When you think of the most popular food in California, does quinoa come to mind? And when you visit the great state of Oregon, do you make it a point to try their teriyaki sauce? Washington is best known for their pork chops, right?
According to Google, those foods are the most popular in those states. The Internet, however, begs to differ.
In honor of Independence Day, Google Doodle created an interactive map that shows the most highly-searched recipes for each of the 50 U.S. states and five territories — while adding descriptions that made the dishes seem like the most popular food.
Let's just say people had…feelings about some of the dishes.
In other parts of the west, users were similarly left scratching their heads at Oregon's dish of teriyaki sauce and those famous Washington pork chops.
"Teriyaki sauce for Oregon?" one user wrote. "Seriously? Pork Chops?" wrote another of Washington's dish.
Another state people had strong feelings about? Missouri, home of Kansas City- and St. Louis-style barbecues.
People also voiced their confusion at broccoli salad and squash casserole — for Alabama and Georgia, respectively. "Who did y'all survey again for these recipes?" one user wrote.
And, summing up the experience, "I have several questions about the selected state specific recipes on the google doodle today," one user wrote.


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Airbus resolves global bribery scandal for record $4B
By Neil Hodge2020-01-31T22:18:00+00:00
European plane maker Airbus will avoid criminal prosecution after agreeing to pay a total of €3.6 billion (U.S. $4 billion) in penalties to prosecutors in the United States, United Kingdom, and France over an "endemic" bribery scandal that saw the company pay bribes to win contracts in 20 countries around the world.
The total is the world's largest global resolution for bribery.
The company, which admitted five counts of failing to prevent bribery, had used a network of secret agents to pay large-scale bribes to officials in foreign countries to land high-value contracts between 2011 and 2015.
Under the terms of the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), Airbus—the world's second-largest airplane manufacturer—will pay a fine and costs amounting to €991 million (U.S. $1.1 billion) to the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office, while France's Parquet National Financier (PNF) will receive close to €2.1 billion (U.S. $2.33 billion). The U.S. Department of Justice and Department of State will get €525.6 million (U.S. $583 million) from Airbus for violations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
The DPA—the seventh finalized by the SFO since it came into effect in 2013—was approved by courts in all three countries Friday and will be in force until Jan. 31, 2023.
The settlement surpasses the £671 million (U.S. $886 million) paid by engine maker Rolls-Royce in 2017, which was the previous U.K. record for a corporate fine for bribery, and amounts to more than half of the £1.53 billion (U.S. $2 billion) total raised through the SFO's DPAs.
Compliance details of the DPA
1. Airbus must agree to "substantial remediation" and "ongoing improvements" to its group-wide ethics and compliance policies and procedures. The Airbus "Compliance Journey" has comprised a comprehensive set of initiatives to change Airbus' culture and strengthen the group's assurance activities and operating practices in recruitment, risk management and controls.
Key components have included:
the replacement of senior management at Executive Committee level, including appointment of a new CEO, CFO, and general counsel;
creating a subcommittee of the board, titled the Ethics & Compliance Committee, to provide independent oversight of the company's Ethics & Compliance program;
the extensive recruitment of external compliance professionals with direct access to the board and Executive Committee through the general counsel and the new chief ethics & compliance officer;
revising Airbus' Code of Conduct and other principles, supported by extensive training;
strengthening risk management, compliance, and internal escalation processes;
strengthening contractual-credit governance;
the prohibition on the use of external consultants in any commercial aircraft sales campaign; and
overhauling its systems and approach to financial controls, including a "First and Second line of Defence" with robust reporting embedded in routine operations and the consistent application of standards.
2. Airbus shall cooperate fully and honestly with all SFO pre-investigations, investigations, and prosecutions during the term of the agreement.
3. At the request of the SFO, Airbus shall also cooperate fully and honestly with any other domestic or foreign law enforcement and regulatory authorities and agencies in any investigation or prosecution of any of its present or former officers, directors, employees, agents, and consultants, or any third party.
Source: Airbus deferred prosecution agreement (DPA)
The SFO opened investigations into Airbus in 2016 after the firm self-reported incidents of alleged bribery and asked regulators to look at documentation about its use of overseas agents. The French and U.S. investigations started later.
"Airbus' commitment to transparency with the US authorities and implementation of a comprehensive remediation plan was a cornerstone of this resolution," said John Barker, a partner in the national security practice at law firm Arnold & Porter's, which will assist Airbus on implementation of the consent agreement with the U.S. Department of State. "Companies throughout industry should take note that the settlement recognizes the value of identifying and bringing forward compliance issues and working with government authorities to resolve them to establish a solid foundation for future export licensing and compliance."
It is unclear whether the SFO or U.S. and French prosecutors will attempt to go after the intermediaries who helped pay the bribes to secure contracts. Lawyers suggest this is unlikely.
In her judgment, Dame Victoria Sharp called Airbus' conduct "grave," adding "the seriousness of the criminality in this case hardly needs to be spelled out."
Lisa Osofsky, SFO director, said in a statement: "Airbus paid bribes through agents around the world to stack the decks in its favour and win contracts around the globe. Corruption like this undermines free trade and fair development and it is to Airbus' credit it has admitted its culpability, cleaned its house and come forward to put this conduct to bed."
Reading into why Airbus got a DPA
Lawyers believe the DPA marks a "victory on both sides." Craig Weston, a senior associate in law firm Irwin Mitchell's regulatory investigations group, says the DPA "represents the end of a long-running saga for Airbus and will be able to provide certainty for their shareholders and allow the company to move forward with their business."
Lawyers say each DPA gives a little bit of a better insight into what the SFO considers and is looking for when deciding to agree to a DPA. Airbus would have already had to demonstrate it had made compliance improvements as part of the DPA negotiation process.
Ian Ryan, partner and head of business crime at law firm Howard Kennedy, says "this DPA will probably be seen as a victory for both sides. The SFO will provide the treasury with a large windfall and demonstrate that they are able to deal with the most complex of investigations, and Airbus will be able to put this matter behind them and move on. Their share price increased following the announcement that a deal had been struck."
Ryan says the main lesson for companies to learn is if they or their intermediaries engage in bribery and corruption, they are likely to be hit economically, and it will affect their shareholders.
"Companies will need to have a close look at the DPA judgement to see exactly the level of cooperation and remedial action Airbus was able to demonstrate to the SFO, which enabled the agency to feel comfortable to enter into this DPA. Companies would be wise to then review their own compliance policies and procedures to ensure they remain adequate and effective," says Ryan.
Aziz Rahman, senior partner at business crime law firm Rahman Ravelli, says "no doubt those at Airbus will rest easy if its past and present personnel enjoy the same outcome" as other executives who were charged but not convicted while their companies qualified for DPAs.
But he adds Airbus has shown compliance and cooperation are key to being considered for leniency. "The firm has certainly attempted to do all it can to achieve a DPA: Senior executives have been removed, its ethics and compliance procedures have been reviewed and revised, and it has reduced the number of third parties it uses in deals. The Airbus board has decided there were benefits to be had from doing all it can to show it is now a 'new' company with few links to the wrongdoing that has caused it such problems," he says.
While Airbus is immune from prosecution (so long as it did not lie or withhold evidence throughout the investigation and continues to cooperate), the SFO says the investigation remains "active" and it may consider criminal prosecutions against individuals—a touchy issue for the agency. To date, the SFO has failed to secure a conviction against any individuals involved in any of the previous bribery and corruption cases where companies have helped supply evidence against former directors and others to secure leniency under each of the six other DPAs.
Lawyers suggest the SFO will "proceed with caution."
"The SFO has come out bruised from its last two attempts to prosecute individuals in the U.K. following DPAs, and I suspect the agency would proceed with caution to prosecute the individuals in the U.K.," says Weston.
Iskander Fernandez, head of white collar crime and investigations at law firm BLM, believes the SFO will be "itching" to secure its first convictions of individuals alongside its seventh DPA, but believes the agency will "not rush into anything."
"The SFO has a poor track record in trying to hold individuals to account, and after previous disappointments it will certainly think twice before it seeks prosecutions again," he says
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Airbus contractors feeling ripple effect from record fine
Airbus is free to go about its business after paying a record fine to three anti-corruption agencies for widespread bribery, but the trouble is only beginning for some of its implicated contractors.
Confronting 'willful intent' in third-party corruption cases
Even as companies continue to agree to multi-billion-dollar settlements related to the corrupt acts of third parties, managing the risks associated with them nevertheless eludes many compliance departments.
AirAsia on defense after Airbus-related bribery allegations
AirAsia is doing damage control after executives at the budget airline were referenced as recipients of a $50 million bribe from plane maker Airbus in the latter's $4 billion global bribery settlement.
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Apple's chief security officer (and former CCO) accused of bribery
Apple Chief Security Officer Thomas Moyer, who served as the company's chief compliance officer for nearly a decade, is facing accusations that he offered bribes in the form of iPads to California state officials in exchange for concealed firearms licenses.
Benefits of bribery: New study separates fact from fiction
While bribery can provide companies with major short-term gains, there is little evidence to support many other beliefs surrounding the "return on investment," according to a new study.
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The U.K. Serious Fraud Office closed its bribery investigation into power and automation technology provider ABB after concluding the case "did not meet the relevant test for prosecution."

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LONDON — Ministry of Defense scientist David Kelly probably knew that his superiors were unhappy with wording in an intelligence dossier, a Defense official told the Hutton inquiry probing the events surrounding Kelly's suicide.
"Two individuals expressed concern about specific language in the dossier to their line managers," Martin Howard, now deputy chairman of the MoD's defense intelligence service, told the inquiry Monday. "Their views were taken into account before the joint intelligence committee met to discuss the dossier."
This is the first time a government official has gone on record to reveal disquiet over the contents of the dossier, which claimed that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes.
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Kelly, a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, helped to prepare the first Iraq dossier and was involved in a discussion of a late draft of the dossier on Sept. 19. He was frequently consulted because he was a leading expert in his field.
Howard denied, however, that the government knew that the "45 minute" claim was wrong before the dossier was published. He said that governmental communications chief Alastair Campbell had not "sexed up" the dossier, as Gilligan claimed in an article in newspaper the Mail on Sunday.
The inquiry also heard that the Foreign Office and MoD are divided about Kelly's handling of the media.
While Patrick Lamb, deputy head of the nonproliferation department within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, praised Kelly's expertise and encouraged journalists to speak with him, MoD head of personnel Richard Hatfield said that Kelly had strayed beyond providing technical information by disclosing or commenting on classified information and discussing "politically controversial issues."


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Concerto grosso in D Major
Handel dazzled British audiences with his dozens of operas in Italian, but his greatest spectacles were his English-language oratorios and odes. To help attract crowds to those performances, Handel assembled twelve concerti grossi, or "Grand Concertos," in 1739. He introduced the new works during the intermissions, and also published them on subscription. The concertos came out in print as Handel's Opus 6, the same opus number as Corelli's popular concerto set, published 25 years earlier. Handel's Opus 6 concertos also borrowed Corelli's instrumentation: a solo group of two violins and cello, offset by full string sections and basso continuo. Handel later added two oboes to the accompanying ensemble for some of the concertos, including No. 5.
The Concerto Grosso in D major, Opus 6, No. 5, includes material from the Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, which Handel had recently completed. Handel had no qualms repurposing his own music (or that of his contemporaries, for that matter), and so the three sections of the ode's Overture reappeared as the first, second, and final movement of the six-part concerto grosso. The opening sequence borrows from the tradition of French overtures, starting with a slow introduction built from stately dotted rhythms and proceeding to a fast fugue. The flowing passages of the Presto third movement and the drawn-out melodic counterpoint of the Largo fourth movement showcase the wide range of expressive possibilities when the soloists split off from the full ensemble. The final two movements use tutti ("together") textures throughout, first in an Allegro statement that chatters over a light-stepping bass line, and then closing with a courtly Menuet.
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Cello Concerto in G Minor
Matthias Georg Monn was active in Vienna in the pivotal period when Baroque style transitioned to the more streamlined galant sound, paving the way for the Classical aesthetic of Haydn and Mozart. Monn died young, before any of his music had been published, and his works have become jumbled with those of his brother, also a composer. Even his name is foggy; he is often listed with his first two names reversed, and his preferred spelling of Monn differed from the recorded family name of Mann.
One of the chief reasons Monn remains in circulation today is the attention he received from Arnold Schoenberg, during a period when the leader of the second great wave of Viennese composers was still obliged to work as a music editor to pay the bills. Schoenberg edited and transcribed several of Monn's works, including the Cello Concerto in G Minor. This concerto became a favorite of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré, among other prominent soloists. (It should not be confused with a separate Monn keyboard concerto that Schoenberg transformed into a cello concerto for Pablo Casals, an exciting but thoroughly bastardized work.) This performance utilizes a newer and more historically accurate edition of Monn's G-minor Concerto, prepared by Oliver Nagy.
The Allegro first movement has all the requisite components for a proto-classical concerto: a tutti exposition that establishes the home key, anchored by an ear-grabbing theme that leaps up through a G-minor arpeggio; a move to a contrasting key area, in this case the consoling calm of B-flat major; and ample opportunities for the soloist to expand upon these themes until the recapitulation resolves itself back to G minor.
The central Adagio movement is placid and pastoral, cast in a gently rocking triplet pulse. The brief cadential passages with snappy dotted rhythms and stout unison lines create a lively contrast to the otherwise gentle flow of the music. The fugue writing within the Allegro non tanto finale links this concerto to the preceding generations, but the virtuosic passagework and rich melodic writing for the cellist point forward to the Classical era and beyond.
Piccolo Concerto in A Minor
Antonio Vivaldi took after his father in playing the violin, but "The Red Priest," as the ginger-haired composer came to be called, trained for a life in the church instead of studying music. Ordained in 1703, Vivaldi took a job at a school for orphaned girls in Venice, where he taught them violin and, for a time, also performed mass. He was known in his day as a top-notch violinist, with less attention paid to his many compositions, spanning chamber music, opera, sacred music, and of course his concertos—more than 500 total, with at least 230 featuring the violin.
In the 1920s, an Italian scholar unearthed a trove of Vivaldi's personal manuscripts that had been shelved for nearly 200 years. Among them were three concertos with the solo instrument labeled as "flautino," an imprecise term simply indicating a "little flute." It could have referred to the highest member of the transverse flute family—i.e. a forerunner of the modern piccolo, held sideways—but evidence in the score and common practice in the period point instead to the sopranino recorder, an instrument held vertically. Piccolo players have since adopted these seminal concertos, which lie perfectly in the range of their uniquely agile and brilliant instrument.
The exact circumstances that led Vivaldi to compose the Piccolo Concerto in A minor and its siblings remain unknown, but clearly he designed them for a very strong soloist. In the first solo episode of the opening Allegro movement, for example, the soloist plays nineteen demanding measures with only one eighth-rest and one sixteenth-rest of respite, until the main ritornello theme provides relief. The central Larghetto movement is more spacious, with the solo line riding over an unadorned line of walking accompaniment. The concerto saves its flashiest virtuosity for the Allegro finale, as the piccolo darts high above the accompaniment.
Charles Avison
Concerto grosso No. 1 in A Major (after D. Scarlatti)
Charles Avison was a British composer, organist and writer who worked mainly in the northern city of Newcastle. As the director of a local concert series, he had first-hand experience with the English craze for concerti grossi, those group concertos developed in Italy by Corelli and imitated by Handel and many others. Avison capitalized on the trend in 1744 by publishing a set of 12 concertos modeled on Corelli's template: a solo group consisting of two violins and cello, accompanied by a larger string ensemble and basso continuo. Instead of composing new material, Avison adapted sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, whose popularity in England spiked after a major publication appeared in 1738. In merging Corelli's ensemble structure with Scarlatti's musical material, the relatively unknown Avison created a collection that easily surpassed his subscription target, and which remains active in the repertoire to this day.
The Concerto Grosso No. 1 in A Major draws from three different Scarlatti sonatas to stitch together the usual slow-fast-slow-fast structure of movements. Avison's opening Adagio is not far off from the Grave treatment in Scarlatti's original; the Amoroso third movement, on the other hand, is almost unrecognizable compared to the swift Allegro it borrows from. (There were not very many slow movements by Scarlatti in circulation at the time, so Avison had to get creative.) The concerto's two Allegro movements maximize the counterpoint and textural contrast found within Scarlatti's landmark keyboard sonatas.
Bassoon Concerto in E Minor
After the violin, the instrument that appears most frequently as a concerto soloist in Vivaldi's catalog is an unlikely choice: the bassoon. There are 39 surviving bassoon concertos (two of which are incomplete), with no clear explanation for their origin. Vivaldi dedicated one to a Venetian musician, and another to a Bohemian count, but there must also have been a worthy soloist at the Pietà, the school where Vivaldi worked at various times between 1703 and 1740. It might have been a fellow faculty member, or even some of the more talented young female students who gave Vivaldi reason to continue writing bassoon concertos.
The bassoon was in a transitional period in Vivaldi's day. Its Renaissance-era precursor, the dulcian, was fading away, supplanted by the bassoons designed in the late 1600s in France and Germany. In the early 1700s, the bassoon's usual role was to augment the bass line as part of the basso continuo group, along with the cello, bass, harpsichord, or any other number of bass instruments. It was rare for the bassoon to appear as a featured voice, all the more so in Italy. But Vivaldi's writing demonstrates an intimate knowledge of the instrument's expressive capabilities, from its growling bass notes to the smooth lyricism in its tenor range. He also understood how effectively the instrument could leap between ranges, as in a running passage in the Allegro poco first movement that demands a jump from the low E up more than two octaves to an F-natural above the staff.
The Andante slow movement uses the ensemble to establish a slow-moving melody, and then brings in the bassoon to elaborate with artfully slurred and arpeggiated phrases. The Allegro finale introduces a subdued side of the solo voice, with the bassoon initially teasing out a patient melody over more active violin accompaniment, but soon the concerto's star dives into the work's most swift and agile passages.
Concerto in B Minor for Four Violins and Orchestra
Vivaldi's first two publications featured chamber music genres dominated by Arcangelo Corelli: trio sonatas (i. e., two violins with basso continuo) and violin sonatas. Vivaldi stood out more with his third publication, the collection of twelve concertos first published in Amsterdam in 1711 under the title L'estro armonico ("Harmonic inspiration"). The two-volume set collected concertos that Vivaldi had composed during his tenure teaching at the Pietà, works that variously featured one, two, or four solo violinists with orchestra. (With all those talented orphan girls under his tutelage, Vivaldi could write as many solo parts as he wished!)
The publication did much to advance Vivaldi's reputation at home and abroad, and also to spread the northern Italian idea of concerto style, as opposed to Corelli's Roman mold. One composer who paid close attention was Johann Sebastian Bach, who transcribed several of Vivaldi's Opus 3 concertos. The Concerto No. 10 in B Minor for Four Violins, for example, re-emerged as Bach's Concerto in A Minor for Four Harpsichords, BWV 1065.
This concerto employs Vivaldi's typical three-movement structure of fast outer movements surrounding a slow movement. The solo voices appear in a range of inventive configurations, starting with a surprising first phrase that uses just two violins and a viola. In the first movement, there is rarely more than one soloist featured at a time, with the solo episodes distributed equitably among the four leaders.
The middle movement is particularly enigmatic, from its unstable first chord, through its ghostly Larghetto section built from intricate bowing patterns, to its unresolved closing that links to the finale. Only in this closing movement do the four soloists come together for virtuosic passages of call-and-response sparring.
Antonio Vivaldi ©2014
Approximate length 2:00
This program highlights the enduring vivacity of these Baroque concertos as the SPCO's own musicians take center stage to present concerti grossi by Handel and Avison, and concertos by Georg Matthias Monn and Vivaldi.
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Guernica, in full Guernica y Luno, official Spanish-Basque composite Gernika-Lumo, city, just northeast of Bilbao, Vizcaya provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Basque Country, northern Spain. The city, on the Río de Plencia (Butrón) near the inlet of the Bay of Biscay, is the statutory capital of the former lordship of Vizcaya, sacred to the Basques. It is symbolized by a venerable oak, the Guernikako arbola (tree of Guernica), under the branches of which the batzarraks (councils) of Vizcaya met to determine defense policies and to receive royal assurances of fueros (charters of privileges), which were retained from the Middle Ages through the 19th century. In 1366 Count Tello organized Guernica as an enclave, autonomous from the surrounding district of Luno, a status that endured until 1882, when Guernica and Luno were united as a municipality.
After surviving the Carlist Wars of the 19th century, Guernica led the futile agitation for an independent Basque state in 1932. On April 26, 1937, the city was heavily bombed by German planes, an incident that inspired Pablo Picasso's famous painting Guernica (1937). The city's architectural highlights include the Council or Parliament House (1824–33), the Tribunales (law courts), and the church of Santa María la Antigua (1418).
Industries include food processing, furniture making, metalworking, and ammunition manufacturing. Tourism is an added source of income. Pop. (2007 est.) mun., 16,171.


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Q: Retrieve Tensor (Numpy)Value After tf.Estimator Training I have trained a simple autoencoder using tf.Estimator. During training a particular tensor W is updated where W is a matrix. After training I would like to retrieve W and read its values using numpy.
This is a simple task if I was not using tf.Estimator, I would call .eval() and pass my session. However, Estimator is a high level API and the initialization and use of the session is all done under the hood.
I also tried using Estimator.predict and EstimatorSpec to return W but it does not seem to work. I get the following error:

TypeError: List of Tensors when single Tensor expected.

Is it possible to directly retrieve the numpy value of a tensor after training with tf.Estimator. If so, how?

A: Assuming W is stored as a variable in your model, you can use the get_variable_value method of the Estimator object. See here.

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Does archaeological geophysics really work in Australia? Its current role in Australian archaeology.
In 2012, Australian Archaeology published the paper entitled 'Review of Geophysical Applications in Australian Archaeology'. At the time, the goals of the article were to examine the history of archaeological geophysics in Australian archaeology and to consider the factors that may have prevented such methods not being utilised in many investigations to date, especially since they have been popularized in Europe and North America. It concluded by stating that considerations such as costs, time, instrument availability and lack of theoretical knowledge contributed to the limited uptake of these techniques. This paper also offered suggestions on geophysical applications today and whether there was potential in Australian archaeology. Six years have passed since its initial publication. This working paper addresses whether there has been any changes, improvements or even progress of this application in Australian archaeology and whether it really does work in the Australian landscape.
Authors: Kelsey M. Lowe1,2
1Institute of Resilient Regions, School of Arts and Communication, The University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba QLD 4350, Australia
2School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4078, Australia
Dr Kelsey M. Lowe has over 17 years experience in archaeology and cultural heritage management and specialises in archaeological geophysics, geoarchaeology and geographic information systems (GIS). Her formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Minnesota State University Moorhead, a Master of Arts in Anthropology from University of Mississippi and a doctorate in Archaeology from the University of Queensland (UQ). Dr Lowe has been involved in several research projects in Australia, Cyprus, Greece, Indonesia, Myanmar, South America, Turkey and the United States. She has held two postdoctoral positions: one with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas (IMS-FORTH) in Crete and the second (current position), as an ARC Senior Research Associate at the University of Southern Queensland. Dr Lowe is also an Honorary Research Fellow at UQ and a Senior Archaeologist at Everick Heritage Consulting.
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German A7V disabled by trench. Apparently captured by New Zealand forces in the Iwuy area during the action of October 11, 1918.
Iwuy is a small commune in France, South East of Vimy and North East of Cambria. On October 11, 1918 the 18th Battalion was involved in an operation where they were able to repulse 3 German tanks. This action has the significance of being the last action in World War 1 were the Germans used the A7V tank.
The German Army had adapted their interpretation the British innovation of the tank into the large, lumbering A7V. This 11 foot high. 33 tonne tank carried a crew of 18 with 6 machine guns and 1 5.7 cm cannon were built in very small numbers and saw limited tactical use. Given their size; lack of hardened armour plate; lack of maneuverability their utilization in the battlefield generally was not very successful.
It was during this action that Captain William James Baxter earned the Military Cross.
The War Diary's reference to the action on October 11, 1918 with the German tanks is as follows:
At 09:00 hrs. the Battalion in support to the 20th. and 21st. Battalions advanced from the trenches in T.10.b. and T.11.a. & b. "C" and "D" Companies on right and left front respectively with "B" Co'y. in support and "A" Co'y. in Reserve. Battn. Hdqrs. was located in the cellar of a farm house at T.12.a.90.10. about 09:30 hrs. The two front line Battalions swung over too far to the left and "C" Company when [their] line was threatened by enemy tanks took up a position in 0.31.c. turning back three enemy tanks by concentrated rifle, Lewis Gun, Machine Gun fire, turning five enemy M.G.s around for this purpose. The front line battalions being driven back by the enemy tanks on the left and the Imperial Brigade on the right also withdrawing. "C" Company then dropped back to the support position in U.1.c., then immediately advancing in conjunction with "B" Company to sunken road in T.6.b. and U.1.a. forming a line there with the 20th and 21st Battalions and a few men of the Yorks Regt. who had swung over on our area. At 15:30 hrs. "C" and "D" Co.ys. attached to the 21st. Battn. advanced under an Artillery Barrage to N.30.d. & O.25.c. & b. but the Imperials on the right not getting forward the troops were drawn back to for a line through N.36.d. & O.31.c. & d. (in which position they were relieved by Units of the 51st. Division). We were notified that the Battalion would be relieved by Units of the 51st. Division. Relief was complete at 23:00 hrs. "C" & "D" Companies were relieved by the Gordons and "A" & "B" Co'ys. by the Seaforth Highlanders. Upon relief the companies moved independently to billets in SCAUDO EUVRES. During the day's operations, Capt. W.J. Baxter and Lieut T.V. Mildford and 54 O.R.s were wounded. 11 O.R.s were killed in action and 18 O.R.s were wounded-gassed…
This précis of the actions of that day encapsulate a significant historical military action in regard to the use of the innovative weapon system – the tank. This was the last action in which the German A7V tanks were used.
From this War Diary entry it is apparent the German tanks caused initial havoc with the British and Canadian action.
The 20th and 21st Battalions swung too far to the left, the reason is not stated in the 18th Battalion's War Diary but it appears that the German tanks, which most probably were not supported by German infantry troops, had an opportunity to cut off these two battalions from their line of communication, resupply and retreat. It is not clear to which Company the War Diary refers to as there is some confusion between the text of the War Diary and that of the Military Cross citation. The War Diary states that "B" Company was in support but the War Diary states the "C" Company was in action against the tanks. Given the brevity of the War Diary entry the confusion could be cleared up by the fact the 18th Battalion was in "support" of the 20th and 21st Battalion's counter-attack at Iwuy so any action by the 18th was in "support" of the counter-attack. The earlier War Diary reference was specific to the actions of the 18th Battalion and not the larger action of the counter-attack. It is not helpful that the War Diary entry is covering such a long and complex action.
20th Battalion Disposition on 11/11/18. Reference the German map below. The 21st Battalion probably attacked almost due north and the German tanks pushed around the south of Iwuy heading East in an attempt to cut off the Battalion. Not the 'T" road intersecting just North of the Battalion and reference that to the map below. The 18th Battalion was, most likely, to the south of the 21st.
German source showing the action of the A7V tanks on October 11, 1918. From the map above the "T" intersection of the roads just South of Iwuy comply with the 21st Battalion's disposition map.
Summary of Action for October 11, 1918
Attack starts at 9:00 AM local time by 20th and 21st Battalion with 18th Battalion in support.
Battalion Headquarters moved at 9:30 AM into a farm cellar, probably to be closer to the fighting.
20th and 21st Battalion move too far left allowing German tanks (and most probably supporting infantry) an opportunity to cut them off.
"C" Company, with the use of light arms, including 5 captured German machine guns, repulses German tank attack. Of note:
Where rifle grenades as part of the effort to repulse the tanks?
Was the nature of the terrain the German tanks had to cross part of their decision to retire?
What effect did the mechanical condition of the tanks have to their tactical withdrawal?
The capture of the 5 German machine guns bears some explanation. Since this was a counter-attack these weapons may have been left in the German lines after the 20th and 21st Battalions over-ran German positions or they were captured by the 18th Whatever the case, their capture appears to be so sudden that the German soldiers could not carry these weapons away or had time to disable them so they could not be used against them.
The 20th and 21st Battalions, along with the Imperial Brigade make a tactical withdrawal to consolidate their lines and link up with the supporting battalions.
"C" Company withdraws and links up with "B" Company and begins advance and reinforces the 20th and 21st Battalions in the advance line of attack.
At 3:30 PM "C" and "D" Companies of the 18th Battalion are attached to reinforce the 21st Battalion and begin an advance under cover of an artillery barrage.
This action, not being successful, the units retreat to await relief.
The 51st Division relieves the 18th Battalion with the Gordons relieving "A" and "B" Companies and Seaforth Highlanders relieving "C" and "D" Companies.
Relief is completed by 11:00 PM that evening.
During the action Captain Baxter earned the Military Cross and was wounded. His wound appear to consist of a gunshot wound to the face and left wrist with was further complicated by foreign objects being lodge in his face near his eye socket. He also lost two upper incisors.
The Military Cross Citation reads:
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in front of Iwuy on 11th October, 1918, when in command of a support company. The enemy, having counter-attacked with tanks, brought our attack to a standstill. He pushed forward with his company, and having use of all his Lewis guns and three captured machine guns, was able to force the tanks to retire, thereby enabling the position to be held, and the advance to continue later. His courage and determination were worthy of high praise.
Note that the citation records 3 German machine guns, which is at odds of the War Diary's record of 5.
It would be fascinating to have a German account of this action but given the terrain typically found in the front lines of these areas of action with the many shell holes, trenches, and other geographic features the effectiveness of the German AV7 tanks was limited in their maneuverability. This was most likely further compounded by the configuration of the armour these tanks being only able to withstand rifle and machine gun fire, which prevented them from having a decisive impact on the battle space. It also appears that the tanks were operating with limited or no German infantry support since the war diaries make no mention of German infantry involvement. Without coordinated infantry support the German tanks would have been exposed to Allied infantry attacks.
The German military lagged in armoured doctrine in the First World War but would later take these lessons and develop new tactics for tank and infantry operations combined with air power which became the "Blitzkrieg" doctrine.
It would be valuable to review the war diaries of the adjoining battalions to gain more insight into the action. Observe the image below in more detail. The spacing between the gun-shield of the main armament (5.7-cm Maxim-Nordenfelt) gun and the embrasure for this gun appears quite large. Perhaps concentrated fire from machine-guns allowed bullets to enter the tank with the resultant chaos of ricocheting projectiles inside the subject tanks caused them to be overcome.
German A7V with captured British tank.
Exterior of A7V tank.
Interior of A7V tank.


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Patagonia pledges Black Friday sales to environmental groups
Mon., Nov. 21, 2016
Patagonia normally donates 1 percent of its sales to environmental causes, but on Black Friday 2016, the outdoor clothing company plans to donate 100 percent.
ENVIRONMENT -- Patagonia shops and the outdoor clothing company's website will be open for business on Black Friday with a pledge announced today to donate all sales to environmental causes.
This is an interesting twist on various marketing efforts to court consumer buzz on what's been billed as the business day that boosts bottom lines out of red-ink for the year.
REI, another national outdoor retailer, has made headlines for closing its doors and giving employees a day off on Black Friday. The ideas is to encourage people to devote the day after Thanksgiving to participation in hiking, climbing or other outdoor activities.
This campaign might get mixed reviews from those of us who can't go hiking because we have to work on Black Friday. But good for REI employees, who have an extra free day to get out -- maybe even to shop for some Black Friday bargains at other stores.
Patagonia is dramatically shifting the focus on Black Friday promotions.
"This year Patagonia will donate 100 percent of global Black Friday sales in our stores and on our website to grassroots organizations working in local communities to protect our air, water and soil for future generations," says Rose Marcario, Patagonia CEO in a post on The Cleanest Line. "These are small groups, often underfunded and under the radar, who work on the front lines. The support we can give is more important now than ever."
Information about these groups is at patagonia.com.
The Spokane Riverkeeper and The Lands Council are examples of Spokane-based groups linked to grants from Patagonia.
Marcario said the company's has a message for its customers on the busiest shopping days of the year. The hope, she said, is that "as people think generously about family and friends, we also want to help our customers show love to the planet, which badly needs a gift or two (and still gets coal every year)."
In 2002, Patagonia was a co-founder of the 1% for the Planet campaign to devote that much of sales to environmental causes each year. Since then the campaign has signed up about 1,200 participating business, mostly small companies that have raised more than $150 million to share with more than 3,300 environmental groups around the world.
Patagonia alone has donated $74 million from sales, says spokeswoman Corley Kenna. The amount tops $80 million if you include gear donations and services, she said.
Black Friday steps up the commitment.
"We felt it was important to go further and connect more of our customers, who love wild places, with those who are fighting tirelessly to protect them," Marcario said.
"This we know: If we don't act boldly, severe changes in climate, water and air pollution, extinction of species, and erosion of topsoil are certain outcomes.
"The threats facing our planet affect people of every political stripe, of every demographic, in every part of the country. We all stand to benefit from a healthy environment — and our children and grandchildren do, too.
"We are here and we'll keep fighting: 100 percent on Black Friday, 1 percent every day."


But free Private Channels are also available, you just need to know where to find them.New Roku interface lets you search across channels I started out to review the new Roku 3 — which I will do in just a minute — but as I started writing, I realized that Roku is evolving into.Filter All posts. Channels. Private Channels. News. Discussion.
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Features include: - Search for movies, shows, actors, or directors and easily launch the content on your Roku player or TV. Before you find out about the best free Roku channels, it is important for you to find out more about how you can easily access them without any hassles whatsoever.We look to manintain and list all active Adult Roku Channels and provides updates that channels May submit that is news worthy.
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The Roku app for Windows allows Roku users to control their Roku player over their home network.Whether you have a Roku Ultra, a Roku Premiere, or even an older device, you can easily use it to satisfy your binge-watching needs.
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Comet is a new addition to the Roku movie channels, Comet, now available to Roku.The Nowhere Man has created a variety of private channels you can install, including clients for Twitter, Vine, CNN, USTREAM.tv, Songza, and the Khan academy.This means that instead of having to search Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Amazon for a program, you can search all services at once.Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV.It is available to owners of modern Roku set-top boxes, streaming sticks, and TVs.Roku channels open a world of entertainment, with channels that bring content from around the globe.
The Roku Channel also displays what programming is available on a premium service so users can view and search the content before starting a free trial of the service, he says.
This Roku channel is offering popular favorites, movies, cult classics, shows like DragonFlyTv, GetWild, etc. and other movies, every day.
Technically, private channels and apps are part of the Roku channel store, but not displayed publicly.
Roku TV has a wide selection of Channels in the Channel Store.However, you will find that Adult Roku channels are not listed in the Roku channel store.And unlike some other devices, it takes an agnostic approach to search, since it.
From the Roku Channel Store, you can add or remove your favorite channels and games.
Before 2017 the Roku 3, Roku 4, and Roku Ultra all offered voice search on the remote.
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The day was a gloomy day.
It started out raining incessantly until she was quite ready to get to dancing in the rain. Suddenly, the rain stopped, the sun shone and she smiled as flowers bloomed all around.
Flowery words aside, it was actually raining pretty heavily about 10 minutes before these pictures were taken. This actually goes to show how quickly a situation turn around.
I remember having a conversation with someone that lasted for over two days. It was an argument really. It seems there are many people who feel fashion is too superficial. I actually get this. After all, at the end of the day, it's just clothes, isn't it?
It's not just clothes. I'm not really a fan of following up on trends and designers (mostly because I can't keep up) but dressing oneself in fine attire is an art that's almost as old as time.
The expression "Dress how you'd like to be addressed" is a cliche because it's true. If there's one fashion quote I'm tired of seeing, it's "fashion is what you wear, style is how you wear it". It's not necessarily about the clothes. The art is in the combination, the individuality expressed.
Whether we make conscious effort or not, our style makes a statement.
You'd think with these salient points, I'd have convinced said someone even just a little, yes?
Alas, he was quite unconvinced. It's still just clothes even though I also pointed out that a person's style reveals things about his/her personality, lifestyle, etc.
I'd like to know if it's just me who's taking things too deep. Leave a comment, I'd love to hear from you!
As much as I enjoy fashion and seeing pretty clothes, to be perfectly honest, sometimes it just wears me out. I doff my hat to celebs and fashion bloggers that seemingly have a never-ending supply of clothes, but I wonder sometimes about the amount of money, time, and energy expended on them. I'm really considering going the capsule wardrobe path and having essential, but stylish/classic items in my closet (once I lose my baby weight).
Anyways, I'm definitely not a sneaker girl but I really like yours!
Wow belle. This is captivating, entrancing, beautiful, so stylish and very much dope. Keep it up.


Rainier Asphalt acquires RS West Enterprises, Inc.
Seeking to diversify into more varied service lines including concrete installation and repairs, Rainier Asphalt LLC has purchased the assets of RS West Enterprises, Inc. Owner Ron West will bring over 10 years of industry experience with him and remain on board with Rainier serving as the company's concrete division General Manager. West has years of experience as a contractor and an entrepreneur including owning two automotive repair shops and a gas station. In addition, over the years, West has worked as a project manager for companies such as Timberline Construction Services and Orius Telecommunications.
This transition will bring benefits to Rainier's existing and prospective customers because it will be better able to serve as a "one-stop-shop" resource for property owners and managers. It can be difficult to find a qualified, quality contractor who can perform such varied services as asphalt repairs and patching, seal coating, striping and parking lot painting, extruded curbing, sidewalk repairs and trip hazard and ADA compliance. Now, Rainier can fulfill that need.
West, likewise, found the arrangement to be a no-brainer.


Image: One of Diana Souza's illustrations for Visits With Angels.
One of my beautiful meditators, Kristin is writing a paper for an honors seminar at Ithaca College, over the course of a semester. She asked if she could interview me on the topic of creativity and mystical states, and I agreed. I thought this interview might of interest to some of you, so I have added it as A Mystic's Journal entry.
Kristin: Those who we consider to be highly creative individuals (mystics, painters, musicians, etc.) experience the Soul in a very profound way.
How do you think of the Soul? Is the Soul connected to creativity?
Laurie: The Soul is our true Being, our true Self - and it is in some mysterious way connected to God. God (or the Divine Mind, or Divine Consciousness) and the Soul are the Source of all our perceptions and thoughts. We would not be able to perceive our universe and world without the ego - but without the soul there still would be no perception, no thoughts, because there would be nothing to light up the personal ego. So yes, the soul is connected to creativity - the soul is connected to our every perception, our every thought.
The creative genius perhaps is closer to the soul's Light consciously, for at least those periods of genius. You could also say that the genius is at times thrown into a higher state of consciousness in those moments of genius. However even in those high moments of genius, the ego is not fully transcended - there are still forms for the genius, whether they be visual or aural or mental thoughts. In the highest Mystical Experiences there are no forms, only the Divine Light.
Kristin: Do you consider your clairvoyance to be a mystical experience?
Laurie: Not necessarily. There are many levels of clairvoyance which I discuss in Realms of Light; there I also speak of the dangers of the lower psychic experiences, how they can confuse and unbalance us. However, even my usual, every day clairvoyance can evoke a Mystical Experience. Clairvoyance means clear-seeing. True clairvoyance, i.e. Clairvoyance brought to its highest - means seeing the Divine Light everywhere, i.e. seeing through this physical, mundane reality to True Reality. The substratum of this physical universe is the Divine Light, and the advanced clairvoyant can see this Light through the so-called material physical forms we find on Earth. By "forms" here I mean "material, physical things", physical bodies, the lamp, the fireplace etc.
Kristin: How do mystical states affect one's creativity?
Laurie: The high Mystical states and Experiences affect everything in our lives - even how we wash the dishes, how we brush our teeth. In those true Mystical experiences we experience higher states of Consciousness. The ego, our personal selves, are transcended during those high Mystical Experiences and we are flooded with Divine Light. Our physical minds and bodies are transformed. Nothing is the same afterward.
Kristin: How do you define a high mystical experience (a mystical state)? What is your experience with mystical states of being?
Laurie: I speak about some of my mystical experiences and mystical states in A Mystic's Journal - as well as in my printed books. Mystical states are not easily defined or described, for the simple reason that we humans do not have words for the Mystical. One of my more memorable Mystical Experiences, fairly early on, was seeing the forms of this "physical" world floating on the indescribably Radiant, Luminescent and almost Blinding Divine Light. In that experience I was given a Glimpse of the Divine substratum of our physical universe. However, using a different definition of "mystical experience", we could say the supernatural fragrances we have been experiencing in meditation class and at other times - are also mystical experience. In other words: mystical experience can also be defined as events or happenings that transcend the physical laws of our physical universe.
Kristin: For my purposes, creativity is thought of as the expression of the Soul. Essentially, the Soul is not a "thing" or an "object". Instead I will insist that the Soul is an activity - the activity of coming into being, a creating. We do not have a Soul, but rather our experience of existing means we are a Soul. So, our existence is inherently creative because we are the Soul.
Laurie: I do agree that "our existence is inherently creative because we are the Soul" - well said. And I also agree that we do not "have" a soul, rather we ARE the soul. And that life, our lives on Earth, is the activity of coming into being, a creation by the soul. Beautifully thought out and expressed... Yet, we do also have a vehicle for this incarnation on Earth - and decisions must be made, effort must be made to most perfectly live what we have been given.
Kristin: This is a more general question about the focus of my paper- Do you think I should include my musings about the Soul? I originally wanted to include the idea of the Soul as a creative activity because I believe in the presence of the Divine in everything and I long to find a way to frame creativity as Divine for my readers.
Laurie: I would definitely include your musings on the soul. In my opinion, it is the Essence of your work and of the paper.
Kristin: What do you think of the idea of the Soul as analogous to free will?
Laurie: They are not the same. However: will is a power given to the soul, a power embedded in the soul. Free will however, by its very definition belongs to the ego. We, our individuated smaller ego selves, make the decisions, every moment of every day - what we think, how we act and so on. This does not mean that on some occasions the soul cannot come and make a decision for us - or whisper truths to us, just as the soul can give us mystical and creative experience beyond and above the ego. But the whole meaning and intent of free will is that the individual makes the decisions, and hopefully tames and purifies the ego into Obedience and Holiness. Our main job, in the arena of free will - is to the best of our abilities align the personal, individual self with the soul's wishes and abilities.
Kristin: This idea reveals the agency of all humans - we, as humans on Earth, participate in the construction of reality. Our construction and experience of reality is a creative activity. So, maybe these ideas (mysticism and creativity) are tied, but only loosely?


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Detroit Markets Smaller Cars For High Gas Prices
By Sonari Glinton
Published March 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM MDT
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The Chevrolet Aveo is one of the smaller, more fuel-efficient cars American automakers have rolled out.
The price of gas is rising rapidly: The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline topped $3.55 this week, according to AAA.
Rising gas prices don't just affect how much Americans drive. As the cost to fill up rises, it could affect what vehicles Americans drive, which could have consequences for the recovering U.S. auto industry.
The industry is very different from the last time gas prices took a steep climb, in 2008. Now, there are more small and compact cars being produced by the Detroit Three.
Demand For Smaller Cars
The Ford Focus is the kind of car none of the U.S. automakers made very well — if at all — a few years ago. It comes with all of the bells and whistles, including a navigation system, sunroof, leather seats and 11 different sets of rims. The base model is about $16,500; a fully loaded version goes for about $23,000.
"What we're finding is customers are paying higher transaction prices for nicer cars," says Lewis Echlin, the group marketing manager at Ford Motor Co.
So, customers want smaller cars and they're willing to pay more for them.
To meet that demand, Ford has the Focus and Fiesta. General Motors has the Aveo and the Chevy Cruze, and Chrysler will soon get the Fiat 500. All are small cars with high fuel economy. And each of them can be tricked out. They are not like the old econo-boxes such as the Chevy Nova or the Ford Escort.
Slowly but surely Detroit is shifting its attention from SUVs to cars. For instance, in 2004, 65 percent of the vehicles Ford sold were trucks and SUVs. In 2011, that number dropped to 40 percent.
So, as gas prices go up and people begin to look for more efficient cars, Echlin says, Ford and other automakers are prepared for it.
"Not to toot everybody's horn, but corporate fuel economy has gotten generally better," he says.
The Economy's Impact
Michelle Krebs, an analyst for Edmunds.com, says small cars were the soft spot for the Detroit Three before the recent bankruptcies and restructuring. That's because with high fixed costs, such as pensions and retiree health care, automakers couldn't make real profits on anything but big cars and SUVs.
"The American car industry is in far better shape than when gas prices spiked in 2008," she says.
All automakers "pushed their break-even points way down," she adds. "So they're much more able to weather downturns, whatever they're caused by — gas prices — than they were before, because they cut costs so dramatically."
Nigel Gault, an economist with IHS Global Insight, says while Detroit may be poised to handle a gas price increase, there's still the overall economy to think about, which has a definite impact on car sales.
Gault says the big question is whether people who have jobs "start to fear that maybe even though they survived so far, they might be at risk of losing their own job."
He says we're not at that point yet. But he says when consumers feel that gas prices could stall the economy, the first place they'll cut back is big-ticket purchase such as cars.
If it happens this time, Gault says it very likely won't be a fatal blow. But it will still hurt.
Sonari Glinton
Sonari Glinton is a NPR Business Desk Correspondent based at our NPR West bureau. He covers the auto industry, consumer goods, and consumer behavior, as well as marketing and advertising for NPR and Planet Money.
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Tris Elies (gr. Τρεις Ελιές) – wieś w Republice Cypryjskiej, w dystrykcie Limassol. W 2011 roku liczyła 25 mieszkańców.

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Miejscowości dystryktu Limassol

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Q: Helm Chart Definitions for Multi Cluster Codebase I have a project that contains the deployment descriptor files for Kubernetes. This project has a folder structure that looks like this:
> project-deployment
>  - base
>  - dev
>  - production

Inside the base folder, I have the kubernetes deployment files (deployment, service, namespaces etc.,). In the dev and production folder, I have kustomization.yaml that composes everything from the base folder. So far so good. I now want to introduce helm into this so that I can manage my releases much better. My question now is how do I go about structuring my folder structure?
Should I move everything (base, dev and production) folder into templates and just have one Charts.yaml and values.yaml? Any thoughts?

A: The configuration values that you push into your charts should be separate between environments. Build simple extendable charts that can have overrides per environment.
For example, a good workflow would have different value files per environment with specific differences in configuration:
~/myapp
└── config
├── production.yml
└── staging.yml

There are tools that can help you manage that particular use case. For example, consider using orca:

What Orca does best is manage environments. An Environment is a
Kubernetes namespace with a set of Helm charts installed on it. There
are a few use cases you will probably find useful right off the bat.

There are also some examples provided with it.
I also recommend going through the official The Chart Best Practices Guide.


The "Ethical Things" project crowdsources ethical decisions, with disturbing results.
Watch the ethical wisdom of crowds in action and weep for the future of humanity.
Now that we have an "Internet of Things" and devices that make ethical decisions, the next step was bound to be weird. Designer Simone Rebaudengo has created a smart fan with a built-in ethical dilemma: it can only fan one person at a time. To decide who will benefit from its cooling powers, the fan outsources its problem to Mechanical Turk, and the crowd decides which person in the machine's range deserves fanning.
Enlarge / Simone Rebaudengo's smart fan picks a human to focus on based on ethical decision dials and crowdsourcing.
Rebaudengo's invention is an art project called "Ethical Things." Its inspiration came from battlefield robots and autonomous cars, both of which are loaded up with algorithms that help the machines make life-or-death decisions all the time. But what about the more mundane ethical decisions we have to make every day? That's where the fan comes in. "If a 'smart' coffee machine knows about its user's heart problems, should it accept giving him a coffee when he requests one?" asks Rebaudengo. His fan is a humorous way of imagining a future of ordinary connected devices that nevertheless face these kinds of moral dilemmas because they have so much access to data about the humans who own them.
Enlarge / Dial in your preferred system of ethics and get a biased smart fan.
For anyone who has ever traipsed around the Internet, the choices that Rebaudengo offers for belief systems seem rather pointed. Especially when we see what happens in the video above, when a young atheist decides the fan's ethical dilemma by saying it should fan the "thinner" person because, as he puts it, "I don't like fat people." Ah, the ethics of crowds. We truly live in the future.


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When Mark Pearson died in June of a heart attack, the condolences poured in from throughout the state. Everyone from Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad to Iowa farmers and state fair lovers offered words of comfort.
After all, the popular 54-year-old Pearson had been the longtime host of Iowa Public Television's "Market to Market" show and WHO Radio's "The Big Show," in addition to hosting Iowa State Fair programs each year.
People immediately wondered who could possibly replace him on the "Market to Market" show? Who would understand Iowa and the role of agriculture as well?
How about Pearson's son, Mike, a 2010 Simpson College graduate?
"I was really flattered when they asked," Mike Pearson says. "I was kind of blown away. I hadn't really considered it."
The more he thought about it, the more he realized that the show "is kind of the closest thing we have to a family business. Dad had a stock brokerage office, but really the family business was talking to farmers about agriculture. The opportunity to continue that was just too good to pass up."
John Nichols, executive producer of the "Market to Market" series, told the Des Moines Register that Pearson has "substantial knowledge of farming and a keen understanding of rural issues."
He received that education while representing the sixth generation of Pearsons to farm. Mike grew up on the family farm south of Winterset in East Peru.
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He worked for WOI radio in the farm market department from 2005 to 2007, "and that was a nice introduction to the grain and futures market."
He then returned to school, majoring in history at Simpson.
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There are some aspects to the job for which college did not prepare him.
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Flowers takes Center Stage at Maryland Senate Debate
Baltimore, MD - Today, Dr. Margaret Flowers and supporters attended the only televised Maryland Senate debate, held at the University of Baltimore and pre-recorded by WJZ TV. As the debate opened, Kevin Zeese stood up from the audience and asked the Republican and Democratic candidates if they would allow Dr. Flowers to participate. Del. Kathy Szeliga said that she supported Dr. Flowers' inclusion from the start. Congressman Chris Van Hollen was also supportive of her participation.
At that point, Dr. Flowers walked onto the stage and thanked the members for their support. The audience cheered. And Flowers said that she was happy to participate. However, the WJZ anchor asked her to leave the stage. Flowers refused and was removed by police. As she was taken off the stage, Del. Szeliga offered the third podium to Flowers.
Dr. Flowers' personal statement:
"My exclusion means the voters will not know what I stand for and how I compare to the other candidates. While I have obvious differences with Republican views, I also have significant differences with Van Hollen. I am one of only twelve congressional candidates in the nation certified as a clean money candidate[i] while Van Hollen has raised millions of dollars from big business lobbyists on K Street including from the fracking industry, weapons makers and big banks. I call for an Apollo Project to confront climate change and remake our economy into a clean energy economy that would create millions of new jobs while shrinking pollution of our air and water, while Van Hollen relies on the market to fix the problem that they have created. On healthcare, I call for an improved Medicare for all that would cover every person in the United States with comprehensive coverage, no premiums or out-of-pocket costs, Van Hollen calls for minimal reforms despite a 25% increase in premiums. On militarism and foreign conflict, I call for remaking US foreign policy so it favors diplomacy over war and is consistent with international law and human rights, while Van Hollen supports escalation in Syria and Iraq and continued support for Israeli apartheid."
After her removal, several members of the audience stood up to protest her exclusion and were each escorted out by police. The debate proceeded without Dr. Flowers.
Flowers points to advice the United States gives to foreign governments that urges open debates including all candidates. In "Organizing and Producing Debates: An International Guide" the National Democratic Institute recommends up to eight candidates can be included in debates and states that "excluding a number of candidates can open up sponsors to public accusations of discrimination and political bias . . ." The political bias in the United States favors the two big business parties, the Republicans and Democrats, while excluding candidates that do not take money from big business interests.
When the Maryland League of Women Voters was pressed to explain the 15% polling threshold, they placed the blame on WJZ-TV. In an email to a supporter, Ralph Watkins, a Vice President of the Maryland League of Women Voters, wrote, "When co-sponsoring a broadcast forum with limited time available, we recognize that a broadcaster may choose to limit the number of participants based on a desire to cover a wide range of issues while allowing each candidate sufficient time to give a full response." In a time of multiple crises and a race for an open senate seat, it is critical that all valid candidates are included and that the public hears a broad discussion of the issues. Instead of opening the debate, organizers intentionally sought reasons to exclude. Dr. Margaret Flowers explains, "I was initially told that a decision would be made on September 16. At that time I met all of the criteria and would have been invited to participate because there had not been a poll that included me. When the organizers learned that a poll was going to be conducted, they pushed the decision date back to October 14 to see if our campaign would meet the arbitrary 15% threshold that was set by the Maryland League of Women Voters. Given the intentional lack of coverage of my campaign in the commercial media, and without the millions of dollars necessary to gain paid exposure, the 15% threshold is impossible to attain. Conducting polling before the public has been informed of their choices is putting the cart before the horse."
This exclusion is part of a pattern of media preventing the public from hearing the views of smaller, younger political parties. The Baltimore Sun decided from the beginning of Dr. Flowers' campaign to restrict coverage. When pressed to write an article about the campaign, John Fritze opined that the campaign had no chance of winning and failed to articulate the differences between the Flowers campaign and the Democrats running in the primary. Throughout the year, when the Democratic and Republican candidates fought over who took donations from which PAC or corporation, there was no mention that the Flowers campaign takes no corporate or PAC donations. Following a candidate forum at Montgomery College in September, the Washington Post excluded coverage of Dr. Flowers, only mentioning at the very end of a long article that she was running. On October 7, Kojo Nnamdi, a public radio broadcaster, blocked Flowers from debating the Republican and Democrat opponents.
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Associated Press: "Green Party Candidate Crashes Debate in Maryland Senate Race" by Brian Witte
WJZ TV CBS: "Green Party Candidate Interrupts Senate Debate"
Baltimore Sun: "Green Party Candidate Margaret Flowers Storms Van Hollen Szeliga Senate Debate Stage" by John Fritze