,2}}

instead of
{frozenset({1,2})}

Input
t = [[], [1, 2], [5], [1, 2, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3, 6]]
t1 = set(frozenset(i) for i in t)
print(t1)

Output
{frozenset({1, 2}), frozenset({1, 2, 5}), frozenset({1, 2, 3, 4}), frozenset(), frozenset({1, 2, 3, 6}), frozenset({5})}

A: You can define your class that is inherited from frozenset like:
class myFrozen(frozenset):
    def __repr__(self):
        return set(self).__repr__()

    def __str__(self):
        return set(self).__str__()

t = [[], [1, 2], [5], [1, 2, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3, 6]]
t1 = set(myFrozen(i) for i in t)
print(t1)

Output:
{{1, 2}, {1, 2, 5}, {1, 2, 3, 4}, set(), {1, 2, 3, 6}, {5}}

Note that in this example, for __repr__() and __str__() functions, I am just using the default functions in set class. If you wish not showing the set() for empty sets, you can change the functions as you with to print. For instance:
class myFrozen(frozenset):
    def __repr__(self):
        return '{' + ",".join(str(x) for x in self) + '}'

    def __str__(self):
        return self.__repr__()

t = [[], [1, 2], [5], [1, 2, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3, 6]]
t1 = set(myFrozen(i) for i in t)
print(t1)
# {{1,2}, {1,2,5}, {1,2,3,4}, {}, {1,2,3,6}, {5}}

A: If all you need is less verbose output, I'd just use a quick list comprehension..
print([set(s) for s in t])

# Output: [{1, 2}, {1, 2, 5}, {1, 2, 3, 4}, set(), {1, 2, 3, 6}, {5}]

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HomeCrimeTeen accused in multi-county crime spree
Teen accused in multi-county crime spree
By Pat Raia
A teenager is suspected in connection with a series of burglaries in the Ridge Manor area as well as other crimes in three nearby counties.'
According to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office (HCSO), detectives began investigating a series of burglaries in the area of McKethan Road and Treiman Boulevard in May.
Trenton Taylor, 17, was subsequently identified as a suspect in those incidents.
Further investigation revealed that Taylor was also accused of being involved in other crimes that were committed elsewhere in Hernando County as well as in Sumter, Citrus, and Pasco counties.
With the help of investigators from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office (PCSO), Taylor was apprehended in Pasco County by a K-9 unit after a foot chase.
Taylor was initially arrested on eight active juvenile pickup orders from Hernando County, but Hernando County detectives are continuing to work with the PCSO, the Dade City Police Department, Citrus County Sheriff's Office (CCSO), and the Sumter County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) to close active cases connected to him.
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Q: Why does this code run but still report a NonType object error? I'm drawing a grid with the code as bellow (it's an exercise in Think Python btw). It looks horrible, but for the sake of debugging, it gives a NonType error despite still doing the job. Can you tell where I did wrong?
blank = " "
plus = "+"
minus = "-"
slash = "|"

def grid_kernel(f_p_m, f_s, f_b, p, m, b, s):
    f_p_m(p, m, b)
    f_b(b)
    f_s(s, b)
    f_b(b)
    f_s(s, b)
    f_b(b)
    f_s(s, b)
    f_b(b)
    f_s(s, b)
    f_b(b)
def print_grid(f_kernel, f_p_m, p, m, b, s):
    f_kernel(p, m, b, s)
    f_kernel(p, m, b, s)
    f_p_m(p, m, b)
def print_plus_minus(p, m, b):
    print(p, b, m, b, m, b, m, b, m, b, p, b, m, b, m, b, m, b, m, b, p)
def print_slash(s, b):
    print(s, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, s, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, s)
def print_blank(b):
    print(b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b)

print_grid(grid_kernel(print_plus_minus, print_slash, print_blank, plus, minus, blank, slash), print_plus_minus(plus, minus, blank), plus, minus, blank, slash)

+   -   -   -   -   +   -   -   -   -   +

|                   |                   |

|                   |                   |

|                   |                   |

|                   |                   |

+   -   -   -   -   +   -   -   -   -   +
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/mypath/myfile.py", line 146, in <module>
    print_grid(grid_kernel(print_plus_minus, print_slash, print_blank, plus, minus, blank, slash), print_plus_minus(plus, minus, blank), plus, minus, blank, slash)
  File "/mypath/myfile.py", line 129, in print_grid
    f_kernel(p, m, b, s)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

A: You call the function grid_kernel, which does stuff and returns None, then you pass that None as the first argument of print_grid, which tries to call it. Thus the NoneType is not callable.


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package edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.typeandpopulate.entry;

import edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.absyn.ResolveConceptualElement;
import edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.data.Location;
import edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.rewriteprover.immutableadts.ArrayBackedImmutableList;
import edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.rewriteprover.immutableadts.ImmutableList;
import edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.rewriteprover.immutableadts.LazilyMappedImmutableList;
import edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.typeandpopulate.ModuleIdentifier;
import edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.typeandpopulate.programtypes.PTType;
import edu.clemson.cs.r2jt.misc.Utils.Mapping;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class OperationEntry extends SymbolTableEntry {

    private final PTType myReturnType;
    private final ImmutableList<ProgramParameterEntry> myParameters;

    public OperationEntry(String name,
            ResolveConceptualElement definingElement,
            ModuleIdentifier sourceModule, PTType returnType,
            List<ProgramParameterEntry> parameters) {

        this(name, definingElement, sourceModule, returnType,
                new ArrayBackedImmutableList<ProgramParameterEntry>(parameters));
    }

    public OperationEntry(String name,
            ResolveConceptualElement definingElement,
            ModuleIdentifier sourceModule, PTType returnType,
            ImmutableList<ProgramParameterEntry> parameters) {

        super(name, definingElement, sourceModule);

        myParameters = parameters;
        myReturnType = returnType;
    }

    public OperationEntry toOperationEntry(Location l) {
        return this;
    }

    public ImmutableList<ProgramParameterEntry> getParameters() {
        return myParameters;
    }

    public PTType getReturnType() {
        return myReturnType;
    }

    @Override
    public String getEntryTypeDescription() {
        return "an operation";
    }

    @Override
    public OperationEntry instantiateGenerics(
            Map<String, PTType> genericInstantiations,
            FacilityEntry instantiatingFacility) {

        return new OperationEntry(
                getName(),
                getDefiningElement(),
                getSourceModuleIdentifier(),
                myReturnType.instantiateGenerics(genericInstantiations,
                        instantiatingFacility),
                new LazilyMappedImmutableList<ProgramParameterEntry, ProgramParameterEntry>(
                        myParameters, new InstantiationMapping(
                                genericInstantiations, instantiatingFacility)));
    }

    private static class InstantiationMapping
            implements
                Mapping<ProgramParameterEntry, ProgramParameterEntry> {

        private final Map<String, PTType> myGenericInstantiations;
        private final FacilityEntry myInstantiatingFacility;

        public InstantiationMapping(Map<String, PTType> instantiations,
                FacilityEntry instantiatingFacility) {
            myGenericInstantiations =
                    new HashMap<String, PTType>(instantiations);
            myInstantiatingFacility = instantiatingFacility;
        }

        @Override
        public ProgramParameterEntry map(ProgramParameterEntry input) {
            return (ProgramParameterEntry) input.instantiateGenerics(
                    myGenericInstantiations, myInstantiatingFacility);
        }

    }
}


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The effect of population movement on the spatial distribution of socio-economic and health status: analysis using the Northern Ireland Mortality Study
S Connolly, Michael Rosato, D O'Reilly
Health and Place
Published (in print/issue) - 2011
Connolly, S., Rosato, M., & O'Reilly, D. (2011). The effect of population movement on the spatial distribution of socio-economic and health status: analysis using the Northern Ireland Mortality Study. Health and Place, 17(4), 1007-1010.
Connolly, S ; Rosato, Michael ; O'Reilly, D. / The effect of population movement on the spatial distribution of socio-economic and health status: analysis using the Northern Ireland Mortality Study. In: Health and Place. 2011 ; Vol. 17, No. 4. pp. 1007-1010.
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Atrioventricular junctional rhythm | definition of atrioventricular junctional rhythm by Medical dictionary
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a measured movement; the recurrence of an action or function at regular intervals. adj., adj rhyth´mic, rhyth´�mical.
accelerated idiojunctional rhythm a junctional rhythm, without retrograde conduction to the atria, at a rate exceeding the normal firing rate of the junction; it is an ectopic rhythm located in the bundle of His and controlling ventricles at a rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute.
accelerated idioventricular rhythm a rhythm of ectopic ventricular origin, faster than the normal rate of the His-Purkinje system but slower than 100 beats per minute, without retrograde conduction to the atria.
accelerated junctional rhythm a rhythm emanating from a focus in the AV junction at a rate greater than its normal rate of 60 but less than 100 beats per minute; it may be due to altered automaticity secondary to disease or to triggered activity secondary to digitalis toxicity. There may or may not be retrograde conduction to the atria.
alpha rhythm uniform rhythm of waves in the normal electroencephalogram, showing an average frequency of 10 per second, typical of a normal person awake in a quiet resting state. Called also Berger rhythm. See also electroencephalography.
atrioventricular junctional rhythm a junctional rhythm originating in the bundle of His, with a heart rate of 40 to 60 beats per minute; called also nodal rhythm.
automatic rhythm spontaneous rhythms initiated by the sinoatrial node, or by subsidiary atrial or ventricular pacemakers; in practice this refers to a normal sinus rhythm at a rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute.
Berger rhythm alpha rhythm.
beta rhythm a rhythm in the electroencephalogram consisting of waves smaller than those of the alpha rhythm, having an average frequency of 25 per second, typical during periods of intense activity of the nervous system. See also electroencephalography.
biological r's the cyclic changes that occur in physiological processes of living organisms; these rhythms are so persistent in nature that they probably should be considered a fundamental characteristic of life, as are growth, reproduction, metabolism, and irritability. Many of the physiological processes that recur in humans about every 24 hours (with circadian rhythm) have been known for centuries. Examples include the peaks and troughs seen in body temperature, vital signs, brain function, and muscular activity. Biochemical analyses of urine, blood enzymes, and plasma serum also have demonstrated circadian rhythms. Called also biorhythms.
It has long been believed that the cyclic changes observed in plants and animals were totally in response to environmental changes and, as such, were exogenous or of external origin. This hypothesis has now been rejected by most chronobiologists, who hold that the biological rhythms are intrinsic to the organisms, and that the organisms possess their own physiological mechanism for keeping time. This mechanism has been called the "biological clock." An example of adjustment of the biological clock in humans is recovery from "jet lag." This phenomenon, also known as jet syndrome, occurs when humans are transported by jet plane across time zones. It is characterized by fatigue and lowered efficiency, which persist until the biological clock adjusts to the new environmental cycle.
Biological rhythms are responsive to, or synchronous with, environmental cycles, but it is generally agreed among chronobiologists that the rhythmic changes in environmental factors do not create biological rhythms, even though they are capable of influencing them. Even in the absence of such environmental stimuli as light, darkness, temperature, gravity, and electromagnetic field, biological rhythms continue to maintain their cyclic nature for a period of time.
circadian rhythm the regular recurrence in cycles of about 24 hours from one point to another, such as certain biological activities that do this regardless of long periods of darkness or other changes in environmental conditions.
circamensual rhythm recurrence in cycles of about one month (30 days).
circannual rhythm recurrence of a phenomenon in cycles of about one year.
circaseptan rhythm that which occurs in cycles of about seven days (one week).
coupled rhythm heart beats occurring in pairs, the second beat of the pair usually being a ventricular premature beat.
delta rhythm
1. electroencephalographic waves having a frequency below 3½ per second, typical in deep sleep, in infancy, and in serious brain disorders. See also electroencephalography.
2. delta waves.
escape rhythm a heart rhythm initiated by lower centers when the sinoatrial node fails to initiate impulses, its rhythmicity is depressed, or its impulses are completely blocked.
gallop rhythm an auscultatory finding of three or four heart sounds, created by gushes of blood entering resistant or stiffened ventricles. This can happen at two different times during ventricular diastole: either at initial filling or at the time of ventricular contraction. Therefore, gallops occur during early and late ventricular diastole.
gamma rhythm a rhythm in the waves in the electroencephalogram having a frequency of 50 per second. See also electroencephalography.
idiojunctional rhythm a rhythm emanating from the atrioventricular junction but without retrograde conduction to the atria.
infradian rhythm the regular recurrence in cycles of more than 24 hours, as certain biological activities which occur at such intervals, regardless of conditions of illumination or other environmental conditions.
junctional rhythm an arrhythmia caused by an abnormality in the atrioventricular junction; see accelerated junctional rhythm and atrioventricular junctional rhythm.
rhythm method old popular name for natural family planning.
nodal rhythm
1. atrioventricular junctional rhythm.
2. junctional rhythm.
nyctohemeral rhythm a day and night rhythm.
pendulum rhythm alternation in the rhythm of the heart sounds in which the diastolic sound is equal in time, character, and loudness to the systolic sound, the beat of the heart resembling the tick of a watch.
sinus rhythm normal heart rhythm originating in the sinoatrial node, with a normal rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute.
theta rhythm electroencephalographic waves having a frequency of 4 to 7 per second, occurring mainly in children but also in adults under emotional stress. See also electroencephalography.
ultradian rhythm the regular recurrence in cycles of less than 24 hours, as certain biological activities which occur at such intervals, regardless of conditions of illumination or other environmental conditions.
ventricular rhythm the ventricular contractions which occur in cases of complete heart block.
a·tri·o·ven·tric·u·lar junctional rhyth·m
the cardiac rhythm when the heart is controlled by the AV junction (including node); arising in the AV junction, the impulse ascends to the atria and descends to the ventricles, each at varying speeds depending on the site of the pacemaker; only descends to the ventricles in the common form of atrioventricular dissociation and in idiojunctional rhythm.
Synonym(s): AV junctional rhythm, nodal bradycardia, nodal rhythm
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This is really embarrassing but I need your help because Gary's fashion advice is questionable (love you!) and my sisters, as much as I love them, aren't super helpful in this department. Please don't make fun of me!! I always remember as a kid, the night before the first day of school, I would go into my parents bedroom to ask my mom her opinion of about 10 different outfits. She would usually just pick the most conservative one:) Now, I usually only take 2 minutes to figure out what to wear each day, but, there is a special day coming up!
Gary and I are having our photos done in two weeks and I want to pick two outfits that are flattering and cute. I'm going for a fun and romantic type look...I think. These are not the finished outfits, just a start to some possibilities. Would love your feedback...favourite one? Wear jeans in the first one instead of brown leggings (Gary likes the leggings but I think it makes me look like Robin Hood), obviously I wouldn't wear a black bra with that last dress, flats for the dress? Belt for the dress? etc. I don't have any jewellery on the last two but just imagine that I'm wearing a necklace in the middle one and nicer earrings for all of them. Oh yes, and no watch and yes to bracelets.
Normally I would tell people not to wear such light colours (like the tops in #1 and #3) especially since I am so pale and have blond hair. I bought a nice purple shirt but realized it's not as flattering as I thought it was. I love, love, LOVE purple. The backdrop that we are going to be at is Granville Island which is super colourful so I sort of wanted to be a bit more neutral for that.
If you have any opinions on where I could buy a cute outfit or dress that would be flattering for my size 11 frame (including football playing shoulders and arms), please let me know! Also, it can't be too hot because I sweat easily. Ha.
you look great in all of them.
I think outfit #2 is my favorite!
I agree that jeans(slim fitting) would look good with outfit #1.
Maybe outfit #3 would look good with dark colored leggings or jeans to break up the paleness of your non-summerized legs with the light colored dress;) The dress is super cute by the way, I am not brave enough to try wearing a dress, I don't even own one!
How exciting to have a session with just you and Gary. I am currently only 7lbs from my goal, maybe then a dress and a photo shoot?
I often buy from American Eagle(shirts) or Reitmans(pants/skirts).
I hope all your feedback is helpful, have fun!
I like 1 and 2 the best. They're nice and casual, but not t-shirt and jeans casual.
I love outfit #1 and #2! I don't know you at all either but I think those look great on you! I love the leggings too. I don't have the guts to pull the whole legging thing off even though I own two pairs of them... I like the idea but I just can't bring myself to wear them! Have fun getting your pictures done!
aww thats so sweet your boys said that;) and they're right you look good in all.
i would vote for #1, very cute with the boots. not sure if im allowed to vote as a sister who wears sweatpants everyday, but still.
#2 - awesome! Fun and classy.
#3 - maybe it's just the angle of the picture, but the other two are definitely more flattering.
I think number one looks super cute!
You really don't want to be taking fashion advice from me as my clothes are all over 10 years old unless you count the new shirts that my mother in law gives me!!! But, because you asked, I really love outfit #2. I think I really love the colors and it seems very classy on you. My second favorite is #1 because the combo of the boots and tights seems really fashionable. I can't wait to see how the photos turn out!
You will look terrific no matter what you wear, but I must say I like the first outfit. You do not look like Robin Hood!
Wow everyone! I went away for a few hours and all my decisions were made for me. I think I'll have to do this more often!
Jackie, I hope you are joking.
maybe switch the bottoms of #1 and #2? skinny jeans with #1 top would be super cute!
I like #2 but #1 would be my favourite if you cut out the boots (look good but kind of fall-type weatherish) and wore a cute pair of fun colored shoes or sandals. Make the accessories coordinate, but not necessarily match, the shoes.
I love outfit number 1, very flattering on you, especially with the leggings and boots. Outfit 2 is good also, but do you have capri's? I think a bit of a shorter jean or legging would elongate your legs. The purple top is very cute. In terms of places to look for cute clothes, RW&CO has the most amazing dresses. I have bought 4 dresses there in the last year to wear to weddings. Some are a little more fancy, some more casual, but great fit, and I believe all of them come with straps that come off so they can be worn strapless.
I vote #2, hands down!
I like #1 the most and #2 next.
Outfit #1 is so cute..dont' change a thing! And outfit #2 is a nice change since it is slightly dressier than outfit #1. I think together they will look great in pictures! I am the same size as you and shop at H&M (cheap!), Costco (can have really cute separates), Gap (if you shop online in the sale section it is great).
You are too funny Louise. Some may think neurotic but since I know you, this has Louise written all Over it.
Gary is dead on about outfit #1. #2 is the best. You look really sharp, pretty and classy. However I think you need to be wearing something different on the bottom to make it perfect. I would suggest a dark skirt and then youcan wear some heels or strappy sandals.
That is all I have to say. I go now to watch ANTM.
Seriously Louise....from your pictures I would gave guessed you were a size 5. You wear all three of the outfits really well!


Last week I was in Boston for the Geometry of Redistricting workshop. It was an optimistic gathering of over 500 mathematicians, computer scientists, lawyers, policy makers, teachers, and interested people of all stripes.
There was a ton of information in the talks and subsequent discussions. I'll try to distill the main ideas and avenues for research as best I can. Unfortunately, due to how preliminary most of the technical work is, I won't be presenting any concrete code or algorithms. Rather I'll just give a high level sketch with as many links as I can find. If you want to skip my blabbering and watch some of the talks yourself, the morning talks were taped and publicized on YouTube.
In order for mathematics to helpful in fighting partisan gerrymandering, it needs to be in touch with the intricacies of the legal, political, and local aspects of the problem.
The "obvious" ideas have all essentially been tried and rejected for various reasons, both mathematical and legal.
There is a huge gray area in between what's easy and what's known to be hard where mathematics can help, and lots of tentative ideas are on the table.
Partisan gerrymandering is the process of drawing voting district lines to help one party win more representatives. As you probably know, every 10 years the US Census Bureau tries to count everyone in the country along with basic demographic information. Then, because the US Constitution requires proportional representation in Congress based on state populations, states may gain or lose seats in Congress, and are given the power to reevaluate how they translate individual citizen votes into representatives. Part of this process is redrawing voting district lines, and when politicians take advantage of this to further a political cause, it's called gerrymandering.
The most common kinds of gerrymandering have two forms, packing and cracking, which work in unison to give delegates of one party more representation that the global statistics of a state would suggest. Packing is the process of putting all of one's opponents in the same district, so that their votes in excess of 50% are essentially wasted. In conjunction, in cracking one spreads out members of the opposing party in such a way that they represent a safe minority of their districts, say 45%. In this way, even a state that has an overall majority in favor of one party can result in dominant representation by the other party.
One particularly interesting example is Michigan. In 2010, state Republicans redrew district lines—as is required following every US Census. They did so in a way that is considered by many an extreme partisan gerrymander. One piece of evidence supporting this is the statistics mentioned above: while Michigan is evenly split statewide between Democrats and Republicans, Republicans took 57% of the state legislature's House. You can see packing and cracking at work: many of the districts that voted Democratic have win-ratios in excess of 80%, while most Republican districts near those metropolitan areas eked out with leads as low as 51%. As far as I can tell, only a single Republican state senate district took significantly more than 60% of that district's vote.
Two caveats. First: of course this is just evidence, not proof, but it should (and did) raise a red flag considering this country's history of gerrymandering. Second: it would be unfair to single out Republicans, because Democrats are notoriously good at Gerrymandering. They've just been on the losing end of the battle recently.
What's potentially worse than the fact that one party is winning is that the dominant party gets to draw the lines. This is a uniquely American idea that apparently horrifies visiting politicians from Europe. One obvious solution is to simply force legislatures to give up their redistricting power to independent commissions. California, along with a few other states, have done this. And other states with only one delegate, such as Montana and Delaware, don't have this problem. But the remaining 40-some-odd states appear heavily resistant to giving up this power.
Independent commissions for US House redistricting. Green states have independent commissions, yellow states have incumbents draw district lines, gray states have only one representative.
It's obvious why incumbent politicians don't want to relinquish their power: gerrymandering is super effective! It's also obvious why geographic line-drawing works: people of like-minded ideology tend to live near each other. As Moon Duchin ribbed during her opening talk, "Democrats like to huddle for warmth." More specifically, densely populated areas correlate with liberal voters. What's more, it even correlates with density conditioned on being in a city! What's more more, within a city, it correlates with how much you use public transportation! So the more data you have, the better you can gerrymander.
And, at the very least, this shows that any support or opposition for a redistricting plan needs to be heavily informed by the local, cultural, and even infrastructural details of the region in question. But even more, it shows how inherently political this process is. Politicians who don't play the game will literally lose their jobs.
Federal courts have the authority to hear redistricting cases on the basis of partisanship.
However, it's really hard to tell what counts as illegal partisan gerrymandering. The court admitted that they required a "judicially discoverable and manageable standard" for resolving them.
The consequences, through this and some followup cases, were a standard essentially called "one person one vote," which means district lines have to match up with population density. But beyond that, and some vague I-know-it-when-I-see-it notions about "compactness" and "aesthetically pleasing shapes," the Supreme court has demurred against ruling on political gerrymandering cases for exactly this lack of a judicial standard (cf. Vieth 2004).
The supreme court doesn't want to enter this "political thicket," as Justice Frankfurter declared in Baker v. Carr, for authentic reasons. Foremost among them, a political issue is by definition never resolved. The losing side never thinks they had a fair shot. A justice system that hears redistricting cases (which take years to resolve) will be swamped in litigation before, during, and after every election. Some reasonably think that the only good way to end gerrymandering is for the people to hold states accountable (and/or Congress) and make them pass laws ending gerrymandering. It shouldn't be the court's job to make policy.
Fast forward to today, you have Gill v. Whitford set for October 3rd, and the court is split with Justice Kennedy undecided. Kennedy, the swing vote, has had previous gerrymandering cases thrown out due to this lack of a "manageable standard," but he's left open the possibility that a good standard exists. Gill v. Whitford sets forth what's called the efficiency gap, which may become such a standard despite its flaws.
Roughly speaking, the efficiency gap is said to measure how many votes were "wasted" on each side, via an arithmetic formula that counts both votes in excess of 50% for a winning district, and all votes cast for losing candidates. An article by Mira Bernstein and Moon Duchin (two of the four organizers of the conference) adeptly outline the deficiencies of this measure, and how it might play out in the courtroom.
While the judicial value of the efficiency gap remains to be seen, the mathematical parts of the workshop highlighted ways the mathematical community could be of service.
But before that, we spent some time highlighting ways that mathematics has failed to be of service, and the damage that does to future efforts. As one speaker put it, people came up with 60 suggested metrics for courts to use, and they were all rejected, so why would they listen to what we propose for metric number 61?
The obvious ideas one might first come up with have all been deemed to be hard or invalid. In particular, an immediate thought one would probably have is to use optimization: simply write down all the atomic units of population (census blocks), write down all the constraints, and run a solver to get the optimal district plan.
The problem is far more complicated, and one could write a long article about all the reasons why. One simple explanation is that this program is just too big. The US has 11 million census blocks (many states have around 200,000), each of which is a polygon with potentially many vertices—due to the intricacies of the geography such as rivers separating districts. As such, people have taken to representing the problem as a graph over the set of census blocks, with edges connecting adjacent nodes.
Still, almost every optimization "constraint" is soft, but it's not clear how soft and what exceptions are permissible. For example, standard practice tries to keep towns in the same district, has to split big cities somehow, and all the while there is an unofficial mandate to keep "communities of interest" together. This last one could be people living in areas affected by local wildfires, people united by a shared language, or any one of a number of minority groups. The optimization formulation is out of touch with the guiding principles. Nobody has figured out how to represent all of the information relevant to redistricting in a way amenable to algorithmic analysis.
Equal representation is good, as voiced by the "one person one vote" doctrine.
Geographical division is important, i.e. bare majorities shouldn't override the voice of communities of interest.
Extremist agendas should not outweigh the majority.
Elections should be competitive. The opportunity for useful alternatives should exist in areas that are equally divided.
States should still be governable. This is why things like supermajorities are acceptable as part of the give and take of politics.
Points 2 and 3 are in direct opposition, as are 4 and 5, and each of these principles, even if you don't agree with them, have legal standing in the US. But these principles don't obviously translate into something like an optimization problem. How do you encode the presence of extremist agendas in an objective function? The sense I got from the workshop is that people have tried, and largely failed.
Other techniques, like evaluating the geometric shape of a district for "compactness"—a legal term long recognized by the court but with no concrete definition—run into trouble with issues like the coast of England paradox. In fact, most metrics attempting to measure non-compactness—of the kind ruled illegal in North Carolina's 1st and 12th districts—can change by a factor of 3 based on how finely one measures geographical features. Justin Solomon covers this and many more pitfalls of the geometry of redistricting in his talk.
Maryland's district 1, with compactness measured at different resolutions. Taken from Dr. Solomon's slides.
In addition to spending a lot of time outlining the potential pitfalls of existing techniques, the workshop presented ideas aiming to be informative.
There was much talk of metrics, but an even more fundamental problem I found appealing was that of sampling. If you're trying to show a court that a proposed districting plan is illegally gerrymandered, it would be helpful to provide alternative plans for comparison. Even better would be a large, independent random sample of a billion plans, which you could use to draw a distribution of whatever statistic you're interested in, and show where the proposed plan lies.
Again, extremity is not the only factor in whether a partisan gerrymander is illegal (thanks to Justice Kennedy), but it does play a role. And without a sample for comparison, "extremity" is just an opinion. Sampling was the topic of this talk by Wendy Cho and some subsequent sessions and discussions.
But the distribution of all "legal, plausibly good redistricting plans" is extremely complicated, for all of the reasons we've mentioned in this post. As fans of this blog will know, if you have a complicated distribution and you want to sample from it, you can use a technique called Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Indeed, researchers have tried this (cf. the recent work of Fifield et al.) but there are some important considerations.
First, the theory of MCMC says that, if you run the algorithm for long enough, eventually the tail end of the sequence will be a representative sample. This is called the "mixing time," and it's relatively sensitive to the way the problem is set up. The theory of MCMC doesn't say how long mixing takes, and indeed many hard problems are known to take exponential time. To complement this, problem, the existing work on using MCMC has resulted (according to experiments conveyed to me by Dr. Cho, who in fairness has a competing line of research detailed below) in almost exactly one redistricting sampled per CPU hour. So the second problem is that, even if you did have rapid mixing, it would take a long time and resources to come up with a good representative sample of, say, a billion possible plans.
Cho and her coauthor presented their variant of this line of research, based on genetic algorithms. In this scheme, the "optimization" part of genetic algorithms serves only to meet the constraints and desires required of all redistricting plans (keep towns together, etc.). They are able—with the aid of a supercomputer—generate many more plans and much faster. Part of the appeal of their technique is that they can turn on and off different features to optimize for at will, and dictate how much they're trying to optimize for each feature. So they can compare a large sample of plans generated while trying to optimize for partisan bias to a large sample of plans generated without that objective.
On the other hand, their obstacle is a problem of purity. Genetic algorithms are about as far as you can get from a well understood theory. The particular choices required to model redistricting using genetic algorithms pretty much eliminate any hope of proving that the resulting sample is an independent random sample. This seems like a huge problem in litigation, as one could argue back and forth (as we did at the workshop) as to what features of the genetic approach made it "acceptably" random.
Indeed, maybe a sample doesn't need to be perfectly random. Simply having alternative schemes with no discernible partisan bias might be enough for a court (who knows?). But still, I got the impression from the workshop that the more caveats one needs to explain a mathematical technique to a court, the less likely it will be accepted as legitimate. This even applies to techniques that have been accepted in mathematics for centuries.
Speaking of complicated, next we turn to Dr. Duchin's line of work, which she succinctly describes as "measuring compactness using discrete Ricci curvature." Ricci curvature is hard enough to describe succinctly without knowing what a smooth manifold is in technical terms. One of the many equivalent definitions is based on comparing neighborhoods of points. This lends itself nicely to a discrete analogue for graphs, an idea first put forth by Yann Ollivier. Cf. his papers on the topic, though I found them quite difficult because they lean heavily on intuition from Riemannian geometry, which I'm not very familiar with. However, the idea involves a neat concept called earth mover's distance (which has three or four other names) which I want to write about in more detail soon. In particular, it's part of this field of optimal transport which studies how to modify geometric notions (particularly measurements) to probability distributions. It's like a "fuzzy geometry" where you don't know exactly where things are, or exactly what shape they are, but you want to measure distance and volume keeping uncertainty in mind. Seems super useful for a field like redistricting, where the data is dirty and the lines are not absolutely certain.
Finally, the workshop had much discussion about open source GIS (geographical information systems) projects oriented around bringing redistricting planning to the public. They mentioned some really cool projects like Azavea's DistrictBuilder, which has influenced district planning all across the country, to my surprise including my childhood home of Contra Costa County, CA. They organized a GIS hackathon for the last few days of the workshop, and they promised to mention the results of that hackathon soon.
For those who didn't participate in the special sessions (which were invite only), one of which included training to be an expert witness in gerrymandering cases, there was little in the way of obvious next steps. The workshop was super informative, but at this point things are very tentative and there are a lot of open directions for research and software projects.
If you're interested in getting involved, consider coming to one of the next workshops in the series. The upcoming October workshop in Wisconsin is open for registration, which should be particularly juicy since it will occur right after the Supreme court hears arguments on Whitford v. Gill. And there are subsequent workshops in November (Durham, North Carolina), February (Austin, Texas), and March (San Francisco, CA). I'll likely be at the San Francisco one.
Not a comment on this specific post, but many of the links for your primers have gone bust. The ones that don't work erroneaous include a ".wordpress" in the URL (the links work fine once this is removed).
I'm new to this stuff but I find the primers invaluable.
A good goal (in a democracy) would be to minimize the number of wasted votes.
The Supreme Court could then disallow any redistricting that increases that number.
Assuming there is an agreed upon method for counting wasted votes.


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State Department Cable is Part of Wider Opposition to White House Middle East Policy
NBC News quoted the diplomats' cable as saying that by maintaining a hands-off approach, recent US policy had effectively allowed the persistence of abuses perpetrated by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It added that this neglect of the Syrian human rights situation could have the effect of diminishing unity of the coalition against the Islamic State within the country, which includes moderate rebel groups and Kurdish forces supported by US advisors and other foreign allies.
The New York Times specified that the statement urged the White House to become directly involved in the conflict through the use of precision air-strikes and other military tools in order to "undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process." The cable apparently did not comment upon US policy toward Iran, the chief foreign supporter of the Assad regime, except to compare a theoretical Syrian diplomatic agreement with that which was worked out between Iran and the US over the Iranian nuclear program.
According to the Times, the diplomats feel that such an agreement would be possible only once a credible military threat forced Assad into a position of being willing to compromise, just as some believe economic sanctions did with Iran prior to last summer's agreement.
But in this sense, the State Department cable is apparently somewhat less critical of the Obama administration's Middle East policies than are some other commentators both within the US Congress and beyond the borders of the US altogether. Some such individuals and groups view the Iran nuclear agreement as a mistake and a giveaway to the Iranian regime, and certainly not as something to emulated in the context of the Syrian crisis.
Kansas news station KWCH underscored this criticism on Friday with a brief article describing Congressman Mike Pompeo's reaction to Iran's recent rejection of a request that he and two ther American congressmen visit the Islamic Republic to monitor its elections process and visit its nuclear sites.
The request was delayed by Iran's foreign ministry for months before finally being rejected as a "publicity stunt" and "not an appropriate request." Pompeo and his colleagues have not formally responded to these comments yet but intend to in the coming weeks. In the meantime, the Kansas Republican declared that Iran's evasion and ultimate rejection of the request suggests that the country still has something to hide.
Like most congressional Republicans and some Democrats, Pompeo in of the opinion that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action has provided insufficient guarantees of Iran's compliance with the restrictions outlined for its nuclear program. At the time that the provisions were outlined, many legislators and conservative media commentators took issue with such perceived concessions as a 28-day window during which the Iranian regime would be able to delay international inspectors' access to undeclared sites that come under newfound suspicion of being connected to banned nuclear work.
In its response to the congressmen's request for access, the Islamic Republic emphasized that no representative of the US or any other country involved in the negotiation would be permitted to visit the sites that have been under past scrutiny. No doubt this apparent evasiveness will further contribute to the doubts that Pompeo and his colleagues have about Iran's commitment to transparency over the long term.
But the incident also stands alongside the dissenting State Department cable to emphasize the fact that elements of the US government that are either unconnected or tangentially connected to the Obama administration are taking systematic steps to counter what they perceive as a weak or conciliatory White House policy regarding the Middle East.
This trend has also been evident in the economic sphere, as individuals including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce have accused the Obama administration of overstepping its obligations under the JCPOA and actively encouraging European businesses to invest in the newly de-sanctioned Iranian market. Meanwhile, congressmen and other advocates of a more assertive Iran policy have been making efforts to counteract this salesmanship by urging Western businesses to reconsider plans to reestablish professional relations with Iran.
Naturally, this counter-trend is particularly pronounced in the rare instances in which the companies in question are actually based in the US. In recent weeks there has been much discussion of possible business deals between Iran's commercial airlines and the US jet manufacturer Boeing. Then, this week, the Islamic Republic claimed to have concluded an agreement that could roughly match the earlier agreement reached between Iran and Boeing's French competitor Airbus.
Although the Boeing deal has not yet been confirmed by the company itself, detractors wasted no time in speaking out against it, with Republican Congressmen Jeb Hensarling and Peter Roskam sending a letter to Boeing executives on Friday asking for clarification about whether the company could verify that its passenger planes wouldn't be converted into cargo planes, and whether it intended to repossess the aircraft from the Islamic Republic in the event that the nuclear deal deteriorates.
The letter pointedly declared that "American companies should not be complicit in weaponizing the Iranian Regime," according to Reuters.
But in spite of this pushback, there has been a steady accumulation of evidence for the slow expansion of relations between Iran and Western powers as a whole.
However, efforts to forestall these trends have not just been coming from the United States. In fact, earlier this week it was reported that 270 members of the European Parliament had issued a statement urging European governments to avoid any expansion in political or economic relations with Iran until such time as it has made significant improvements to its human rights record.
And these efforts may very well intensify as Western policymakers continue to observe evidence pointing to the persistence of hardline Iranian policies, including the aforementioned human rights abuses, as well as the sponsorship of the sorts of foreign brutality that were decried by the 51 diplomats behind the State Department cable.
In the run-up to and the immediate aftermath of the Iran nuclear agreement, the White House apparently elicited some support from skeptical legislators and foreign allies by suggesting that the finalization of that deal could encourage moderating trends inside the Iranian government. This outcome was supposedly made possible by the 2013 election of Hassan Rouhani, who promised domestic reforms and was described by various foreign observers as a relative moderate.
But ever since revelations last month about the Obama administration's relationship with the media in the midst of those negotiations, many have judged the notion of Rouhani's moderation to be a false narrative. Staunch critics of the Iranian regime, such as the National Council of Resistance of Iran, have maintained this position since the start of his presidency. And others have become more convinced of it in the wake of Rouhani's recent contributions to anti-Western rhetoric, and his failure to take measures to prevent rising rates of executions and crackdowns on dissent.
On Friday, it was reported that even the supposed architect of the moderation narrative, White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes has publicly acknowledged that there has been no change Iran's foreign policy. Rhodes, the subject of a damning and widely discussed New York Times profile, did however express some lingering hope for improvement in Iran's behavior, saying that current efforts to establish a ceasefire in Syria will be the greatest test of whether Iran is willing to compromise.
But previous such efforts have all failed as Iran balked at any proposals that would have led to the ouster or resignation of Bashar al-Assad. If such obstinance persists, it may underscore the idea that the Rouhani administration does not represent the moderate tendencies that some Western policymakers assumed on the basis of nuclear negotiations.
There are numerous varieties of other evidence for this, as well. For instance, it was reported on Friday that an interview between a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and an Iranian media outlet has revealed that Abbas Araghchi, a Rouhani administration diplomat and one of the leading negotiators behind the JCPOA, may be a member of the Quds Force, the foreign wing of the IRGC and a subject of terrorism-related sanctions.
If true, the revelation indicates that one of the main figures in the supposed reconciliation between Iran and the West is also a member of an organization that embodies the Islamic Republic's most hardline foreign policies and its most concerted opposition to Western interests in the Middle East.
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Q: How to build and install custom Mule ESB CE runtime in Anypoint Studio I'm using Anypoint Studio 5.4.2 to develop Mule ESB flows targeted for Mule ESB Community Edition. I've hit a specific bug that is fixed in Mule ESB 3.7.3 - the Enterprise Edition runtime 3.7.3 is installed in Studio by default, but I want to use the Community Edition. I have checked the update site, but only 3.7.0 is available for Community Edition.
I did download the Mule ESB sources, and I'm able to build 3.7.3 community edition standalone server - that will be fine for deployment. I would like to build a Studio plugin so that I can have the 3.7.3 CE for running and testing within Studio. I have read the build instructions and browsed the source code tree, but I don't find anything pertinent - nothing interesting in the first 10 pages of Google results either.
Am I barking up the right tree here? If so, where can I find some documentation, or at least pointers, on how to get this working?
Thanks

A: these links might help you.
Basically, you need to change the packaging of your Mule CE project from .zip into .war so you could deploy it to tomcat.
https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-user-guide/v/3.7/deploying-mule-as-a-service-to-tomcat
You should also be aware of the differences between CE and EE.
http://forums.mulesoft.com/questions/1261/anypoint-studio-esb-community-edition-how-does-it-work.html

A: I am using Anypoint Studio 5.4.2 with Enterprise Edition of 3.7.2. After looking into how server runs in studio, I believe that runtime is installed as plugin at path -
..\AnypointStudio5\plugins\org.mule.tooling.server.3.7.2.ee_5.3.2.201511052018\mule

Mule core jar along with other modules are at -
\org.mule.tooling.server.3.7.2.ee_5.3.2.201511052018\mule\lib\mule

You can take a look at similar structure in your studio and see if you can replace any jar that you have fixed.
If you want to find path of mule-core-*.jar path in studio, press CTRL+T and search for class MuleServer and check the jar path.
Edit: OR
If you have found any bug and fixed it, then you can report bug and contribute to get it fixed officially -
https://github.com/mulesoft/mule#contribute


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Hilaria Baldwin's Daughter Found Out She's Pregnant, and Aww, She Wants a Sister So Bad
Hilaria Baldwin Telling Her Daughter She's Having a Baby
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Hilaria Baldwin announced earlier this month that she's pregnant with her fifth child with husband Alec Baldwin, and even though we've been privy to the knowledge for about a week or so, Hilaria's oldest daughter, Carmen, just heard the news. Although Carmen has an older sister in Ireland Baldwin — Alec's daughter from his marriage to Kim Basinger — Carmen has been blessed with nothing but little brothers (three, to be exact!) in the last four years, and she's got something to say about it.
"Are you pregnant?" Carmen asks in a video Hilaria posted to Instagram. She giggles in excitement, and asks if it's twins (it's not) before following up with, "Is it a girl?" Because it's too early to tell, Hilaria tells her they have to wait a few weeks to find out, and the 6-year-old responds, "I think that's the last baby we're gonna have . . . if it's a girl, that'd be a relief!" Hilaria asks her, "What if it's another boy?" and Carmen looks sweetly into the camera and whispers, "Too many brothers." Ha!
"I recorded this to send to Alec when I told Carmen I was pregnant. Her reaction is so sweet that I wanted to share with you," Hilaria wrote in her caption, adding, "P.S. I just learned it's #nationaldaughterday . . . so happy day to my darling Carmencita." This mama daughter duo is so cute!
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In testimony before the Committee on Science and Technology at the United States House of Representatives Wednesday morning, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates implored Congress and the President to "act decisively" to ensure that the country maintain its global leadership position in technology innovation.
Gates's testimony focused on three key themes: education, research, and immigration.
He cited low graduation rates -- particularly among underrepresented groups -- along with a low level of college preparedness as two troubling factors in education impacting students. He said that fewer than 40 percent of graduating high school students are prepared to enter college without taking remedial courses in material "they should have learned in high school."
He added: "Our record on high school math and science education is particularly troubling. International tests indicate that U.S. fourth graders rank among the top students in the world in science and above average in math. By eighth grade, they have moved closer to the middle of the pack. By 12th grade, U.S. students score near the bottom of all industrialized nations. As a result, too many U.S. students enter college without even the basic skills needed to pursue a degree in science and engineering."
Education, however, is only part of the issue, according to Gates. He said that improving education is one thing, but keeping those we educate in this country once they've been graduated is another issue altogether -- one that must be addressed through immigration reform.
"At a time when talent is the key to economic success, it makes no sense to educate people in our universities, often subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, and then insist that they return home," he in a statement released to coincide with his testimony. "To address the shortage of scientists and engineers, we must...reform our education system and our immigration policies. If we don't, American companies simply will not have the talent they need to innovate and compete."
Gates also called on the committee to increase federal research funding and to provide incentives for private-sector research and development. Funding for basic scientific research has stagnated or declined in the United States -- dropping by half as a percentage of GDP since 1970 for physical sciences and engineering research.


The oppression that's palpable throughout Rosewater, Jon Stewart's feature directing debut, does not come from bringing to life the punitive measures that the Islamic republic of Iran exerts on those who strive to shine a light on their freedom-snuffing ways. Rather, it emanates from the film itself, how it strains to bear witness to the tenacity of somebody placed in said government's cross hairs after choosing to disseminate the violent lengths to which officials would go to quell dissent.
That seeing the story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari told on film would feel like taking your medicine hardly comes as a shock. What's surprising is that it was Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, who deemed this subject matter, which was begging for his biting brand of satire, had to be treated with stern-faced earnestness. The end result brims with artistic integrity and sterling intentions. It is also a tedious slog, one that's not helped in the least by the novice director's lumpy structure and even sloppier editing.
Following a brief prologue in which Bahari (Gael García Bernal, capably taking on an Iranian accent) shares a childhood anecdote that introduces the titular fragrance, we're shown the day the London-based journalist is taken into custody at his mother's Tehran residence. Stewart then goes back in time to his arrival in Tehran circa June 2009. Bahari, a London-based reporter on assignment from Newsweek, is there to interview Mir-Houssein Moussavi, the prime challenger to incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (aka Mr. There Are No Gays in Iran) ahead of the country's presidential election. Bahari knows it will be in his best interest to hire a driver for the duration of his stay, and Davood (Dimitri Leonidas) hustles him for the job. The scene where the two negotiate the terms of Davood's employment is matter-of-fact and promisingly lighthearted.
Imagine Bahari's dismay when Davood shows up the next morning with a motorcycle instead of a car, which at least that gives Stewart an excuse to give viewers a resident's eye-view of Tehran's roadways. Bahari conducts his interviews, and sees the possibility of a better tomorrow for his home country. (Bahari was born in Tehran but moved to Canada in 1988 to study film and political science.) "Who knows? Maybe this time it will be different," he tells his mom, Moloojoon (Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo), who remains skeptical … with good reason, as it turns out.
So far, so good. Stewart makes up in journalistic inquisitiveness what he lacks in visual flair and pacing. Unfortunately, what feels like the bulk of Rosewater unfolds inside the walls of Evin Prison, where Bahari spent 118 days being interrogated and often tortured, both mentally and physically, by a man (Kim Bodnia) bearing that scent of rosewater that reminds him of his childhood. This is not the first time, you see, that Bahari's family has been persecuted by the government. In an ill-conceived bit of magic realism, the reporter has entire conversations with his deceased father (Haluk Bilginer), who was jailed by the Shah's regime in the 1950s. His late sister Maryam (Golshifteh Farahani), who appears in flashback scenes, was an activist targeted by the Ayatollah Khomeini's government in the 1980s.
I felt Rosewater's potential petering out when I realized Stewart had failed to find a way to make Bahari's four-month jail stint compelling. The filmmaker resists milking the absurdity of the government's suspicions that he's a spy for laughs, limiting himself to conveying Bahari's bemused incredulity at the accusations. "I am very deliberately refraining from falling back on political satire," Stewart seems to be declaring on every frame of Rosewater, but his knack for dealing with dry subject matter in all kinds of entertaining, often hilarious ways would have worked wonders. It's almost cruel, really, how he turns the film into such a humorless bore. The heavy-handed metaphor that is Bahari's blindfold extends to Stewart's self-imposed tunnel vision. Call this self-important valentine to freedom of expression a missed opportunity.


Metal Injection offers up the exclusive video premiere of 'Wolf On Anareta', from psychedelic conjurors, USX. The production was directed by Paul Anderson with additional creative help/execution by USX violinist Meg Mulhearn and a virtual army of imaginative friends. Partially shot in an upscale restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina, the trippy, blood strewn, six-plus-minute 'Wolf On Anareta' comes from the band's 'Run Thick In The Night' full-length, released via Neurot Recordings in 2010.
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