Gion Kanpyo accepts only one group each day.
This MACHIYA (townhouse) is close to Gion kawara-chow and you can walk to Gion or Ryoutei Street in Shirakawa within a short time.
This historical townhouse was built in 1810 and provides the great old atmosphere of the traditional city of Kyoto. It is an excellent opportunity to feel and experience the history of Japan.
The suite room is designed according to old Japanese patterns and is indeed very charming. It is quite spacious, so it is as suitable for groups as well as for one person.
The traditional bath is made by cypress and you will be able to smell the wonderful scents of it. Please also feel free to enjoy some traditional sake while soaking in the bath. It will surely heal your fatigue after spending a long day sightseeing in Kyoto.
Please enjoy Kyoto, Gion, Machiya, and the sake brewery while staying with us. You will be sure to have a wonderful Kyoto experience.
Overall it was a great experience staying in Gion Kinpyo. We are a family of 4 adults, we spent two night there. The loc... Read more Overall it was a great experience staying in Gion Kinpyo. We are a family of 4 adults, we spent two night there. The location is prefect if you like to stroll around Gion ans to see the old side of Kyoto. The off part is that there was no heater in the living room, it was very cold. I also would like to suggest Relux could make a more detailed descriptions in the introduction page. We thought there were three individual rooms, but end up there were only two. Overall, we had a great time and highly recommended.
Overall it was a great experience staying in Gion Kinpyo. We are a family of 4 adults, we spent two night there. The location is prefect if you like to stroll around Gion ans to see the old side of Kyoto. The off part is that there was no heater in the living room, it was very cold. I also would like to suggest Relux could make a more detailed descriptions in the introduction page. We thought there were three individual rooms, but end up there were only two. Overall, we had a great time and highly recommended.
We used it with two friends. I stayed at the townhouse for the first time and I am satisfied with the quirky feeling that is quirky like Kyoto. Thank you very much.
A big cypress bathtub is available. The wall is also made of cypress so you can enjoy the bath slowly while enjoying the scent of the cypress. You can see the courtyard through the window and you can experience the atmosphere of the original storehouses of Kyoto.
The staff of Gion Kinpyo absolutely wants to recommend enjoying some Japanese sake bath in cypress bathtub. Please relax with the very nice mixed mellow fragrance of cypress and Japanese sake.
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After checking out, you can transfer easily, so this service is very convenient.
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"WHY did I pick this movie?" Wes Anderson asked himself, slouching against the wall in the glass-lined lobby of an office building on the Paramount Pictures lot, a sultry black-and-white portrait of Dorothy Lamour peering over his shoulder. "I don't actually have an answer for that."
Mr. Anderson, it turns out, is the sort of person who tells you — a little sheepishly — that he has no answer to something, and then spends the next two and a half hours giving you one.
A slanted, self-deprecating smile spread across his face. Tall, bony and professorial, he leaned his forehead down so that he had to tilt his eyes up a bit to look straight ahead. "One thing is, I'm a big François Truffaut fan and this is the most unpretentious movie that I can possibly imagine," said Mr. Anderson, 32.
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Optimistorkestern skapades av Yngve Lundell 1985. Orkestern leds av en tamburmajor och består i övrigt av fyra spelande medlemmar. Skulpturen utplacerades efter att Södergatan byggts om till Malmös första gågata.

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Haiti's PM resigns amid fuel price hike protests
Port-au-Prince [Haiti], Jul 15 (ANI): Jack Guy Lafontant has tendered his resignation as Haiti's Prime Minister amid fuel price hike protests on Saturday.
"I submitted my resignation to the president of the republic", who has "accepted my resignation", Al Jazeera quoted, Lafontant, as saying on Saturday in the lower house of Haiti's legislature.
Lafontant government recently announced a plan to hike fuel prices which would increase the cost of gasoline by 38 percent, diesel by 47 percent and kerosene by 51 percent.
The announcement sparked mass protests, with streets in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other cities blocked with barricades of debris and burning tires, as per several media reports.
Lafontant, who took office in February last year, underscored the significance of fuel price hikes by saying that they were needed for Haiti to balance its budget.
According to the report, President Jovenel Moise, as well as the two heads of parliament, will decide the next prime minister of Haiti.(ANI)


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Four military officers to attend British veteran's funeral
Staff writer, with CNA
British World War II veteran Gerald Fitzpatrick, third right, is pictured last year attending a Double Ten National Day reception at Taiwan's representative office in London.
Photo: CNA
Four military officers are to attend the funeral of a British veteran to drape the Republic of China (ROC) national flag over his coffin, as the man wished, to honor his rescue by the Nationalist Army in what was then Burma during World War II, the Ministry of National Defense said on Sunday.
Gerald Fitzpatrick, 99, died on Aug. 27 in Leeds, England. He was one of more than 7,000 British soldiers rescued by the 113th Regiment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force from Japanese Imperial Army forces during the Battle of Yenangyaung in April 1942.
The former army captain repeatedly expressed his desire to have his coffin draped in the ROC flag to express his gratitude to the nation, the ministry said.
After learning of Fitzpatrick's passing, Minister of National Defense Yen De-fa (嚴德發) asked officers studying in the UK to convey the military's condolences to his family and the military sent an ROC flag to Fitzpatrick's widow, ministry spokesman Major General Chen Chung-chi (陳中吉) said.
Four officers studying in the UK would attend Fitzpatrick's funeral on Thursday, but not in uniform, Chen said.
On April 17, 1942, a large British contingent in the oil fields of Yenangyaung in central Burma was surrounded by Japanese troops, ministry documents show.
The commander of the 113th Regiment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, major general Liu Fang-wu (劉放吾), was ordered to lead an emergency rescue after the UK asked the ROC for help, the ministry said.
After two days of intense fighting, the Chinese forces defeated the Japanese and rescued more than 7,000 British soldiers, the ministry said.
During a visit to Taiwan in March 2013, Fitzpatrick told reporters that he had been posted to the UK contingent in Burma on March 5, 1942, when the British army was losing to the Japanese.
During that period, it was said that the Chinese army was coming to their assistance, he said.
About 500 to 600 Chinese Expeditionary Force troops arrived and immediately moved south to take on the Japanese forces, he said.
Fitzpatrick said he lost 21kg, one-third of his body weight, in the 11 weeks he was in Burma.
He remained extremely grateful to the ROC for the rest of his life and maintained cordial ties with the government.
He also wrote two books on the ROC's role in the Battle of Yenangyaung, Ditched Burma: No Mandalay, No Maymyo, 79 Survive and Chinese Save Brits — in Burma.
The ministry remained in contact with Fitzpatrick and military personnel visited him at a care center in Leeds in July, Chen said.
Liu Fang-wu's son, Liu Wei-min (劉偉民), visited Fitzpatrick four days before his passing and is to attend the funeral as well, Chen said.


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Q: Read ArrayList from file. Print words that appear only ONCE Newbie to coding and Java, please be kind :)
I'm working on a project for school and I'm trying to iterate over an ArrayList that I read in from a text file.
I read the file in using a Scanner into an ArrayList and then sort the ArrayList using Collections.sort() with the hopes that I can check each element with the next one. If the element is the same as the next one, ignore and continue but if the element is not duplicated in the ArrayList, then add it to a new ArrayList.
So, when reading in a text file that has these words:
this this is a a sentence sentence that does not not make sense a sentence not sentence not really really why not this a sentence not sentence a this really why

the new ArrayList should be
is that does make sense
because those words only appear once.
public static void main (String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
    Scanner fileIn = new Scanner(new File("words.txt"));
    ArrayList<String> uniqueArrList = new ArrayList<String>();
    ArrayList<String> tempArrList   = new ArrayList<String>();

    while (fileIn.hasNext()) {
        tempArrList.add(fileIn.next());
        Collections.sort(tempArrList);
    }

    for (String s : tempArrList) {
        if(!uniqueArrList.contains(s))
            uniqueArrList.add(s);

            else if (uniqueArrList.contains(s))
                uniqueArrList.remove(s);

            Collections.sort(uniqueArrList);
           System.out.println(uniqueArrList);
    }

This is what I have so far but I keep ending up with this [a, does, is, make, really, sense, that]
I hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong :)

A: Your algorithm is not correct, because it keeps adding and removing items from uniqueArrList. Hence, it finds words that appear an odd number of times, and it does not care for the list to be sorted.
You can sort the list once (move sort out of the loop) and then use a very simple strategy:

*

*Walk the list using an integer index

*Check the word at the current index against the word at the next index

*If words are different, print the current word, and advance index by one

*If words are the same, walk the list forward until you see a different word, and use the location of that word as the next value for the loop index.

Here is a sample implementation:
Scanner fileIn = new Scanner(new File("words.txt"));
List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
while (fileIn.hasNext()) {
    list.add(fileIn.next());
}
Collections.sort(list);
int pos = 0;
while (pos != list.size()) {
    int next = pos+1;
    while (next != list.size() && list.get(pos).equals(list.get(next))) {
        next++;
    }
    if (next == pos+1) {
        System.out.println(list.get(pos));
    }
    pos = next;
}

Demo.

A: One option here would be to maintain a hashmap of words to counts as you parse the file.  Then, iterate that map at the end to obtain the words which only appeared once:
Scanner fileIn = new Scanner(new File("words.txt"));
Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
ArrayList<String> uniqueArrList = new ArrayList<String>();

while (fileIn.hasNext()) {
    String word = fileIn.next():
    Integer cnt = map.get(word);
    map.put(word, cnt == null ? 1 : cnt.intValue() + 1);
}

// now iterate over all words in the map, adding unique words to a separate list
for (Map.Entry<String, Integer> entry : map.entrySet()) {
    if (entry.getValue() == 1) {
        uniqueArrList.add(entry.getKey());
    }
}

A: You current approach is close, you should be sorting once after you add all the words. Then you need to keep an index to the List so you can test if equal elements are adjacent. Something like,
List<String> uniqueArrList = new ArrayList<>();
List<String> tempArrList = new ArrayList<>();

while (fileIn.hasNext()) {
    tempArrList.add(fileIn.next());
}
Collections.sort(tempArrList);

for (int i = 1; i < tempArrList.size(); i++) {
    String s = tempArrList.get(i - 1);
    if (s.equals(tempArrList.get(i))) {
        // skip all equal and adjacent values
        while (s.equals(tempArrList.get(i)) && i + 1 < tempArrList.size()) {
            i++;
        }
    } else {
        uniqueArrList.add(s);
    }
}
System.out.println(uniqueArrList);

A: The easiest way would be to use a Set or a HashSet since you forget to control the elements' repetition. However, if you have to use lists, there is no need to sort the elements. Just iterate twice over the words and there you go
List<String> uniqueWords = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < words.size(); i++) {
        boolean hasDuplicate = false;
        for (int j = 0; j < words.size(); j++) {
            if (i != j) {
                if (words.get(i).equals(words.get(j))){
                    hasDuplicate = true;
                }
            }
        }
        if (!hasDuplicate) {
            uniqueWords.add(words.get(i))
        }
    }

A: Your logic error when you call
else if (uniqueArrList.contains(s))
      uniqueArrList.remove(s);

Use One Array:
            Scanner fileIn = new Scanner(new File("words.txt"));
            ArrayList<String> tempArrList = new ArrayList<String>();

            while (fileIn.hasNext()) {
                tempArrList.add(fileIn.next());
            }

            Collections.sort(tempArrList);
            System.out.println(tempArrList);

            if (tempArrList.size() > 1) {
                for (int i = tempArrList.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
                    String item = tempArrList.remove(i);
                    if (tempArrList.removeAll(Collections.singleton(item))) {
                        if (i > tempArrList.size()) {
                            i = tempArrList.size();
                        }
                    } else {
                        tempArrList.add(item);
                    }
                }
            }

            System.out.println(tempArrList);

I hope it can help you! Please feedback if it helpful.

A: For completeness only, this question is a no brainer with Java 8 Streams, using the distinct() intermediate operation:
public static void main (String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
    final Scanner fileIn = new Scanner(new File("words.txt"));
    final List<String> tempArrList = new ArrayList<String>();

    while (fileIn.hasNext()) {
        tempArrList.add(fileIn.next());
    }

    final List<String> uniqueArrList = tempArrList.stream().distinct().collect(Collectors.toList());

    System.out.println(uniqueArrList);
}

This code prints (for the provided input):
[this, is, a, sentence, that, does, not, make, sense, really, why]
If we want all the words sorted, simply adding sorted() to the stream pipeline does the trick:
tempArrList.stream().sorted().distinct().collect(Collectors.toList());

and we obtain a sorted (and pretty) output:
[a, does, is, make, not, really, sense, sentence, that, this, why]

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Arrieta's early 3-run homer doesn't hold, Cubs lose Game 3
Janie McCauley, The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- Jake Arrieta had so boldly proclaimed October ace Madison Bumgarner could be beaten, and the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner nearly made it happen with his bat and that big right arm.
Arrieta hit a three-run homer in the second inning that held up for most of the night, but the game was decided by the bullpens hours later, and the Chicago Cubs will have to wait another day to try to earn their spot in the NL Championship Series.
Joe Panik doubled off the wall in right-center field to drive in Brandon Crawford with the winning run in the 13th inning, and the Giants staved off elimination again by outlasting the Cubs 6-5 on Monday in Game 3 of their NL Division Series.
The wild-card Giants forced Tuesday night's Game 4 back at their raucous, sold-out ballpark, postponing a potential Cubs clinch party. Chicago leads the best-of-five playoff 2-1 and will send John Lackey to the mound opposite lefty Matt Moore.
"We played it hard, we played it right - and they beat us," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.
Panik came through on the 57th pitch from Mike Montgomery, who was working his fifth inning of relief. Brandon Crawford hit a leadoff double on an 0-2 curveball.
"It's definitely disappointing the way it ended, but I think we'll come back tomorrow ready to go," Montgomery said.
San Francisco won its 10th straight game when facing postseason elimination. The Giants are trying to extend their pattern of even-year championships after winning the World Series in 2010, '12 and '14.
Panik's big hit ended a 5-hour, 4-minute game that was only 29 minutes shy of the total time it took to play the first two series games combined last week at Wrigley Field.
"We just have to have a short memory, forget about it. It's over, just go out there tomorrow and get the victory," Cubs catcher Miguel Montero said. "It's not easy. It's a tough pill to swallow."
Rookie left-hander Ty Blach was the winner, escaping a 13th-inning jam when pinch-hitter David Ross bounced into a double play.
Kris Bryant hit a tying, two-run homer off Giants closer Sergio Romo in the ninth after San Francisco rallied for three runs to take the lead in the eighth against Aroldis Chapman.
Bryant's drive hit the top of the left-field fence and bounced into the seats, silencing the orange towel-swirling sellout crowd. The slugger received a warm hug of congratulations in the dugout from Chapman, who had just given up the lead.
With Bumgarner's remarkable postseason scoreless streak at 24 innings, Arrieta drove a 1-2 pitch into the left-field bleachers in the second inning - and, as a bonus, a man in a blue Cubs cap caught it and jumped for joy at his good fortune.
Arrieta's mouth hung wide open as he rounded the bases, pumping his pitching arm.
It was Arrieta's fifth career home run, and the first Bumgarner had given up to a pitcher in his seven-year big league career.
CHAPMAN OFF
Maddon turned to Chapman with the potential tying and go-ahead runs aboard in the eighth, putting him in position for his second career six-out save. He struck out Hunter Pence with five consecutive pitches clocked at 101 or 102 mph.
That brought up Conor Gillaspie, who grounded out his first three trips to the plate. He fouled off the first offering before driving the ball into deep right-center for a triple that easily scored Brandon Belt and Buster Posey.
Gillaspie came through just as he did with that three-run homer in the ninth inning of the wild-card game to beat the Mets last Wednesday in New York.
"Give Gillaspie credit," Maddon said. "He did it a couple days ago. He got an elevated fastball and hit it to the far part of the ballpark. I think it surprised a lot of people."
It was the 10th extra-base hit Chapman has allowed to a left-handed batter in his career - and the first triple.
PAGAN SCRATCHED
The only Giants player with strong numbers against Arrieta was a late scratch.
Left fielder Angel Pagan got pulled from the lineup about an hour before the first pitch because of back spasms.
Pagan had a .455 average (5 for 11) against Arrieta with a double and two strikeouts. Gregor Blanco replaced him.
Lackey will try to pitch the Cubs into their second straight NLCS, while Moore looks to build on his success down the stretch after the Giants acquired him at the Aug. 1 trade deadline from Tampa Bay.


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Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability
Posted December 5, 2016 by Hilda Bastian in Reproducibility
It's not a new story, although "the reproducibility crisis" may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the late 1950s. Large-scale problems in clinical research burst into the open in a very public way then.
But before we get to that, what is "research reproducibility"? It's a euphemism for unreliable research or research reporting. Steve Goodman and colleagues (2016) say 3 dimensions of science that affect reliability are at play:
Methods reproducibility – enough detail available to enable a study to be repeated;
Results reproducibility – the findings are replicated by others;
Inferential reproducibility – similar conclusions are drawn about results, which brings statistics and interpretation squarely into the mix.
That doesn't cover everything, for example, the reproducibility of the materials used in laboratory research.
There is a lot of history behind each of those. Here are some of the milestones in awareness and proposed solutions that stick out for me.
Estes Kefauver was a U.S. Senator and Adlai Stevenson's presidential running mate. He had become famous at the start of the decade with hearings into organized crime. More than 30 million people watched some of those hearings, on television or free in movie theaters.
He turned his attention to the pharmaceutical industry at the end of the decade, holding hearings into drug prices in 1958 and 1959. One of the issues that emerged was the "sorry state of science supporting drug effectiveness". This outcry about research reproducibility led to a major change in research requirements for FDA approval in 1962.
Part of the problem's solution had a major milestone in 1959, too. Austin Bradford Hill led a meeting in Vienna that codified the methodology for controlled clinical trials.
Earlier in the 1950s, though, there was a development that stands as a milestone in fueling science's reproducibility crisis by inadvertently introducing a perverse incentive: Eugene Garfield proposed the journal impact factor in 1955.
In 1962, the Kefauver-Harris amendments required "adequate and well-controlled clinical investigations" for FDA approval: adequate was at least 2 studies – a major step in expecting replication of results.
A new problem in biological research was revealed in 1966 at a conference in Bethesda. Stanley Gartler was the first to report contamination in cell lines in cancer research (reported in Nature, 1968). Still not adequately dealt with, that's grown into a juggernaut of un-reproducibility, making thousands of studies unreliable.
That year also saw what may be the first example of the science of systematically studying science's methods – what John Ioannidis and colleagues have dubbed meta-research. It was a study of statistics and methods of evaluation in medical journal publications (discussed here).
The 70s brought us 2 key methods: systematically reviewing evidence (1971) and meta-analysis: a way to analyze the results of several studies at once (1976) (explainer here). Those methods didn't just help make sense of bodies of evidence. They also propelled meta-research.
And 1977 surfaced a problem in scientists' behavior that allows unreliable scientific findings to take root and thrive. Michael Mahoney showed confirmation bias thrived in peer review:
Confirmatory bias is the tendency to emphasize and believe experiences which support one's views and to ignore or discredit those which do not…[R]eviewers were strongly biased against manuscripts which reported results contrary to their theoretical perspective.
Analyzing the reliability of studies took a formal step forward in 1981, with the publication of a method for assessing the quality of clinical trials.
Doug Altman and colleagues took on the issue of problems with the use and interpretation of statistics, with 1983 statistical guidelines for medical journals.
And a way forward was proposed for the problem of unpublished research results. The unpublished research results are often the disappointing ones. That leaves us with a deceptive public record of science.
John Simes called for an international registry of clinical trials in 1986. Registering the details of all research before it is actually done would mean we could at least identify gaps in the published research record down the line.
According to Goodman & co (2016), the term "reproducible research" was coined in 1992. Computer scientist Jon Claerbout used it in the sense of methods reproducibility – enough published details for someone else to be able to reproduce the steps of a study.
Formal standardized guidelines for reporting research – one of the key strategies for trying to improve research reproducibility – arrived in clinical research in the 1990s. The CONSORT statement for clinical trials in 1996 is the milestone here.
The registration of clinical trials at inception took a giant leap forward in 2004 when the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) announced they would not publish a trial that had not been registered.
"Why most research findings are false" landed like a bomb on science's landscape in 2005. John Ioannidis' paper has now been viewed more than 1.8 million times, and definitely counts as a milestone in awareness of science's reproducibility problems. (I wrote about the article and controversies around it here.)
In 2007, FDAA, the FDA amendments act, added public results reporting to an earlier requirement that drug clinical trials be registered at inception. Final Rules and NIH policies that give those requirements teeth go into effect in January 2017.
Pre-clinical research got a major jolt in 2012, when Begley and Ellis at the biotech company Amgen set out to confirm cancer research findings:
Fifty-three papers were deemed 'landmark' studies…[S]cientific findings were confirmed in only 6 (11%) cases. Even knowing the limitations of preclinical research, this was a shocking result.
In 2013, registering studies at inception took a leap at the journal Cortex with registered reports. Registered reports are peer reviewed detailed protocols, with the journal's commitment to publishing the results after the study is completed. (A tally of journals following suit is kept here.)
In 2014, the NIH began reporting on its strategies for addressing reproducibility, including reporting guidelines for preclinical research, and PubMed Commons, which had arrived in 2013. That's the commenting system in PubMed, the largest biomedical literature database.
Psychology's big jolt came in 2015, when the Open Science Collaboration reported that they replicated between a third and a half of 100 experiments and correlation studies.
And in 2016, the American Statistical Association (ASA) issued its first-ever guidance, trying to stem the tide of misuse and misinterpretation of p values. (Explainer here.)
2016 is ending, though, with a potential roll-back in the clinical research rigor and transparency required for FDA approval. Lesser levels of evidence than adequately controlled clinical trials might be back, and full raw data might not be necessary, either.
We have a "reproducibility crisis" because we need to do more to try to prevent bias in research design, conduct, interpretation, and reporting. And after that we need others to interrogate what's found and replicate it in different contexts. As Christie Aschwanden points out, that's just plain hard to do. But "science" isn't really scientific without all of that, is it?
Disclosure: PubMed Commons is part of my day job.
If you're interested in the history of improving the reliability of clinical research, the James Lind Library is a goldmine. I drew on it heavily to develop this post.
Updates on 6 December 2016: Added materials reproducibility – thanks to Joanne Kamens for pointing out this gap in the definition I used on Twitter.
Andrew Gelman has a reproducibility timeline for psychology (and it has very little overlap with mine).
The cartoons and illustrations are my own (CC-NC-ND-SA license). (More cartoons at Statistically Funny and on Tumblr.)
* The thoughts Hilda Bastian expresses here at Absolutely Maybe are personal, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Brad Wyble says:
As we focus on issues with statistics in psychology, I suspect that another crisis is already in the making. Machine learning is having a huge impact on neuroscience, with countless papers that use a variety of pattern classifiers in large EEG, MEG, and fMRI data sets. Unfortunately the enthusiasm for these approaches is often not accompanied by appropriate caution, since there is a misplaced faith in their statistical rigor.
As the computer science and physics disciplines can teach us, big data sets are extremely dangerous to make inferences from because of the dangers of overfitting when designing an analysis. Many people think that cross-validation is sufficient protection but it really isn't. If you'd like to learn more about this, we've got a preprint on biorxiv that illustrates this issue by showing how easy it is to train a classifier to detects patterns that aren't there, even with the use of cross validation.
Bobbie Spellman says:
Within psychology, I tried to show the similarities between older efforts to fix psychology (e.g., dump NHST, open file drawer) with newer effort to do the same or similar things. See the Appendix to:
http://pps.sagepub.com/content/10/6/886.full.pdf+html
That table can be updated at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lmnYIcavpXjXo2GA2m7kytKdnZxJPoXVWLoYauxFu5s/edit
David Colquhoun says:
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Thanks for a fascinating, if brief, survey of the history.
I'd put the recognition of the need for reproducibility much earlier. It was explicit in Fisher's 1926 statement that
"Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 percent point. . . . A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance"
The bit about "rarely fails" was quickly forgotten, and that is surely part of the problem. I doubt that this is the first statement about the need for replication.
Another problem has been the near-total failure of statisticians to agree about the principles of inference. In 1971 I said "It is difficult to give a consensus of informed opinion because, although there is much informed opinion, there is rather little consensus". That's almost as true now as it was then.
Hilda Bastian says:
Thanks, David. Yes, I agree there would be lots of statements about the need for replication and so on. But I haven't yet seen anything else earlier that's a public criticism of unreliable criticism outside the profession, which is why I picked the Kefauver hearings as the start.
I hadn't read the part of Andrew Gelman's post that was a reproducibility timeline before I wrote this. He picked completely different things – more granular, and neuroscience/psychology-focused. One of his, raising the papers dubbing "researcher degrees of freedom" and "p-hacking" had a wide impact, I agree. And your paper certainly fits in that mould too – but I just stuck with the ASA statement to stand for that set of concerns. Yes, it's the problem of brevity – but I think brevity has strengths too.
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MCM co-founder Peter Wilson gives details about high latitudes sailing yacht KMY Pelagic 77
MCM co-founder Peter Wilson provides insight into his role as owner's representative on a very special sailing yacht high latitudesproject in build at KM Yachtbuilders in the Netherlands.
–The 23.5-metre Pelagic 77 is one of rare breed of sailing yacht designed specifically for navigating in polar seas.
-Design by Tony Castro for round-the-world racer and polar adventurer Skip Novak
-Conceived, designed and built to specific criteria: enhanced autonomy, ease of handling, simple sail plan, reliable onboard systems, robustness and workshop repairs station.
The 23.5-metre Pelagic 77 is one of rare breed of sailing yacht designed specifically for navigating in polar seas. Her very experienced owner wanted "an expedition yacht designed and built for sailing mainly in high latitudes" and he knew exactly who to go to for advice…
Round-the-world racer and polar adventurer Skip Novak is widely considered a world authority on high-latitude sailing. His specialist vessel, Pelagic Australis, was designed by yacht designer Tony Castro for operations in remote polar regions. The Pelagic 77, in build by aluminium specialists KM Yachtbuilders, is very much an evolution of that vessel, which since her launch in 2003 has covered thousands of ocean miles working as an expedition charter yacht in both the Arctic and Antarctic, including an attempt on the NW Passage.
"Skip, Tony and KM had already proved themselves to be a winning team, so why look any further?" says Peter Wilson. "As Skip is often at sea on expeditions, he needed a wingman on the ground to follow the project and MCM was delighted to oblige. An expedition sailing yacht has to be designed and built to specific criteria, including enhanced autonomy, ease of handling, a simple sail plan and reliable onboard systems – and robust. The Pelagic 77 has been conceived with all these factors in mind."
Standout features that highlight the yacht's explorer vocation include:
The bare aluminum hull and deck structure is reinforced to withstand navigation in brash ice without deformation.
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A robust fixed keel with a solid aluminium machined centreboard (a work of art, says Peter Wilson) allows for safe navigation in shoal waters.
Twin engines, with well protected propellers.
A workshop forward of the accommodation means running repairs can be made at sea.
Hawser reels on in the transom and another on the foredeck can be used for shore anchors.
A sturdy gantry frame on the transom will carry an expedition RIB (a second RIB is stowed on deck) as well as the sat-nav antennae so in case of damage to the Axxon carbon masts, the yacht will not lose navigation and satellite communication capability. It also doubles as mainsail traveler track foundation.
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Beam max: 6.31m
Draught max: 4.30m
Draught min: 2.15 m
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Fuel: 8210 lit.
Day tank fuel: 250 lit.
Fresh water: 3055 lit. B/G
Water: 1310 lit.
Utility/Waste/Oil: 200 lit.
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It's carnival time all over Italy but we all know which is the most famous city for carnivals in the world, different kind of masks represents this beautiful town, sure it's Venice, Italy's nord capital. The carnival has started already lasting until the 12th of February, so we still have 4days to get there, and take a part of it.
Fancy masks, masquerade kids all over the city, confetti and many sweets and treats, also parades and festival will cheer your February mood up. A two-week series of processions, masquerades, traditional ceremonies, music and all-round festivities fills the canals, squares and palaces of this ancient city.
The Carnival has a new theme of the of the celebration every year, so you can not say: have been there, done that. Famous St Mark's Square will turn into life with musical, theatrical, acrobatic and dance performances. There are two kind of revellers visiting the city from all over the world, those ones who get any kind of mask and fallow the street parties and performances and those more aristocratic ones, who prefer masked balls and period costume and gala dinners to attend.
It's one of the oldest festivals in the world, existing since the 13th Century, anyone has to attend it with a mask, when the night comes, the masked balls come to life; the Gothic Palazzo Pisani-Moretta hosts the grandest. Guests arrive in gondolas along the moonlit Grand Canal for the Ballo del Doge, Mascheranda Ball.


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California has a big, recession-caused budget problem, but its true dimensions are open to debate.
The first step to effectively deal with any problem is defining it accurately — and the recession-battered state budget is a case in point.
There's no doubt that the pandemic-induced recession is one of the worst in California history and that its negative fiscal effects — both increased spending and reduced revenues — are many billions of dollars.
There is, however, much uncertainty about the dimensions of the budget crisis, and therefore what might be required to "meet the moment," to use one of Gov. Gavin Newsom's favorite phrases.
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The revised budget that Newsom released last week appears to maximize the gap between income and outgo during the fiscal year that ends on June 30 and the 2020-21 fiscal year that begins on July 1. He pegs the gap at $54.3 billion and is proposing a potpourri of spending reductions, particularly in education, as well as deferrals, new revenues, allocations from the state's rainy-day reserve fund, and federal aid to cover it.
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That daunting number, however, is based on his initial budget proposal unveiled in January. At the time, everything appeared to be economically rosy, so Newsom proposed many billions of dollars in new programs and expansions of old ones. The revision oddly assumes that the inability to spend more in the forthcoming year represents a chunk of the deficit.
Moreover, it does not entirely account for federal disaster relief that would offset, in large measure, an estimated $7 billion in spending directly on the pandemic that Newsom counts as a negative component of his deficit projection.
When those and other factors are added to the calculations, the potential deficit shrinks to more manageable levels, as the Legislature's budget analyst, Gabe Petek, points out. As Petek sees it, were the economy to recover relatively quickly, the state would have a net $18 billion problem to solve, and even if recovery were slower, it might rise to about $31 billion.
"In effect, the administration's estimates largely reflect gross changes in the budget's bottom line while our estimate includes the net effects of current law," Petek wrote.
So why would Newsom maximize the deficit and thus the spending reductions — especially in education — that his budget would impose to cover them? He indirectly told us why during his presentation to reporters on Thursday: to provide political ammunition for his plea, and that of other state and local officials across the nation, for trillions of dollars in new federal relief.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats in the House are pushing for a $3 trillion relief package, including about $1 trillion for state governments that could mean $100 billion for California. So far, it's been dead-on-arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Accordingly, Newsom's budget, if adopted by the Legislature, specifically and automatically rescinds the cuts to education and other popular services if what Pelosi has dubbed the Heroes Act becomes reality and California gets the hoped-for money.
"The Heroes Act is the best approach," Newsom said. "We need the federal government. We need that support."
There's no doubt that the recession is serious. Our unemployment rate, which topped out at just over 12% during the Great Recession a decade ago, could easily reach twice that level. The state, indeed, faces a very serious budget problem but how serious is by no means a settled fact.
It now falls to legislative leaders to either go along with Newsom's seemingly inflated deficit number or take the advice of their own budget experts that the real deficit may only be a third as large and deal with it accordingly.
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The posts were released by Adrienne Irmer, who ran against Calloway and others in the race to replace retiring Rep. Barbara Flynn Curie in the state's 25th District.
Irmer was endorsed by 5th Ward Ald. Leslie Hairston in that race — Calloway, who was an instrumental figure in getting the shooting video of Laquan McDonald released, is fighting to unseat Hairston April 2.
A post from activist William Calloway from 2015. He is now a candidate for 5th Ward alderman.
The meeting started a half hour after it was scheduled to start, and a large portion of it was held on background, which meant the press could not quote what community members or the candidate said. Calloway said it was in the hopes of encouraging a safe space.
The on-background, Q&A portion of the meeting was tense at times as residents asked Calloway about the posts and for specifics about what kind of alderman he'd be.
Takala Welch, Calloway's friend and a member of the LGBT community, said after the meeting she wasn't shocked by the posts but they haven't changed how she feels about him.
Later, at a meet and greet for 5th Ward residents Sunday evening, the incumbent Hairston questioned Calloway's fitness for office.


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The Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly (, ) was the official name of the unicameral legislature of Cambodia during the Democratic Kampuchea period. It was established as the official legislature of Kampuchea on January 5, 1976, consisting of 250 members.

Of the seats, 150 were, due to the constitution, to be reserved for representatives of the peasants, 50 for the "laborers and other working people" and 50 for the Kampuchean Revolutionary Army. All representatives were to be elected simultaneously by secret ballot for five year terms, with the first and only elections taking place on March 20, 1976.

The assembly held its first and only plenary session on April 11 to 13, appointing the State Presidium, consisting of a president, a first vice president, and a second vice president, as well elected the "administration", the official government of Democratic Kampuchea, and the Standing Committee, due to represent the assembly when not gathered. The members of the KPRA were never elected; the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) appointed the chairman and other high officials both to it and to the State Praesidium. Plans for elections of members were discussed, but the 250 members of the KPRA were in fact appointed by the upper echelon of the CPK.

The assembly was effectively abolished when the Vietnamese captured Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, establishing the People's Republic of Kampuchea.

Results

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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
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|align=left|Groups represented in the Assembly''
Kampuchean Revolutionary Army
Labourers and "other working people"
Peasants
|valign="top"|5050150
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Total
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
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Presidents of the Standing Committee of the Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly:
 Nuon Chea, April 13, 1976 – January 7, 1979

References

Government of Cambodia
Democratic Kampuchea
Parliament of Cambodia
Defunct national legislatures


Proud father-to-be Philmar Alipayo shared on his Instagram story that he is excited and happy to see his baby with partner Andi Eigenmann.
The surfing champ shared a photo of Andi holding the sonogram from her ultrasound and he also took to Instagram to express how much joy this has brought him.
"I am so happy to see you today, so happy that I wanted to cry. I can't wait to see you soon my little [baby]," he wrote.
"I can only imagine the day I get to finally meet you. I know for sure I will cry like a baby out of so much joy," he added.
Andi also took to Instagram to thank Philmar for accompanying her in the city.
"He's been stuck in the city for almost a month now and I am so grateful! Thanks for stepping out of your paradise of a comfort zone just to take care of us. Your support has made my pregnancy so breezy, and way less boring that it could be," she said.
Ellie, Andi's seven-year-old daughter, is also already an excited "ate" waiting for the birth of her sibling.


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The decision to buy a home an immense step in life. Make sure that all your financial documents are up to date before you start looking for a home. Keep reading here so you can learn more tips regarding home buying.
You should do your due diligence before settling for one home to buy. The following points will help you get a home that is of your choice.
You can be sure to get all the information that you require when it comes to homes for cash from a pal or family member that is in the business of selling homes. Surfing the net will be very helpful since you will get information such as names and contacts of home selling services.
You require several important documents when you want to buy a house for cash. Consider a home that is within your planned budget. Make sure you ask about all costs that are involved in a home in advance so as not to end up in surprise.
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Student Eric Finland, a keyboard player, made his second trip with the group before graduating in May. He is no stranger to the Delta region, having interned at the Delta Blues Museum, in Clarksdale, before enrolling at Berklee. Though he's seen and heard a lot, he describes a reverent, almost spiritual experience he had on this outing, visiting an old haunt of legendary blues players.
Finland and the other musicians called their group the Berklee Blues Explosion. Under the direction of bassist Lenny Stallworth, an assistant professor in the Ensemble Department who hails from Moss Point, Mississippi, the collective also included students Jazz Robertson, on drums, and Noe Socha, on guitar and harmonica.
The Explosion performed a dynamic clinic at Ruleville Central High School where live bands are seldom seen, but yet a number of students possessed enough confidence in their innate talents that they heeded Stallworth's invitation to jam. Singers, including 10th grader Lonette Jackson (in photo), drummers, a keyboard player, and two MCs took the few steps from their places on the gymnasium floor to where the band set under a basketball hoop to entertain their supportive and cheering peers. The group also jammed with students from the Delta Music Institute at Delta State University, in Cleveland, and played two sets at the Juke Joint Festival, in Clarksdale.
Finland and Socha, who hang and collaborate around Berklee, veered away a couple of times for duo gigs. One was at the B.B. King Museum, in Indianola. Finland alluded to the other detour in his video above. Hear how they made $40 on a side street in Clarksdale.


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Jan 20, '19 2:25 PM
Rote Fahne, November 18, 1918
The revolution has begun. What is called for now is not jubilation at was has been accomplished, not triumph over the beaten foe, but the strictest self-criticism and iron concentration of energy in order to continue the work we have begun. For our accomplishments are small and the foe has not been beaten.
What has been achieved? The monarchy has been swept away, supreme governing power has been transferred into the hands of the workers' and soldiers' representatives. But the monarchy was never the real enemy; it was only a facade, the frontispiece of imperialism. It was not the Hohenzollerns who unleashed the world war, set the far corners of the globe afire, and brought Germany to the brink of the abyss. The monarchy, like every bourgeois government, was the executive of the ruling classes. The imperialist bourgeoisie, the rule of the capitalist class—this is the criminal who must be held accountable for the genocide.
The abolition of the rule of capitalism, the realization of the social order of socialism—this and nothing less is the historical theme of the present revolution. This is an huge work which cannot be completed in the twinkling of an eye by a few decrees from above; it can be born only of the conscious action of the mass of workers in the cities and in the country, and brought successfully through the maze of difficulties only by the highest intellectual maturity and unflagging idealism of the masses of the people.
The path of the revolution follows clearly from its ends, its method follows from its task. All power in the hands of the working masses, in the hands of the workers' and soldiers' councils, protection of the work of revolution against its lurking enemies—this is the guiding principle of all measures to be taken by the revolutionary government.
Every step, every act by the government must, like a compass, point in these directions:
re-election and improvement of the local workers' and soldiers' councils so that the first chaotic and impulsive gestures of their formation are replaced by a conscious process of understanding the goals, tasks and methods of the revolution;
regularly scheduled meetings of these representatives of the masses and the transfer of real political power from the small committee of the executive council into the broader basis of the W. and S. [workers' and soldiers'] councils;
immediate convocation of the national council of workers and soldiers in order to establish the proletariat of all Germany as a class, as a compact political power, and to make them the bulwark and impetus of the revolution;
immediate organization not of the "farmers," but of the agrarian proletariat and smallholders who, as a class, have until now been outside the revolution;
formation of a proletarian Red Guard for the permanent protection of the revolution, and training of a workers' militia in order to prepare the whole proletariat to be on guard and all times;
suppression of the old organs of administration, justice and the army of absolutist militarist police state;
immediate confiscation of the dynastic property and possessions and of landed property as initial temporary measures to guarantee the people's food supply, since hunger is the most dangerous ally of the counterrevolution;
immediate convocation of the World Labour Congress in Germany in order to emphasize clearly and distinctly the socialist and international character of the revolution, for only in the International, in the world revolution of the proletariat, is the future of the German revolution anchored.
We have mentioned only the first necessary steps. What is the present revolutionary government doing?
It is leaving the administrative organs of the state intact from top to bottom, in the hands of yesterday's pillars of Hohenzollern absolutism and tomorrow's tools of the counterrevolution;
it is convening the constituent National Assembly, thus creating bourgeois counterweight to the workers' and soldiers' representatives, and, by doing this, is diverting the revolution on to the track of a bourgeois revolution and spiriting away the socialist goals of the revolution;
it is doing nothing to demolish the continuing power of the capitalist class rule;
it is doing everything to placate the bourgeoisie, to proclaim the sacrosanctity of private property, to safeguard the inviolability of the distribution of capital;
it is allowing the active counterrevolution, which is dogging its every step, to go its own way without appealing to the masses, without loudly warning the people against it.
Law! Order! Order! Law! This is the cry resounding from all sides, in all proclamations of the government; this is the joyous echo from all the bourgeois camps. A strident outcry against the bogey of "anarchy" and "putschism"—the well-known infernal music of a bourgeoisie concerned for its fireproof safes, its property and its profits—in the loudest note of the day, and the revolutionary workers' and soldiers' government is placidly tolerating this general march to mount an offensive against socialism, indeed it is participating in it in word and deed.
The result of the first week of the revolution is as follows: in the state of the Hohenzollerns, not much has basically changed; the workers' and soldiers' government is acting as the deputy of the imperialistic government that has gone bankrupt. All its acts and omissions are governed by fear of the working masses. Even before the revolution has acquired verve and momentum, its only vital force, namely its socialist and proletarian character, will have been spirited away.
Everything is in order. The reactionary state of the civilized world will not become a revolutionary people's state within twenty-four hours. Soldiers who yesterday, as gendarmes of the reaction, were murdering the revolutionary proletariat in Finland, Russia and Ukraine, and workers who calmly allowed this to happen, have not become in twenty-four hours supporters of socialism or clearly aware of their goals.
The picture of the German revolution corresponds to the inner ripeness of the German situation. The government of the German revolution at its present stage is in the hands of Scheidemann and Ebert, and who in Die Freiheit solemnly swear that one can form a "purely socialist government" with them, thus qualify themselves as the appropriate partners in the firm at this initial provisional stage.
But revolutions do not stand still. Their vital law is to advance rapidly, to outgrow themselves. It is already being driven forward by its inner contradictions from this initial stage. The situation can be comprehended as a beginning, as a condition untenable over the long haul. If the counterrevolution is not to gain the upper hand all along the line, the masses must be on their guard.
A beginning has been made. What happens next is not in the hands of the dwarfs who would hold up the course of the revolution, who would put a spoke in the wheel of world history. It is the realization of the ultimate goal of socialism which is on today's agenda of world history. The German revolution has now hit upon the path illuminated by this star. Step by step, through storm and stress, through battle and torment and misery and victory, it will reach its goal.
It must!
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*As nominated by President Zuma.
Results: Judge Zondo has been appointed Deputy Chief Justice.
Results: Judge Maya has been appointed President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Judge B H Mbha – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Judge L V Theron – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Judge M J D Wallis – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Results: Judge N J Kollapen, Judge S A Majiedt, Judge L V Theron and Judge M J D Wallis have been nominated.
Judge M Makaula – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Judge Z M Nhlangulela – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Judge J E Smith – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Judge D Van Zyl – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Ms S Jacobs – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Ms L F Monakali – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Adv V Reddy – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Mr T Bailey – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Ms S N Ndlovu – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Adv R G Beaton SC – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Ms D Mahosi – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Mr G N Moshoana – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Adv M P N Nkutha-Nkontwana – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Results: Ms D Mahosi, Mr G N Moshoana and Adv M P N Nkutha-Nkontwana have been nominated.
Judge M F Legodi – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Results: Judge F M Legodi has been nominated.
Deputy Judge President L P Tlaletsi – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Results: Deputy Judge President L P Tlaletsi has been nominated.
Judge M V Phatshoane – click here to read profile and interview synopsis.
Results: Ms T J Djaje has been nominated.
In total, the JSC has therefore shortlisted 30 candidates. The shortlisted candidates will be notified of the date, time and venue of the interviews in due course.
Law bodies and members of the public wishing to comment on the candidates should address their comments to the Secretariat of the Judicial Service Commission at Chiloane@concourt.org.za alternatively TPhaahlamohlaka@judiciary.org.za.
Comments must reach the Secretariat by no later than 22 March 2017.
Inquiries: Adv D Ntsebeza SC 082 467 2490 and Mr C P Fourie 082 881 1737.


Even if you spend your every waking hour on Facebook, you'll probably never encounter its darker side. The side which is used for say, selling weapons.
However according to new reports, the social media site is your go-to place if you're after a gun.
As reported by the New York Times, the report revealed attempts at the transfer of everything from missiles, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, and anti aircraft guns, on Libyan Facebook groups since late 2014.
The private groups are used particularly in places which have a high ISIS presence such as Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
As concluded by The Armament Research Services, they said that there were up to 300 arms sales a month in Libya alone.
Apparently in Libya, the majority of arms were originally intended for U.S use, but were later either stolen or sold illegally.
As reported by Quartz, The Small Arms Survey believes that the trade via social media started in 2013 and is only getting bigger every day.
Using groups like the 'Libyan Firearms Market' (now taken down), heavy machine guns where selling for an average of 8,125 Libyan dinar (£4,190), rocket launchers for 9,000 Libyan dinar (£4,675), and an anti-aircraft system for 85,000 Libyan dinar (£44,175).
Facebook has since removed six particular groups identified as those selling arms, however in my opinion it would appear that Facebook is simply too big to monitor entirely – so the underground arms trade will more than likely persist.


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Q: extract columns from csv to a text file It is a simple problem. I have a csv file with multiple columns I would like to extract 3 columns and save the output to a text file.
sample of my dataset:
page_id     post_name   link        post_type       likes_count
5550296508  Ben Carson  www.cnn.com shared_story    192583
5830242058  John Smith  www.abc.com news_story      467
9485676544  Sara John   www.msc.com shared_story    462

I would like to select three columns and save them to a text file with a comma seperator.The desired output: (or any similar format that shows the columns in a neat way. it doesn't have to be exactly like this format)
"page_id","post_name","post_type"
"5550296508","Ben Carson","shared_story"
"5830242058","John Smith", "news_story"
"9485676544", "Sara John",  "shared_story"

I tried to use awk:
awk -F',' '{print $1,$2,$4}' Data.csv > output.txt

It returns this output with a blank space between the columns, I would like to replace the blank space with a comma:
page_id     post_name   post_type
5550296508  Ben Carson  shared_story
5830242058  John Smith  news_story
9485676544  Sara John   shared_story

I tried printf but I am not sure I am using the correct string because it doesn't return the output I want.
awk '{printf "%s,%s,%s", $1,$2,$4}' Data.csv > output.txt

using sed. This only replaces the first blank with a comma.
awk -F',' '{print $2,$5,$10}' Data.csv | sed 's/ /,/' > output.txt

A: You can use below command to separate it out with comma , :
awk '{print $1","$2","$4}' Data.csv > output.txt

Output Will be :
page_id,post_name,post_type
5550296508,Ben,www.cnn.com
5830242058,John,www.abc.com
9485676544,Sara,www.msc.com

A: Your input file is not comma-separated.  I am guessing that it is tab-separated.  If that is the case, then try:
$ awk -F'\t' '{print "\""$1,$2,$4"\""}' OFS='","' Data.csv
"page_id","post_name","post_type"
"5550296508","Ben Carson","shared_story"
"5830242058","John Smith","news_story"
"9485676544","Sara John","shared_story"

If that is not quite it, then try:
awk -F'\t+' '{print "\""$1,$2,$4"\""}' OFS='","' Data.csv

How it works

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*-F'\t' tells awk to use tab as the field separator.  Alternatively, -F'\t+' tells awk to use any sequence of one or more field tabs as a field separator.

*print "\""$1,$2,$4"\"" tells awk to print a double-quote, followed by field 1 followed by a field separator followed by field 2 followed by a field separator followed by field 4 followed by a double-quote.

*OFS='","' tells awk to use "," as the field separator on output.