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Why it was unlikely Charles Kennedy would defect to Labour
9:45 am - August 22nd 2010
I'm surprised the rumour that Charles Kennedy was going to defect to Labour got as much traction as it did.
It was somewhat ludicrous from the start, though I wouldn't be surprised if Charles Kennedy's team encouraged it. It never fails to surprise me how much Labourites don't understand the Libdems (not that Tories are any better) even on basic issues.
What's is a top issue that Libdems hold close to their hearts? At a guess, I'd say civil liberties rates very highly.
What was Labour's record on civil liberties until May 2010? Abysmal.
And what does Labour say about it now? Here is Alan Johnson in an interview with the Times a few weeks ago:
Mr Johnson, who was Home Secretary until the election, is clearly furious with the younger Miliband brother for suggesting that Labour got the balance wrong on civil liberties. "Well, he never said that in three years sitting around the Cabinet table. I can't think of a single issue on which Labour got the balance wrong on civil liberties."
Although Ed Miliband has called during the leadership contest for identity cards to be scrapped and counter- terrorism measures reviewed, Mr Johnson insists: "When the new Government get the chance to look at exactly what they're facing [from terrorists] I hope they recognise that these measures have been necessary.
This is why it would be absurd for any senior Libdem to join the Labour party. I have a sneaking feeling David Miliband's team won't be campaigning to get ID cards and 90 days back on the agenda despite this bluster.
So, it's unlikely Charles Kennedy and friends would seriously consider defecting to Labour before the leadership election is decided. If Alan Johnson stays as shadow Home Secretary – forget about it.
It's more likely Charles Kennedy wanted to let it be known he was angry that the left of the Libdems were being ignored (as they clearly are). That's why he took so long to quash the rumours.
Libdems can laugh off these rumours as silly season – but I suspect someone was trying to make a point. And it wasn't Ed Miliband.
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1. Value of nothing
hmmm you are outraged by Labour's record on civil liberties but you just joined Labour. I don't think Kennedy was ever going to join Labour but remember that joining a party is always an act of compromise and people often join a party in the hope that it will change.
FWIW I'd be more impressed with the contending Labour leadership hopefuls to read about the Party's new or upcoming "progressive policies" than to see these reports of adolescent tribalistic games.
Charles Kennedy was one of the principal reasons I didn't bother to vote in the 2005 elections. In a BBC Today interview shortly before election day, John Humphrys asked him about joining the Euro. "It was a missed opportunity," CK replied, thereby demonstrating he really didn't understand the issues.
With the then lower interest rates prevailing in the Eurozone, Britain's house price bubble would have been much worse in the absence of government intervention to curb mortgage lending – and CK wasn't proposing any reforms of the regulation of financial institutions and markets.
Frankly, I doubt that anyone would be greatly impressed if CK did defect to Labour.
3. soru
There is one thing that eventually even Lib Dems will come to realise: there is just something fundamentally wrong with any idea of civil liberties that is so entangled with right-wing economics that it serves not to stop things done, but merely to stop things being done with tax-payers money.
4. steveb
In the final analysis, labour, lib dem and tory would intervene in any way to keep the capitalist ship afloat and social control is key to it's maintenence. The information contained on any proposed identity cards is information already known to the state, the only consequence of scrapping the idea is that it appeals to some abstract notion of 'civil liberties'. Charles Kennedy can take his pick, he might even toss a coin to decide, what he'll get is more of the same and so will the voter.
5. paul barker
Well, the story emerged from a Left-Labour source & Ed M was the one who made the most of it. If I thought anyone in your Party had the brains I would have said it was attempt to distract attention from Lord Prescotts speech – "falling membership, verge of Bankruptcy etc".
The Lib Dem left wanted a coalition with Labour to lock the Tories out, preferable for good. Now that hasn't happened toys are beginning to fly out of the pram. As far as they were concerned, a coalition was a great idea as long as it wasn't with the Tories.
7. Richard Blogger
Sure ID cards and 90 days were wrong and there were plenty of people in Labour who said so, but be careful about castigating Labour for its law & order stance.
The LibDems are a middle class party. You only need to look at the Orange Book policies to realise that the only people to benefit are the middle classes. Crime does not affect the middle classes as much as lower income people. The LibDems do not understand the effect of crime on lower income families and in general the LibDems do not have the answer on "civil liberties". We should not look to them as experts in this area. Labour may not have had the complete answer, but they did recognise that anti-social behaviour blighted the lives of people who did not have the money to buy their way away from it.
Take, for example, CCTV cameras. They are popular because they are a deterrent and they do cut crime. A Home Office commissioned survey said that 70% of people wanted them.
Frankly I do not care about LibDem middle class whittering about "civil liberties". I do care about the civil liberties of the country as a whole (hence I am against some of the terrorist laws and ID cards), and I do care about reducing crime. Getting the balance right is never going to be easy, but pandering to a party who only think about the middle classes will not help.
8. Robert
Why would he want to come to New labour, it's more Tory then the concervatives for god sake.
9. George W. Potter
@Richard Blogger
I don't know which Lib Dems you've met but my local party campaigned hard (against the Tory run council's opposition) to get CCTV cameras installed in crime hot spots. They succeeded and in one place (an underpass which hundreds of people had to use to get to Tescos which had seen dozens f violent attacks) the crime rate dropped by over 99%.
We don't have an irrational dislike of CCTV. However, we do have a completely irrational dislike of authoritarian, unjustified things such as ID cards, 90 days detention, control orders, stop and search, RIPA, etc. Those laws did not make us safe, all they did was the state more power which it did not deserve and which was frighteningly open to abuse. How are we protected when people can be locked up for weeks, or confined to their homes on the basis of evidence which they never see and which they can't even defend themselves against? That's protection in the way that the Stasi "protected" people.
And what you miss with CCTV cameras is that there's nothing wrong as long as they're used appropriately. Unfortunately, to Alan Johnson and Co, "appropriate" means nothing more than "wherever we feel like it because we're in charge and we know best".
You overlook an additional dimension (though I think you are correct in the major reasons relating to New Labour illiberalism and the policies upheld directly by the major candidates for the Labour leadership). Were Kennedy ever to have contemplated a transfer of allegiance, the thought of the tight-knit,controlling,hostile, and in pockets, criminally compromised (c.f. Purcell) Scottish Labour apparatus would have put him off.
He'd be going from being a big fish in a smallish pond, to being a medium fish in the larger pond of the nation-wide Labour party, but also to having to swim in the narrower, but unequivocally choppy and dangerous straits of Scottish Labour, where his survival would be less certain.
11. Galen10
@7 Richard Blogger
Following on from George @9, throwing rocks at the LD's (for whom I have never had any time by the way, and have even less now!) for being too "middle class" is a bit rich after 13 wasted years with a crypto Tory "Labour" party in power.
Reducing crime is a laudable aim of course, although I wouldn't say it was on the top of many people's list of concerns in comparison with say the health service, education and the economy. Whilst it is true that poorer people are probably more likely to be the victims of crime, I doubt many would agree that this means ipso facto that the LD's don't have the answer because they are too middle class.
Reducing crime and/or anti-social behaviour can and should be done by devoting more resources to law enforcement, modernising the judicial framework where it seems sensible to do so, and bringing about a more equal society by reducing the disparity between the richest and the poorest.
It should NOT be done by the uncritical acceptance of illiberal, authoritarian measures infringing civil liberties, toadying to the right wing media, and a supine view that the unregulated market knows best. The promotion of all of these things proves that NuLabour were not a party of the left, still less a progressive or radical force in British politics. It would be great if the scales fell from their eyes, and they became such a force, but given the state of the party, and the vacuous bunch of political pygmies fighting for the leadership, I won't be holding my breath.
12. Chris Baldwin
There's no reason for Kennedy, Hughes et al to stay in the Lib Dems. Better they come over to our side and help us gang up on the authoritarian tendency within Labour.
13. Scratch
What's is a top issue that Libdems hold close to their hearts?
That the poor have too much., they're really no different to the other strands of entitled reaction.
Well, personal hygiene issues and a tendency to froth at the mouth excepted.
hmmm you are outraged by Labour's record on civil liberties but you just joined Labour.
Yes, while explicitly saying I didn't like their stance on civil liberties at the last election.
Richard – I don't buy the exaggeration about CCTV either – but I'm not convinced that the 'lock em up and build bigger prisons' approach to crime is useful. See Neil Robertson's various articles on the issue here.
Sunny, how many people in the Labour Party do you think seriously thought Kennedy was going to defect?
Of course Ed M (and a few others) thought he could gain points by playing it up; that doesn't mean he seriously thought it was going to happen.
This was a non-story from start to finish; it just happened it was in all the key actors' (Kennedy, Miliband, the press) interests to pretend it was a story.
The more I think about it, this really should be filed under the "even if it were true, so what?" category.
Kennedy, whilst popular with the rank and file before his leadership imploded, can hardly point to any huge successes in propelling the LD's forward can he? Self-deprecating appearances on "Have I Got News for You" are one thing, but he's not just yesterdays man, he's the man from a few years ago.
His defection may have been an embarrassment for the LD's, but how much good would it have done Labour? If Kennedy HAD seriously thought of defecting, the current state of the Labour party must have given him pause for thought!
Those LD's who are on the left of their party, and feel increasingly queasy about the coalition, would be well advised to keep their powder dry for the firing squad awaiting Clegg and his cronies when the coalition collapses, no?
17. valueofnothing
Indeed Sunny that was my point. I never thought Kennedy would join Labour because he is tribally loyal to the Lib Dems. Your explanation however was civil liberties. I find this a less than convincing explanation as joining a party is an act of compromise.
Odd, really. I never thought about the lib-dems as being a particularly middle-class party 'till well after I joined them. Maybe they are. But loss of civil liberties affects all the other classes as well, oddly enough.
Are little things like the right to protest, a fair trial by jury, and not being locked up in your own house on the say-so of the government really things that only the middle classes might get annoyed about?
I guess all the dumb proles are too busy ranting about immigration to notice, eh.
I guess all the dumb proles are too busy ranting about immigration to notice, eh
Ah, the echt voice of the Liberal Democrat.
Remember back when they still bothered trying to hide it beneath a torrent of unconvincing faux egalitarianism?
20. Derek Young
Kennedy didn't set this hare running, he (and the Lib Dems) were quick enough to describe the rumours as daft. Who does this speculation help? Junior Miliband, who needs more attention if he's to give his brother a run for his money. So, to big-head Ed, I'm happy to report that Labour is almost as far removed as it is possible to conceive from a "natural home" for genuine liberals. Liberals don't believe in saddling future generations with our debts of selfishness. Liberals don't accept that cutting public spending from £700bn to £600bn (i.e. still over £1.14 million for every minute of every day) constitutes a decimation of the public sector or the end of the welfare state. Labour generally believes that the State provides the answer to all problems, while Liberals generally believe that people are more free when the State stops trying to run their lives for them, thank you very much. The Labour high command talk all they like about "fellow progressives" betraying them, but those who they feel betrayed by owe them nothing whatsoever. The betrayal is all in their tiny minds.
21. Makhno
@19: How did you fail to spot @18's sarcasm? It was flagged as obviously as possible without actually putting "(btw that was sarcasm)" after the "dumb proles" comment.
The dismissal of concern with civil liberties as middle class self-indulgence is a standard trick of the authoritarian right; the Tories were doing it for decades before New Labour started, and no doubt will again next time they decide to dismantle a few more hard-won freedoms (this time with LibDem connivance).
The LibDems, of course, *are* an essentially middle class party, but it's not concern with civil liberties and a failure to jump on the anti-immigration bandwagon that makes them so: it's their economic policies.
@19: How did you fail to spot @18?s sarcasm? It was flagged as obviously as possible without actually putting "(btw that was sarcasm)" after the "dumb proles" comment.
Because it's entirely consistent with Lib Dem practice, doctrine and discourse (albeit usually lightly disguised.)
Ranting about "tribalism" as if proles lack legitimate class interests or rudimentary theoretical skills is something of a giveaway ain't it? Perhaps they're joking about that too, the lighthearted japesters.
I understood most of the anti-"tribalism" rants as being about *party* tribalism: i.e. aimed not at the idea that the working class has legitimate and distinct interests, but at the assumption that the modern Labour Party represents those interests. This is a legitimate point in itself, however rich it may sound coming from LibDems.
To clarify further, I suspect the sarcasm @18 was inspired by Richard Blogger @7, who is generally only readable (if you care about things like supporting evidence, absence of baseless, windy assertion etc etc) on the NHS.
Fair play.
Being something of a "tribalist" (and aware of the contents of the yellow book) myself I never considered anyone could think of them as anything other than either daft or malevolent. :o)
Oh, this joint has smileys. Who knew?
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Chris Hedges: No Tyranny in History has Crushed the Human Capacity For Love + Love is the Most Potent Enemy of War
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Originally posted Jan. 26, 2010
with Chris Hedges
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Chris Hedges reads from his book Empire of Illusion at the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Excerpt from pages 197 and 199:
"In Joseph Roth's book The Emperor's Tomb, which chronicles the decay of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he wrote that at the very end of the empire, even the streetlights longed for morning so that they could be extinguished. The undercurrent of a world like ours, where people are reduced to objects and where there are no higher values, where national myths collapse, triggers a similar longing for annihilation and a moral decline into hedonism and giddy, communal madness. The earth is strewn with the ruins of powerful civilizations that decayed—Egypt, Persia, the Mayan empires, Rome, Byzantium, and the Mughal, Ottoman, and Chinese kingdoms. Not all died for the same reasons. Rome, for example, never faced a depletion of natural resources or environmental catastrophe. But they all, at a certain point, were taken over by a bankrupt and corrupt elite. This elite, squandering resources and pillaging the state, was no longer able to muster internal allegiance and cohesiveness. These empires died morally. The leaders, in the final period of decay, increasingly had to rely on armed mercenaries, as we do in Iraq and Afghanistan, because citizens would no longer serve in the military. They descended into orgies of self-indulgence, surrendered their civic and emotional lives to the glitter, excitement, and spectacle of the arena, became politically apathetic, and collapsed."
"But even if we fail to halt the decline, it will not be the end of hope. The forces we face may be powerful and ruthless. They may have the capacity to plunge us into a terrifying dystopia, one where we will see our freedoms curtailed and widespread economic deprivation. But no tyranny in history has crushed the human capacity for love. And this love—unorganized, irrational, often propelling us to carry out acts of compassion that jeopardize our existence—is deeply subversive to those in power. Love, which appears in small, blind acts of kindness, manifested itself even in the horror of the Nazi death camps, in the killing fields of Cambodia, in the Soviet gulags, and in the genocides in the Balkans and Rwanda."
Chris Hedges: Love is the Most Potent Enemy of War
Originally posted August 14, 2011
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Excerpt from the lecture 'War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning' (October 11, 2004 UC Santa Barbara) by Chris Hedges.
"[…] War time always brings with it this comradeship, which is the opposite of friendship.
"Friends, as J. Glenn Gray points out in his book The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle, are predetermined. Friendship takes place between men and women who possess an intellectual and emotional affinity for each other. And many of us will admit that we never really had a friend, and even the most fortunate of us have very few.
"But comradeship, that ecstatic bliss that comes with belonging to the crowd in war time, is within our reach. We can all have comrades. The danger, the external threat that comes when we have an enemy, does not create friendship, it creates comradeship. And those in war time are deceived about what they are undergoing. This is why once the war ends these comrades again become strangers to us. This is why, after war, we fall into despair.
"In friendship, there is a deepening of our sense of self. We become, through the friend, more aware of who we are and what we are about. We find ourselves in the eyes of the friend. Friends probe and question and challenge each other to make each more complete. They draw the secrets out of us and know our inner core of being. For we reach and change others, and we ourselves are changed when we plunge to the depths of our inner life, the depths that expose our insecurities, our incompleteness, those depths that often lie beyond articulation.
"In comradeship, the kind that comes to us in patriotic fervor, there is a suppression of self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-possession. Comrades lose their identities in war time for the collective rush of a common cause, a common purpose. In comradeship, life is ecstatic and corporate, as opposed to friendship, where life is singular and individual.
"In comradeship, Gray reminds us, there are no demands on the self. This is part of its appeal and one of the reasons we miss it and seek to recreate it. This is why once the war is over, once the danger that linked us together is past, these feelings are instantly extinguished.
"Sebastian Haffner, who was a lawyer in Nazi Germany, wrote of this comradeship in his book Defying Hitler. He noted that comradeship destroys the sense of responsibility for oneself, be it civilian or, worse still, the religious sense. Comradeship always sets the cultural tone at the lowest possible level accessible to everyone, he wrote. It cannot tolerate discussion. In the chemical solution of comradeship, discussion immediately takes on the color of whining and grumbling. It becomes a mortal sin. Comradeship admits no thoughts, just mass feelings of the most primitive sort. These, on the other hand, are inescapable. To try and evade them is to put oneself beyond the pale. In war time, when we feel threatened, we no longer face death alone, but as a group. And this makes death easier to bear. We ennoble and self sacrifice for the other, for the comrade. In short, we begin to worship death, and this is what the god of war demands from us.
"Think, finally, of what it means to die for a friend. It is deliberate and painful. There is no ecstasy. For friends, dying is hard and bitter. The dialogue they have and cherish will perhaps never be recreated. Friends do not, the way comrades do, love death and sacrifice. To friends, the prospect of death is frightening and this is why friendship – or let me say, love – is the most potent enemy of war. […]"
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Terror trial: Djermane not guilty, Jamali convicted on explosives charge
'Not a crime to be curious,' defense lawyer says after clients found not guilty on all terrorism charges faced since 2015.
Paul Cherry • Montreal Gazette
Sabrine Djermane, left to right, El Mahdi Jamali and his father leave the courthouse after the pair were acquitted of terror-related charges on Tuesday. Photo by Ryan Remiorz /THE CANADIAN PRESS
Being curious is not a crime.
That is how one of the four lawyers who represented Sabrine Djermane, 21, and El Mahdi Jamali, 20, replied when asked how a jury found their clients not guilty on all of the terrorism charges they had faced since April 2015.
Terror trial: Djermane not guilty, Jamali convicted on explosives charge Back to video
On Tuesday, the jury at the Montreal courthouse found only Jamali guilty on one count, a reduced charge — possession of an explosive substance without lawful excuse — that the presiding judge, Superior Court Justice Marc David, added as an option while he was instructing the jury on Thursday.
Djermane and Jamali were acquitted on the three more serious charges they faced: knowingly participating in or contributing to, directly or indirectly, any activity of a terrorist group for the purpose of enhancing the ability of any terrorist group to facilitate or carry out a terrorist activity; possessing explosive substances with the intention to put lives in danger or cause serious damage to property; and committing a criminal act for the profit of, or under the direction of, a terrorist group by being in possession of an explosive substance.
"I think the jury knew that looking at articles on La Presse or Radio Canada (websites) is not a crime. It is not a crime to be curious about what was going on in Syria," said Tiago Murias, the lawyer who represented Jamali throughout the trial that began in mid-September. "Being curious is not a crime. That was my fundamental position all along."
Djermane's lawyer, Charles Benmouyal, said his client was in tears after she learned she had been acquitted on all four of the charges.
"I'm sure they were tears of joy," Benmouyal said, adding he believed the jury "saw through circumstantial evidence" and could not find concrete proof the couple were planning to travel to Syria to join the terrorist group ISIL.
Benmouyal and Murias were referring to evidence that the couple used laptops and tablets to research material about what was happening in Syria in 2015. Some of the material involved propaganda statements made by known terrorists, but the videos were accessible from sites like YouTube. Other evidence showed the couple had consulted articles or watched videos about ISIL that were available on mainstream media sites.
The Crown had evidence the couple purchased plane tickets to Greece and had reported their passports stolen in order to obtain new ones. In fact, their passports were never stolen but were being kept by the parents of both after several students at Collège de Maisonneuve reportedly left Canada to join ISIL in its efforts to establish an Islamic state. During their bail hearing, Jamali's father said he kept his son's passport in a safe at home. Greece is considered to have been the first destination for many people who sought to join ISIL by travelling to Syria though Turkey. But the Crown had no evidence to prove the couple planned to travel beyond Greece.
In his closing arguments, Benmouyal told the jury the Crown had proved nothing more than that the couple wanted to get married against their parents wishes and planned to travel to Greece. On Tuesday, Murias and Benmouyal confirmed that Djermane and Jamali are still a couple.
"They still love each other," Benmouyal said.
Hours after the jury delivered the verdicts, David sentenced Jamali to the time he has already served awaiting the outcome of his case — the equivalent of a four-year prison term. The couple were then transferred to another courtroom, before Quebec Court Judge Sylvie Durand, where prosecutor Lyne Décarie agreed the couple could be released while they still have a case pending involving a peace bond. The peace bond was the first case filed against the couple as the Crown initially only sought to prevent the couple from leaving Canada. The criminal charges were filed days later, back in April 2015, after search warrants were carried out.
In order to secure their releases on Tuesday, Djermane and Jamali agreed to a series of temporary conditions. They are not allowed to visit websites that promote terrorism or extremist religious ideals. They are also not allowed to visit the Centre communitaire Islamique de l'est de Montréal (also known as the Centre communitaire Islamique Assahaba) on Bélanger St. According to the Quebec business registry, the centre's president is Adil Charkaoui, a controversial imam and an anti-Islamophobia activist.
"It was a suggestion that was made to the defence and they accepted it. I don't want to go into it further," Décarie said when asked by reporters about the condition involving Charkaoui's centre.
The case involving the peace bond will return to court on Jan. 16. The Crown's goal is to convince a judge that the couple should have conditions imposed on them for a fixed period of time (in most cases the period is set at 12 months).
During the couple's bail hearing, held in June 2015, Jamali's father, El Hassan Jamali, described his son as a timid, gentle person. The father also said he brought his family to Canada from Morocco in 2004 in search of a better life.
"When (your children) have reached a certain age, you have to show them the values of Islam, how to pray, to respect others, how to behave because Islam is a religion of tolerance and cohabitation. I immigrated here for the education of my children. It was the primary reason for coming here and, since my youth, I dreamed of living in Canada because of its nature, its politeness. I had seen many documentaries on Canada," Jamali's father said two years ago.
Djermane's family showed up in court after the verdicts were delivered and her father, Mohammed Djermane, wrapped his arms around Benmouyal in the courthouse corridor and gave him a long hug.
During the bail hearing in 2015, the parents of both admitted they were unaware Djermane and Jamali had stopped attending courses at Collège de Maisonneuve weeks before they were arrested on April 14, 2015.
The evidence against Jamali, in terms of being in possession of an explosive substance, appeared to be clear-cut. The Crown presented evidence that he had purchased several items, at a Dollarama, that were part of the ingredients necessary to assemble a pressure-cooker bomb similar to those used in the Boston Marathon in 2013. Jamali had used his own debit card to purchase the items and left everything, including the receipt, in one shopping bag that was found when INSET investigators searched his parents home.
It was more of a challenge for the Crown to convict Djermane on charges related to the pressure-cooker bomb. A step-by-step guide to build the bomb was found on a nightstand in an apartment the couple had begun renting in March 2015. The defence also argued that other common household items from the step-by-step guide that were found inside the condo might have already been there when the couple arrived.
Near the end of his instructions on Thursday, David told the jury that the step-by-step instructions could not be considered an explosive substance. Crown prosecutor Lyne Décarie objected to this vigorously and, on Monday, the jury asked the judge to clarify. Before he answered the question, David discussed the matter, outside of the jury's presence, with Décarie a second time and repeated he still did not agree the guide should be considered an explosive substance. He also joked aloud that the issue "will end up on Wellington St.," a reference to the Supreme Court of Canada and that he expects the Crown to appeal his decision on the step-by-step guide.
On Tuesday, Décarie said the prosecution will go over David's instructions to the jury carefully before deciding whether to proceed with an appeal.
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Discussion in 'Gear & Equipment' started by Bearitone, Aug 11, 2018.
I traded my MXR Reverb for this and don't regret it at all. I traded because the EHX had a lush hall reverb with no modulation which is exactly what I've been looking for. I use this setting almost all the time. I love that I can sweep between full wet and full dry and I love that I can control the pre-delay. I probably won't get another reverb if it doesn't have those features.
There are a few really great modes and settings on this thing but, the Hall, Reverse, and Dyanamic green mode (basically a Slow Gear in front of the verb) are my favorite.
The Dynamic mode mentioned above is really killer. Whatever DSP is inside is pretty intelligent. It still shaves the attack off of individual notes even when you have a chord ringing out. Everything swells in smoothly even if there's a lot going on.
There is SO MUCH packed into this pedal it would take me too long to go over. If you have any questions about a particular mode/setting let me know and I'll give you my honest opinion.
Great reverb. Lush Hall setting. More settings than I'll ever use. Great value for what you get. Eventually I'll cave and get a Blue Sky but, this is great for now.
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Q: Ruby, skip items while looping over an array? Say I have an array like so:
[
  {"timestamp"=>"1", "count"=>4488.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"2", "count"=>4622.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"3", "count"=>4655.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"4", "count"=>4533.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"5", "count"=>4439.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"6", "count"=>4468.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"7", "count"=>4419.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"8", "count"=>4430.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"9", "count"=>4429.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"10", "count"=>4502.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"12", "count"=>4497.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"13", "count"=>4468.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"14", "count"=>4510.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"15", "count"=>4547.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"16", "count"=>4471.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"17", "count"=>4501.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"18", "count"=>4451.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"19", "count"=>4453.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"20", "count"=>4593.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"21", "count"=>4540.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"22", "count"=>4516.0},
  {"timestamp"=>"23", "count"=>4494.0}
]

And I want to loop over it putting every x items in a new array, so like say I wanted to write a method that took an argument something like my_arr.skip(5) or something? I'm a little stuck here, and don't know how to proceed. Any help at all would be hugely appreciated.

A: Enumerable#each_slice is probably what you want:
# it returns an enumerator, so you could look over it and do whatever
> [1, 2, 3, 4].each_slice(2) {|s| puts s.inspect }
[1, 2]
[3, 4]

# or if you're just looking to group into smaller arrays, you could just...
> [1, 2, 3, 4].each_slice(2).to_a
[[1, 2], [3, 4]]

A: If you want to end up with an array of the first five items, an array of the second five items, etc, you want Enumerable#each_slice

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The 2017–18 Scottish Championship (known as the Ladbrokes Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 23rd season in the current format of 10 teams in the second tier of Scottish football. The fixtures were published on 23 June 2017.

Ten teams contested the league: Brechin City, Dumbarton, Dundee United, Dunfermline Athletic, Falkirk, Greenock Morton, Inverness CT, Livingston, Queen of the South and St Mirren.

St Mirren won the league title, and promotion to the Premiership, after a 0–0 draw with Livingston on 14 April 2018.

Brechin City became the first team in 126 years to go through a Scottish league season without a win. Their total of 4 points was the lowest ever recorded in the Scottish second tier, the lowest in the three points for a win era and the joint-lowest in any Scottish division.

Prize money
In April 2018, the SPFL confirmed the prize money to be allocated to the league members at the conclusion of the competitions. The Championship winners would receive £533,000 with a total pot of £24.5 million to be distributed across the four divisions.

Teams
The following teams have changed division since the 2016–17 season.

To Championship

Promoted from Scottish League One
 Brechin City
 Livingston

Relegated from Scottish Premiership
 Inverness Caledonian Thistle

From Championship

Relegated to Scottish League One
Ayr United
Raith Rovers

Promoted to Scottish Premiership
Hibernian

Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League summary

League table

Positions by Round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological progress, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Source:
Updated: 28 April 2018

Results
Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 180 games, with each team playing 36.

First half of season

Second half of season

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Discipline

Player

Yellow cards

Red cards

Club

Yellow cards

Red cards

Attendances

Awards

Monthly awards

Championship play-offs
The second bottom team will enter into a 4-team playoff with the 2nd-4th placed teams in League One.

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

First leg

Second leg

References

Scottish Championship seasons
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Novartis gene therapy for fatal childhood disease delivers strong sales during fourth quarter
By Adam Feuerstein Jan. 29, 2020
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Zolgensma, the Novartis gene therapy for infants and the world's most expensive medicine, continues to perform well commercially, bringing in $186 million during the fourth quarter, topping analyst expectations on Wednesday.
Last June, Novartis secured U.S. approval for Zolgensma as a one-time treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, a rare and deadly neurological disease. It carries a record price tag of $2.1 million, or an annualized cost of $425,000 per year for five years.
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Чайли (, річкова) — село в Ґазахському районі Азербайджану. Розташоване на Гянджа-Ґазахській рівнині.

Назва Чайли походить від річки Джогаз, що протікає поруч. Передбачається, що село заснували мешканці села Гираг Кесемен (Агстафинський район) з роду гизетері. Територія села раніше була місцем зимівлі роду гизетері.

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Situated in Nghe An Province, on the shore of the East Sea with the Cua Lo estuary in the north and the Cua Hoi estuary in the south, Cua Lo Beach is one of the nicest beaches in North Vietnam with its white sand and clear blue water.
Recognised as one of Viet Nam's most beautiful beaches by Vietnam travel, Cua Lo is defined by its natural assets: Cua(estuary), because the Lam River empties into the sea to create a shallow and clear shore, and Lo (jutting), after Lan Chau Island, a long strip that spears the north-east corner of the bay. In the summer, winds from the west mix with sea currents to wield two seasons in a day. The beach becomes packed with tourists during the summer high season.
Just 18km from Vinh, a busy border crossing with Laos, Cua Lo, an up-and-coming coastal resort in central Nghe An Province, is luring domestic travellers from both the north and south. Stretching over 10km, Cua Lo Beach is well known for its smooth sands and sparkling, salty seawater. More and more tourists are coming to the beautiful beach with rows of casuarina and coconut trees. The seawater at Cua Lo is clean and highly salted. Cua Lo is one of the best beaches in Vietnam. Not far from the beach are 3 islands: Hon Ngu, Hon Chu, and Hon Mat with natural and primitive landscape which is very attractive to visitors.
Cua Lo is also famous for its beautiful islands such as Lan Chau, north of Cua Lo, and Song Ngu to the southeast.
Cua Lo is also famous for its beautiful islands such as Lan Chau, north of Cua Lo, and Song Ngu to the southeast. These two islands protect Cua Lo Beach from heavy storms and strong winds coming in from the East Sea. 20km from the beach, the Quynh Nhai Island group is made up of many smaller, picturesque islands. Beachside boat operators service trips to both islands, both of which take about 10 minutes one-way.
Nowadays in Cua Lo, a number of rest houses and hotels, and the modern services system is constructed to meet the need of the travelers. The town's main drag – Binh Minh Street – runs along the beach for 10km. With hotels on one side and a natural casuarina forest on the other, the road remains shady all day. Both sides are under the careful watch of local authorities. The forest serves as a natural barrier against beach erosion, and provide a cool cover for sun-soaked tourists. In an effort to preserve Cua Lo's natural beauty, hotels must be low and stilt houses peak out from behind the tree trunks.
To reach Cua Lo, you can go by ship, train or car. You can take a yacht to go on the Lam River to reach Giang Dinh and visit the homeland of great poet Nguyen Du. In Cua Lo, you can also contemplate the scenery of Hong Linh mountain, visit the tomb of Mai Hac De and Kim Lien village – the motherland of President Ho Chi Minh. Once in Cua Lo, you can visit the islands by boat, climb the mountains, dive, and visit historical and literary sites such as the temple in honor of Nguyen Xi in Nghi Hop Commune, the Trung Kien Pagoda in Nghi Thiet Commune, and the Hoang Van family altar in Cua Lo. From Cua Lo, you can go about 2km west to reach historical and cultural relics that are of special architectural styles. Those include the temple worshipping Nguyen Xi – a talented commander of King Le Loi, the temple worshipping mandarin Nguyen Su Hoi, the Dao Ngu pagoda, and many beautiful places like Quan Tung mountain.
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Julian Casablancas has a new album coming out in 2018 with his band The Voidz and with it comes a slight name change. It's now just The Voidz, no more "Julian Casablancas and the." Explaining the whys of this decision is a short film where Julian and the rest of the band go to the movies to see a schlock-horror flick that also stars the band. It's very meta…and there's also a Mr. Show shout out, but not much in the way of new music. It is, as they say, a tease. Watch that below and stay tuned for more Voidz details.
The Voidz' debut album came out in 2014 and you can stream that below.


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Complete Monster-Marvel Multiverse
Part II of my Complete Monster lists, this time for Marvel ones.
As the name implies, a Complete Monster is a villain who is pure, irredeemably evil, sufficiently heinous in relation to their peers, and bereft of many moments of genuine kindness, compassion, or remorse. There is ultimately nothing sympathetic about these characters, though there is a bit of a divide between the ones who can at least be called "cool", and the ones who just aren't. Either way, they're still pure evil.
1. Adolf Hitler
Besides doing/attempting all of the atrocities his real life counterpart did/attempted, there's also his being even more into the occult and also knowing full well that he's evil and not caring. In fact, he acknowledged that his evil was unmatched and deliberately took in a young Johann Schmidt because he saw in him someone who he could mold into a monster like him (never mind that Schmidt was already one). He's so evil, that the bullets in his gun have enough concentrated evil in them to pierce Doctor Strange's magical barriers!
2. Aldrich Killian
The MCU version, who creates AIM, tests the Extremesis virus on people despite the harmful (and fatal) side-effects, and goes to EXTREME lengths to spite Tony Stark JUST because the guy pulled a mean joke on him once (which does not count as a sympathetic backstory).
3. Annihilus
He tries to kill all life in the universe and actually does manage to destroy quite a few planets.
4. Apocalypse
A genocidal despot who wants to wipe out and/or enslave humanity simply because he views them as inferior.
5. Arcade
Despite being one of Marvel's answers to the Joker, despite killing for sheer enjoyment via putting people in elaborate death traps, despite having no sympathetic backstory...616 Arcade ISN'T this. Reason being that, twisted as he is, he does have a sense of fair play. The Age of X version on the other hand, IS a Complete Monster. Lacking the 616 version's sense of fair play, he kills Mutant prisoners in large numbers at the government's behest and even using another Mutant (Scott Summers) to do it. Yep. So sadistic that he has one Mutant kill others with his own powers against his will.
6. Arnim Zola
Revealed himself to be this during Rick Remender's Captain America run. Basically, once he was in a position of absolute authority over others, he went absolutely off the rails and basically behaved like a true Nazi.
7. Baron Heinrich Zemo
Committed his share of war crimes in World War II, including strangling Polish freedom fighter Citizen V to death, flaying the Human Torch, torturing Captain America and Bucky Barnes with sadistic pleasure, getting an entire German town destroyed, and engineering WMDs for the Nazis. He also became so hellbent on killing Captain America for his disfigurement that he even became willing to sacrifice his own wife and son to achieve the end, not to mention that his treatment of his son caused him to become a supervillain too. And we haven't even gotten to the crimes he committed AFTER World War II...
8. Baron Strucker
Including in "Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes". This is a dude who was overjoyed by his own son's death and once blew up a base that had thousands of his own men it. And of course he's a Nazi.
9. Barracuda
Even with a Freudian Excuse, the MAX version is still sufficiently deplorable that he nevertheless fits this.
10. Bastion
A sadistic being who has relished manipulating and destroying mutants and seeks to wipe them all out. And unlike other Sentinels, who are only following their programming, Bastion has human-level sentience and emotions and therefore knows full well that what he's doing is evil. And he doesn't care.
11. Beast
Age of Apocalypse version, in contrast to the lovable regular Beast. Think Mr. Sinister in Beast's body.
12. Black Widow
The Ultimate Marvel universe version who murders Hawkeye's family, frames Captain America for it, helps an army of supervillains invade America, and murders Jarvis and mocks Tony's loss. Her death at Hawkeye's hands was incredibly deserved and satisfying.
13. Bullseye
A sadistic mass murderer who shows no remorse for killing his targets and even just people who get in his way. Also tortured Spider-Man during Dark Reign with relish and murdered the Sentry's girlfriend (also with relish). The MAX version is also a Complete Monster.
Cancerverse version, in contrast to the heroic and noble mainstream version.
15. Carnage
Just to drive this home, this guy was serving ELEVEN consecutive life sentences for mass murder BEFORE getting a symbiote.
16. Cassandra Nova
Committed mutant genocide when she destroyed Genosha and in the process got a bodycount numbering in the millions.
17. Deadpool
Though normally a lovable (if not also completely insane and mildly psychotic) goofball, in the Ultimate Marvel universe he's a sadist who hunts and kills mutants on live TV...for being mutants. There's also the version from "Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe" and the sequels to that story.
18. Doctor Octopus
Normally a very sympathetic villain, the Spider-Man Noir version, who is a Nazi scientist that hates black people and kidnaps and tortures and experiments on them, is very much this.
19. Donald Pierce
One of many violent anti-Mutants who, like the Purifiers, prefers to target Mutant children who are too weak to fight back. Only time he's ever engaged the X-Men in anything resembling a fair fight is when he's got a lot of people helping him. So, he's not just a racist, elitist jerk, he's also a coward who goes after children instead of adults.
20. Dormammu
Wants to destroy and then remake the universe in his image, namely as an endless torture camp dedicated to the "glory" of himself. He's also tried to wipe out human life a couple times now.
21. Eddie Brock
The Spider-Man: Reign version, who is known as "Edward Saks" rather than Eddie Brock.
22. Fabian Cortez
Not the Marvel Zombies version actually, but the 616 version is.
23. Glenn Talbot
The version seen in a Hulk video game that is meant to be part of the MCU but is also Non-Canon. Nevertheless, that video game's version of Talbot is a Complete Monster.
24. Green Goblin
Typically portrayed as one, being an abusive and uncaring parent to Harry Osborn and also a sadistic mass murderer, not to mention making Mary Jane give birth to a stillborn baby. In Dark Reign he puts together a twisted crew of psychos, helps drive Sentry off the deep end, and tortures Spider-Man at one point.
25. Hyperion
In Avengers Assemble it is revealed that he destroyed his own planet for rejecting him and when the Avengers oppose him he not only tries to kill them, but he tries to outright murder an innocent child just for standing up to him. Yes, he claims to be well-intentioned, but it's clear based on his above actions that he's just a petty, genocidal hypocrite.
26. Iron Monger
When his father killed himself playing Russian Roulette, rather than be devastated by it, Obadiah Stane instead decided that his father was a fool who left too much to chance and thus "deserved" death. He also believed that life was a game to be won no matter the cost, and so went out of his way to destroy Tony Stark's life, and also tried to kill a baby at one point. Yeah.
27. Kingpin
The MAX version, who is even more brutal and sadistic than his 616, Ultimate, and especially MCU counterparts and also lacking the sympathetic qualities and traits of both. No sophisticated Affably Evil crime boss here.
28. Madame Hydra
Sometimes, depending on the writer. The 616 version ultimately bounces back from this, and seems to (arguably) have genuine feelings for both Silver Samurai and Spider-Woman (different kind of feelings mind you).
29. Maestro
Evil Hulk from an alternate future who rules it with an iron fist and killed all other superheroes. Granted, he does try to invoke a sympathetic backstory, but whether or not he actually has one isn't clear.
30. Magneto
Ultimate Marvel version, who flooded New York City and killed scores of people (including most of the X-Men), views humans as insects that need to be exterminated (reminiscent of Apocalypse and the Nazis both), breaks his son's legs for questioning him, and was also responsible for crippling Charles Xavier when the latter realized he was crazy. Even his normally sympathetic backstory of being a Holocaust survivor does not apply here, as Ultimate Magneto was raised in America, and never experienced the Holocaust.
31. Malekith
So vile that even his fellow Dark Elves hate him. Oh, and he's a cannibal. In addition, the Omnicidal Maniac version from the MCU also fits this, as does the version from the non-canon Thor video game.
32. Mephisto
Quite obviously
33. Mr. Sinister
Marvel's resident mad scientist and expert in unethical experiments. Is also sometimes shown to be in cahoots with Apocalypse, including in the Age of Apocalypse reality.
34. Mysterio
Francis Klum version in "Old Man Logan" where he tricks Wolverine into killing all of the X-Men by making him think they're supervillains attacking the X-Mansion.
35. Nighthawk
In the Avengers Assemble cartoon. Why they felt the need to make this particular hero a Complete Monster is beyond me, but he is one non-the-less, being a surprisingly dark and ruthless villain for such a juvenile kid show. Ultimately, his thoughts on his own teammates sums it up:
"They were tools"
36. Nitro
Destroyed Stamford, killing 612 innocent people (60 of whom were children), an act that touched off the Superhero Civil War and Registration Act nonsense. And even before that, he was prone to killing innocent people during his acts of mercenary work for other villains, and he also tried to rape Dakota North at one point, which horrified even another villain he was with.
37. Omega Red
Just to drive this home, the man slaughtered an entire town of people BECAUSE HE WAS BORED ONE DAY. And that was BEFORE becoming a supervillain.
38. Purple Man
616 and MCU versions, both of whom are serial rapists, and with the latter one having a boatload of other sick, disgusting, and perverse crimes to his name as well, including being a self-made orphan.
39. Red King
An alien tyrant vaguely reminiscent of Commodus from Gladiator who several times destroys entire villages full of innocent people using his sadistic inventions known as "The Spikes", which also among other things killed Caiera the Oldstrong's entire family, including her kid brother. His death is pretty well-deserved.
40. The Red Skull
One of Marvel's most notorious examples of this, to the point that many other supervillains want absolutely nothing to do with him, but that's what happens when you have Adolf Hitler as a father figure. His portrayal as a Complete Monster extends to his infamous Ultimate Marvel universe counterpart, and to his MCU counterpart as well.
41. Ronan the Accuser
The MCU version, who murdered Drax's wife and daughter (and invokes the "But for me it was Tuesday" trope), has slaughtered other children and families, and tried to destroy the planet Xandar using one of the Infinity Gems, also having his ships suicide-bomb the city prior to his landing on the surface. The actor who played him even outright described the character as a monster.
42. Sabretooth
Another utter sadist and mass murderer (and also a cannibal, rapist, and card-carrying villain), who represents what Wolverine would ever become if he lost control of the beast within.
43. Scorpion 2099
The version that was Venom 2099 rather than Scorpion, who was a sadistic psychopath that as a child was guilty of extreme physical bullying and attempted rape and as an adult had an MO of murdering entire families with only one survivor. As Scorpion 2099 however he's a more tragic villain.
44. Sebastian Shaw
The movie version, who was affiliated with the Nazis for a time, tortured a young Magneto, murdered his mother, murders Darwin, and tried to start a nuclear World War III. Also the Wolverine and the X-Men version, who tried to unleash the Phoenix Force on the world for no apparent reason.
45. Selene
Has drained people dry of their life force over countless millennia to keep herself going because she's an egomaniac with a god complex who desires immortality. She's repeatedly murdered loyal followers that have outlived their usefulness, took advantage of a man who was attracted to her and turned him into a villain and her pawn (before then killing him), and also once tried to drain the entire population of Rome. And of course, she's an absolute sadist who's quite fond of taunting her victims before killing them.
46. Shadow King
Besides the 616 version, there's also the Wolverine and the X-Men version, who tries to trick Storm into using her powers to destroy her own people.
47. Shuma-Gorath
A lovecraftian horror and Omnicidal Maniac
48. Supreme Intelligence
In Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes due to being responsible for every bad thing the Kree Empire does by virtue of being their leader and well...supreme intelligence. And to the bad things in question, the EMH Kree are essentially a bunch of Space-Nazis who try to wipe out all life on Earth multiple times just because they view humanity as insubordinate inferiors. They also performed cruel unethical experiments on Michael Korvac, which drove him mad and caused him to become a supervillain. They also attempt similar experiments on the Avengers. Iron Man explicitly refers to the Kree here as monsters. And again, as the Supreme Intelligence, this guy who thus be accountable for every bad thing his empire does, or at least enough of it to qualify as a CM.
49. Surtur
In both 616 and EMH, him and his fire demons destroyed Beta Ray Bill's galaxy and almost wiped out his people.
50. Trevor Fitzroy
Murdered the original Hellions (who were teenagers), which also caused Emma Frost to become even more of an Ice Queen than ever.
51. Ultron
While the MCU and EMH versions tried to go for slightly (and I stress, slightly) more sympathetic portrayals, that doesn't change the fact that the 616 version is absolutely this. Being a sentient android he is indeed accountable for his atrocities, and he is not a well-intentioned extremist but rather a mechanical sociopath who has contempt for organic life and so seeks to eradicate it. And, he went on a killing spree across Europe at one point.
52. Vulture
The Noir version, who's a cannibal and was also Uncle Ben's killer in that Marvel Universe. In Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions he threatens his men with death if they can't stop Spider-Man and also has no problem endangering innocent civilians to slow him down.
53. William Stryker
The founder and leader of the Purifiers, he is thusly responsible for every bad thing they do. Both he and his group are a bunch of bigoted, holier-than-thou child-murdering fanatics who want to wipe out all mutants just because they don't like them, all the while hiding behind religion and using it as a cheap justification. Stryker personally does that last one, refusing to take even a shred of responsibility for his atrocities and just claiming he's an "instrument of the lord". Oh, and he also murdered his own son when he realized he was a Mutant, and then murdered his own wife for giving birth to a Mutant. And, to top it all off, he also murdered one of his most loyal minions the moment she was revealed to be a Mutant without even knowing it herself.
There's also his movie version, who tries to kill every mutant on the planet because he views them as a disease and was fine was testing his machine on innocent children.
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Getting into Gear: Team Gear Shifters of Columbia University Present as Finalists in UNICC Data for Good Hackathon
Posted on 9 July, 2021 | by Ha Young Kwon
The UNICC Data for Good: Global Hackathon demonstrated a dedication to the organization's partnerships with academic institutions, including competitive universities where bright minds of today gather to solve tomorrow's problems.
This was true for Columbia University students Archit Matta, Plaksha Kapoor, Saloni Gupta Ajay Kumar, Tushar Agrawal and Yosha Singh Tomar, who are studying for Master's degrees in Data Science and Business Analytics. The six students knew one another through university courses and had participated in hackathons in the past, including ones geared towards relevant social issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Driven by the prospect of building models from actual data representing the realities of people around the globe – and to develop solutions towards the UN mandate – the students entered the UNICC Global Hackathon, with the team name Gear Shifters.
UNICC's Global Hackathon: Data for Good took place on Tuesday, 16 February 2021 with an introduction from the organization's executive leadership, with a global audience of UNICC and other UN organization staff members, university representatives and over 140 students.
Following introductory remarks from UNICC's Director Sameer Chauhan and Ninna Roco, Chief of Digital Business Solutions, Anusha Dandapani, Chief of Data Analytics, introduced the three challenges of the hackathon: COVID-19 Open Challenge, Refugee Crisis: Predict Forced Displacement, and the UN75 Visualisation Challenge.
Team Gear Shifters opted for Challenge 2: Refugee Crisis: Predict Forced Displacement to build a solution for their final presentation. They began by introducing their data sources: World Bank Group and UNHCR quantitative data on factors such as countries' currency exchange rates, crisis- related deaths, population densities, life expectancies, GDP per capita – as well as news outlets such as the New York Times for qualitative data on the usage of words in articles written in the last 20 years pertaining to forced displacement and refugee crises.
With their data, the team developed several visualisations to tie key factors into a model for building out challenge solution. As an example, heat maps demonstrated correlations between Afghanistan's and Iraq's input factors on forced displacement. As shown below, the team presented several insights, such as a positive correlation between crisis-related deaths, asylum seekers and internally displaced people (IDPs) for Afghanistan as well as a negative correlation between exchange rates with internal displacement, asylum seekers and refugees for Iraq.
Photo: UNICC
For their final model, Gear Shifters presented two different approaches: a multiple time series forecasting using an XGBOOST regressor and a time series model using exponential smoothing. From both modelling approaches, the team compared their performance based on each key factor's R^2 value, which measures how well the dependent variable variance is accounted for, to discover that their model using exponential smoothing and random forest regressor was the most effective.
To further solidify their findings, the team evaluated their time series forecasting and stock prediction evaluation with favorable results by calculating the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE).
Gear Shifter solutions determined, based off their sample model using data from Afghanistan and Iraq, that the key characteristics that determine a country's prediction of forced migration are mortality rate, life expectancy, population density and battle related deaths.
The team's findings aligned with UNHCR's recent report that the current upward trends in violence in Afghanistan is one of the major causes of forced refugee migration. To demonstrate the effectivity of the model, the team conducted a thorough case study of Syria: they began with a timeline of the Syrian conflict that measured the total number of Syrian refugees, asylum seekers and IDPs.
The team then cross-examined the course of the conflict and the output of their predictive migration model which reiterated the validity and reliability of their final model solution.
The extensive process of posing correct questions, researching data sets, cleaning the data, building the final model and evaluating its effectiveness came paid off when the team's presentation was selected as one of the six finalist teams to present in front of esteemed UN judges.
Following the Gear Shifter presentation, many of the judges were impressed at the comprehensive structure and depth of the solution and posed many questions regarding ways to take their research further, such as how to take natural disasters into consideration in the forced displacement predictions.
In an interview after the Hackathon, the team noted that though there were challenges in gathering "real" data to construct a sophisticated model within the limited time frame, the opportunity to participate in contributing a tool that deals with one of the world's greatest social causes was invaluable.
"We want to thank the mentors and their feedback as we corrected and refined our presentation. Participating in the Global Hackathon: Data for Good was unique and inspiring on many levels but most significantly because we, both as a team and as a data-backed community for the UN mission, rise by lifting others."
Team Gear Shifters
Team Gear Shifter involvement in the UNICC Global Hackathon supports the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly SDG 4: Quality Education, and SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure.
This article is part of a series of stories from the first UNICC Global Hackathon: Data for Good that took place in February 2021. The hackathon drew registrations from a total of 140 students from 54 universities located in 13 countries around the globe, all of whom came together to tackle three major UN related challenges: COVID-19 Open Challenge, Refugee Crisis: Predict Forced Displacement, and the UN75 Visualisation Challenge. To learn more about this successful event and its wonderful finalists, please refer to this article here.
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Heel of the Boot: University of Salento Team Wins Global Challenge on Predicting Refugee Forced Displacement
Posted on 30 March, 2021 | by Ha Young Kwon
In February, two professors at the University of Salento received notice of UNICC's Global Hackathon: Data for Good. As professors at a university proudly supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Antonella Longo, Professor of Data Management & Big Data Management for Decision Making, and Gianluca Elia, Professor of Digital Business, came together to encourage a group of students spanning hundreds of miles, from Italy to Austria, to participate as a data hackathon team.
The students – Enrico Coluccia, Francesco Russo, Riccardo Caro, Giulia Caso, Gianmarco Girardo, Marco Greco and Chiara Rucco – may not have known each other, but they demonstrated a common interest in data science in the context of international humanitarian crises. The students registered as 'Heel of the Boot,' referring to the location of Salento University in Italy, and, within several days, successfully constructed the winning solution to the Hackathon challenge on Refugee Crisis: Predict Forced Displacement.
The team we created is characterised by an interdisciplinary profile with vertical and complementary skills such as machine learning, data modelling, data visualisation and innovation management. Beyond this, remarkable empathy flew among us: a creative working group was born.
Team Heel of the Boot
UNICC's Global Hackathon: Data for Good took place on Tuesday, 16 February 2021, with a global audience of UNICC and other UN organizations' staff members, university representatives and over 140 students.
Following the introductory remarks from UNICC's Director Sameer Chauhan and Chief of Digital Business Solutions Ninna Roco, Anusha Dandapani, Chief of Data Analytics, introduced the three challenges of the hackathon: COVID-19 Open Challenge, Refugee Crisis: Predict Forced Displacement and the UN75 Visualisation Challenge.
Heel of the Boot chose the Refugee Crisis: Predict Forced Displacement challenge and wasted no time in launching their data pipeline. The team began to build their solution by discussing which questions would bear answers that were most pertinent to the challenge.
Credit: UNICC
Amidst the obstacles of virtual engagement and time restrictions, team members sought the meaning of potential models' features in regard to the related correlations and trends. It was during this data pre-processing phase, "the most complicated and time consuming in order to avoid the 'garbage in, garbage out' effect," that the team developed a synergy to carry through their time together.
The different and complementary skills of each team member were precious, and each team members' comments allowed us to adequately investigate the diverse aspects and issues related to the challenge.
Following the selection of the features of their model, Heel of the Boot could integrate data sources into a final data set. With the use of one hot-encoding technique among other efforts to ensure the quality of their data, the team's final data set consisted of about 300 data entries, each representing a specific year, an origin country and a destination country.
They next analysed their data by adopting various machine learning models for multiple regression, using 80% of the data for training the model and 20% for testing. Through this process, the team chose Random Forest Regressor to illustrate and prioritise a level of interpretability in their findings. In addition, the team came up with supplemental predictive data models and other data analyses to contextualise potential causal outcomes.
Team Heel of the Boot's final presentation, which married their models' findings and background analyses, produced impressive results. Out of various concluding predictions, one most notable findings were predictions of Sudan, Sweden, Afghanistan and Ukraine as the primary countries of origin for refugees by 2024. Their presentation brought questions from the judges on the inclusion of Sweden as an outlier result. To these inquiries, team member Francesco Russo explained that "this seemingly reliable model we built is pointing towards some other influence, apart from the main factor of political instability that is shown in the other examples, that has the power to change the course of future predictions."
"If a model only reflects what we already know from the past, then it is not a model."
Francesco Russo, Team Heel of the Boot
Team Heel of the Boot described their Hackathon experience as a surprising experience for not only the cohesiveness and coherence of a disparate team that yielded impressive results, but also the underlying philosophy in using skills in data for the betterment of lives on an international scale.
The students hope to expand upon their research by incorporating more data to build more sophisticated predictive models in future Hackathons and other educational endeavors.
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When I heard the 2017 CFL schedule was coming out on Tuesday, I vowed not to be yet another fan griping about a schedule that is less than perfect. There is no perfect schedule (except maybe the one on your PVR). Yes, there will be mid-week games that make road trips difficult. Yes, there will be tight clusters of games with frankly not enough rest for the players. Yes, there are aspects of the schedule that will not appeal to every Redblacks fan. For better or worse, these things are more or less par for the course.
That being said, there is one concern for me that warrants more attention and outrage than it appears to be receiving and that is the Redblacks having to wait until week 18 for their first bye week. Don't get me wrong – I've heard complaints. Mostly from the fan's perspective of potentially having only one game in 37 days should the Redblacks clinch the East, motivated in part by having no football to watch, and by the concern that long breaks are momentum busters. However, my issue is less about the lack of football around the end of the season, and more about the risks that 17 straight weeks of football pose to the health and safety of the players.
Putting aside the concussion debate, football is a grueling, physically demanding, full contact (on every play) sport. We already know some unlucky players will have season-ending (even career-ending) injuries each year, and very few players will make it through an entire season without a significant injury (requiring surgery, therapy, etc). Yes, they sign on to put their bodies and health at risk and they know and accept that any given play could be their last. But no athlete is a robot, no matter how much they're paid. Bye weeks are essential for the physical and mental health recovery they provide, and denying the players that dearly needed rest while requiring more and more physical output is a recipe for serious injury.
I recognize there are some weeks with long stretches between games, and that is fair enough. But would you consider working from home the equivalent to having a day off? Of course you wouldn't, because even if you're home wearing your PJs instead of your pumps (or suit and tie, as the case may be), you're still doing your job. You're not watching Netflix or running errands or spending quality time with your family and children (And let's remember for most players their families are not with them in Ottawa). Likewise, having a couple extra days between practice does not a bye week make.
As many have noted, the Redblacks are not the first CFL club to have to deal with such a schedule quirk. Calgary went 15 weeks between byes last season, for example. So it may be an unfortunate standard practise of a nine-team league. And not being a player myself, maybe I grossly overestimate the importance of bye weeks for the health and recovery of these athletes. However, if this is a valid concern I'd encourage CFL players and the CFL Players Association to do what it can to address player safety in future collective bargaining agreements, if not this current one. The league and TSN aren't going to do it for you.
Or we can just ignore it and go back to worrying about who has the most inconvenient mid-week games.


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Q: How to read data from file in c++ I am writing this code because of my project. I want to do person will select his/her decisions for example He want to read History books with 10-50  dollars and 100-200 pages and my program shows History books with in 10-50 dollars ranges and 100-200 pages in ranges. I write data about books in text file but how can i read and compare please help me.
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

class BookShop{

protected:
    int usertema;
    int userfiyat;
    int usersayfaaraligi;

public:
    int tur;

    void Karsilama(){
        cout<<"Hosgeldiniz secmek istediginiz türü seciniz"<<endl;
        cout<<"1:modern klasik \n 2:Turkedebiyati \n 3:Dunyaklasigi";
        cin>>tur;
    }

};

class ModernKlasik:public BookShop{
public:
    ModernKlasik()
    {
        cout<<"Aradiginiz kitap temasi nedir?";
        cout<<"\n1:Korku\n2:Aşk\n3:Sevgi\n4:Dram\n5:Kahramanlık\n";
        cin>>usertema;
        cout<<"Sayfa sayisi?:";
        cout<<"\n1:[0-50]\n2:[50-100]\n3:[100-200]\n4:[200-300]\n5:[400-500]\n6:[500+]";
        cin>>usersayfaaraligi;
        cout<<"Bir fiyat araligi giriniz:";
        cin>>userfiyat;
        if(userfiyat>=0 && userfiyat<=50){
             cout<<userfiyat<<endl;
        }
    }

    void fonksiyon1(){

    ofstream myFile1("Modernklasik.txt");
    myFile1<<"Kitap1:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=50,Fiyat=6 TL,Adý=Mecburiyet(Stefan Zweig)"<<endl;
    myFile1<<"Kitap2:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=70,Fiyat=8 TL,Adý=Feniçka(Lou Andreas-Salome)"<<endl;
    myFile1<<"Kitap3:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=74,Fiyat=8 Tl,Adý=Ayýþýðý Sokaðý(Stefan Zweig)"<<endl;
    myFile1<<"Kitap4:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=108,Fiyat=11 TL,Adý=Vahþetin Çaðrýsý(Jack London)"<<endl;
    myFile1<<"Kitap5:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=150,Fiyat=20 TL,Adý=Hayvan Çiftliði(George Orwell)"<<endl;
    myFile1<<"Kitap6:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=256,Fiyat=15 Tl,Adý=Karmaþýk Duygular(Stefan Zweig)"<<endl;
    }
};

class Turkedebiyati:public BookShop{
public:
    Turkedebiyati()
    {
        cout<<"Aradiginiz kitap temasi nedir?";
        cout<<"\n1:Korku\n2:Aşk\n3:Sevgi\n4:Dram\n5:Kahramanlık\n";
        cin>>usertema;
        cout<<"Sayfa sayisi?:";
        cout<<"\n1:[0-50]\n2:[50-100]\n3:[100-200]\n4:[200-300]\n5:[400-500]\n6:[500+]";
        cin>>usersayfaaraligi;
        cout<<"Fiyat araligi?:";
        cout<<"\n1:[0-10]TL\n2:[10-20]TL\n3:[20-50]TL\n4:[50-75]TL\n5:[75-100]TL\n6:[100+]TL";
        cin>>userfiyat;
    }

    void fonksiyon2(){
    ofstream myFile2 ("Turkedebiyati.txt");
    myFile2<<"Kitap1:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=409,Fiyat=20 TL,Adý=Çalýkuþu(Reþatnuri Gültekin)"<<endl;
    myFile2<<"Kitap2:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=164,Fiyat=5 TL,Adý=Kürk Mantolu Madonna(Sabahattin Ali)"<<endl;
    myFile2<<"Kitap3:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=112,Fiyat=8 Tl,Adý=Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koðusu(Peyami Safa)"<<endl;
    myFile2<<"Kitap4:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=112,Fiyat=5 TL,Adý=Vatan Yahut Silistre(Namik Kemal)"<<endl;
    myFile2<<"Kitap5:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=300,Fiyat=10 TL,Adý=Eylül(Mehmet Rauf)"<<endl;
    myFile2<<"Kitap6:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=195,Fiyat=12 Tl,Adý=Kýrmýzý Sacli Kadin(Orhan Pamuk)"<<endl;
    }

};

 class Dunyaklasikleri:public BookShop{
 public:
     Dunyaklasikleri()
     {
        cout<<"Aradiginiz kitap temasi nedir?";
        cout<<"\n1:Korku\n2:Aşk\n3:Sevgi\n4:Dram\n5:Kahramanlık\n";
        cin>>usertema;
        cout<<"Sayfa sayisi?:";
        cout<<"\n1:[0-50]\n2:[50-100]\n3:[100-200]\n4:[200-300]\n5:[400-500]\n6:[500+]";
        cin>>usersayfaaraligi;
        cout<<"Fiyat araligi?:";
        cout<<"\n1:[0-10]TL\n2:[10-20]TL\n3:[20-50]TL\n4:[50-75]TL\n5:[75-100]TL\n6:[100+]TL";
        cin>>userfiyat;
      }

      void fonksiyon3(){
      ofstream myFile3 ("Dunyaklasikleri.txt");
      myFile3<<"Kitap1:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=592,Fiyat= TL,Adý=Suç ve Ceza(Dostoyevski)"<<endl;
      myFile3<<"Kitap2:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=393,Fiyat= TL,Adý=Savaþ ve Barýþ(Tolstoy)"<<endl;
      myFile3<<"Kitap3:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=464,Fiyat= Tl,Adý=Ýki þehrin hikayesi(Charles Dickens)"<<endl;
      myFile3<<"Kitap4:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=184,Fiyat= TL,Adý=Ýnsancýklar(Dostoyevski)"<<endl;
      myFile3<<"Kitap5:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=128,Fiyat= TL,Adý=Fareler ve Ýnsanlar(John Steinbeck)"<<endl;
      myFile3<<"Kitap6:Tema= ,Sayfa sayisi=240,Fiyat= Tl,Adý=Romeo ve Juliet(William Shakespeare)"<<endl;
      }

};

int main()
{
    BookShop b1;

    b1.Karsilama();

    if(b1.tur==1)
    {
        ModernKlasik m1;
        m1.fonksiyon1();

    }
    if(b1.tur==2)
    {
        Turkedebiyati t1;
        t1.fonksiyon2();
    }
    if(b1.tur==3)
    {
        Dunyaklasikleri d1;
        d1.fonksiyon3();
    }
    return 0;
}


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Nabarangpur: An under trial prisoner (UTP) lodged at Umerkote sub-jail died while undergoing treatment at the district headquarters hospital (DHH) here today.
The deceased has been identified as Deba Majhi of Rahaspara village under Raighar block in the district.
Sources said Majhi was arrested under Section 302 of the IPC for allegedly killing a relative and sent to Umerlkote Sub-jail four months ago. Last evening, Majhi fell ill and was first admitted to a hospital in Umerkote. He was later shifted to Nabarangpur DHH after his condition worsened.
However, he died at the hospital this morning.


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Citice (Duits: Zieditz) is een gemeente in de Tsjechische regio Karlsbad. De gemeente ligt op 420 meter hoogte aan de rivier Eger, twee kilometer ten zuidwesten van de districtshoofdstad Sokolov. De gemeente bevindt zich aan de noordelijke voet van het natuurgebied Slavkovský les.

Naast het dorp Citice zelf behoort ook het dorp Hlavno tot de gemeente. Citice en Hlavno hebben allebei een spoorwegstation aan de lijn van Sokolov naar Kynšperk nad Ohří.

Geschiedenis
De eerste schriftelijke vermelding van het dorp, Czyticz genoemd in die tijd, stamt uit het jaar 1360.

Sinds de 19e eeuw wordt er bruinkool gewonnen rond het dorp.

Gemeente in Sokolov


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The Ruined City campaign book is just around the corner and so we thought we'd give you a quick look inside the book.
And to start off, the Ruined City and the rest of the Ruined Man campaign books are not simply just campaign books. While they will take you on the journey following the destruction caused by the Ruined Man, the books will also serve as a primer for the Grand City of Middelburg. Everything you could every possibly have wanted to know about you will be able to find in the Ruined Man books. Just as it takes you through the Ruined Man story, it will take you through the city.
Each book will take a look at different parts of the city and break them down by districts to give you a good look at each part of the city. Every district will have a map showing where in the city it is as well as some interesting locations to visit. Not every single building in the city will be shown, clearly, but by the end of the campaign there will be hundreds of unique locations highlighted across the city for you to venture to and explore.
Not only will you be shown every piece of the city, you will be given an indepth tour of every location. You will be able to see the history and character of every major building and structure in the city so that by the end of the campaign you will know Middelburg better than your own home town. Every description of each structure will give you more than enough to be able to use these locations in your own adventures in the city.
Every mission in the campaign will be tracked alongside every district, so that you will be able to explore and interact with each district in the campaign as you read about them, and bringing the city to life in a way that words alone never can.
But enough about history and geography, this is a campaign after all! The campaign will be divided up into missions for the PCs to perform, and within these missions the PCs will come more into contact with the horror occurring in the city and the monster that stalks in the shadows.
Every mission is written with the GM in mind. It's all about making your life that much easier so that every mission feels as "real" as possible. Every mission is structured so as to give you background on what did happen, what is happening and what will (most likely) happen. We give you an overview of each mission and then break up the mission into several scenes to compartmentalise the action into manageable chunks for you.
You will also find full Skill listings, equipment and runic arrays for each NPC in every mission so that you are never caught unprepared for what the players might throw at you.
And of course, every major location in each mission will come with a few maps to make it easier for both you and the players to know what's going on and how to proceed. Each map is designed to give you as much necessary information as possible while keeping it vague enough so that you can fill in the details yourself. We don't want you GMs to feel constrained in these missions and in fact we have gone to great lengths in every part of every mission to give you as much freedom as possible so that you can tailor each mission to yours and your players' play styles.
Of course these five pages are only the merest fraction of what you can find waiting inside the Ruined City. Stay tuned because it will be out in less than three weeks!