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The Group Profile
ICC (PVT) LIMITED ( Established in Year 1958 )
This is the largest company in its field in Pakistan and is engaged in engineering and turnkey construction of large-scale electrical and mechanical projects. The company has played a vital role in the country's economy by constructing a major portion of Pakistan's electrical network. ICC specializes in turnkey contracts of High Voltage Transmission lines, Substations, Power Stations, Communication Systems and Mechanical Installations. It has long standing business relations with various International Companies of repute.
ICC ( Pvt. ) Ltd. belongs to one of the reputed technically oriented, multi discipline group of companies engaged in Engineering; Manufacturing and large scale Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Construction fields in Pakistan. The first company was established in 1931 and presently the following group companies are playing a leading role in their respective fields. Even though the companies are functionally independent with separate balance sheets they have an almost similar equity structure and a common Board of Directors.
The Imperial Electric Company (Pvt) Limited
ICC Textiles Limited
Emco Industries Limited
Arabian Electrical Transmission Line Construction Co.
ICC (Pvt) Limited, formerly known as Imperial Construction Company has played a vital and active role in trying to achieve the objective of self sufficiency in electrical technology in Pakistan. Over the last six decades, ICC has worked side by side with WAPDA, NTDC, K-Electric and has made a major contribution towards the construction of High Voltage Transmission Network, Sub-Stations and Power Stations in the country. It is proud of the reputation earned in this period which is reflected through a dynamic list of achievements in the field of Electrical and Mechanical Construction.
ICC was established in 1958 and at that time it was the first Pakistani Company to undertake turnkey projects for construction of Transmission Lines in the country. ICC has done pioneering work in the field of Transmission Lines and High Voltage Transmission Line stretching almost over the entire terrain of Pakistan. It specialises in the Design, Furnishing of materials, Erection, Testing and Commissioning of a complete Transmission Line System. Over 12,000 Km of Distribution and Transmission Lines ranging from 11 KV to 500 KV have been constructed to date. One great achievement in the process has been the acquisition of technical know-how and self reliance thereby eliminating participation of foreign companies in transmission line construction in Pakistan.
Construction of Transmission Line is of course only one dimension of ICC's varied scope of activities. ICC also specialises in design and construction of HV and EHV Sub-Stations, Mechanical Erection of Power Stations, Process Equipment and Communication Systems.
ICC is the only Pakistani Company engaged in the design, supply of materials erection, testing and commissioning of HV and EHV Sub-stations operating in the domestic market. It has been a major contributor to the development undertaken by WAPDA in this field. WAPDA realising ICC's technical expertise awarded the construction of the first 500 KV Sub-station in Pakistan to ICC at Tarbela in 1977.
ICC has created a separate division to work on large projects involving Mechanical Erection of Hydel and Thermal Power Stations, Process Equipment and Pipelines. For the first time in Pakistan a Pakistani company, ICC, was awarded the project as Main Contractor to construct a complete Thermal Power Station by Pakistan Steel Mills, Karachi. The project involved Mechanical Erection of Three Turbo Generators of 55 MW each, along with four Boilers, Water Chemical Treatment Plant, Oil Facilities, Refractory Work and Control Equipment. Pakistan Steel also awarded to ICC many contracts for Mechanical/Electrical works totaling 30,000 tons for various complexes at the Steel Mills. Subsequently, ICC was involved in Mechanical Installation (3x210) Thermal Power set up at Muzaffargarh & 4 units of (4x323 MW) for HUBCO and later on 412 MW Rousch Power Plant.
ICC was also engaged in the Mechanical Erection of Hydel Turbines, Generators, Control and Power Cables for Mangla Units 7 &8 of 125 MVA each. It was also the turnkey contract for design, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the entire Medium and High Voltage Switchgear for the above units. ICC also completed complete stator erection of 432 MW generator stator for Tarbela hydel power station units 11-14. ICC was also responsible for the design and supply of control and protection of the 432MW turbines and generators at Tarbela units 11-14.
ICC completed a WAPDA/USAID project for survey, mapping and data-base development of Distribution Feeders of WAPDA system. The project involved designing a complex system of software and hardware and includes computerised data acquisition.
ICC also has a Civil Construction Division which is capable of construction of Buildings for Housing, Offices, Shopping, Storage etc along with their complete infra structure.
ICC is also registered with Pakistan Engineering Council as a "NO LIMIT CONTRACTOR".
ICC has certification of ISO 9001:2008 in the field of Design, Supply, Project Management and Construction of HV and EHV Transmission Lines and Substation.
THE IMPERIAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Pvt) LIMITED ( Established in Year 1931 )
The parent company of the group was founded in 1931 and is engaged in supply of Power Generation, Transmission Lines, Substations, Distribution and Industrial Power Equipment. It represents the world's most renowned manufacturers in the related field such as Saft of France, Alcoa, Foster Wheeler and Copperweld of USA, Thorn and Puma of UK.
EMCO INDUSTRIES LIMITED ( Established in Year 1954 )
EMCO is a manufacturing concern and specializes in all types and sizes of High and Low Voltage Porcelain Insulators and other Porcelain Products. 132kV Surge Arresters and Disconnectors is yet another product of EMCO. The technology for the manufacture of insulators was obtained from NGK of Japan. In addition to meeting Pakistan's entire demand for insulators it also exports insulators to various countries in Asia, Africa and Middle East.EMCO has also diversified into the manufacture of Ceramic Wall Tiles for consumer market. The tile division presently enjoys more than 35% of the market share in Pakistan and moreover it has exported tiles in African countries and the United States.
AETCON ( Established in Year 1998 )
Arabian Electrical Transmission Line Construction Co. Ltd., (Aetcon) is a 50/50 joint venture of Tamimi Group of Saudi Arabia and ICC (Pvt) Ltd., Pakistan. This company was founded in 1998 to handle engineering and turnkey construction of large-scale electrical and mechanical projects in the Middle East region and specially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During a short span of time Aetcon has developed its name as one of the Leading Companies in Saudi Arabia for construction of high voltage of transmission lines and sub-stations.
ASSOCIATED ENGINEERS (PVT) LIMITED (AEL)
ICC TEXTILES LIMITED ( Established in Year 1990 )
ICC Textiles Limited is just another example of the group's endeavor to achieve excellence. The modern Weaving Plant is located in the vicinity of Lahore and is producing premium quality Grey Fabric, primarily for the export market. The plant is based on the renowned weaving technologies supplied by Toyota Corporation Japan and Sulzer Textile of Switzerland and is backed by latest technologies in the associated areas. The plant has an annual capacity to produce 40 Million Sq. Meters of Grey Fabrics based on middle range cotton and polyester cotton blends. The product range includes Corduroys, Drills, Twills, Satins, Poplins, Oxfords, Percales, Cords, Piques, Satin bands, Satin stripes, Cross Hatch, Dobby Designs for home furnishing & garments and Sheeting's of various construction and widths, in 100% cotton, cotton/lycra, cotton/viscose and polyester/cotton blends.The plant is equipped with 172 most modern Weaving Machines. These machines provide an unprecedented standard of versatility, productivity and technological perfection. The looms ideally blends established mechanics and advanced electronics.


If you have spent much time in a dental office, you may have heard the terms smile makeover and full mouth reconstruction. These treatments sound similar, and are often used interchangeably. However, there are certain, distinct differences between the two; one involves restorative procedures, while one uses treatments in cosmetic dentistry to achieve your goals.
Today, Dr. Thomas Tang and our Brookfield, WI dental team explore smile makeover vs. full mouth reconstruction so you can be well-informed about your treatment options.
Even if you have excellent oral hygiene, there may be a few aesthetic aspects of your smile you wish to improve. A smile makeover combines multiple cosmetic procedures to enhance the appearance of your teeth and gums.
Candidates for a smile makeover should have healthy teeth and gums, and should be committed to practicing proper oral hygiene.
Tooth decay, periodontal disease, and other serious dental problems should be addressed before pursuing any cosmetic treatments. Furthermore, qualifying patients should have a full understanding of the procedures, and reasonable expectations of treatment.
Cosmetic bonding: Composite resin material can be applied to conceal chips, cracks, craze lines, and stubborn discoloration.
Porcelain veneers: These custom-crafted shells of medical-grade ceramic can camouflage a wide range of cosmetic concerns, such as fractures, chips, discoloration, and even slight misalignment.
Tooth-colored fillings: Many of our patients opt to replace their old silver fillings with tooth-colored composite restorations for a more natural look.
CEREC® porcelain crowns: Made in our office while you wait, CEREC porcelain crowns can be color-matched to your surrounding teeth.
Teeth whitening: Dentist-supervised whitening can dramatically lighten the shade of your teeth.
Invisalign®: This alternative to metal braces straightens the teeth using removeable, clear thermoplastic trays.
Like a smile makeover, full mouth reconstruction combines two or more procedures with the same goal in mind. However, the primary objective of this treatment is to improve oral health and function through restorative dentistry.
Who Qualifies for Full Mouth Reconstruction?
Those with significant or multiple oral health concerns typically qualify for full mouth reconstruction. Candidates may have extensive decay, gum disease, infection, or a combination of all of these. Eligible patients must also be committed to regular dental visits and proper oral hygiene in order to preserve their investment and overall health.
Fillings: Small cavities can be repaired using composite fillings, which strengthen the tooth and help prevent further damage.
Dental crowns: Larger cavities can be addressed with dental crowns. These restorations can also reinforce a tooth weakened by damage or breakage.
Bridges: Are you missing one to three teeth in a row? A dental bridge can span the gap in your smile and support proper bite function.
Dental implants: These tiny titanium posts restore missing teeth roots, and can support crowns, bridges, or dentures to complete your smile.
Root canal treatment: This procedure is necessary when bacteria invade the innermost layer of a tooth. By removing infection, we can treat the problem and help prevent future issues.
Periodontal therapy: Oral bacteria can irritate the gingiva, resulting in red, tender, swollen gums. Periodontal therapy can eliminate infection and improve oral health.
Whether you need restorative or cosmetic work, Dr. Tang can help. Schedule a visit at our practice to explore your treatment options. Call us at (262) 821-1000 or contact us online.


Glen Ellyn Infant Welfare is a society of women who have made a commitment to the well being of Glen Ellyn's children. Through its community service projects and fund-raising efforts, this society serves as an integral link between children in need and the community.
We have 2 types of membership: "Active", the 70 members who make up the meat of the organization, "Sustaining", which consists of former Active members who continue to be involved in the organization on a limited basis.
General meetings are held once a month in a member's home. They consist of lunch (prepared and served by that month's committee) at 11:30 and are followed by a business meeting at 11:45. "Business" involves board reports and any timely information that needs to be presented.
Like most organizations, Infant Welfare has an Executive Board, consisting of a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. We also have an Appointed Board of 11 positions, each filled by one or two members, which are responsible for a specific facet of operations.


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Windies stronger following tough Zimbabwe tour
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Resurgent Windies aim to end 22-year wait
Take Zimbabwe and Bangladesh out of the equation, Windies haven't won an away Test series since clinching one in New Zealand in 1995. The win came as a result of their success at the Basin Reserve in Wellington, where they hammered the hosts by an innings and 322 runs. More than 22 years later, they step into the same venue, with a side that is far less intimidating but with a renewed hope injected following some recent results.
Going through a prolonged period of poor form especially in Tests, Windies defied the odds to stun England in a Test earlier this year to boost their confidence and they followed it up with a series win in Zimbabwe. Shai Hope's turnaround is the biggest takeaway for the Windies from this brief period and if the youngster can showcase the same form that held his side's batting together in England, then New Zealand will have their task cut out. He has already begun the tour in fine fashion by cracking a century in the warm-up fixture.
Windies will also be buoyed after witnessing some pyrotechnics from the bat of Sunil Ambris. The wicketkeeper-batsman was drafted into the squad in place of Kyle Hope, who had looked out of sorts with the bat. Ambris smashed 153 off just 145 balls in the warm-up game and the fact that he did it against a strong New Zealand A outfit would give him plenty of confidence before facing the likes of Trent Boult and Neil Wagner.
Question marks still surround over the make up of the bowling attack though as their pacers will be expected to come to the fore on a surface that looked very green earlier in the week. The series in Zimbabwe was played on slow surfaces where their spinners did most of the damage but the roles will have to be reversed here. But considering the fact that New Zealand haven't played a Test match in over eight months, the Windies seamers can take advantage of any visible rustiness in the hosts' batting lineup. Kane Williamson will once again be the key alongside Ross Taylor, who had a terrific series the last time the same side toured four years ago.
New Zealand will also have to contend with a couple of absentees to begin their home season. Regular wicketkeeper BJ Watling is out of the game and that presents an opportunity to newcomer Tom Blundell. In the pace department, Mark Henry will get a crack in the absence of Tim Southee. The Williamson-led side will be looking to give a good account of themselves as tougher challenges await them this home season with England set to tour later.
When: New Zealand vs Windies, 1st Test,December 1-5,11:00 AM local time,3:30 AM IST
Where: Basin Reserve, Wellington
What to expect: Chilly weather is expected throughout the course of the Test match. The wicket looked completely green earlier in the week and is likely to aid the seamers given the history of the venue.
Team News:
Having played only one T20I for New Zealand, Tom Blundell is all set to make his Test debut after an injury ruled out BJ Watling. With Southee expecting the birth of his child, the think-tank have opted to play Mark Henry ahead of Lockie Ferguson as their playing XI was announced one day prior to the game.
Playing XI: Tom Latham, Jeet Raval, Kane Williamson (c), Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls, Tom Blundell (WK), Mitchell Santner, Colin de Grandhomme, Matt Henry, Neil Wagner, Trent Boult
The visitors are expected to hand a debut to Ambris, who impressed in the warm-up game earlier. He has featured in a solitary ODI prior to this. Considering they are making the switch from spin-friendly wickets to tracks that assist seamers, Windies' bowling combination is likely to change.
Windies played with the same XI in their last four Tests – only once they have had a longer run with an unchanged XI (five Tests against Australia in 1990-91 at home). However, with Kyle Hope missing out, they will be making a forced change.
Ross Taylor averages 62.35 against Windies. In five Tests played at home, he averages 112 against them. However, in the five away Tests, his average drops to 34.77.
Kane Williamson needs one more hundred to go past Martin Crowe's 17 as New Zealand's leading century maker in Tests.
What they said:
"There's always bounce for all bowlers so spinners get a bit out of it, seamers get a bit out of it. And as batters there's always value for your shots because there's a fast outfield and good pace in the surface." – Kane Williamson, New Zealand captain
"We're in a pretty good place at this point in time. We've built up quite nicely this past year. We're still not the finished product, but we're heading in the right direction." – Jason Holder, Windies captain
Taken from CricBuzz

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Limpag: Softball: Unappreciated and untapped
MIKE T. LIMPAG
THE most popular team sports in the country are basketball, volleyball and football. These three, too, have the most backing commercially. Just check Gilas Pilipinas, the various pro volleyball leagues and of course, the Azkals.
Now, what team sport do you think has the best chance to make it to the 2020 Olympics? What team event do you know of that we finished second in an Asian level competition?
Basketball? Yep, we did finish second to China and Iran but it wasn't recent. Volleyball? Heck, we can't even win the gold in the Southeast Asian level, how much more be a contender in the Asian level. Football? Though it's my favorite team sport, it's not it. We are a long ways from being a contender in the Asian level.
Try this. Softball. As a former baseball player, I've always had a soft spot for batted sports and when I played baseball during the elementary years, the sentiment was that if only the sport would get more support, we'd go places.
Three decades later, that is still the prevailing sentiment. But look at what the Blu Girls have done. They made it to the finals of the Asian championship, losing only to World No. 1 Japan. Before that Japan match, they beat World No. 9 Chinese Taipe and No. 6 China. This year, they've also beaten World No. 3 Canada and No. 4 Australia.
Our girls are world-class athletes! In basketball terms, that would have been the equivalent of Gilas Pilipinas beating Serbia, Argentina and Australia before losing to the US in the final. That's front page news, right?
Yes, but sadly, softball and baseball have always been in the outside looking in; unable to erase the stigma of the Little League World Series scandal 26 years ago? I don't know. At least for softball, we have Jean Henri Lhuillier supporting the girls in their campaign to make it to the Olympics.
Cebu is a hotbed for batted sports in the country and our youth teams regularly win in the Palarong Pambansa but do you see any organized-tournament outside the DepEd calendar?
Nope. That's sad. If Cebu softball is this good without much support, imagine what it can achieve with better support and a broader player base? I hope the Blu Girls make it all the way to the Olympics, perhaps that will give the sport the attention and support it needs.


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ISS-Expedition 60 ist die Missionsbezeichnung für die 60. Langzeitbesatzung der Internationalen Raumstation (ISS). Die Mission begann mit dem Abkoppeln des Raumschiffs Sojus MS-11 von der ISS am 24. Juni 2019 und endete mit dem Abkoppeln von Sojus MS-12 am 3. Oktober 2019.

Im Emblem der Mission ist ein Adler angedeutet. Es nimmt damit Bezug auf das Logo der Apollo-11-Mission, deren 50-jähriges Jubiläum in den Zeitraum der Expedition fiel. Die Mondlandefähre von Apollo 11 trug den Namen Eagle (Adler).

Mannschaft
Von ISS-Expedition 59 übernommen:

 Alexei Nikolajewitsch Owtschinin (2. Raumflug), Kommandant (Russland/Roskosmos, Sojus MS-12)
 Tyler N. Hague (1. Raumflug), Bordingenieur (USA/NASA, Sojus MS-12)
 Christina Hammock Koch (1. Raumflug), Bordingenieurin (USA/NASA, Sojus MS-12)

Zusätzlich ab 20. Juli 2019:

 Luca Parmitano (2. Raumflug), Bordingenieur, (Italien/ESA, Sojus MS-13)
 Alexander Alexandrowitsch Skworzow (3. Raumflug), Bordingenieur (Russland/Roskosmos, Sojus MS-13)
 Andrew Morgan (1. Raumflug), Bordingenieur, (USA/NASA, Sojus MS-13)

Nachdem die ISS bis Expedition 59 nach dem Abdocken einer Sojus für kurze Zeit mit nur drei Personen besetzt war, wurde die Reihenfolge beginnend mit Expedition 60 umgekehrt. Darum stießen am 25. September 2019 mit Sojus MS-15 folgende Gäste zu den Teilnehmern der Expedition 60:

 Oleg Skripotschka (3. Raumflug, Russland/Roskosmos, Sojus MS-15)
 Jessica Meir (1. Raumflug, USA/NASA, Sojus MS-15)
 Hassa al-Mansuri (1. Raumflug, UAE/MBRSC, Sojus MS-15/MS-12)

Ersatzmannschaft

Missionsbeschreibung

In den ersten vier Wochen der Expedition war die ISS nur mit dem Kommandanten Alexei Owtschinin und den Bordingenieuren Nick Hague und Christina Koch besetzt. Am 20. Juli 2019 erreichte das Zubringerschiff Sojus MS-13 nach etwa sechsstündigen Flug die Station, sodass die Expeditionscrew wieder auf sechs Personen verstärkt wurde.

Am 2. Oktober übernahm Luca Parmitano als erster Italiener das Kommando über die ISS. Nach dem Abdocken von Sojus MS-12 mit Owtschinin, Hague und al-Mansuri begann am 3. Oktober die ISS-Expedition 61.

Siehe auch
 Liste der ISS-Expeditionen
 Liste der Raumfahrer auf der Internationalen Raumstation
 Liste der Weltraumausstiege
 Liste der bemannten Raumflüge

Weblinks

 ISS-Expedition 60 bei Spacefacts.de
 ISS-Expedition 60 auf den Seiten der NASA (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

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Europäische Weltraumorganisation
Italienische Raumfahrt
Raumfahrtmission 2019

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10 Top Tourist Attractions in Italy
Posted on January 4, 2020 by Merle Baker
10 Top Tourist Attractions in Italy. Italy is home to the greatest number of UNESCO
World Heritage Sites in the world. High art and monuments are to be found everywhere
around the country. Its great cities of art, like Rome, Venice
and Florence are world famous and have been attracting visitors for centuries. Besides its art treasures Italy also features
beautiful coasts, alpine lakes and mountains. No wonder it is often nicknamed the Bel Paese
(beautiful country). With so many amazing sights, putting together
a top 10 list of tourist attractions in Italy is no easy task. The following list however should give a good
indication of why over 40 million foreign tourists visit Italy ever year. 10: San Gimignano. Nicknamed the medieval Manhatten, San Gimignano
is a village in Tuscany famous for its 14 stone towers. At the height of San Gimignano's wealth
and power, more than 70 towers were built to defend the town against enemy attacks. After the plague devastated the city in 1348,
San Gimignano's power faded, which kept enemies away and preserved many of the city's
medieval towers. 9: Manarola (Cinque Terre). Mestled in the Italian Riviera, Manarola is
one of the oldest towns in Cinque Terre. The "Five Lands" comprises of five villages
noted for their beauty. Part of Cinque Terre charm is the lack of
visible modern development. Paths, trains and boats connect the villages,
and cars cannot reach it from the outside. The towns sprout out of the mountainside to
provide a breathtaking view of the Mediterranean sea. 8: Leaning Tower of Pisa. The world famous Pisa Tower was built over
a period of about 177 years. Soon after the construction started in 1173
the tower began to sink due to a poorly laid foundation and was left alone for almost a
century. When the construction resumed the engineers
built higher floors with one side taller than the other to compensate for the tilt and the
tower was finally finished in the 2nd half of the 14th century. Since 2001, the famous tower in Pisa is again
open to those wishing to climb it's 296 steps. 7: Lake Como (Italian Lake District). Lake Como is part of the Italian Lake District
an area popular with visitors for well over 100 years for its combination of fresh air,
water, mountains and good weather. The lake is shaped much like an inverted 'Y',
with two branches starting at Como in the south-west and Lecco in the south-east, which
join together half way up and the lake continues up to Colico in the north. The lake is famous for the attractive villas
which have been built here since Roman times. Many have admirable gardens which benefit
from the mild climate and are able to include tropical as well as temperate plants. 6: Positano (Amalfi Coast). Positano is a small town located on the Amalfi
Coast, a stretch of coastline renowned for its rugged terrain, scenic beauty, picturesque
towns and diversity. The city seems to be scattered from top to
bottom down a hillside leading to the coast. Though Positano grew and prospered in medieval
times, by the mid 19th more than half of the population was gone. In the 20th century it went from being a poor
fishing village to a very popular tourist attraction with the help of author John Steinbeck
who wrote about its beauty. 5: Pompeii. On August 24, 79 AD, the volcano Vesuvius
erupted, covering the nearby town Pompeii with ash and soil, and subsequently preserving
the city in its state from that fateful day. Everything from jars and tables to paintings
and people were frozen in time. Its excavation has provided an extraordinarily
detailed insight into the life of people living two thousand years ago. Today Pompeii is one of the most popular tourist
attractions of Italy, with approximately 2,500,000 visitors every year. 4: Piazza del Campo. One of Europe's greatest medieval squares,
the Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and
architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its famous tower,
as well as various palazzi signorili belonging to the wealthiest of Siena families surround
the shell-shaped piazza. The twice-per-year horse-race, Palio di Siena,
involves circling the Piazza del Campo, on which a thick layer of dirt has been laid,
three times and usually lasts no more than 90 seconds. 3: Santa Maria del Fiore. Begun in 1296 in the Gothic style and completed
in 1436, The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is Florence's beautiful cathedral and symbol
of the city. The exterior of the basilica is faced with
polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches,
and until the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed. 2: Colosseum. The Colosseum in Rome is the largest and most
famous amphitheater in the Roman world. Its construction was started by emperor Vespasian
of the Flavian dynasty in 72 AD and was finished by his son Titus in 80 AD. The Colosseum was capable of holding some
50,000 spectators who could enter the building through no less than 80 entrances. Spectators were protected from the rain and
heat of the sun by sails called the "velarium", that was attached around the top of the attic. 1: Canals of Venice. Referred to as "The City of Water", Venice
is the crown jewel of water cities. Romantic gondolas, and Italian architecture
along the Grand Canal helped earn this status. Stitched together with over 150 canals that
have become central to its character, Venice has decayed since its heyday and has more
tourists than residents, but with its romantic charm it remains one of the top tourist attractions
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As promised here's the follow up to part 1.
In part 1 I made a mistake. I accidentally got lost in the replay and started debugging from the wrong point. I believe I might have started with the wrong event number.
The best way to make sure you're not getting lost in a replay is to use the 'when' command to print the current timeline event id that you're at. With this event ID you can compare it against the stdout event marks and make sure you are at the point in the replay that you expect. Because of issue #1653 it wasn't possible to use 'when' without risking a crash so I wasn't able to see that I was lost. However this is now fixed on trunk! This was fixed today and I was able to use it from time to time and make sure I was where I wanted to be.
On this note I think this RR needs a feature to make it easier to stay within a certain bounds. It's easy when doing continue/reverse continue to jump past the reftest that you're interested in and suddenly you're debugging in something unrelated.
This time the display list was reporting that both the good and the bad frame had the correct Image Rotation. However the frame size was wrong.
I had originally assumed that the image wasn't rotated because of the proportion it had. However on a closer look the image was in fact rotated properly but it was stretched out in the opposite direction giving the impression that the image was not rotated.
With this information it was now clear that the rotation was correct but the image frame size was not.
It turns out that there's a few interesting events for how the nsImageFrame is sized. There's 'nsLayoutUtils::OrientImage', 'nsImageFrame::Reflow', 'nsImageFrame::GetIntrinsicSize' and 'nsImageFrame::UpdateIntrinsicSize'.
Now since we're suspected a race conditions it's likely that these things are called in a bad sequence in the 'bad' trace. Turns out that guess was correct.
He we can tell that the 'good' call sequence is UpdateIntrinsicSize, GetIntrinsicSize, Reflow. Doing the same for the 'bad' replay gives us: GetIntrinsicSize, UpdateIntrinsicSize, Reflow. Note how we call UpdateIntrinsicSize with the right value but never query them. That's bad!
At some point I think RR could use some UI improvements to make it easier to build timelines (and deal with 'when' ties) but not today.
Now at this point we had several theories about the timeline. Theories were tested mostly using reverse-continue to get a better idea of the timeline differences and a few reverse-continue with a memory watchpoint (watch -l).
Turns out that the bug is pretty complicated. There's a race condition in which we fire the 'load' event on the ImageDocument. At this point we've actually fully decoded the image and have the correct size and rotation for the image. However in the 'bad' trace we're missing something very important. We haven't built the proper StyleVisibility for the image frame which is missing an important 'image-orientation' property. Without this CSS property we will ignore the image rotation when computing the size ImageDocument even though it's set correctly and on time. We also have no hooks to invalidate the size of the ImageDocument when the CSS propertie finally comes in so in this race condition the bad value sticks forever. We will get the correct image rotation value when we paint and thus the image will be rotated correctly but since the ImageDocument has the wrong size it will be stretched out vertically.
Turns out that we can avoid sizing the image frame entirely and just use CSS to implement the shrinkToFit while preserving the aspect ratio. The fix was to use 'object-fit: contain;' instead of trying to sync up the width/height of ImageDocument, nsImageFrame and nsIDOMHTMLImageElement as the CSS styles are changing. Using CSS to implement the shrinkToFit behavior is much more robust.
The good news is fixing this wasn't just fixing an infrastructure race. The bad behavior can actually be seen manually by toggling 'image-orientation' in an image document with exif rotation. This intermittent was warning us about a real problem.


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Multiply is a nine-meter-high installation built from cross-laminated timber, on show at the V&A during London Design Festival, to demonstrate the potential of carbon-neutral buildings. London-based architecture studio Waugh Thistleton, that designed the installation, has experience in delivering a wide range of building types, including affordable housing, private residential projects, offices and commercial spaces, and mixed-use, cultural and leisure. The quality of the buildings and their commitment to the use of timber construction has earned them an international reputation in environmentally sustainable architecture and design.
The studio used a modular three-storey structure that showcases the first British-made CLT – a type of engineered wood that is much stronger than standard timber, manufactured in Scotland using American tulipwood. The project was a collaboration between the architects, engineering firm Arup (already on WeVux) and the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC). The process involves layering sections of wood at right angles, then glueing them together. MultiPly comprises 111 panels of CLT, locking in 30 tonnes of carbon dioxide. This means that all the emissions from making and transporting the raw materials are offset, making MultiPly a carbon-neutral structure: the building arrived to the site as a flat-pack kit of parts, the panels were slotted together using digitally fabricated joints, allowing the pavilion to be assembled in just five days.
Waugh told Dezeen: "It's about not using concrete and steel, but carbon friendly replenish-able materials." MultiPly is open at the V&A Sackler Courtyard from 15 September to 1 October 2018.
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Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance (Paperback)
By Robert N. Proctor (Editor), Londa Schiebinger (Editor)
Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (Paperback)
By Jens Zimmermann
The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) (Paperback)
By Errol Morris
How We Think (Paperback)
By John Dewey
Problems in Epistemology and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates (Paperback)
By Steven B. Cowan (Editor)
The Cognitive Science of Belief: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Paperback)
By Julien Musolino (Editor), Joseph Sommer (Editor), Pernille Hemmer (Editor)
Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
By A. P. Martinich, David Sosa
Einstein's Moon: Debunking the Many-Worlds Myth and Other Misinterpretations of Quantum Mechanics (Paperback)
By Philip Golabuk
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Great Books in Philosophy) (Paperback)
By Sextus Empiricus
Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds (Paperback)
By Edouard Machery
A Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why (Paperback)
By Renata Salecl
Persistence (Paperback)
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Biografia
Ha recitato in una ventina di film, in alcuni dei quali con lo pseudonimo di Ronald Russo. Nel 2006 dirige il suo primo film Crazy blood.

Nel 2020 ha scritto e diretto il suo secondo lungometraggio Abisso nero.

Filmografia

Attore
 Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno, regia Giuseppe Orlandini (1972)
 Mussolini ultimo atto, regia di Carlo Lizzani (1974)
 L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone, regia di Giuseppe Bennati (1974)
 Carambola, regia di Ferdinando Baldi (1974)
 Roma a mano armata, regia di Umberto Lenzi (1976)
 La svastica nel ventre, regia di Mario Caiano (1977)
 I peccati di una giovane moglie di campagna, regia di Alfredo Rizzo (1977)
 I vizi morbosi di una governante, regia di Filippo Walter Ratti (1977)
 Thrauma, regia di Gianni Martucci (1980)
 Ladyhawke, regia di Richard Donner (1985)
 The Black Cobra, regia di Stelvio Massi (1987)
 I frati rossi, regia di Gianni Martucci (1988)
 Hansel e Gretel, regia di Giovanni Simonelli (1990)
 Le porte dell'inferno, regia di Umberto Lenzi (1990)
 Detective Malone, regia di Umberto Lenzi (1991)
 Caged - Le prede umane, regia di Leandro Lucchetti (1991)
 Belle da morire, regia di Riccardo Sesani (1992)
 La caccia, il cacciatore, la preda (1995)
 Delitti a luce rossa, regia di Pasqualino Fanetti (1996)
 Con gli occhi dell'assassino, regia di Corrado Colombo – film TV (2001)
 L'isola dei morti viventi, regia di Bruno Mattei (2006)

Regia, sceneggiatore e attore
 Crazy blood (2006)
 Abisso nero (2020)

Collegamenti esterni


It is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction primarily within the North Caucasus region of the country, and Russian bases in South Caucasian post-Soviet states. The Southern Military District was created as part of the 2008 military reforms, and founded by Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20, 2010, to replace the North Caucasus Military District, and absorbing the military commands of the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla. The district began operation on October 22, 2010, under the command of Colonel-General Aleksandr Galkin.
The Southern Military District is the smallest military district in Russia by geographic size. The district contains 151 federal subjects of Russia: Adygea, Astrakhan Oblast, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai, North Ossetia-Alania, Rostov Oblast, Stavropol Krai, Volgograd Oblast, and since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Crimea and Sevastopol.
The Southern Military District is headquartered in Rostov-on-Don, and its current district commander is Colonel-General Aleksandr Dvornikov, who has held the position since 20 September 2016.
The Southern Military District was formed on October 22, 2010, according to Presidential Decree of 20 September 2010 № 1144 "On the Military Administrative Division Of the Russian Federation" the Southern Military District was created along with two other new larger military districts: the Central Military District and the Eastern Military District. By order of then Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, on July 22, 2010, interim commanders were named for the new military districts. Thus, the new position of commander of the Southern Military District, was Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Galkin, former Commander of the North Caucasus Military District, with Major-General Nikolai Pereslegin as the chief of staff for the district. Galkin was later promoted to Colonel General soon after his appointment as district commander.
The Southern Military District also features two Russian military bases in Armenia: the 102nd Military Base in Gyumri, and the 3624th Air Base at the civil-military Erebuni Airport in the capital Yerevan, under the joint control of Armenian and Russian authorities.
In April 2014, Crimea and Sevastopol were added to the Southern Military District following the 2014 Crimean crisis in Ukraine, when they were annexed by Russia. The legal status of Crimea (as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) and the city of Sevastopol is currently under dispute: Ukraine and the majority of the international community considers them an integral part of Ukraine, while Russia considers them an integral part of Russia, with Crimea (as the Republic of Crimea) and Sevastopol approved as federal subjects of Russian Federation.
In 2016, the District was 98% staffed by contract servicemen.
As part of the larger reorganisation, the 49th Army appears to have reformed with its headquarters seemingly in the former Institute of Communications of the Strategic Rocket Forces at Stavropol. According to warfare.ru, 49th Army (listed at Stavropol/Maikop) has under control the 4th Guards and 7th Military Bases (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and the 8th (former Taman Guards Motor Rifle Division), 33rd Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade and 34th separate Mountain Motor Rifle Brigades (Borzoi, Chechniya, Maikop, and Storozhevaya-2), as well as the 66th Communications Brigade.
There are also three Spetsnaz brigades (the 100th, 10th, and 22nd), plus two Russian Airborne Troops units also stationed in the district:the 7th Guards Airborne Division at Novorossiysk and the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade at Kamyshin. The Russian Air Force has the 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army in the district. Also under the district's control are the Navy's Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla, including their respective air and Naval Infantry components.
In early 2017, the formation of a new 8th Army, successor to the Soviet 8th Guards Army, began, as part of the Southern Military District. The army's headquarters is located at Novocherkassk and it is to include the 150th Motor Rifle Division and the 20th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. The first phase of its formation is to be completed in June 2017.
^1 The federal subjects of Crimea and Sevastopol are disputed territories internationally recognized as de jure part of Ukraine but under the de facto administration of the Russian Federation.
^ Milenin, Andrei (20 September 2016). "Александр Дворников назначен командующим войсками ЮВО" [Aleksandr Dvornikov appointed commander of the Southern Military District]. Isvestia (in Russian). Retrieved 2 October 2016.
Gutterman, Steve. "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters.com. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
^ Michael Holm, 56th independent Guards Landing-Assault Brigade, accessed January 2014.
^ Ramm, Alexey; Andreyev, Yevgeny (17 March 2017). "В Южном военном округе появится новая армия" [New army in the Southern Military District]. Isvestia (in Russian). Retrieved 2 April 2017.
^ "На 4-й российской военной базе в Южной Осетии проведены контрольные стрельбы | Политика | ИА "RSOnews"". www.rsonews.org. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
^ Galeotti, 2017, 31, with the retention of the 67th AARB and 34 C3 Bde, which he does not list.
^ Georgia, Civil. "Civil.Ge | Russia troop deployments menace Georgia". www.civil.ge. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
^ "67th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
^ "В Новочеркасск из Майкопа переведена 33-я горная мотострелковая бригада". bloknot-novocherkassk.ru. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
^ "Ukraine says Russian Marines ring coast guard base". Huffington Post. Associated Press. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2014.


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r"""The main entrance for running any of the T5X supported binaries.

Currently this includes train/infer/eval/precompile.

Example Local (CPU) Pretrain Gin usage

python -m t5x.main \
  --gin_file=t5x/examples/t5/t5_1_1/tiny.gin \
  --gin_file=t5x/configs/runs/pretrain.gin \
  --gin.MODEL_DIR=\"/tmp/t5x_pretrain\" \
  --gin.TRAIN_STEPS=10 \
  --gin.MIXTURE_OR_TASK_NAME=\"c4_v220_span_corruption\" \
  --gin.MIXTURE_OR_TASK_MODULE=\"t5.data.mixtures\" \
  --gin.TASK_FEATURE_LENGTHS="{'inputs': 128, 'targets': 30}" \
  --gin.DROPOUT_RATE=0.1 \
  --run_mode=train \
  --logtostderr
"""
import concurrent.futures  # pylint:disable=unused-import
import enum
import importlib
import os
import sys
from typing import Optional, Sequence

from absl import app
from absl import flags
from absl import logging

import gin
import jax
import seqio

from t5x import gin_utils
from t5x import utils

@enum.unique
class RunMode(enum.Enum):
  """All the running mode possible in T5X."""
  TRAIN = 'train'
  EVAL = 'eval'
  INFER = 'infer'
  PRECOMPILE = 'precompile'
  EXPORT = 'export'

_GIN_FILE = flags.DEFINE_multi_string(
    'gin_file',
    default=None,
    help='Path to gin configuration file. Multiple paths may be passed and '
    'will be imported in the given order, with later configurations  '
    'overriding earlier ones.')

_GIN_BINDINGS = flags.DEFINE_multi_string(
    'gin_bindings', default=[], help='Individual gin bindings.')

_GIN_SEARCH_PATHS = flags.DEFINE_list(
    'gin_search_paths',
    default=['.'],
    help='Comma-separated list of gin config path prefixes to be prepended '
    'to suffixes given via `--gin_file`. If a file appears in. Only the '
    'first prefix that produces a valid path for each suffix will be '
    'used.')

_RUN_MODE = flags.DEFINE_enum_class(
    'run_mode',
    default=None,
    enum_class=RunMode,
    help='The mode to run T5X under')

_TFDS_DATA_DIR = flags.DEFINE_string(
    'tfds_data_dir', None,
    'If set, this directory will be used to store datasets prepared by '
    'TensorFlow Datasets that are not available in the public TFDS GCS '
    'bucket. Note that this flag overrides the `tfds_data_dir` attribute of '
    'all `Task`s.')

_DRY_RUN = flags.DEFINE_bool(
    'dry_run', False,
    'If set, does not start the function but stil loads and logs the config.')

FLAGS = flags.FLAGS

# Automatically search for gin files relative to the T5X package.
_DEFAULT_GIN_SEARCH_PATHS = [
    os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
]

# Mapping of run_mode to the attribute used in the imported module, e.g.
# {EVAL : 'evaluate'} will load 'evaluate' in eval.py.
_ATTR_BY_RUN_MODE = {
    RunMode.TRAIN: 'train',
    RunMode.EVAL: 'evaluate',
    RunMode.INFER: 'infer',
    RunMode.PRECOMPILE: 'precompile',
    RunMode.EXPORT: 'save',
}

main_module = sys.modules[__name__]

def main(argv: Sequence[str]):
  if len(argv) > 1:
    raise app.UsageError('Too many command-line arguments.')

  if _RUN_MODE.value is None:
    raise ValueError("'run_mode' flag must be specified when using main.py.")
  # Dynamic import the modules based on run_mode, e.g.
  # If _RUN_MODE.value is 'train', below is equivalent of doing:
  # from t5x import train
  # train = train.train

  # _RUN_MODE can never be None after this point.
  # pytype: disable=attribute-error
  lib_name = _RUN_MODE.value.name.lower()
  import_attr = _ATTR_BY_RUN_MODE[_RUN_MODE.value]
  # pytype: enable=attribute-error

  parent_module = 't5x'

  module_to_import = f'{parent_module}.{lib_name}'

  logging.info('Dynamically importing : %s', module_to_import)
  imported_lib = importlib.import_module(module_to_import)

  entry_func = getattr(imported_lib, import_attr)
  setattr(main_module, import_attr, entry_func)

  if _TFDS_DATA_DIR.value is not None:
    seqio.set_tfds_data_dir_override(_TFDS_DATA_DIR.value)

  # Register function explicitly under __main__ module, to maintain backward
  # compatability of existing '__main__' module references.
  gin.register(entry_func, '__main__')
  if _GIN_SEARCH_PATHS.value != ['.']:
    logging.warning(
        'Using absolute paths for the gin files is strongly recommended.')

  # User-provided gin paths take precedence if relative paths conflict.
  gin_utils.parse_gin_flags(_GIN_SEARCH_PATHS.value + _DEFAULT_GIN_SEARCH_PATHS,
                            _GIN_FILE.value, _GIN_BINDINGS.value)

  if _DRY_RUN.value:
    return

  run_with_gin = gin.get_configurable(entry_func)

  run_with_gin()

def _flags_parser(args: Sequence[str]) -> Sequence[str]:
  """Flag parser.

  See absl.app.parse_flags_with_usage and absl.app.main(..., flags_parser).

  Args:
    args: All command line arguments.

  Returns:
    [str], a non-empty list of remaining command line arguments after parsing
    flags, including program name.
  """
  return app.parse_flags_with_usage(list(gin_utils.rewrite_gin_args(args)))

if __name__ == '__main__':
  jax.config.parse_flags_with_absl()
  app.run(main, flags_parser=_flags_parser)

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Valentine's (and White) Day in Japan。。。ハピーバレンタインデイ
"It took us a long time to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." Kurt Vonnegut. Heart-shaped "Ema" – wooden plaques on which you write your wishes/prayers. Kasuga Taisha Shrine (Nara, 2008) ema are almost exclusively for wishes of love, for the Special Someone, or to find that Special Someone. . .
ハピー バレンタインデイ
Enduring love stories in a coming of age memoir of Japan: Dancing Over Kyoto.
Dancing Over Kyoto
. This need not, and will not, be an overly involved post. I'll let links (and here's a good one from TIME Magazine) provide most of the substantive information you may be looking for or curious about. Suffice to say that in Japan Valentine's Day thrives, but is celebrated somewhat differently than it is in North America. For one, it's the women who give the men chocolate. To make things a little more complex, there's "Giri-Choko" (or "Obligation Chocolate") that's given to to guys that it needs to be given to, male friends, co-workers, bosses, and the like) and "Honmei-Choko" (or "True Chocolate") that's given to a girl's true love. Lest this seem wholly unfair to the Women of Japan, please note that one month later, on March 14, Japan celebrates the entirely confectionery industry-created holiday "White Day(scroll down just a little)", where men are expected to return the previous month's favors from the women in their lives; by some accounts, on White Day men are obligated treble whatever was spent on them back on Valentine's Day. That said, I offer below a couple of my favorite Japanese tear-jerkers. By most Western pop or rock standards they're overly saccharine or schmaltzy. I don't care – the tunes are beautiful and the words (even if you can't understand them) can get. you. right. there. if you'll let them. And recall what Duke Ellington said: "If it sounds good, it is good." These tunes are very well known in Japan. I first heard 最後のいい訳 in a little Dai-Kichi Yakitori restaurant on Shirakawa Street in Kyoto, back in the autumn of 2005. I picked up the CD the next night. A couple of years later I heard 涙そうそう while watching an in-flight movie by the same name (Nada Sou Sou) on the way to Japan as it had been incorporated into the soundtrack. Actually, the movie was sort of built around the song. Anyway, Miharu's excellent Japan blog goes all into it. The film's about a platonic love, the song sounds much more like romantic love. The film was a very nice one and certainly tore me up at the end (see and click on the link below to catch the end of the movie). Before that, though, I do have a couple of completed stories which fit nicely into the Love Story in Japan genre, "Etsuko" and "A Night in Kyoto". You're welcome to read them. Anyway, here are three (3) very nice Japanese Valentine's Day songs. 最後のいい訳 – "The Last Excuse" — Hideaki Tokunaga . 涙そうそう – "The Tears Flow (profusely)" — Rimi Natsukawa . Note: I saw this movie on plane, high over the Pacific Ocean, flying towards Japan a few years ago. This song came on as the credits rolled. I looked up and around and saw that several of my fellow passengers were joining me in tearing-up. Additional note: the protagonists are step-siblings, not blood-related. That's important to know if one sees the very end (after the credits roll). And here's an excerpt from a review of Nada Sou Sou:
"What is truly unique about this movie within its genre, is its willingness to deal with real life issues; people will cheat you for their own purposes, a romantic relationship between two people from differing social statuses will not work out due to societal pressures, problems can cause strains in even the closest of bonds, and even the person closest to you will have to leave you eventually; in short, life is hard. It is because of this ability to use real life issues to move the plot along, without the apparent need to introduce plot devices out of nowhere, which particularly makes this movie shine. . . ."
What with a couple of heart-breakers preceding, I'll wind up with a more upbeat, it's-tough-but-gonna-work-out, J-Pop song, "Life is Like a Boat" sung half in Japanese and half in English by Rie Fu ( living several of her early years in Maryland ) – .
Ema at Kasuga Taisha (Shinto Shrine).
Finally, I invite you to check this wonderful work: "Godzilla in Love." Credit to the artist, "failur3". .
バレンタインデイ
failur3
Happy Valentine's Day in Japanese
Heart Ema
Kasuga Taisha
Nada Sou Sou
Nara Kasuga
Saigo no Ii Wake
Sirens of Titan
Valentine's Day Japan
White Day Japan
最後のいい訳
涙そうそう
Takeda Castle Ruins. Winter 1990.
Back when I lived in Hyogo Prefecture, Takeda and its castle ruins were situated between Asago and Wadayama. A few years ago, though, Asago scooped Wadayama (and tiny Takeda) into its corporate boundaries, so now it's all Asago. Here's my blog piece on the Takeda Castle Ruins from a few years ago, featuring history, more photos, and how-to-get-there information.
Takeda Castle
Takeda Castle Ruins
Friend and author, Michael Gillan Peckitt (@peckitt), lives in Suita, Japan. He posted this photo today (Wednesday, July 30, 2014) on Facebook of what the weather's like there (33C is about 91.5F, by the way). Warm enough.
I this deserves a photographic response, a scene from the small town where I lived some years ago, a February photo from Asago, Japan (called "Asaki" in my book). Consider this a cooling respite from the dog days of summer, which are now upon the Northern Hemisphere. . .
@peckitt
Asago
Gaijin Story
Michael Gillan Peckitt
Several years ago I interviewed Godzilla. That link just linked, that's the interview, which I re-posted a half-a-year ago or so. I hope you'll read the whole interview so that you can get a good idea of what makes the Big Guy tick before going to the theater to see him act. I found him incredibly candid and much more open than his reputation suggests. He could get prickly, but he's been through a lot Here's a short excerpt from the interview:
Whether or not deserved, you mentioned you prima donna reputation. Where do you think that comes from.
(Sighs) Oh, a number of things. Most of them should be pretty obvious. I win all my fights. Hey, it's in the script, you know? Plus a lot of the actors I've worked with over the years, God bless them all, seemed to have this little thing in the back of their head where it was, you know, real. So they're like thinking if they can beat me, and I mean really upstage me, in a fight scene, then they'll be the next Godzilla. I blame The Method.
You mean "method acting?"
Yeh. I mean I'm not totally dismissing The Method, I'm just saying that there's getting into a fight, and there's getting into a fight, and for too many it was the latter. You know that King Kong broke one of my teeth, no, it was two of my teeth, shoving a tree, a freaking ginormous-ass tree down my throat when we did our thing? That was not in the script. I came this close to walking, but we only had a few more days of shooting left and he got all weepy and apologetic afterwards, so I let it go. Anyway, The Method kind of takes egos and ramps them up a few notches. Seems to me. But that's the thing, I'm the one who gets walloped on and yet I'm the "prima donna."
Well, you did hurt a lot, how many thousands? during your career.
Hey, nobody got hurt that didn't get in my way first. Let's get that straight.
So what did you think about the American-made 1998 Godzilla, the one staring Mathew Broderick?
If you think you're going to get a rise out of me, you're wrong. I thought it was a joke. Sure, I didn't and don't appreciate them using my name. And my lawyers won't let me talk about all that. But I know who I am and everybody who inflicted that movie upon themselves knew that that wasn't Godzilla. I tried to watch it. Hand to God, I tried. But I couldn't sit through it. Couldn't decide if that was CGI or Adam Sandler in a rubber suit. Either way it sucked.
Godzilla interview
Godzilla rubber suit
Legendary Films
明けましておめでとうございます!
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!
2014 is the Year of the Horse!
I took this photo at some friends' house a few years ago. Newtown, Connecticut.
In 2013 I published a book, a memoir of 30 years back and forth between Japan and the U.S. (with a few India and China chapters). The book was, and remains, Dancing Over Kyoto. I published it as an Ebook. In 2o14 I plan to publish an expanded edition of Dancing Over Kyoto in hard copy form. I'll update this site in the spring or early summer when that gets done.
2014 Year of the Horse
Year of the Horse
明けましておめでとう
On May 1, 1961, Alabama author Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize. In Japan To Kill a Mockingbird is called アラバマ物語 (Arabama Monogatari, or "Alabama Story"). In 1999 Library Journal readers voted it the "Best Novel of the 20th century."
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." — Attorney Atticus Finch (see Gregory Peck above, in the 1962 film) in To Kill a Mockingbird
I didn't read To Kill a Mockingbird until I was 21, when I happened to be an exchange student at Kansai Gaidai (university) in Japan.
I had found a copy at some campus used book sale for, I don't know ¥500 or something (then, just a couple of dollars). Lying there late at night in my little room at the Nakae's (my host family) home in Tsuda, Japan, reading about the fictitious Maycomb, Alabama (my Alabama home town is the very real Slocomb) and the quiet courage of attorney Atticus Finch (my father, was also a courageous attorney from South Alabama) was a strange, but wonderful thing. Reading about the cowardice of the racists, Atticus' resolve and his instilling the sense of Justice over mob rule to Scout, it made me both alternately ashamed of how my adopted state could be, and so very proud of the kind of people is was capable of producing.
アラバマ物語
Kansai Gaidai


What does a day in the life of a Head of Engineering at a co-working space look like? We chat with Spacemob's Head of Engineering, Beverly Dolor to find out more! Spacemob is a coworking space that builds foundations for businesses by providing space, technology, and connections. By laying down the groundwork, companies can thrive with purpose. With their space as the starting point, Spacemob is endlessly building proprietary tools like with member matching technologies to enable you to augment your business, and scale it to the heights of your imagination.
What's a typical work day for you like?
What are you working on right now? Any side projects you'd like to share about too?
The Spacemob platform is continuously evolving, so that keeps me busy and awake most of the time 🙂 We're still looking at different technologies that we can integrate into our system. Constantly getting feedback from all the different teams in Spacemob and our members as well keep us, product and engineering, on our feet all the time. I believe that our role as engineers is to provide solutions to our users, and help them make their work faster, more efficient and easier. We keep working to ensure we are fulfilling that role.
Nope, I don't/never do side projects.
How did you pick up programming?
I only heard of computer science as a course when one of my aunt took it in College. I came from a zero-background on computers. I don't even know how to insert a disk in a computer! Good thing was first day in the university they gave a hands-on seminar for people like me… and yes the computer lab was filled with people like me, zero-background. But I learned to love it! I love how you can solve problems or rather create systems that solves problems by writing codes. Overtime its not just programming that kept me going in this field. Its knowing that you are able to help people – your colleagues by building systems that they need to make their jobs a lot easier; seeing your users and how they interact with your applications and them appreciating its usefulness.
Did you ever find yourself with the imposter syndrome?
I'm blessed to have worked with some of the best people in my industry! So sometimes I feel i'm not qualified even be in their presence 😛 But I cannot be intimidated and stay that way. Or else I will always shortchange or question myself in what I do. Its a feeling you need to overcome. Just give your best in all the tasks/projects that you do. Be passionate and have accountability. Care more, however small, big, simple or complicated your task is. You need to accept to yourself that you are not perfect and that you will fail people's expectations of you. But that doesn't mean you are a bad person or employee. You just keep going. Learn. Don't be prideful. Don't think of yourself better than anyone. Keep improving yourself. And sharing what you learn/know helps you to keep grounded.
Singapore rewards anyone who wants to work and who works hard. I'm blessed to have been given opportunities to work here since 2008. Its is a melting pot of different cultures and opportunities. Companies who wants to expand in Asia Pacific see Singapore as their launchpad. Thus, all types of industries are here: banking, electronics, consultancy, food, travel, etc. Which almost all have need for developers in one way or the other. Singapore is also brimming with different activities as well that developers can participate to enhance themselves and enlarge their networks: seminars, conferences, talks and hackathons.
I seldom hear the word "I love" in connection to programming. I guess that's my advice. You have to "love" programming to really enjoy it. You have to be passionate about it. Solving problem is one thing, but learning different techniques on how to solve a problem is another. You need to constantly evolve in your chosen field. And in programming it shows on how you write your code, how you leverage on existing libraries or modules, how you take time to ensure that the code path you have is the most efficient and fastest. It takes time and it takes patience. Training yourself by learning new languages is a good exercise. Looking for problems to solve is a great way to kickstart your journey to programming.
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Q: Async function call inside a constructor in javascript class I want to add a pathconfig value that would be fetched from the async function to the property in the constructor ,the tech stack is Nodejs and Typescript.
I tried to assign value to the property in the below way,
constructor() {
  const securitiesConfig = {
    pathConfig: (
      async () => {
        return await this.getIenantConfigDetails();
      }
    )(),
    logger:logger,
    auditlogger:logger
  };

  console.log(securitiesConfig)
}

but the issue is it does not wait for the function to complete execution and return value  so pathconfig does not have the desired value ,what  can be done differently to fix the above issue.
I used  Immediately executing async func with expectation that it would make it wait and assign proper value but it doesnt work
expecting a workaround or proper approach for the query.

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FDJ appoints Nadia Faure as M&A director
Nadia Faure has been with FDJ since 2018.
The French lottery operator has named Nadia Faure as director of investor relations and M&A.
France.- The French lottery operator La Française des Jeux (FDJ) has named Nadia Faure as its director of investor relations and M&A.
Faure, who has been with FDJ since 2018, will take on responsibility for communications with the group's investors and for its mergers and acquisitions strategy. She previously served as chief of staff to chief executive Stéphane Pallez.
Before joining FDJ, she was an equity manager for the French State Participation Agency (APE), which oversees businesses that the French state holds a stake in, including FDJ. She also served on the mergers and acquisitions team at investment bank Mediobanca.
FDJ went public with an IPO in 2019. For the first quarter of 2021, it reported a 5.2 per cent rise in revenue year-on-year despite restrictions on retail operations due to France's Covid-19 countermeasures.
Revenue for the quarter reached €537.6m, with gross gaming revenue up by 5.1 per cent at €525.9m and revenue from other activities up 10.7 per cent at €11.8m.
Stakes increased by 11.8 per cent year-on-year to €4.6bn. Stakes in sports betting were up by 46.1 per cent year-on-year at €1.1bn.
Last month, FDJ appointed Andy Wright to replace Simon Trim as CEO of its Sporting Group subsidiary.
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The French lottery operator also announced a series of boardroom changes at the start of the year.
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FDJ has announced funding for five women's sport projects in France. It will provide funds to the French Boxing Federation, the French Roller and Skateboard Federation and the French Rowing Federation to fund performance studies.
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They'd circle the pit, drop an exploratory stone and get no answer, no splash, no thud, no surety that freefall was better.
Dropping like a stone, her hands free, a light uncurls within her. She slows, breathes in the scent of Myrrh. Feet first becomes head first, falling down becomes pushing through: a grassy hill, a jangling of goats, the open sky.
I love the idea that it can be home and the smells of home.


Often tickets, created outside of Myndbend Process Manager, relate to other tickets and should be children of a parent ticket. With version 3.1, you now have the ability to link a ticket to a parent ticket. The ticket will be listed amongst the other child tickets displayed in the app.
When the ticket is displayed, click the Add button in the Myndbend Process Manager app and select "Link to Parent." Note, this menu option will not be displayed if the ticket is already a child of a parent ticket or if the external_id of the ticket has been populated (eg. external system import).
If you find the need to detach the ticket from it's parent, you may "unlink" it by clicking the gear icon next to the ticket in Child Ticket list, then clicking the menu option "Unlink from Parent."


Appel's research spanned three primary areas: the use of law to promote sustainable commerce, wilderness preservation and the courts, and more traditional doctrinal scholarship in environmental and natural resources law and property. His work appeared in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, the Boston College Environmental Affairs Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Washington University Law Quarterly and the Vionic Flop Beach Women's Gryslv Flip Bells Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillan Reference, 2008). In addition to these articles focusing on the environmental and natural resources areas, Appel addressed more traditional topics in property law such as the role of the entailment in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2013), the rule against perpetuities (Flip Gryslv Flop Bells Vionic Women's Beach Journal of Legal Education, 2004) and Roman law and its relation to American civil procedure (Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2002).
Appel earned his bachelor's and law degrees from Yale University, where he served on the notes editing committee of the Flip Flop Bells Vionic Gryslv Beach Women's Yale Law Journaland was a member of the Yale Law and Policy Review.
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Manuela Veloso
Manuela Veloso at the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester in 2012
Manuela Maria Veloso
(1957-08-12) August 12, 1957 (age 65)
Portuguese, American
Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon (MSc)
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995)
ACM Fellow (2016)
AAAI Fellow (2003)[1]
Multi-agent systems[2]
Learning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving (1992)
Doctoral advisor
Jaime Carbonell[3]
Astro Teller
Peter Stone[3]
www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv
Manuela Maria Veloso (born August 12, 1957) is the Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research[4] & Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was previously Head of the Machine Learning Department. She served as president of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.[2][5]
Manuela Veloso received her Licenciatura and Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in 1980 and 1984 respectively. She then attended Boston University, and received a Master of Arts in computer science in 1986.[citation needed] She moved to Carnegie Mellon University and received her Ph.D. in computer science there in 1992. Her thesis Learning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving was supervised by Jaime Carbonell.[3]
Career and research
Shortly after receiving her Ph.D., Manuela Veloso joined the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science as an assistant professor. She was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1997, and full professor in 2002. Veloso was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the academic year 1999-2000, a Radcliffe Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University for the academic year 2006-2007, and a visiting professor at Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at New York University (NYU) for the academic year 2013-2014. She is the winner of the 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. She was the Program Chair for IJCAI-07, held January 6–12, 2007, in Hyderabad, India and was program co-chair of AAAI-05, held July 9–13, 2005, in Pittsburgh. She was a member of the Editorial Board of CACM and the AAAI Magazine. She is the author of one book on Planning by Analogical Reasoning. As of 2015, Veloso has graduated 32 PhD students.[3][6] She was appointed as the head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department[7] in 2016.[8]
Veloso describes her research goals as the "effective construction of autonomous agents where cognition, perception, and action are combined to address planning, execution, and learning tasks".[9] Veloso and her students have researched and developed a variety of autonomous robots, including teams of soccer robots, and mobile service robots. Her robot soccer teams have been RoboCup world champions several times, and the CoBot mobile robots have autonomously navigated for more than 1,000 km in university buildings.[10] In a November 2016 interview, Veloso discussed the ethical responsibility inherent in developing autonomous systems, and expressed her optimism that the technology would be put to use for the good of humankind.[11]
National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1995.
Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research in 1997.
2003 AAAI Fellow[1]
2006/2007 Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow
2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award[citation needed]
2012 Einstein Chair Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences[12]
2016 ACM Fellow, for "contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, in particular in planning, learning, multi-agent systems, and robotics."[13]
Veloso is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.[14]
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^ a b Manuela M. Veloso publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ a b c d Manuela M. Veloso at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ "J.P. Morgan Artificial Intelligence". Retrieved 7 September 2019.
^ Russell, Stuart; Hauert, Sabine; Altman, Russ; Veloso, Manuela (2015). "Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence". Nature. 521 (7553): 415–418. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..415.. doi:10.1038/521415a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26017428.
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^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University". Machine Learning - Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
^ "Manuela Veloso Named Head of Machine Learning Department | Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science". Cs.cmu.edu. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Manuela Veloso-Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University". Cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
^ "People of ACM - Manuela Veloso". Acm.org.
^ "Humanity and AI Will Be Inseparable". Theverge.com. 15 November 2016.
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^ "Manuela Veloso". Awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
^ "Notable Women in Computing".
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Removing sourcing info from a story: major ethical violation or SOP?
Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by schiezainc, Jun 29, 2011.
So, I've got a sourcing question I've never had to deal with before.
First, let me give you some background. In my coverage area, the Superintendent of Schools is in a heated fight with the School Committee for every move he tries to make. So, like any fed up employee, he decided to seek another job in another district.
Well, tonight I'm at our local school committee meeting waiting for word about whether or not he got the job in the other district. The best way for me to find this out is to check the website of the two local papers in that town (We'll call them the Podunk Press and the Local Newsbeat) and my state's daily paper for updates since I wanted to get quotes from him one way or another as soon as news breaks and he happens to be at our local school committee's meeting.
Full disclosure: The Podunk Press is a sister paper of my company. The Local Newsbeat is its direct competitor.
So, five minutes before my local school committee meeting ends, I do one more check of all three websites to see if news breaks. The Podunk site has nothing, the state's daily paper has nothing but the Local Newsbeat breaks it and says he has the job.
Naturally, I interview him about it and post a story immediately on my company's website, sourcing the Local Newsbeat because 1.) They're not my competition so I don't care that they broke the news and 2.) Because I got the news from them and it's only fair and ethical to credit them for the scoop.
I then call the Podunk Press to let them know the news and they had no idea. They're a daily so they're going crazy but I tell them they can use the story I put together on my website for their news.
I go to their website a little while later and they've got my story up, with the picture I sent them but they take away all attribution to the Local Newsbeat paper. I know it's their direct competition but this seems completely unethical to me because 1.) It's got my byline on it and it makes it seem like I broke the news and 2.) If they wanted the news so badly, they should have been there themselves in the first place.
They didn't change my story in any other way except to add some background information so it's not like they went and got them news themselves. This seems wrong to me. Am I wrong?
When you talked to him, did he know he had the job? Did he tell you that?
Because even if you told the guy you had read the news elsewhere, it seems to me that if he then said, "Yes, the other district told me I have the job," you don't need to source it anymore. You have it straight from the horse's mouth.
Even if he says that, you still need to source where you found the original information. You don't need to play it high, but you need to say where you found it from.
He said he hadn't heard it officially but commented to me based on the news I was reporting to him. I sourced the paper I sourced because 1.) I wouldn't have had the information until the next morning when I was planning on calling the school district myself (Had the time set up with the secretary and everything) and 2.) Without the info, I wouldn't have gotten the quotes. 3.) Without my story, my sister paper wouldn't have had ANYTHING on it.
Seems to me to be unethical that they'd just yank the sourcing info and leave my byline on it because it makes it seem like I broke the story when I didn't. Plus, if it turns out to be wrong (Like I said, I can't confirm with the school department until the morning), I would want to retain the ability to run the correction pinning the mistake on where the news originated.
When I run my story in my paper, it will report where it got it because that's only fair and I think the only way around doing that is to get the news yourself, first hand.
It sounds like you have every right to be mad.
Yeah, I think you need to source the other paper, saying something like "The superintendent said he got the job, confirming a report in Local Newsbeat."
But I can also understand why the Podunk Press took it out. Doesn't make it right, but they obviously don't want to be citing their competition.
Yeah, this, although I've always thought that pretending that your competitor doesn't exist is silly. Or even worse, assigning those weird "catch-up" stories because they broke something a week before.
Why didn't your sister paper have this anyway, schiezainc? It sounds like it went down at a school committee meeting, which is normally bread and butter coverage.
Same issue in my neck of the woods. Mine was a one-paper town but one of the local radio stations did have a FT reporter, so I considered that competition. On the very rare occasion he scooped me on something (let's just say his initiative was lacking, not necessarily his ability) and I followed up on it, I always tried to give credit to ABCD Radio even after I had my own quotes, notes and background info, because, as others have mentioned here, it's the only fair, ethical and professional thing to do. Depending on the nature of the story, it might be played in the second or third graph or it could be at the bottom. But it was there.
Copy editors had a different idea and deleted it every single time. At least, at first. Didn't like that one bit.
What made you call your sister paper anyway? Not sure of the relationship there or content-sharing agreement, but it seems the issue could be avoided - at least in this case - if you hadn't made that call.
I think the answer to your original thread title is: both.
Have I seen it happen throughout 30 years in the business? A lot.
I usually call the sister paper if there's something I'm covering that happens to coincide with their coverage area as a professional courtesy. Might have to rethink that after this incident.
If the superintendent definitely knew he had the job and confirmed it, I don't see any reason in the world to credit the other newspaper, unless they had details that you didn't. Then you can credit those.
If the superintendent didn't know for sure he had the job and was commenting on a report, you definitely need to credit the other newspaper (n part in case they are wrong).
Yeah, but here's the thing: Without the competitor's report, he doesn't even know to ask the question.
So yeah, he's got it from the horse's mouth, but he's not even near the horse without the competitor's story.
Not sure if that makes it right or wrong, tbh.


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Reuters: UPS Reserves 125 Tesla Semi-Trucks, Largest Public Pre-Order Yet
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United Parcel Service Inc said on Tuesday it is buying 125 Tesla Inc all-electric semi-trucks, the largest known order for the big rig so far, as the package delivery company expands its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles.
Tesla is trying to convince the trucking community it can build an affordable electric big rig with the range and cargo capacity to compete with relatively low-cost, time-tested diesel trucks. This is the largest public order of the big rig so far, Tesla said.
Tesla unveiled its semi last month and expects the truck to be in production by 2019.
The Tesla trucks will cost around $200,000 each for a total order of about $25 million. UPS expects the semi-trucks, the big rigs that haul freight along America's highways, will have a lower total cost of ownership than conventional vehicles, which run at about $120,000.
Tesla has received pre-orders from such major companies as Walmart, fleet operator J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc and food service distributor Sysco Corp.
Prior to UPS, the largest single pre-order came from PepsiCo Inc, for 100 trucks.
UPS said it has provided Tesla with data on how its trucks function on their real-world routes in order to evaluate how the vehicle should perform in its fleet.
"As with any introductory technology for our fleet, we want to make sure it's in a position to succeed," Scott Phillippi, UPS senior director for automotive maintenance and engineering for international operations, told Reuters.
Phillippi said the 125 trucks will allow UPS to conduct a proper test of their abilities. He said the company was still determining their routes, but the semis will "primarily be in the United States." Tesla will provide consultation and support on charging infrastructure.
"We have high expectations and are very optimistic that this will be a good product and it will have firm support from Tesla to make it work," Phillippi said.
The UPS alternative fuel fleet already includes trucks propelled by electricity, natural gas, propane and other non-traditional fuels.
About 260,000 semis, or heavy-duty Class-8 trucks, are produced in North America annually, according to FTR, an industry economics research firm.
Including the UPS order, Tesla has at least 410 pre-orders in hand, according to a Reuters tally.
Navistar International Corp and Volkswagen AG VOWG-P.DE hope to launch a smaller, electric medium-duty truck by late 2019, while rival Daimler AG has delivered the first of a smaller range of electric trucks to customers in New York.
In afternoon trade on Nasdaq, Tesla shares were down nearly 1.1 percent at $335.24.
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Q: How to pass parameters to on_enter callbacks in `transitions` library? I want to use transitions, and need a rather trivial feature I could not find in the docs, and was wondering if it was implemented:
I want to define a on_enter callback on some state, but pass a parameter to that callback. At least to know from which state I am entering the state.
From the docs:
class Matter(object):
    def say_hello(self): print("hello, new state!")
    def say_goodbye(self): print("goodbye, old state!")

lump = Matter()

# Same states as above, but now we give StateA an exit callback
states = [
    State(name='solid', on_exit=['say_goodbye']),
    'liquid',
    { 'name': 'gas', 'on_exit': ['say_goodbye']}
    ]

machine = Machine(lump, states=states)
machine.add_transition('sublimate', 'solid', 'gas')

# Callbacks can also be added after initialization using
# the dynamically added on_enter_ and on_exit_ methods.
# Note that the initial call to add the callback is made
# on the Machine and not on the model.
machine.on_enter_gas('say_hello')

# Test out the callbacks...
machine.set_state('solid')
lump.sublimate()
>>> 'goodbye, old state!'
>>> 'hello, new state!'

What I lack is
def say_hello(self, param): print(f"hello, new state! here is your param: {param}")

Can this be done nicely somehow?
An obvious bad solution would be to keep a self._last_state argument and maintain that myself.
I am looking for something built-in.

A: The section of transitions' documentation called Passing Data:

... you can pass any positional or keyword arguments directly to the trigger methods (created when you call add_transition()) [...] You can pass any number of arguments you like to the trigger. There is one important limitation to this approach: every callback function triggered by the state transition must be able to handle all of the arguments.

For your particular example this could look like this:
from transitions import Machine

class Matter(object):
    def say_hello(self, param):
        print(f"hello, new state! Here is your param: {param}")

    # Every callback MUST be able to process possible callback parameters
    # If parameters are not needed, just use *args and **kwargs in the definition
    def say_goodbye(self, *args):
        print("goodbye, old state!")

lump = Matter()
machine = Machine(lump, states=[{'name': 'solid', 'on_exit': 'say_goodbye'},
                                'liquid',
                                {'name': 'gas', 'on_enter': 'say_hello'}],
                  transitions=[['sublimate', 'solid', 'gas']], initial='solid')

# pass param as arg
lump.sublimate(lump.state)
# or as kwarg
# lump.sublimate(param=lump.state)

There is also a second way to pass data by passing send_event=True in the Machine constructor. This will change the way how transitions passes trigger parameters to callbacks:

If you set send_event=True at Machine initialization, all arguments to the triggers will be wrapped in an EventData instance and passed on to every callback. (The EventData object also maintains internal references to the source state, model, transition, machine, and trigger associated with the event, in case you need to access these for anything.)

This might be more suitable for your use case since an EventData object also contains information about the executed transition which contains the name of the source state:
from transitions import Machine, EventData

class Matter(object):
    def say_hello(self, event: EventData):
        print(f"hello, new state! Here is your param: {event.kwargs['param']}. "
              f"I came here from state '{event.transition.source}'.")

    def say_goodbye(self, event):
        print("goodbye, old state!")

lump = Matter()
machine = Machine(lump, states=[{'name': 'solid', 'on_exit': 'say_goodbye'},
                                'liquid',
                                {'name': 'gas', 'on_enter': 'say_hello'}],
                  transitions=[['sublimate', 'solid', 'gas']], initial='solid', send_event=True)

lump.sublimate(param=42)


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