A Weekend in Detroit: Brunch, Bars, and More!
Oh my friends, it has been a lazy month of blogging for me, but I just needed to pop by and share about my birthday weekend in Detroit! This was my first birthday back in the USA and I really wanted to use it as an excuse to get my friends together in one place. However even among my American friends, we are spread out all over the place! A couple months ago I got my wheels turning about a good location that could be a halfway point for everybody and I settled on…. Detroit! Luckily, when I pitched it to my friends, they were keen too, and the plans for my birthday weekend in Detroit began.
Why spend a weekend in Detroit? …Is it safe?
You may or may not be surprised that I grew up in Michigan but never actually went to Detroit (apart from the airport, or the art institute right on the outskirts). I'm sure everybody remembers the great recession, but it hit us particularly hard here in Michigan because we are the seat of the automotive industry. If your parents didn't lose their jobs, then your friends' parents did or someone else in your family did. No city was hit harder than Detroit, which is the largest municipality in the USA to ever declare bankruptcy. I grew up 1.5 hours out of Detroit, hearing horror stories about the gang violence, abandoned buildings, arson, and people having to wear bullet proof vests under their clothes to work. Looking back now, I know that a lot of these stories were sensationalist, and this kind of negative media may have hurt Detroit in even more lasting ways than the recession itself did.
But Detroit is making its resurgence, and in 2018 Lonely Planet even named it the #2 city in the world to visit. I decided it was high time to visit Michigan's largest city. Here's a bit of what we got up to!
Yummy GF cookies at Sister Pie!
Exploring Heidelberg Project: I absolutely love this place and it will eventually be getting its own blog post, I am sure! Thirty years ago Tyree Guyton transformed his east Detroit neighborhood into a community art installation. We met his sister Melody (who lives on Heidelberg Street) when we visited, who told us they 'didn't want their street to be like all the other Detroit streets in their neighborhood… full of abandoned buildings that anyone would come and burn down.' They wanted their street, their home, to be something special, so they made it so!
Strolling the Riverwalk: Detroit created a community pathway along its river front back in 2007. We headed over to the free parking and went for a stroll. Lots of people don't realize how close Canada is from Detroit. It's just on the other side of the river as you walk along the riverwalk! We also popped into the GM Renaissance Center during a rainstorm which had a beautiful design, and went to the Milliken State Park and Harbor.
An afternoon cup at Astro Coffee: With the rainstorm and a couple hours til my other friends were scheduled to arrive, Liz and I headed to Corktown's Astro Coffee, a cute specialty coffee shop in a very popular Detroit neighborhood.
Dinner and drinks at Seva: Liz, Julia, Mary and I all met at Seva for dinner. Seva is a fabulous 100% vegetarian restaurant (that also has a location in Ann Arbor!). It's also great for gluten free… Mary and I shared the gluten free pad thai which was sooo good. It was a really lovely dinner, not just for the food but for the company as well. Liz and Julia are friends from college, whereas I grew up with Mary. So it was a bit of a collision of two universes, but everyone got along like we'd all been friends forever 🙂 It was kind of crazy how normal it felt to all be together, actually! After dinner, it was pretty late at this point so we headed back to the Airbnb to gear up for the next day!
Brunch at Gather: After a lie in, we drove over to the famous Eastern Market, but our stomachs were rumbling and demanded a proper brunch before any market exploration began. We consulted the market map and found a nearby place that sounded interesting (and I vaguely remembered from my internet searches on gluten free friendly Detroit restaurants): Gather! We had an amazing, locally-sourced brunch (that did indeed have GF options!), did some coloring like the mid-20s kiddos we are, and enjoyed a thoroughly 'hipster' Detroit establishment.
Thrifting at Boro: After brunch, we wandered (waddled) down the street, but before we could return to Eastern Market we had to pop into a very cute thrift store called Boro. Now, I'm really not one for clothes shopping, unless I've been given about three months to consider the expenditure before buying it online. (Forreal all my money is spent on travel and food). So that gives you some insight when I say all four of us bought something! Personally, I got a super cute Urban Outfitters sweater, and some $12 sunglasses that I'm OBSESSED with. Boro is definitely a curated thrift shop and one of my favorites I've ever been in.
Boro – a super cute thrift shop near Eastern Market in Detroit.
Wandering through Eastern Market: Finally we made it back to Eastern Market – an outdoor farmer's market spread over six "sheds" (they're massive so a better word might be "pavilions"). Eastern Market is a Detroit institution, the largest outdoor farmer's market in the USA, and a wonderful social enterprise that offers its own form of (super healthy, locally sourced) food stamps for Detroit residents. We of course had to grab some hot apple cider, and Liz and Julia snatched up some warm cinnamon donuts. It was after the market that we said goodbye to Mary who had to head back to Chicago.
Gobbling hipster gluten free pizza at Pie-Sci: After exploring the market we were pretty wiped out, and it was pouring rain, so Julia, Liz and I returned to our cute Airbnb to chill (and watch Sabrina on Netflix… if you haven't seen it do it now!!). After a few episodes, we ventured out again, this time to a nearby pizza place. Pie-Sci is not just any pizza place, though… they offer both gluten free (!) and vegan pizzas (and you can combine them if you want a GF vegan pizza). They also have suuuuper unique toppings. I got a gluten free pizza with figs and honey on it and it was a party for my taste buds.
Drinks and dancing at Marble Bar: After recuperating from the pizza, my other friends Lydia and Liz (I've got lots of Lizes in my life what can I say) arrived, and we pulled on some costumes. Our original plans to go to Punchbowl Social for drinks/dancing/karaoke were dashed by the super-cool cashier at Boro that morning. Apparently Punchbowl Social was kinda lame but she did suggest an alternative: Marble Bar. Anywhere that was going to let me wear a Halloween costume had my approval, so off we ubered to a very-cool bar (that, upon leaving at 2am, I realized was just on this random corner in a residential neighborhood…. very-cool but also very-strange?!). Anyway we enjoyed Marble Bar for drinks/dancing and I'd recommend it for anyone looking for the same!
How to get to Detroit: You can fly into Detroit Airport, drive to Detroit, or take an Amtrak train or Greyhound bus. If you are coming from Canada, book via the Canadian Greyhound website.
Getting around: Detroit doesn't have great public transport (minus the People Mover streetcar but that is only useful if you are staying only within the downtown area). You will want to use uber or your own vehicle to get around Detroit, if you can.
Where to stay in Detroit: For a group of 6, we stayed at Rambler's House on Airbnb which was really perfect for everything we needed. It was really well decorated, spacious, lots of free on street parking. Airbnb is perfect for a big group like ours.
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The whole Airbnb was travel themed!
I'm so glad that I finally made it into central Detroit, a city that a lot of people have strong opinions about. There are a lot of abandoned buildings about, and a fair amount of potholes in the roads, but no city is perfect, is it? Overall I was impressed with how clean the downtown was, how many unique and thriving businesses there are (and how many of them were social enterprises), and how friendly and passionate the local Detroiters were that we met. I felt safe during our stay, even going out to a random bar til 2am, and staying in a residential neighborhood. (Probably the most dangerous thing I did was try and park in that garage downtown #livingontheedge). I hope my experience can assuage any fears you might have to venture into Detroit.
As for my birthday, like I said earlier, it was a bit like two worlds colliding with my college friends and my high school friends all finally in one place! But I was so happy to share my birthday with some of my favorite people.
Detroit is a city that gets under your skin, I think. I can't wait to explore it more when I go back with Dan in a couple weeks!! Stay tuned for more Detroit posts after that trip, including a gluten free guide. Have you been to Detroit? Would you?
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Traditionally, trading in foreign exchange or in stocks and shares comes with a high bar to entry. Dealing with fees, commissions and taxes have historically put such markets out of reach of the average man or woman in the street. It is refreshing, therefore, to see Financial Spread Betting (FSB) opening these close markets up to low-budget, cost-conscious individuals.
In an ideal world, our financial portfolio will entail a budget for entertainment. If it also has something set aside for high-risk investment, FSB provides the means to hybridize the two. If you have a pocket of cash set aside for a recreational purpose, FSB is worth investigating.
FSB delivers precisely what it sounds like. Nothing is bought and sold; instead we are invited to bet on the movement of stocks and shares or currency movements. If they move in the direction we have predicted, the bet pays out; the more the stock moves, the more the bet pays. The downside to this is that the provider stakes a range that the stock has to move before we start to win and, potentially more seriously, losses are worked out on the same basis as wins. In other words, if we've called it wrong and the market goes against our bet, the more wrong we are, the more we lose.
Naturally, this equation calls for some insight into the stock or currency being bet on. It also points to the logic in treating FSB as a form of paying play, rather than an out-and-out investment vehicle. Some people do use FSB as a full-time trading vehicle, but these are very much the exception rather than the rule.
Accessed via either a browser of a desktop app, FSB has the great merit of being available 24/7 as thousands of different worldwide markets exist to trade on. There is a danger that one might be tempted to playing in an area about which we know very little. Once again, the rational approach is to deal solely in areas about which we have some actual knowledge.
There are free demonstration applications available on sites such as Tradefair which offer a perfect way to acquaint oneself with what is an undeniably fascinating medium. The desktop delivers a highly sophisticated dealing screen, complete with a range of charting and analytical tools. Watching prices shift moment by moment and seeing your account balance move correspondingly is a thrill in itself.
Even without actual cash at stake, making decisions based on the trending of a particular stock or commodity is an intense, nerve-wrenching business. FSB is undeniably the closest that any of us are likely to get to trading on Wall Street, but if there is an area in which you enjoy some measure of insight, FSB offers the means to capitalize on that.
More involved and more scientific than sports betting, but too short term in nature to be considered anything other than a speculative investment vehicle, FSB occupies a middle ground on the financial map; part fun, part investment. It is, admittedly, an unusual hybrid. But for all that, it is something well worth taking a look at. If only because it offers a taste of what being a high roller might be like.


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Q: How to create a precision recall curve from a random forest model? I am trying to create a precision recall curve from a random forest model based off of just the training data. It is similar to this question, but I don't know the code to create the PR curve. See my reproducible example below (which is modified so it matches my personal dataset):

#Load beaver2
View(beaver2)

#convert outcome into factor
beaver2 <- beaver2 %>% mutate(activ = ifelse(activ==0, "no","yes"))

#convert outcome to factor
beaver2$activ <- as.factor(beaver2$activ)

#create trControl
data_ctrl_null <- trainControl(method="cv", number = 5, classProbs = TRUE, summaryFunction=twoClassSummary, savePredictions=T, sampling=NULL)

#create rf model
rf_model <- train(activ ~ ., data=beaver2, trControl = data_ctrl_null, method= "rf", preProc=c("center","scale"),metric="ROC", importance=TRUE)

#create precision recall curve
library("PRROC")

I want to use the PRROC package. How do I grab the predictions from the random forest model and create the PR curve? Note; I want to create the predictions on my training data; so imagine there is no testing data for predictions. Much appreciated for all the help!

A: #Load beaver2
View(beaver2)
library(dplyr)
library(caret)

#convert outcome into factor
beaver2 <- beaver2 %>% mutate(activ = ifelse(activ==0, "no","yes"))

#convert outcome to factor
beaver2$activ <- as.factor(beaver2$activ)

#create trControl
data_ctrl_null <- trainControl(method="cv", number = 5, classProbs = TRUE, summaryFunction=twoClassSummary, savePredictions=T, sampling=NULL)

#create rf model
rf_model <- train(activ ~ ., data=beaver2, trControl = data_ctrl_null, method= "rf", preProc=c("center","scale"),metric="ROC", importance=TRUE)

# predict using train data
predictions <- predict.train(rf_model)
test_data <- beaver2 %>% select(-activ) #instead of train data, use unseen test data here.
predictions <- predict(object = rf_model, newdata = test_data)
#add some artificial wrong predictions, otherwise perfect prediction, since we use train data as test
predictions[1] <- 'yes'
predictions[18] <- 'yes'
predictions[60] <- 'no'
predictions[61] <- 'no'
predictions[100] <- 'no'
confusion_Matrix <- table(Predictions = predictions, Reference = beaver2$activ)

#create precision recall curve
library("PRROC")

fg <- predictions[beaver2$activ == 'yes']
bg <- predictions[beaver2$activ == 'no']

pr <- pr.curve(scores.class0 = fg, scores.class1 = bg, curve = T)
plot(pr)

See also the reply here: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/10501/calculating-aupr-in-r

A: If you are not fixed on the PROC package, i can highly recommend evalm function from the MLeval package to you. It works very well and simple with caret.
In your case, all you need to do is
x <- evalm(rf_model )
x$roc #roc curve
x$stdres #model specs
x$cc #calibration plot

for your train data set. This code would work for your test data set:
test <- evalm(data.frame(pred, test.data$outcome))
test$roc
test$stdres
test$cc

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Taylor T5 signed by David Gilmour to be auctioned
By Owen Bailey 2007-02-01T14:07:36.31Z Guitarist
has taken time out of a recent recording session at his West London studio to sign a guitar for a charity auction. The guitar, a Taylor T5 spruce top in Cherry sunburst, will be auctioned on 3 March 2007 at the Willow Foundation´s gala ball. All profits will go to the Foundation, which funds and organises special days for seriously ill young adults aged 16-40.
Gilmour was introduced to the Foundation by Sound Technology PLC, the exclusive UK distributor of Taylor. Sound Technology has also previously donated a signed Robbie Williams guitar that raised £20,000 at auction.
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Nico has been well introduced to the Santa routine. We haven't intentionally brought her to see Santa but he has made an appearance at many events down here. I think the first one was the best - the one with the blue background that says Christmas in the Keys.
Her first taste of tofu and already more brave than Grammy!
We live practically right across the street from Theater of the Sea, a marine mammal park which does an annual unpublicized free event for local kiddos. They do a little dolphin show, the kids can touch a dolphin, and the jolly fellow himself arrives by boat coming through the mangroves to deliver a present to each child. How Keys is that! We attended yesterday although I'm still unsure what I think of the park itself (would need to learn where they get their animals and why, etc. before I gave them any money). It was very crowded and the kids were super excited. Jason got some great action shots of the dolphins and of Nico with Mr. and Mrs. Claus.


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Game theory | Signature significance
One swing is all you need
Why the distance traveled by a single home run can matter more than years of past performance
By D.R. | NEW YORK
REPORTS of the demise of Alex Rodríguez as a productive player in Major League Baseball (MLB) appear to have been greatly exaggerated. After he was suspended for the entire 2014 season for using performance-enhancing drugs, most discussion of the 39-year-old focused on whether the New York Yankees would find a role for the former superstar, or simply pony up the $61m they owe him and cut him from the team. But Mr Rodríguez has stunned the baseball world with a hot streak that has made him the American League's seventh-best hitter over the season's first two weeks. And on April 17th, he generated the first headlines related to his on-field performance in years, by crushing a high, outside fastball for the longest home run (see video) anyone has hit so far in 2015. The high-arcing shot flew 477 feet (145 metres), before landing on the concourse behind the lower deck of left-field seats in Tampa Bay's Tropicana Field.
Observers familiar with the unreliable nature of baseball statistics over short timeframes will surely warn that expectations for Mr Rodríguez need to be kept in check. Robert "Voros" McCracken, an early and influential quantitative analyst of the sport, once memorably wrote that any MLB hitter can do just about anything, good or bad, in a mere 60 at-bats (a little over two weeks of play). Countless players have hit four home runs in a span of 35 at-bats or less, as Mr Rodríguez has so far this year, and gone on to achieve little. In 2006 the long-forgotten Chris Shelton hit nine homers in his first 51 at-bats. He mustered just seven more longballs over his remaining 322 at-bats that season.
However, the sabermetric canon also includes a caveat to "Voros's law" about the volatility of small sample sizes. Although the overwhelming majority of events that can transpire in baseball over a brief time period cannot be distinguished statistically from random variation, a handful of accomplishments are so rare that even a single game can contain impressive predictive power. Bill James, the father of modern baseball analysis, called this principle "signature significance". In one well-known example, of the 14 pitchers who have struck out 18 or more batters in a nine-inning game during the past century, 12 were at least All-Stars, and six are in the Hall of Fame. Mr Rodríguez's mammoth blast might well be a similar case. After all, of the 38,143 homers hit in MLB since 2007—the first year that HitTracker recorded the path of every ball to leave the yard—just 25 (0.06%, or one in 1,525) traveled 477 feet or more.
The group of 22 players who have hit a homer of at least 477 feet over the past eight seasons is extremely impressive, and would approximate any fan's shortlist of the most feared sluggers of recent vintage. It features 15 All-Stars, such as Mike Trout, the sport's best player (who clubbed a 489-foot rocket last year), and Giancarlo Stanton, who is widely recognised as having the most raw power in the game and has met the 477-foot thresholdtwice. Other star hitters in this select club include Adam Dunn, Prince Fielder, Josh Hamilton, David Ortiz, Nelson Cruz, Justin Upton, Edwin Encarnación and Mark Teixeira. The rule is not completely foolproof: the disappointing Cameron Maybin once sent a ball 485 feet deep. But even some of the apparent exceptions turn out to support the trend. The name of Curaçao's Wladimir Balentein might surprise most fans, since he never succeeded in MLB. However, his 495-foot shot in 2009 turned out to foretell his setting the Japanese league's single-season home-run record in 2013.
Mr Rodríguez, who currently ranks fifth on baseball's all-time career home run list, certainly fits in with this formidable company. But does his admission to this club merely burnish his long list of past achievements? Or should it also influence expectations of how he is likely to perform for the remainder of his twilight years?
In order to determine how much predictive power a single deep home run can provide, I started with every batter who played between 2007 and 2014. I first discarded all their ground balls and pop-ups, since balls on those trajectories cannot become homers no matter how hard they are hit. I then measured the share of their other batted balls—the line drives and outfield flies—that turned into home runs, a standard measure of a batter's power. If ultra-long home runs truly have signature significance, then players who hit even one ball as deep as Mr Rodríguez's should fare well above average in this category over the course of an entire season.
As one might expect, the data were extremely noisy—using a single swing to project what will happen on as many as 300 others is a tall order. But buried within them was a powerful and highly statistically significant trend. For each foot beyond the distance of a league-average longball (usually just under 400 feet) that any individual home run travels, an additional 0.06% of that batter's other line drives and outfield fly balls in that season become home runs (see chart).
In most cases, this amounts to a rounding error. But for the biggest of blows, those percentage points add up in a hurry. If a player about whom we had no other information—say, a recent arrival from Cuba—hit a home run of average distance in his first at-bat, we would expect him to hit about 6% more homers than an average player for the rest of the season. In contrast, if the player hit a 477-foot home run like Mr Rodríguez's in his first at-bat, we would expect him to hit around 50% more homers than average. That is as strong an example of signature significance as one could hope to find.
Applying this principle to Mr Rodríguez's case is tricky. On one hand, we know far more about him than we do about Cuban defectors: he has been playing in MLB for 20 years. Given his age and mediocre performance in the years before his suspension, there is good reason to be sceptical (leaving aside the question of his admitted steroid use) that he has discovered a fountain of youth. The two leading quantitative baseball projection systems freely available to the public, Steamer and ZiPS, have barely budged from their bearish preseason forecasts for Mr Rodríguez. It won't be long before sportswriters who earn their livings by cautioning gullible readers about the perils of drawing premature conclusions from small sample sizes (often abbreviated SSS) begin citing Mr Rodríguez's recent performance as the latest candidate for inclusion in the SSS song.
Nonetheless, the logic of signature significance suggests that this know-it-all, hold-your-horses message is arguably just as simplistic as the irrational exuberance over early-season hot streaks it criticises. The fact that Mr Rodríguez propelled a single baseball 477 feet means there is a very strong chance he is not the player we thought he was. Guys who are washed up just don't hit 477-foot homers. Not even once.
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A spray painting by Thierry Ehrmann of Jeff Bezos on the Abode of Chaos in Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, France. Photo courtesy of Wikmedia Commons.
Envious of Silicon Valley's success, more than 80 places throughout the world have renamed one of their neighborhoods "Silicon-something," including "Silicon Beach" in Los Angeles, "Silicon Bayou" in New Orleans, and "Silicon Roundabout" in London, as if the very word works an economic magic.
So it was not surprising that when Amazon announced plans to build a second headquarters—"HQ2"—somewhere in North America, more than 200 cities decided to compete for the honor. Dangling the promise of 50,000 new jobs and $5 billion in investment, Amazon brazenly pitted state against state, and community against community, encouraging local leaders to trample over one another to offer Amazon billions of dollars in subsidies.
There is nothing new about local governments providing "locational" incentives to private sector businesses in return for the promise of jobs and sizable investments in their economy. But the frenzy surrounding Amazon HQ2 and other such investments (remember Tesla's Gigafactory?) seems to be reaching a new fevered pitch, as billions of dollars pass from the public to the private sector. And this in turn is raising old questions about whether such efforts on the part of local governments are efficient, ethical, or even effective.
Regardless, cities from Boston to Nashville to Columbus, Ohio, took Amazon's bait, with their staffs spending thousands of hours writing in-depth proposals. The most lucrative incentive package came from Newark, New Jersey, which in partnership with the State government offered the company a jaw-dropping $7 billion worth of incentives. Not to be outdone, the State of Maryland offered a package that may total as much as $8.5 billion. Despite the generous offers on the table, we wait still to find out which bachelorette will receive Amazon's final rose.
Is there a public benefit from lavishing billions of dollars on Amazon? First consider that, with or without incentives, Amazon will have to locate HQ2 somewhere, since the company can no longer contain its growth within the confines of Seattle. Incentives the company receives, therefore, simply represent a payment from local governments to one of the largest companies in the world for an action it will undertake anyway. From the perspective of the national economy, there seems to be little benefit to the HQ2 contest. Whether HQ2 goes to Austin, Texas, or Washington, D.C., the same number of jobs will be added to the national economy.
But what about the benefit to the local economy that attracts Amazon? Adding 50,000 new jobs would help those parts of the country that have not been able to recover from the impact of a shrinking manufacturing sector. And the tech industry is a source of well-paying jobs, the growth of which should filter through to local public finances, such as higher property and sales tax revenues. Furthermore, Amazon's arrival would create jobs in other sectors of the economy—what is referred to as the "multiplier effect"—as its workers spend their wages in supermarkets, restaurants, and dry cleaners.
But at what cost? Public resources given to Amazon must come from somewhere. This means that taxes will be raised on other members of a community, or public spending must be cut in some other category. The reality is that resources that are provided to Amazon could otherwise be used on schools or infrastructure or law enforcement. Academic research suggests that, in the long run, incentives provided to a business can come at a significant cost if they starve a local economy of valuable public investment.
Frequently the argument is that the increased economic activity brought about by an Amazon will pay for the subsidies provided, and then some. This is when multiplier analyses are typically rolled out—to claim that new private investment will create jobs and generate tax revenues for the local economy. While multiplier analyses have their uses, justifying government payouts is not one of them. This is because multiplier figures are based on the gross rather than the net impact—which is a fancy way of saying that these numbers assume that, but-for the investment of Amazon (or a sports stadium, or infrastructure, or event etc.), land and workers would be idle, and not put to some other use.
Of course this isn't true, particularly not in today's economy, with its near-record low unemployment rates. To fully consider the benefits received from attracting Amazon, a city must understand that, while adding jobs from Amazon would be a benefit, the costs extend beyond the payments they receive in return. A true accounting will consider that resources consumed by Amazon could have been used in some other way.
This is particularly true for housing, which is a very scarce resource in major cities and especially in our home state of California. The rapid influx of tech jobs to an economy can be a mixed blessing: While tech growth can create jobs in local services sectors, it also can drive up the rents for the people who work in such industries—and displace people in nearby low-income communities. For this reason, affordable housing advocates have frequently protested against the further expansion of the tech sector in places like San Francisco (think protests against Google buses), L.A.'s Venice neighborhood, and Seattle.
The reality is that resources that are provided to Amazon could otherwise be used on schools or infrastructure or law enforcement.
Absent effective housing policy, these activists have a point. The jobs and wealth created by the tech industry increase demand for housing, and given local opposition to the construction of new housing, supply is unable to meet demand, placing upward pressure on house prices and rents. In the case of Los Angeles, the arrival of up to 50,000 well-paying jobs would place pressure on an already strained local housing market, laying bare the local failure to make housing more affordable for the majority of the community's residents.
Given the unclear benefits of pursuing HQ2, and the significant costs that winning the Amazon sweepstakes could create for local economies, why do local governments engage in such contests? Part of the answer lies in misguided views about how to develop a local economy. Politicians of all stripes are predisposed to pursue high-profile projects that make headlines—like attracting National Football League teams and creating expensive stadium facilities that employ people for a handful of days a year—instead of taking incremental steps that are more likely to produce economic gains.
Instead of throwing millions (hundreds of millions? or billions?) of dollars at Amazon, a city like Los Angeles would be much better served by helping to develop the tech companies that are already here. For fast-growing companies like L.A.-based Snapchat, the city should be easing land-use regulations that stymie its growth and expansion. Also, there is a great and as yet unseized opportunity to develop links between the city's entertainment industry and digital media companies like Facebook, Hulu, and Netflix. In this context, L.A.'s pursuit of Amazon is an unwelcome distraction.
Research suggests that there are better—if less conspicuous—ways for local governments to improve their local economies—like worker training targeted to specific jobs, or extension services that help advise firms on how to reach new markets, improve productivity, and streamline production. In the long run, investment in needed infrastructure and local education would provide a bigger return to a local economy than Amazon. Unfortunately, this is not usually considered by the politicians and development professionals eager to catch the "big fish" to pad their own resumes, regardless of the actual value to the local citizens they are supposed to be supporting.
Christopher Thornberg is Founding Partner of Beacon Economics and Director of the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development.
Taner Osman is a Senior Research Associate at Beacon Economics and an Instructor in the Urban Planning Department at UCLA.


Yes, I thought (with the subtlety and emotional intensity of a first grader).
While I am emotionally attached to books made of paper and ink, the StumbleUpon reader is certainly not alone in his perspective. Should it matter that we read books in the form of a creased paperback or feel the history of a dated cloth edition in our hands? After all, a recent New York Times article showed a family in which both parents were predictably reading books while their daughter was curled up on the next couch – engrossed in her laptop.
In the second part of our interview, Dorothea von Moltke and her husband and business partner, Clifford Simms, owners of Labyrinth Independent Bookstore, address the rapid changes in technology where Shakespeare scholars can convene online, and Twitter and Facebook light up the social media ether. Indeed, few bookstores neglect to set up their own website.
von Moltke and Simms continue our discussion about the ways in which reading books (and frequenting independent bookstores) might change our lives and the way we relate to one another. We also discuss the relationship between books and social advocacy, reading and political empowerment, as well as the growing influence of technology over our lives.
WRR: In a 2002 interview with Bookselling this Week, former L.A. gang member, prison inmate, author and lecturer Luis J. Rodriguez (Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. andHearts and Hands: Making Peace in a Violent Time) declared that books saved his life. As a bookseller, how have you witnessed books changing people's lives?
von Moltke: There are many stories of people in distress finding courage, solace, conviction, or a reason to live in a book or in reading. These stories are incredibly moving. But we have to remember that we belong to and are fundamentally selling books to a highly privileged sub-set of our highly privileged society. This is not to say that books don't impact and change lives as well, but the way books change our perspective can also be more subtle.
But to circle back to Rodriquez, the correlation between education and reducing recidivism rates is well established and indisputable. I also see that there is work to be done to bring books to places where for all intents and purposes there really aren't any. From Princeton NJ, you don't have to travel far. In New Haven CT, you don't have to leave town. That's a form of activism I'm extremely interested in. In our Princeton store, we have started develop a platform for all issues concerning prison literacy in particular.
WRR: What drew you to these kinds of social issues?
von Moltke: Personally, I'm interested in the role that humanities education can play. While practical, vocational training and resources are clearly indispensable to a productive work life, how does a person survive – I mean find the resilience for– the encounter with systemic inequalities and odds stacked sky high against her, especially at a time of economic downturn? I'm a little sick of so-called "inspirational literature" that tells the disadvantaged that they can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. I am more interested in everything that can teach people to become critical thinkers, to find and raise their voices. History, art, philosophy, music, literature, education are crucial for this. In fact, Rutgers University is launching a great new program to take just this kind of learning into under-served communities.
Anything that Labyrinth can do to help these sorts of endeavors, we will do. Are we still acting as booksellers in this context? Not in any direct or immediate way. But, of course we have a stake in broad, full forms of literacy and in fostering reading precisely where it is most threatened.
WRR: When Luis J. Rodriguez moved back to Southern California after serving time in prison, he noticed that there weren't any bookstores in his community. He felt it was important to create a bookstore where events such as poetry readings and musical events could help foster a sense of community. How can/should bookstores serve these communities?
von Moltke: Well, you've given part of the answer, or Rodriquez has: certainly bookstores should become forums of discussion and encounters around books. Some of that simply happens in the day-to-day operations of a bookstore, but events are central here. In our experience the more the format of the event encourages conversation, the better. Which is why we always ask the author if he or she might want to invite a guest who will engage with the work. This way things often quickly come alive, not just for the audience but for the author as well. And there is generally a built-in openness to an exchange with the audience.
I'd like to add that when we talk about the ways in which an independent bookstore can create a sense of community around books and reading, it's important to remember that this potential exists only to the extent that the staff of the store carries and embodies that same vision. We are very lucky in this regard. In both our stores, the people we have hired are without exception passionate readers who understand our project and work incredibly hard to realize and sustain it. This is true for those receive the books in the basement, or order them in the office, as much as for those who work on the floor of the store researching books for customers.
WRR: How do you view the role of technology and the web as the world of publishing continues to rapidly change?
Simms: I am always astonished by our naiveté about how radical the new dominant information technology is. This naiveté is coupled with a belief that the new technology is a self-regulating, self-correcting system. The web may be a very efficient mechanism for selling books, but it is not helping to create another generation of book readers. If you want to understand the scope of the transformation we are undergoing, you will have to escape its boosterism and its wholesale condemnation.
Whether people are advocates of the new technologies, or critics, technological determinism is pervasive, which I see as threatening to publishing. Publishers who have witnessed the agonies of the music companies in the face of similar circumstances seem not to have learned much. At a time when digital download of songs and file sharing have made music deflationary, music companies counter by greater policing and by raising prices of CDs. Even if a customer wants a certain CD, the twelve songs can be downloaded for $11.89, while the CD costs $18.95 or more. The effect of this has been to destroy a number of viable outlets such as Tower Records and independent record stores, thereby accelerating the trend to purchase online.
It is also true that the record companies could not have stopped the momentum of the new technologies, but their policies – such as pricing and discounts – could have created a more viable circumstance for some of their outlets.
In the book market, publishers have, while experimenting with new technologies, instituted policies similar to those of the music industry: at a time when books are deflationary (i.e. prices decline quickly, in this case due largely to the internet). Prices for new books have gone up and up, especially in the scholarly and academic market.
If publishers want a healthy book market, they will need to create different policies for independent outlets before all outlets contract onto the web (which would not be sustainable for publishers). Readers still find out about books through mediums other than the web: you can browse online all you want, some things you have to stumble upon in a book store because they are put in your path.
WRR: How do you see the split between academic versus general interest books?
Von Moltke: The divisions between 'academic' and 'general interest' books are both real and imagined.
Certainly, every discipline in the academy has a vast body of knowledge and in our stores we try to represent all that we can. However, we don't think of the people who walk through our doors in terms of scholars vs. non-scholars, and it should never feel like you need an advanced degree to browse our sections. I regard those academic writers most highly who don't lose sight of what is at stake in their work in broader social, political, or cultural terms. And I regard those writers most highly whose thinking or imaginative reach is deeply rooted. For an engaged reader of any walk of life this is where the divisions between 'scholarly' and 'general' begin to fade.
At any rate, everyone seems to meet up in Current Events' books, in Kids' books, in Cookbooks, in Art books, or in Fiction and Poetry books. You will see that in terms of the layout of the Princeton store (where we have the luxury of ample space), these sections make up the midriff of the store itself.
WRR: In a recent speech you talked about the importance of going against the grain, especially the growing tendency toward an "increasing privatization of experience." How would you describe this culture of privatization and how does/should one work to counteract it?
Von Moltke: There is no question that we are undergoing a profound sociological transformation due to the role technology plays in everyone's life. On one level, the sum effect of the pervasiveness of computers, televisions, ipods, and cell-phones is a contraction of experience into a sphere where encounters between people are highly mediated and very often a bit anonymous. I don't think it's necessarily a good thing not to have to leave the home to search for culture or entertainment.
Conversely, I don't think that it's a bad thing to be inconvenienced. How about this as a definition of friendship: the desire and willingness to allow oneself to be inconvenienced by the demands of the other and for the other to want and accept being inconvenienced by us?
As compared to a coffee shop or a bookstore, what sort of a room is a chat room? It's a virtual space that may be creating a new kind of community, but you can certainly only enter this community out of the solitary confines of the minimal and private space of your desk. And when you look over your shoulder, there's still nobody there.


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A scheme to tackle congestion at a notorious city centre roundabout remains on track - despite further delays being announced to the long-awaited Castle Street upgrade.
On Monday, Highways England announced that work on the proposed £250m upgrade of the A63 at Castle Street will not now get underway until 2020, with completion expected in 2025.
However, during the same meeting with Hull politicians at the Guildhall, it was announced the separate £6.3m scheme to redesign the nearby Garrison Road roundabout - the scene of several fatal accidents in recent years - is going ahead as planned.
Work is expected to begin on this scheme in Spring 2018.
Cllr Mancey said: "That was the one chink of positivity to emerge from our meeting we held with Highways England officials."
Despite the addition of extra traffic signals, the roundabout, which carries traffic to the city's eastern docks as well as the Victoria Dock housing estate, has become a rush hour 'choke point'.
Cllr Mancey and current Hull West MP Emma Hardy's predecessor, Alan Johnson, pressed both lobbied Highways England to address the problem. Ms Hardy has not taken on the issue.
Under plans, the main east-west A63 route will run through the middle of the existing roundabout in a so-called 'hamburger' design.
The number of approach lanes to the roundabout will increase from two to three, while new traffic lights will control the connecting junctions of Great Union Street and Plimsoll Way.
Westbound access from Victoria Dock via Plimsoll Way would involve the construction of a new slip lane, allowing drivers more time to join the main traffic flow on the A63 heading towards Myton Bridge.
In a statement, Highways England said: "We are committed to delivering the important A63 improvement which will relieve congestion and improve accessibility to the Port of Hull as soon as we possibly can.
"We understand the local frustration and disappointment but this is a major and complex project which requires meticulous planning to ensure it is carried out safely and efficiently.
"We continue to work hard with Hull City Council on all aspects of the scheme and to resolve the technical and practical challenges before we can submit the Development Consent Order (DCO) next summer.
"The results will give the people of Hull more reliable journeys by easing traffic flows and improving access to the city.
"Before work begins on the Castle Street major project, Highways England will be carrying out a scheme to cut congestion and improve safety at the Garrison Road roundabout, with works commencing in Spring 2018. A further announcement will be made about this scheme later this year."
Cash for the Garrison Road junction on the A63 is part of a £220m investment programme in new road projects announced in Chancellor Philip Hammond's budget earlier this year.
In the five years to 2014, there were 21 accidents on the roundabout in which people were either killed or seriously injured.
In 2010 a female cyclist was killed when she was struck by an unsecured refrigeration unit that slipped off the back of a lorry as it negotiated the roundabout.


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This morning (9/7/2015) a number of individuals in Thailand began posting photos and videos of a mysterious fireball that illuminated the sky over the capital city. However, keep in mind that "mysterious" is a relative term. At the present moment, we don't know exactly what it is, but all signs indicate that it was part of an asteroid (as opposed to space debris from one of our satellites).
This is because a satellite would likely have been traveling on a west-east axis, and the object shown here traveled in the opposite direction before bursting into flames.
The fireball was seen from various locations throughout the city. In the following video, the object can bee seen briefly flaring before dying out as it streaks toward Earth. In order to see the flare, skip ahead to :29
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Saran Poshyachinda, Deputy Director of National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, told CNN that the object appeared to burn up about 100 kilometers (62 miles) above the ground, and that it was likely only a few kilograms in size: "It looks like an asteroid traveling to Earth and grazing through the air, and it turned into a fireball."
If you aren't aware, fireballs are still meteors, this is just a special sub-class for meteors. Meteors are bits of rock or dust that enter Earth's atmosphere and catch fire. We see them as "shooting stars." Meteorites, on the other hand, are meteors that survive the trip through our atmosphere and smash into the ground.
To bridge the gap, NASA has designated a "fireball" as being a meteor with a visual magnitude in excess of -3. For the most part, even meteors that are bright enough to be classed as fireballs aren't large enough to make it through the Earth's atmosphere intact. Instead, they burn up (are totally incinerated) as the descend through the atmosphere. That said, there are some smaller fireballs that sometimes reach the surface.
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For the German arena, see SAP Arena.
The SAP Center at San Jose (originally known as San Jose Arena) is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California. Its primary tenant is the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League, for which the arena has earned the nickname "The Shark Tank." It is also home to the San Jose Barracuda of the American Hockey League.[8]
Exterior of venue (c.2014)
Location in San Jose
San Jose Arena (1993–2001)[1]
Compaq Center (2001–02)
HP Pavilion (2002–13)
525 West Santa Clara Street
37°19′58″N 121°54′4″W / 37.33278°N 121.90111°W / 37.33278; -121.90111Coordinates: 37°19′58″N 121°54′4″W / 37.33278°N 121.90111°W / 37.33278; -121.90111
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Concerts: 19,190
Basketball: 18,543
Wrestling: 18,300
Ice hockey: 17,562[2]
Tennis: 11,386
450,000 sq ft (42,000 m2)
June 28, 1990[3]
$162.5 million
($312 million in 2018 dollars[4])
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Martin/Martin, Inc.[6]
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San Jose Sharks (NHL) (1993–present)
San Jose Grizzlies (CISL) (1994–1995)
SAP Open (tennis) (1994–2013)
San Jose Rhinos (RHI) (1994–1997)
San Jose SaberCats (AFL) (1995–2008, 2011–2015)
Golden State Warriors (NBA) (1996–1997)
San Jose Lasers (ABL) (1996–1998)
San Jose Stealth (NLL) (2004–2009)
San Jose Barracuda (AHL) (2015–present)
Aerial view of SAP Center from a landing at San Jose International Airport (SJC)
Side view of SAP Center
Plans for a San Jose arena began in the mid-1980s, when a group of local citizens formed Fund Arena Now (FAN). The group contacted city officials and pursued potential sponsors and partners from the NHL and NBA. In the late 1980s, mayor Tom McEnery met with FAN, and subsequently a measure to allocate local taxes for arena construction came up for a public vote on June 7, 1988, passing by a narrow margin.[9][10]
In 1991, soon after construction began, the NHL granted an expansion franchise to San Jose. After it was discovered that the arena would not be suitable for NBA or NHL use as originally designed, the Sharks requested an upgrade to NHL standards, including the addition of luxury suites, a press box, and increased seating capacity.[11]
In 1993, the arena was completed and initially named the "San Jose Arena".[1]
For the 1996–97 NBA season, the arena served as home to the Golden State Warriors while their regular home court in Oakland (now known as Oracle Arena) was under renovation.[12]
In 2001, naming rights were sold to Compaq, and it was renamed "Compaq Center at San Jose". After HP purchased Compaq in 2002, the arena was renamed "HP Pavilion", the same name as one of its computer models.[13]
In late April 2007, it was announced that the HP Pavilion at San Jose would be receiving several building improvements, including a new center-hung LED video display system from Daktronics similar to that of the TD Garden, home of the Boston Bruins of the NHL.[13]
In June 2013, German software company SAP (co-founded by Sharks managing partner Hasso Plattner, who is also SAP's chairman of the board) purchased the naming rights to the facility in a five-year deal worth US$3.35 million per year. The arena was renamed "SAP Center at San Jose" upon approval by the San Jose City Council.[14]
Inside view of SAP Center during a game between the San Jose Sharks and the Calgary Flames in January 2015
EventsEdit
In 2006, the SAP Center sold the most tickets (633,435) to non-sporting events of any venue in the Western United States, and the fourth highest total in the world, after Madison Square Garden in New York City (USA), the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester (UK), and Scotiabank Arena in Toronto (Canada).[15]
Other events hosted at the arena include the 1996 United States Figure Skating Championships, the 47th National Hockey League All-Star Game in 1997, the 1999 NCAA Women's Final Four, ArenaBowl XVI in 2002, the 2007 USA Gymnastics Visa Championships, and UFC 139 on November 19, 2011. Intel Extreme Masters Season IX – San Jose in 2014[16] and Intel Extreme Masters Season X – San Jose were held at the venue.[17] Prior to Super Bowl 50 in nearby Santa Clara, the arena housed introductory media activities for the event.[18] The SAP Center hosted games 3, 4, and 6 of the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals in the Sharks' first appearance in franchise history, with the Cup being presented to the series-winning Pittsburgh Penguins after game 6.[19] In 2012 and 2016, the arena played host to the USA Gymnastics Olympic Trials. The arena was the host to the West Regional semifinals and finals of the 2007 and 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournaments.[20]
Mixed Martial Arts events have played a big role at the SAP Center. The MMA organization Strikeforce (mixed martial arts) held many events in San Jose beginning with Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Gracie in 2006, then Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg in 2009, through 2012 with Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier. The first Bellator MMA organization event at SAP was Bellator MMA & Glory: Dynamite 1 in September of 2015 and since has held 6 total events with the most recent being Bellator 199 on May 16, 2018. SAP Center has also been the host of premiere MMA promotion the UFC. The first event was UFC 139 on November 19, 2011, then UFC on Fuel TV: Muñoz vs. Weidman on July 11, 2012, UFC on Fox: Henderson vs. Melendez on April 20, 2013, and most recently UFC on Fox: Lawler vs. Brown on July 26, 2014.
On September 18, 2016, the arena hosted the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions.[21]
WWE Pay-Per-Views have also taken place here. Payback (2017) took place where Braun Strowman defeated Roman Reigns in the main event. TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2018) took place at SAP Center.[22]
^ a b "2011-2012 San Jose Sharks Media Guide" (PDF). Downloads.sharks.nhl.com. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
^ Pollak, David (September 10, 2009). "The futility of chasing Marleau-Heatley rumors — plus an economic update from HP Pavilion". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved September 10, 2009.
^ "Carry Me Back to the Old Sod". San Jose Mercury News. June 17, 1990. p. 2C. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
^ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
^ a b "Facts & Figures". HP Pavlion at San Jose. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
^ "Martin/Martin, Inc. Website". Martin/Martin, Inc. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
^ "Arenas". M-E Engineers, Inc. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
^ "San Jose's 'Shark Tank' gets new name". Usatoday.com. July 10, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
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Andrew Michael Allen dit Andy Allen est un astronaute américain né le .

Biographie

Vols réalisés
  :  Atlantis (STS-46)
  : Columbia (STS-62)
  : Columbia (STS-75)

Liens externes
 (en) Une biographie officielle sur le site de la NASA
 (fr) Un résumé précis des vols effectués

Astronaute américain du programme STS
Lieutenant-colonel de l'United States Marine Corps
Étudiant de l'université de Floride
Étudiant de l'université Villanova
Élève de l'United States Naval Test Pilot School
Récipiendaire de l'Air Medal
Récipiendaire de la Distinguished Flying Cross (États-Unis)
Récipiendaire de la Defense Superior Service Medal
Légionnaire de la Legion of Merit
Naissance en août 1955
Naissance à Philadelphie

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We also taught probably my favorite lesson my whole mission this week. We were driving along and saw these 3 guys outside fixing a car and decided to go talk to them. Well as we approached it felt like we were going back in time- Ray Charles was being blasted on an old radio, and it was these older guys talking and working on a car. When we came up they were happy to talk to us, and said the missionaries have come by all the time, and said that their names were Ed, Les, and Johnny. Even with the loud music we were able to teach the full restoration, first vision and everything, and after Les said "wow, that was powerful!" We even got him to take a Book of Mormon and commit to go read a chapter, even though at first he refused, telling us that he was a Baptist and wouldn't read it. It was definitely different than any lesson I've ever taught, but the whole experience was so funny. You do not get that kind of thing often in DC!
← Who are our Other Sheep?


Transport Worthiness Test / Vibration Test.
Summary : Generally a product is placed in its primary packaging and then in a secondary packaging before being dispatched in truck or similar transport vehicle. Sometimes the transportation is also through Rail or Air. In order for the product to reach the consumer intact it has to be designed to withstand the hazards of a road / rail / air journey.
The most common failures are seen as breakages, leakages, scratches, etc.
Vibration tests are generally done on filled shipping containers. Such tests may be used to assess the performance of a container, with its interior packing and means of closure, both in terms of its strength and of the protection it provides its contents when it is subjected to vibration such as it experiences in transportation. These procedures are suitable for testing containers of any form, material, kind, design of interior packing, means of closure, and any size and weight. They are not intended for determining the response of products to vibration for product design purposes, nor are they intended for tests of products in their operational configuration as other more suitable procedures are available for these purposes.
As per ASTM D 999, the package is placed on a vibration table which is made to move up / down and cause a displacement of 1 inch. The speed is gradually increased till the package starts bouncing off the platform surface by around 1.6mm. The test is then continued at this speed for the remaining test period as determined by the user (usually 1 or 2 hours).
A study conducted on Indian Road Conditions concluded that for every 1 km of road, there are about 7 pits of 1 inch or more depth.
Which means that in order to simulate a journey of 1000 km, we would need to subject the package to 7000 vibrations of 1 inch displacement. Based on the current test speed, you can calculate the time required for the test. Vibration Test Machines are usually equipped with a Vibration Counter or Digital Timer or Both.
Transport Data Loggers are portable, battery operated devices which can sense and record vibration. You can use this data to compare real life vibrations (in a truck) and those that are being generated by a Vibration Test Machine. Some data loggers even have additional recordable parameters such as Temperature, Humidity, and Atmospheric Pressure. This can help you understand the transit conditions even better.
Box Retainer System : 6-8" height Adjustable Sliding Supports.
2 Pole MCB for Short Circuit Protection and also to work as Mains Switch.
Vibration Data Logger. A device that can help monitor your real field vibration conditions and then compare it with the machine simulation in your lab.
Safety Module (Cordon Post Set) Set of 4 retractable belt posts that help you cordon off the test area and prevent accidents.
This little "Black Box" helps you understand the what happens to your carton between the time it leaves your factory and reaches its destination.
It helps understand if the damages are occurring in Loading, Transport, Transhipment, Unloading, or where ?
Who is playing mischief with your products ?
Comes with upto 30 days battery life.


There's been a lot of interest, pro and con, lately about global warming. As some of you know, I'm an environmental biologist. So, I've studied, well, read up on the subject of global warming, and have definitely come to an opinion. Note that it's an opinion, not a scientific fact. As far as I can tell, the science about this matter is still out.
Have you read Michael Crichton's book "State of Fear?" It's a great novel. He did a lot of research and I think he put it right. Global warming may (note the operative "may") be happening, but it's not being caused by us puny humans.
Take for example the changing ocean currents. They are what influence the weather around the globe. So, what's been happening? Well, how about underwater volcanoes? Seismologists have detected more underwater volcanoes in the past several years than ever before. What happens when they erupt? Hot water. This hot water changes the ocean currents and warms the air, and "warms" the globe.
But! And I think this is interesting. Parts of the world are actually cooling. Hmm! Why is that? Well, if you look at the Antarctic ice shelf, part of it is melting, just as the global warming crowd claims. But on the far side of the continent, the ice is getting thicker. Horrors! How can that be happening? It's called changing ocean currents caused by the underwater volcanoes.
It is my opinion, since the science is still out, that so-called global warming, if truly happening, is being caused by underwater volcanoes, not our puny efforts to pollute the atmosphere with our exhaust emissions.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm all in favor of clean air. But I don't think we need to put our industry and out transportation systems out of business to accomplish that.
I've resumed the query process again. I know, it seems like an exercise in futility, but like they (whoever "they" are) say, "nothing ventured, nothing gained."
Here's hoping this go-round works better. I think my query letter is better than before, and I've revised the novel to the point it's practically a new story.


He might only have a bit part in it, but ever since it was announced that Jude Law would be appearing in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, he's been very excited.
Oooo. That's pretty much my response to this. I've been excited about The Grand Budapest Hotel since it was announced. As the cast list grew, so did my interest – despite the dismissal of the Johnny Depp rumors, which continues to depress me. But that's all right, because we've got the long long list that includes Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Mathieu Amalric, Willem Dafoe, and Adrien Brody. The film will also star Saoirse Ronan in quite a large part. The idea of Anderson doing an Ernst Lubitsch-style film is just … so freaking exciting. How he'll bring The Grand Budapest Hotel into another era will be interesting, to say the least.
Jude Law has been a busy guy otherwise, with Side Effects hitting theatres next week. He confirms, however, that his part in Werner Herzog's projected Gertrude Bell biopic Queen of the Desert is pretty much kaput. The film has been delayed and Law says that he probably won't be available when it gets started up again.
So that's all the Jude Law news. I've got to give him some credit – from being a slightly obnoxious pretty boy actor, he's turned into a hard worker and generally likable guy. I'll be interested to see what he comes out with next.
You can see Jude Law in Side Effects next week.


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A eleição municipal de Foz do Iguaçu em 1996 ocorreu em 3 de outubro de 1996. O então prefeito era Dobrandino Gustavo da Silva do PMDB. O prefeito eleito foi Harry Daijó do PPB.

Resultado da eleição para prefeito

Primeiro turno

Foz do Iguaçu
1996
1996 no Paraná


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package com.zlab.datFM.swiftp.server;

import java.io.IOException;

import android.util.Log;
import com.zlab.datFM.swiftp.Globals;

public class CmdPWD extends FtpCmd implements Runnable {
    private static final String TAG = CmdPWD.class.getSimpleName();

    public CmdPWD(SessionThread sessionThread, String input) {
        super(sessionThread);
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        Log.d(TAG, "PWD executing");
        // We assume that the chroot restriction has been applied, and that
        // therefore the current directory is located somewhere within the
        // chroot directory. Therefore, we can just slice of the chroot
        // part of the current directory path in order to get the
        // user-visible path (inside the chroot directory).
        try {
            String currentDir = sessionThread.getWorkingDir().getCanonicalPath();
            currentDir = currentDir.substring(Globals.getChrootDir().getCanonicalPath()
                    .length());
            // The root directory requires special handling to restore its
            // leading slash
            if (currentDir.length() == 0) {
                currentDir = "/";
            }
            sessionThread.writeString("257 \"" + currentDir + "\"\r\n");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // This shouldn't happen unless our input validation has failed
            Log.e(TAG, "PWD canonicalize");
            sessionThread.closeSocket(); // should cause thread termination
        }
        Log.d(TAG, "PWD complete");
    }

}

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Q: What are the differences between a login shell and interactive shell? What is a login shell and interactive shell, and what is a .bash_profile and .bashrc?

A: Since you probably know what a "shell" is and are using it your question only targets the difference between login shell and everything else...
A login shell only differs from any other shell by the fact that one or more initial setup scripts (resources) are loaded on startup, typically named with "profile" in their name. in there basic settings are defined that are derived to subsequently opened shells (so they only need to be defined once).

A:
An interactive shell is one started without non-option arguments,
  unless -s is specified, without specifying the -c option, and whose
  input and error output are both connected to terminals (as determined
  by isatty(3)), or one started with the -i option.
An interactive shell generally reads from and writes to a user's
  terminal.

[gnu bash manual]
A login shell is a shell where you login.  You can recognize a login shell from a ps -f listing, it will have a hyphen at the start of the program name, for example:
root      3561  3553  0 09:38 pts/0    00:00:00 -bash
qa        7327  3432  0 10:46 pts/1    00:00:00 -bash

An interactive shell is one which reads commands from it's standard-input, usually a terminal.
For example, if you login to bash using an xterm or terminal emulator like putty, then the session is both a login shell and an interactive one.  If you then type bash then you enter an interactive shell, but it is not a login shell.
If a shell script (a file containing shell commands) is run, then it is neither a login shell nor an interactive one.
Start-up files are highly tailorable in bash:
When a login bash shell is invoked, then /etc/profile is sourced (executed in the current environment).  After that, three files are checked for existence.  The checks for these files are done in this order:
if /etc/profile exists, source (run) it
if ~/.bash_profile exists, source (run) it
if ~/.bash_login exists, source (run) it
if ~/.profile exists, source (run) it
Once a match is found, the other files are ignored, even if they exist. The /etc/bashrc file might be used by both the ~/.bash_profile and the ~/.bashrc files.  That would mean that the /etc/bashrc file is sourced on all interactive invocations of bash, whether it is a login or non-login shell.
So, the .bashrc file is also run every time you request a new interactive shell.  This does not include a shell script.  Normally variables, aliases or functions are placed in this file.
Bash shell scripts read a different file if suitably instructed.  If the user defines (usually in their own .bash_profile) a variable BASH_ENV which contains a filename, scripts will read this.  If this variable is not set (and exported) then bash scripts will not read any startup files.


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# file-system-css

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/philcockfield/file-system-css.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/philcockfield/file-system-css)

A super-fast CSS compiler that finds, builds, caches and monitors files across the file-system.

Supported formats:
- `.css` - Plain CSS
- `.styl` - [Stylus](https://learnboost.github.io/stylus/)

## Usage
Pass a path (or array of paths) to the folders containing your source files (.css, .styl):

```js
import css from "file-system-css";

css.compile(["./site", "./mixins"], { minify: true })
.then(result => {
    // Do something with the resulting CSS, for example:
    req.send(result.css);
})
.catch(err => throw(err));
```

## Options
Pass in options to the compiler (default values shown):
```js
{
  watch: false,         // Flag indicating if file-system watching is enabled.
  minify: false,        // Flag indicating if the css should be minified.
  cache: true,          // Flag indicating if caching should be employed.
  pathsRequired: true   // Flag indicating if an error should be thrown if the
                        // given paths do not exist.
}

css.compile("./path", { /* options */ });
```

## Stylus
The [nib](http://tj.github.io/nib/) CSS3 extensions are automatically imported and are available in any of your **.styl** files.

Create your own mixins, anywhere, by naming your file `<name>.mixin.styl`.  Just like the nib library, these mixins will be automatically available to all your **.styl** files.  No need to **@import** them.

## Test
    npm test


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Moraches – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Burgundia-Franche-Comté, w departamencie Nièvre.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 119 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 8 osób/km² (wśród 2044 gmin Burgundii Moraches plasuje się na 791. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 650.).

Bibliografia

Miejscowości w departamencie Nièvre


Mystery is an alluring concept. If somethings exists in a form not entirely understood, people will endeavour to know the truth. Finally, after thirty four weeks, give or take a seasonal break, we have definitive answers as to the secrets that lie within our tiger striped deuteragonist. From Azafuse, to Nagatobimaru, we now know that our lovable tsundere yokai began life bearing neither of those names, rather, he was known as the Cursed Child and his name was Shagakusha.
Okay, we're finally here. The answer train has pulled into the station and we now know the horrible past that Tora was forced to endure. Having been born in what I assume is ancient Egypt, Shagakusha lived as a street urchin, scraping by through acts of thievery and violence. You see, on the day of his birth, a violent ball of energy feel to Earth and resulted in the deaths of all but baby Shagakusha. Naturally, it was the town's consensus to shun him as a Cursed Child and turn their heads in the hope that he would just kinda die and the problem would solve itself. Real classy not-specifically-stated-ancient-Egypt. Obviously he didn't die and eventually rose to the ranks of general or something because joining the military and killing things gave him a warm fuzzy feeling…in his shoulder. This notably strikes Ushio as weird who, just so you know, was witnessing Shagakusha's life through his eyes because of some mystical magical power the shards of the Beast Spear possess because, surprise yet again, the spear isn't dead. Who'da thunk? Regardless, this is how the episode allows both Ushio and the rest of the useful cast (Mayuko, Mama Ushio, kid-in-hat-with-scythe) to learn the truth all at once, with future-travelling-mirror-guy relaying the past, despite their separation by the ocean. Which nobody seems fussed by. Like, at all. Not once to they say, "Hey, shouldn't we see if Ushio is alive? I'm pretty sure he's survived worse." Nope. they just kinda gather around for story time. Oh well, magic shards are flying him back to the surface anyway, so no harm no foul…unless he gets the bends. That thing is really dangerous.
…and that is where I take a bit of a backstep. I am not entirely a fan of this new revelation, it's all too…neat. When we started the series, part of Ushio and Tora's charm was that they were two mismatched allies fighting a cadre of evil monsters. Real supernatural buddy cop stuff. When we learned of Ushio's connection to Hakumen, it helped explain why the Beast Spear was even in Ushio's basement, as well as how his father knew what he did. The truth of the Azafuse was a little coincidental, but it raised questions about how tora came to be on the receiving end of the spear he once wielded, as to why he ever wielded it in the first place. Now we fin that Tora was the incubator for Hakumen no Mono…yeah. Everything is just too connected. We all knew that tora held a grudge against Hakumen, something far more personal than the vague threats of destruction, but this? I'm just not feeling it. If Tora was the first human to ever stand up to Hakumen? I could get behind that. But to have created it? It just really drives home the point that Ushio and Tora are the only characters that matter. Hell, any doubts in our mind were alleviated by the sudden appearance of Guren, who was revealed to have committed every evil we though Tora did, like killing a certain exorcist's family. Which isn't bad per say just…neat.
The most interesting concept of this episode was alluded to only briefly, in the dying moments of lovable scamp Raama. Having spent his whole life hating and killing, Shagakusha perceived those around him as evil and untrustworthy, having changed their opinion of him simply because he was now useful to them. However, if Raama truly spoke for the citizens, they held him in a much higher regard than he ever knew. Having seen Shagakusha stand up to protect them from invading forces despite their treatment of him, they came to think of him as noble and altruistic. It was a brief exchange, but it was one that highlighted how perception can be all that stands between good and evil (unless you're Hakumen). Had he realised sooner how his own actions had changed the world around him, perhaps Hakumen would never have been born. Additionally, it serves as a nice little link between Shagakusha and Ushio's ineffectiveness when trying to deal with situations through hate. Clever. Though I still retain the opinion that Ushio's rage was not unjustified. Not that that matters anymore, what with the flashback and all. Shonen heroes people, one dream sequence and their fury is replaced by friendship and love…hooray.
Anywhen, we now have a whole lot of answers to one particular question that some people were probably asking almost every week. So what next? Ushio bonds with Tora having now understood why he's such a jerky jerk jerkface all the time? Probably. tora fights with a new zeal, emboldened by the realisation that those he loved are still with him in spirit? Sounds shonen enough. The Beast spear magically repairs itself and Hakumen no Mono perishes like it should have millennia ago? Most definitely. Though that will probably happen in the last episode, anime is weird like that. Also, I still want to know why Tora was pinned by the Beast Spear for 500 or so years. did nobody miss it? Because everyone seems pretty into it now. I would enjoy it if Tora pinned himself there from fear of his own transformation, an action that could've stood just as powerfully without the whole I'm-Hakumen's-mother subplot, but oh well. Oh also again, Tora was a baby, living normally, albeit briefly, when suddenly a nine tailed demon was trapped inside his body, killing his family and leaving him an orphan despised by an entire city…Tora is Naruto. Believe that.
Tora didn't create Hakumen. Hakumen, as the formless evil of the world (the Yang to humanity's Yin), essentially used this human body as a conduit to create an actual form for him, to spread far more chaos than he ever could before.
It's actually pretty interesting that darkness chose to give itself a manifestation; Tora was chosen simply because he was born at the same time, and once he realized what he had been used as, cursing him forever, of course he would take up a spear that's claim to fame is being able to destroy that which cursed him.
None of this any neat coincidence. This is all character writing.


See, I could fill rooms and mouths to understand just what it was you did to me.
I could pour ink through my fingers, spill memories across the page until they form the neatest of lines. I could attempt to distill what survived, sift through the words to find some greater truth about love.
I come up empty every time.
The way you altered me.
Above all, this remains our mystery.
It is a chemical reaction, isn't it.


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RADFORD AIR CUTLERY
Radford Air is a hollow handled pattern, designed to sit as a sculptural form on the table.
Radford is an evolution of Premier, a pattern originally designed in 1984 by Robert Radford Welch (1929-2000) as a modern equivalent to the shape and weight of Georgian cutlery. Premier was inspired by work in the silversmithing workshop in the early 1970s. Robert and his team had often been asked to hand make replacement knives; with silver handles and stainless steel blades, to relate as closely as possible to customers' existing Georgian spoons and forks.
Radford Air shares this history, although takes its design cues from the traditional way knife handles have been made over the years, allowing it to surprise the diner with its contradictory solidity of form but lightness of feeling in the hand.
The knives in Georgian canteens were less likely to survive as long as the rest of the pieces, either they were made of bone or ivory handle, or of a hollow silver handle made in two pieces and then joined and filled with a cement, resin or sand to hold the blade in place. Radford Air takes this concept as far as it can; by not filling the hollow in the handle the illusion delights all the more.
The feeling of lightness which this technique affords is today often associated with inexpensive cutlery, when in fact, as a process, it is far more labour intensive and therefore more costly to produce.
He wrote about this process in his sketchbook:
"Hollow handled knives with forged bolsters are very difficult to model as prototypes. In the early design stages the first models are often made in wood, or carved out of solid aluminium bar.
However if we decide to make up the knife as a close replica of a finished manufactured piece, we have to follow parts of the factory process by utilising, wherever possible, existing hot stampings which are modified to suit the new design."
Radford - restyled, renamed and re-launched in memory of Robert in 2003 - remains a classical English design, but owes its origins to the contours and balance of traditional eighteenth century cutlery, a heritage which imbues it with timeless appeal.
Radford Air plays with notions of tradition and pushes techniques of manufacture. The result is an elevated statement piece which will become a talking point at any table.