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YBN Cordae and Anderson .Paak's 'Fallon' Set Was One of the Best of 2019
They debuted the hard-hitting J. Cole-produced track 'RNP,' from the Maryland rapper's debut album 'The Lost Boy.'
by Josh Terry
Jul 24 2019, 1:23pm
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This Friday, YBN Cordae puts out his debut album The Lost Boy, and the previews of the LP so far have been impressive. He's already shared the menacing "Have Mercy" along with the soulful, Chance The Rapper-assisted "Bad Idea," but his latest single from the forthcoming effort is his best yet. On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night, the artist born Cordae Dunston enlisted Anderson .Paak to premiere "RPN." The result is one of the most memorable late night performances of the year so far.
What's striking about Cordae's late night debut is how obviously comfortable he is performing with .Paak. Their chemistry is tangible both onstage and on the song, where the two gleefully trade bars over an expertly-produced beat from J. Cole. Perhaps the most telling line is when Cordae raps, "Ayy, we like a cold team" to which .Paak replies, like "Shaq and Kobe." On a different note, the J. Cole connection is notable because one of Cordae's most prominent tracks is his response to the rapper's "1985,"which called out the new generation of rappers. Listen to the actual track below.


There are few events in life as painful as the death of your spouse. It's an emotional time of grieving and struggling to cope with your sudden, overwhelming loss. You may find it difficult to heal in the aftermath. It may also be nearly impossible to consider what this new reality means for you and your surviving family financially.
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You have effectively become a single parent. You must consider what would happen to your children if you were not able to be around for them tomorrow. If something should happen to you, your children will be left without a parent to care for them. They will still need housing, food, clothing, college funds, medical insurance and more after you are gone. It is up to you to make sure that you leave your children a financial legacy to ensure their guardian can provide adequate care, while also covering your funeral costs.
This is a great way to protect your family for a specific amount of time. This type of insurance pays a guaranteed benefit in the event of the insured's death during a specified term. Typical term lengths could be 10, 20, or 30 years. It comes with an end date, but it is also the more affordable option and the easiest to understand. You might purchase term life insurance to help supplement your income until retirement, until your kids are grown, or to make sure the mortgage gets paid in full.
This lasts you for the rest of your life, unlike term insurance. While it can be more expensive, it has several attractive advantages. This type of insurance comes with fixed premiums, meaning your monthly payment is locked in and will not increase as you age. Your policy will also build cash value over time that you can borrow against tax-free to help you fund your retirement, for instance, or your child's college fund. Consumers appreciate the benefit of forced savings, as well. And as long as you're paying the premium, you're covered if you die tomorrow or you live to be a hundred and twenty.
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Title: Molecular dynamics simulations of a new branched antimicrobial peptide : a comparison of force fields
Authors: Li, Jianguo
Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani
Bai, Yang
Liu, Shouping
Zhou, Lei
Pervushin, Konstantin
Verma, Chandra
Beuerman, Roger W.
Keywords: Biological Sciences
Source: Li, J., Lakshminarayanan, R., Bai, Y., Liu, S., Zhou, L., Pervushin, K., Verma, C.,& Beuerman, R. W. (2012). Molecular dynamics simulations of a new branched antimicrobial peptide: A comparison of force fields. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 137(21), 215101-.
Series/Report no.: The journal of chemical physics
Abstract: Branched antimicrobial peptides are promising as a new class of antibiotics displaying high activity and low toxicity and appear to work through a unique mechanism of action. We explore the structural dynamics of a covalently branched 18 amino acid peptide (referred to as B2088) in aqueous and membrane mimicking environments through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Towards this, we carry out conventional MD simulations and supplement these with replica exchange simulations. The simulations are carried out using four different force fields that are commonly employed for simulating biomolecular systems. These force fields are GROMOS53a6, CHARMM27 with cMAP, CHARMM27 without cMAP and AMBER99sb. The force fields are benchmarked against experimental data available from circular dichroism and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies, and show that CHARMM27 without cMAP correction is the most successful in reproducing the structural dynamics of B2088 both in water and in the presence of micelles. Although the four force fields predict different structures of B2088, they all show that B2088 stabilizes against the head group of the lipid through hydrogen bonding of its Lys and Arg side chains. This leads us to hypothesize that B2088 is unlikely to penetrate into the hydrophobic region of the membrane owing to the high free energy costs of transfer from water, and possibly acts by carpeting and thus disrupting the membrane.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101593
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4768899
Rights: © 2012 American Institute of Physics. This paper was published in The Journal of Chemical Physics and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of American Institute of Physics. The paper can be found at the following official DOI: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4768899]. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
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Ethereum had a less than stellar Q3, intense 6 months ahead as ETH 2.0 looms — here's what happened
The next 6 months will be very important for Ethereum
By now, you should almost certainly know about Ethereum, ETH the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap. But if you needed a quick recap, here it is.
Ethereum's creators wanted to build a platform that would allow users all over the world to write decentralized applications, and use the Ethereum blockchain as a "world computer."
The decentralized platform made smart contracts a key part of the blockchain conversation, and demonstrated to the world how blockchain technology can be used for more than just cryptocurrency.
It sounds great, but bringing the Ethereum vision to life is proving difficult for its community of supporters and developers.
One of the most contentious topics of the moment for the platform and one of its creators, Vitalik Buterin, is the transition to ETH 2.0. The series of updates and improvements designed to make the Ethereum platform faster and more reliable will not be implemented overnight. It's going to be a long process, that's due to commence next year, but won't be complete for many more months.
One of Ethereum's founding members, Joseph Lubin, has said that the updates should make Ethereum far more scalable within the next 24 months. But of course, a lot has to fall into place for that fact to be realized.
Before we take a look at how Ethereum has performed in the third quarter of the year, let's remind ourselves how things went down in Q2.
Q2 performance recap
In terms of trading price, Ethereum had a solid second quarter.
At the start of April, Ethereum experienced a rally which saw its price increase by 27 percent from $139 to $177. Unfortunately, this uptick in price was short-lived — by the end of April a market correction pulled Ethereum's trading price down to $150.
Thankfully, the correction didn't have a lasting effect on Ethereum, and over the course of May the digital coin showed nothing but steady growth. Over the four weeks of May, ETH's price increased a whopping 95 percent, topping out at just over $271 per coin.
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End of Q2 Ethereum performance
Over the final month of Q2, Ethereum continued to grow. It didn't show the same pace it had shown a month earlier, but by the end of June, Ethereum was up on where it was at the start of the month. As it happened, Ethereum reached its quarterly high trading price ($335) in June.
Over the course of the quarter, Ethereum's trading price rose 114 percent. Not too shabby if you're holding on to ETH tokens for the long run.
Ethereum/USD Q3
Despite having a stellar Q2 and ending the previous quarter on a high, the same cannot be said for the digital coin's Q3 performance.
From the first day of the quarter Ethereum's price has proceeded on a steady downward trajectory.
Ethereum opened Q3 trading at around $285. The coin held steady around this price during the first week of the quarter. It even saw a 7.7 percent increase on July 8 as its price rose to $307 per token.
Early Q3 Ethereum performance chart
Unfortunately, that would be as good as it got for Ethereum at the start of Q3. By the third week of July its price started tumbling, a trend seen across a host of other cryptocurrencies and digital tokens.
By July 16, Ethereum hit $202, the lowest trading price for the whole month. This is a painful 34-percent drop over the high it saw in the first week of the month.
Ethereum mid-Q3 performance
The cryptocurrency showed no signs of rallying to better things as it progressed into the middle of Q3. Over the entire month of August, ETH continued to drop in value.
There was a small uptick in trading price at the start of the month which saw Ethereum's price grow from $211 to around $231, a 9.5-percent increase.
However, the decentralized token went into free fall for the rest of month.
At the end of August, ETH was trading for $166 per coin, a 28-percent drop from the high it saw at the start of month. Thinking back to the $307 quarterly high seen in July, at the end of August the token had decreased by 46 percent in price.
Ethereum Q3 performance chart
Despite a slow and steady price rally over the first two weeks of September, the last month of the quarter proved to be just as cruel a mistress as the first two.
Ethereum opened September trading at a hair over $168. Over the next two and a half weeks, its price grew steadily eventually reaching $217, a 30 percent increase.
Overall Q3 performance for Ethereum
Unfortunately, the coin's price didn't continue to grow or make up for its poor performance at the start of the quarter. The 30 percent increase seen in the middle of the month was erased almost immediately as Ethereum's price dropped on September 20, it eventually settled at $162 a few days later.
Major events in Q3 for Ethereum
Perhaps Ethereum's sub-par performance in Q3 was a result of the lack of positive news for Buterin's baby.
In August, Vitalik Buterin warned the community that his blockchain was "almost full," and that a lack of scalability is proving to be a consistent bottleneck. Ultimately, it seems that keeping organizations from joining the network, isn't good for adoption.
What's more, research from cloud service provider Chainstack showed that over half of Ethereum nodes are running on cloud computing services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
That's incredibly shaky news for a platform that positions itself as "decentralized." If that wasn't bad enough, in early September Ethereum overtook Bitcoin in terms of daily fees. Perhaps a sign that Ethereum is struggling to deal with the volume of users.
That said, it's not all bad news for the so-called "world computer." Dapp developers still love Ethereum, even if it is lagging behind in active users, according to Dapp Radar.
There was also some good news for traders, as eToro announced the addition of five Ethereum-based tokens to its professional trading platform, eToro X. It also said it has plans to add a further 115 in the future.
Looking ahead to Q4 and beyond
The start of Q4 is already looking more positive for Ethereum — within the first two weeks of October Ethereum's price reached $195.
A small market correction saw Ethereum's price drop back down to trade between $160 and $180 for the following week.
The future of Buterin's platform hangs in the balance, though. News that its blockchain is struggling to deal with demands on its resources means the future looks uncertain at best.
According to a CoinDesk report published in Q3, Ethereum is facing challenges on all fronts. It doesn't just have to address its scalability woes, it also has to consider its future as money.
However, investors don't seem to be immediately worried about Ethereum's short term future. It seems Buterin and co have doing enough to keep traders interested, for now.
With every passing week, we get closer to the planned launch of ETH 2.0. How that affects the long term functionality of the platform though, remains to be seen. But it might be time to grab the popcorn, because Q4 2019 and Q1 2020 are going to be interesting.
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This classic Russian Orthodox Church, with colourful ornate domes and an interior decorated with over 7,500 square metres of mosaics, is so lavish that it took 24 years to build. One of the finest examples of late Empire-style architecture.
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A symphony of 144 fountains and canals, better known as the Grand Cascade, was partly engineered by Peter the Great himself. Enter from the Lower Park to access the fountains of Peterhof Palace and admire this uncontested centrepiece in its full glory from early May to early October.
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Saint Petersburg's Palace Square wasn't just significant during the former Russian Empire – it remains one of the most striking squares in the world even today. Walk from Nevsky Prospekt towards the Narva Triumphal Arch for an amazing first impression of the Winter Palace.
Flights to Saint Petersburg
This 300-year-old city is built on 42 islands and is also known as the Venice of the North. Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great and was the capital of Russia until 1918. In 1914, its name was changed to the more Russian-sounding Petrograd before being renamed Leningrad in 1924. It was not until 1991 that the city returned to its original name of Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg is a majestic city with an abundance of beautiful cathedrals, unique museums (many of which exhibit art collections owned by Tsar Peter the Great himself) and the pièce de résistance: the Hermitage. Saint Petersburg is one of Russia's most modern cities and the second largest city after Moscow. It's an important port on the Baltic Sea, situated on the Neva River in Russia's northwestern mainland.
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The Hermitage is Saint Petersburg's premier tourist attraction. This enormous museum consists of six buildings, the most important of which is the Winter Palace. It is home to a collection of over 3 million works of art from the Stone Age to the 20th century.
Enjoy a boat tour along the rivers and canals: Saint Petersburg has a total of 93 canals and 342 bridges, including 22 drawbridges across the Neva. A boat trip is a great opportunity to enjoy a different perspective as you explore the city.
One of Saint Petersburg's most impressive buildings is undoubtedly the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood. The church was built in memory of Tsar Alexander II, on the site of his assassination by nihilists. Its construction took almost 25 years and was mainly funded by the Imperial family and many private donors. After admiring the exterior of the church, enter the building to gaze upon 7,500m2 of colourful Art Nouveau mosaics.
Home to some of the world's best dance companies, you can't visit Saint Petersburg without marvelling at one of its world-famous ballet performances. Book your tickets in advance to enjoy a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake or the Nutcracker at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Watch the official opening and closing of the fountains at the majestic Peterhof Palace, the former summer residence of the Russian monarchs. This UNESCO World Heritage site is just outside the city centre of Saint Petersburg; with its elegant grandeur, it is often referred to as the Russian Versailles.
The small Vodka Museum is entirely devoted to Russia's national drink and showcases its history from the 12th to the 20th century. Exhibits include vodka bottles in unusual shapes and humorous dioramas explaining the evolution of the Russian firewater. You can also enjoy a taste of several different vodkas and some traditional Russian snacks.
Walk up to the colonnade of Saint Isaac's Cathedral to admire a magnificent view of the city. The cathedral is Russia's largest church and one of the 5 highest one-dome constructions in the world. Its dome is gilded with 200lbs of gold and decorated with twelve angel statues.
Although the White Nights of the northern hemisphere are not unique to Saint Petersburg, no other city has received such poetic and literary acclaim for this phenomenon. Take a romantic stroll along the banks of the Neva river and experience the city's unique atmosphere in (almost) broad daylight. Night becomes so indistinguishable from day that the Saint Petersburg authorities have no need to turn the city's streetlights on!
Practical information for your trip to Saint Petersburg
Flights with Brussels Airlines arrive at Pulkovo Airport (LED). Located about 20km south of the city, you can travel from the airport to the city by taxi or public bus (although you should note that buses don't run at night). The 39 bus runs between Pulkovo Airport and Moskovskaya subway station and takes 20-25 minutes. The fare is about 40 roubles per person and 40 roubles per piece of luggage; taking a taxi to the subway station costs 600 roubles. From Moskovskaya, you can take the subway or buses to the city centre and other districts.
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Currency: The currency of Russia is the rouble (or ruble).
Country Dialling Code: +7.
Electrical Sockets: Saint Petersburg uses the standard European two-pronged socket.
Travel information: When visiting, make sure you have a valid passport. Depending on your nationality, you may require a visa and additional travel documents to visit Russia. For all information on visas and travel documents, visit www.iatatravelcentre.com.
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Do's and don'ts in Saint Petersburg
No matter how sunny and warm it may seem in the morning, a compact umbrella and a light jacket are must-haves for all visitors to Saint Petersburg, even in the middle of summer. Due to its location between the Baltic Sea and Lake Ladoga, Saint Petersburg's weather can be quite unpredictable.
It may seem unusual, but visitors are not allowed to walk on the grass in Saint Petersburg's parks. Uniformed officers may approach you and you may have to pay a considerable fine, even if you're just standing briefly on the grass to take a photograph.
Russia is a religious country and almost all of its best sites have their roots in religion. When entering churches, monasteries and cathedrals, be respectful of dress codes. Women are expected to cover their bare shoulders and their heads, while men should remove hats and should not wear shorts.
It is also a very superstitious country: shaking hands in the doorway is considered bad luck. Guests should always bring a gift, so do bring one when visiting someone's home.
Local phrases & essential vocabulary
Even though Russians don't speak much English, most of them know some basic words and are better at understanding than speaking. If you are comfortable with technology, using a translation application on your smartphone can be very helpful. The Russian language uses the Cyrillic alphabet and is quite challenging for English speakers, but it's still a good idea to know a few basic words.
Dobraye ootro, dobriy den', and dobriy vyecher; good morning, good afternoon, and good evening (pronounced : Dob-ray ooh-t-row, dob-ray den, and dob-ray vee-chair) are the easiest greetings to remember.
Preevyet is a simple way of saying hello.
Spaseeba (spa-see-ba) means "thank you", while prasteete (pras-tee-te) means "excuse me".
Most importantly of all, is how to say "cheers", as toasts of vodka are frequent during meals. Na Zdorovie (nas-tro-ve-ay) is roughly translated as "to health". The more modern Nostrovia, meaning "let's drink", is a slang term and the most common phrase for foreigners to know.
When to go to Saint Petersburg
The weather in Saint Petersburg is quite unpredictable, as the city has high levels of humidity all year round which can be hard to bear at times. That's why waterproof clothing is essential, no matter what the season. In terms of the temperature, the good news is that Saint Petersburg is a maritime city so it never gets really cold – at least by Russian standards. In the depths of winter, the temperature can reach as low as -10°C, while summer temperatures of higher than 30° are almost unheard of. Being a northerly city, winter nights can also be incredibly long which makes late spring and early autumn the ideal times to visit, although long summer days may be an attractive option too.
What to eat in Saint Petersburg
When in Russia, eat like the Russians do. The country is known for its hearty meals: get ready for calorific dishes. Most menus will include thick soups, alongside filling meat courses and root vegetables.
Saint Petersburg's culinary treats include:
Pelmeni – best translated as Russian dumplings, traditionally made with different kinds of meat. When served with a sweet filling (usually with berries or cottage cheese), the dish is called vareniki and is just as delicious.
Caviar – Sturgeon roe, a Russian speciality.
Pirozhki – small-sized buns stuffed with a variety of sweet or savoury fillings, made as a compact alternative to a full-sized pie.
Beef stroganoff – sautéed beef with mushrooms and paprika.
Borscht – beetroot soup served with sour cream and a small savoury bun known as pampushki
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Pornography has been a major issue over the centuries. Visual and written contents related to sex have been blamed on wooing the young generation to immorality and promoting sexual discriminations in the society. A fight to minimize the content of sexually stimulating texts and images has been an ongoing for a long period of time. In his book, John Semonche identifies the government's efforts to censor book contents by advocating for a clean books bill (10). However, these efforts were faced by a number of oppositions, especially from publishers and authors who termed the move as a far-reaching confrontation to the American literature freedom. These oppositions caused the failure of the content regulations by the proposed bill. Subsequent concerns lad to a new way of censorship that constituted punishing of the publications (Semonche 12). The move led to a restriction on the inflow of pornographic material in the US. However, there was still an internal circulation; in 1897, the US congress curbed this by criminalizing it.
Following the development and growth of the use of the Internet in the modern society, major impacts have been noted in the place of pornography. First, there is easy access of the content by most of the youth who are frequent users and subscribers of the Internet. The Internet has provided an opportunity for individuals to manipulate and produce pornographic materials without necessarily involving other people. This was after the development of the software utilized in the production of animations. Photographs are being manipulated to produce this effect. Producers are now considering the production of these contents in 3D, for example, the 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, which was realized in April 2011 inHong Kong. In the United States, a number of sites also have been established for adult entertainment. These sites contain varied pornographic content. Additionally, the internet providers have formulated a method where subscribers can pay for the services and are at liberty to access any content they desire. These developments have overtaken the sale of print materials, which was a major source of the pornography for most people.
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The anti-pornographic society generally constitutes of feminist individuals who are of the view that pornography is a source of violence against women. These claims have been ascertained by the Campaign against Pornography & Censorship (CPC) group, which claims that pornography is a major cause of sexual violence against women. According to Pollard, pornography is a major contributor to rape and other forms of sexual discriminations (2). The anticensorship position on the other hand advocates for reforming of the major factors through an assenting action. Individuals in support of this position claim that censorship of the pornographic material is a move by the government to keep a hold on women.
In the wake of claims made by various individuals concerning the negative effects of pornography on the society, the government set up a commission to study these claims. The commission concluded that these claims had no sufficient evidence. In essence, they recommended that the adult society should be allowed to access their chosen mode of entertainment without restrictions. A number of individuals seem to have come up in opposition of this report by the Commission set by the Attorney General. Claims are being made that these materials tend to promote child participation in immoral behaviors and encourage violence against women. Dr. Judith Reisman considers the commissions stand as ignorant of the effects and dangers that these materials have on children (Baptist Pillar par. 22). Dr. James Dobson makes the same sentiments (Baptist Pillar par. 23). Many people are awed by this report and consider the commission's stand as a major contradiction; questions arise as to whether the officials are in support of the safety of its people or of their own interests.
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Dairy to CARE Food Pantry!
Last Monday, the American Dairy Association Indiana donated dairy products to the Community Action Relief Effort (CARE) Mobile Pantry program. This is the first time that dairy products have been donated to this cause, and they will be distributed during the first week of June, July, and August. Dairy has historically been an unmet need of food pantries. Being able to donate dairy to the mobile food pantry to help people have a complete meal, that includes delicious dairy products is phenomenal!
At the event, Jenni Browning, our Senior Director of Communications and Wellness, was a distinguished guest speaker. Browning shared that, "Milk is one of the most requested but least donated items in food banks today." She additionally said that, "The average food bank customer receives only one gallon of milk per year." These facts are astonishing when considering that the state of Indiana has over 1,000 dairy farmers. As an organization, the American Dairy Association Indiana is proud to be a part of the Mobile Pantry event, and plans to establish the precedent of donating dairy products every year.
The Mobile Pantry program is a partnership between Gleaners Food Bank, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the Indianapolis Fire Department, and the Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services Department. The CARE Mobile Pantry has served over 170,000 residents of Indianapolis since its beginning in 2015. To be able to include dairy products in its distribution is great because dairy products have so much nutritional value to them. Browning said that she believes it to be very valuable to children's growth and development, and has tremendous nutritional value. Including these products will ensure that the residents served will have well-balanced meals.
"Dairy farmers, many of whom are active in their community's food pantry and community support efforts, see this need," said Browning. "For those of us who are fortunate enough to know where our next meal is coming from, it is our responsibility to help those who don't know. Thank you to Hard working people at Gleaners, our friends at Prairie Farms for the dairy foods and all community members that make CARE mobile pantries possible."
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Penstemon means five stamens in Greek. Four of the stamens are fertile (make pollen) and one is sterile. The common name of beard tongue comes from the tuft of hairs on the sterile stamen resembling a beard.
Find P. digitalis in sunny location to partial shade in moist areas, prairies or open woodlands. Its erect, 2-5 ft. stems are topped with stalked clusters of white, tubular, unevenly five-lobed flowers. Blooms between May and July. Foliage can be semi-evergreen in the South.
The tuft of hairs on the anthers may be important in pollination of Foxglove. The hairs rub against the backs of bees and other insect pollinators that visit the plant and cause the anthers to bend in such a way as to deposit pollen on the backs of the insects.
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The twenty-one year old launched daisie last summer in partnership with Dom Santry. Yesterday, she spoke to students about her career and thelaunch of the app, as well as offering her advice about breaking in to the industry as a young creative.
The actress spoke to Birmingham Eastside to tell us about daisie and what she has learnt from this new venture.
At the age of eight, Maisie told students her dream was to become a dancer. She was offered a place by a dance academy, however, circumstances prevented her from attending due to the fees.
By age twelve, she got her big break when she was casted to play the character Arya Stark in Game of Thrones. She said this was the moment that she realised "everything happens for a reason".
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Game of Thrones series 8 is due to air later this year. Despite our best efforts, Maisie would not reveal any tid bits.
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The actress also visited BCU's FADE Radio yesterday, and told BCU head of School of Media, Sarah Jones, how impressed she was with the level of engagement from students.


It has been a fast going week. Full of interesting activities and nice experiences. Even if the weather is turning into grey and darkness, I managed -with a little help- to find the colourful resistance of Romania.
Somehow I fixed last week's bitter taste: the kids are able to see farther than I thought. They know you care even when things do not work well. That is my new learning this week. All days are not going to be perfect, but they will appreciate your effort and they will be willing to see you again and have real fun with you. Like we did this time in the hungarian school.
But, of course, it has been a week of more than working with youth. This week we became enthusiastic tourists driving through Maramures and finding some corners that thrilled us. We lighted the candles in the wooden churches, understand the atrocity of history, perceive the infinite colours in the merry cementery, feel the infinity looking to the never ending mountains and be atracted by the dense creepy forests.
Finally, the week could not end in a better way but with the sound and luminity of fireworks in the night sky. Fire and warmth in the cold. A whole town together expecting the light to come.


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"He's Alive" is een aflevering van de Amerikaanse televisieserie The Twilight Zone. Het scenario van de aflevering werd geschreven door Rod Serling.

Plot

Opening

Verhaal
Peter Vollmer, de leider van een groep neonazi's, krijgt bezoek van een schimmige figuur die hem aanspoort nog fanatieker op te treden. Op advies van de mysterieuze man wordt Peter steeds populairder bij zijn groep. Dit verandert wanneer zijn kamergenoot, een oudere Joodse man genaamd Ernst, een van Peters speeches onderbreekt en hem openlijk in het gezicht slaat voor wat hij doet. Zo ziet men Peter voor wat hij werkelijk is: een zielig klein mannetje.

De mysterieuze man onthult zichzelf eindelijk en blijkt de geest van Adolf Hitler te zijn. Hij beveelt Peter om Ernst dood te schieten. Peter doet dit, maar wordt vrijwel direct gearresteerd door de politie op verdenking van een andere misdaad. Peter probeert te vluchten, en wordt door de agenten doodgeschoten. Hitler vertrekt weer om een geschiktere opvolger te zoeken.

Slot

Rolverdeling
Dennis Hopper: Peter Vollmer
Ludwig Donath: Ernst Ganz
Curt Conway: Adolf Hitler
Howard Caine: Nick
Barnaby Hale: Stanle

Citaten
"Mr. Vollmer! I was making speeches before you could read them! I was fighting battles when your only struggle was to climb out of a womb! I was taking over the world when your universe was a crib! And as for being in darkness, Mr. Vollmer.... I INVENTED Darkness!!" —Adolf Hitler

Achtergrond
Met deze aflevering wilde Rod Serling duidelijk maken, dat zolang er dingen als racisme en haat zijn in de wereld, mensen als Adolf Hitler voort blijven bestaan.

De aflevering staat bekend als een van de meest controversiële van de serie. Nog geen week na de eerste uitzending werden Rod Serling en zijn team overspoeld door brieven van verontwaardigde kijkers. Desondanks besloot Rod Serling zijn verhaal ook aan een groter publiek te tonen.

Trivia
Dit is de enige aflevering waarin Rod Serling niet aan de Twilight Zone refereert in zijn slotdialoog.

Externe links

 TV.com episode page

Aflevering van The Twilight Zone

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Q: scikit-learn: Is there a way to provide an object as an input to predict function of a classifier? I am planning to use an SGDClassifier in production. The idea is to train the classifier on some training data, use cPickle to dump it to a .pkl file and reuse it later in a script. However, there are certain high cardinality fields which are categorical in nature and translated to one hot matrix representation which creates around 5000 features. Now the input that I get for the predict will only have one of these features and rest all will be zeroes. It will also include ofcourse the other numerical features apart from this. From the docs, it appears that the predict function expects an array of array as input. Is there any way I can transform my input to the format expected by the predict function without having to store the fields everytime I train the model ?
Update
So, let us say my input contains 3 fields:
{
  rate: 10, // numeric
  flagged: 0, //binary
  host: 'somehost.com' // keeping this categorical
}

host can have around 5000 different values. Now I loaded the file to a pandas dataframe, used the get_dummies function to transform the host field to around 5000 new fields which are binary fields.
Then I trained by model and stored it using cPickle.
Now, when I need to use the predict function, for the input, I only have 3 fields (shown above). However, as per my understanding the predict endpoint will expect an array of vectors and each vector is supposed to have those 5000 fields.
For the entry that I need to predict, I know only one field for that entry which will be the value of host itself.
For example, if my input is
{
  rate: 5,
  flagged: 1
  host: 'new_host.com'
}

I know that the fields expected by the predict should be:
{
  rate: 5,
  flagged: 1
  new_host: 1
}

But if I translate it to vector format, I don't know which index to place the new_host field. Also, I don't know in advance what other hosts are (unless I store it somewhere during the training phase)
I hope I am making some sense. Let me know if I am doing it the wrong way.

A:
I don't know which index to place the new_host field

A good approach that has worked for me is to build a pipeline which you then use for training and prediction. This way you do not have to concern yourself with the column index of whatever output is produced by your transformation:
# in training
pipl = Pipeline(steps=[('binarizer', LabelBinarizer(),
                ('clf', SGDClassifier())])
model = pipl.train(X, Y)
pickle.dump(mf, model)

# in production
model = pickle.load(mf)
y = model.predict(X)

As X, Y inputs you need to pass an array-like object. Make sure the input is the same structure for both training and test, e.g.
X = [[data.get('rate'), data.get('flagged'), data.get('host')]]
Y = [[y-cols]] # your example doesn't specify what is Y in your data

More flexible: Pandas DataFrame + Pipeline
What also works nicely is to use a Pandas DataFrame in combination with  sklearn-pandas as it allows you to use different transformations on different column names. E.g.
df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data)
mapper = DataFrameMapper([
        ('host', sklearn.preprocessing.LabelBinarizer()),
        ('rate', sklearn.preprocessing.StandardScaler())
])
pipl = Pipeline(steps=[('mapper', mapper),
                       ('clf', SGDClassifier())])
X = df[x-cols]
y = df[y-col(s)]
pipl.fit()

Note that x-cols and y-col(s) are the list of the feature and target columns respectively.

A: You should use a scikit-learn transformer instead of get_dummies. In this case, LabelBinarizer makes sense. Seeing as LabelBinarizer doesn't work in a pipeline, this is one way to do what you want:
binarizer = LabelBinarizer()
# fitting LabelBinarizer means it remembers all the columns it's seen
one_hot_data = binarizer.fit_transform(X_train[:, categorical_col])
# replace string column with one-hot representation
X_train = np.concatenate([np.delete(X_train, categorical_col, axis=1),
                          one_hot_data], axis=1)

model = SGDClassifier()
clf.fit(X_train, y)

pickle.dump(f, {'clf': clf, 'binarizer': binarizer})

then at prediction time:
estimators = pickle.load(f)
clf = estimators['clf']
binarizer = estimators['binarizer']

one_hot_data = binarizer.transform(X_test[:, categorical_col])
X_test = np.concatenate([np.delete(X_test, categorical_col, axis=1),
                         one_hot_data], axis=1)
clf.predict(X_test)

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Q: How to combine bottom-aligned and up-aligned trees? I have a sentence with two possible meanings - so, two possible syntactic trees.
I read the documentation of tikz-qtree and learned how to do upside-down trees. but I can't find a way to combine the two trees in one; both leading to the same sentence.
This is my code at the moment:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[portuguese]{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree-compat}
\usepackage{tikz-dependency}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[frontier/.style={distance from root=5cm}]
\Tree [.S [.SN [.Det o ] [.N menino ] ] [.SV [.Vtd viu ] [.SN [.Det a ] [.N menina ] ] [.SP [.P com ] [.SN [.Det o ] [.N telescópio ] ] ] ] ]
\end{tikzpicture}
\par
\begin{tikzpicture}[frontier/.style={distance from root=5cm}, grow'=up ]
\Tree [.S [.SN [.Det o ] [.N menino ] ] [.SV [.SV [.Vtd viu ] [.SN [.Det a ] [.N menina ] ] ] [.SP [.P com ] [.SN [.Det o ] [.N telescópio ] ] ] ] ]
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

And the result:

What can I do to have only one tree (or better saying: two trees leading to only one sentence) with this structure?

A: A quick solution is to make the words of the second sentence zero-height but original-width (with \hphantom, i.e., horizontal phantom) and then manually adjust the space between the trees to make them appear combined.
Note that manual spacing can lead to issues where the upper tree ends up behind the bars of the lower tree (and similarly the subject may end up behind bars when looking at girls through telescopes I guess).
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[portuguese]{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree-compat}
\usepackage{tikz-dependency}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[frontier/.style={distance from root=5cm}]
\Tree [.S [.SN [.Det o ] [.N menino ] ] [.SV [.Vtd viu ] [.SN [.Det a ] [.N menina ] ] [.SP [.P com ] [.SN [.Det o ] [.N telescópio ] ] ] ] ]
\end{tikzpicture}
\par\vspace{-2.5mm}
\begin{tikzpicture}[frontier/.style={distance from root=5cm}, grow'=up ]
\Tree [.S [.SN [.Det \hphantom{o} ] [.N \hphantom{menino} ] ] [.SV [.SV [.Vtd \hphantom{viu} ] [.SN [.Det \hphantom{a} ] [.N \hphantom{menina} ] ] ] [.SP [.P \hphantom{com} ] [.SN [.Det \hphantom{o} ] [.N \hphantom{telescópio} ] ] ] ] ]
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Result:


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Ajla Tomljanović (born 7 May 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player.
Personal life[edit] Edit
Tomljanović was born on 7 May 1993 to Croatian father Ratko and a Bosnian mother Emina.[2] She was born and raised in Zagreb, where she remains.[1][2] Her elder sister, Hana, played tennis for University of Virginia.[2] Tomljanović is a fan of basketball.[1][2] She began playing tennis aged seven and is coached by Fernando Martínez.[1][2]
Tennis career[edit] Edit
[1][2]Tomljanovic at the 2014 Australian Open===Junior career[edit]===
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Professional career[edit] Edit
Tomljanović played her first professional ITF Circuit event in October 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico, and lost 6–4, 4–6, 6–2 toEstefania Craciún in the semifinals. She then qualified for another ITF event in Mexico City, but lost 6–2, 4–6, 6–4 to Karolina Kosińska in the second round.[3] In January 2009 Tomljanović qualified for the ITF event in Boca Raton, Florida, where she lost to Heidi El Tabakh 1–6, 6–4, 6–3 in the second round. She was awarded with a wild card for 2009 BNP Paribas Open inIndian Wells, California, and lost to Angela Haynes 7–5, 6–2.[3][4] Tomljanović then made a chain of three consecutive losses in the second rounds, in at the ITF tournaments in Redding, California, Osprey, Florida, and Makarska, Croatia, losing to, respectively Rika Fujiwara, Katerina Kramperová and Ana Savić. At the ITF event in Zagreb, she lost to Tereza Hladiková in the first round 6–2, 4–6, 6–2.[3] On 10 May 2009 in Zagreb, Tomljanović won her first ITF doubles title, partnering with Croatian fellow Petra Martić.[3][5] Tomljanović missed most of 2012 due to mononucleosis.[6]
2014[edit] Edit
During the preseason Tomljanović began working with coach David Taylor, former Australian Fed Cup captain, who had just parted company with Sam Stosur.[7] At PTT Pattaya Open, Tomljanović lost in the first round to a qualifier, Alla Kudryavtseva4-6, 5-7.
At the French Open, Tomljanović scored one of her biggest win so far. In the first round, she defeated the 2010 French Open winner, Francesca Schiavone. Up next was the 32 seed Elena Vesnina, of whom Tomljanović also dropped no set. Her third round encounter was with the third seed Agnieszka Radwanska. Tomljanović managed another upset as she eliminated Radwanska in straight sets.
Career statistics[edit] Edit
ITF Circuit singles finals (4–7)[edit] Edit
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner–up 1. 29 November 2009 Puebla, Mexico Hard [3]
6–7(4), 3–6
Winner 2. 17 January 2010 Plantation, USA Clay [4]
Runner–up 3. 4 April 2010 Pelham, USA Clay [5]
Edina Gallovits
Runner–up 4. 16 May 2010 Prague, Czech Republic Clay [6]
1–6, 6–7(4)
Winner 5. 13 March 2011 Clearwater, USA Hard [7]
Sesil Karatantcheva
Runner–up 6. 10 April 2011 Jackson, USA Clay [8]
Winner 7. 29 May 2011 Grado, Italy Clay [9]
Alexandra Cadanţu
Runner–up 8. 13 January 2013 Innisbroock, USA Clay [10]
Tadeja Majerič
Runner-up 9. 10 February 2013 Midland, USA Hard [11]
3–6, 6–2, 6–7(2)
Winner 10. 21 April 2013 Dothan, USA Clay [12]
Runner-up 11. 13 October 2013 Macon, USA Hard [13]
2–6, 6-1, 5–7
ITF Circuit doubles finals (3–1)[edit] Edit
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 10 May 2009 Zagreb, Croatia Clay [14]
Petra Martić
Ksenia Milevskaya [16]Anastasia Pivovarova
6–3, 6–7(4), 10–5
Runner–up 2. 3 October 2011 Kansas City, USA Hard [17]
Jamie Hampton
Maria Abramovic [19]Eva Hrdinova
Winner 3. 24 October 2011 Bayamon, Puerto Rico Hard [20]
Chanel Simmonds
Victoria Duval [22]Alexandra Kiick
Winner 4. 7 November 2011 Goldwater Women's Tennis Classic, USA Hard [23]
Maria Sanchez [25]Yasmin Schnack
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This article explores the construction of a particular form of compliance in probation practice during a period in which policy shifted from enforcement towards compliance. The article uses four concepts from Bourdieu's field theory (habitus, field, misrecognition and symbolic violence) to highlight the way in which the shift in policy was attuned to the subjective structure of probation practitioners' habitus but resulted in a form of compliance which was myopic in nature and thus did not adhere to what we know about habitus in probation from other research. The article explores this phenomenon through Bourdieu's notion of misrecognition suggesting that whilst the policy change was regarded generally positively, it is an example of 'symbolic violence'. In turn, this tells us about practitioners' position in the field which is useful in terms of future analyses of how changes to the delivery of community sanctions will manifest in the coming years.


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What is "Promo Disc" ? What's the difference between "Promo Disc" and "BD Box" ? Please tell me if you know.
Will you rip Tasogare Otome x Amnesia?
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In the Chicago Tribune, Sid Smith reviews Eifman Ballet's production of "Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman" at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre through Saturday, April 23, 2011.
Hedy Weiss reviews "Don Quixote" in the Chicago Sun-Times.
In the Los Angeles Times, Victoria Loosleaf reviews "Don Quixote" at the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa on Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
In the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Donald Rosenberg interviews Boris Eifman about "Don Quixote."
Donald Rosenberg reviews "Don Quixote" in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Alastair Macaulay reviews the March 2012 performances of "Rodin" at City Center for the New York Times.
Leigh Witchel reviews "Rodin" for the New York Post.
Eifman Ballet is presenting "Rodin" at the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, California. Michaela Holland reviews the performance for the New University Newspaper at the University of California at Irvine.
Irene Hsiao reviews "Rodin" at Zellerbach Hall at the University of California at Berkeley for San Francisco Weekly.
Lou Fancher reviews the Saturday, May 11, 2013 performance of "Rodin" at Zellerbach Hall for Berkeleyside.
Hedy Weiss previews the May 17-19, 2013 performances of "Rodin" at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre for the Chicago Sun-Times.
William Littler previews the May 23-25, 2013 performances of "Rodin" at Toronto's Sony Centre for the Toronto Star.
Sid Smith reviews the company's performance of "Rodin" at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre for the Chicago Tribune.
A review from Lira at Chicago Now.
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Health Care's Coming Crisis: Out-of-Pocket Costs
Soaring deductibles, co-pays and other costs will be the next big debate in health care.
by Andrew L. Yarrow
Americans have a lot to gripe about when it comes to health care. But there is one very legitimate complaint: the rising cost of co-pays, deductibles, what individuals pay for insurance premiums, and other out-of-pocket (OOP) costs that has remained largely overlooked, thanks to continuing battles over other issues such as Obamacare.
U.S. health care spending now amounts to a mind-boggling $3.3 trillion per year. But if total U.S. health-care spending has risen stratospherically, OOP costs are shooting into outer space. And the rising burden of these costs will be – and should be – the next big health-care issue for consumers and policymakers.
The percentage of the typical American's income spent on OOPs – a tame acronym for a phenomenon that smacks more of profit-driven intent than a minor mistake – has nearly doubled, from 5.3 percent a decade ago to 9.6 percent today, hitting lower-income Americans especially hard, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. During the same period, the average deductible has risen by 130 percent to $1,318 in 2015, with a quarter of workers now in high-deductible plans costing families an average of $4,332 per year, and the average cost of premiums has increased by 60 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund.
As a result, Americans already under financial strain are finding themselves in even more dire straits. At least one in seven Americans skip treatment because of high OOPs, according to the Corporation for Enterprise Development, and 63 percent of Americans don't have enough savings to cover $1,000 in co-pays for an emergency room visit.
Why are OOP costs rising?
Increased cost-sharing by employers is one factor, although the role of employers in this morass is complicated. On the one hand, they have been hit by rising premium costs charged by insurers, making non-wage labor costs grow while arguably making wage increases more difficult. On the other hand, they are passing along more of the total premium costs to their workers. For Americans whose employers provide insurance, the average family premium is $17,545, with employees contributing $4,995, according to Kaiser. Some, on both sides of the aisle, say that Obamacare's "Cadillac Tax" – which is an excise tax on high-cost plans that is scheduled to take effect in 2018 – will incentivize employers to switch to plans that will increase "cost-sharing" with their workers.
Co-pays for doctor visits and prescriptions drugs, which half of Americans and 90 percent of the elderly take, also have been rising. After deductibles are met, the average worker pays a $24 copay for a primary-care office visit and $308 for a hospital admission.
Insurance industry consolidation may also be contributing to rising premiums and OOP costs. Once a patchwork of small, local companies, the $900-billion-a-year private health-insurance industry has been consolidating and growing at lightning speed. UnitedHealthcare (UHC), Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, and Humana are all Fortune 100 companies, and these, together with the Blue Cross Blue Shield association of insurers, accounted for 83 percent of the market in 2014.
Third, the prices charged by providers are rising as well. Pharmaceutical companies and for-profit hospital and nursing-home chains keep raising prices, knowing that someone will pay. Prescription drug prices rose by more than 10 percent in 2015, with copays also rising; a quarter of Americans taking a drug said that they were hard to afford. One recent study found that hospitals mark up prices for common procedures by anywhere from two-and-a-half to 12 times what Medicare has determined is an "allowable cost." The current "fee-for-service" system also encourages providers too order too many tests and procedures, because they are paid for services, not outcomes – and the public generally has been conditioned to ask for more than they need. Government policies like excluding employer-provided insurance as taxable income and barring Medicare from negotiating drug prices also play a part.
To the extent that economists have argued that increasing out-of-pocket costs would rein in Americans' "overconsumption" of health care, this is no longer the case. Untreated illness will reduce productivity, hurting the economy. And, if more Americans don't get needed care and become both indigent and critically ill, ultimately Medicaid – read, the taxpayer – is likely to have to pick up an even larger tab.
It's not surprising that the problem of high out-of-pocket costs is becoming a hot political topic. A December poll found that 62 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Democrats want candidates to address the issue. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has proposed creating a new tax credit of up to $5,000 to help families pay high out-of-pocket costs, requiring insurers to cover three doctor visits each year before people have to pay to meet their deductible, and capping monthly out-of-pocket costs to $250 per month. And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) has called for a refundable tax credit that all Americans could use to purchase health insurance.
But the most significant action so far has been at the state level, as a Cap the Copay movement has won victories in both blue and red states. Measures to cap an individual's monthly co-pay at between $150 and $500 have become law in California, Maryland, Louisiana, Montana, Delaware, and Vermont, and bills are pending in Kentucky and Illinois.
Given the many factors contributing to rising health care costs, simply capping co-pays is unlikely to be a silver bullet. Insurers say, for example, that the likely result would be even higher premiums. But as a growing number of voters start tuning in to this concern, politicians would be wise to devise solutions that won't create more problems than they solve.
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