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As a strategy to promote the Arapahoe Community College Library's collections and services, the Library undertook to brand itself as a math resource center. In promoting one area of expertise, math was selected to help address the problem of a large portion of high school graduates' inability to work at college-level math. A "Math Saturday" program at the college was organized, highlighted by a keynote presentation by a national authority on overcoming "math anxiety." The effort was successful in terms of program attendance, and in establishing ties with other agencies and groups to provide additional math programs.


Why did Ms. Tariyal see a possibility that had eluded so many engineers before her? You might say she has an unfair advantage: her gender.
Because she lives in a female body, she had experiences that just wouldn't be available to her male colleagues. She doesn't have to imagine using her device, because she herself has been able to beta-test it.
Early on, she and Mr. Gire had thought about putting diagnostic chips inside tampons to give women real-time updates about their health. But Ms. Tariyal quickly realized that the "smart tampon," outfitted with chips and transmitters, gave her the heebie-jeebies — it sounded like a torture device from a David Cronenberg film — and customers would no doubt feel the same way. That's why she decided that all medical testing must take place outside the body, an insight that shaped the way that she and Mr. Gire designed their product.
Eric von Hippel, a scholar of innovation at M.I.T., has spent decades studying what seems like a truism: People who suffer from a problem are uniquely equipped to solve it. "What we find is that functionally novel innovations — those for which a market is not yet defined — tend to come from users," he said. He pointed out that young Californians pioneered skateboards so that they could "surf" the streets. And surgeons built the first heart-and-lung machines to keep patients alive during long operations. "The reason users are so inventive is twofold. One is that they know the needs firsthand," he said. The other is that they have skin in the game.
Dr. von Hippel's principle certainly applies to menstruation. Since ancient times, women have tinkered with pads, tampons and pain cures. In Egypt in the 15th century B.C., women found creative uses for papyrus, while their counterparts elsewhere in Africa and in Asia experimented with absorbent moss. Centuries later, the nurses of World War I repurposed cellulose bandages.
In the 1920s, Lillian Gilbreth, a visionary of industrial psychology and one of the first female engineers with a Ph.D. in the United States, decided to reinvent the sanitary pad once again. (Gilbreth, the mother of 12 children, was later made famous by the book "Cheaper by the Dozen.") While working for Johnson & Johnson, she recognized that the best ideas would come from women themselves, so she questioned more than a thousand women about their frustrations with menstrual products and asked them to describe their ideal pad.
She also gathered lists of women's hacks and alterations to the off-the-shelf sanitary pads; for instance, one Smith College student imagined a discreet pad called the Invisos for a Jazz Age flapper who planned to dance in a clingy dress. Companies had been manufacturing diaper-like products with names like the Flush Down Ideal and the S.S. Napkin. Gilbreth's research showed that women had been altering the pads to fit their own bodies and that they were embarrassed by the names. Johnson & Johnson used these insights as the inspiration for new product lines.
But Gilbreth's quest to understand female customers seems to have been the exception rather than the rule at companies. According to the authors of the 2012 book "Serial Innovators," one inventor at Procter & Gamble recalled that even in the 1980s his bosses didn't seem to know or care that women hated the brick-like sanitary pads the company produced.
Recently, I've been digging through 200 patents, granted since 1976, related to tampons; I've found that three out of every four of the inventors behind those patents were men. Clearly men have exerted an enormous amount of control over the look and feel of menstrual products.
Ms. Tariyal points out that there are many unexplored possibilities in women's-health technology because for so long, women have not had the power to push forward their ideas. And this problem isn't just restricted to women's health.
Consider the story of Sybilla Masters, often identified as the first female inventor in America. After she engineered a corn-grinding machine in the early 1700s, Masters left her home in the colony of Pennsylvania and sailed to London, hoping to procure a British patent. But the laws of that time prevented married women from owning property, and so she had to file her claim under her husband's name. Thomas Masters received the patent on "a new invention found out by Sybilla, his wife." The contents of her mind belonged to him.
Female inventors still face barriers to patenting. According to a 2012 study, more than 92 percent of patent holders are men. And a 2006 study found that female academics in the life sciences — Ms. Tariyal's field — were filing about 60 percent fewer patents than their male colleagues.
Ridhi Tariyal didn't have that problem. In 2013, as a life-sciences entrepreneurship fellow at Harvard Business School, she was expected to produce inventions. "The fellowship came with an extensive network," she said. A chemistry professor invited her to work in his lab, and experts from Harvard's technology-transfer office helped her refine her idea.
And yet, even with all of these advantages, Ms. Tariyal and Mr. Gire discovered how hard it can be to raise money for a women's-health technology. They spent a year meeting with funders, showing off a 3D-printed prototype that extracts liquid from a tampon.
But it turns out that "when you say that you're going to build a company around menstrual blood, people think you're joking," Mr. Gire lamented.
They attempted to sanitize their demo — for instance, they used blue-tinted water in place of blood. But there's really no way around the gross-out factor of a wet tampon. Meetings with potential funders were "very disheartening," Ms. Tariyal said.
A recent study conducted by scholars from Babson College revealed that more than 90 percent of the partners in venture-capital firms are male. So Ms. Tariyal and Mr. Gire often sat across the table from a man, trying to sell him on a tampon machine.
"Someone told us that the product would only help women, and women are only half the population — so what was the point?" Ms. Tariyal said. Other potential funders wanted to reimagine their technology as a product for men: Was there some way to re-engineer it so that it would measuretestosterone? And one guy suggested they develop a machine that a man could use to covertly test the health of his sexual partners, because "women are liars" who spread venereal diseases.
By the summer of 2015, Ms. Tariyal and Mr. Gire began to despair. "After we had an especially tough week, Stephen and I decided that we had to find a way to make this more palatable to investors," Ms. Tariyal said. "And then we had an aha! moment," Mr. Gire added.
Menstrual flow contains more than just blood; it is also rich with cells shed by the ovaries and uterus. Those cells, paired with genomics tools, might open up a window on women's bodies and give early warning of cancer and reproductive diseases. "Stephen and I were looking to replace traditional blood tests, and we ended up stumbling across something far better," Ms. Tariyal said.
Their new vision resonated with executives at Illumina, a company that makes gene-sequencing equipment. The company contributed lab space and technical assistance. Now Ms. Tariyal and Mr. Gire are experimenting with a new diagnostic test for endometriosis, a painful disease caused by uterine tissue that grows in the wrong places. Women drop off tampons that can be mined for uterine cells; the cells are then scanned for genomic changes that are associated with disease.
The gold standard for diagnosis of endometriosis is laparoscopic surgery, and many women suffer for years before deciding to undergo it. A tampon test, if it worked, could provide a much easier way to find endometriosis in its early stages.
They also discovered that their new idea appealed to a certain kind of funder.
"Our first big check came from Len Blavatnik," the Ukrainian-American billionaire and philanthropist, Ms. Tariyal said. Mr. Blavatnik then asked an adviser named Patricia Benet to follow their start-up, now called NextGen Jane, because he wanted a female perspective on it — and that led to an even bigger check. The start-up also received financing from Pardis Sabeti, one of the world's leading researchers in evolutionary genomics; she runs the Harvard lab that tracked mutations in the Ebola virus during the 2014 outbreak.
The role of women in this story suggests that female networks can transform the way we develop technology.
Ms. Tariyal told me she chose her field because she's drawn to science's audacious sci-fi aspirations. "I want a hyperloop! I want to live on Mars!" she said, speaking admiringly of male inventors like Elon Musk.


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Illinois Nonprofit Hospitals Don't Have to Pay Property Taxes
The Illinois Supreme Court recently affirmed a law that exempts certain medical centers from paying property taxes. The vote was unanimous: not-for-profit hospitals can use charity investments to offset their property tax bills.
In Illinois, 157 out of more than 200 hospitals fall under the nonprofit category.
This includes some of Chicago's most prominent healthcare centers such as Advocate Aurora Health, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, University of Chicago Medical Center, and NorthShore University HealthSystem.
The court's decision puts an end to a six-year-old debate. In 2012, the 1st District of the Illinois Appellate Court ruled an addition to the state's tax code allowing these hospitals to skip paying property taxes under certain conditions.
The details of a six-year-long legal struggle
An older law stated Illinois hospitals may receive exemptions if they're owned by charitable institutions. However, the new legislation brought some further clarifications.
To benefit from exemptions, hospitals are required to bring proof they can provide at least as much charitable assistance in a given year as the property-tax bills they would have to pay. Charitable services include health services to low-income and underinsured individuals, subsidies for treating dual-eligibility Medicare/Medicaid patients or community education programs.
The 2012 decision didn't sit well with Constance Oswald, a Cook County resident and retired teacher, who said her property taxes increased as a result of the law.
Oswald filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Hospital Association and Department of Revenue. Such property-tax exemptions, she argued, were permitted only on properties "used exclusively" for charitable purposes.
Oswald's challenge of the 2012 law was denied. Later, in December 2016, the 1st District of the Illinois Appellate Court ruled the law constitutional.
Now, after two years since applications for hospital property tax exemptions have been in limbo, The Supreme Court has finally upheld the law.
The recent decision provides an "almost mathematical formula, so there's no question what hospitals have to do under that statute," explained Mark Deaton, general counsel of the Illinois Hospital Association (IHA).
This tax exemption not only increases access to free health care for low-income patients, but it also strengthens the Medical Assistance program, the courts explained in a 14-page ruling. "It is essential to ensure that tax exemption law relating to hospitals accounts for the complexities of the modern health care delivery system."
Where charity ends and business starts
For financially stressed hospitals and low-income patients, tax exemptions represent savings of millions of dollars each year. There's little research on this matter, but a 2009 report by the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability estimated the property tax exemptions of 47 Chicago-area nonprofit hospitals were worth a total of $279 million annually.
The news was received with relief by hospitals associations across the state.
"We are pleased," said A.J. Wilhelmi, IHA's president and CEO. Taxing non-profit hospitals, Wilhelmi added, would 'divert dollars' that could otherwise be invested in cutting-edge medical equipment, modern facilities, and hiring much needed staff.
Oswald's lawyer on the other hand, Edward Joyce, called the court's decision "disappointing." Giving hospitals a pass on paying real estate taxes, he said, would place an extra financial burden on those counties' residents.
Joyce and his client are not the only ones opposing the concept of such tax exemptions; other states have gone through similar legal battles. In 2016, New Jersey local officials sued 35 hospitals over property taxes.
Some Illinois municipalities argue that hospitals operate more like businesses and should pitch in on taxes. "Why should the most profitable companies in the state be shifting their burden onto every other business and homeowner?" Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing asked.
According to Prussing, her city lost 11 percent of its assessed property value for tax purposes when Carle Foundation Hospital was allowed to skip paying millions in property taxes. Those dollars could have been directed towards hiring new police officers to fight violent crime, Prussing said.
Spokeswoman Laura Mabry said that Carle provided $32.4 million in charity care at cost last year, "an amount significantly above what its property taxes would be."
While state courts are still considering the Carle case, the recent ruling ensures that Illinois' law will remain intact.
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DA Brian Mason considers mental health a top priority
17th Judicial District Attorney's office backs mental health legislation, launches crisis hot line
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Brian Mason, 17th Judicial District Attorney, is getting out in front of Colorado's mental health crisis in somewhat unconventional ways for a DA. "This doesn't sound like a traditional program …
17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason signs his name to show support for bills in the state legislature that aim to provide Coloradans with more mental health resources at a May 12 press conference.
Courtesy of the office of the 17th Judicial District Attorney.
Brian Mason, district attorney for Adams and Broomfield counties, joined state lawmakers at a May 12 press conference to advocate for a bill that requires insurance companies to cover an annual mental health wellness examination. The bill recently passed in the legislature and awaits Gov. Jared Polis' signature to become law.
The 17th Judicial District launched a summer life line for people to call and speak with a mental health professional
Posted Monday, June 7, 2021 4:05 pm
Brian Mason, 17th Judicial District Attorney, is getting out in front of Colorado's mental health crisis in somewhat unconventional ways for a DA.
"This doesn't sound like a traditional program for a district attorney's office, but I envision our role in a much broader sense than perhaps others have before me. That is, we're not just here to prosecute crime," Mason said.
In a uniquely consequential moment for Colorado's mental health crisis, the DA for Adams and Broomfield counties has publicly advocated for legislation related to mental health and launched a crisis hotline. Mason said he's driven to do what he is by a simple desire to help his community, but also because it inadvertently helps him do his job.
"Anything I can do to prevent crime, to keep people out of the system and to keep people from becoming victimized, I'm going to do," Mason said.
A disproportionate number of people who commit crimes deal with mental health issues, he said, as do many victims of crimes. By addressing those issues upfront, the DA hopes that fewer people will commit crimes.
Responding to those considerations, Mason first joined a May 12 press conference alongside state lawmakers and Adams County Commissioner Emma Pinter to advocate for two bills in the state legislature related to mental health.
Colorado House Bill 1068 requires insurance companies to cover an annual mental health wellness examination. Colorado House Bill 1258 establishes a state office of behavioral health to facilitate access to mental health services. House Bill 1068 recently passed in the legislature and await Gov. Jared Polis' signature to become law. House Bill 1258 passed in the state Senate and was sent back to the state House.
Mason said at the news, "I'm really excited about it and glad to have played a small part in their passage."
After the press conference, Mason's office launched a mental health crisis hotline — what it's calling the "Summer Life Line" — that people can call and receive free mental health counseling by trained professionals. The counselors are part of the district attorney office's youth diversion program.
"My office is running this hotline, but this is not for people who are worried about getting into the criminal justice system or who are already in the criminal justice system, this is for everybody. We wanted to provide this resource to give help to those in need," Mason said.
Mason's office announced the hotline days after Colorado Children's Hospital declared a "pediatric mental health state of emergency." New data showed the hospital that mental health emergency visits increased by 90 percent in the past two years, a lot due to suicide attempts.
Mason sees these initiatives as the first steps in an ongoing effort by him and his staff around the issue. Another side of the mental health crisis he plans to keep talking about is that of the law enforcement profession itself.
Mason said he wants to lead by example by being open about his own struggles with mental health and encourages cities to consider resources for their officers.
"I don't want a police officer who is suffering from a mental health struggle to be out on the streets with a gun," Mason said. "Folks in the law enforcement community who don't address their own mental health struggles can then end up having a crisis that hurt our community and hurt themselves."
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 * TweetFeed. Munier Parker, 2016.
 */
package tweetfeed.parsing.parsers;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.ANTLRInputStream;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CommonTokenStream;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.RecognitionException;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTreeWalker;
import tweetfeed.TweetFeed;
import tweetfeed.parsing.antlrgenerated.tweet.TweetListLexer;
import tweetfeed.parsing.antlrgenerated.tweet.TweetListParser;
import tweetfeed.parsing.listeners.TweetParseTreeListener;

/**
 *
 * @author Munier
 *
 * This is a Custom parser designed to parse the weet.txt file. See the ANTLR grammar in TweetList.g4 in
 * twitterfeed.grammars.
 *
 * ANTLR is a tool that is used to define a set of grammar rules. The grammar rules then instruct ANTLR to generate a
 * lexical analyser and parser to recognise sentences in that specific grammar.
 *
 * ANTLR was used so that even if the requirements change and the grammar has to be extended or made really complex to
 * define user relationships with tweets, then it can be easily extended and modified.
 *
 * In this way, not only is the parser extremely powerful, efficient and extendable, but the UserParsable interface
 * decoupled the Parser implementation from JobConsumer so that any part can be swopped out and changed.
 */
public class CustomTweetParser implements TweetParsable {

    private File tweetFile;  //The file containing the tweet relationship

    /**
     * Create a new Custom TWeet File Parser
     *
     * @param tweetFile the File pointing to the tweet.txt file
     */
    public CustomTweetParser(File tweetFile) {
        this.tweetFile = tweetFile;
    }

    /**
     * Parse the tweet.txt file using the Lexical Analyser and Parser generated by ANTLR using the TweetList.g4 grammar
     * in tweetfeed.
     */
    @Override
    public void parseTweetFile() {
        FileInputStream tweetFileInputStream = null;

        try {
            //create an input stream to read the contents
            tweetFileInputStream = new FileInputStream(tweetFile);
            //Creating a lexical analyser with the stream
            TweetListLexer tweetLexer = new TweetListLexer(new ANTLRInputStream(tweetFileInputStream));

            //Get a list of matched tokens from the lexer
            CommonTokenStream tweetTokens = new CommonTokenStream(tweetLexer);
            // Pass tokens to the parser
            TweetListParser tweetParser = new TweetListParser(tweetTokens);
            //Create a listener for the correct events are needed to extract the tokens into User Objects
            TweetParseTreeListener tweetParseTreeListener = new TweetParseTreeListener(tweetLexer);
            // This is the entry point in the grammar
            TweetListParser.TweetContext tweetContext = tweetParser.tweet();
            // Create a walker
            ParseTreeWalker walker = new ParseTreeWalker();
            //walk the parse tree and listen for the necessary events
            walker.walk(tweetParseTreeListener, tweetContext);
            TweetFeed.Echo("Parsing '" + tweetFile.getName() + "' ... DONE.");

        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
            TweetFeed.TweetLogger.log(Level.SEVERE, ex.getMessage());
            TweetFeed.Echo(ex.getMessage());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            TweetFeed.TweetLogger.log(Level.SEVERE, e.getMessage());
            TweetFeed.Echo(e.getMessage());
        } catch (RecognitionException re) {
            TweetFeed.TweetLogger.log(Level.SEVERE, re.getMessage());
            TweetFeed.Echo(re.getMessage());
        } finally {
            if (tweetFileInputStream != null) {
                try {
                    tweetFileInputStream.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    TweetFeed.TweetLogger.log(Level.SEVERE, e.getMessage());
                    TweetFeed.Echo(e.getMessage());

                }
            }
        }
    }

}

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Anti-government protesters shout slogans against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during the funeral of Sunni Muslim villagers killed on November 2, in Hula, near the city of Homs.
The Syrian uprising is at a critical juncture. With 3,500 civilians killed since the movement began in March, according to the U.N., some of the opposition groups within the country—albeit still a small minority—are now taking up arms and calling for foreign military intervention.
While defections are normally a positive sign that a key pillar of support for any regime is weakening, the situation in Syria is complicated by the fact that these defectors are not only refusing orders to crack down on protesters but have organized into the Free Syrian Army, which is now going on the offensive—attacking checkpoints, military convoys and pro-regime gangs. The more intense this fighting becomes, the greater the probability that the conflict will devolve into an all-out civil war and President Bashar al-Assad will use force even more indiscriminately on the civilian population.
There have also been protests throughout Syria calling for the imposition of a "no-fly zone," that were backed by the Syrian Revolution Facebook page, which has more than 300,000 fans. And the Syrian National Council, a broad-based umbrella opposition organization, has recently appeared to be opening the door to foreign intervention, which it originally opposed.
While I can only imagine the terror and suffering that has driven these factions of the opposition to take up arms or call for outside military help, it would be wise for Syrians to take a hard look the potential impact of this path.
First, even if the FSA is as strong as its leaders says it is, they are still pitted against the far better-armed Syrian army that numbers around 220,000. Not great odds.
Moreover, as Erica Chenoweth explains in a wonderful piece, violence on the part of the Free Syrian Army is actually likely to slow defections within Syria's security apparatus.
Part of Assad's propaganda has focused on how the uprising is comprised of armed gangs seeking to disrupt public order and destroy Syrian society. Such propaganda has heretofore seemed totally ridiculous, even among many security forces who have chosen to defect to the movement's side. For a regime where loyalty within the security forces is crumbling, adopting armed struggle or an armed defense wing can actually reverse these trends in shifting loyalties. Security forces generally don't surrender themselves to armed "traitors," and Assad's rhetoric may seem less crazy to the security forces when they suddenly find themselves under attack by their former comrades.
After analyzing a data set of more than a hundred nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006, Chenoweth and Kurt Schock concluded that there is simply no evidence to support the claim that having an armed wing will increase the probability of success for a nonviolent campaign. In fact, their findings show a slight negative effect on success rates.
This shouldn't be surprising, because not only do nonviolent movements that have an armed wing reduce the likelihood of defections within the military, they also historically reduce popular participation in the struggle, which is a key to success for nonviolent campaigns.
while the death toll in Libya when Nato intervened was perhaps around 1,000–2,000 (judging by UN estimates), eight months later it is probably more than ten times that figure. Estimates of the numbers of dead over the last eight months—as Nato leaders vetoed ceasefires and negotiations—range from 10,000 up to 50,000. The National Transitional Council puts the losses at 30,000 dead and 50,000 wounded.
Moreover, numerous academic studies have shown that the likelihood of a democratic state emerging after foreign military intervention is slim to none.
If Assad falls, it will be because hundreds of thousands of unarmed protestors have withdrawn their cooperation from the regime; because security forces refuse to obey orders to crack down on unarmed protesters; and because business elites within the country will pressure Assad to abandon his post.
On the other hand, as Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan demonstrate in extensive detail in their important book Why Civil Resistance Works, should the wider movement decide to embrace violence, the likelihood that they will succeed dramatically declines, along with the probability that a democratic government will follow Assad's rule—and the chances that the country will fall into civil war within the next 10 years greatly increases.
Very good analysis here, Eric, shedding much-needed light on an extremely murky situation in Syria.


The City of Alexandria has created several programs to ease the Real Estate and Personal Property tax burden on elderly, disabled and/or economically disadvantaged resident owners.
Residents of the City of Alexandria who are 65 years of age or older or who are permanently and totally disabled as of November 15 may be eligible for the City's Real Estate Tax Relief or Deferral Program for Elderly or Disabled Persons.
The City's Personal Property Tax Relief Program for senior or permanently disabled, City residents allows eligible applicants to be exempt from payment of personal property tax on one vehicle.
Note: A taxpayer may simultaneously apply for Real Estate Tax Relief and Personal Property Tax Relief using the combined application form. If more than one vehicle is owned, the City will apply the benefit to the vehicle with the highest assessment, subject to certain guidelines.
The City offers a full real estate tax exemption to veterans with total and permanent service-connected disability and their surviving spouses, subject to the terms in Virginia Code § 58.1-3219.5.
The City offers a full real estate tax exemption to the spouse of any veteran killed in action, subject to the terms in Virginia Code § 58.1-3219.9.
For homeowners experiencing financial difficulties, the City continues to offer payment plans and the Automatic Bank Debit Program for real estate taxes. These homeowners may also benefit from programs available through the Office of Housing and the Department of Human Services.


Sadako Asaumi, 89, of Honolulu, a retired seamstress, died. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by sons Lester and Steven, daughter Ann, brothers Kiyoshi and Toyoharu, sisters Edith and Tamiko, and three grandchildren. Private services.


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Q: How to save file to a "virtual local drive" and have the data streamed to a remote drive? (This is for Windows computers.)
So, the reason why I need this is not really relevant, but generally speaking...
I have a program which takes a long time to generate a huge file (like 100's of GB).
I don't have enough space to save that file locally.
I don't want to waste time generating the file and then waiting until that's done before I start sending it across the internet to another computer.
I would expect that there exists some utility program which installs like a local virtual drive, and when you save to it, it STREAMS the data to the actual physical drive. I don't want to have the destination drive be some place in the cloud. I want it to be a drive on another one of my computers which is in another place. So, both computers, (the source & destination), would almost certainly have to connect to some intermediate location in the cloud to do the streaming. I've heard of Google Drive File Stream, but I'm not sure if that works like I want. I don't want any intermediate piling up of data. I want the data to just stream across the internet from source to destination.
These 2 computers are not on the same local network or active directory or anything like that. They are totally separate, but on the Internet, behind firewalls, and I can't open them to externally initiated connections, like a VPN.
Also, I can't generate the file in chunks.

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This Mugg & Bean is located at the Mimosa Shopping Mall in Bloemfontein. Mugg & Bean is a home away from home or an office away from the office – the perfect meeting place. Try the famous bottomless coffee that keeps conversations alive for hours and the giant muffins that makes this menu so popular. If you haven't been to a Mugg & Bean Mimosa yet, do yourself a favour and pop in for a visit.
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An early morning visit for breakfast at Mugg & Bean, Mimosa Mall, Bloemfontein on Tuesday 8 December 2015 was a wonderful experience. The concept of ''generous'' was upheld. I visit Mugg& Beans all over the Country as well as over the borders and will always when travelling through Bloemfontein go back to this store.
i just love This Mugg & Bean, i feel comfortable there!!! home sweet home, excellent sevice, and friendly staff always greets you n a early morning coffee or a late lunch with friends!
The hot dog was good but, really? What's all the hub-bub? I was still hungry when I finished it so that's not a good sign right there. I ordered a chili dog with mustard, ketchup and cheese and onion rings. The onion rings were too breaded and too crispy (yes, there is such a thing as too crispy).
The place is a bit confusing to figure out when you walk in -- need more signage. I'm sure I'll come back here to give them another shot, but I don't see what the big deal is...yet.
This is my absolutely favorite place to go in my home town for coffee and cake! If someone is visiting from another town I always take them here for the unique experience. The food is great too! My absolute favorite is there oversized-cause that is how they do it, lemon meringue!
Lemon Meringue to DIE FOR!!!!!!
i want to share to all my friend about mugg & beans.good quality,and very nice breakfast every morning.
Mugg & Bean is definitely my favorite place to go for breakfast!
Why I like it so much? Because of the freshness of the food it serves!; their breakfast is what gives me the kick to shine all during my day at work.
A must go place for busy persons hot having enough time to get breakfast at home.
Almost forgot to mention that their waitress are so attentive to make you feel at ease and also are always here to see that you do not lack anything while eating.
I would really recommend Mugg & Bean to my friends and family, they offer the best service, fresh breakfast all the time, friendly waiters waitress. Keep up the good work.
The best part of M&G is the unlimited coffee in the morning. Breakfasts are decent but surely this is not a place for dinners. Friends of mine, love M&G but is purely a breakfast place for me. The food is good not great. Service is average.
I've had some really good times here, the service is always quick and the waiters are always smiling. Thank you!
Met with a business associate for some 'casual coffee and conversation' at this busy upmarket 'Third Space'- exhibiting a high proportion of iPad and 'net users taking advantage of the wifi zone. Waitron service particulary good and appropriate to this more discerning market, added a dash of panache to the venue. Partonised to full capacity around morning teatime (coffee time ?), lightening up as lunchtime approached. The airy elevated corner position of the shop enhances the generally super ambience. Nice daytime coffee venue ?
Great coffee, good food, good service. Never did have a bad experience @ Mugg & Bean.
I'm a coffee lover of note, so Mugg and Bean is my second home. Delicious coffee with a slice of lemon meringue pie is what I call heaven and they know how to deliver. I do find the meringue a little overwhelming as there is quite a large amount, but the lemon is stunning. Staff are quick with service from my experience and the decor is warm and welcoming. Prices are a little bit high but for the quality of food one can't complain.
Great coffee and good food for anytime of day. I've never had a bad experience at any Mugg and Bean.


This course can start at various times during the year. You will study for one day 9.30 - 4.30pm.
At least a Level 1 qualification or equivalent.
This is a one day course for anyone wanting to extend their services they currently offer or even for a beginner starting to build up their beauty therapy qualifications. The course will give you a qualification to offer day, evening and special occasion make-up. This 1 day course is a stepping stone into the world of make-up and could lead onto progressing on our fashion & photographic course.
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Home Lifestyle Health & Fitness How to Remove Dark Spots on Face?
We all desire to have a clear and glowing skin. We always try to avoid patches, pimples, blackheads or tired looking skin. Dark spots are a major concern of many which are an obstacle to having a clear skin. Dust and dirt can be a reason behind dark spots. Therefore, it is important to take good care of your skin and to maintain its health. Read further to know a few natural remedies to get a clear skin without dark spots.
This magical plant is used in different ways for gaining health benefits. You should definitely have an aloe vera gel plant at home. It is one of the best product to improve the quality of your skin. It has 90% of the amino acids found in the body and the important vitamins A, B, C and E in it. It is also miraculous in preventing early ageing and used as an anti ageing product. It helps in removing dark spots. It also help in discoloration on the skin. It can be also used as a moisturizer.
Drinking plenty of water is a wonderful activity for your skin. It will not only help you in removing the dark spots on your face but can also help you to prevent other skin problems too. It can help removing the black spots on face. It helps in removing the toxins in our body and ends up in cleansing it automatically. Although the amount of water required by people depends on their body requirement but drinking 8 to 10 glasses of water per day is an average calculation. It is the most natural way of maintaining a clear, smooth and glowing skin.
Don't try to replace water with any other liquid thinking that it will bring the same results. Therefore, try to avoid the daily intake of alcohol, aerated and sugary drinks. Also, wash your face frequently to remove dust and dirt to improve the appearance of your skin.
Lemon juice has several benefits and is a wonderful thing for our skin. The vitamin C and citric acid present in it can help in removing the stubborn dark spots from your face. They make lemon highly beneficial for a clear skin to lighten the dark spots. This is an antique practice which has brought results.
To prepare a mask of lemon juice and yoghurt at home can bring the desired results. It is easy to make. It can bring glow on your face. Sugar has exfoliating properties too which can be used as a scrub. Just add rose water to sugar and scrub this on your face for a super soft skin and after effects.
This you can easily find in your kitchen and it will be also easy on your pocket. Buttermilk is enriched with lactic acid which is helpful in removing dead skin from your face. This also helps to lighten your dark spots. Just apply buttermilk directly on dark spots with a cotton ball. Leave it on your face for 20 minutes. After doing so wash your face with clean water and see the results.
Strawberries contain important antioxidants and salicylic acid that are beneficial for the skin. They function as astringent to lessen the hyper-pigmentation visible on face. To apply a mask made up of strawberries mash them till you get a pulp. Apply it directly on clean face. Wash it off after 15 to 20 minutes. There might be a stinging sensation for a while due to the acidic nature of strawberries. Don't worry about that as it won't do any harm. This exercise will end up giving you a radiant skin.
Milk contains lactic acid, which helps to lighten the skin effectively. The results are really surprising! Take a cotton ball and dip it in milk. Now dab it onto the skin for a skin-lightening experience. Wash off after 15 minutes. Make sure that you are using fresh raw milk as it works the best for skin.
You can blend yoghurt and oatmeal to make a face mask. Apply it on the face and let be there for 15 to 20 minutes. Later on wash it with cold water. It moisturizes your skin and reduces the dark spots visible on skin.
Tomato has lycopene which is a powerful antioxidant. It helps to make your dark brown spots light. It can even make it vanish if you use a tomato mask regularly. Just rub a slice of fresh tomato on the affected area of your skin. You can also make a tomato puree and apply it as a face mask. Wash it off after 10 minutes. You will get a youthful and clear skin. and be ready to dazzle the world with your youthful skin.
Bhawna Rawat is a Beauty and Lifestyle blogger by profession. She has an expertise in writing blogs on beauty, relationship and lifestyle niche. She has a knack to travel and explore new things and is an ardent observer of people.
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New Music: Wale – Soke (Freestyle)
Wale's first two months of 2017 have seen the release of "Running Back" with Lil Wayne, "Fashion Week" with G-Eazy and "Smile" in addition to multiple videos, features and a remix of Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You."
So of course now that the calendar turns to March, the content keeps flowing with a freestyle over Burna Boy's "Soke," which sees Folarin hum, rap and sing over the tame and temperate production.
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Jonathan Wyner is an associate professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music and owner of M Works Mastering Studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Throughout his career, he has worked with artists both well-known and more esoteric, including James Taylor, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Kiri Te Kanawa, Pink Floyd, Cream, Richard Stoltzman, Miles Davis, Nirvana, Aimee Mann, Juliana Hatfield, Tiny Tim, Snakefinger, John Cage, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Wyner mastered the first interactive CD game (Play It by Ear), the first recorded opera (Madame Butterfly, recorded in 1912 by the BBC), and what is believed to be the longest CD (80 minutes, 32 seconds, for Razormaid Records). He holds a bachelor's degree in French horn and composition from Vassar College.
Plays French horn, trumpet, tuba
Performances/appearances with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Deborah Henson-Conant, and Marvin Hamlisch
Recordings with Aerosmith, David Bowie, Cream, Kiri Te Kanawa, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the London Symphony Orchestra, Aimee Mann, Pink Floyd, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Tiny Tim, and the Weavers
Publications include Mix Magazine, Studio Sound, and REP
Live recording and mix of WGBH's inaugural webcast
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Surround mix/master for Disney, Weather Report
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"I try to get students to remember what excites them about music and to tap into it. If they can connect with that, it provokes interesting questions and inspires interesting thoughts. They'll understand all these little bits of technical minutiae that we teach them, since then it's in the context of this thing that they really do care about. It's hard to always be mindful of what is meaningful in your world. If you can meditate every day for half an hour—10 minutes even!—about what you're grateful for, it changes your perspective on everything that you do in the course of the day."
"I'd love for students to come away with a sense that their role as shepherds and caretakers of music has expanded. I want them to understand how to take better care of the music and how to improve on the communication that is supposed to be taking place. I'd like them to tap into their enthusiasm, I'd like their skill level to increase, and I'd like them to come away with a feeling of satisfaction, so that even if they're not continuing in the discipline of mastering per se, they've got something they could use in some other aspect of production work or simply as well-informed artists/performers, if that's the context in which they find themselves thinking about mastering."
"Our students are encouraged to explore something as abstract, slippery, and hard to define as art and approach it from the standpoint of the aesthetic and the technical. They go fairly deep in both directions and that is unusual. Berklee's not just an art school and it's not just a trade school."
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In your opinion what is the most difficult quiz all pupils have to deal with? I think you agree if I say it's homework and especially Homework. It consists of many tasks and problems, you need to make experiments and do a lot of paperwork. Sometimes it's nowhere near that simple.
If you have problems only with one or two subjects then it can be simply "not your cup of tea".
All men can't be mathematicians or physicists. Some are better at Literature, History or Languages. That's why many pupils find doing Homework very problematic. Even after spending hours with tutors they still may have difficulties. Nevertheless having a good marks sheet is very important for a high school diploma is a free pass to the University. It can give pupils a start in life. You simply need those good marks!
Sometimes even if you want to you can't do your homework properly because the material given in the textbook is not enough. You need not only to know a big volume of additional information but you also need to "feel" the subject. It's almost impossible to do by yourself. You require help! You could hire a tutor for each subject or ask "uncle Jack who was good at mathematics in his school years" to help you with homework… Or you can go to specialists and buy Homework there!
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The tiny town of Makawao in central Maui has one main commercial street, Baldwin Avenue, with some charming cafés, restaurants, and stores. It's here you'll find the island's best women's clothing and accessories shop, Pink by Nature. Aside from swimwear, flowy shirts, and dresses by small, independent brands like Rails, Boys + Arrows, and Indah, owner Desiree Martinez stocks fun keepsakes, like rose quartz crystals. Next door, you'll find its brother store, Homme by Nature, run by Martinez's partner, Marco Daniele.


If you have subscribed to comprehensive car insurance the policy would provide coverage for windshield repair or replacement. However prior to filing a claim you need to understand exactly what aspects the policy will cover overall expenses and options provided by the policy for replacement.
The first thing to know is that comprehensive type of car insurance is an optional kind of coverage and hence is not mandatory as per state laws. In case you have an existing car loan or have leased your vehicle the insurance company would need you to opt for comprehensive coverage. This kind of coverage will compensate you in the case of windshield replacement or repair.
If you have an individual policy the extent of coverage and premiums will vary based on the respective insurance company you are dealing with. Make sure to do a thorough review on your car policy to understand the costs and coverage.
Most times, the car insurance company will make payment for minor damages to the car windshield. For example, if there has been a crack on the windshield the insurance provider might compensate towards associated windshield repair costs. In such instances there may not be any requirement for replacing the entire windshield. However if the damage is severe the windshield might require complete replacement in which case you would need to review your policy to find out if this is covered by the insurance company or not.
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In situations where the deductible is extremely high, it could work out much cheaper to carry out windshield replacement on your own expense instead of filing insurance claim. Typically, insurance companies will review the extent of damage on the windshield. If the damage measures under a quarter in size, the costs towards repair are paid for by the insurance company. If you already have subscribed to comprehensive type of auto insurance you will need to have on hand details such as name of the insurance company the date on which the windshield damage occurred and the policy number. It is important to also know what you would want out of the windshield repair process the extent of costs you hope to have covered as well as your available options as per the policy.


The former is a kind of service that has been provided by RERO for several years with the Digital Library RERO DOC. As for the 2nd and 3rd types, they have a more prospective character, and their precise form will be defined throughout the course of the project.
As a shared, multi-institutional portal, with a single common search and navigation interface, as well as common self-archiving policies and metadata schemes. The contents of each institution are distinguished by means of collections, navigation paths in the search interface (facets) as well as some visual customization at the document level.
As dedicated independent portals, each with their own distinct identity and policies.
Wait for the first IRaaS deployment scheduled for mid-2019 (the multi-institutional form).
In case of urgency, it is possible to temporarily subscribe to the RERO DOC service provided by RERO. The migration to SONAR will then be taken care of by the SONAR team.
Project Phase: During this period, SONAR takes the form of a project. In the meantime, it will progressively give rise to full-fledged durable services.
The first version of SONAR, namely its IRaaS component, will be operational in the course of 2019, taking over and improving the current service already provided by the Digital Library RERO DOC.
Prospective services (content tracking, monitoring) will be progressively deployed.


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Q: How to create a folder in Linux for other users which I can delete later? I need to run a docker-compose up -d --build command to run a project. Some containers will write files to the volume, which will be mounted to a subfolder in my home folder.
I want to delete this folder later later with my technical user, but it's impossible to delete these folders without 'sudo' command, because docker will create the subfolders with different users which I don't recognize or don't have on my system:
technical@mysystem $ ls -l ~
drwxr-xr-x. 5 polkitd   root      4096 Apr 21 16:18 data_1
drwxr-xr-x. 5        33 tape      4096 Apr 21 16:18 data_2

e.g.: 33 is an unknown user to my system and tape group is an unknown group (I assume they are used by docker)
technical@mysystem $ groups
technical wheel docker

technical@mysystem $ awk -F':' '{ print $1}' /etc/passwd | paste -sd " "
root bin daemon adm lp sync shutdown halt mail operator games ftp nobody systemd-network dbus polkitd sshd postfix technical

I've tried to use setuid or setgid bits on the folders, but the result is the same: when I try to delete these folders with their content written be docker I get an error and I can't do it without sudo privileges:
technical@mysystem $ rm -R data_1/
rm: cannot remove 'data_1/myfile': Permission denied

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*What is the proper way to handle these folders?

*How could I delete the contents of these folders (written by docker) with my technical user (without sudo privileges)?

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*What permissions should be set on the folder to be able to achieve this?

*Where to put these kind of files/project in Linux file system?

*Which best practices and patterns should I follow in this case?

A: Unfortunately due to the way Linux handles permissions on your system you will not be able to modify these files as your current user and group as you only have read and execute permissions set. To fix things as they are would require root access. Once you are root you would change ownership of the file or or folder by issuing the command chown technical:technical data1
Now assuming the above is not an option you could make your own folders and set permissions. In order to create a folder in which the users from the technical group can use, you can issue the following command as the technical user mkdir data3 This should create a folder named data3 and both user and group should be "technical" when running ls -l data3
Folder and file placement is up to you, It is generally best to follow an existing data flow that you have already on the system if there is one. Personally I would put files like this in /home/technical/Documents so that it is easy to remember and access, especially if you are not the only person accessing the files in the group.
As far as best practices are concerned, I would just make sure that any files that are owned by the technical group are contained only to those members of the group. You can do this by setting permissions on the folder that contains files the group will use with setfacl -d -m g:technical:rw /home/technical/Docmuents which will enforce read and write permission only for new files created in the specified folder. Of course you can add write access with rwx instead, or remove permissions you don't want that group to have.
Unfortunately I do not have docker experience, but it sounds like other services where it will have a config file that specifies where new files are created and who owns them. If this is your server you should be able to change those things with some added research.


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What Is The Myth?
There's no crying in content management
By Jeff Cram • September 5th, 2014 • Events
The team from Loyola University of Maryland gave a fantastic presentation at eduWeb 2014 in Baltimore about empowering authors for success with web publishing. April Arnold, Kimberly Hall and Amy Filardo co-presented on the case-study-driven story about how they wrangled more than 200 content authors from what was described as a "content crisis" to a more empowered, supported, and happier place.
The presentation, awesomely titled 'There's no Crying in Content Management,' started with familiar CMS woes inside higher education. The CMS had a "bad brand" on campus thanks in large part to a decentralized environment with little structure of support.
As one of our higher education clients in a similar situation put it, "we're a feudal society in search of a central state."
The story at Loyola started to change in 2006 with the formation of a web communications group, shifting strategic responsibility for content and digital from IT. The new team quickly discovered that…wait for it…the pain wasn't entirely the fault of the technology. The CMS had become a scapegoat for people not to update content and be engaged in the care and feeding of the institution's web properties.
While it's a common tale, organizations often complain about these realities without taking steps to improve the situation. The team at Loyola has worked hard to change the narrative.
The best takeaway for me was about the community they created called the Content Owners Network which formalized a center of excellence, training and peer encouragement among the hundreds of users in CMS. As part of this network, the web communications team requires all users to attend CMS training and works hard to provide useful tools and worksheets they can take back to their desk after the memories of the instruction fade.
Also key to the success of the network are in-person events featuring topical web themes and lecturers as well as drop in labs allowing authors to work alongside of the trainers with real scenarios. For sites that are more custom, they provide more hands on 1-1 consultations and training.
We've seen aspects of this type web community executed in many other organizations, but Loyola's approach was comprehensive and consistent. It's a good reminder that all organizations have pain around web publishing and technology, but it takes intentional actions and leadership to work through them and actually make web content management work.
Thanks to April, Kimberly and Amy for a wonderful presentation.
Jeff Cram is Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Connective DX (formerly ISITE Design), a digital agency based in Portland, OR and Boston, MA. As the Managing Editor of the CMS Myth, Jeff is passionate about all topics related to content management, digital strategy and experience design.
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Your colleagues likely appreciate your generous nature, depth of personality, and sense of dedication. On the other hand, when it comes to tough realities of the workplace like receiving feedback, your emotions can run unchecked.
Maybe you're completely crushed by constructive criticism or you've noticed that your attention to detail can slip into perfectionism. Perhaps your high attention to surroundings has translated into being easily peeved by co-workers.
In a workplace that glorifies strength and power, highly-sensitive people like you may falsely assume the ability to experience things more intensely is a weakness or personal failing.
As our society becomes more automated, the need for workers with intuition, creativity, and empathy becomes even greater. The abilities of sensitive people can never be reproduced by technology. They continue to excel at everything from job interviews to leading teams and most everything in between.
If you're a highly sensitive person and decide to fully leverage your unique gifts, you'll bring a refreshing set of valuable contributions to the table.
1. Have confidence in your communication skills.
Most highly sensitive people display rare strengths in key areas of emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient (EQ)—the ability to recognize and understand emotions in themselves and others. These strengths include self-awareness and social-awareness.
But whether you're leading a team, motivating your colleagues or providing a sounding board for others, at the end of the day your sensitivity is a gift for communication that can help your workplace run smoothly and make your career blossom.
Highly sensitive people experience strong emotions that are easy to identify. They communicate so effectively because they don't just hear the words coming out of other people's mouths—they're also attuned to subtle gestures and tone.
2. Speak up if others have missed something.
It's another asset you have: you're attuned not only to feelings, but also to those tiny details others may have missed. You're the one who spots something that doesn't quite add up before your company hires a new candidate or who sees the perfect place to move funds around when it's time for budgets cuts.
You aren't satisfied until every detail has been worked out and every contingency has been planned for. In the workplace—especially if it's fast-paced with lots of moving parts—this strength for keeping track of the details is invaluable.
If you or someone you know is highly sensitive, you likely make an exceptional team member. You have a rare ability to take people's feelings into account and think through different parts of complex decisions.
You also thrive in and contribute to supportive, collaborative atmospheres. Keep in mind, though, that this can all go wrong if you're the one left making final decisions. Use your gifts of assembling input and analysis and then consider gathering others' opinions as you bring your teammates into the fold for the final call.
4. Use your creativity to solve problems.
While it can sometimes feel like a huge burden to be so profoundly affected by what's going on around you, your intuitive nature also lets you tap into your creativity.
You might be the person who's always carrying a notebook around. Or maybe you'd benefit from having a whiteboard in your office to capture and brainstorm ideas.
As a creative person, you're deeply in tune with your inner world and this can lead to fascinating breakthroughs, innovative solutions to problems, and a unique sense of clarity most of your coworkers don't get to experience. Once you feel comfortable accessing your creative side, more colleagues will turn to you for inspiration when they feel stuck.
5. Prepare for stimulating situations.
Most highly sensitive people don't fare well when caught off guard in meetings or presentations. When high-stakes interactions send your emotions off the charts, you might feel a discomforting loss of control. The best antidote is preparation—the right way.
To the extent possible, try to anticipate questions and think through your best responses ahead of time while keeping in mind that over-preparation can be a crutch as well. You don't want to become rigid and unable to respond if something unexpected should occur.
Especially in the case of negotiations or job interviews, consider creating an outline with the "high points" you'll most want to cover. Just make sure you don't wing it—if you're flustered, your memory will fade quickly.
As a highly sensitive person who experiences strong emotions, you might feel like you're carrying a heavy load at times, especially at work. But the truth is, you likely have a huge amount of untapped value to share with your co-workers, clients, and in your career as a whole.


I wish that we could convene a week-long national conference on ''The State of Art''--and that it would take place after as many as possible of our major cities, universities, and colleges had held preliminary conferences on that subject during the preceding year.
Now I know that must sound hopelessly impractical to most of my colleagues in the arts, and a waste of time and money to those fellow citizens for whom art is at best decoration or entertainment, and at worst, superfluous nonsense. Even so , I think it is high time we took a hard, soul-searching look at the state our arts are currently in, and that we do so from top to bottom, and without leaving out such crucial issues as art education at the primary and secondary school level, the value of creativity, the responsibilities of art, and the long-range effects distrust of art can have on a society.
In short, it would be a conference devoted more to grass-roots and fundamental questions about the nature, goals, and health of our arts, and less to the professionally top-heavy and often self-serving sort of get-togethers at which academic leaders, government officials, and corporate executives discuss the allocation of funds, the way commissions for art should be awarded, and various other ''socially redeeming'' and politically effective ways of helping art find its voice.
The issue, it seems to me, is not so much one of helping art find its voice as of helping it find its fullest identity; not of bringing art into public places, but of supporting it in private homes and studios, and during the first few years of school.
Art, after all, will survive a lessening of federal or corporate support. It will not, however, survive to function at even half or one-third of capacity or quality if we persist in ''putting the cart before the horse'' by continuing to focus most of our attention upon art's public face--and little if any on bringing out its deepest potential.
I'm for any support the arts can receive--as long as there are no strings attached. But what I am very concerned about is our growing tendency to feel that merely because we fund orchestras and museums, commission public sculpture, and give grants to young artists, we have fulfilled our obligations to art--as if everything else about art is no concern of ours but of artists and a few critics, curators, and dealers.
We have, to put it mildly, come terribly close to abdicating our responsibilities and our rights toward helping our culture shape our art. Instead, we have become increasingly passive toward both those who create art and those who insist they and they alone know what art is and what kind is best for us.
It would be wrong, however, to lay the blame for this entirely on the public, for it is often awed and intimidated by the rhetoric and facade of the professional art community. For decades we have been telling the public that people can understand any new art if they will only open themselves up to it--while at the same time making it very clear that if they don't immediately respond favorably to it, they are dunces and dolts and deserve to be led around by the nose.
We have also done our children a great disservice by treating art education as though it were about as important as butterfly identification. As a whole, we have failed to understand that learning about and doing art as a child is an easy and pleasant way to learn about values, quality, self-expression--and how to enrich one's life.
But then such a misperception of art's roles should come as no surprise, considering how false have been our perceptions of its identity. From the time of the Pilgrim forefathers right up to the present, art has generally been seen as something external to reality, intrinsically trivial and superfluous--if not, at times, actually an agent of the devil.
Even large segments of the art community seem to share this opinion, or at least feel some element of despair at art's apparent inability to do today what it managed to do so magnificently for thousands of years. For all our brave words and noble sentiments about the art of our time, I've noticed that practically everyone involved with it seems somewhat tentative and defensive about it at times, but speaks with unabashed enthusiasm and awe of the great art and artists of the past (the exceptions, of course, being the few dedicated avant-gardists among us).
A great deal of this is unfair. How, after all, can the art of any 80-year period compare with all the great art of the past? And how do we really know what greatness this century has produced? Even so, I believe there is at least a kernel of perception at the heart of this ''despair,'' and I for one would like to see all of us confront this feeling in as many ways as possible and resolve it before it hardens completely into a sense of futility or indifference.
Now, I'm not so naive as to believe that a few conferences will solve everything. Far from it. But we must, I believe, start somewhere, and I don't see any great rush to tackle these issues anywhere else.
All this is very much on my mind because I have just returned from such a conference at Michigan State University. It lasted 21/2 days, was this university's first attempt in this direction, and while it may have been a bit rough around the edges, managed, all in all, to take a good, solid step toward outlining precisely what is needed in the arts today.
Although limited to the so-called ''visual arts,'' it covered a great deal of territory, from architecture and art criticism to video art and wood-fired ceramics. There were lectures, panel discussions, and media workshops--to say nothing of an art-student parade, a demonstration of public participatory art by sculptor Athena Tacha, and numerous private discussions among conference speakers and guests.
Visiting artists were more than willing to share their experience with student artists; art educators mingled with art historians; and even Michigan state Sen. William A. Sederburg got into the act by helping to clarify a few art-related political issues.
My overall impression was that the members of the art community who were present felt mildly optimistic about everything except the future of art education in this country. Here there were deep concern and frustration, even a touch of despair. As a matter of fact, the only anger I saw displayed during this conference came from elementary school teachers who felt their profession was in danger of being wiped out by this country's general feeling that the teaching of art and art appreciation to children is very close to being a waste of time and public money.
This, of course, dovetails altogether too neatly with my own perception that Americans don't really know what to do with art and with those who produce it. They seem confused about its place in their lives, most particularly the degree to which the art seen in museums and galleries truly represents them and their ongoing realities. they want art, in fact many need it, and yet feel alienated from much of what is being produced as art today.
That, at least, is my impression. There is a profound and, to my mind, growing hunger for art, most especially for its extraordinary ability to project feelings of wholeness, harmony, unity--as well as enchantment, exultation, and delight. This hunger is deep and will not be satisfied by art that is merely problem-solving or sensation-seeking--no matter how beautifully or brilliantly it is executed and packaged. The public at large wants art with roots and with human resonances. It doesn't matter so much what style or form it takes, as long as it isn't an artificially contrived ''hothouse'' product, or the result of self-serving and shortsighted sensationalism.
The problem lies in the fact that we all, general public and art professional alike, too frequently respond to art on superficial or non-art levels. In this respect, to take painting as an example, the public will often judge paintings on the basis of subject rather than on style or form, and the art professional will judge it on its conformity to a formal theory or dogma.
I don't really know why that is still so, and I don't know if that can ever be changed, but I do think it time we looked into the matter a bit more than we have--and that we do so within any format at our disposal.
Decoder Bernie Sanders refuses to answer questions about ISIS. Bad move?


WASHINGTON — The United States has a problem: not enough inflation.
That notion is a bit of a head-scratcher. Most people don't like inflation. They would prefer that a dollar tomorrow be worth the same as a dollar today.
But a recent drop in inflation may be a sign of fresh economic weakness and is perplexing to Federal Reserve officials who are now wrapping up the central bank's stimulus campaign.
The Federal Reserve thinks modest inflation has important economic benefits, and it has aimed since 2012 to keep prices rising at an annual pace of 2 percent. The problem is that the Fed is on track to fail for the sixth straight year. Inflation has been stubbornly sluggish.
A little inflation can brighten the economic mood, causing wages and corporate profits to rise more quickly. Economists like to point out that this is an illusion. If everyone is making more money, then no one can buy more stuff. Prices just go up. But the evidence suggests people enjoy the illusion and, importantly, they respond to the illusion by behaving in ways that increase actual economic growth, for example by working harder.
The Fed's chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen, told Congress this month that she expects inflation to rebound. But she said the Fed could change course if weakness persists, by, for example, not moving forward with additional interest rate increases.
The Fed's policy-making committee will meet Tuesday and Wednesday but it is expected to defer major decisions until later in the year. Analysts expect the Fed to announce in September that it will start to reduce its holdings of Treasuries and mortgage bonds. The Fed is expected to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at least until December.
The United States learned to fear inflation in the 1970s. It was a period of profound economic uncertainty. Prices rose up to 10 percent a year, and restaurants used stickers to update prices on menus. High inflation encouraged people to borrow heavily and spend quickly; it discouraged long-term planning and investment, and corporate profits fell sharply.
Under Paul Volcker, the Fed gradually brought inflation under control by driving the economy into a deep recession. By the mid-1990s, it seemed plausible the Fed could eliminate inflation completely. But Ms. Yellen, then a new Fed governor, was among those who argued successfully that it would be better to maintain moderate inflation.
A little inflation helps the economy rebound from recessions. It gives the Fed more room to reduce borrowing costs, and it also eases necessary economic adjustments. Employers, for example, can cut costs by holding wage increases below the inflation rate.
Inflation can also brighten the economic mood by raising wages and profits more quickly.
And a little inflation also keeps the economy at a safe distance from deflation. When prices fall, growth tends to stall as people wait for even lower prices.
The current debate, however, is mostly about inflation's role as an economic barometer.
Fed officials began the year expressing confidence that inflation was finally rebounding as the economy continued to expand. But the Fed's preferred measure of inflation declined in the last three monthly reports, from an annualized pace of 2.1 percent in February to 1.4 percent in May. The inflation gauge is published by the Commerce Department.
Job growth remains strong, but recent reports on cautious consumer spending and business investment suggest that overall growth remains tepid. A turn toward stronger growth again has failed to materialize. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which predicted the economy would expand at an annualized pace of 4 percent in the second quarter, now estimates second-quarter growth was 2.5 percent.
The persistent sluggishness has convinced some Fed officials to revise their thinking.
"Low inflation has been the major surprise of the era," James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, declared last April. He said he did not support any increases in the Fed's benchmark rate until 2018, to give inflation time to recover.
Last month, Mr. Bullard said he was still waiting for inflation to return to 2 percent.
Most Fed officials, however, continue to predict that inflation is around the corner.
One theory, popular among conservative economists, is that the Fed causes inflation by increasing the supply of money faster than the pace of economic growth. Kevin A. Hassett, President Trump's nominee to lead his Council of Economic Advisers, was among the signatories of a 2010 open letter warning that the Fed's plans to pump money into the banking system "risk currency debasement and inflation." Seven years later, there is no evidence they were correct, although some of them continue to issue similar warnings.
Another theory, more popular among liberal economists like Ms. Yellen, holds that prices rise as unemployment falls. Companies compete for workers by raising wages, workers want to spend the money and businesses respond to the demand for their products by raising prices.
Ms. Yellen has attributed the recent weakness to declines in the prices of particular goods, like cellphone-service plans and prescription drugs, that are not likely to continue. She and other officials also have noted that the weakness of the global economy allowed the United States to import foreign goods at low prices.
This theory, too, is increasingly difficult to reconcile with recent evidence.
The unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent in June, was below the level that Fed officials regard as inflationary for the fourth straight month. Meanwhile, inflation weakened.
So where does that leave us? Once again, as it was in the days of high inflation, public expectations might be determining the level of inflation, some economists think. The Fed's repeated failure to achieve its stated goals may be training people to expect lower inflation, making it harder for the Fed to achieve those goals.
Another countervailing view emphasizes the importance of real economic conditions. Low inflation has become the standard condition across the developed world, and some economists see the rise of the developing world as the most likely explanation. The threat of outsourcing helps to hold down wages, while the flood of cheap goods from foreign countries helps to hold down prices.
Adam Posen, the president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says the bottom line is that the last few years have raised doubts about all of the standard explanations. Policy makers are sailing without the guidance of a convincing model.
"It's reached the point where the only decision is how freaked out you want to be by how much this contradicts previous knowledge or previous theory," Mr. Posen said.


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<meta name="title" content="Boggle / Unboggle" />
<meta name="date" content="March 2, 2020" />
<meta name="tags" content="algorithms, satisfiability" />
<meta name="tools" content="javascript, web-components, minisat, emscripten" />
<meta name="thumb_url" content="images/thumbnails/boggle_thumb.jpg" />
<meta name="summary" content="Finds all words in a boggle board using the trie data structure." />
<meta name="github_url" content="https://github.com/benrbray/boggle-unboggle" />
<meta name="unpublished" content="true" />

Boggle

Boggle is a classic board game in which players search for words constructed by connecting adjacent tiles in a grid of letters.  Letters can be used at most once, and are allowed to connect horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.  Listing all words in a Boggle board is a common algorithms interview question, easily achieved in by building a trie data structure from a dictionary.  Use the widget below to see it in action!

	<button style="grid-column-end:span 2;" onclick="boggleRandomize()" type="button">Randomize</button>

			<input type="radio" onclick="randomDice()"  name="randomize" value="boggle-dice" required checked="checked">
			Boggle Dice

			<input type="radio" onclick="randomFreq()"  name="randomize" value="frequency" required>
			Frequency

			<input type="radio" onclick="randomUniform()"  name="randomize" value="uniform" required>
			Uniform

			<input type="radio" onclick="randomWord()" name="randomize" value="long-word" required>
			Long Word

<grid-game id="boggle-board" type="boggle">
PYBO
ALGG
MELW
HTIE
</grid-game>

	<button onclick="solveBoggle()" type="button">SOLVE!</button>

Unboggle

Boggle is easy enough to solve, so let's turn our attention to games of Unboggle.  Can we construct a Boggle board that contains every word in a given list?  As you might expect, this problem is much harder!  Other than a few discussions online, there is not much prior work to start from.

Attempt #1:  SAT Solver

Unboggle strikes me as a problem

Below, I encode unboggle as a satisfiability and use <tt>minisat.js</tt> to search for a satisfying assignment.  MiniSat is a

maintained for some reason by the folks at Meteor

use the logic-solver wrapper around.

<grid-game id="unboggle-board" type="boggle">
THE_
UN__
BOGG
LER_
</grid-game>

<textarea id="unboggle-input" type="text">
ANTIQUE
EQUITY
QUALITY
EQUIVALENT
ANTIQUITY
DIVIDE
QUILT
</textarea>

	<button id="unboggle-button" type="button">UNSOLVE?</button>

Attempt #2:  Brute-Force Search with Pruning

Crossword

<grid-game id="crossword" type="crossword">
___@____@____
___@____@____
___@_________
_____@@___@@@
@@@__@_@_____
_________@__@
____@@_@@____
___@_________
NOFREELUNCH@@
@@@_@_@@____N
_________@__O
_@__@____@__O
____@@@__@__P
</grid-game>

Sudoku / 数独

<grid-game id="sudoku" type="sudoku">
53__7____
6__195___
_98____6_
8___6___3
4__8_3__1
7___2___6
_6____28_
____8__79
</grid-game>

Technical Details

SAT Solvers

Unit Propagation, Clause Learning, DPLL, CDCL

Backbite Algorithm for Hamiltonian Paths

The Long Words randomization option above selects a random word of sixteen letters or more and snakes it through the grid in such a way that the chosen word forms a valid Boggle path.  For sixteen-letter words on a 4x4 grid, it would have been easy enough to sample one of several pre-determined paths through the grid, but I wanted a more general solution for arbitrarily large boggle boards.

So, given an $M \times N$ grid, how do we randomly sample a valid Boggle path?  Board-exhausting Boggle paths are actually Hamiltonian paths in disguise, and we can use the backbite algorithm to randomly sample them!

<svg id="backbite-demo"></svg>

Minor Implementation Detail:  Although I use the backbite algorithm for Long Word randomization, I don't run the algorithm long enough to achieve a uniformly random Hamiltonian path.

As an aside, the problem of determining whether a graph $G$ contains a Hamiltonian path (or cycle) is NP-complete.  The standard proof involves a reduction from 3-SAT!  By encoding the Hamiltonian path problem as a satisfiability problem, we can again use <tt>minisat.js</tt> to search for a solution.

Custom <tt>GridGame</tt> Web Component

CSS Tricks

Tidbits

I learned a number of interesting things working on this project!

Apparently, there was once a game show based on Boggle!

Historical crossword data is surprisingly hard to come by, as crossword re-sale is serious business for the New York Times.  Crossword dictionaries curated by seasoned solvers can cost upwards of $200!


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Where reality meets the road: TV makeover shows take viewers on a fantasy ride
When it comes to taking a junker and turning into a jewel, Jeff Odden says there's not a lot of reality to car-customizing reality shows on the tube.
By Helmut Schmidt
Stripping a car to its bare bones and rebuilding it in a week is fun to watch but doesn't happen in the real world, says the owner of Odden's Rod Shop in Fargo.
Shows like "Overhaulin'" or "Pimp My Ride" give "a real bad perception of how much time it takes to restore or customize a car,'' he says.
"A typical restoration for a drive train, suspension and body is three to four months."
One of the biggest problems in working on cars - especially older vehicles - is getting parts, he says. At times, it can take months to get some parts.
For reality TV shows, aftermarket parts makers are "going to do whatever they've got to do" to get their products seen.
Also, the show's producers will aim to have all the parts they feel are necessary on hand before work starts, Odden says.
"Like on 'Overhaulin' - if they put a new frame on that car, you're looking at a couple of months to get that part. To get a new motor, it doesn't happen overnight. It's at least a month."
Odden says reality TV is also a place where money is no object.
Customizing crews, which can include a dozen or more professionals, labor on vehicles sometimes around the clock to get them finished.
A properly repaired car body alone can cost "close to $10,000 to get something really pristine, inside and out, and no worries about future rust or the body work coming apart," Odden says.
That doesn't include upholstery and other interior work, suspension, engine or transmission repairs or replacement.
A vintage muscle car that needs a lot of work can cost $25,000 to $40,000 to turn into a show car, he says.
On top of that, hurried jobs leave insufficient time for body fillers, primers and paints to properly dry. While the finished result may look good for a while, a year later things can start to turn ugly.
"It's not that it can't be done, but should it be done," Odden says. "If it's not done perfect, you can see it in as little as a week. If rust isn't handled properly, it will come back instantly."
And that, Odden says, is a reality the cameras probably won't catch.
Readers can reach Forum reporter
Helmut Schmidt at (701) 241-5583
Helmut Schmidt is a reporter for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead's business news team. Readers can reach him by email at hschmidt@forumcomm.com, or by calling (701) 241-5583.


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Preservation: Neon Dream and the Weiss Liquors Sign
On the Saturda y after Thanksgiving in 2020, a small, masked crowd stood in a liquor store parking lot waiting for a 30-foot-tall neon sign to light up. It may sound odd, but to the neighborhood of East Nashville, this was hope.
When a violent tornado ripped through Main Street after midnight on March 3 of that year, it knocked down the neon sign that had towered above Weiss Liquors since the late 1940s. The store is a Nashville institution, having first served as a speakeasy starting in 1932.
Even before the tornado, Nick Redford counted the Weiss Liquors sign as his favorite. Redford owns Fortify, a design/fabrication shop. "Those huge signs are like extravagant, absurd dinosaurs," he says. "People just don't know how to make them anymore."
Fortunately, Redford does, so he rushed over to Weiss Liquors as daylight rose to offer help. Read article here