"才" is one of those Chinese words with a number of different meanings. Taken as a noun, it could mean "talent," as in "才华 (cái huá)," or "talented person," as in "人才 (rén cái).
You've been working on your Chinese for a few years, and maybe you are pretty confident in your Chinese skills. Today, you finally decided to take your learning outside the classroom and visit an authentic Chinatown restaurant. "I'll even place my order in Chinese." You thought.
You were a) on vacation, b) at a friend's party, or c) on a popular online dating app when you met the boy/girl of your dreams in China. You gather up the courage to introduce yourself, and soon the two of you are magically and madly in love. You're even thinking about spending the upcoming holidays together.
Why Do So Many Chinese People Have The Same Last Name?
As anyone who has lived in both China and the United States will tell you, there are major cultural differences between the two countries. For example, the toilets in the U.S actually provide toilet paper. One of the differences that struck me the most when I moved to the United States are the difference in names.


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Kentucky AAU Launches AAU Athletics Bill Long Award
The Kentucky District of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) honors longtime AAU member William Glenn "Bill" Long, Jr by creating a district award in his name to be given out annually to the AAU Kentucky club that exemplifies Bill Long's dedication and perseverance in the sport of Athletics.
Long was a dedicated AAU member and served as a mentor to countless other volunteers and athletes. He was a lifetime member of the AAU and served as the Treasurer and Registrar for more than 45 years. In 1966, Long received AAU's Jack Milne Award for service to track and field. Also, he was the AAU Junior Olympic Games Track & Field Chairman of the Kentucky Association for many years. In 1994, Long was inducted into the National AAU Volunteer Hall of Fame for his years of service to the AAU.
Apart from his work with the AAU, Long's accomplishments are many. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Louisville in 1950 and master's degree from Indiana University in 1953. Long taught mathematics and started the cross-country program at Male High School in the 1960's. Also, he served at several schools as an educator, Assistant Principal and eventually the Principal of Meyers Middle School, until his retirement in 1988.
Long was one of the original members of the Kentuckiana Cinder Club, which became the Mason-Dixon Club. He served as President for two terms of the Mason-Dixon Club and ran in thirty-one (31) Kentucky Derby mini-marathons representing the club. In addition, he ran twenty-two (22) full marathons including four (4) Boston Marathons.
Besides track and field, Long was also active in the sport of softball. He was a member of the Municipal Softball Board for more than forty years, and president of Louisville's ASA softball program for nine (9) years, and was inducted into Louisville's ASA Hall of Fame in 1985. He has served on the board of directors of the Southeast YMCA and the Louisville Regional and International Science Fairs. He was also the past President of the Kentucky Science Fair Endowment Board of Directors.
Bill Long will forever be remembered as a dedicated and loyal member of the AAU as the epitome of what the Amateur Athletic Union looks for in a volunteer. He will be sorely missed by his AAU family, but will forever be remembered through the Bill Long Kentucky AAU Memorial Award.
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King's hosts annual Diversity Festival
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August 30, 2017 – King's College's Seventh Annual Diversity Festival will kick-off with a Spanish Fiesta and will also include free film screenings and a cultural game night. The events will be held in September and October on the College's campus.
The festival opens with a celebration of Latin American heritage during the Spanish Fiesta from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, in Regina Court, between North Main and Franklin streets. Local vendors will be on hand to sell authentic foods from Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador. The event will feature authentic food, a wide variety of music, and an opportunity to learn how to salsa dance.
Screenings of the films "Underwater Dreams" will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 19, and "Race" on Tuesday, Sept. 26, in the Burke Auditorium, William G. McGowan School of Business, on North River Street.
The documentary, "Underwater Dreams," narrated by Michael Peña, chronicles the story of how the sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants learn to build an underwater robot and defeat engineering powerhouse MIT in a robotics competition.
In the award-winning sports drama, "Race," Stephan James portrays Olympic legend Jessie Owens as the young track and field star overcomes racism during the 1936 Olympics hosted in Nazi Germany.
In addition to the film screenings, the Diversity Festival features "The Ultimate Flag Challenge," which includes games and prizes based on national flags to raise cultural awareness. The event will be held from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, in the Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center, located between N. Main and N. Franklin streets.
King's Seventh Annual Diversity Festival is co-sponsored by Multicultural and International Student Programs Office and the McGowan Hispanic Outreach Program. For more information, contact Reyna Logsdon, Director, McGowan Hispanic Outreach Program, at (570) 208-8021.
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Undocumented high school students enter a robotics competition, facing off against engineering powerhouses like MIT, and won the competition in the documentary "Underwater Dreams," one of two free public film screenings held during the Seventh Annual Diversity Festival at King's College.
The King's College Public Relations Office staff is available to help:
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Q: How can I create a sectioned recyclerview in Kotlin? How can I create a sectioned recyclerview in Kotlin based on list, and sections need to be grouped by one of the subtype of Data model?

A: You can have your ViewHolder be a sealed class with one child for each type of view you wanna display (subtypeA, subtypeB, maybe divider etc)
Then in your adapter you create the correct viewholder based on the viewType

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Danilo Baltierra, vollständiger Name Danilo Baltierra Cravia, (* 4. Oktober 1968 in Montevideo) ist ein ehemaliger uruguayischer Fußballspieler und heutiger -trainer.

Spielerkarriere

Verein
Der 1,82 Meter große Mittelfeldakteur Baltierra stand zu Beginn seiner Karriere von 1989 bis 1991 beim Erstligisten Club Atlético Cerro unter Vertrag. Sodann spielte er von 1992 bis in die Apertura 1996 für den Club Atlético Peñarol in der Primera División. Die Aurinegros wurden in diesem Zeitraum in den Jahren 1993, 1994, 1995 und 1996 jeweils Uruguayischer Meister. 1993 und 1994 erreichte er mit dem Klub zudem die Finalspiele um die Copa Conmebol. In der Spielzeit 1996/97 absolvierte er 25 Partien für den spanischen Verein CD Logroñés und erzielte dabei einen Treffer. Bei den Spaniern debütierte er am 7. September 1996 im Spiel gegen Teneriffa in der Primera División. Seine letzte Partie bestritt er dort am 15. Juni 1997 gegen Racing Santander. In der Clausura 1997 und der Apertura 1998 war er für Nacional Montevideo aktiv. Nacional gewann 1998 den Landesmeistertitel. Bereits während der Saison wechselte er für die Clausura 1998 zu Villa Española, mit dem er am Saisonende in die Segunda División abstieg. 1999 stand er beim ebenfalls in Montevideo ansässigen Erstligisten River Plate Montevideo unter Vertrag. Im Folgejahr lief er in 19 Spielen für Rentistas auf und schoss zwei Tore. Auch im Torneo Clasificatorio 2001 stand er noch in Reihen von Rentistas und erzielte in diesem Wettbewerb einen Treffer. Von 2001 bis 2002 spielte er für Progreso. Im letzten Karrierejahr 2003 war der Club Atlético Cerro erneut sein Arbeitgeber.

Nationalmannschaft
1986 nahm Baltierra mit der uruguayischen Auswahl an den Südamerikaspielen 1986 in Chile teil.

Trainertätigkeit
Seit 16. März 2013 war er Cheftrainer des Club Atlético Cerro. Dort wurde er im November 2013 nach einer 1:2-Niederlage gegen Miramar Misiones aufgrund der schlechten Saison-Resultate von seinen Aufgaben im Hinblick auf das Erstligateam entbunden. Allerdings wirkt er seit Jahresbeginn 2014 als Jugendkoordinator für den Verein. Parallel dazu trainiert er mindestens seit Mai 2014 Hebraica Macabi. Im Oktober 2015 gewann er mit der uruguayischen Mannschaft vier Spieltage vor Saisonende die Meisterschaft der Divisional C und stieg mit dem Team in die Divisional B auf.

Erfolge
 5× Uruguayischer Meister: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998

Einzelnachweise

Fußballspieler (Club Atlético Cerro)
Fußballspieler (Club Atlético Peñarol)
Fußballspieler (Nacional Montevideo)
Fußballspieler (Club Social y Deportivo Villa Española)
Fußballspieler (River Plate Montevideo)
Fußballspieler (Club Atlético Rentistas)
Fußballspieler (Club Atlético Progreso)
Fußballspieler (CD Logroñés)
Fußballtrainer (Club Atlético Cerro)
Uruguayischer Meister (Fußball)
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New coalition looks to stop state raids of transportation money
By: marylandreporter.com	Len Lazarick	January 26, 2011
Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Garagiola plans on introducing a major tax package to pump $400 million to $600 million a year into the dwindling transportation trust fund, along with a constitutional amendment to put the fund into a "lockbox" so it can't be raided for other purposes.
A new coalition of 32 business and consumer groups known as the Statewide Transportation Alliance to Restore the Trust is backing the move.
"We need to restore the trust in the trust fund," said Donald C. Fry, president of the Greater Baltimore Committee. The GBC has been pushing for a gas tax hike and other funding mechanisms for years, as have state and local chambers of commerce throughout Maryland.
But before they get those higher taxes, "there need to be these legal protections first," Fry said.
"Many people are hesitant to raise more money" without guaranteeing it won't be used for other purposes, said Kathleen T. Snyder, president of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce.
Lon Anderson, public affairs director of AAA Mid-Atlantic, said Maryland had already won the Olympics for worst traffic in the nation. But Gov. Martin O'Malley continues to raid transportation funds and "dig his hand a little deeper in the state cookie jar," Anderson said.
In the fiscal 2012 budget he proposed Friday, O'Malley is making a one-time transfer of $100 million from the transportation trust fund with $60 million going into the general fund and $40 million to the rainy day fund. He has again cut the highway user revenues for the counties.
Garagiola is a Montgomery County Democrat who sponsored legislation to establish, and now serves on, the Blue Ribbon Commission for Transportation Funding. He said there is now barely enough money in the trust fund to cover basic maintenance of highways, bridges and mass transit. There is practically no money for new projects, he said, including new transit lines.
"This is a very difficult climate to be suggesting this" tax hike, Garagiola told reporters and START members at a news conference. But "we cannot wait another year."
"I look on this as a short-term stimulus — five, six, seven years — for a long-term investment," Garagiola said. He would not say what kind of taxes would be part of the package, but it will likely include an increase in the 23.5 cents per gallon state tax that Maryland last raised 19 years ago.
According to the START figures, the recession caused a net $1.5 billion drop in the transportation trust fund over six years, once federal stimulus dollars are accounted for.
A constitutional amendment for a lockbox on the transportation fund would require three-fifths majorities in the Senate and House of Delegates, but actually might be easier to pass than the tax hike itself, Garagiola said. The amendment would also have to be approved by voters in the 2012 election.
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. has been pushing for a gas take hike for years to build new roads and transit projects. Friday, he said he was "chagrined" the governor was taking money out of the transportation fund again.
He said voters "have to be assured that the transportation trust fund is in a lockbox," but he doubts such an amendment could pass in the same year that the legislature would have to approve another transfer out of the fund that the governor has requested.
County leaders support the idea as well. Before O'Malley's budget roll-out Friday, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, president of the Maryland Association of Counties said, "If there's a trust fund, there ought to be trust in it."
In a December interview, Ulman said that corporate CEOs, not just leaders of business groups, needed to lobby the legislature for higher taxes to support transportation.
On Friday, Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold told his county delegation that he had supported the lockbox concept when he served in the House. This would assure "that the monies were in fact used for transportation," Leopold said.
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Alien Intelligence
Posted on 13 November 2017 by catholicsensibility
You read that term and what do you think? You know of my hobbies in astronomy and reading science fiction. If you are reading here, and even if you are turned off by one or both, you likely think of beings from another planet. Maybe they come to visit Earth. If I were more of a political animal, you might slide past the most common interpretation of that small phrase and consider I might be talking about Latin Americans being smart, or other nations penetrating the US with their spycraft operations.
I watched two documentaries recently that suggested ways in which plants seem to respond to their environment with a degree of intelligence, despite lacking brains, nervous systems, and sense organs we associate with animals, especially ourselves. I think also of the so-called battle of the sexes in which the thoughts and behaviors of men are inscrutable to women at times. And vice versa. In fact, one relationship guru from a few decades ago built a whole cottage industry teaching us about the chasm that separates Venus from Mars, despite the fact we live together on the planet in the middle. And now we have the phenomenon of trans persons at once being bothersome to some of us and our cherished notions of sex or gender or self-identity. Aliens, too–right?
I watched Arrival and I can't recommend this film enough. As with Contact, the film's braintrust found an intelligent and sensitive actor to anchor the lead role of a scientist who happens to be a woman and a person of intriguing depth. Now, there's an alien thought–compared to the 50s. Or even the seventies.
Speaking of that decade, I think of a film like this one, considered to be groundbreaking. It's still well-regarded, but I'd offer a counterpoint complaint about it. Four decades ago I didn't like the way "peaceful" aliens were doing weird and clumsy things to people. It suggested to me they're not really all that intelligent. Even if they are dealing with ants on an anthill.
Let's compare the origins of these three stories:
Close Encounters from 1978 was written by a filmmaker.
Contact, 1997, by a scientist
Arrival, 2016 by Ted Chiang, an actual science fiction author, a really good one
In 1997, they had an astronomer find the message from aliens and (mostly) decode it. In 2016, there's an astrophysicist, but he takes a supporting role to a linguist. Ms Adams' Louise Banks is recruited by the American government to communicate with aliens who are hovering over a valley in Montana. Eleven other strange vessels are hovering over other points around the world, and for a while, scientists are sharing results as the rest of society descends into chaos.
There's little physical action in this film, a welcome relief (imo) from the avalanche of superhero cinema. Instead, there's a thoughtful progress of understanding. The human "adversaries" among the military and spy agencies aren't too badly cardboard. (Social media, however, is not treated as kindly–and given the tenor of the internet these days, I'd say they got off easy.) Dr Banks is largely successful in pushing back against her handlers who want fast action on their project before the Russians and the Chinese get somewhere first.
Louise is presented as a pro at the top of her game, but she battles the long hours, and a history that includes losing a daughter to a rare disease and a husband to divorce. Colleagues and viewers may wonder about her condition. But she solves the big riddle, and as the world lurches into war against aliens, there's a plot revelation as stunning as anything I've seen in film.
Arrival confirms yet again that if you want to do good science fiction cinema or film, you go to a good science fiction writer. There's no silliness in this movie. It's outstanding sf because it takes a single concept (how aliens think and communicate) and extrapolates how one person moves through life in a new way because of her encounter.
When it comes to alien intelligence, we desperately need human intelligence to communicate wisely through our available media.


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2007 Young Investigator Award: TRP'ing into a New Era for Glomerular Disease : Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
June 2008 - Volume 19 - Issue 6
UP FRONT MATTERS
2007 Young Investigator Award
TRP'ing into a New Era for Glomerular Disease
Winn, Michelle P.
Department of Medicine and Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Correspondence: Dr. Michelle P. Winn, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Box 2903, Durham, NC 27705. Phone: 919-660-2183; Fax: 919-684-0920; E-mail: [email protected]
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 19(6):p 1071-1075, June 2008. | DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2007121292
FSGS is a pathologic lesion that frequently causes the nephrotic syndrome and ensuing renal failure. The cause remains unknown in the majority of individuals; however, in the past two decades, rare familial forms have been identified. It has been suggested that known genetic causes of the hereditary form of this disease account for upwards of 18% of cases. Mutations in five genes have been found to cause inherited nephrotic syndromes and FSGS. In this article, I discuss the phenotypic characteristics of hereditary FSGS and the transient receptor potential cation channel 6 (TRPC6) protein, which is the genetic impetus for an autosomal dominant form of FSGS. The TRP channels have been implicated in varied biologic functions such as mechanosensation, ion homeostasis, cell growth, and phospholipase C–dependent calcium entry into cells. The mutated ion channel causes an increase in calcium transients. Current evidence also suggests that blocking TRPC6 channels may be of therapeutic benefit in idiopathic FSGS, a disease with a generally poor prognosis. Preliminary experiments reveal that the commonly used immunosuppressive agent FK-506 can inhibit TRPC6 activity in vivo. This creates the intriguing possibility that blocking TRPC6 channels within the podocyte may translate into long-lasting clinical benefits in patients with FSGS.
2007 Young Investigator Award: TRP'ing into a New Era for Glomerular Disease
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology19(6):1071-1075, June 2008.
Articles in PubMed by Michelle P. Winn
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Southwest Airlines says second-quarter revenue will likely decline as a result this month's in-flight engine failure that killed a passenger.
A fan blade on one of the Boeing 737's engines broke off during the April 17 flight from LaGuardia to Dallas.
A Southwest Airlines jet sits on the runway at Philadelphia International Airport after it was forced to land with an engine failure, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 2018.
Southwest Airlines warned on Thursday that reservations have declined in the wake of a deadly in-flight engine failure aboard one of its flights.
Shares were 2.4 percent lower Thursday after Southwest forecast a decline in second-quarter revenue of 1 to 3 percent.
"Approximately one to two points of this estimated decrease is attributable to recent softness in bookings following the Flight 1380 accident," Southwest said.
CEO Gary Kelly told CNBC in an interview Thursday that "a little bit of softness is to be expected" and noted that the company had pulled all of its marketing and promotions following the incident.
The company is in the midst of a fan-blade inspection program that has lead to the cancellation of scores of flights.
A blade on one of the Boeing 737-700's engines broke off when the plane was flying above 30,000 feet, sending shrapnel flying and puncturing a window. The flight for Dallas from New York's LaGuardia Airport an emergency landing in Philadelphia. One passenger, bank executive Jennifer Riordan, was partially sucked out of the opening and died.
It was Southwest's first passenger fatality from an accident in its history and the first such fatality aboard a U.S. airline since 2009.
Last week, U.S. and European regulators mandated more stringent checks on the fan blades of the engine type that malfunctioned on Flight 1380. That came after the engine's manufacturer recommended inspections of fan blades on a larger group of engines than it had called for last year.
CNBC reported Friday that CFM International, maker of the CFM56-7B engine, had been planning to issue such guidance before the incident on Flight 1380.
Kelly said Southwest expects to finish its engine inspections by the end of May and that checks on about 80 percent of its fleet since 2016 have been completed.
"I'm pleased with the results that we're seeing so far," Kelly said.
Southwest is revamping its fleet with a new variety of fuel-efficient Boeing 737s. One new destination that those aircraft will likely serve is Hawaii. Southwest said Thursday that it plans to start selling flights to Hawaii, which it announced last year, sometime in 2018. The airline will fly to the Honolulu International Airport, Lihue Airport, Kona International Airport and and Kahului Airport, Southwest said.


It is important to get into a skin cleaning routine. Without proper cleansing, dirt and makeup can settle into pores, which can lead to inflammation and blemishes, as well as rendering any skin care products ineffective.
To find out more about skin care treatments, click here.
If makeup or SPF has been applied, or if the skin has been exposed to harsh pollution or other harmful elements, then a first cleanse is in order. Stubborn makeup and sunscreen can be removed with a cleanser or makeup remover. Massaging in circular motions using light pressure and clean hands, with the exception of the eye area where a much gentler approach is needed, apply makeup remover to dry skin and remove with a wet, clean wash cloth.
This is where the skin truly gets clean as there is no makeup or SPF in the way. This is also a time to use a cleanser with added benefits such as antioxidants or moisture elements to ensure the cleanser gets down to the deepest possible layer. . We suggest using the Puro Gentle Exfoliating Cleanser from our Aesthetic Skin Advanced Medical Skin care line. Again with a massaging motion, work cleanser into damp skin and remove with wet wash cloth. Lightly pat dry, leaving skin slightly damp.
Why does cleaning my skin matter?
Leaving oil, dirt, and makeup is not only unhygienic but also potentially dangerous. Many makeups have toxic elements found in them. In addition, dirt and sebum can clog pores making acne a likely result if not otherwise removed.
Do I need an oil based cleanser?
For patients, sometimes trial and error of what removes makeup without causing breakouts is the best option. Water does not effectively remove oil based products and tends to bead away. Oil based products can be thoroughly removed sometimes with oil based remover. An effective makeup remover should be designed to remove the type of makeup you are wearing.
If I want a deeper cleanse are there any other options?
Dr. Shah's specialized facial called the Aesthetic Skin Aqua Facial is a deeper facial which uses a combination of exfoliants and slight suction to deeply cleanse. It can be helpful for patients to have a deep cleanse of the skin once a month.
Does exfoliation help with cleansing?
Exfoliation is when your skin sheds of flakes off and newer fresher skin is seen underneath. Exfoliation can be achieved with retinols, chemical peels, lasers, and dermaplaning. It helps keep the skin fresh. When skin is a state of exfoliation, it is often easier to clean and unclog.
There is a science to cleansers and patients should seek a product which meets their different skin needs: aging skin, acneic skin, combination skin, and seasonality of the skin.
Do I need a different cleanser for different seasons?
You may benefit from a cleanser that preserves moisture in the winter and dries the skin more in the summer.
Can I sleep in my makeup?
Sleeping in makeup, no matter the brand, will lead to clogged pores and potential inflammation of the skin. Removing makeup and dirt at night is not only a good habit, it can help your skin look its best.


IPIECA launches Exploring low-emissions pathways: Advancing the Paris Puzzle. This publication builds on IPIECA's 2015 Paris Puzzle, providing perspective on the common elements and enablers of pathways to meet a low-emissions future.
IPIECA will be holding a side-event at COP-22 Marrakech, on the Elements and Enablers of Low Emissions Pathways. Panellists will include oil and gas companies, national perspectives, and the UN Environment Programme. The side-event will take place on Monday 14 November, 17:00 - 18:30 at the IETA Pavilion inside the Blue Zone.
Please contact Lorena Perez at Lorena.Perez@ipieca.org for any questions.


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import java.util.HashMap;
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import spark.ModelAndView;
import spark.Route;
import spark.template.velocity.VelocityTemplateEngine;

public class WebConsole {

	public static Route request() {
		System.out.println("A");
		return (req, res) -> {
			System.out.println("B");
			Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>();
			params.put("name", "samplename");
			//return "A";
			return new VelocityTemplateEngine().render(new ModelAndView(params, "templates/webconsole.html"));
		};
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Owner Gricelda Gomez (with scissors) celebrates the one year anniversary of her salon located at 714 W. 10th St. with Antioch's city and business leaders, friends, family, staff and massage therapist Victoria "Viki" Green (far right) on Tuesday, Nov. 22.
Antioch Chamber of Commerce and city leaders joined Gricelda Gomez, her friends, family and staff, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 to celebrate the one year anniversary of her Antioch business, Gricelda's Beauty Salon, with a ribbon cutting.
"We hope to celebrate anniversaries with you year after year," he added.
She then thanked each of her staff by name.
"I hope to see your face here as our customers," she said to those in attendance.
Erica Rodriguez from Assemblyman Jim Frazier's office added her congratulations, as well, and presented Gomez with a Certificate of Recognition.
"You really are making a positive difference in Antioch," Rodriguez stated.
Each of those who attended were treated to food and drinks, as well as given a goody bag full of hair products.
The salon offers hair styling, skin care, body wraps and massage by certified therapist Victoria "Viki" Green. It is located at 714 W. 10th Street in Antioch. You can reach them by calling (925) 757-5004 or on their Facebook page or Instagram.
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Investigations conducted by Brazilian federal judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officials in recent years have exposed what appear to be massive schemes of corruption involving political parties, leaders, major companies, business executives and operatives. The exposure of these apparent crimes by individuals in high places has changed public attitudes on criminal accountability and altered the country's political landscape amidst a historic crisis of governance.
Federal Judge Sérgio Fernando Moro, from the Thirteenth Federal Criminal Court in Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, has emerged as a central figure both as the magistrate in charge of the ongoing investigations of corruption involving state oil company Petrobras and as a symbol of Brazilian societies mobilization against a culture of impunity that has prevailed until recent years.
On July 14th, Judge Moro will speak at the Wilson Center on "Handling Political Corruption Cases in Brazil." His presentation is part of a lectures series on the Rule of Law in Brazil co-sponsored by the Brazil Institute and the Washington College of Law at American University.


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The History of Repair: Past Imperfect
Article by: Julia Bluff @julia
Filed under: Repair Stories
For most antique dealers and collectors, this little 19th-century mug wouldn't be worth a second look. After all, it's broken. Or, at least, it used to be.
Almost 200 years ago, someone dropped the clay mug and it shattered. By modern standards, that should have been the end of mug. But it wasn't. It took 46 metal staples and 6 metal bands to hold the mug together again, but someone fixed it—and the repair has held together for centuries. Now—rusted, cracked, and patched—the unassuming little mug is one of New York designer Andrew Baseman's favorite things in the world.
Andrew collects "make-dos": antiques that have undergone crude, home repairs. Shunned by most collectors, these cobbled-back-together "orphans of the antiques world" find a home in Andrew's collection.
"Until recently, dealers would discard broken or repaired pieces, never degrading the rest of their merchandise with anything less than perfect," he explains. "I felt like I was giving these deserving survivors a new lease on life by taking them home and appreciating them for their unique beauty…I like to think that the original owner, some of them hundreds of years ago, repaired their cherished damaged goods, and continued to use and display them, warts and all!"
For Andrew, the more warts the better. His collection includes a broken tobacco-pipe-turned-vase; a delicate Russian teapot with a tin-can patch and metal ribcage-like buttresses; and a tiny toy dog with a wire-and-nail leg. Every new piece he acquires is featured on his blog, Past Imperfect: The Art of Inventive Repair.
"Unlike today where we discard anything chipped or cracked, broken household items were repaired at home or taken to a metalsmith to be brought back to life, often with whimsical results," he writes on his blog.
The motley crew of patched-together objects have a beauty all their own. The more damaged they once were, the more beautiful the repair becomes: a spiderweb of cracks overlaid with an intricate pattern of staples. Each fix leaves an imprint of the fixer behind: you can't help but conjure up the image of the 19th-century tinkerer hard at work over a broken plate.
Bottom line: Perfect is boring; repair is better. It can even be inspirational.
In 2011, Andrew purchased an early 19th-century teapot with a repaired spout. Unfortunately, the teapot arrived with a broken handle. "There's nothing as redundant as a 'broken' make-do," writes Andrew, so he decided to repair the teapot the old-fashioned way: with staples and rivets. Unfortunately, old-fashioned ceramic repair is something of a lost art.
"I would like to learn the extinct art of ceramics stapling and help bring back the once thriving method of repair," says Andrew.
Still, in an age before Krazy Glue, repair took a lot of work. Tin handles had to be hand-shaped to fit broken ceramic jugs; wooden bases were specially carved to set broken glass goblets upright again. For every metal staple, repairers of yore had to hand drill two tiny holes through clay, ceramic, or glass, then carefully hammer the staple home.
Andrew's collection is a testament to the tenacity of their repairs. Once fixed, the objects continued to be used, loved, and passed on for generations. Some of the "inventive repairs" in Andrew's collection date back to the 1700s.
Indeed, Andrew's make-do collection casts our throw-away society into sharp relief: Most of the goods we make, from toys to computers, are designed to be short lived. Very little—repaired or otherwise—will last long enough to be passed on to the next generation. And that has consequences.
"Nothing freaks me out more than stepping inside a big-box store like Kmart and seeing acres of large plastic things we don't really need," Andrew says. "I imagine piles of ugly plastic toys, water bottles, storage bins, and garden furniture languishing in landfills for decades. We really need to find a better solution to over-manufacturing unnecessary items because recycling them just isn't enough."
Repair is part of that solution. And Andrew's blog helps to draw attention to the history of repair. As much as we like to think of the Maker and Fixer movements as modern inventions, there have always been Fixers—and their ingenuity is infectious. So, maybe the next broken plate you encounter will seem less like an accident and more like an opportunity.
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You might not want to, but you'll definitely see them.
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1. The couple who really, really can't wait to get home. No, really. You'll just have to deal.
2. That dude who would very much like you to hear about Jesus.
3. A man who might be masturbating. Wait…no, he's…he's just scratching his leg, or..? No. No, he's masturbating.
4. That guy who only discovers once he's boarded that he's definitely on the wrong train.
5. That guy who only discovers once he's boarded that he's definitely on the right train.
6. That guy who thinks he's on the wrong train at first, then discovers it's the right train after all.
7. That guy who ran for the train, then stops in the doorway trying to figure out if it it's the right train or not.
8. That guy who didn't manage to board at all, but still kinda somehow thinks you're going to be able to magically open the doors for him.
9. That guy who just realized he's on the express train.
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Q: How to map JSON to objects and return a list of sub-classes objects? Let's say I wish to create a diary to keep track an infant's daily activities.
I have a parent class called DiaryEntries (fields: DateTime, PerformBy)
Then I have 2 sub-class called:
FeedingEntries (fields: FoodType, Volume)
DiaperingEntries (fields: PeePoop, DiaperBrand)
The records is saved in a JSON file. Sample:
{
  "entries": [
    {
      "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.4372208+08:00",
      "PerformBy": "Jane",
      "PeePoop": "Pee",
      "DiaperBrand": "Pampers"
    },
    {
      "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.4379914+08:00",
      "PerformBy": "Andy",
      "FoodType": "Milk",
      "Volume": "120ml"
    },
    {
      "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.438086+08:00",
      "PerformBy": "Andy",
      "PeePoop": "Poop",
      "DiaperBrand": "Diaper"
    }
  ]
}

How do I map this JSON to the 3 objects when I wish to return a list of DiaryEntries and its sub-class?
If I map the JSON to DiaryEntries object, then I only get DateTime and PerformBy. I tried to create another object which has all the fields but I think that this is wrong as I will have to add more fields to this object next time I have another entry type.

A: I'm not aware of any way to automatically deserialize into different subclasses based on properties found. Instead though why not make your properties more generic like this:
{
"entries": [
{
  "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.4372208+08:00",
  "PerformBy": "Jane",
  "Activity": "Pee",
  "Details": "Pampers"
},
{
  "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.4379914+08:00",
  "PerformBy": "Andy",
  "Activity": "Milk",
  "Details": "120ml"
},
{
  "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.438086+08:00",
  "PerformBy": "Andy",
  "Activity": "Poop",
  "Details": "Diaper"
}
] }

Then you really only need one class with DateTime, PerformBy, Activity and Details properties. Activity & Details could be enums to programmatically distinguish them if needed.

A: As per your description following Jason is valid and I am assuming subclasses will  be list.
{
"entries": [
{
  "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.4372208+08:00",
  "PerformBy": "Jane",
  "DiaperingEntries ":[{
      "PeePoop": "Pee",
      "DiaperBrand": "Pampers"
  }]
},
{
  "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.4379914+08:00",
  "PerformBy": "Andy",
  "FeedingEntries":[{
       "FoodType": "Milk",
      "Volume": "120ml"
  }]
},
{
  "DateTime": "2020-11-02T21:38:53.438086+08:00",
  "PerformBy": "Andy",
   "DiaperingEntries ":[{
      "PeePoop": "Poop",
      "DiaperBrand": "Diaper"
  }]
}
]
}

And you could deserialize everything as base object and cast it as per your want.


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Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19 at the Broad
September 27 — November 19, 2021
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard hosted the in-person premiere of this meaningful, online, collaborative exhibit. The exhibit was installed at 415 Main Street in the second floor connector gallery, which is open to all Broadies. Questions? Contact Deborah Davidson.
Marking Lives COVID-19 is a community art project conceived by Concord-based artist Elizabeth Awalt to commemorate the American lives lost to COVID. This exhibition was a realization of the collaborative social media project. Artists were invited to make at least 1,000 "marks" on any surface in any medium, and then post a public photo of the work using the hashtag #markinglivescovid19. Inspired by projects like the AIDS Memorial Quilt, Awalt collected "marks" representing lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States. Marking Lives COVID-19 serves as a memorial to this tragic event in history.
Virtual Gallery Talk
Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19
A virtual conversation and reflection on art, science, and loss
Presented by Catalyst Conversations and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
November 17, 2021, 1-2pm
Moderated by Deborah Davidson
This event was free and open to the public.
A virtual conversation and reflection on art, science, and loss featuring Liz Awalt, Roby Bhattacharyya, and Benjamin Cooley.
Marking Lives COVID-19 founder and participating artist, Liz Awalt, Broad infectious disease researcher, Roby Bhattacharyya, and Broad visualization software engineer, Benjamin Cooley, discuss how they each continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and the immense loss of lives in our nation and around the world. Their conversation was an opportunity for the three of them to share and reflect from both a scientific and artistic point of view. Underlying their respective practices is a spirit of generosity, a manifestation of our collective humanity, demonstrating how they contribute to that essential notion of who we are.
Liz Awalt says about her collective project: "when the numbers of COVID-19 deaths skyrocketed in December 2020, I was struggling to justify my painting practice amid the raging virus, divisive politics, and racial injustice in our country. I decided to respond by acting on an idea that broke through my sense of despair. This idea was clear and simple: make a painting with one thousand separate marks, where each mark represents and honors a life lost to COVID-19."
Roby Bhattacharyya's "lab aspires to be a kind, collaborative, and inclusive environment in which to pursue rigorous science that addresses important questions in infectious diseases. We value diversity of thought, experience, and therefore identity, and we believe that this diversity enriches the science we do, the questions we choose to ask, and the people we become."
Benjamin Cooley wrote, early in the pandemic: "Data has been used as a means of warning, informing, and educating. To be sure, this is important work; but in reporting the pandemic data, we also need to reinforce the humanity of the data. These positive cases are entire lives uprooted. With rapidly evolving aggregated datasets such as case counts, deaths, hotspots, and hospitalizations, it can be easy to forget these stories and focus instead on precision."
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9235 Waterproofing Membrane is a thin, load-bearing waterproofing designed specifically for the special requirements of ceramic tile, stone and brick installations. A self-curing liquid rubber polymer and a reinforcing fabric are quickly applied to form a flexible, seamless waterproofing membrane that bonds to a wide variety of substrates.


An icon café situated in the popular Westfield Shopping centre Parramatta surrounded by major retailers nearby. Extremely popular with the regulars and well known for quality food at reasonable prices.
Operating for 14 years in this centre and the current owner for 9 years.
It has a good quality fit-out (refurbished 2 years ago) and has a good ambiance. There is free parking in the centre.
Excellent margins due to the nature of the menu- 15Kg + coffee sales per week with internal seating for 72.
Full kitchen, fully equipped with all facilities- can easily expand with more catering.


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May 23, 2014 by Anthony
XFCE And Ubuntu Saved My Old Macbook
2008 was the day that me and my Macbook Pro started our relationship. It was great at first. It was my first foray into OS X and I was starting to see why everyone was slowly but surely making the switch to Apple. It was fast! It was beautiful! It just worked. Not only that but to this day, my unibody Macbook looks fucking fantastic for its age and has held up way better than my old plastic-y laptops from the past.
However, the thing that has gone down hill has been performance. See, when I first got the Macbook, it was running on Leopard and it was fucking blazing fast. One of the main reasons that I had gotten a Macbook was to run Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) and it did the job admirably. This baby was fast! When I upgraded to Snow Leopard, performance actually increased and I was over the moon with joy. It set up expectations that Apple was going to continually push for optimizing code rather than adding all the glittery nonsense that would slow your machine down a-la Windows (Think Aero. If you're on a Windows PC, press Windows key + Tab and witness your graphics card wasting electricity).
When we got to Lion and Mountain Lion, shit got slow REAL fast. Now with Mavericks, I'd say it's even slower. Chrome takes a couple of seconds to load. Flash videos are choppy. It gets hot fast and it sounds like a jet. I record my podcast on Garage Band and it can't even smoothly render the waveforms as I record. It's not unusable, but it's definitely not my preferred device of choice – I'm either a desktop or phone guy now.
Anyways, as some of you may know, I've been really trying to learn how to program and it's really a huge pain in the ass to do it on Windows. I'm sure there's a way to make MS-DOS work like terminal, but I'm not gonna do it. Long story short, I ended up installing a virtual machine on my computer to run Ubuntu (a version of Linux) to do all of my coding in and it's been great. So naturally, I thought about installing it on my Macbook for fun. Even though it was slightly faster, Unity, the Ubuntu user interface, was still slow. Then I found out about a minimal user interface called XFCE and boy my MACBOOK IS BACK.
I can do most of the stuff I want to do on the web and it does it quickly. Words I'd never thought I'd say again. However it's not without it's drawbacks. Here's a pros and cons list:
It's fast
It doesn't make your computer sound like a jet
My laptop is not scorchingly hot anymore
You learn a lot by using it
It's a massive fucking pain to install – I'm not even sure I did it right
A bunch of stuff does not work out of the box (i.e. WiFi indicator isn't native by default, LED keyboard doesn't light up, etc.)
There's a huge ass learning curve
It's a significantly worse user experience (no multi-touch gestures AFAIK, having to use terminal all the time is a gift and a curse)
So far, the pros outweighs the cons for me and I'm just glad I have my laptop back.
If this sounds good at all to you, check out XFCE and Xubuntu (the Ubuntu version with XFCE pre-installed).
Validating A Business That Doesn't Exist Yet Part 1: Design
technology, work/career
As some of you know, one of the pet projects that I'm working on while I'm unemployed is Shift SMS. Shift SMS is simple staff scheduling software that allows your employees to coordinate shift changes via SMS.
When a staff member can't make it to a shift, they just text Shift SMS. Shift SMS will message all available employees to cover that shift. When an available employee wants to take the shift they can just text Shift SMS back and then the change is automatically made to the staff calendar. Or that's what I'd like it to be.
The idea for Shift SMS came about in a really odd way. I had a friend that works at a restaurant who was complaining to me that they had to pick up a shift from one of their coworkers at the very last minute. At the same time, another friend was spitballing startup ideas with me that I found way too pie-in-the-sky, and in an effort to bring him down to earth I suggested staff scheduling with SMS.
The more I thought about the idea for Shift SMS, the more I started to like it. During university, I worked in a retail store and I remember seeing my manager standing in front of the computer for hours trying to come up with a staff schedule. At first, I just thought that my manager wasn't technical and didn't have much to do, but I soon realized that organizing people in a schedule is actually a huge pain in the ass. I did some customer development while getting coffee on the idea of Shift SMS and found out that a lot of businesses actually have this problem.
Originally, I was in contact with someone on Odesk about actually building out the software for a small amount of money. I'm a big proponent of outsourcing work (in theory) but I've never actually gone and done it. For Shift SMS, this was my thought process:
It's cheaper than finding someone locally.
The MVP (minimum viable product) could be done quickly and I could go out and try and sell it.
It would be a good learning experience.
I've heard a lot of good things about outsourcing development from people like Tim Ferriss and Pat Flynn
Once the software was built, I wouldn't have an excuse to not go for the startup dream.
I'd have to pay up front for a product that I'm not sure that anyone would buy.
I've heard horrible things about outsourcing programming from a lot of other people.
The person wanted to program using PHP (using a LAMP stack), but I was really adamant about using Ruby on Rails to build it at the time.
Felt like I was using Odesk as an excuse to not find a technical cofounder because I wasn't confident in selling the idea.
In the end, the cons won out. It wasn't entirely about the money, as much as it was about the fear that I wouldn't do anything with it when it was finished. So I've made the decision to validate the idea before I put any real investment into the development of the software. This means I'm basically marketing this company as if it was real until I get enough interest (as judged by email signups, mostly) and then I'll build.
I am 100% confident that if you went to the Shift SMS website right now, you would think it was a real startup. Seriously. It's all thanks to a CSS framework called Bootstrap. Simply put, Bootstrap is like a piece of code that makes everything looks decent enough for almost every occasion (A special thanks to Carlos from Blacktie.co for his free Bootstrap theme). The image of the hand was provided by a design agency that does app mockups, and the screenshot was made with an iOS 7 screenshot generator. The copy on the landing page took about 2 days to write and edit, and the blog was a WordPress install with a customized version of the Flato theme.
When I started my social media profiles (which I'll talk about in the next post), I realized that I really needed a logo. I didn't need it to be groundbreaking, or change the world. I just needed some sort of graphical representation of the company. If I got the company up and running, I could always change that later. So I went with literally the most basic concept and whipped it up in Adobe Illustrator in about 10 minutes.
Draw a square with rounded edges (through sheer experimentation, I used a 30 px radius on the corners).
Draw a triangle.
Join the shapes.
Write "shift" in the middle using the font "Montserrat" which is all the rage with the kids these days.
Save as transparent PNG.
Overall, it's been a lot of fun coming up with the concept and hacking together a site that looks like something that's legit. In my next post, I'll talk about the marketing plan for Shift SMS.
In the mean time, if you could follow @shiftsmsco on Twitter and Like Us on Facebook, that would really help with the experiment!
February 19, 2014 March 2, 2014 by Anthony
My experience with Whatsapp in Hong Kong
So as you've probably heard, Whatsapp has been acquired by Facebook for $16 billion dollars in cash and stock. I was pretty bullish on this purchase, but it wasn't too long until the world of Twitter kind of lost their mind about it, so I felt compelled to share my personal experience of Whatsapp on my recent trip to Hong Kong.
1. Everyone and their mom uses Whatsapp
The very first thing that happened when I walked through the terminal doors into the arrival area in the Hong Kong area was my mom took a photo of me to share in her Whatsapp group chat with my aunts and uncles. My mom did that.
It's no exaggeration to say that Whatsapp is fucking everywhere. I used Whatsapp to communicate to every single person I met in Hong Kong. Classified ads and billboards on the street have Whatsapp numbers listed. It is fucking everywhere.
2. People use voice notes in Whatsapp like a walkie talkie
While people in Hong Kong still talk on the phone, a lot of people are using the voice notes feature in Whatsapp like a walkie talkie. Even I started doing it. Go figure.
3. Whatsapp is so ugly and uncool that old people use it
The main strength of Whatsapp is that it appeals to a demographic outside of the tech savvy 18 to 35 year olds who have already moved on to other chat apps. I saw a crap ton of elderly people using Whatsapp with gigantic fonts on phablets and it ironically did not break the UI of Whatsapp because it's so crappy to begin with. It's a solid platform with a crap ton of users and I think that because of it's wide spread distribution to people who don't cycle apps too often, it'll stick around for a while.
Facebook clearly needs to do something with Whatsapp in order to get their money's worth from this investment. It's pretty clear that Facebook is buying the user base, but it'll be cool to see what they do with Whatsapp to try recoop their cash.
February 18, 2014 February 18, 2014 by Anthony
"Only a handful of people in the world that can tell the difference between you and me"
Here are 2 websites:
If we went and asked 100 random people which site they liked more, what do you think would be the "like" ratio between website 1 and website 2?
50/50? 60/40? 70/30?
Now, what if I told you that website 1 was developed by what I'm sure is a fantastic digital agency for approximately $25,000 and website 2 is a generic Themeforest theme that costs $13.
Just like the clip from Good Will Hunting, one the greatest movies ever, there's only a handful of people in the world that will really know the difference between the two sites. Seriously. But more importantly, if you're not in the tech world, why would you even need to know?
Much like how IKEA dominates the furniture market with stuff that's "good enough", will cheap web development dominate the future? With sites like Themeforest and Odesk, you can get extremely low cost development done depending on how technically savvy you are, and how technically advanced your product is.
What value will the digital agencies of the future have to bring in order to stay alive when a pretty-damn-reasonable website theme costs less than a 20 piece McNugget meal from McDonalds?
November 27, 2013 June 9, 2014 by Anthony
How to fix the "stuck on loading screen" bug after OTA update to 4.4 Android Kit Kat
It seems like a lot of people are having issues with their phone after doing OTA patch to Android 4.4 Kit Kat. I think I read somewhere that these issues are partially due to the fact that I have a rooted phone. However, it is extremely annoying to have your phone soft brick on you, especially due to the fact that I wasn't doing anything with untested roms or kernels. Anyway, on to the guide:
My latest project: "Run Your City"
I've been getting really in to sports lately and the main reason is because sports is one of the last thing in the world where narratives aren't constructed. Take TMZ for example – TMZ is basically one giant factory of narrative. Every TMZ story is essentially as follows: "This happened and you should care about it". After a while, everyone hits that realization and thinks "why am I reading this"?
Sports are different. Every single game has a protagonist and an antagonist and it all depends on your preconceptions, based on a multitude of factors (geographical location, perception of players, bandwagonism, etc.) and the objectives are clear. You want your team to fuck over the other person's team in a the most brutal and soul crushing way possible. The narrative is built in because there will be a winner and a loser.
But what about running? In my last post, I talked about the website that I had made for my friend Aimee about her running club The Night Terrors which is a group of people that run together. The website I built was designed to build some unity through a shared experience and showcase that unity to the world.
So now we need an antagonist.
If you've ever seen the movie "The Warriors" you'll immediately get this concept, but if you haven't, this it it in a nutshell:
You have your crew.
You go around town claiming territory.
Anyone that takes your territory is toast.
The team concept is easy enough. But territory is a little harder. I started brainstorming about what possible way you could apply the concept of territory to this activity, and what came out was the idea of using the APIs of running trackers (Nike+ will be the first one that we'll be using) and mapping it out on Google Maps. This concept of plotting your run isn't new or revolutionary, but what is unique is merging your running data with a "team" and mapping that data against other teams.
The final product will be something like this:
Step 1. You log in to the site using Nike+, which will then take your running GPS data.
Step 2. Your data will be pooled into your team.
Step 3. Your team's data will be plotted in a certain colour over google maps. The other team's data will do the same.
Step 4. The overlapping streets on a map will be a mixture of colours and the only way to claim that street back is to run over it more. Or alternatively you can choose to roam on the uncontested territory and get a larger piece of the street.
My friend Benji and I have been slowly hacking away at this thing using javascript (and python in the future) and we're at the stage where we're able to plot points on a Google Map, so it's sort of coming together. I hope that in a few months when it comes together, you'll really enjoy what we've built.
April 14, 2013 January 3, 2014 by Anthony
TOJam – Friday May 3rd!
TOJam is coming up in about a month and I can't wait. I've already hollered at the people that I worked with during Toronto Global Game Jam to give it another shot. There is something with the 48 hour format that is so attractive – the catharsis at the end of the weekend is something that I don't really get from anything else in my life.
Anyway, while we're on the topic, I haven't blogged about my previous experience at the Toronto Global Game Jam. I had a really amazing time working with a really impromptu team that was made at the last second. I think everyone really pitched in with any skill that they could provide and strangely, we were one of the few teams that actually finished our game.
Check out the game that we made here! We were actually fortunate enough to have the game actually featured on the Melon JS website for the framework that we used to make the game. Any press is good press! Hopefully I'll see you all at TO Jam!
March 27, 2013 by Anthony
Using Sentiment Analysis To Improve the Luongo App
So last night, Benji and I really stepped the Luongo app game up to another level by adding sentiment analysis in deciding what people were thinking. Before, our main algorithm was really elementary and only detected people who tweeted the words "luongo" and "fault" and then counted all the tweets that had the word "not". We would then compare the number of tweets that had the word "not" (indicating that people didn't think it was his fault) with the number of words without the word "not" (indicating that people did think it was his fault).
Here's a snippet of the code so you see exactly what it's doing:
results = tweepy.Cursor(api.search,
q="luongo & fault",
rpp=100,
result_type="recent",
include_entities=True,
lang="en").items()
for r in results:
#print r.text, r.id
# r now contains one tweepy result object
if r.text.find(u'not') > -1:
n += 1
nn += 1
if n > nn:
print "That was luongo's fault"
print "That was not luongo's fault"
Now, what we've done is we actually take the data that we get from the Twitter API and send it to another API called Sentiment 140 to do sentiment analysis on all of the tweets featuring the word Luongo. Sentiment 140 will analyse each individual tweet that says if it's a positive, negative or neutral tweet and then we count up that value like before. The reason that this is better is because Sentiment 140 will actually look all words within the tweet which contain positive or negative values instead of just looking for only the word "fault" as a subject and "not" as the counter indicator. For example, the following is a snippet from the JSON response from Sentiment 140. It's ranked as a negative tweet (negative tweet has polarity = 0):
Sorry we broke your goalie, mister. #Luongo #Canucks Go #Bruins","polarity":0
Here's a tweet that's ranked as positive (postive tweets has polarity = 4:
@loveforthree Pretty good for a team that needs Luongo…","polarity":4
So asides from showing that Bruins fans are terrible, Sentiment 140 does an excellent job at figuring out whether a tweet is positive or negative, especially compared to our previous algorithm. There's a couple of challenges that we're facing, which is whether we're only reporting on tweets with the word "fault" in them, or just assume that any tweets that are positive and negative during a game will generally have some bearing on the number of goals scored.
Our next step is going to be importing this script to a server so you can all start accessing it during games! It's gonna be cool.
Geeking out with Python – Was That Goal Luongo's Fault?
As some of you may know, I've been taking Computer Science 101 on Udacity, which is an online university which I think is fucking awesome. Their structure of 1-5 minute youtube videos with quizzes shoved in the middle totally works for me compared to stuff like Coursera and MIT Open University. But hey, what doesn't work for me might work for you and vice versa.
Anyway, I've been relearning python (which I took in "real university") and it's been pretty interesting. Udacity's first unit is actually way more difficult than the entirety of my CS class, which I found pretty surprising. The main thing that Udacity is really clear about is that programs are really just problem solving broken down into very basic steps. That's probably worth the price of admission alone (which is $0.00).
Late one night while watching a Canucks game, I found myself having a problem that I always seem to have which is whether the goal that was let in Roberto Luongo was actually his fault, or if my bias was blinding me. Then it hit me. What if we could create an app that would go on twitter and tell me whether people online thought it was his fault? And that's exactly what we did. After signing up for the Twitter API key, we got to work hammering on the Tweepy module and started to build code on previously documented code. It only took about an hour to build the first alpha version of the code, but holy shit it was the most exhilarating thing I've ever done on a computer.
We're going to improve the algorithm that calculates the mood of twitter, but for the time being the code has spoken:


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Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1477825975
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (18 Nov. 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
With money and hope in short supply, newly minted attorney Brigham Theodore decides it's time to lower his standards. He joins a seedy fly-by-night firm in Salt Lake City out of desperation. After he loses his first case—a speeding ticket—he's convinced his career is over. But to his shock, his boss hands him a slightly more complex case: capital murder.
Brigham's new client is Amanda Pierce, a lost, exhausted woman who gunned down the man who tortured and killed her six-year-old daughter. A jury may prove sympathetic to her unbearable pain, but the law is no fan of vigilante justice—and neither is Vince Dale, the slick and powerful prosecutor who's never lost a murder case. There's no question that Amanda pulled the trigger—she did it in front of five witnesses. If she pleads guilty, she will avoid a death sentence, but saving her life this way comes with an admission that what she did was wrong. However, if she refuses the "guilty" label, Brigham will have no choice but to fight for his career—and Amanda's life.