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La Sierra University Halted the Printing and Distribution of a Student Magazine
February 22, 2016: Adventist Today has obtained a copy of what would have been the February 2014 issue of the Criterion, at that time a quarterly news magazine published for and by students at La Sierra University (LSU), the Adventist institution in Southern California. The issue focused on sexuality, an often painful topic for the young adults involved in Adventist higher education and the administrators of Adventist campuses.
One of the administrators at LSU prohibited the printing and distribution of the magazine, Adventist Today has been told. A copy of what was intended for publication was brought to the attention of Adventist Today during a panel discussion on "Hookup Culture: The Sex/Intimacy Disconnect and Christian Faith" on a Sabbath in November (2015) at Loma Linda University. The two institutions are located about 20 miles from each other.
The 38-page news magazine prepared by the student staff contained 11 articles. The "Editor's note" ask readers to "join the conversation on an essential part of us: sex." It ended, "Let's talk about sex," reflecting the often-expressed feeling among Adventist young adults that the denomination, its clergy and institutions are generally unwilling to address contemporary issues in this area of life.
An article entitled "Reality of Sex" included "a varied look into the sexual perceptions of our campus." Another article, headlined "Sex Talk" asked if students were "candid about our sexual experiences." A third articles was a "conversation with a leader of our LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender] community." Another considered the "relevance of AIDs in Adventism, rediscovered."
An article titled "The Sexy Lie" addressed the use of sexual themes by the advertising industry in America. "Sexual fantasy" considered how sexuality is portrayed in film and art. An article entitled "Female Fans" dealt with female fans rooting for male athletes or at sports events and the sexual overtones involved. "Desire of Love?" asked if there is a difference between the two. "Marriage and Sex" examined "religious perspectives of the sexual ethic." A final article was entitled "The Porn Industry" and considered what draws people to pornography.
All of these are topics that official Adventist journals and other, conservative Christian publications have touched on many times in recent decades. As sexuality has become more open and talked about in contemporary society, religious media often consider it a missional responsibility to help young adults sort out issues related to an aspect of life that at that stage of human development cannot be easily ignored.
Jonah Valdez, the student editor of the issue was interviewed by Adventist Today to obtain his perspective on the events surrounding the decision to halt the final proofing of the Criterion and prohibit its printing. Valdez is a senior history major at LSU with an interest in pursuing a career in journalism. He compiled a time line for Adventist Today and notes on the statements made to him in conjunction with the decision to kill the publication. The events cited were documented in a series of emails that he also provided to Adventist Today.
According to Valdez, the university administrator to whom he, as the editor, reported, was Dr. Yami Bazan, vice president for student life at LSU. Valdez said that initially she reacted positively to a draft of the materials in the issue, praising it as being tasteful and well-written, doing a good job of initiating conversation on the topic among LSU students. However, she was concerned about one movie review. When she received page proofs that included photographs, she also raised a concern about the cover and several of the photos in the issue.
After some discussion, the movie review was replaced with a review of a different movie and one of the photos was also removed from the magazine. The Valdez wanted to retain the cover and an apparent accommodation was reached between he and Bazan with the understanding that it might create controversy for which he had to take responsibility.
Valdez recalls that Bazan signed a requisition to print the revised version of the magazine. Later that day, he discovered that the requisition had been withdrawn. He later was informed that Barzan had decided that the entire issue would not go into print and that the publication of the Criterion as a news magazine would be shut down for six months. She told him there were grammatical errors and it failed to meet journalistic standards, and gave these as reasons for stopping the publication.
In an interview with Bazan, she confirmed that she had been responsible for making the decision to withhold publication of the magazine. She explained that this decision was a difficult one for her but it was made after she had consulted with LSU faculty members familiar with journalistic standards and had been told that there were serious problems with the writing quality of the articles. Bazan insisted that the topic of the magazine had not been an issue in her decision.
So that Adventist Today readers may have an opportunity to assess for themselves the journalistic standards of the publication which never appeared, we would be happy to share a copy of the page proofs. Please email erv.taylor@atoday.org.
This story is not breaking news and very likely could be replicated in recent years at most Adventist institutions of higher education if there were absolute transparency on administrative decisions. Nonetheless, Adventist Today decided to report on this particular incident because the information became available and our concern for the needs of the young adults involved with the Adventist faith.
Elaine Nelson
Denominational employees fear any repercussions from the G.C. so to protect themselves all controversial topics in any entity of the church is not allowed regardless of the message it gives to young people.
Are all the colleges now to become like Weimar? Give them EGW on sex for their information.
My understanding is that EGW came to think of the sex drive as animalistic which, when you think about it, has some undertones of the human evolution idea. Didn't she also teach that the eating of meat drove the sex urge to dizzy and unmanageable heights?
Sometimes I feel so sorry for James White.
Perhaps this website would be an ideal spot to publish some articles that projected a healthy view of sex, written by professional sex therapists, both men and women.
I don't feel sorry for James White he was worse than she was. He was an arian that didn't believe that Jesus was God. That makes him a non christian if he never repented of that, as was the case with most of the early adventist leaders back in the day. Back to the magazine. Its just a bunch of wanna be worldly nonsense. What they need to be talking about is abstinence until marriage and then faithfulness. And if they have had sexual experiences outside of biblical marriage they need to repent not boast. Healthy sex is traditional marriage sex period. Out side of that, sex is sin and unhealthy. Professional sex therapists are just educated ungodly worldly non biblical false teachers witch doctors. The bible says get married and have as much as you want…with the opposite sex of course. Its not that complicated. Im glad they dropped that lame magazine.
JBJones
OMG are you for REAL??
sufferingsunfish
"Healthy sex is traditional marriage sex period. Out side of that, sex is sin and unhealthy. Professional sex therapists are just educated ungodly worldly non biblical false teachers witch doctors."
I have to agree with this statement.
R.P. McMurphy
See no sex.
Hear no sex.
Speak no sex.
LSU the sex free school.
Kellogg, with the hearty endorsement of EGW for a good part of the time, advocated numerous ideas regarding sexuality that most modern people would consider extreme. You can read his ideas in his book Plain Facts, available online. Kellogg believed that contraception was evil, that sex for any reason besides procreation was wrong, and that sex should be indulged only during times of female fertility. He described coitus interruptus as a "shameful maneuver"
As a physician, he treated for solitary vice and a propensity thereto with electric shock, acid, and in extreme cases, genital mutilation. He was in certain respects and with all due respect, a sicko.
William Noel
Adventist school administrators face the challenge of upholding idealism and standards on the one hand and recognizing and dealing with reality on the other. Sometimes the reality of the second causes such embarrassment among administrators that they refuse to believe reality could be so different from the ideal. I saw this in dramatic scale 30 years ago when academy and college leaders refused to believe any students were using alcohol and illegal drugs. It was easy to quietly dismiss a student who was arrested for driving under the influence but hard to hide from news reports about students being arrested for selling illegal drugs to fellow students on campus.
Avoiding issues doesn't help our youth learn to deal with them and blocking a publication usually blows-up in the faces of those who do it, so I wonder how messy the censorship issue will become before the benefits from dealing with the topic of sex is realized.
Nathan Schilt
William, I haven't read the proposed material, but I don't know how one can categorically state, without seeing the content, that "the benefits from dealing with the topic of sex" in a student newspaper outweigh the potential downsides. And even if we were to analyze the content, is it not reasonable to suggest that societal acceptance – even encouragement – of open public discourse regarding sexual relationships and behavior have contributed mightily to the banalization of sexuality, and the transformation of what was once deemed immoral and vulgar into normal matters of personal taste? Some would way, "Yes, thank God!" But I'm not so sure. We are only about 50 years into this great Mengelian social experiment of assaulting traditional private family values and casting off the constraints of religious sources of moral authority.
Isn't there truly a slippery slope here? You say that "blocking a publication usually blows up in the faces of those who do it." How do you know that? Do you know how many times in the past faculty censors have kept material out of student papers without it blowing up in anyone's face? Does articulating and upholding reasonable standards for publication of sensitive, potentially offensive material generally blow up in the faces of those who adhere to standards? You see – the answer to a question usually depends on how it is framed.
You raise some timely points and I must agree with you that there is risk in every direction. While I cannot speak specifically for La Sierra, the two colleges I am familiar with are infused with an administrative mindset that is reluctant to deal with the societal attitudes that students bring to the campus and the refusal by teachers and administrators to see them, or admit to their presence and popularity. Learning to apply spiritual principles requires that we be allowed to see the contrast between spiritual and worldly teachings and given the freedom to discuss and test them before deciding what we will adopt as life practices. The traditional "do it because it is right" or "do it because EGW wrote this" approach doesn't work because it tries to halt the testing process that often leads to a far stronger commitment to spiritual principles.
The "slippery slope" I see is not what will result from open discussion of topics but the spiritual weakness that is cultivated by preventing open discussion of concepts so that our youth can make more informed decisions about life principles. How are your youth to clearly see the true nature of "this great Mengelian social experiment" if we're not going to allow them to discuss it and see what really is under the façade?
We know from long tested experience that keeping sensitive topics in the closet will only result in hiding what they wish to prevent. College students are likely much better informed on sex than some of the faculty. Pretending that it is a subject not worthy of attention is the same as a parent telling their 5-yr.-old who asks questions of "where did I come from" and "How did you and Dad make me" that they will find out when they are older. They may never ask you such questions again and all your hoped-for openness is squelched then and there.
How much faith do students have that the faculty have their interest in education as do the students? The students are learning more about church authorities than might be hoped: "Don't rock the boat."
Ole-Edvin Utaker
The "body", from Greek antiquity and through Church history, has been under constant suspicion. Despite the fact that the concept of incarnation – the embodiment of God the Almighty – has always been at the core of Christian faith, the Church seems to have problems talking honestly about embodied human experience. Why is that? Could it be that strong metaphysical theologies are incompatible with the basic human condition of embodiment? Are we still hostages of a Platonism that devalues materiality?
Having read the entire Criterion, thanks to Erv who graciously offered it to anyone here, there is no earthly reason it should have been refused publication. It represents the students, not the faculty or administration and was a very well written report edited by a journalism major.
Many important questions were raised and the students also contributed to their assessments of sex. Since it is a topic which cannot be ignored, the administration caved, fearing the church's attitude which appears to be 19th century, a la EGW. The administration missed an opportunity to influence by first of all, listening and understanding today's problems. Biologically and physiologically, humans are ready for procreation at the age of late high school today. Yet because of the much greater demands to be productive in a society which is based on mental skills rather than physical, students are not marrying until the late 20s, prolonging their ability for full sexual expression for ten years or more under the biblical idea taught that premarital sex is sinful, never mentioned in the Decalogue.
The Administration's refusal to allow journalist expressions which is why there is a Journalism course, is totally misguided and only reflects on the very arbitrary position of the official church administrators.
As mentioned earlier, the local state university student paper here printed a picture of Trump in a Nazi university with the Heil Salute. The editor was eventually given press…
George Tichy
"Many important questions were raised"
Elaine, remember that asking questions is not an appreciated feature among Adventists. Now, if one asks really tough questions, well…., then some problems may be created and even magazines will not be printed…
fshumate
Those of us who have spent time in Adventist schools were constantly reminded about "The greatest want of the world …". We grew up to maturity, and now we find the greatest want of the Church is different. Turns out the greatest want of the Church is people who will sit down and shut up.
Leo H
Elaine wrote: "Having read the entire Criterion, thanks to Erv who graciously offered it to anyone here, there is no earthly reason it should have been refused publication."
But were there any heavenly reasons for refusing publication?
Carsten Thomsen
Perhaps we should make an Adventist edition of the Bible, where Genesis 38, the story of Lot and his daughters, etc. not to mention the Song of Solomon be removed. And of course, there is also the story of a virgin birth…if this happened today, we would not believe it.
But why don't we instead celebrate and praise Gods greatest gift to mankind, a gift which He calls "very good". By denying this, we are denying the greatness of God, and refusing to enjoy his gifts to us.
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply…And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
Andreas Bochmann
"Bazan insisted that the topic of the magazine had not been an issue in her decision."
With this particular topic there may be reason to question the denial. However, perhaps we need to acknowledge there can be other issues with publication than an "inappropriate" topic. When it comes to sexuality, Adventists have been surprisingly at the forefront of publishing. While a lot of these publications (starting with Kellogg) are of rather strange content (at least in hindsight), it would be unfair to suggest that the topic has been tabooed.
Yet if there should have been political pressure to close down the publication (if a college paper is shut down for a semester … it is unlikely to re-appear) due to the topic – it probably needs to be considered as a fatal error in judgement. Sexuality is part of life, part of God's good creation and certainly has relevance in college life. Thus it needs to be talked about from time to time – without fear of repercussions.
William Noel What, thirty years ago academy leaders were blind to drug and booze abuse? I attend academy from 1967-1969. I remember several students being kicked out for drinking beer and smoking pot. Then I went to an SDA college. I remember smelling booze in on a certain wing and floor while walking down the hall. There might have been some youth leaders blind to drug and booze abuse, but not all of them. And so it goes as time marches on.
It's too bad the school didn't get professional counsel beyond its own narrow world. It would take more than a grain of salt (several pounds) to believe the excuse for not printing the paper. It's blatantly dishonest. The six-month close-down is really suspicious and unfair.
Having said that, the country was subject to adultery and immorality daily in the Clinton administration, and I believe this set the stage for earlier experimentation. The media, of course, is our number one teacher of so-called sexuality and has done much to corrupt children and youth. Education and promotion of true sexuality in the church would have helped.
Like everything, some people on here want to blame EGW for all the church's problems, forgetting that she echoed the culture of her time, and some believe was liberal compared to it. I have also heard stories where she departed from the others of her era that said sex was only for reproduction. The church failed in not addressing the facts of homosexuality a long time ago.
Jim Hamstra
I must reluctantly inform you that college and even high school students, and yes that includes Adventists, have been indulging in premarital sex on a wide scale, far earlier than the Clinton administration. But it has become a cliche for political conservatives to blame the Clintons for everything that has gone wrong in this country. So-called "sexual freedom" was prevalent in Western Europe a generation before the Clintons. Not to mention the situation in Africa.
The media in North America were late to this game compared to Western Europe. This would be obvious to anyone who has traveled to Europe in the last generation, and seen the blatantly public and sexualized billboard and television advertising. If you haven't seen it in Europe then you must have kept your eyes closed in every major city and on every major TV channel. Believe me there are no fines for "wardrobe malfunctions" in most of these countries.
I suppose the Clintons corrupted Western Europe before moving-on to the US of A?
Disclaimer – I am NOT a Democrat. I AM a realist.
I went to an Adventist college in the 60'S and am well aware of what was happening then. Closing our eyes and pretending doesn'the work. This is not an endorsement of anything goes. I would suggest someone printing it off campus and distributing to students who wish to read it. You get better results by open discussion than by suppressing information. Guilt is not a good means of
Making better Christians.
The administration took an opportunity to appear conservative on matters of sexuality but careful investigation [witch hunt] should be made of the behavioral sciences department. This is the department that can be a source of the most toxic rubbish, worse than evolution, marginalizing EGW, overthrow of tradition, etc. Teachers green lighting homosexuality and masturbation are doing a lot more damage than ideology. They participate in injuring a student's self image and defiling their conscience.
Administrators may be slow to act against these bitter roots, empowering them in a round about way to the detriment of the students.
Sam Geli
Generally, American journalists enjoy the freest press laws in the world, as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But attempts to censor student newspapers by officials who don't like controversial content are all-too common. That's why it's important for student newspaper editors to understand press law as it applies to them.
Can student newspapers be Censored? Unfortunately, the answer sometimes seems to be yes. Under the 1988 Supreme Court decision Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, school-sponsored publications can be censored if issues arise that are "reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns." So if a school can present a reasonable educational justification for its censorship, that censorship may be allowed. But according to the Student Press Law Center, the Hazelwood ruling doesn't apply to publications that have been opened as "public forums for student expression." What qualifies for this designation? When school officials have given student editors the authority to make their own content decisions. A school can do that either though an official policy or by simply allowing a publication to operate with editorial independence.
Back in "medieval times" when I worked at the Criterion at La Sierra we were NEVER allowed to make content decisions without faculty approval and supervision. Times change, except for some who want to be "medieval".
In my opinion, the cornerstone of church democracy is a free press.
Mr. Geli said "the cornerstone of church democracy is a free press." Amen, and Amen.
Peter Cieslar
Maybe Dr Erv should Amen this statement:
"the cornerstone of Science is a free press where Scientists in favour of Intelligent Design are not blocked"
Amen Amen ? What doo you say Dr.
I really think La Sierra just needs to get over its squeamishness once and for all rather tip-toeing around the issue. Why not just take the dive and sponsor Sex Week at La Sierra – like other elite, enlightened universities. After all, diversity of sexual identity and expressions is reality, and Christians, of all people, need to be open and honest about it.
Once La Sierra experiences the catharsis of Sex Week, then it can get over the Victorian hang-ups that compel it to act as a censor for natural and legitimate questions that students want to honestly explore. In their publications. We know kids watch Miley Cyrus twerking. Why pretend they don't? After all, what right does La Sierra have to defy the holy trinity of student needs, wants and feelings?
karl Hafner MD
After reading the issue of Criterion re: sexuality, it was one of the best group of articles I have seen designed for Christian college students. We do ourselves, the church, its youth no service by blocking discussion on these important topics. If we persist in wanting to keep the church like it was 50 or more years ago then when that generation dies off there will be no one left (it looks that is the direction we are headed).


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Completing the Meteor-storm will give you 100,000 points and 1,000 in cash.
You can figure out what skull you have not taken by looking at the colour of the meteors in the meteor storm.
If you have caught 2 aliens and the scope is active. You can get a lot of points by the aliens off the screen.
If you have the rank of Admiral and you buy more rank markings, you will get 1,000,000.
Having a multiply active when completing the game will give you a lot of points.


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Q: Python code optimization for uneven subset genetarion I would like to ask for help in optimizing the code.
I have a list of let's say 26 elements:
indata = [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42, 30, 16, 14, 85, 44, 89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0]

Just for further reading: when I mention "subset" => is the sub-'set' of the data, not the data type. I'm looking for "sub-lists".
I'm preparing a function that will perform further calculations on subsets of that list. The problem is, if subsets are generated over uneven numbers sometimes the same element goes into different subsets twice or more. The subsets I'm looking for are:

*

*subset 1 => raw data

*subset 2 & 3 => first and second half of data

*subset 4 - 7 => first, second, third and fourth of 1/4 of data

*subsets 8 - 15 => next 1/8 of set.

I came up with a rather sloppy and long solution inside function body, that goes like this:
for i in iterate:
    if i == 0:
        subset = indata
    elif i == 1:
        subset = indata[0:int(len(indata)/2)]
    elif i == 2:
        subset = indata[int(len(indata)/2):]
    elif i == 3:
        subset = indata[0:int(len(indata)/4)]
    elif i == 4:
        subset = indata[int(len(indata)/4):int(round((len(indata)/4)*2,0))]
    elif i == 5:
        subset = indata[int(round((len(indata)/4)*2,0)):int(round((len(indata)/4)*3,0))]
    elif i == 6:
        subset = indata[int(round((len(indata)/4)*3,0)):]
    elif i == 7:
        subset = indata[0:int(len(indata)/8)]
    elif i == 8:
        subset = indata[int(len(indata)/8):int(round((len(indata)/8)*2,0))]
    elif i == 9:
        subset = indata[int(len(indata)/8)*2:int(round((len(indata)/8)*3,0))]
    elif i == 10:
        subset = indata[int((len(indata)/8)*3+0.25):int(round((len(indata)/8)*4,0))]
    elif i == 11:
        subset = indata[int((len(indata)/8)*4+0.25):int(round((len(indata)/8)*5,0))]
    elif i == 12:
        subset = indata[int((len(indata)/8)*5+0.25):int(round((len(indata)/8)*6,0))]
    elif i == 13:
        subset = indata[int((len(indata)/8)*6+0.5):int(round((len(indata)/8)*7,0))]
    elif i == 14:
        subset = indata[int((len(indata)/8)*7+0.5):]
    else:
        subset = indata[int((len(indata)/8)*7+0.5):]

-here go further instruction on the subset, then loop go back and repeat.

it does what it should (the 0.25 and 0.5 parts added are to avoid including same element goes to two or more subsets, when let's say length of subset is 3.25).
However there must be definitely a better way to do this.
I don't mind having uneven sets, lets say, when dividing by 4 to have 2 7-element lists and 2 6-element list. As long as element are distinct.
Thank you for help.

A: You can use a list comprehension to obtain these subsets:
indata = [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42, 30, 16, 14, 85,
         44, 89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0]

subsets = [indata[p*size:(p+1)*size]
           for parts in (1,2,4,8)
           for size in [len(indata)//parts]
           for p in range(parts)]

Output:
for i,subset in enumerate(subsets,1): print(i,subset)

1 [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42, 30, 16, 14, 85, 44,
   89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0]

2 [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42]
3 [30, 16, 14, 85, 44, 89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0]

4 [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35]
5 [151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3]
6 [42, 30, 16, 14, 85, 44]
7 [89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23]

8 [0, 0, 50]
9 [0, 32, 35]
10 [151, 163, 9]
11 [1, 3, 3]
12 [42, 30, 16]
13 [14, 85, 44]
14 [89, 26, 0]
15 [67, 67, 23]

Note that this will drop items when the size of the list is not a multiple of the number of partitions (e.g. 26/4 and 26/8).  There are several ways to handle this issue (more subsets, larger chunks, varying subset sizes to spread items evenly or randomly, add to the 1st subset, add to the last,...) but you would have to specify which one you want.
For example, this variant spreads the extra items over the first few sets (no more than 1 extra item per set):
subsets = [indata[p*size+min(p,spread):(p+1)*size+min(p+1,spread)]
           for parts in (1,2,4,8)
           for size,spread in [divmod(len(indata),parts)]
           for p in range(parts)]

for i,subset in enumerate(subsets,1): print(i,subset,len(subset))

1 [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42, 30, 16, 14,
   85, 44, 89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0] 26

2 [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42] 13
3 [30, 16, 14, 85, 44, 89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0] 13

4 [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151] 7
5 [163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42, 30] 7
6 [16, 14, 85, 44, 89, 26] 6
7 [0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0] 6

8 [0, 0, 50, 0] 4
9 [32, 35, 151, 163] 4
10 [9, 1, 3] 3
11 [3, 42, 30] 3
12 [16, 14, 85] 3
13 [44, 89, 26] 3
14 [0, 67, 67] 3
15 [23, 0, 0] 3

A: def divide_data(data, chunks):
    idx = 0
    sizes = [len(data) // chunks + int(x < len(data)%chunks) for x in range(chunks)]
    for size in sizes:
        yield data[idx:idx+size]
        idx += size

data = list(range(26))  # or whatever, e.g. [0, 0, 50, ...]
for num_subsets in (1, 2, 4, 8):
    print(f'num subsets: {num_subsets}')
    for subset in divide_data(data, num_subsets):
        print(subset)

num subsets: 1
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]
num subsets: 2
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
[13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]
num subsets: 4
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
[7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
[14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]
[20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]
num subsets: 8
[0, 1, 2, 3]
[4, 5, 6, 7]
[8, 9, 10]
[11, 12, 13]
[14, 15, 16]
[17, 18, 19]
[20, 21, 22]
[23, 24, 25]

Credit to this answer for inspiration

A: You can use np.array_split + list comprehension:
sublists = [arr.tolist() for num in [1,2,4,8] for arr in np.array_split(np.array(indata), num)]

Output:
[[0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42, 30, 16, 14, 85, 44, 89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0],
 [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151, 163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42],
 [30, 16, 14, 85, 44, 89, 26, 0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0],
 [0, 0, 50, 0, 32, 35, 151],
 [163, 9, 1, 3, 3, 42, 30],
 [16, 14, 85, 44, 89, 26],
 [0, 67, 67, 23, 0, 0],
 [0, 0, 50, 0],
 [32, 35, 151, 163],
 [9, 1, 3],
 [3, 42, 30],
 [16, 14, 85],
 [44, 89, 26],
 [0, 67, 67],
 [23, 0, 0]]

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Medicovan (1960-10).
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September 09, 2021 • bachelor insider
'Click Bait': Natasha Parker Tells Her Side of the 'Paradise' Drama with Tayshia Adams' Full Support
On this week's "Click Bait with Bachelor Nation," Joe Amabile, Natasha Parker, and Tayshia Adams react to the "Bachelor in Paradise" drama involving Natasha, Brendan Morais, and Pieper James.
As fans saw, Natasha and Brendan's "Paradise" connection was shelved as soon as Pieper hit the beach. Despite Brendan previously telling Natasha that he and Pieper were not a couple before "Paradise," the two seemingly picked up right where they had left off.
This immediately sparked conversations about Brendan and Pieper's relationship prior to the show, which has been documented by fans on social media since April.
During Monday's episode, Brendan and Pieper also had explicit conversations about their potential social media growth and the exposure they'd get as a couple on the show.
Now Natasha is sharing her side of the story on "Click Bait," and she's revealing what really went down between herself and Brendan, both before and after Pieper's arrival.
Natasha started off by revealing a conversation she had with Brendan that didn't air. She said, "The thing that people didn't see him saying to me was he really wanted to take this slow, and that the reason why he wanted to navigate our relationship slowly is because he's been married before and he's been divorced."
Natasha explained that she truly believed that he was guarded because of everything he'd gone through in his past, not because of any relationship with Pieper.
She shared that she trusted Brendan because of what he told her, including, "'You can't compare us and what we have to these other guys because these other guys are waiting for other people to come in and I'm not,' which was a complete lie."
It wasn't long before Natasha's co-host Tayshia chimed in. As Bachelor Nation recalls, Brendan was on Tayshia's season of "The Bachelorette," and Tayshia had Natasha's back when it came to Brendan.
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At one point during the podcast, Natasha broke down in tears when discussing people's allegations that she was just there to ruin Brendan and Pieper's relationship.
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You are correct. Performance lists the are.
So let me get this right. The NCS splits up the fastest runners and then chooses who goes to state with no finals? So the best dont race each other? And there is no section champion? And I thought the CCS qualifying needed to change. That is a complete joke!
Could you imagine the Olympics just combining times from a semi final to find the top 3?!? That is crazy! Slow to fast heats would make more sense.
No. NCS follows the state meet format with the semis on Friday and finals on Saturday.
Oh ok, they do it right then. CCS is still the screwed up section. My bad.
It it the right way to select the athletes who can handle that kind of double. It is not however the best way to maximize the numer of qualifiers by hitting state at large times.
That's not unusual. Do you know the format of the SJS? NS?
Probably thought you guys used to do stupid things like this... Oh wait, you did.
From what I am told, the athletes who fell in the fast heat at Tri-Valley were given another chance to run. Any who beat the automatic qualifying time (1:58 ish) would advance to MOC.
To bad none of the other athletes in NCS who stumbled, fell or simply had a "bad day" at their area meet were given the same opportunity to "time trial" their way in to MOC.
File a lawsuit. Im sure you can put a hold on NCS until the courts figure this out. That way everyone suffers instead of just 4 runners from the same team who chose a poor strategy.
Any news anyone? I heard there was a clock problem at the very beginning but i wouldn't think that it would effect the online streaming of the results... Someone text mike elliot!!
With cut off times of 2:25, 5:24 and 12:04 and such a dominant team in cross country where are they?
With 2 of the 3 NCS entries seniors will they be hurting next year?
Or is this just a rebuilding year? I have followed Campolindo and heard their coach speak down south and am wondering if the training he does really works. Meanwhile Anna Maxwell who doesn't run over 30 miles per week but focuses more on intervals is really moving.
Well now I just feel bad for the kid. Three races and the emotions take its toll.
Just shows that you never know though.
ehh don't feel too bad, he's got the 4x4 still and i bet he's ready to roll on his leg.
it is not right that the san ramon athletes got a second chance and competed today. follow the rules!!!
So much for Holmgren stepping up in the 4x400. Looked like SRV got off to a good start, but Holmgren gave away the 2nd position on his leg and did not respond. Saw the 800. Looked like he gave up with about 300M to go. Not competitive at all in his race. Poetic justice that he finished last today? Thought he would really respond with a better relay leg. I think the week drained Holmgren physically and mentally. SRV boys 4x400 ended up 9th and missed qualifying for the finals. Tough break for this team after their 3:22 last week.


But where will find the time? Matinees I suppose….
at "American Son," It's a drama, set in a Florida police station, about an estranged interracial couple worried about their missing, mixed-race, adolescent son.
"The Lifespan of a Fact," a timely look at variable understandings of truth, in this case by a magazine writer and a fact-checker.
"Lifespan" is one of the three journalism plays on the docket — the others are an adaptation of "Network," the 1976 television industry satire, and "Ink," about an early chapter in Rupert Murdoch's career.
Like "American Son," "Straight White Men," which ran earlier in the season, and a new adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird," coming later this fall, tackle race in America. "The Boys in the Band," which ran over the summer, "Torch Song," which is now in previews, and the upcoming "Choir Boy" deal with challenges faced by gay men in three different eras.
Shakespeare: the current "Bernhardt/Hamlet," about Sarah Bernhardt's portrayal of the tormented prince of Denmark, and "King Lear," coming next spring, in which Glenda Jackson plays the maddening British monarch.
The biggest bettor is Mr. Rudin, whose projects include plays by Lucas Hnath ("Hillary and Clinton," which imagines the relationship between a woman who would be president and the husband who once was); and Taylor Mac ("Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus," which ponders those who clean up after political conflict).
The three others that have opened thus far have all been nonprofit productions that do not have investors — "Straight White Men," from Second Stage, "Bernhardt/Hamlet" from Roundabout, and "The Nap" from Manhattan Theater Club.