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GitHub wants AI to help developers code | Industry
By onlyinfotech On Oct 18, 2018 0
GitHub is used by more than 30 million developers around the world and hosts repositories for some of the biggest ML-driven open source projects on the planet, but is perhaps less well known for the creation of AI-driven tools to help them do their jobs. That's starting to change.
VentureBeat sat down with GitHub senior data scientist Omoju Miller to talk about how one of the biggest homes for developers online is performing applied machine learning research to create more AI-driven services.
At the GitHub Universe conference Tuesday, a number of major upgrades were made to GitHub and GitHub Enterprise services for businesses. Miller also spoke during the keynote address about Experiments, a new GitHub initiative to explore the use of AI and machine learning meant for developers.
The first Experiments prototype named Semantic Code Search launched last month.
This interview was edited for brevity and clarity.
VentureBeat: Is Experiments entirely AI focused or more of a place for experiments happening internally at GitHub to be shared with the community?
Miller: For right now it's probably mostly AI focused as something that's happening within platform.
Our first experiment is Semantic Code Search.
There are other prototypes we're going to be bringing to the platform. We haven't decided yet what things we want to work on. I mean, we're working on several, but which ones we want to bring next? It's going to be a series of maybe like two, three, four of them a year. It's just published, applied research like this is what we're doing right now.
VentureBeat: GitHub is a unique organization with a lot of knowledge about tools for the developer community and their needs. What are some things you expect AI products coming out of GitHub to be able to provide to developers? What are unique services only GitHub can make?
Miller: Since we have a lot of open source, we have lots of code, there are so many things we can learn about how to write code more efficiently that we can bring back to the developer.
Another thing that we can do is to allow people to use each other's code better.
Right now a lot of the things we write is English facing, so documentation you see is in English, and there are developers are all over the world — 80 percent of our users are from outside the United States. If we can use AI to help translate some of our documentation, it creates more accessibility to different kinds of code. So it's easier for me to consume code written in Python, but all the documentation is written in Cantonese, so if I can translate Cantonese to English then I can really use that code.
VentureBeat: Because it's the same [programming] language.
Miller: It's the same language; however, what's the intent? What are the limitations? Like, if it's something new you've never seen before, you can read the code, but it's a lot faster if you read the documentation to know all the things you can use it for. And even as you're reading the code, sometimes you're like: Why did they do this? There's a comment to the code, but the comment is written in a foreign language. Just translating those comments makes it a lot easier. That's something that GitHub is uniquely positioned to do.
VentureBeat: Well, Semantic Search is the first one. Can you tell me a little bit more about that? I know you went into it onstage.
Miller: Our semantic search is actually entirely open sourced at experiments.github.com It's a sequence-to-sequence model that translates from natural language to code using mostly docstrings, but it's basically embedding space where we map natural language to code. But the entire thing is actually available, and you can go through it line by line by line.
VentureBeat: It sounds like you want to spend some time listening to the signals and feedback you're receiving or feedback from community for some of these experiments. What else can you tell me about the vision for how AI will be used on GitHub?
Miller: So there's a reason why machine learning is embedded in the platform team. It's because we see GitHub as a platform, and we want to bring these AI-enabled capabilities to that platform because we interact on so many levels. We interact on code, we interact on issues, we interact in pull requests, we interact with projects, there's diffs and all these things — all that data is what we want to bring to you, and so we want to create this search experience that goes on multiple levels, because then you can bring something to the capabilities of the platform.
They could just do similarity [search], like "Can you find me a piece of code that is similar to this piece of code?" For example, I write Python, and perhaps there is a Java library somewhere that I need to engage with but I don't know Java very well, so instead of me going to sit down and learn Java, if I can just be like "Here's Python code, can you" — using our API; this is ultimately in the future, we haven't put this on the platform — "find me similar code that does the same thing in this language?" Those are the kinds of things, because once we have that whole graph mapped out, these are the kinds of things that you can do.
You don't even necessarily have to do translation from language to language. We could just find similarity: "Oh, this is how you do the same thing in Python and Java and Ruby and this." That's just one example.
Basically what we're doing is bringing primitives and serving the primitives very much like the same approach of Actions: What's the primitive, and then it's up to users to do whatever they want with it. I can't even imagine all the things that people are going to build with it, but I can just think of a few use cases that would automatically just use. My immediate one would just be translation.
VentureBeat: I'm starting to think of some popular AI services rolling out elsewhere, and for some reason the Gmail experience where it completes your sentences comes to mind. Obviously there's a lot that can go into writing a single line of code, but some instances seem like they could be predicted. Could you see a point where in GitHub there would be some sort of predictive elements, deeper tie into code?
Miller: Yes, absolutely. At a sentence-to-sentence level like line-to-line, yes absolutely. Like there's some things we do that are just so repetitive, and so we understand that primitive. There's no reason why you need to literally finish this. It's a follow-up. Once you start typing the follow-up, we know it's a follow-up. If you just hit tab and the rest of the follow-up is there, then you fill in the part that you need.
VentureBeat: How is AI used on GitHub today? What services are available for developers on GitHub, either for researchers or people who are building things?
Miller: Well, one of the very first major AI ships was topics. So in GitHub today we give you automatic suggestions to tag your repositories with topics, so if you build a repository you can tag it with things like data science, machine learning, Ruby, or something like that.
VentureBeat: Predictive suggestions for tags to be placed on a repository, yeah.
Miller: And that helps with discoverability because [there are] so many repositories on the platform, discovering them based on the things they do is hard. So if we can get our users to help us with that problem by tagging their repos, then it makes discoverability slightly easier. Another one that we worked on was security vulnerability alerts; so, understanding security vulnerabilities in Python, in Ruby, a part of that requires machine learning. Like, "Oh, this Ruby gem has a vulnerability alert that has been fixed, and this one," so that kind of thing, we use ML for that.
VentureBeat: To recognize if there's an issue with the code?
Miller: Not necessarily. Since we have all this data, we can see there are CVs that are published, and then we can do certain kinds of predictions: "Oh, this looks like code that may have a potential security alert."
That is not production ready — that is a prototype that we're playing with right now, so that one is not even anywhere near showtime — but that's the kind of direction we're going with that.
One that we've launched publicly which we did last year was the discovery dashboard, which is a recommendation engine based on follows data as well as based on your page views, so we can serve you interesting repositories, interesting projects, hopefully at a time when you would like to do stuff.
So those are just examples, but our roadmap has a whole lot more coming, and the kinds of things we're working on require like a year or two years or three years of scale to production, because at our scale, we can build a lot of things very, very fast, but we have to make it's robust, and scaling our infrastructure requires time.
VentureBeat: Are there any specific fields of AI that GitHub wants to get deeper into? I look at a lot of computer vision stuff but I don't really associate…
Miller: We don't really use computer vision because our dataset isn't images. Our dataset is text, and we do representational learning, learning representations of data, and our data is natural language and programming language for machine learning on code. That's what we're doing. We study how humans speak, how humans acquire computation, how humans work with programming languages to achieve computation, and everything is text.
VentureBeat: Are there any other projects out there you would say helped inspire this initiative, or somebody else who has done it right?
Miller: This area that we work on is at the cutting edge and it's niche, so not that many. The community is quite small because there's not that many places in the world that would have that level of scale of code that would be able to do that kind of machine learning or even have a need for it, and so therefore the community is rather small and it's still somewhat nascent. So we're all at the beginning of what that's going to look like.
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Texas Police Pursuit Ends With Carnage
MISSION, Texas (AP) — A woman who witnessed the conclusion of a high-speed chase in South Texas that left six people dead described a scene of carnage at the corner of her front yard.
Diana Ramirez said Tuesday that she ran barefoot from her porch Monday afternoon after hearing the violent collision northwest of Mission and found a destroyed SUV surrounded by victims and body parts.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has not released the identities of the victims, but said late Monday that one of its sergeants was involved in the pursuit of a pickup when the crash occurred. The driver was arrested.
Ramirez said the fleeing pickup had hit the SUV as it flew through the intersection. The 42-year-old said she believes all of those who died were in the SUV.
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There is a new kid on the bollywood block. Sikandar Kher, son of Anupam Kher and Kirran Kher, debuts in Woodstock Villa, as a young man drifting with circumstances, with a knack of getting caught in troubles. He performs well, has poise and screen presence. Neha Uberoi is more than adequate within the limitations of her character. Arbaaz Khan, as the cunning businessman, is suave and performs with a clinical precision.
Gulshan Grover and Shakti Kapoor, as usual, do justice to their cameos. Sanjay Dutt's item number is quite entertaining.
All said and done, this film is a show case for the debutants Sikandar and Neha.
The screenplay for any suspense thriller has to be taut and terse. Woodstock Villa has a very good screenplay. The narration is fast paced, with judicious stops for twists. The camera captures well the dark moods, the darker side of life and the fleeting chases of screeching tyres. The editing enhances the thrills and suspense part of the narration. The music is good and the background score is adequate. The dialogues are crisp.
Overall, the work of Hansal Mehta adds to the increasing number of films belonging to the crime-thriller genre.
If you are a fan of James Hadley Chase, then this slick and stylish crime thriller film will definitely feed your appetite for suspense. Woodstock Villa is contemporary entertainment that breaks new ground with every twist.


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Shape sorter Students learn about shape and space by designing a shape sorter. This activity may be particularly appropriate for those interested in a career in child care or teaching.
Perimeter and area How much lawn feed is needed? Students find the perimeter and area of rectangles and shapes made from rectangles.
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Anaerobic treatment of wastewater is a step towards sustainable energy
by De Gruyter
Until recently, most of the world's energy supplies have come from coal, oil and gas. Scarcity of natural resources, surging energy prices and global warming had focused attention on renewable energy, and consequently, alternative approaches to producing bio-energy. Over the last five years, one particular technology for the production of biocoal - Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC) - has undergone significant development and has become a subject of major scientific interest.
Hydrothermal carbonization entails a conversion process of biomass. In natural conditions production of coal from biomass is slow and can take up to millions of years, whereas biocoal can be produced in just a few hours. During the process, heat is released and water molecules are split off from carbohydrate and what remains is a carbon-rich material - the biocoal.
However, the ongoing discussion on biomass utilization largely neglects one remarkable aspect of the process, namely, the huge CO2 and methane emissions produced by biomass residue. No wonder, that researchers continue their quest for novel solutions for the utilization and recycling of by-products of hydrothermal carbonization.
In a paper: "Anaerobic Digestion of Waste Water from Hydrothermal Carbonization of Corn Silage" published in Applied Bioenergy by open access publisher De Gruyter Open, Doctors Benjamin Wirth and Jan Mumme from the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Potsdam-Bornim and the Technische Universität Berlin respectively, argue that the residual HTC process liquor can be treated by anaerobic digestion to reduce its organic contaminants and to yield methane.
Anaerobic digestion is a biological process that produces a gas principally composed of methane and carbon dioxide otherwise known as biogas. As a result, anaerobic digestion could be established as a crucial part of an industrial implementation of HTC. If organic waste is used for the production of bio-coal instead of being composted, it can then produce heat and power as a substitute for fossil coal. HTC liquor is a high-strength organic waste water that has to be treated before it can be released to the environment. Treating it by anaerobic digestion yields methane that can be used for raising steam for the HTC process itself.
The authors carried out continuous anaerobic digestion tests with HTC liquor as a substrate. They compared a CSTR and a fixed-bed reactor. HTC liquor proved a suitable substitute for anaerobic digestion, and despite the broad range of organic compounds, turned out not to be toxic.
"This research is one of many from the group led by Prof. Jan Mumme at Leibnitz Institute for Agricultural Engineering, demonstrating the viability and practicality of conversion of corn stover to biocarbon" says Prof. Charles Coronella, from the University of Nevada, Reno, and expert in hydrothermal carbonization of biomass.
In industrial settings, and especially by rising composting costs, the economic business case for the valorization (or recycling) of by-products of hydrothermal carbonization seems a valuable contribution to resource conservation and sustainable energy.
More profitable biogas production by optimization of anaerobic waste digestion
More information: Benjamin Wirth, Jan Mumme, "Anaerobic Digestion of Waste Water from Hydrothermal Carbonization of Corn Silage," Applied Bioenergy, ISSN: 2300-3553, OPEN ACCESS, DOI: 10.2478/apbi-2013-0001, November 2013. www.degruyter.com/view/j/apbi. … -0001.xml?format=INT
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So onto who I will be featuring this week... and I wont be doing one author a week only because there are so many wonderful indie authors out there. So I will be spotlighting 1-3 each week (most likely 2).
Lorena lives in Idaho with her husband and three children. She writes YA paranormal and YA suspense with a hint of romance.Other authors that inspire Lorena are: J.K. Rowling, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Suzanne Collins and Nora Roberts.In Aug. 2011, A Diamond In My Pocket became a bestseller on Amazon.com and was listed on the Movers & Shakers list. Lorena is currently a Featured Author on http://writeandshare.co.uk/ a website designed to help aspiring authors and poets with their works.
When Calli Courtnae breaks the World Record for the 100m, she is invited to Montana to prepare for National tryouts. However, upon arrival using her lip reading ability she realizes she's been lied to, or at least not told the whole truth. She's a superhuman, a Runner, and her new world includes transporting packages for other supernatural groups. She's paired up with an overly anxious Gothic roommate, is continuously glared down by the gorgeous top-dog, Chris, who feels she doesn't belong, and is placed on a delivery team to transport a valuable magical diamond to a clan of terrorists who can kill with their thoughts. Chris, the team leader, is given the diamond, but Calli secretly receives the real stone along with a vision of the future and an explanation of why she was hand selected to carry out the mission. Almost immediately the hidden diamond oozes unprecedented additional powers and abilities in Calli making her more sought after than the diamond itself.
I think it is so awesome that you started this new meme! Not enough people read indie authors for the sole fact that they are indie authors. I have found some truly amazing books that had a self-pubbed author!


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A Little Bighorn-i csata 1876. június 25-én és 26-án zajlott le a George Armstrong Custer amerikai alezredes és hírhedt katona vezette amerikai 7. lovasezred (7th Cavalry Regiment) és az Ülő Bika vezetése alatt álló indián törzsek között.

A csata előzményei
Custer alezredes célja az volt, hogy a dakota és a csejen törzseket visszaterelje a Dakota állam területén létesített rezervátumokba. Az indiánok azért harcoltak, mert az aranyláz miatt elűzték őket földjeikről, azokról a földekről, amit a békeszerződésekben foglalt feltételek mellett az ő birtokukban voltak. Így a lázadó indián törzsek vezérükké Ülő Bikát választották. A csata előtt Ülő bika isteni sugallatot kapott, hogy ezt a csatát megnyerik, de ha a halott katonákat kifosztják, akkor viszont a népe elpusztul.

A szemben álló erők

Amerikai Egyesült Államok
Az Amerikai erők nagy részét a 7. lovasezred alkotta, amelynek parancsnoka George Armstrong Custer volt. Harcolt a polgárháborúban és nagy hírnevet szerzett magának. A háború végén egészen az alezredesi rendfokozatig jutott. Ekkor kinevezték az indiánok ellen induló 7. lovasezred parancsnokának. Az ezred létszáma a csata idején 566 lovas és 31 tiszt volt. Kiegészültek még indián kisegítőkkel, például a varjú törzsből, akik mindig is gyűlölték a lakotákat. De ezek az indiánok inkább felderítő szerepet játszottak a csapatban.

A lakota, a sájen és az arapaho törzsek
A három törzs vezetője Ülő Bika volt. Az indiánok fő fegyverzete az íj, de az amerikaiaktól többször puskákat is zsákmányoltak a háború folyamán. Az indián hadsereg összlétszáma megközelítőleg 900 és 1800 fő között mozgott.

A csata
Alfred Terry tábornok felderítésre küldi Custer csapatát. A csapat varjú felderítői felfedezték az indiánok táborát Little Bighorn völgyében. Mivel Custer nem tudta, hogy pontosan hány indián harcos tartózkodik ott, emiatt be kellett volna várnia Terry gyalogságát. Custer viszont, attól tartva, hogy az indiánok kicsúsznak a markából, három részre tagolta csapatait. Az elsőt Marcus Reno őrnagy vezette, aki dél felé indult. A másodikat maga Custer, egy 210 fős zászlóalj élén az Északi dombok felé, a harmadikat pedig Frederick Benteen százados irányította és délnyugat felé vette az irányt. Custer viszont csak akkor szembesült az indiánok jelentette igazi erővel, mikor Reno megindította a támadást. A 7. lovasezred 600 katonája sokkolva látta, hogy több mint 2000 lakota és csejen harcossal állnak szembe. Bár az amerikaiak támadása meglepte az indiánokat, gyors reagálásuk eredményeként, azonnal ellentámadásba mentek át és Reno csapatait bekerítették. Noha Benteen is a körzetbe érkezett, ez sem változtatott jelentősen a helyzeten. Mivel a csapata szétzilálódott, Reno parancsot adott a visszavonulásra a hegyek mögé, ahol az életükért küzdöttek. Custer csapatát nagyjából 6 és fél km-re a hegyekben kerítették be az indiánok. Custer és csapata egyaránt halálra volt ítélve, nem is élték túl a csatát. Az indiánok minden katonát megöltek Custer csapatából, még őt magát is. Azt a magaslatot, ahol a legtöbb amerikai katona lelte halálát a csata után az "Utolsó hadállás" (Last Stand Hill) néven emlegetik ma is.

Custer hibái
Custer a következő hibákat követte el:
 Visszautasította Terry 4 egységnyi katonáját a főcsapattól való elválás előtt. A felajánlott erősítéssel Reno valószínűleg sikeres támadást hajthatott volna végre.
 Alábecsülte az indiánok harci értékét és felosztotta erőit. Így egy legalább 2500 fős indiánsereggel kellett szembenézzen 225 katonájával.
 Túl sokat várt el katonáitól és korán támadott. Az indiánok is elismerték, hogy mind a lovak, mind a katonák lába remegett a kimerültségtől. Emellett a csata idején forróság volt.
 Nem ismerte ellenfelei erejét és pozícióját. Emellett elvesztette a meglepetés előnyét, mivel az indiánok többet tudtak róla, mint ő az indiánokról.
 Nem sikerült elérnie a hegyhát csúcsát. Itt azonban kiemelhetjük Őrült Ló zsenialitását. A siker nem jöhetett volna létre nélküle. Jó időzítése, a fehérektől ellesett taktika remekül hatott.

A csata következményei
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The Staff Accountant will be responsible for all Cash Clearing Account reconciliations and the research for all cash discrepancies for multiple facilities. Other duties will include Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA) research and general accounting functions that would include journal entries, financial reporting of Patient Account Service operations and the support of allocation to the hospitals. This is a Full Time opportunity, working Monday through Friday, from 8:30AM to 5:00PM. Candidates must be able to work the 1st through the 5th of every month, for month end close.


Can I see all the buttons in my doc?
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With buttons, you can add even more interaction to your Coda docs allowing you to turn your doc into a customized app for your team.
Yes! If you want to see all of your buttons, go to the Doc Map. You'll see a section called References. You can expand that section to see all your buttons. If you click any of the entries, Coda will automatically take you to the button in your doc.
When setting up your button, choose to "Show Record" at the very bottom of the set up menu. If your button creates a new row, this will cause the row detail to pop out like a form where you or your users can add information.
Yes! You'll choose the Notify action from the Action dropdown menu.


The Huntington Subdivision is arguably one of Hamilton's more sought after prestigious and desirable locations. Discover this exciting single level modern home tucked away off "The Esplanade" in an exclusive enclave with only 4 other executive properties. Accessed through automated gates, you'll enjoy peace of mind knowing the kids can safely play on the fully fenced and private rear 894m2 section. The monopitch lines, and reassuring solid plaster over brick exterior with feature schist and linea detailing, creates a distinctive and individual style. Step inside and you'll feel a relaxing calm with a neutral contemporary colour palette, teamed with a free-flowing floor plan, focused around a kitchen you'll love to entertain from. The separate sound-proofed media room features a raking ceiling, a gas fire and the convenience of gas under floor heating throughout the home provides a radiant warmth. There's excellent indoor/outdoor flow from the living areas and main bedroom to the north facing deck for summer entertaining in the months ahead. Zoned for Hukanui School (Decile 10), along with the new Rototuna Junior and Senior High, this will be a great family home for the years ahead. The owners have commenced building and can offer flexible settlement dates together with a LIM report to simplify your purchase.
Opportunities of this calibre, in such an established neighbourhood, are seldom available, so come and secure this... you won't regret buying location.


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Cheating Spouses – is your husband cheating on you online?
One of the only reasons that you think it's too hard to catch a cheating spouse in the act is because you don't know how to go about doing it. By now, we do know that we live in a land of technology that allows us to do all kinds of amazing things.


Today I met with a surprising message, he appeared in a production environment while trying to deploy a new virtual machine (OVF). The message sounded like this: Failed to open the /var/log/journal for write (There is no space left on device). It surprised me so much, that we keep logs on a drive other than root.


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Open C Challenge to Mobile App Developers
Today Nokia announced the first "Open C Challenge," a global contest for mobile app development for the S60 on Symbian OS smartphones. This contest was started to encourage open source and freeware developers to use the Open C environment from Nokia. Cash prices for the contest total more than $20,000.
"Nokia's global invitation to millions of developers to take the Open C Challenge taps the exponential growth in open source and Symbian developers currently working on exciting new applications for smartphone devices," said Lee Epting, vice president, Forum Nokia, Nokia's global developer program. "Identifying and rewarding the latest and greatest applications being built or ported with Open C will showcase the exciting growth in developer productivity that Open C is already driving in S60 smartphone application development worldwide."
The contest, sponsored by Nokia in conjunction with Orange and the Symbian Developer Network, is aimed at developers to apply their desktop and open-source skills, and finalists will be invited to present their applications to a group of panelists, including industry judges, at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London on October 16th and 17th.
Deadline for submission of all applications is September 14, 2007, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Further information on the registration process, including description of entries, eligibility requirements, complete rules and details on prizes are available online at The Open C Challenge.


We all know the biggest shortcoming of our current fee-for-service health care system — the incentives are all wrong. One reform idea has been to move toward bundled fees in which all expenses for a procedure are paid in one global fee. That is theoretically an excellent idea. While that is working very well in some care centers for specific procedures, it may not be scalable.
At one time Medicare thought DRG payments to hospitals would curb spending. It didn't work obviously. Problem is that form of payment lead to DRG creep, i.e., ratcheting up the diagnosis to get higher payment. in short, one of the problems with this style of payment reform is diseases and diagnoses are subjective in the extreme.
One of the biggest problems is that doctors are mainly still paid for each procedure. How do you divide the pot?
What is certain is that the best care around is in clinics where doctors are paid salaries, not fee-for-service. See Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, Cleveland Clinic, the veterans health system, and a few more. (Yes, that's right the VA system is one of the best today.) The same principle is true globally too.
Anything we can do to boost salaried doctors will make major strides in the right direction.
Employers can and should drive as much business as possible to centers whose doctors are salaried, especially for major complex cases. As you've seen in my previous posts, that can save money and save lives too. The more of that employers do, the more other clinics will reform themselves.
Tom Emerick writes at Cracking Health Costs, and consults with large employers on approaches to more effectively manage the care and cost associated with high risk patients. He is the former VP of Benefits for Walmart.


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Q: Obtaining cell name in Aspose Cells I am looking to obtain the name of a cell given a row/column pair. I need a name to use in a formula. For example, I would like to set cell (3, 4) to a formula that adds the values of cells (4, 4) and (5, 4).
Cell (3, 4) is D5; (4, 4) is E5, and (5, 4) is F5. Therefore, my formula should look like this:
=E5+F5

I can format my formula like this:
const int col = 3;
const int row = 4;
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);

This works fine for columns A..Z, but breaks for columns with names further to the right. I could use a trick described in this Q&A, but the problem looks so basic that it shouldn't require coding on my part.

A: You do not need to do this the hard way, because Aspose did it for you. Their CellsHelper class has CellIndexToName method, which does exactly what you need:
const int col = 3;
const int row = 4;
worksheet.Cells[row, col].Formula =
    $"={CellsHelper.CellIndexToName(row, col+1)}+{CellsHelper.CellIndexToName(row, col+2)}";

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NTSB: Riverside District knew driver had health issues before fatal school bus fire
June 18, 2019 By Dar Danielson
The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board today disussed the fatal 2017 Riverside School District bus fire.
NTSB chair Robert Sumwalt says driver impairment was an issue as 74-year-old bus driver Donald Hendricks used a walker and had back surgery scheduled the week of the fire. Hendricks and 16-year-old Megan Klindt died when the bus got stuck and caught fire in Klindt's driveway near Oakland.
"Robust oversight on the part of the school district should ensure the safety of student transportation. But in Oakland, Iowa, that did not happen," Sumwalt says. He says school buses are safer than passenger cars for getting kids to school if the drivers are medically fit.
"The driver in Oakland had been allowed to continue driving despite the fact that the transportation supervisor, the school principal, and the driver's coworkers knew of the driver's physical impairment," according to Sumwalt. "The Iowa administrative code specifies that drivers must be physically able to help ill or injured passengers."
Sumwalt says the school district had the information needed to prevent the tragedy. "The Riverside Community School District or the RCSD had the knowledge it needed to act. And it did not. And in fact, in recent years, it had done away with the physical performance tests for drivers,"Sumwalt says.
Investigators said the fire likely started in the turbocharger of the bus, which overheated after the rear tires became stuck. Sumwalt says this case shows that installing a fire suppression system may have prevented the deaths "Fire suppression systems, fire-resistant interior materials, and improved fire safety performance standards could have provided more time for the driver and the student in this tragedy," Sumwalt says. He says federal standards for school bus fire safety haven't significantly improved in the last 48 years despite major changes in fire safety in aviation and railroad transportation.
Sumwalt says the NTSB knows there is a shortage of school bus drivers, but the solution cannot be to augment the ranks of safe drivers with drivers who are unsafe due to a medical condition, even a temporary one. He says keeping an unfit driver on the road isn't kindness. "Once there is a crash, it is cruelty—to him and an untold number of passengers and other road users."
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The value of remembering 9/11
I vividly remember 9/11.
I was sitting on my loveseat in the living room for quick mental break with the Today Show before I sat down to finish up my plans for my son's birthday on the following day. Katie Couric and Matt Lauer were commenting about an apparent accident at the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. (Watch the original broadcast I saw here.)
While I sat and watched the live footage of smoke and flames billowing from the tower, a second plane flew right into the South Tower and exploded into flames. A half an hour later, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon. And an hour and fifteen minutes after the first attack, a group of heroic passengers took out four hijackers, including their pilots; Flight 93 dived into a Pennsylvania field instead of arriving at its intended D.C. target. (Click here to read through the events of September 11, 2001 chronologically.)
I remember a morning of misery and terror, followed by weeks of fear, anger, and patriotism. The footage never stopped. The stories kept coming. Businessmen leaping from the Trade Center buildings, a hundred floors up, trapped above an incinerating jet. Heroic firemen, racing up sixty floors, carrying a hundred-plus pounds of equipment, while thousands of people flooded past them down stairways, desperate to reach the street. And those thousands of New Yorkers, fleeing from the falling debris and engulfing smoke, covered in ash and blood, fleeing Uptown and across the Brooklyn Bridge. Hiding in buildings they hoped wouldn't crumble. The skies above Lower Manhattan filled with falling debris, beige ash, gray smoke, and a million sheets of floating paper. It was like a movie, only it was real. (Click here to see video and photography.)
9/11 is the defining moment for America, the fulcrum of change for the 21st century. It deserves honor and remembrance, as horrible as it was, because almost 3,000 civilians died that day from senseless violence by an extremist terror organization determined to crush the American economy and system of government.
9/11 is the single greatest attack on American soil by an outside enemy, toppling Pearl Harbor's 2,335 dead. (Click here to read about the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.) The attacks of 9/11 reminded us all that we are not infallible as a country, but that we are fearless and proud and determined as a people. 9/11 unified us behind one purpose (oh, that we could function this way all the time!) Yes, we may have made some additional errors as a country after 9/11, but I think the attacks and recovery defined and strengthened us as a people.
But the shock and grief of 9/11 was overwhelming.
The New York subways stops were covered with notices—faces of loved ones missing and phone numbers to call. "Have you seen this person?" "When did you see them last?" People trying to connect, to find out how someone died, to talk to the last person who talked to the person they loved and lost. It hurt my heart to read those papers; it still hurts now, just remembering it.
I had never before seen an American flag on every house or an American flag sticker on every car. But I did in 2011. It turns out, symbols matter after all.
Symbols in history, culture, religion, and literature alike are unifying and defining reminders of a consistent theme or rallying point. A symbol tells us who we are and who we belong to. Like a Jesus fish, college logo, or a sports team decal, the Stars and Stripes says "I am American." I belong here, and I belong with everyone who is also American.
That doesn't mean I can't be other things or that I think everything America does is right or that my patriotism should be the lens through which I see race, religion, and politics. How simplistic would that be?
I am many things; being American doesn't determine what I believe about everything. In my opinion, the flag serves to define me with a culture—flawed and beautiful—to which I belong. To which I am indebted for so much. America is more than a place to live and succeed. It is an identity, much like a family is. Good or bad, I can't change who I'm related to. This is why September 11 is called "Patriot Day."
Love for country is patriotism. It's not blind faith in an institution or a particular leader. It's not religious fervor for something other than God. Patriotism is ascribing to a system of government and the people who should be protected by it, not because it's perfect, but because it's yours.
Patriotism is family love on a national level. It's the stories of people carrying the elderly down fifty flights of stairs to get out of a building before it collapses. It's firemen digging for days without sleep, trying to find living souls buried under a ton of rubble. It's also remembering events we'd rather forget.
But when you choose to remember and grieve, you actually give life back to the people who are suffering. When you grieve, you kill fear and you rebuild perspective. (Click here to read about today's remembrance at the World Trade Center Plaza.)
In August, I toured the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum. I have been to the Plaza multiple times and read the names of the victims; I've stared into the massive fountains in the shape of the two towers' foundations. But this time, I bought a ticket and entered the museum. I walked underground to the place where fireman and excavators worked tirelessly to find bodies and clear debris. Some of the original structures still stand there. On those halls, I studied the faces of the lives lost and the faces who took them.
You must go there. Don't say, "That's too sad; I can't handle it." Understand the power of grief to start positive change. You can handle it. You should handle it. That's how healing works.
This is not merely a museum that takes artifacts from a terrible event and displays them for the price of a ticket. It is a museum that's built around what survived an attack where nothing and no one should have survived. The exhibits mark the actual spots where history happened, where people were saved and where people died. It celebrates life and heroism and grief. (Click here to read about grief and patriotism.)
The World Trade Center Museum is a place of honor, respect, healing, and hope. This is what we should remember on 9/11, because hope and healing validate those who still grieve. (Click here to read about my own process of grief over losing my dad.)
Grief is not an enemy. It's actually a friend, arriving painfully and unannounced to help us cope with something from the outside that attacked our sense of safety and belonging.
Free stock Photo credit to Iago Godoy.
J M Gadoury	on September 11, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Very well stated with a deft perception of the need to define grief, patriotism, humility within national pride, gratitude for the sacrifices that yield freedom, and a justifiable disdain for despicable acts designed to destroy the fabric and roots of our civilization. I will only add the notion that to be American, is to recognize and celebrate the Source of our freedom and the Reason for our worthy fight to preserve it, and also to recognize the demonstrable work of a universal Enemy who seeks to devour, destroy and shame. The events of 9/11 reminds us that both our freedom and our blessing are fragile and demand our constant vigilance, prayer and honor of the Creator, properly credited in our Declaration of Independence with bestowing our rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Sue Schlesman	on September 11, 2019 at 8:21 pm
I agree with your assessment. Great comments.
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Tacos Kokopelli's New Trick in Tijuana: Tras/Horizonte Restaurant
Por W. Scott Koenig
Tras/Horizonte chef Guillermo "Oso" Campos' cuisine can be described in many ways, but don't call it "hipster". During a recent interview, I asked if he would consider the most popular menu items at his former Tacos Kokopelli food cart the "...original 'hipster' tacos in Tijuana". This suggestion was met with a grimace, followed by a burst of the chef's infectious laughter.
"We don't like that word because it has a negative connotation" Oso's brother Pablo Campos helpfully instructed. "Use another word, and maybe he will answer your question." We considered "different" and "modern", and finally settled on "contemporary". So, was Kokopelli the godfather of the contemporary taco in Tijuana? "No, we were not the first," Oso acquiesced, "But maybe the first that became well-known."
When Tacos Kokopelli opened their cart on Agua Caliente Boulevard in 2011, they were literally rising from the ashes of some hard years on Tijuana's streets. At the same time, they were also playing a role in elevating the city's street food cred and kicking off a new era for carts and trucks in TJ.
A hit with locals for their imaginative seafood tacos and tostadas, the Kokopelli cart – constructed of tomato cartons – also became a stop on the "taco trail" for Southern California gringos who were slowly returning to Tijuana to check out the recently lauded culinary scene.
The kraken taco. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
Based on their newfound success, the cart rapidly morphed into a truck, then into three locations in Tijuana and a new restaurant in Chicago's Wicker Park that opened in 2015. Eventually, the brothers, along with their partner Salvador Gonzalez, felt that they were losing control of what was most important, the food. "So we decided to just focus on one thing," Gonzalez recalled, "and that one thing is Tras/Horizonte."
That focus is paying off for the trio and the eatery, still in its first year. The quality of ingredients and flavor profiles of every dish we enjoyed during a recent lunch was top notch. Chef Oso's former roles as executive chef at Parque Bicentenario in Guanajuato and three Michelin-starred Oud Sluis in the Netherlands is more apparent in a restaurant setting than it ever was curbside in TJ centro.
Tras/Horizonte occupies a large space with a high ceiling, set in what presumably used to be a warehouse. A psychedelic mural depicting a jellyfish – that wouldn't seem odd outside of a yellow submarine – flows across two corrugated metal walls.
Tras/Horizonte. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
Building materials are mostly reclaimed, and the overall impression is one of a more "contemporary" version of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. In homage, perhaps, to their humble beginnings as a taqueria, chef Oso surveys the dining room as he prepares orders from a grill set into the front counter.
Of course, the menu contains some of the tacos that made Kokopelli famous. The kraken is filled with tender, meaty chunks of grilled octopus coated in a rich, herby, Mexican pesto. The pibil taco replaces the familiar pork of this traditional Yucateco preparation with morsels of smoked marlin swimming in a rich, crimson sauce of tangy citrus and smoky achiote. The tacos are very generously portioned, and very, very good.
The pibil taco. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
The raw dishes at Tras/Horizonte are on par with the quality of their tacos. The "Black Harder" ceviche, named in honor of Tijuana's Mariscos Negro Durazo, offers chunks of very fresh, toothsome sole marinated in citrus, soy, ponzu, and squid ink. It's finished with grilled tomato, avocado, cilantro, and sesame and served with a crispy tostada
Black Harder ceviche. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
The cooked dishes demonstrate what happens when chef Oso has a bigger kitchen with room to stretch out. I'd been eyeballing the daily special, the borrego (lamb) t-bone since I'd arrived. Two small, yet thick grilled steaks are rubbed in Mexican pesto (and did I taste a little mint?) and served with garden vegetables, beet salad, and a tomato chile jus.
Lamb t-bone steak. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
"As our name states, we don't know what's on the horizon," Pablo shared earlier, "but we do mostly Mexican-inspired food now." And what could be more Mexican than mixiote (meat rubbed with dried chills and grilled in agave skin)? Tras/Horizonte's mixiote of duck in adobado is served with vegetables escabeche with a side of drunken salsa and hearty house made plantain tortillas.
Mixiote of lamb. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
The last two dishes demonstrated chef Oso's countercultural sensibilities. Given the restaurant decor, his personal style – that day, a twist of dreadlocks and a trippy tee – and the creativity behind these dishes, there's no doubt that chef Oso has "broken on through to the other side", probably on more than several occasions.
And what did he find there? Aptly, our final course is the fin de mundo, or "end of the world." Why? "It's what you would eat if the world were ending," our waitress flatly exclaimed, surprised that we needed to ask. Of course there are insects – chapulines (spiced and fried grasshoppers) – served in a cast iron skillet atop a catastrophically scattered pile of farmer's cheese, radishes, jalapeños, chopped avocado and a drunken mezcal-based salsa.
It's the "End of the World" as we know it. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
At the end of our end of the world, the waitress insisted that the end of our meal wasn't possible until we tried chef Oso's signature postre, the "Terrarium". I've seen some visually compelling dishes during my five years of eating all around Latin America – Raiz in Mexico City and Maido in Lima served a few dishes plated in decidedly unorthodox ways – but I was unprepared for the dish that was brought out.
Described as an "edible ecosystem", the dessert is served in clear glass bowl filled with achiote tangerine, sherried oranges, zapote and passion fruit ice cream, and cherries garapiñado. The rim of the bowl is coated in sugared amaranto and grilled pineapple sprinkled with chia is served on the side. The most extraterrestrial feature are the sprigs of lavender, chamomile, and – most notably, tall, thin stalks of Japanese bunapi mushrooms coated in blackberry jam and mezcal – that rise from the dish's center.
The "Terrarium". Out of this world. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
Chef Oso conspiratorially admitted, "I've always wanted to make a dessert out of hallucinatory substances, but that's not legal. If I were to do it that way, I would use the San Pedro cactus, psilocybin mushrooms, and morning glory seeds." Note to diners: the Terrarium does NOT contain any hallucinatory ingredients; so don't worry about having to take an Uber home.
Or maybe that Uber is a good idea. Tras/Horizonte boasts a full menu of mixed drinks and hope that their full bar and creative cocktail program will help draw thirsty, as well as hungry, customers. At the end of our meal, we enjoyed a Limonada Negra; mezcal with lemon, salt, triple sec and porter beer, and an El Chapulín Colorado; mezcal with tuna (red cactus fruit), lime, and chapulin salt.
Limonada Negra. Photo www.agringoinmexico.com
"When we first started back in 2011, things had been very bad in the city," Pablo concluded as we prepared to leave. "When we made the original cart, it was our way of taking back the streets, the city. There are a lot more people here doing good things than bad things. We just need to keep doing good things."
And Tras/Horizonte is doing very good – and very interesting – things, indeed.
Tras/Horizonte is located at Avenida Río Colorado, 22015 Tijuana, Baja California. Open 1-10PM Tue-Thu, 1-11PM Fri-Sat, 1-7PM Sun, closed Mondays. +52 (664) 622-5062, https://www.facebook.com/orilladeviento.
San Diego-based culture, food and travel journalist W. Scott Koenig has explored Mexico and Baja California for over two decades. He founded AGringoInMexico.com in 2012 to report on south of the border destinations, food, culture and adventure. The website has since become an invaluable source of information on the burgeoning food and culture scene in Baja California, as well as the wider scene throughout Mexico. Visit Scott's websites and social media via the links, below.


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3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets (FILM REVIEW)
3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets
Film Review by Kam Williams
Courtroom Documentary Chronicles Trial of White Man for Murder of Unarmed Black Teen at Florida Gas Station
On November 23, 2012, 45 year-old Michael Dunn attended his son's wedding in Jacksonville, Florida with his girlfriend Rhonda. After the reception, the couple stopped at a gas station where they pulled in next to a red Dodge Durango blasting rap music.
Dunn asked the teenagers sitting inside to lower the volume. When they refused, a heated exchange ensued. According to Dunn, one of them in the back seat opened the door and leveled a shotgun directly at him. So, in fear for his own life, he pulled out his own pistol and emptied it into the car, mortally wounding 17 year-old Jordan Davis.
Instead of immediately calling the police, Dunn fled the scene. But he was eventually apprehended with the help of a bystander who had scribbled down his license plate number and reported it to the authorities.
The trial drew nation attention because it revolved around another incident involving the shooting of an unarmed, young black male by a white man in Florida where trigger-happy aggressors tend to avoid prosecution by relying on a Stand Your Ground rationale. Why just the year before, George Zimmerman had successfully invoked the statute as giving him the right to ignore a 911 operator's explicit order to stay in his car and not pursue Trayvon Martin.
Thus, the burning question in this instance became whether Dunn might also somehow prevail in the face of damning testimony from Jordan's three friends who survived the attack that none of them had threatened Dunn and that there was no gun in the Durango.
Furthermore, Jordan couldn't have opened the back door even if he wanted to, since the car's kid- proof lock would have prevented him. And the icing on the cake was that Dunn's own girlfriend would testify for the prosecution, admitting that he fabricated a bunch of alibis after the fact, like the claim that Jordan had brandish a weapon.
Still, to be found not guilty, all Dunn needed to do was convince the jury that his fears were well-founded and that his response was reasonable. But because it was also clear that Jordan and his friends had not broken the law, the case would ostensibly serve as a test of whether black lives mattered in the eyes of the supposedly colorblind criminal justice system.
Directed by Marc Silver, 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets is a powerful documentary revisiting the critical issues in the landmark legal proceeding. Besides painstakingly examining the evidence, the picture devotes considerable time to humanizing Jordan Davis via a combination of home movies and heartfelt reminiscences by his parents and friends.
A riveting courtroom drama chronicling an emotionally-draining showdown played out on the national stage between the Black Lives Matter and Stand Your Ground movements.
Excellent (4 Stars)
Studio: Candescent Films Distributor: Participant Media
To see a trailer for 3½ Minutes,Ten Bullets, visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGl1IwNwSgo
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Q: Notation for similar/related functions Suppose I have two functions:
$f(x)$ and $g(x)$
These functions are similar -- meaning, they are variations of the same general thing. I want to express to the reader that they are similar/related.
I tried superscripts:
$f^{variation1}(x)$ and $f^{variation2}(x)$
But that seems unwieldy. What is best practice?

A: I'd use $f_1(x)$ and $f_2(x)$, personally. Other alternatives are $f^{(1)}(x)$ and $f^{(2)}(x)$ or $f(x)$ and $f'(x)$, but these could both be confused with differentiation if you're dealing with any calculus.


The October 2018 sanctioning of LNG Canada represents potentially the largest private sector investment in Canadian history and augured a boon for western Canada's struggling natural gas industry. Despite the final investment decision's (FID) positive effect on industry sentiment, however, the prospect of additional large scale LNG sanctioning on Canada's west coast appears unlikely in the near-term, thus putting Canada's potential role as a global LNG player in question.
The abundance of low-cost natural gas resources in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) underpins Canada's potential as an LNG exporter. The WCSB has witnessed steady natural gas supply growth since 2012, when annual production hit a low of approximately 13.1 billion ft3/d. An increase in horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing in unconventional resource plays drove an approximately 4.2% compound annual growth rate in gas production between 2012 and 2018, more than offsetting declines in conventional gas output over the same period.
The Montney play, which spans northwest Alberta and northeast British Columbia (B.C.), and the Spirit River tight formation in Alberta's Deep Basin have been particularly instrumental to western Canada's supply picture, and together accounted for an estimated 55% of the basin's 2018 gas production. Likewise, both plays exhibit competitive breakeven prices and cost structures, with 50 – 60% of Montney and Spirit River proved plus probable (2P) gas reserves breakeven prices of less than US$2 per 1000 ft3.
Simultaneously, in-basin infrastructure bottlenecks and depressed benchmark prices have amplified the need to diversify export markets. Against the backdrop of supply additions, takeaway constraints have become especially pronounced on the TransCanada-owned NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd (NGTL) system, which is the primary intra-basin network connecting supply sources upstream of James River to demand centres and export points in Alberta. Export optionality to eastern Canada and the US Midwest decreased following 2014 capacity reductions to approximately 4.4 billion ft3/d – 4.6 billion ft3/d at the East Gate delivery point on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. Similar constraints emerged at West Gate in early 2016, which has current capacity of approximately 2.5 billion ft3/d and links Alberta to export markets in the US Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, the Alliance Pipeline maintains stable out-of-basin capacity of approximately 1.6 billion ft3/d with little potential for near-term expansions, whereas the Enbridge-owned Westcoast system in B.C. accounts for approximately 1.1 billion ft3/d in exports from the basin via Huntingdon.
This is an abridged version of an article that was originally published in the April 2019 issue of LNG Industry. The full version can be read here.


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"We still have a bright future if we are willing to fight for it."
Thanks for your big thumbs-up to my neighborhood, it's changing so much in just the last two years. The new library is great, very modern and with the local pols. coming there every day for work, things will have to look up.
Some new information on the Vancouver Riot has come to light.
"The September 6 published VPD internal review claimed the force had no hint of a riot."
"according to email obtained via Freedom of Information.:"
"On June 12, Karen Ayers told deputy solicitor general Lori Wanamaker about her conference call that day with LCLB Vancouver Compliance and Enforcement Managers, Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Doug Le Pard, numerous VPD officers, B.C. Ambulance Service and St. Paul's Hospital representatives about the escalating alcohol problems in downtown Vancouver."
"The report from all call participants was of increasing crowds similar now in size to the Olympics, high levels of intoxication on the streets and difficulty in controlling the crowds and protecting public safety," Ayers wrote. "Prior to, during and immediately following (game five) there were huge numbers of people fueling and refueling at the (licensed retail stores), significant re-sale of liquor outside and adjacent to some LRS -- some to minors -- open consumption on the streets, fights and violence, people climbing up power poles and on top of bus shelters, etc."
Freddy: Surrey's your hood? I thought you were in East Van. Surrey rocks. As for the riot, I'm sure some suspected it, but really after the high of all that Olympic love I don't think anyone really thought that was going to happen. Remotely because of the last time they lost in the playoffs but that was a long time ago and we had such a positive experience with the Olympic nationalism since. Having said that, I recall hearing some facebook status' during the Vancouver riot read "Surrey is trashing Vancouver." Tragic indeed.
Freddy: Coffee would be nice but do be careful with your personal info. There are a lot of wackos out there. You can always e-mail me.
You're right. What on earth am I on? There's another park somewhere called Holland park isn't there? That makes much more sense now.
You guys are idiots. Holland park is in Whalley, Hawthorne is on 104 and 144 and HOLLY is on 108 and 148. Get your facts straight.
You're right, that was me. I had Hawthorn Park and Holland Park mixed up.


I began this blog early in 2011 in response to a formation class I was involved in, I left it for a year, but now I am back. I aim to post at least one entry a month on a current, relevant subject. Not merely to post ramblings about that month's headlines, but to offer a Christian (Anglican) perspective on the topic at hand. This is good for me, because I am not a naturally good writer, and stringing sentences together doesn't come easy for me, it is a real challenge.
Like anything in life there are some rules for this space, but only 2. The golden rule is to debate issues, not people. There is no room here for personal attacks (on me or those who comment). Remember it takes a lot to put your ideas out in the open, we need to respect that. The second rule is that if you are going to comment than you must provide a (real) email address and name. If people are willing to put themselves out there then everyone else should too, its only fair. Anonymous comments will not be responded to and will be swiftly deleted.


Blogger Jessica Valenti writes about trying to get married with as little sexist baggage as possible, and boy, can I ever relate.
I'm sitting in a Minneapolis hotel as I write this, here for the weekend so my Minneapolitan husband and I can meet with vendors about our upcoming wedding reception. We eloped in Vegas last December, with one guest, for a total cost of about $300. "Screw you, Wedding Industrial Complex!" we thought smugly -- right up until we got home and realized everyone wanted us to have a big party anyway. And truth be told, we kinda wanted one, too.
So, boy, do I ever empathize with Jessica Valenti's piece in the Guardian today about trying to plan a feminist wedding. I thought I already had planned one -- in less than a day, even -- but now here I am talking about color schemes, having an ivory silk dress made (I got married in black), and traveling 400 miles to taste mini quiches. All while feeling vaguely ridiculous and/or guilty about A) participating in the patriarchal tradition to end all, B) enjoying benefits many of my gay friends still can't, and C) actually spending over an hour of my life debating whether we need to rent chair sashes.
You might recall how discussing the difficulty of planning a wedding that departs from patriarchal custom has already led to Valenti being called a "feminist bridezilla" by Kathryn Jean Lopez, not to mention taking plenty of crap from some of her own readers. (She has also, awesomely, been called a "ball-cutting cybersuccubus" by a blogger focused on emasculating her fiancé -- "Think I can get that on a business card?" she asks.) Whether it comes from the right or left, from men or other women, the bulk of the criticism essentially amounts to the same thing: "Ain't no such thing as a feminist wedding, lady. Nice try."
And, you know, there's more than a little truth in that. While Valenti and I and our respective menfolk have made a lot of similar gestures toward having less screamingly anti-feminist wedding celebrations, at the very least -- e.g., skipping any paternal delivery of bride to groom, keeping our names, encouraging guests who ask about gifts to donate to a charity working toward marriage equality -- I know I've already capitulated to tradition a whole lot more than I expected to. I was planning to wear a blue dress for the reception, but then, all of a sudden, nearly white sounded kinda good. I started out with a "Screw etiquette -- it's not like our friends and fam would buy any pretense to elegance from us anyway" attitude, only to lose it when I realized I'd had envelopes printed up with both abbreviations and spelled-out words in the return address. When my dad offered a contribution to the party fund, my husband immediately balked -- and I immediately went, "I'm sorry, are you really suggesting we turn down free money just so we don't have to feel beholden to my father and/or harken back to a tradition in which I'm basically a piece of property changing hands? Because I really don't think you're focusing enough on the free money part." Unlike Valenti, I might actually be a "feminist bridezilla" -- and I'm not even technically a bride.
I'm not sure the problem is just feminism vs. patriarchy here, though. For years, I've watched my friends struggle to plan "non-traditional" weddings that reflect who they are as a couple, only to end up going through the same basic ceremony-champagne-dinner-dancing motions as everyone else anyway. Sure, one couple had that stunning location and another that awesome chicken satay, but I have yet to attend a wedding that struck me as anything but, you know, a wedding: a big party that adheres pretty closely to a well-worn template. The individuals involved make each one memorable and unique in its own ways, but the most painstakingly chosen details can rarely overcome the essential sameness of it all. Whether you mean to break the mold because you're a feminist or an atheist or a ren faire geek or all of the above, breaking it in any meaningful way is a lot easier said than done.
Why bother with the whole mess, then? Isn't the most feminist solution not to get married at all? Well, sure. "But never underestimate the power of being in love," Valenti writes. "Andrew is fabulous and I want to be married to him -- due in no small part to the fact that he also identifies himself as a feminist and that an equal partnership is just as important to him as it is to me." That's just it. Though plenty of people choose never to marry -- and more power to 'em -- a lot of us just plain want to be married to the people we love. That's one reason why marriage equality is so important to many feminists of every sexual orientation, even if gay couples don't strictly need it to demonstrate their love or commitment to each other. Legal and practical benefits may provide the most compelling intellectual arguments in favor of gay marriage, but at the end of the day, it's also about people in love wanting to get married.
You can argue that that desire issues mostly from a patriarchal culture constantly shoving its heteronormative values down our throats and ... well, I'll back you up on that, actually. But for a lot of us, even feminists, it's still there and still powerful -- both the desire to get married and the desire to throw a big effin' party to celebrate. So the next most feminist solution available is to try to remain conscious of all of the sexist pitfalls involved in wedding planning, avoid as many of them as possible, and be open with our friends and families about why we're making certain choices. It's far from a perfect answer to a tremendously thorny question, but as Valenti says, "There is no such thing as perfect when you are a feminist getting married." Now if you'll excuse me, I have some mini quiches to try.


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Q: Google Sheets: Many to Many Table Join I am trying to create a sheet to determine the amount of overlapping hours for employees.
I have one table with timeclock data for the Employees.
Table 1
And another with timeclock data for their Support Staff.
Table 2
This is the desired output. Each row from table A has all the date matches from table B. From here I would compute the number of overlapping hours in the final column and then roll that up into another sheet.
Table 3, Desired Output
(apologies for image links, I can't post inline images yet)
Sample sheet here Please let me know if you have any ideas for me!
I know its a combination of QUERY, ARRAYFORMULA, FILTER and more but I just can't find the right combo.

A: DMac,
I wrote myself a QUERY replacement custom function that uses real SQL select syntax.
For your data it looks something like (You need a tab called employee and a tab called support for this to work) :
=gsSQL("select * from employee full join support on employee.date = support.date")

See my test worksheet: (line 164 on gsSqlTest sheet)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zmyk7a7u0xvICrxen-c0CdpssrLTkHwYx6XL00Tb1ws/edit?usp=sharing
You need to add one Apps Script file to your sheet to give you the custom function:
https://github.com/demmings/gsSQL/blob/main/dist/gssql.js
For more help using more features see:
https://github.com/demmings/gsSQL
For example, changing the column titles, it would be like:
select employee.name as name .... (rest of your select).

A: Here's a way of doing this type of join using only built-in functions:
=arrayformula(lambda(employee,support,
lambda(datecomp,
lambda(rows,
{vlookup(index(rows,,1),{row(employee),employee},sequence(1,columns(employee),2),false),
vlookup(index(rows,,2),{row(support),support},sequence(1,columns(support),2),false)})(
split(filter(datecomp,datecomp<>""),"|")))(
flatten(if(index(employee,,1)=transpose(index(support,,1)),row(employee)&"|"&transpose(row(support)),))))(
Employee!A1:D6,Support!A1:E5))

There's a lot going on here, but the basic idea is that we are comparing the date columns of each table against each other in a 2D IF array, and where the dates match we are obtaining the row index of each table. After some manipulations we can use these row indexes on each table in two side-by-side VLOOKUPs to obtain the joined table.


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Cable and telco DVRs cost US consumers ~$1.84B annually due to ineffective power saving
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Cable and Telco DVRs Cost US Consumers Approximately $1.84B Annually Due to Ineffective Power Saving Features
Sense announced an analysis of digital video recorders (DVRs) from cable and telco providers which shows that they consume nearly as much energy while idle as when your TV is on, and their energy saving modes are not effective
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Sense announced today that an analysis of digital video recorders (DVRs) from cable and telco providers shows that they consume nearly as much energy while idle as when your TV is on, and their energy saving modes are not effective. For instance, Comcast's XFinity X1 DVR uses 26 watts when active and 24.5 watts in "energy saving" mode. With more than 84 million US households using set top boxes from communications providers, consumers are spending an extra $1.84B on their annual utility bills collectively due to the inefficient design of DVRs.
The energy consumed by cable DVRs across the country adds up to approximately 21 TWh in 2016, translating into 21 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually. Sense estimates that implementing true power saving mode with some small changes in cable DVRs could save more than 14 TWh annually and cut U.S. residential energy consumption by 1%, equivalent to eliminating almost 5 coal-fired power plants running around the clock. And, if the cable industry adopted energy saving techniques developed for mobile phones, at least a 10X savings would be possible and could save US consumers almost $3B annually.
Sense analyzed the Comcast Xfinity X1 DVR and discovered that its "energy saving" mode only reduces power consumption by 1-2 watts, a miniscule amount. Said Sense CEO Mike Phillips, "Consumers are being misled by Comcast's claim that they provide an energy saving mode. Only 1-2 watts has negligible impact on both consumers' utility bills and the environment." The other top pay TV providers—Verizon, DirecTV and Time Warner—take a similar approach to their set-top box energy usage.
To provide context:
Cable DVRs typically consume 20-27 watts while in use or idle. By comparison, the PlayStation4 uses only 8.5 watts in energy saving mode. The iPhone consumes less than 1 watt while on and only 0.05 watts in sleep mode.
It would cost less than $2 to implement a power saving mode that could cut energy consumption for each DVR by 2/3rds. See detailed analysis on Sense's blog.
The pay TV industry could eliminate 14 TWh in energy consumption across its 84.7 million U.S. households by implementing a true power saving mode—avoiding 14 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually.
If cable providers took a page from mobile phone designers' playbooks and architected their systems with energy usage in mind, power consumption could be reduced by 90%. This change could reduce overall U.S. residential energy consumption by 1.3%, saving $2.5B annually. Just this one change to a common consumer electronics device is an example of the steps that manufacturers can take to get to the 24-26% CO2 reduction goals set at the 2015 Paris Climate Accords.
In a 2015 report, the Natural Resources Defense Council analyzed home idle load and recommended that device manufacturers design their devices to use less than 0.5 watts in low power mode. They also recommended that devices automatically switch to low power mode after extended periods of user inactivity, when appropriate. The pay TV providers have reached neither goal in their design of DVRs.
In 2012, the Set-top Box Voluntary Agreement set goals for increased energy efficiency in STPs. The industry has reported annually on their energy savings, but the goals can be updated to reflect greater efficiencies that are possible with mobile hardware components.
On The Interchange podcast, Green Tech Media interviewed a lawyer for the cable industry, Pierre Delforge from NRDC, Sense CEO Michael Phillips and Sense Hardware Lead Joe Bamberg.
"Consumers have little control over their choice of cable DVR, and most people assume that turning off the TV will lower their energy costs. Meanwhile, cable DVRs are always on, using far more energy than necessary. To add insult to injury, cable providers have been crowing about their energy efficiencies, which lag the rest of the high tech industry by a huge margin. The cable industry needs to step up and implement mobile-tested hardware to significantly lower the energy costs of their DVRs," said Mike Phillips, CEO of Sense, an innovative company for smart, green homes.
What Can Consumers Do?
Consumers can take steps to reduce their own cable DVR's energy usage:
Check that their cable or pay TV provider has swapped out their old DVR for an ENERGY STAR certified model.
Support efforts by consumer advocacy groups that advocate for greater energy savings by the pay TV and set-top box industry, as well as other makers of consumer electronics.
Stream content on their mobile devices, which deliver higher energy efficiencies.
Links: Sense
Evolution Digital launches 4K Android TV STB
Savings from U.S. STB energy agreement top $2 billion
Canada pay TV industry announces STB efficiency agreement
Energy efficient STBs saved US consumers $646m in 2015
Ultra HD TVs could add $1 billion to U.S. viewers' annual energy bills


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