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Q: dealing with duplicates in a bst My bst has to be able to cope with duplicate entries. Does anyone have any strategies for how to go about this that doesn't require excessive amounts of code?
I thought of consistently adding duplicates to the right but then that will mess up the bst order. for example what happens when the duplicate has two children who in turn have two children?. inserting the duplicate is easy enough, but what is to be done with the node it replaced?

A: As long as it's not a self balancing BST, I don't see a problem with putting equal nodes either at the left or right of the node that is equal to them.
Edit (after simonn's remark):
If the "duplicate node" in question already has 2 children, then simply insert the "new duplicate node" to the left and let the left child of the "old duplicate node" become the left child of the "new duplicate node".
Let me clarify with an example. The tree before inserting a duplicate:
    4'
   / \
  2   5
 / \
1   3

And now the element 4'' is inserted:
      4'
     / \
    4'' 5
   /
  2
 / \
1   3

As long as the tree is not self balancing, you should be okay.

A: You could make the nodes of the binary search tree into linked lists.
class Data implements Comparable<Data>
{
   // These are the data elements in your binary search tree
}

class TreeNode
{
  TreeNode left; // elements less than current node, or null
  TreeNode right; // elements greater than current node, or null
  List<Data> items = new LinkedList<Data>();
}

Here, treeNode.items is always a non-empty list, such that item1.compareTo(item2) == 0 for every item1 and item2 in treeNode.items.
To insert a duplicate element, you would find the relevant TreeNode object and add a new item to items.
The logic of finding elements is almost the same as you had before, except that once you find the relevant TreeNode object you have to walk the linked list.

A: I wonder if you actually need to store the duplicate entries as separate nodes? Would adding a counter variable to your Node be enough? That way if you traverse the tree you would know the number of duplicate entries and still preserve the order.

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Jonesboro City Council Holds First Online Meeting Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
By Chase Gage on April 8, 2020 • ( 0 )
JONESBORO, Ark. — Amid a global pandemic and the aftermath of a natural disaster, the City of Jonesboro had somewhat of a return to normalcy with a remote city council meeting Tuesday night.
The meeting was the first held since the state of Arkansas declared a national emergency regarding COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. It was also the first meeting held since an EF3 tornado tore through Jonesboro on March 28.
"Before we get started, I'd like to take a moment to praise the people of Jonesboro and the workers for the City of Jonesboro. We've been through a lot as a citizenry and a government," Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin said in his opening statement. "The citizens of Jonesboro have been strong and come to each other's rescue. We are a loving people."
The Jonesboro City Council held their meeting virtually amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The new format led to a unique viewer experience, though. it had its faults as well. Screenshot by Chase Gage.
It was far from a typical city council meeting, though, as the members were forced to meet online via video chat in response to social distancing policies in effect across the state and nation. The meeting was then broadcast on local television and Facebook Live so citizens could attend and participate from home.
Residents had several communication options for the meeting, including a special phone line and email address to contact as well as live comments on Facebook during the meeting.
The shift came with a handful of downfalls, as technical difficulties plagued some segments of the meeting. Resident participation was also relatively limited compared to in-person participation, but the council seemingly did the best they could with their available options.
"The coronavirus and tornado have created a new landscape, and our duty is to adjust. I ask for patience as we do so. This is not a new future, it is simply a temporary fix," Perrin said on the shift to online meetings. "It isn't going to be perfect. Any change this drastic is going to have glitches, so please be kind and patient."
Councilman Gene Vance said several improvements needed to be made for the council to continue to hold online meetings, adding that he struggled to hear other members even with his volume cranked up.
Virtually all members of the council were adamant in praising the emergency response of both city employees and the public in the aftermath of the tornado that struck just over a week before the meeting. Miraculously, there were only 22 injuries and no deaths due to the storm.
"The citizens of Jonesboro have been strong and come to each other's rescue. We are a loving people."
Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin
Perhaps the most impactful topic of the night dealt with the mayor's power to enact a city-wide curfew in times of declared state emergencies. Previously, a curfew could only be enacted for 48 before the city council had to meet to approve any extension.
However, the members voted unanimously to overturn that precedent, allowing the mayor to enact a curfew for up to 120 days — or until the next scheduled meeting — the maximum number of days allowed under state law.
As a direct result of the motion passing, Perrin will meet with city officials including Chief of Police Rick Elliot and Jonesboro Chief of Staff Mike Downing on Wednesday to iron out the details of a forthcoming curfew. Perrin said a curfew is "coming soon," and that citizens should be prepared to follow it during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I want everyone to wear a mask. Protect yourselves and your loved ones. This is no time to worry about appearances. You look better with a mask. Please help your city by being responsible," Perrin said.
Ironically, the first order of business was to pass a motion allowing the online meeting to happen, overturning an in-person requirement in times of a state emergency. Of course, the motion passed unanimously.
Several other issues brought up were related to re-zoning, but most were postponed to be discussed at a later date. Councilman David McClain insisted suspending a vote on ORD-20:010 until citizens could participate in person to discuss the details.
Unlike typical meetings, resident interactions were very few throughout the evening. There were one call-in and only a handful of emails and Facebook comments.
The viewer count peaked around 100, but dipped as low as 50 viewers toward the end of the meeting, likely much lower than in-person attendance would have been under normal circumstances.
A decent number of comments related to how well the city has handled not one, but two emergency situations in the past month.
"I appreciate that the city is continuing to operate in this fashion. Different and dark times require creative solutions," Jonesboro resident and Ramsons, Inc. employee Scott McDaniel commented on the live stream. "Keep it up."
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"A 2014 review of the literature found a growing number of studies celebrating the potential power and excitement of the Maker movement in education (Vossoughi & Bevan, 2014). Most of these studies address implementation of activities, such as e-textiles or engineering; some explore the nature of Maker communities of practice. Only in the last year or so has research begun to emerge that addresses core issues of teaching and learning or the ways in which Making can be positioned to empower learners from economically and racially marginalized communities (Vossoughi et al., 2016).
The results of our study contribute to the literature by demonstrating the ways in which Making can support valued STEM learning outcomes. It also addresses a gap in professional development, which often focuses exclusively on how to implement activities. Though educators must have firsthand experience doing the Making activities they will later facilitate with students, our study suggests that this experience is only the beginning. To support equitable Making programs, educators need to learn together how to create a culture that leverages the potential of Making to engage students in the full scope of STEM practices. A "what-if" culture recognizes and builds on what students know and can do. It supports process and iterative design, helping students to persist through difficulties and imagine new solutions. It intentionally fosters reflection and meaning making."


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Ragu Pasta Sauce Voluntarily Recalled Due To Concerns It May Contain Pieces Of Plastic
By Caitlyn Hitt
Pasta is a staple in many homes, so parents will want to take notice of a new food recall. Over the weekend, some Ragu pasta sauces have been voluntarily recalled nationwide amid concerns it may contain pieces of plastic. Mizkan America, Inc. — the company that owns Ragu — announced the recall on June 14, sharing that only select products were affected. Consumers have been asked to check any Ragu jars currently in their cabinets or fridge, and to toss them if the codes match those being pulled.
Mizkan America, Inc. said in a press release regarding the recall that no injuries have been reported as a result of the "fragments of plastic" feared to have made it into jars of Ragu pasta sauce. Still, the company has decided to pull select products from store shelves, and is asking that consumers check best-by dates and codes to be sure the products haven't made it into their homes.
Recalled Ragu sauces include the Ragu Chunky Tomato, Garlic, and Onion in 45 oz. and 66 oz. with the cap codes JUN0520YU2 and JUN0620YU2 and matching best use by dates. Mizkan America, Inc. also recalled 66 oz. jars of Ragu Old World Style Traditional and Ragu Old World Style Meat sauces with the cap codes JUN0420YU2 and JUN0520YU2.
"This voluntary recall is limited to the past sauces with these specific production codes, which were distributed nationwide," Mizkan America,Inc. said in a press release. "No other production codes/dates, sizes or varieties of Ragu pasta sauces are affected by this recall."
In a statement to Romper, a Ragu spokesperson further confirmed that only the listed sauces are affected by the recall. She explained that the recall was issued "out of an abundance of caution." Mizkan America, Inc. said in its release that it believed most of the affected "production run is in its control," though at least a few potentially affected jars of sauce "were shipped to customers."
"This recall is related to a limited number of three varieties and was taken out of an abundance of caution," a spokesperson for Ragu told Romper in a statement. "... the safety of our customers is always our #1 priority and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Consumers who have purchased one of the impacted products with the specific Cap and Best-By Codes should reach out to our Customer-Service Team at: 800-328-7248."
Though food recalls may seem abundant nowadays, Ragu hasn't had to issue one since 2006, when Mizkan America, Inc. pulled 1,000 jars of pasta sauce distributed in North Carolina and 14 other states, according to Insurance Journal, for containing undeclared milk. Insurance Journal stated that the company feared consumers with allergies or sensitivities to dairy risked serious, and even life-threatening, reactions if they consumed Old World Style and Marinara versions of Ragu's sauces.
Recalls are always a bit concerning, but it's always reassuring to know companies are taking action to remove comprised products and alert customers of possible issues. Before you stress about potentially having fed recalled pasta sauce to your kids or toss all your Ragu in the trash, be sure to check the cap codes and sell-by dates. If the numbers don't match, you're clear to keep serving up easy Italian dinners to your family. If they do, just toss them, contact the company, and head to the store for a different jar.


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Indian Ink OFF-BROADWAY REVIEWS
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Theater: Laura Pels Theatre / 111 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10036
Two worlds collide in the off-Broadway premiere of Indian Ink, the passionate and fascinating drama by four-time Tony Award winner Tom Stoppard (The Coast of Utopia, The Real Thing). Set on two different continents and in two different eras, Indian Ink follows free-spirited English poet Flora Crewe on her travels through India in the 1930s, where her intricate relationship with an Indian artist unfurls against the backdrop of a country seeking its independence. Fifty years later, in 1980s England, her younger sister Eleanor (Tony and Golden Globe Award winner Rosemary Harris) tries to preserve the legacy of Flora's controversial career. Little by little, Flora's mysterious past is revealed, as is the surprising story of two people whose connection lives on through art.
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF Indian Ink
Sitting for a Portrait as Complex as the Raj Tom Stoppard's 'Indian Ink' Focuses on English Sisters
September 30, 2014: If you're a fan of the fabled Mitford sisters — the last of whom, Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, died last week — you'll doubtless be eager to meet the Crewe girls, Flora and Eleanor. In the late 1920s and early '30s, Flora, the elder and flashier of the two, and Eleanor occupied much the same social landscape as the Mitfords — a tea-and-cocktail-drenched world of artists and aristocrats, politicians and pundits. And as with the Mitfords, tales of their lives are guaranteed catnip for a certain breed of Anglophile cultural voyeur. That breed is likely to overlap with fans of Tom Stoppard, the creator of the (fictional) sisters Crewe, who are the leading characters of his Indian Ink, an enticing if overpacked play from 1995 that opened on Tuesday night at the Laura Pels Theater in its belated New York premiere. And no one should be disappointed by the news that Flora and Eleanor have been brought to life for the occasion by the equally exquisite Romola Garai, in her Off Broadway debut, and Rosemary Harris.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW OF Indian Ink
'Indian Ink' Is Witty Mockery of Brits
Jennifer Farrar
September 30, 2014: Tom Stoppard's witty 1995 play Indian Ink takes a romantic look back at India under waning British rule, gently mocking both the British Raj and some of the English-smitten "natives." There's a timeless sensuality in the air of the Roundabout Theatre Company's leisurely, evocative and thoroughly enjoyable New York premiere that opened Tuesday night off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre. An accomplished cast includes the dual treat of Rosemary Harris and Romola Garai, playing sisters connected across time through letters written by Garai's character 50 years earlier. Stoppard, known for dazzling dramas like Arcadia and The Real Thing, lived as a boy in India for a few years in the mid-1940s, and presents this almost-cozy look at a pivotal time in that nation's history.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW OF Indian Ink
Tom Stoppard's nearly 20-year-old drama about love, art and culture makes its New York premiere
Joe Dziemianowicz
September 30, 2014: In his 1995 drama Indian Ink, now in New York for the first time, Tom Stoppard tackles a story of love, art and culture. And after about three hours, he comes to a pretty straight-up conclusion: It's all but impossible to truly know people. His case in point is the fictional, free-spirited British poet Flora Crewe (Romola Garai), who treks to Jammapur in 1930, as the people of India are growing restless under British rule. "I am in heat ..." Flora notes as she pens a poem. She's not just taking stock of the temperature or the political climate. Flora has her portrait painted by a local artist, Nirad Das (Firdous Bamji). Their relationship is complex — England and India in miniature.
VULTURE REVIEW OF Indian Ink
Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink Still Leaves Marks
Jesse Green
September 30, 2014: If everything a great playwright wrote were top-drawer, the drawer probably wouldn't open. That's one reason the Roundabout's fine mounting of Indian Ink — which is second-tier Tom Stoppard but excellent by almost any other standard — is so welcome. It allows us to see more deeply into the interior of his best works, which get further with many of the same techniques and hide them better. The play also has merits of its own, of course, so it's especially odd that it has barely been seen in New York before now. (A small Off-Off Broadway production ran downtown for three weeks in 2003.) Originally written as In the Native State for radio in 1991 and then translated to the stage in 1995, it has been overshadowed by the greatness of its near contemporaries Arcadia (1993) and The Invention of Love (1997), both of which share its structure of twinned time periods. In the case of Indian Ink, the eras are close enough to touch, or nearly.
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF Indian Ink
Even second-tier Stoppard can be beguiling
David Rooney
September 30, 2014: The New York theater community has no lack of either Anglophiles or Tom Stoppard admirers. So when one of the revered playwright's dramas takes almost 20 years to make the crossing from London in a major production, it seems natural to expect an inferior effort. Like its more intellectually rigorous immediate predecessor in the Stoppard canon, Arcadia, the 1995 play Indian Ink interweaves parallel time periods and narratives to explore the mutability of memory, and this long, meandering work is unquestionably hurt by the comparison. But director Carey Perloff's lucid staging and her accomplished cast make a persuasive case for what turns out to be an evocative, erotically charged piece of writing. The playwright expanded Indian Ink from his 1991 radio drama In the Native State, which was inspired by his childhood years in 1940s Darjeeling. Relatively straightforward by the standards of Stoppard's work, it weighs such characteristic concerns as art and love, desire and creativity, considering "the smudge of paint on paper" that people leave behind and the ways in which personal and cultural perceptions, as well as time, can reshape that blurred image.


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a comedy of donations across Africa
I DON'T normally read the newspapers first thing on Monday morning and also avoid going to Twitter early on that day simply because there are rabbit holes that can derail one's jump-start to a work week.
I am that guy who can scroll through the timeline for an hour straight simply because when I get to a negative troll post I must go and find an uplifting witty, positive and inspiring one to erase the first. It is not easy.
But this Monday I found myself cooling my heels outside of a government conference room waiting for a meeting to take off so I could contribute to a discussion of national importance. It didn't happen.
Naturally, I ended up on Twitter to find news updates but mostly irritations and chuckles to distract me from saying rude things to the people within the room itself. Within minutes I found tweets about a donation made to the Republic of Malawi from the People's Republic of China.
This happened. For real. And it went up onto the internet. In broad daylight.
I would have thought it to be a joke, hoax or meme, if the original tweet hadn't been posted by @LiuHongyang4 whose Twitter Bio and Curriculum Vitae posted to an official website of the Chinese Diplomatic Service (http://mw.china-embassy.org/eng/dsxx/dsjl/t1578360.htm) both declared him to be China's Ambassador to Malawi.
He was quite proud of the donation of two (2) motorcycles sent by 1.4billion people in China to 18million people in Malawi.
The motorcycles were, presumably, brand new items. I couldn't be bothered over where they were manufactured because I was occupied by the photographs of Malawi government and Chinese Embassy officials seated at a high table with the two motorcycles in front of them.
They even had a large banner hoisted up on the building behind them.
The twitter abuse and ridicule brigade went at this halfheartedly and I moved on to more regular news, falling upon the page one call-out in The New Vision under 'CHARITY' that read, "Minister Builds Sh100m Church'.
"At least this is a sizeable chunk of money," I immediately thought, then repented when I remembered the parable of the poor widow in Church.
I wasn't sure about the story. Turning pages, the actual headline caused me worry: "Minister Namuyangu builds sh100m church, prays for rain."
I read that and prayed that this story wouldn't go the wrong way.
God wasn't answering that prayer that day.
"Residents of Kibuku district have been urged to pray for rains so that they can be able to cultivate food…" the story started, before quoting the State Minister for Local Government, Jenipher Namuyangu, saying there had been no rains since June last year and the district was now facing a famine.
"Most families now have one meal per day and this is a worrying situation," she said.
My forehead had become sweaty and was wrinkled by frowns of disbelief – just six paragraphs into this. The New Vision had given the story cheeky prominence, placing it on Page Six and filling almost half the page complete with four photographs!
The State Minister, a well-educated politician holding a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Master of Science in Agroforestry, was probably using understatement as a tool of emphasis. Otherwise there was no way a famine and "most families" having one meal a day could be called just "a worrying situation".
This would have been a matter for her colleague at Disaster Preparedness!
But she had taken it to a higher authority, apparently, by building a Church. The New Vision report, by the way, carried four photographs of the Church launch event. The tweet by the Chinese Ambassador to Malawi was also accompanied by four photographs.
That juxtaposition made me think that maybe Namuyangu's church could have done with many more photographs – comparing the value of their respective donations in US dollars or Chinese Yuan. Two motorcycles versus a Ushs100million Church? Little contest there.
But let's focus more: The Church official at the launch of the Minister's donation reportedly "urged the youth to desist from politicking and instead engage in income-generating activities."
My furrowed brow relaxed as mirth spread within me.
It was now obvious that the journalists AND the church official were in cahoots to deliver top-notch sarcasm and irony!
Surely this Church official wasn't hinting that instead of building a Church the Minister could have used the Ushs100million to create an entrepreneurship or income-generating activity for the youth of Kibuku District?
A few paragraphs later, they were joined by a resident comrade-at-sarcasm, Steven Luwala, who "requested the minister to lobby for irrigation schemes to improve farming, which has been affected by the dry spell."
At this point I had to cross my legs tightly to maintain some self-control.
It came undone at the very next paragraph where another resident, Wilson Ganda, "said the entire village of over 1,000 people depends on one borehole. This, he said, has led to an increase in gender-based violence."
Why and how?
"…because when women go to fetch water they return to homes late in the night and some husbands do not understand why."
Another reason for why the Church built by the Minister makes a lot of sense – those husbands need prayers to sort out their significantly diminished mental strength.
And so do we, in general across this Continent, so that we learn to order our priorities for ourselves rather than have other people do so for us. It's either that or we share a couple of motorcycles amongst millions as we ride past our solitary boreholes with the limited energy we get from one meal a day to pray for rains.
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where did OUR ancient, efficient medical prowess disappear to, that we need missionaries today?
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THE year is 2017, the month October, just a couple of days ago. I opened up an emailed link to a story about a team of medical professionals from the United States of America who are performing surgeries at a hospital in Kampala.
Every day after that, I have received daily updates from and about this team of medical professionals.
It is good work, of course, whenever a life is saved, an illness cured, or a pain relieved. I can't complain about that – ever.
But when I read lines like, " Many people are watching as these surgeries are also meant to be training for medical staff here in Kampala, that they may continue the work after the Americans leave…" and "Some have had symptoms for years, as long as a decade and didn't have the money to get treated, or could not find a doctor with the expertise needed." and " having the American surgeons from Duke come here and getting these surgeries is truly 'a miracle.'" I get a little uncomfortable.
I can't blame the Americans, of course, for positioning as saviours in most situations – it is a status they have enjoyed for most of my life, at least. Most of the movies and stories we have grown up on have them saving the world from Adolf Hitler to aliens from outer space.
My discomfort was at the memory of discovering some years ago that a foreign historian had recorded the fact that hundreds of years ago there were people here in Uganda conducting the equivalent of Caesarean Section operations.
One book records, "In 1884, British doctors were therefore intrigued to learn that a sophisticated abdominal procedure had taken place five years earlier in the African kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitanga, whose inhabitants had experienced minimal contact with the rest of the world until the 1860s."
That "Bunyoro-Kitanga" was actually "Bunyoro-Kitara", and please note already that the British doctors were surprised that even WITHOUT lots of contact with the outside world, these Africans seemed capable of doing things.
Continues the book, "In a lecture to the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, medical missionary Robert W. Felkin (1853-1926) described a caesarean section carried out by Banyoro surgeons at Kahura, Uganda in 1879. Both mother and child had survived, and the expertise involved came as something of a surprise to those who saw Africans as a bunch of savages wandering about waiting for someone to come and civilise them."
See, up until that point, most operations of that nature only saved the child and NOT both mother and child.
In that surgery by my long gone relatives, anaesthasia was conducted using banana wine, and had special knives for the purpose – some of which are now "part of the Wellcome Collection in London", a museum of sorts there.
It is confounding to even consider how we got from there to today's situation where troops of foreign doctors come here to conduct surgeries and everyone hopes that the lessons stay with us. To a day where we have headlines about a mother losing her child in a hospital because of "lack of supplies", and many unwritten stories about mis-diagnosis and patient mishandling left, right and centre.
Our Makerere University is listed on www.topuniversities.com with a favourable ranking on the continent specifically for Medicine. And I know for a fact that there are many Ugandans out there being lauded for their professionalism and dexterity at medicine and science.
AND we have so many medical professionals winning awards and accolades out there for outstanding research and even life-sacrificing bravery when things like Ebola break out on the other side of the continent.
So why, oh, why, do we still have missionaries coming here to save Ugandans and show us how it is done? Why aren't we sending missionaries from Mulago to Kaabong to do surgeries there? Or even, from that Bunyoro-Kitara university of medicine whose name I cannot find anywhere, to Puerto Rico where they don't even have electricity right now? Why aren't our scientists re-discovering and re-creating anaesthetic methods out of the Banana Wine as our ancestors did as recently as 1879?
What will it take for us to re-discover our belief in ourselves to actually do the professional work that we are equipped, educated and expected to do, in a manner that makes us stand out for the rest of the world? What is that missing ingredient that will make all Ugandans of all professions and walks of life – medical, military, journalism, administration, education, political even – do their utmost best so we emulate those doctors of Bunyoro-Kitara in 1879 who amazed the British by their skill and knowledge?
So many questions, yet the answers can't come quickly enough amid this haze of politics and whatnot.
By skaheruin Africa, Social October 27, 2017 802 Words1 Comment
time to shout: call me the minister!
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NOW that the Cabinet List is out and most of us are not on it, let's get round to getting some actual work done by the government rather than prattling incessantly about these venerable persons at the helm of our country's Executive management.
I use the words quite deliberately because they are befitting of a lot of the commentary going round on social media and even in otherwise sober conversations around the appointments to Cabinet announced this week.
The Ministers, numerous as they may be, constitute a small percentage of the people that must make Uganda work – even though they are an important percentage of those people. On a couple of forums this week I noticed that not too many of our (otherwise educated) commentators don't really know what the job of the Minister is or who actually does what within the Government.
This is in no way to downplay the importance of Cabinet Ministers, as they are the heads of the government departments they are assigned to. They are heads of those government departments, however, as part of the Executive Branch of the government, which government works for us, the people.
As such, they are our employees – you and I the taxpayers (please don't bring up tax defaulting and arrears, that's a whole different topic).
The word 'Minister', according to some dictionaries and studies of etymology, was used in Middle English (the olden days of those countries) in the sense of "a person acting under the authority of another" – which is what they basically are – persons acting under the authority of the President, who is running the country on our behalf, chosen by the majority of us because of the promises he made.
The Latin origins of the word 'Minister', though, translate it directly to "servant", derived from 'minus', which means "less".
See, in reality Ministers are not and should not be Lords, who in the monarchical structures were nobility born into position. They are appointed employees charged with working for the people.
In the local reality of our more local government structures, however, the Minister only 'oversees government policy' as most people say. That makes the Cabinet Minister the equivalent of a Board Chairman of a corporate body (or company), who generally supervises the management team on behalf of the shareholders. The Board determines what should be done and sets strategy, as the Ministers should do, and keeps checking on the work of the management team to ensure that they stay on track.
The management team, headed by the Chief Executive Officer, is the one that actually does the work – and in the ministries, that is the Permanent Secretary. That Permanent Secretary, together with the Under Secretaries (Chief Operations Officer, perhaps?) and Commissioners (Senior Managers?) and the rest of the technocracy, are the people who draw up plans and budgets, then spend our money to deliver services to us.
Who are these Permanent Secretaries and other technocrats? Do we have a list of them anywhere? Do YOU know them? Do you talk about them at a level with as much excitement as you do the Cabinet Ministers?
In the media, the world of business serves up comments, opinions and updates of business managers of corporate bodies rather than the Board Members, while the world of politics serves up the reverse.
Could there be a link between the lack of public scrutiny and attention we pay to government departments and their perceived level of delivery, as opposed to that of private entities?
I am one of those who will not hesitate to call up the Chief Executive of a corporate body to complain about poor services, as many of you out there would shout out at the top of your voice in an irritating restaurant situation: "Call me the Manager!"
It is never: "Call me your Board Chairman!"
Because it's the manager and their team that do the work, or are supposed to. THAT is the belt of government we should be calling out as often as possible – NOT the Ministers.
Again, this is not to downplay the importance of the Cabinet Ministers; they ARE important as well, to ensure that the strategy the technocrats are implementing is OUR strategy, but more importantly when we are caught in a health centre and find that a doctor is not in position to attend to our sick, we need to be able to call out in the direction of the government: "Call me the Manager!" before we get to the Board Chairman.
By skaheruin Africa, Government, The Conscious African, The Conscious Ugandan June 10, 2016 778 WordsLeave a comment
#oscarssowhite is not the issue when you're in a kazigo
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I MADE a decision to stop watching the Oscars and Grammies back in the late 90s when, one night as we were gathering to watch the glitzy ceremony, Paul Busharizi burst into a typically uncontrollable fit of laughter at me.
Our viewing station was the kazigo next to mine, and as we walked past my door I smoothly inserted and turned the key in the door lock, unlocked the padlock, threw back the bolt, pushed the door open and quickly tossed my notebook into the dark room where I was certain my bed was located, almost without breaking a step.
Bush was impressed at the fluidity of my movements, but that quickly broke down into his fits of laughter when my notebook landed onto the edge of what sounded like a plate with crockery on it, bouncing it into the air to crash land into some other items of an indeterminate but loud, clattering nature – muffled as I shut the door within seconds of having opened it.
This was muzigo life.
As usual, I endured his ribbing and it didn't hurt my feelings because it was really funny. But I became alive to the idea that I was putting aside these hours to watch the glittering world of Hollywood's richest and finest in their splendid clothes at expensive hotels, from the comfort of a squalid one-room muzigo off a very fair sized colour TV.
So I have tried over the years to bring some glitz and glamour into my own little life in whatever small measure, even if there are no lights and cameras involved.
Part of that has been supporting stages for our own entertainment industry to claim some of the prominence and attention the Oscars and other such shows seem to own.
Further opportunity to do so showed itself when, for the last couple of weeks on the international scene an uproar erupted over racism in the world of entertainment, under the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.
#OscarsSoWhite rocked social media almost as much as #BlackLivesMatter – which came up because of all those killings that involved white (police)men and dead black men – also racism.
#OscarsSoWhite arose because people were indignant that ALL the nominees for the Oscars this year were white – no blacks were deemed good enough to be nominated for these prized awards, and social mediaratti lost its collective control.
This was just weeks after Ugandan model Aamito Lagum was the subject of racist comments from ignorant and angry seemingly 'white' people, indignant over her inclusion in an ad for some high-end cosmetics – and that resulted in the social media campaign #PrettyLipsPeriod.
As all that was happening on the global scene I paid a visit to my daughter's school and noticed once again that there were many posters, motivational messages and text book pages that feature non-Ugandans (their being white should not be the central issue).
As we waited to chat with her teacher, I received a couple of those 'Good Morning' and 'Have a nice day' WhatsApp messages with images of non-Ugandan (let's not say 'white') babies, and my irritation bubbled over.
I immediately resolved to create my own WhatsApp greeting images using my own children (coming soon to a phone near you), in order to right the global imbalance between black and white. I am also creating for my daughter's school motivational posters and messaging using images of ordinary, local Ugandans.
Even before vying for Oscar-winning roles, I am certain that creating more Ugandan content will right any so-called racial injustice and counter #OscarsSoWhite more effectively than a hashtag campaign.
If we allow our children to settle for a muzigo with a TV on which to watch the Oscars they will never get to the damn show either, let alone believe that they can create their own respectable alternative.
By skaheruin Africa, Globalisation, Lifestyle, The Conscious African, The Conscious Ugandan March 4, 2016 651 Words2 Comments
i am going out to vote the right leadership for Uganda
TODAY we go out to vote – and not just for the position of President. Tomorrow (even tonight – Thursday) we start counting those votes. By Sunday we will know who won and be celebrating victory or mourning loss.
On Monday we should get back to work, and to existing side by side with our different political beliefs – the way we do with our different religious beliefs.
That analogy between Political Party ideology and Religion is always ideal.
We live side by side with our different religious beliefs, praying at different times on different days in different ways and we make it work so well that sometimes we intermarry.
Similarly, we should live side by side with our different political ideologies, meeting at different times, in different ways, and making it work so well that we can work together making progress happen for the entire country.
Perhaps it works better in religion than in politics because we pray and worship every day or at least weekly, while our political activity comes round every so many years?
If we were more deeply political on a more regular basis, then perhaps we would be more relaxed and understanding of what this 'politics' actually means.
On Saint Janani Luwum day I relaxed enough to pay attention to a personal chore a group of friends had given me – to proofread a political manifesto we drafted after our WhatsApp group had held some heated political discussions.
We are just a group of pals who grew up together doing what boys do, and recently one evening challenged ourselves to be more politically conscious, resulting in an impressive twenty-page document.
As I finished reading its final draft I was downcast that all of us had spent months talking about the Presidency rather than Leadership – because we could all make good national leaders at the different levels we will be voting today and in coming weeks.
Leadership does not mean Presidency, even if the Presidency is at the apex of Leadership in a country like Uganda. And by the way, Leadership is NOT Power; this is a word that Abed Bwanika, Amama Mbabazi and Kiiza Besigye, and various media commentators, have used repeatedly during recent months – but I am happy that my own candidate markedly avoids the word.
Today we all go to vote not just for the Presidency, but for Leadership – under the Political Party or Group we believe presents the best promise and premise for a stable future for this country.
See, the Political Party that wins it is not just the one that wins the seat of President; a President with a Parliamentary majority, for instance, gets more done easier and quicker – as even the United States showed us with the reverse when they "shut down government" for a while not too long ago.
Speaking of getting things done, it is farcical that in all these months we have talked about service delivery and paid little media attention to leadership in the districts where we know the work on the ground literally gets done.
See, we are electing into leadership – not power – the leaders under whom we will work, thrive and prosper; the leaders who will work on the policies that will enable us to work, to thrive and to prosper. The leaders themselves do not build our businesses or our homes, but they must build and implement policies under which we – Ugandans – must do these things.
We must get into our politics enough so we do not sit back and complain that 'they' have not done things, the way some commentators laughably yet confidently said last weekend, "There is no foreign policy in Uganda!"
Recently I have felt that the rhetoric, posturing and deceit of this political campaign period – which feels like it has run five whole years – might have blinded some of us to realities around us – echoed by candidate Yoweri Museveni at the debate last Saturday.
Today, we are voting in leaders whose work should be prescribed in a manifesto – a public document that constitutes a series of pledges and commitments. Every day of the next five years we should be calling the attention of those leaders back to that manifesto because it is the public contract to which they should be held.
Every day of the next five years, if that manifesto is ignored then the party in question imperils its chances of success at the next election.
To achieve the goals in that manifesto, however, the party must have the necessary numbers in the caucuses where the lobbying is done, in the full legislature where the laws are enacted, and in the districts where the work is implemented.
For me, that political party is the NRM, headed by Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who is unquestionably the most capable (and by far the most likeable) of the eight potential Presidents arrayed before us.
Because I am voting in an entire swathe of leaders under the NRM – possibly more than 600,000 including councillors – on the strength of a manifesto with clear targets (which, in this case, should already be accommodated in this year's budget – due for reading in four months' time and in formulation as per the process cycle since August last year).
I am also voting for change in the way we do certain things because the system and manifesto I am supporting gives me leeway to make a personal contribution to changing things in Uganda for the better.
I am voting NRM not to reward anyone for work already done – but because if those 600,000 leaders and I follow that manifesto, then we will get a lot more done – for everybody – especially if we are vigilant citizens all round. The voters of northern Uganda and Kampala can testify to this quite easily – judging from their voting patterns from 2001 through 2006 and 2011, as their protest at the ballot over war and infrastructure (respectively) transformed into heavy support because of the dramatic change and response that we see today. #SteadyProgress.
And I am voting NRM because I have not been given a promise by the other parties around what they will or can do – and believe me, I've listened to them. For instance, anyone can complain about the negatives in Uganda today – as indeed we should – but that is not reason enough for me to vote…for the loudest complainant.
I am voting NRM because I like the ideology, believe in it and believe we can live it even when some people do make mistakes or, linking back to religion, fall short of the glory they should uphold.
Because as a country we have made progress under this same NRM, and I know we can continue this progress.
Provided WE stick to that ideology WE CAN make good. We CAN make Uganda greater than it already IS.
By skaheruin Africa, Government, Politics, Uganda February 18, 2016 1,158 Words2 Comments


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Do Cannabis-Infused Beauty Products Actually Work? Everything You Need to Know
CBD beauty products claim to fight muscle aches, reduce inflammation, and ease dry skin (but no, they won't get you high).
By Lisa DeSantis
Chances are, you've probably started to notice cannabidiol hemp oil, or CBD hemp oil, popping up as an ingredient in beauty products such as body lotion and facial oil. While it's definitely the buzzy beauty ingredient of the moment, a fad this is not: CBD-infused beauty products have been growing in popularity, with entire brands now dedicated to the healing properties CBD hemp oil has when used topically. But there are still a lot of misconceptions about CBD-infused beauty products, so we went to the experts to get some answers.
First, the big question you're wondering: CBD is non-psychoactive, meaning you're not going to get high from using any of these products. CBD hemp oil is sourced from hemp with lower levels of THC than marijuana, (which is responsible for altered mental state) and high levels of CBD. It's also a rich source of fatty acids and other nutrients that benefit your skin, says Francesca Fusco, MD, a dermatologist based in New York City. "Studies have shown it can improve reduced barrier function, improve hydration, minimize moisture loss, and decrease inflammation," she explains.
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Skincare brands are catching on to the benefits. If you're looking for something to address dryness, CBD for Life Pure CBD Hand and Body Massage Lotion ($22; cbdlife.us) is an all-star. On your face, try Mad Hippie Antioxidant Facial Oil ($25; amazon.com), which contains hemp seed extract for a healthy glow along with other skin-loving ingredients like argan oil and vitamin E. The popular skincare brand Kiehl's even recently announced that they will be launching a Cannabis Sativa Seed Oil Herbal Concentrate early next year to help fight skin imperfections like redness ($49, available for preorder now on kiehls.com).
If you're feeling sore after a workout or have muscle aches, try Lord Jones Pure CBD Pain & Wellness Formula Body Lotion ($50; sephora.com) or soak in a relaxing bath with Life Elements Bliss Bath Balm ($14; lifeelements.com).
You can also find it in makeup products, such as Milk Makeup KUSH High Volume Mascara ($24; sephora.com); because cannabis is so rich in omega fatty acids, it makes for a super conditioning ingredient in mascara. There's even a hair care line called EMERA that's packed with CBD oil: We love the EMERA Nourishing CBD Detangler Plus ($25; emerahair.com).
Many of these products are geared towards CBD oil's anti-inflammatory benefits because "the primary receptor for CBD (CB2) is found on immune cells," which is where inflammation takes place, notes Adam Friedman, MD, a dermatologist in Washington D.C. This is major, because many skin conditions are connected to inflammation, which is why there are so many conversations about the power of CBD in the beauty industry right now.
More research on CBD oil and its benefits is needed, but Dr. Friedman points out that the ingredient's ability to regulate cell growth, reduce inflammation, and stimulate important fats in the skin and sebaceous glands could help inform treatments for other skin issues, such as dry skin, psoriasis, and eczema.
According to Dr. Friedman, cannabis beauty products are certainly worth a try. He reiterates that the benefits are "strongly supported by several pilot studies," not to mention that many users swear by them.
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Offensive Depth Leads Eagles to Win Over Vermont
by Olivia Charbonneau
January 5, 2020 Updated June 5, 2020 at 1:06 am
Prior to its month-long break in between the two halves of the season, Boston College men's hockey had maintained a nine-game winning streak to boost the team to its current ranking of fifth nationally. In Saturday's conference matchup against Vermont (3-12-2, 0-9-1 Hockey East), the Eagles (12-4, 6-2) were eager to come back from their holiday hiatus and continue their hot streak.
With BC's freshman goalie, Spencer Knight, out due to the World Junior Championships, senior Ryan Edquist had the start. Prior to this game, Edquist hadn't seen a start since last January in BC's 7-2 loss against Maine. And yet, Edquist thrived as he helped lead the Eagles to an 8-3 win over Vermont.
While the final score implies that the Eagles completely dominated Vermont, for the first 10 minutes of the game, it was all Vermont. Not only did the Catamounts score first with a power-play goal by Vlad Dzhioshvili five minutes into the game, but they also controlled the play, keeping the Eagles to only one shot on net in the opening half of the first period.
Vermont's ease with which it began this matchup can be attributed to its second half schedule—the Catamounts only had a three-week break, returning to play two games just before New Year's. Once the Eagles became more comfortable, however, there was no stopping them.
The Eagles began to show just how deep their bench was shortly after the 10-minute mark in the first frame. Collecting a centering feed by freshman Matt Boldy, senior Ron Greco found space and tucked the puck high short side against Vermont's goalie, Stefanos Lekkas. The goal simultaneously put BC on the board and marked Greco's first goal of the season.
The senior forward's tally energized the Eagles. BC drew a penalty from Vermont soon after, but the team was unable to capitalize on its man advantage, allowing the penalty to expire. The lack of goals in the majority of the remaining minutes of the period was not due to a lack of chances—rather, it was a valiant effort from Lekkas that kept the Eagles from adding to Greco's goal.
It was BC's third line that would net the next point for the Eagles, continuing to show off the Eagles' talented depth. Smooth tape-to-tape passes from freshmen Mike Hardman and Alex Newhook to junior Aapeli Räsänen for a snipe past Lekkas put the Eagles up 2-1 with just under three minutes in the first frame. Twenty-one seconds after Räsänen netted his goal, sophomore Marc McLaughlin beat Lekkas, extending BC's lead to two goals.
Vermont has struggled to score this season, averaging 1.26 goals per game. Now, the Catamounts needed to score a minimum of four goals to come out with a win, a feat Vermont only achieved once this season, in a 7-4 loss to UConn. But despite the colossal task before them, Vermont seemed determined to come back from its deficit. The Catamounts came out of the locker room reinvigorated, once again dominating the beginning of the period.
Vermont netted the first goal of the period early on with an even-strength goal tallied by Simon Boyko, beating Edquist five-hole. Boyko's goal brought the Catamounts within one and led to Vermont taking more control of the game. The Catamounts were clearly the superior team in the second period, drawing penalties to give them a man advantage and more chances to catch up to BC. Despite Vermont's physical and dominant play over the Eagles, it was BC that increasingly found the back of the net.
With three minutes remaining in the period, Greco collected his second goal of the night with a bank shot off Lekkas, coming from a negative angle. This goal marked his second-ever multi-goal night as he helped put the Eagles back up by two goals.
The third period only got worse for the Catamounts. The Eagles regained control of the play and asserted their dominance by quickly scoring two goals in the first four minutes of the period. The first goal, scored by Jesper Mattila through traffic, put BC up 5-2 against Vermont. But it also led to the dismissal of BC's assistant captain, Graham McPhee, for a two-minute minor and 10-minute misconduct penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. The second goal came during BC's penalty kill, with Logan Hutsko streaking into the offensive zone shorthanded, beating Lekkas glove side.
Shortly after Hutsko's goal, tension was high between the two teams. During a battle in front of BC's net, Ace Cowans—a Vermont forward—lodged his stick in the cage of Edquist's mask. Edquist was okay, and the ensuing powerplay allowed BC captain David Cotton to net a goal of his own, as he deflected a pass from linemate Julius Mattila.
Even though the Catamounts were down 7-2, they refused to give up. They continued drawing penalties, earning themselves a two-minute advantage following a tripping call on BC defenseman Luke McInnis, but they were still unable to capitalize on their powerplay. But shortly after, Vermont got one back on the Eagles, with a snipe by Cowans that beat Edquist high glove side.
With the game winding down, the Eagles added one more point to the board. The goal, initially assumed to be scored by McLaughlin, who had taken the original shot, had been tipped into the net by Greco's stick, giving the senior his first career hat trick and boosting the Eagles to a final score of 8-3. With Greco's hat trick to cap off the game, the Eagles collected the well-earned win and extended their winning streak.
Still, despite the score indicating a "blowout" of a game, the win was not as clear-cut as it implies.
"If you look at the box score it says 8-3," said head coach Jerry York following the win. "The game was a lot tighter than that."
While the Eagles were able to escape the post-holiday slump, there were still some places for improvement—namely, taking fewer penalties. The Eagles took six penalties compared to Vermont's four, which could have cost them.
And yet, while there may be things to criticize, BC was able to show off just how deep its lineup is. Five of the eight goals were scored by the third and fourth lines—Greco had three goals, and McLaughlin and Räsänen each had one. Saturday's game showed that the Eagles were more than just their top line. They can pull from each of their forwards and be able to produce in high-pressure moments.
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PASTICCERIA POPPELLA, Naples - Totò's bakery and its "snowflake".
The famous Poppella bakery, located in the pulsating heart of Naples since 1920, has chosen Giorik quality to maintain its reputation for culinary excellence. An oven from the new Easy Air Touch range has recently been installed in the Poppella kitchen by F.lli Angelo of Naples, the local Giorik dealer.
Every day Ciro "Poppella" Scognamillo, owner and pastry chef for three generations, and his staff produce a variety of delicious cakes for their customers. Their sweet temptations lure Neapolitans and tourists alike into their shop, including the inimitable "Fiocco di Neve di Poppella" (Poppella Snowflake): a small, soft bun filled with whipped cream, ricotta and custard with a sprinkling of icing sugar on top. The bakery has an interesting history: it appears that the Poppella bread shop, which was opened by Ciro's grandmother and then became a bakery, was frequented by none other than Totò, "prince" De Curtis, who was born twenty or so years before in the next road along, via Santa Maria Antesecula, in the Sanità district.
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[WARNING:] This page is sad and old and out-of-date. Please check out this new updated page with new updated instructions that are new and happy and up-to-date. The below information should be read out of historical curiosity only.
Because getting SC3 to work on Linux seems to be a major source of sadness and unnecessary frustration (to all including myself), I've decided to post on going from zero to SC3 hero in a few (ha!) short and easy steps.
Notice it is installing dependencies for you. That's nice. Assuming your distro has the old jack (not Jack2) everything should install peachy. However you will notice there's a problem with mine: the install wants to uninstall Jack2 and install the old Jack. NOT OKAY.
Here are instructions for building with Jack2. If you don't care and are fine with the old jack, just let the installer do its thing and skip to the section below Starting the SuperCollider Editor.
this will open the control file in the nano editor.
Assuming you have all your dependencies met, you will have a directory full of delicious .deb files. If, however, like me your system failed to live up to the dev standard, you will have to install the dependencies.
6) If you got errors, install whatever is listed either in your FAIL message or in the control file above.
2) Then i go to edit->preferences->plugins and enable the "sced" plugin.
3) Now under the 'tools' menu there should be a 'SuperCollider Mode' button. PRESS IT!!!
I WANT GUI!! GET YOU SOME GUI!!!
Before installing SwingOSC (the GUI library for SC3) check that you have java installed, as it is required for Swing to work.
Typing 'java -version' or just 'java' and hitting TAB will let you know if you have it installed. My system sadly does not.
2) Go to Settings->repositories->Other Software and tick off the boxes in there.
3) Type sun-java in the quick search window to show the sun-java6 packages. I can't remember which exactly I need, so I'll install them all.
4) First, if you don't have a SwingOSC folder at /usr/share/SuperCollider/ go ahead and make one.
SwingOSC is installed now, but to get it to start automatically and give me (and you) the GUI server I (you) so want and deserve, we must create a supercollider startup file. This is really easy, though, so don't give up now!
2) I enter the following text into mine, you can customize yours as you see fit!
Thanks for reading. If you have questions, comments, or an easier way to do any of the above, please comment.
can you please help me how to create the .sclang.sc file ?
I think, because of the complexity of your questions, that these would be better posted to the SuperCollider list.
Someone there, perhaps myself, will be sure to help you.
Thanks a lot! It was very helpful. The only difference in my case was: I did not have the folder ~/supercollider/supercollider-3.4/option_installs/SwingOSC/SuperCollider after installing supercollider. So I just went to the SwingOSC website and downloaded it from there.
* Etc… (continue from step 5 of this this page's tutorial, always using your downloaded SwingOSC folder as the source for files to be copied).
Nevertheless, I think there is a mistake in your last command line.
Thanks Bruno – i went ahead and edited the post to reflect the change in the package.
I'm having trouble with the startup file. Note that I'm totally new to both SC and Linux/Ubuntu. I've created a file in texteditor with the code given in the tutorial and saved it as .sclang.sc. I have the SwingOSC.jar file located in the correct folder and saved the .sclang.sc file to my home folder.
The first issue is that I cannot find the file that I created. Nothing I try and save with a period at the beginning of the file name shows up in any folders (can't find it via terminal or in folders). If I save it as "sclang.sc" it shows up but of course isn't the right file name. Despite this, if I try and re-save the .sclang.sc file under that same name it tells me that file already exists and asks if I want to replace it, but if I do it still doesn't appear. Is the period a way of somehow hiding the file or is this an abnormality?
Original method in file '/Common/Math/SimpleNumber.sc'.
Please help, I've tried wading through the forums to find answers and cannot find anything that seems to help.
In Unix land, a dot preceding a file name = a hidden file. You can see these files by typing "ls -a" in your shell (-a = show all files) or by checking the "show hidden files" in Nautilus or your file browser in Ubuntu. (I think this is found under the "view" drop-down menu.
This line in the above error message means that SC3 is expecting the SwingOSC.jar file at that path. Is this where you placed your SwinOSC.jar file?
So I see that the .sclang.sc file is, indeed, in my home folder.
My SwingOSC.jar file is in the location specified in that path. I noticed you updated some things on the tutorial. Would you suggest just trying it from the ground up again or do you have any other suggestions?
That said, SC is looking for the SwingOSC.jar file in the correct location, so it seems the problem is not with the startup file. You are sure your SwingOSC.jar file is actually at /usr/share/SuperCollider/SwingOSC/? I don't want to sound insulting, but if everything is where it should be, and the startup file has the right information (path) then it should work; there are no tricks to it, and permissions do not seem to be an issue from what I can tell.
Not insulting at all, I'm sure I've goofed somewhere along the way. I tried re-entering the file both in the form given in your comment and also what's in the tut (which is different than what was there before, right?) and both do not work, albeit with slightly different error messages than before. I'm going to go through it again from the top to make sure I didn't miss anything. Thanks again.
With the Bruno TR's comment, it works fine for me.
Just a question : are you sure that this command line is the good one ?
Don't we have to use this one instead ?
By the way, I translate in french parts of your article for our wiki.
I don't think it matters as anything in the Help folder is searched recursively. But you can certainly strip out the extra folder.
I'll change the post above tomorrow to reflect that the package no longer comes with the 'optional installs' folder and that you have to download the package from Sciss's site.
i ve done everything the tutorial says and i think i got it right.
everything is in the right place, java works and i use SC with no problem just without the gui but the thing is that without it i cant use .plot too..
can you confirm the location of your SwingOSC.jar file? The error message leads me to believe the correct path is not being set in your startup file.
i had the same problem. my quetion is where do I put the startup file??
I'm glad you found it helpful. Cheers!
Hello. First of all thank you for such a complete tutorial.
exception in GrafDef_Load: UGen 'Chromagram' not installed.
Because of this second error, I'm not able to use the method Scope.
Anyone has any idea what's going on here?
Your first error is likely caused because you are not a member of the audio group. This means that you cannot set realtime priority. You should be able to find instructions online for adding realtime permissions in Ubuntu. (Linux Mint is a modified Ubuntu distro.) As for the second error, I haven't ever encountered this before. You should post this to the Nabble SuperCollider group forum / mailing list. Just google Nabble SuperCollider and you will find the forum. This probably has to do with the latest binary release and may be a bug.
I should clarify too, that you should be starting Jack before starting SC and you should be starting it in Real-time mode. If you cannot start Jack in Real-time mode, this means that you aren't a member of the group "audio" on your machine. Note that this is not fatal; you can run Jack and SC when not in real-time mode, you will simply get this error and possible encounter other latency-related issues.
And the error related with realtime disappeared. Now, the only error is the one which states that chromogram is not istalled.
I'll start a thread in the sc mailing list to see if anyone can help me.
During this installation I've looked again and your tutorial in this site and notices you have a style problem in the code of 2) in the part Creating a Startup File, because with both Firefox and Chromium (I didn't tried with other browsers) the text to put in the startup file doesn't appear complete.
I only got the complete info to put in the file from the source code of this page and from the youtube video (where the code is a bit different because of the virtual machine).
Anyway, thanks a lot for your help, it was really useful to me.
Hi there. Actually, the code is all there, it is just not displayed because of WordPress awesomeness. If you double/triple click the code to select all of it and paste it to a text document, you will see the complete code.
wow, still using jack < 2 after all this time ?
just got it working!! out of desperation added a period before sclang.sc (.sclang.sc) that's that :) I really don't know what happened but Im so f&%$%ng elated right now!
yeah, the period is important ;) in unix/linux land, a period before a file name means the file is invisible. most config folders and files are invisible. regardless, if a program is looking for a specific file, visible or not, the file must be named correctly. (obviously.) I'm glad you got everything working. cheers!
thanks for the tutorial. So far everything is running fine. However, the scope refuses to display something useful; It just stays black… Any idea?
I know this has been "going around" but one of these solutions should do for you.
Oh yeah! It's working. Thank you so much. Normally, I'm the one who's telling all the questioners to use Google. But in that case I haven't found a solution for my problem. I tried much and more but nothing worked. I thought it would be some GUI error but apparently it was a network error due to a wrong entry in the hosts file. after correcting it everything works fine.
Hey thanks for the nice tutorial.
Anyone have a clue as to what might be the problem?
Hi JCR, can you make sure you have the "python-software-properties" package installed?
The error output looks like it is, or at least python is trying to do what you are telling it, but lets start there.
My next step would be to make sure all my python packages are up-to-date. It seems like something in your python package config is wonked out.
Thanks this really saved my bacon!
Hi – please check out this updated (just published!) page on installing SC3.6 on Ubuntu. This page is no longer up-to-date.


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October 24, 2019 in General
On Thursday, October 24th, Blocklords participated in Neo Global Development's (NGD) English Neo Live event. Neo Live is an Ask Me Anything (AMA) style community event that takes place on the official Neo Telegram channel. In addition to the English event, NGD also hosts weekly Neo Live events in Chinese via WeChat.
Blocklords founder and CEO, David Johansson, participated in the AMA, where he discussed his history in the Neo ecosystem, motivation behind creating Blocklords, current development efforts, and perspective on the blockchain gaming industry.
The full transcript can be found below:
David Johansson (Blocklords founder and CEO): Hey everyone, very excited to be joining this event and sharing my thoughts about blockchain gaming and its future. I've been a follower and hodler of NEO since the Antshares days. Joined my first Neo dev meetup in 2017 and was really inspired by the energy and enthusiasm for decentralization that was prevalent in the team. I'm originally from Sweden, but have lived in China for the last 6 years where I've worked as a game developer for some of the largest game studios and publishers in the country.
As soon as I started educating myself about blockchain, I realized that the technology would have a huge impact on the gaming sector. Free2play games with dubious monetization tactics squeeze out thousands of dollars from many players and at the end of the day the player owns nothing. With the power of smart contracts and non-fungible token standards, players could now directly own all of their in-game assets and monetize them however they wanted. This technology also opens up the possibility of using assets across multiple games, which is still not prevalent but a very interesting bonus for users.
Inspired by all of this potential, I began sketching out ideas for blockchain games with some friends and former colleagues in early 2018. Cryptokitties had opened up a pandora's box and the concept of crypto games was starting to take off. But the game was still extremely simple gameplay-wise while we wanted to create something a bit more complex and fun to play. Meanwhile other teams were just taking traditional centralized games and slapping a token onto it. That also didn't feel right. We wanted to design something entirely around blockchain tech. After a couple of months, the idea for BLOCKLORDS came to us.
In a medieval world, BLOCKLORDS players would create heroes, earn rare items, trade them in markets, conquer cities, and earn taxes if they became city lords. As experienced strategy game developers, this was the perfect game for us to start our studio with. I began writing out the white paper and sending it out to people who might be interested in supporting us. Unfortunately, this was right at the start of the bear market and getting funding for a new crypto game proved quite difficult. That's when we got a bit of luck.
The Neo.Game event was announced and immediately I knew that we should apply. With no funding at all in place, we put together a team of interested people and started getting to work. After an intense summer of development we submitted a demo of the game and won a top prize! We were granted a $60,000 grant to develop the game. We now finally had some seed funding and begun the very complicated task of fully developing the game.
Now we were able to complete the game and launch BLOCKLORDS. Since then, the game has been able to get hundreds of players, thousands of on-chain transactions, and we have paid out over 2,000 GAS in leaderboard rewards. We know we still have a long way to go before the game is ready for mass adoption, but we are very proud of what we've accomplished so far and look forward to improving our game with time.
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Some screenshots from the original version of BLOCKLORDS we released.
The first 6 months have passed since we launched BLOCKLORDS and we have learned a lot about blockchain development, crypto economics design, and have figured out more efficient ways to iterate and improve our game based on player feedback. One of the main issues we have faced is that most players are not willing to pay for each in-game transaction, and we are therefore slowly transitioning the game towards a free-to-play model where players still own and trade all their assets and are part of creating the in-game economy with the other players.
But in order for free to play mechanics to work, a much larger player base is needed for the economy to work sustainably. The player count for blockchain games in general is still very low, making things hard for small teams like us. In order to attract more players, we therefore need to focus most of our current efforts on developing more game features and making playing a lot more fun for all players, crypto enthusiasts or not. This is why we've decided to completely overhaul the game design while keeping the core blockchain features of our game as they are and working on making them nearly invisible.
BLOCKLORDS 2.0 will have a lot deeper gameplay, heroes on the map, strategic battles, item crafting, and team-based lord battles, as well as future features such as nation kings and even lord family systems, making our game closer in terms of quality to some of the most advanced strategy games currently on the market such as Crusader Kings and Total War.
Here's a preview of the BLOCKLORDS 2.0 map. Fighting battles and building your base will be a lot more strategic and immersive.
In order to truly scale and accommodate thousands of players, it is also necessary to develop the game on layer 2 solutions based on the current tech. We are therefore exploring several possibilities on sidechains such as the LOOM Network, Celer, and COCOS-BCX. This will allow us to make the game much faster and offer free transactions, while still being able to connect to other major chains such as Ethereum, TRON, and Neo through gateways.
The future for blockchain games is bright, as the idea of monetizing the time you spend playing is a powerful one that undoubtedly will increase in popularity over time. I'd like to think that many common gamers will be able to earn their living through gaming in the next 20 years (other than streamers and e-sports stars). I even think there could be a form of universal basic income paid out through game available to everyone in the future.
For now, the industry still needs to be developed from within, with a stronger focus on user experience and actually completing projects. Too many projects and chains offer empty promises during the fundraising stage and then deliver nothing. We strongly believe that only real builders will be able to change the future of the industry, which has endless potential. More dev tools, community events, grants, platforms, and most importantly great projects are required if blockchain games are to gain a foothold with traditional gamers, but once they do, the adoption rate will become exponentially faster every year.
A lot of people have lost hope in DAPPS and think only DEFI is the solution, but I disagree with that view. They both have a hugely important part to play in the future of decentralization. I actually think that games will begin to adopt DEFI mechanics into their systems in the next few years, but again it needs to be done in a way that will attract users.
On our end, once BLOCKLORDS 2.0 is fully released we will work on polishing the user experience to make the crypto aspect as seamless as possible to new users. Once this formula is perfected, we will launch a centralized version of the game on traditional platforms such as Facebook, Steam and the various APP stores, then incentivize player to try the crypto version instead if they want to earn real monetized rewards for their time.
This is our team, we are an experienced and passionate group of game devs and can't wait to keep developing better and better games!
We are thrilled to be a part of the Neo community and really look forward to the launch of Neo 3.0. The future is bright for those who are willing to put in true effort and creating BLOCKLORDS has been a rewarding experience. We've also really appreciated the feedback we've received from the Neo community as it is going to help us make the game better and better in the future.
If you're interested in our project, you can visit our website here:
https://www.blocklords.io
To play the Neo version of the game, you can visit:
https://neo.blocklords.io
That's it from me. Thanks again and I'm happy to answer any questions!
Sharlyne Lee (NGD senior marketing manager): To make it easy for the team to trace the question, please kindly number your questions, following the previous. Please keep the questions about NEO and BLOCKLORDS, we will remain the right to select the questions. Also, the team won't make comments on the token price.
Q1: Other than the difficulty of blockchain adoption (i.e., wallet log-in), what is stopping crypto-based games like Blocklords from becoming very popular?
David: There are a few things. Other than wallet login and adoption friction, I would say it's the quality of the games themselves. Most of them are still nowhere near the quality of other popular games, whether AAA games or casual browser and mobile games, all of them have better production value than all of the current blockchain games.
Making games is really hard and requires a lot of resources. Unfortunately small teams like ours are the only ones doing these types of games, but we have to spend a lot of time figuring out technical stuff instead of improving the games, which is an issue. The big studios are really not that interested yet so that will have to wait. Only when a small team is able to make a truly exceptional and user-friendly blockchain game will we start to see the big players join the field.
Q2: What inspired the game?
David: I've always been a fan of strategy games and have developed several of them myself. The most popular game I made before crypto was LIBERATORS, which is a WW2 strategy browser game that actually won a 'Best Game' prize from Facebook in 2016.
So, I always knew I wanted to make a game like that. I can't tell you exactly how the idea came as the process is complicated, but I may or may not have been a bit influenced from shows such as GAME OF THRONES and games like CRUSADER KINGS.
Q3: What have you learned since launching the game?
David: We've had a small but dedicated following on both the Neo and TRON versions of the game who keep the game fairly active. I can't share the exact amount we've earned but our smart contract volume has been close to 100K GAS on the NEO version, and 2 million TRX on the TRON version.
Q4: How can I play the game?
David: To play the NEO version, you can go to https://neo.blocklords.io/ an O3 wallet is required to play.
Q5: What will you improve in the game?
David: Right now, we feel that we've achieved our goals on the smart contract side of things and want to focus the rest of the year on improving game features. Better battles, resource collection, item crafting, and team lord battles will keep players involved and playing every day.
Once those features are fully fleshed out, we will work on making the user experience as enjoyable as possible before we start targeting traditional strategy gamers more heavily.
Q6: What do you think will make blockchain games successful?
David: Quality, better user experience through the early game process, and a focus on the players. Many DAPP projects have far too little customer service. This needs to be improved for people to take these games seriously.
Q7: Does BLOCKLORDS plan to make hero non-fungible tokens (NFT)?
David: Yes, we initially didn't make NFTs because we wanted to keep item trading within the smart contracts so taxes would go to lords, but we quickly found out this was not the best approach to keep players involved. We recently began experimenting with NFTs on Ethereum and found that making hero accounts into NFTs was a lot of fun. If the concept proves to be successful, we will bring NFT heroes to NEO as well.
Q8: What will it take to get typical gamers into blockchain and crypto?
David: It will take a really hot game where some players are actually earning money. Once gamers start hearing from their friends who made $100 selling a sword in this random online game, people will start feeling the urge to get involved as a way to earn extra cash. This is what fueled the popularity of games such as WoW and Runescape, and Bitcoin as well.
Q9: What made you interested in blockchain?
David: It's probably a cliche answer, but I came for the tech, haha. It took me a little while, but once I truly understood the power of Bitcoin and its blockchain, I was hooked. It took less than a year for me to change my entire career to revolve around it.
Q10: How much GAS has been given out in rewards?
David: Over 2,000 GAS has been given out in Leaderboard rewards, and approximately 500 GAS from city coffers. I haven't checked exactly how much has been paid in taxes through sales to players but would guess that's around 200 GAS.
Q11: Has the acquisition of O3 Labs by www.bitcoin.com changed the Blocklords login method in Neo? Do you see any downsides to the acquisition?
David: We prefer keeping things simple for now and having only one wallet does make the UX flow a bit easier to new users, even if it limits the player base. We are very happy with the O3 Wallet for now and hope they will keep up the good work despite the acquisition. However, we do keep in touch with other wallet providers and will possibly add more of them in the future.
Q12: How did you choose which blockchain to build on?
David: Choosing which blockchain to build on is a complicated choice. It seems like we get approached by a new chain every two weeks asking us to build on their platform. We are pretty agnostic when it comes to chains, and want to use the option that is the most reliable, at the best speed and for the lowest price.
Reputation is an important aspect as well and Neo is definitely one of the top players in the field. For the future I believe most of the established chains will end up being connected anyways via sidechains, so we are pretty open to exploring development on any chain as long as the team and the tech is solid.
Q13: What are your favorite games?
David: As I mentioned before I'm a big strategy nerd! Paradox games such as Crusader Kings and Hearts of Iron are big favorites, as well as the total war series. Tactical espionage action games like Metal Gear are also amazing. I've played quite a bit of Civilization.
Q14: When will we get the first blockchain game to reach mass adoption?
David: I'm cautiously optimistic, I think we're still two to three years away from a real breakaway hit. Blockchains need to improve their speeds, fees, and tools to scale properly. Solid teams need to put in a few years of work. And, I also think game designers need to evolve their thinking about this and really design their games around blockchain entirely.
Q15: Have you looked into integrating other dApp wallets such as NeoLogin?
David: Haven't looked into that one specifically, but can always take a look. Since we are more focused on improving the game itself at this point adding a new wallet isn't really priority, but always happy to take a look and discuss.
Sharlyne: Any other questions? So, I think we are done with questions now. Well, thanks a lot for sharing, David. I think everyone in this group will know more about BLOCKLORDS!
David: Please PM me if you have any questions! Thank you, Sharlyne.
By the way, here is the limited edition NEO armor we dropped out to some lucky winners last month! They are all gone now. But might make another soon!
Have a good day everyone!
Note: Some edits have been made for formatting and readability. The full conversation can be found at https://t.me/NEO_EN/28296.
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Q: AMPL: error processing param: invalid subscripts discarded So, i am trying to solve a non linear problem with AMPL and get this error when trying to run.
I have multiple objevtives as you can see in the code below, 32 to be precise, since my test parameters are indexed in a set of 32 elements (I). I do not know if the sintax is correct, but at this point i am considering to use for loops or something else so my parameters are one dimensional. I am gratefull for any answer, thanks.
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#Funciones comunes
function gsl_cdf_ugaussian_P;
function gsl_cdf_ugaussian_Pinv;
function gsl_ran_ugaussian_pdf;

#Conjunto
set I;

#Parametros
param alphaL{I};
param h{I};
param S;
param mu{I};
param sigmasq{I};
param L;

#Variables
var Q{I};
var r{I};
var x1{i in I} = (r[i]-mu[i]*L)/(sqrt(sigmasq[i]*L));
var x2{i in I} = (r[i]-mu[i]*L+Q[i])/(sqrt(sigmasq[i]*L));
var H1{i in I} = 1/2*((x1[i]**2+1)*(1-gsl_cdf_ugaussian_P(x1[i]))-x1[i]*gsl_ran_ugaussian_pdf(x1[i]));
var H2{i in I} = 1/2*((x2[i]**2+1)*(1-gsl_cdf_ugaussian_P(x2[i]))-x2[i]*gsl_ran_ugaussian_pdf(x2[i]));
var B{i in I} = (sigmasq[i]*L/Q[i])*(H1[i]-H2[i]);

#Funcion objetivo
minimize Z_alpha{i in I}: S*(mu[i]/Q[i])+h[i]*(Q[i]/2+r[i]-mu[i]*L+B[i]);

#Restricciones
subject to R{i in I}: r[i] >= mu[i]*L+gsl_cdf_ugaussian_Pinv(alphaL[i])*sqrt(sigmasq[i]*L);
subject to Q_EOC{i in I}: Q[i] >= sqrt((2*mu[i]*S)/h[i]);

dat:
set I:= 1..32;
param alphaL:=
    1   0.99
    2   0.99
    3   0.99
    4   0.99
    5   0.95
    6   0.95
    7   0.95
    8   0.95
    9   0.99
    10  0.99
    11  0.99
    12  0.99
    13  0.95
    14  0.95
    15  0.95
    16  0.95
    17  0.99
    18  0.99
    19  0.99
    20  0.99
    21  0.95
    22  0.95
    23  0.95
    24  0.95
    25  0.99
    26  0.99
    27  0.99
    28  0.99
    29  0.95
    30  0.95
    31  0.95
    32  0.95;
param h:=
    1   1.25
    2   1.25
    3   1
    4   1
    5   1.25
    6   1.25
    7   1
    8   1
    9   0.6
    10  0.6
    11  0.1
    12  0.1
    13  0.6
    14  0.6
    15  0.1
    16  0.1
    17  1.25
    18  1.25
    19  1
    20  1
    21  1.25
    22  1.25
    23  1
    24  1
    25  0.6
    26  0.6
    27  0.1
    28  0.1
    29  0.6
    30  0.6
    31  0.1
    32  0.1;
param S:= 250;
param mu:=
    1   200
    2   150
    3   200
    4   150
    5   200
    6   150
    7   200
    8   150
    9   200
    10  150
    11  200
    12  150
    13  200
    14  150
    15  200
    16  150
    17  50
    18  10
    19  50
    20  10
    21  50
    22  10
    23  50
    24  10
    25  50
    26  10
    27  50
    28  10
    29  50
    30  10
    31  50
    32  10;
param sigmasq:=
    1   6400
    2   3600
    3   6400
    4   3600
    5   6400
    6   3600
    7   6400
    8   3600
    9   6400
    10  3600
    11  6400
    12  3600
    13  6400
    14  3600
    15  6400
    16  3600
    17  400
    18  16
    19  400
    20  16
    21  400
    22  16
    23  400
    24  16
    25  400
    26  16
    27  400
    28  16
    29  400
    30  16
    31  400
    32  16;
param L:=2;

A: I probably would approach this as follows:
#Funcion objetivo
minimize Z_alpha: sum{i in I} w[i]*(S*(mu[i]/Q[i])+h[i]*(Q[i]/2+r[i]-mu[i]*L+B[i]));

Now you can populate the parameter w[i] to select a single objective or a weighted sum objective.

A: You didn't say what the problem was. Assuming the problem is that your 32 objective functions are not being declared, the problem is with this line of your data file
set I := 1..32;

This line makes I contain a single item: "1..32". That's because in data mode, .. in assignment statements are interpreted as literal strings. You cannot use .. in a data file in the same way you can use it in a model file. I suggest you change the set I declaration in your model file to:
param n;
set I := {1..n};

And initialize n in your data file:
param n = 32;

See solution on PIFOP


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