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Q: printing str values from list loop that resets if duplicates found in the result I really can't figure out what's wrong with this loop, I tried editing it several times, but sometimes it prints duplicates ignoring the condition. after I edited it, it stopped printing anything at all... can somebody whos more experienced find out whats wrong here...
first attempt: it prints results with duplicates
from ast import Break
import random
import secrets

def checkIfDuplicates_2(x):
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     for elem in x:
        if elem in x:
            x = []
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
        elif elem not in x:
            print (x[0])
            print (x[1])
            print (x[2])
            print (x[3])
            print (x[4])
            break

questions = ["- Current Ratio:", "- Quick Ratio(ACID):", "- Inventory Turnover:", "- Average Age of Inventory:", "- Average Collection Period(ACP):", "- Average Payment Period(APP):", "- Total Assets Turnover:", "- Debit Ratio:", "- Times-Interest Earned Ratio(TIE):", "- Fixed-Payment Coverage Ratio(FPCR):", "- Gross Profit Margin(GPM):", "- Operating Profits Margin(OPM):", "- Net Profit Margin(NPM):", "- Earnings Per Share(EPS):", "- Return on Total Assets(ROA):", "- Return on Common Equity(ROE):", "- Price/Earnings Ratio(P/E):", "- Market/Book Ratio(M/B):"]
pool = []

# space between prints
spaces = " "
print(spaces * 5)
print("Find the following ratios:")
checkIfDuplicates_2(pool)

second attempt: I thought the problem with the 2nd (if) it has "x = []" so it clears the list so the loop can have a fresh start, so I replaced it with x.clear(). now it doesn't print anything at all
from ast import Break
import random
import secrets

def checkIfDuplicates_2(x):
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     x.append(random.choice(questions))
     for elem in x:
        if elem in x:
            x.clear()
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
            x.append(random.choice(questions))
        elif elem not in x:
            print (x[0])
            print (x[1])
            print (x[2])
            print (x[3])
            print (x[4])
            break

questions = ["- Current Ratio:", "- Quick Ratio(ACID):", "- Inventory Turnover:", "- Average Age of Inventory:", "- Average Collection Period(ACP):", "- Average Payment Period(APP):", "- Total Assets Turnover:", "- Debit Ratio:", "- Times-Interest Earned Ratio(TIE):", "- Fixed-Payment Coverage Ratio(FPCR):", "- Gross Profit Margin(GPM):", "- Operating Profits Margin(OPM):", "- Net Profit Margin(NPM):", "- Earnings Per Share(EPS):", "- Return on Total Assets(ROA):", "- Return on Common Equity(ROE):", "- Price/Earnings Ratio(P/E):", "- Market/Book Ratio(M/B):"]
pool = []

# space between prints
spaces = " "
print(spaces * 5)
print("Find the following ratios:")
checkIfDuplicates_2(pool)

A: Have you considered the closely related random.sample() method? Takes a list and randomly samples the second argument's number of elements from the list.
total_questions = 5
pool = random.sample(questions, total_questions)
print(pool)

A: You need to check if the condition is satisfied before print it. If not, try again.
def checkIfDuplicates_2(x):
    total_questions = 5

    while True:
        for i in range(total_questions):
            x.append(random.choice(questions))

        if len(set(x)) == len(x):
            for i in range(len(x)):
                print(x[i])

            break
        else:
            x = []


This is Gerardo Del Rea with the Resource Stock Digest weekly recap. Post-Brexit vote trends are starting to become clearer to the side of the market that was looking for direction. Silver is up 41% for the year. Gold is up 27%. The Dow and the S&P are each up 3% respectively despite calls by many for a stock market crash. I don't believe that will happen, but time will tell. One of the few talking points that most agree on now is the new junior gold bull market. There will be pullbacks and probably violent ones, but from a higher baseline than what I anticipated. That's great news for quality gold and silver juniors.
Several Resource Stock Digest featured companies hit 52-week highs this week, including Midas Gold (TSX: MAX)(OTC: MDRPF), Millrock Resources (TSX: MRO)(OTC: MRLKF), Brazil Resources (TSX-V: BRI)(OTC: BRIZF), and Almaden Minerals (TSX: AMM)(NYSE: AAU). Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU)(OTC: FCUUF) continues to present one of the most compelling risk reward propositions in the entire resource sector, and Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE: UEC) continues to present a low-cost approach to participation in the uranium sector, a sector that is out of favor, like gold and silver was until recently, but one that I believe will reward contrarian investors that are patient and buy into the best teams and the best assets.
There's a great interview with Morgan Poliquin of Almaden Minerals discussing exploration plans, Ixtaca. I also spoke with Greg Beischer of Millrock Resources, who outlined Millrock's exciting projects and what to expect for the second half of this year. Lastly, I had the opportunity to speak with CEO of Flinders Resources, Blair Way. Blair is one of the most knowledgeable voices in the critical metal space. He shared his thoughts on the graphite market, energy storage, batteries, and even Elon Musk. I strongly urge you to click on the interviews and have a listen. We'll see you next week.


Taxable units: Taxable value 8.5 geld units. Payments of 0.8 fisheries.
Value: Value to lord in 1066 £21. Value to lord in 1086 £14. Value to lord c. 1070 £14.
Households: 16 villagers. 14 smallholders. 8 slaves. 4 female slaves.
Ploughland: 22 ploughlands (ploughs possible). 4 lord's plough teams. 2 lord's plough teams possible.
Lord in 1066: Earl Leofric.


Desktop PCs, as well as notebook devices, can be connected to a PROFIBUS fieldbus within seconds based on the plug & play features of USB. Operational areas are mobile set up and configuration of field devices. More more complex operations the parallel use of up to 16 PROFIBUS USB adapters connected to one PC is also possible. The adapters are USB bus powered and are not dependent on external power connections.
The interface supports the Master functionality of the PROFIBUS Standard DP (class 1 and 2) and DP/V1 (class 2). Its high transmission rate of up to 12 Mbit/s is of special interest for fast application in the manufacturing process like drive set-up and diagnosis. To guarantee short cycle times and low latency, the PROFIBUS firmware is running on a dedicated Microcontroller. A Dual Ported RAM decouples the firmware from the performance of the PC.
For data access to connected PROFIBUS slaves, an optional OPC-Server isPro Multiserver is available. Furthermore, the driver software contains a communication DTM isPro CommDTM for data access according to standard FDT 1.2, that is commonly used for parameterization of PROFIBUS slaves. Also, the PROFIBUS USB adapter can be integrated easily into own applications due to the uniform API-DLL. A developer manual with the description of the function calls is available as well as header files and examples in C/C++ source code.


A triangle is extremely ancient.
The shape of the triangle you can see in nature in the shapes of animals and tree leaves. It is very used to portray various meanings of religion and science.
The triangle is a universal symbol signifying a wide variety of trinities. According to Christianity, it represents the Father (God), Son and Holy Ghost; in the Egyptian system Osiris-Isis-Horus and the Greco-Roman Zeus-Poseidon-Hades.
Based on its position, it can symbolize genders. It will express the power of the male when the point is directed upwards. If you turn it on the other side directed downwards, it will represent the sexual nature of the female.
The peaks in triangles make us think of greatness and superiority. Just see the three stripes in Adidas's logo. It is done to show you a mountain. It is a challenge to push yourself and to be the best you can. When I want to get someone attention I always wear this one.
Triangles also can lead our eye in a certain way.
Because of its shape, our eyes naturally follow the direction of the tip. An upright triangle will make us watch up; a triangle on its side will move our eye sideways to the left or right. It is why the universal symbol of play is a triangle.
They can symbolize conflict and action. The mathematical symbol delta (triangle) means difference, a change and in many countries the traffic sign that indicates hazard is a triangle.
For whatever reason, you want to use this symbol, get professional advice. If it is about your brand, get a designer to advise you and help you with the goal; if it is to increase the energy in your home, find an expert on the topic.
It is a powerful symbol that can raise you up or bury you deep in the ground. Triangle is not the only symbol that has a supernatural meaning, there are a lot more.
I never knew the triangle could be portrayed in so many ways!
That is really interesting. I never would have thought that the triangle could bring about negative connotations when using it as a graphic for business. Definitely something to keep in mind.
Very Interesting!! I didn't know any of this!
Three lines show the pinpoints of three at the start and end of each, and three of its own objects are just short of one inside it. It takes a additional triangle in it or out of it to produce the mass of a triangle.


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<?php

namespace Zend\Mail\Header;

/**
 * @todo       Allow setting date from DateTime, Zend\Date, or string
 * @category   Zend
 * @package    Zend_Mail
 * @subpackage Header
 * @copyright  Copyright (c) 2005-2012 Zend Technologies USA Inc. (http://www.zend.com)
 * @license    http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd     New BSD License
 */
class Received implements MultipleHeaderDescription
{
    /**
     * @var string
     */
    protected $value;

    /**
     * Header encoding
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $encoding = 'ASCII';

    /**
     * Factory: create Received header object from string
     *
     * @param  string $headerLine
     * @return Received
     * @throws Exception\InvalidArgumentException
     */
    public static function fromString($headerLine)
    {

        list($name, $value) = preg_split('#: #', $headerLine, 2);

        // check to ensure proper header type for this factory
        if (strtolower($name) !== 'received') {
            throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException('Invalid header line for Received string');
        }

        $header = new static();
        $header->value= $value;

        return $header;
    }

    /**
     * Get header name
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getFieldName()
    {
        return 'Received';
    }

    /**
     * Get header value
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getFieldValue()
    {
        return $this->value;
    }

    /**
     * Set header encoding
     *
     * @param  string $encoding
     * @return AbstractAddressList
     */
    public function setEncoding($encoding)
    {
        $this->encoding = $encoding;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get header encoding
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getEncoding()
    {
        return $this->encoding;
    }

    /**
     * Serialize to string
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function toString()
    {
        return 'Received: ' . $this->getFieldValue();
    }

    /**
     * Serialize collection of Received headers to string
     *
     * @param  array $headers
     * @return string
     */
    public function toStringMultipleHeaders(array $headers)
    {
        $strings = array($this->toString());
        foreach ($headers as $header) {
            if (!$header instanceof Received) {
                throw new Exception\RuntimeException(
                    'The Received multiple header implementation can only accept an array of Received headers'
                );
            }
            $strings[] = $header->toString();
        }
        return implode("\r\n", $strings);
    }
}

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I'm Colleen MacRamos and I'm a weirdo. I've essentially weaved my way in and out of subcultures my entire life, and have taken some pictures on the way. I've always tread on the "lite" side of offbeat, but I've always fit in with my fellow weirdos. When it came time to figure out what the hell I was going to do with the rest of my life, photography just clicked (Ba dum tssshhh).


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Edwin Louis Benbow (ur. 10 grudnia 1895, zm. 20 maja 1918) – brytyjski as myśliwski okresu I wojny światowej. Odniósł osiem zwycięstw powietrznych.

Życiorys
Urodzony w Abbotsbury w Dorset. Był synem Anglika i Włoszki. Służbę rozpoczął w 1915 roku w artylerii. Przez 12 miesięcy z jednostką walczył we Francji. W lutym 1916 roku został przeniesiony do lotnictwa jako obserwator. W czasie służby odbywał szkolenie z pilotażu i po uzyskaniu licencji pilota od jesieni 1916 został przydzielony do No. 40 Squadron RAF. Służąc w jednostce latał na samolocie Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8. Benbow był jedynym pilotem, który osiągnął tytuł asa pilotując ten typ samolotu. Pierwsze zwycięstwo powietrzne odniósł 20 października 1916 roku nad samolotem Albatros D.I. W marcu 1917 roku miał już na swym koncie 8 potwierdzonych zwycięstw. 179 marca 1917 roku został ranny w wyniku ostrzału baterii przeciwlotniczej.

Po wyjściu ze szpitala służył jako instruktor lotniczy, a następnie został przydzielony do jednostki bojowej No. 85 Squadron RAF, z którą powrócił do Francji w maju 1918 roku. 30 maja 1918 roku w czasie wykonywania zadania bojowego Edwin Louis Benbow zginął zestrzelony przez późniejszego asa niemieckiego z Jasta 51 Hans-Eberhardta Ganderta

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Asy myśliwskie Imperium Brytyjskiego I wojny światowej
Urodzeni w 1895
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Odznaczeni Krzyżem Wojskowym (Wielka Brytania)
Oficerowie RAF
Ofiary I wojny światowej

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Chinese immigrants bring rich traditions
Ching Ming rituals continue on
The Gold Rush brought many immigrants to California.
Due to an unstable political and economic situation in China, thousands of young Chinese men came to San Francisco, or Dai Fow - Big City, as they called it, to try their luck in the gold fields.
Most were young men who left their families back home. Driven by the hard conditions in their native country, many hoped to keep their families united with savings and earnings from working overseas and to eventually return to their native Chinese village.
After the end of the Gold Rush, these men went on to work for the railroads and eventually, in the orchard industry. One of them was Chan Tim who was born in the province of Canton in China in 1853.
Chan Tim came to America at age 18 and initially worked as a houseboy for the Hatch family in Suisun, but spent his later years in the orchard industry. He was one of the founders of the Chinese settlement "Big Camp" in Suisun Valley. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he was lucky enough to find his wife, Ding Shee, in San Francisco. Their children were the first Chinese children born in Suisun Valley.
In Chinese culture, status is measured by the number of descendants honoring an ancestor after his or her death. The duty to by sang, or "walk the mountain," as visiting the graves is also known, falls to the eldest son. For decades, early Chinese settlers in Solano County returned the ashes of their compatriots and family members to China, to be buried in the ancestral shrine.
Chan Tim died in 1923. He was initially buried in a cemetery near San Francisco, but later that year, the family decided to ship his remains back to his village in China. His eldest son, Youie, was to accompany his father's ashes.
As this was a long and expensive trip, the family felt that the journey should also serve another purpose. Roberta Tim Quan, Youie's daughter, recalls: "When my father was 26 years old, his mother sent him to China to find a wife. She wanted him to marry a woman who spoke Chinese. Youie paid a matchmaker to help him find the right wife. The matchmaker took him to nearby schools to look at the girls he might like to marry. My father saw Jennie Lee at school. She was 13 years old. He told the matchmaker that he would marry her because he thought she was pretty.
"The matchmaker brought my father to Jennie's home to meet her parents and talk about getting married. When my mother, Jennie, came home, she asked 'Who is that stranger?' She was told, 'That man is going to be your husband.' My parents were married in my mother's village in China on Feb. 18, 1923.
"At that time, a wedding in China ended with a kind of parade, called a procession, of the bride and groom leaving the village. The bride always sat in a special 'sedan' chair and was carried by strong men through the dirt streets of her village. The groom often walked several miles with his guests.
"Since the bride was leaving her family forever, she might have felt sad, but she was told not to look back at her family and home. My mother was given a wedding present of a small mirror with a traveling case, so that she could watch her family in the mirror without looking back."
After the wedding, Youie and Jenny returned to Suisun Valley to work in the orchards like Chan Tim and his family had before.
In time, the family realized that their roots were no longer in China but here in California. In the 1970s they decided to return Chan Tims's ashes to America, to be buried in Rockville Cemetery, next to his wife, Ding Shee. Several other early Chinese pioneers also have found their last resting place in this lovely cemetery.
Each year, around April 4 or 5, the Ching Ming festival of honoring ancestors takes place at Rockville Cemetery, as it does at many Chinese cemeteries. Ching Ming rituals include weeding the grave, cleaning the headstone and replacing old flowers.
Paper money and incense are lit for the deceased to use in the afterlife.
Sets of wine cups, rice cups and chopsticks sit in front of the headstone. Food offerings, often including roast pig or chicken, including the head, which is later twisted off, hard-boiled eggs cut in half lengthwise with their shells attached, dim sum pastries and bowls of fruit are set out as an offering to the spirit of the deceased.
The head of the household will bow three times with a wine cup in his hand and then pour the wine on the ground in front of the headstone. Family members will take their turn and bow three times to pay their respect.
At the end of the ceremony, family and friends consume the food offerings as a token of good luck. Some families conclude the ceremony by lighting firecrackers to alert the spirit of the deceased that the family has paid their respect.
The Vacaville Museum's new exhibit, "Solano Celebrates! Fairs, Festivals and Fun" explores the traditions around festivals such as the Ching Ming. The new exhibit will open April 21.

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Today we're announcing the Mag+ 4.4 update.
We recommend updating your iOS app and plug-in/production tool to the 4.4 version to take advantage of these features and fixes. As always, do not publish a 4.4. MIB until your 4.4 app is approved and live. The next release, 5.0, will be in early Februrary.
CC compatibility: There's now a plug-in that will work with InDesign CC, the latest version of InDesign. OSX only available in 64-bit; Windows both 32-bit and 64-bit Get it at our downloads page.
PDF Converter Tool: When you install the 4.4 plug-in, you'll get a new script that automates the conversion of PDF files into Mag+ InDesign files and, optionally, into exported verticals. This is useful for converting back issues or old sales materials that don't make sense to custom design. Because you get a folder of InDesign docs, you can easily go back and swap out a page with something custom designed, or add links or movies to one of the pages. You can also add features like zoom or pan to the pages. Check out this support article to learn more.
Clicking the Mag+ logo in the About screen takes you to Mag+ Support page.
Added ability to script functionality to convert a regular block to a slideshow.
Fixed bug that pushes A-main tower content or B-Layer content above or below the inner top margin.
Chosen issue is saved between sessions. This means that if you're working on an issue and then exit the app, the app will remember what issue you were working on and then resume where you left off.
It is now possible to unassign several verticals in the Wall view. This means that you can drag multiple verticals shown in the Wall view back to the clipboard.
Fixes a bug where the option "Long press for menu" was not saved when exporting. Production Tool now saves that state when exporting.
Fixed bug with auto-play video, in which videos would not play when the user swiped to the vertical containing an auto-play video.
Made adjustment so that the app will attempt to flush the cache every time you jump to a new vertical. This should improve the loading speed of the target vertical and reduce crashing in memory-intensive verticals. There may still be images that are actively referenced that the app doesn't force evict from the cache.
Added ability to create jump links on verticals targeting specific objects on the overlay vertical. This enables, for example, creating a menu on the overlay that scrolls up or down, by linking to an A layer object.
Omniture video tracking now enabled. Note that you must enable video tracking with your Omniture representative before you will see it tracked in your SiteCatalyst.
Localytics issue filters will now combine all MIBs associated with that issue into one choice in the filter.
Update Flurry SDK to 4.2.4. One effect is that page views are now reported more quickly in iOS7 apps.
Update of AppBoy SDK from 2.1.1 to 2.2.1, enabling these new features.
There are no new features in the Android app, as we are about to unveil a whole new Android codebase in our next release. This will bring much faster and more stable performance, as well as greater feature parity with iOS.
The next release will be our 5.0 release in early February. This will be a big release with a number of new features, including a whole new Android code base, a redesigned Store/Library interface for Android and iOS with more flexibility, a redesigned UI for the Production Tool, new third-party marketing and analytics tools and more!


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Förfarande : 2016/2991(RSP)
Dokumentgång : B8-1268/2016
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
See also joint motion for a resolution RC-B8-1260/2016
with request for inclusion in the agenda for a debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law
pursuant to Rule 135 of the Rules of Procedure
on the situation of the Guarani-Kaiowa in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso (2016/2991(RSP))
Cristian Dan Preda, Roberta Metsola, Andrey Kovatchev, Eva Paunova, Tunne Kelam, Tomáš Zdechovský, Lefteris Christoforou, József Nagy, Marijana Petir, Claude Rolin, Milan Zver, Pavel Svoboda, Patricija Šulin, Dubravka Šuica, Michaela Šojdrová, Joachim Zeller, László Tőkés, Bogdan Brunon Wenta, Sven Schulze, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Eduard Kukan, Anna Záborská, Stanislav Polčák, Adam Szejnfeld, Tadeusz Zwiefka, Csaba Sógor, Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, Therese Comodini Cachia on behalf of the PPE Group
NB: This motion for a resolution is available in the original language only.
European Parliament resolution on the situation of the Guarani-Kaiowa in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso (2016/2991(RSP))
B8‑1268/2016
- having regard to its previous resolutions on Brazil,
-having regard to the EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership since 2007 and close co-operation in global challenges such as tackling poverty and inequality, environmental issues, energy, enhancing stability and prosperity in Latin America and co-operation on regional integration with Mercosur, as well as joint determination to conclude the EU-Mercosur agreement,
-having regard to the ongoing the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement negotiations- including a free trade area - in which Brazil is a key partner in the negotiation process,
-having regard to the UN Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Indigenous Peoples of 2007,
-having regard to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
-having regard to the 2016 Report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Indigenous Peoples, Mrs Tauli- Corpuz,
- having regard to 2016 report by the Indigenous Missionary Council,
- having regard to EU - Brazil Human Rights Dialogues,
-having regard to the Rule 135 of its Rules of Procedure,
A. whereas the EU and Brazil share a long-standing relationship based on strong political, economic, cultural and historical ties;
B. whereas Brazil is signatory of International Labour Organization Convention 169 (ILO 169) and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP);
C. whereas Brazil 1988 democratic constitution negotiated with indigenous peoples, resulted in a constitution that "explicitly recognized the rights of indigenous peoples to maintain their cultural traditions" and acknowledge the vital importance of ancestral territories to the physical and cultural well-being of indigenous people;
D. whereas Brazil has taken a number of measures and initiatives to ensure the realisation of indigenous peoples' rights by paying particular attention to this issue;
E. whereas indigenous peoples' rights and human rights defenders feature regularly on the agenda of the EU- Brazil Human Rights Dialogues; whereas the impunity and proper investigations in this regard have been set up as a key priority;
F. whereas a local call for proposal by the EU Delegation in Brazil in 2015 under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights has given priority to projects protecting indigenous people;
G. whereas the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People Mrs Tauli-Corpuz commended the Government of Brazil for its invitation and the full cooperation it has provided, resulting in free and independent visit;
H. whereas on 25 October 2016, the Brazil government arrested five farmers in connection with a shooting and investigations into the case of injured boy from an indigenous tribe in the remote state of Mato Grosso do Sul;
I. whereas the indigenous peoples' human rights violations represent challenging phenomenon in the neighbouring countries, namely Uruguay;
J. whereas the Subcommittee on Human Rights in the European Parliament has taken the decision to properly address human rights of indigenous people in one of its upcoming meetings;
1. Acknowledges the long-standing partnership between the EU and Brazil, built on mutual trust and respect for democratic principles and values;
2. Remains concerned about cases of violence against Guarani-Kaiowa' people in the state of Mato Grosso Do Sul originated from the land ownership conflict;
3. Encourages ongoing efforts of Brazilian authorities to find just and lasting solution for Guarani-Kaiowa' people and to improve protection of indigenous people of the Guarani - Kaiowa in the spirit of the 1988 Constitution;
4. Commends the establishment of an internationally recognized legal and administrative framework for demarcation;
5. Welcomes the organisation of the first National Conference on Indigenous Policy and the establishment of the National Council for Indigenous Policy;
6. Welcomes the efforts to implement differentiated services for indigenous peoples in the areas of health and education as recommended by the UN Special Rapporteur in 2009;
7. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR), the Council, the Commission, and the Government and Parliament of Brazil.


Predictive analytics and data science – What is it all about?
As phenomena, predictive analytics and data science are hardly new. However, we are living in an analytical era where people are thirsty for information, and it can be accessed and analyzed more easily and in greater quantities than ever before. It is this thirst for information for which predictive analytics and data science offer answers. And, as is evident from the word cloud below, there are heaps of buzzwords related to this theme, and it is easy to get confused with them. I now wish to erase some of that confusion and explain what it is all about.
At its simplest, data science means explaining and analyzing phenomena from data with the help of various advanced calculation methods. Various advanced calculation methods refer to mathematical, statistical and machine learning models. They are utilized to identify substantial information and to easily produce it into a comprehensible format.
The purpose of explaining and analyzing phenomena is often to make reliable predictions about the future or future events. This is what is known as predictive analytics. To clarify, these predictions are produced by models and should not be confused with human-made forecasts that may be familiar from sectors such as financial administration.
Which factors influence decision-making and what is the influence of those factors?
How are the factors in question taken into consideration and is there some value in following them?
What consequences does a specific decision have?
How is the largest possible likelihood of success ensured?
In a company with a fact-based culture, people understand that there is usually not enough time or expertise to assess all the factors influencing the operations and decisions. There is an understanding to make use of the small inefficiencies in business operations and decision-making that go unnoticed by workers or competing companies. This is carried out by relying on the results produced by analytical models.
A fact-based culture does not mean that the company needs brainiacs or an army of statisticians. Instead, it means that the company needs to question its own methods. We, the data scientists at Valamis, often assume this role of questioner with our customers.
Let us look at an example. Customers are at the center of a company's operations. Information on customers is collected in the company's databases, CRM and ERP systems. Customers send feedback and e-mails to the company. Customers are active on public forums and in social media. How much of this available information are we actually using to understand the needs and behavior of our customers?
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Apparently in criticizing Fred Seitz I have hit a nerve in Russell Seitz.
"Past President, National Academy of Sciences, U. S. A.
Seitz (Fred, not Russell) writes that "Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful".
The GWPP stands for Global Warming Petition Project.
Fred Seitz urged me to read an article by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willis Soon, published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (vol. 12, pp. 79-90, 2007), entitled Environmental Effect of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. The institutional affiliation of the three authors is listed as the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, in Cave Junction, Oregon. The article has the same format and font as the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The NAS took the unusual step of specifically denying any connection with the article. Here is the Robinson, Robinson and Soon article.
In his letter, Fred Seitz urges me to sign and return a petition rejecting the Kyoto protocol of 1997. The petition asks for my name and my academic degree (BS/MS/Ph.D).
The number of people who signed and returned the petition were later touted as people who denied global warming in the Global warming Petition Project.
When mentioning Oreskes, Russell will comment, just as night follows day.
Love the OISM website. You can buy "ministry in song", acquire Nuclear War Survival Skills, get a homeshcooling kit that includes 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica and 1913 Noah Webster's Dictionary, learn about multiculturalism, and more!
Did you know "this new word, "multiculturalism."...has been brought to us by the dead hand of government and by political agitators who seek to use American schools as mechanisms for social engineering rather than institutions of learning."
may I ask if Greg has ever asked himselfself who wrote it, and when ?
I ask because I'm still wondering how the cataract stricken nonagenarian was able to rea the thousand-page NIPCC report, and write a lauditory introduction to it on his nursing home deathbed, when Singer showed up with the volume the day before he died ?
Shades of Roger Revelle !
Stanford's Robert Proctor is likely the foremost historian on the tobacco industry, see Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, a huge, but terrific book.
pp.445-448 is "Rockefeller's Seitz and Lederberg."
The idea was taking RJ Reynolds' money to do "distraction research", all fine stuff, but always "any cause of disease except tobacco."
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library of course is a rock-solid source.
This search yields 362 documents.
Of course, if anyone thinks tobacco companies give money out of benevolence, I can offer a good selection of used bridges at good prices.
1) The Tobacco money for non-tobacco issues as PR move, and laundering of reputations via the reputation of the respected scientists being supported for non-tobacco research. Here the minimal bad thing would be to knowingly be taking dirty money to pursue one's particular research aims. For an institution like The Rockefeller, never without funds, it is perhaps more questionable than an everyday bunny doing the same deal with the devil. The reason being one is specifically loaning the reputation of ones institution to the givers of the "free" money. Certainly big oil likes to tout their environmental concerns in advertisements galore. Perhaps there is an analogy.
2) An association later in life with the climate agitation crowd, perhaps facilitated through earlier contacts, or one's name being in certain rolodexes, or various emeritus type behaviors all rolled into one.
3) I do not wish to put words into Russell's mouth, but there appears to be a sort of libertarian idea about smoking that also pervades arguments anti Oreskes.
4) Question: is the idea that Oreskes is purportedly bad on this one facet of the smoking issue, and that is a categorical problem for her entire oeuvre?
The first round of that Oregon petition drive, with the phony PNAS paper, appeared in 1998, when Frederick Seitz was in his mid-eighties and personally very active in publicly attempting to sow doubt about climate science (e.g., his 1996 Wall Street Journal op-ed accusing the IPCC collectively and Ben Santer personally of corruption and deception in the SAR).
It's worth reading Myanna Lahsen's ethnography of denial, "Experiences of Modernity in the Greenhouse," which draws upon interviews Lahsen conducted with Frederick Seitz and William Nierenberg to understand what made them such powerful opponents of climate science.
In case you also have normal people as readers, you may need to provide more interpretation. For example, that a medical journal is not a good place for a climate paper. That the editor likely does not know the experts to ask to check the validity of the manuscript. That this is a typical strategy of the mitigation sceptics to get their flawed manuscripts published.
Thanks for reminding us of the date of the Oregon petition, which I gather was ( irony safe zone alarm ) the brainchild of former Linus Pauling Institute President Arthur Robinson.
Who but a Libertarian would note the Oregon Institute was in large part founded on the $ 575,000 in serance pay Robinson recieved from Pauling's Institute .
PP , Oreskes also fails to note that in consequence of RJR-Nabisco's merger history, Rockefeller University and its late President recieved not just tobacco money, but funds from the sale of that deadly and highly addictive trans-fat delivery system, the Oreo Cookie.
"3) I do not wish to put words into Russell's mouth, but there appears to be a sort of libertarian idea about smoking that also pervades arguments anti Oreskes."
On that subject, Russell's reason appears to have been hijacked by his nicotine addiction.
Mal is living proof that entry level anti-tobacco advertising may habituate users to higher doses of authoritarian cant.
All that is necessary for prohibition to prosper is indifference to incremental losses of liberty.
Yes, yes, Russell, we know that's just the addiction talking.
You'll recall I told my story here last summer about escaping my own nicotine addiction more than 30 years ago -- long before "entry level anti-tobacco advertising" was a thing. I'm not receptive to self-deceiving arguments that enslavement by an addiction is somehow a liberty.
Nevertheless, as long as it neither cuts my throat nor picks my pocket, I support your freedom to deceive yourself, while I also enjoy the liberty of calling you out for a fool.
There's a gender divide on nuclear power, but it doesn't mean what you think it means.
Purging the nation's bookshelves of the works of such avatars of addiction as Twain, Eliot and Einstein would spare its youth the moral hazard of second hand tobaccothought.
As an ex-smoker, I'm an strong advocate for the freedom and liberty of all smokers to smoke anytime and anywhere they want, from within the confines of a Donovan chamber full of an explosive mixture of gasoline fumes. Smoking is among vilest of all intrusions on the rights of non-smokers to peaceably enjoy a simple walk outdoors without being assaulted by lungfuls of disgusting, foul air. Have you ever ridden in an elevator with a smoker after his smoking break outdoors, or even on an empty elevator after a smoker has been on it? It's absolute torture. I often encounter pockets of the vile stuff outdoors when there isn't even a smoker in sight. It persists and hangs in the air for many minutes after the blissfully selfish and uncaring offender has left the premises. It even makes a neighbors' dog wretch and sneeze when we encounter it on our walks. A friend's apartment was rendered uninhabitable when a smoker lived in the unit next door. Ask me how I really feel about it.
Strong is the force of hypocrisy in this one. We await report of the horrors he experiences from the emissions of that wretched dog, and how he manages to inhabit his pyrotoxin-belching car as it outcombusts a thousand cigar smokers.
Whatever must he think of candles, chestnuts roasting on a open fire, pan-blackened redfish incense in churches, asphalt paving , sweaty horses , and cheap perfume?
I clean up after the dog, which is a lot less revolting than breathing second-hand smoke. When you've donned a closed-loop apparatus to contain your disgusting habit, we might have a discussion.
What I am understanding from Russell's argument is that he is claiming a distinction between Seitz -tobacco and Seitz - climate. I think the other side is claiming that the difference there is more of an evolution.
I have always deplored the elision of science and advertising, but I question the historicity of Oreskes narrative . State of the art advertising best practices began shaping environmental consciousness raising campiagns a decade before the Climate Wars began, and from what I've observed ,those practices were enbraced with professional zeal by P-R operatives on both sides.
Those clamoring for behavoral change in the name of climate modeling today should recall what I publically told Steve Schneider three decades ago about a 'sophisticated one dimensional model we both called into question in print between 1884 and 1987: that I feared the 'neclear winter ' P-R campaign would go down as a bad joke played on strategic policy analysts at the expense of the credibility of climate modeling on the eve of the greenhouse debate.
That's why I wrote then that " Having known Sin at Hiroshima, science was bound to run into advertising sooner or later."
But from telethons to science by press conference, all of those means were drawn from the existing arsenal of Madison Avenue. T ry as they may to reframe it, Oreskes & Conway's polemic is less about the history of science than advertising.
"The plaintiffs in the case alleged the companies didn't do enough to warn customers about the dangers of smoking, engaged in unscrupulous marketing and destroyed documents, according to Canadian broadcaster CBC.
"Quebec Superior Court Judge Brian Riordan ruled that all three of Canada's legal tobacco manufacturers -- Imperial Tobacco; Rothmans, Benson & Hedges; and JTI-MacDonald -- must pay $15 billion Canadian ($12 billion U.S.)."
There are obvious differences between the advertising campaigns of tobacco companies who lied and colluded to sell a deadly product to billions of addicted consumers, and the efforts of climate scientists to bring attention to policy choices that have significant public health and safety consequences, even if the scientists' positions contain debatable errors. Equating Sagan & Ehrlich or Oreskes & Conway to decades of tobacco companies' false advertising seems a bit disingenuous.
Russell apparently isn't aware that the TTAPS team had a second paper in 1991 which demolished Schneider and Thompson 1984. ST84 made a crucial mistake--their model had plume heights 1/3 of the accurate figure. Obviously, less soot got lofted to the stratosphere, thus "Nuclear Autumn." But those like RS who already had the answer they wanted apparently stopped reading the literature after getting ST84 to quote. The extent of damage from nuclear winter is still an open question. In any case, no one in their right mind thinks a nuclear war is a good idea.
In any case, no one in their right mind thinks a nuclear war is a good idea.
This always seems to get forgotten by those forever rehashing the less important details of long-ago disputes.
Pinko Punko: "What I am understanding from Russell's argument is that he is claiming a distinction between Seitz -tobacco and Seitz - climate. I think the other side is claiming that the difference there is more of an evolution."
"However, nine years later, it seems that he was 'sufficiently rational' to lead the charge on Robinson's Oregon Petition. It also seems that Seitz was still sufficiently rational to sit as the Chair of Fred Singer's Science and Environmental Policy Project.
"Seitz passed away on March 2, 2008, after spending his declining years working with global warming skeptics such as Fred Singer."
ANonymous is being disingenous at best- the point is that Madison avenue and K Street have been mechandising doubt about product dangers since the days when refrigerators were filled with sulfur dioxide or ammonia.
Isn't BPL aware of the Scope and NAS reports on the subject or the dozens of studies that followed them- none of which predicted anything apporaching what Sagn termed his 'apocalyptic predictions. Denial is the word that best descibes the DIY review artile to which he refers.
The baseline and worst cases considered by TTAPS and the attendent biological consequences paper resulted in a millionfold reduction in sunlight, and arctic remperatures globally , from time-temperatuer curves encompassing from 10,800 to 22,000 degreee-days-- 'winters ' indeed, leading Sagan and Ehrlich to conclude "the extinction of Homo sapiens "
with Erhlich telling the world in a War of the World's style radio dramatization " We're getting reports of water freezing on the equator;people are dying of thirst in the tropics"
Relying on self-citation, the 1991 review by the same authors simply ignored the bulk of the critical studies , none of which indulged in the serial worst-case parametrization of TTAPS, and none of which reproduced its 'baseline' or worst case results.
Russell: "Whatever must he think of candles, chestnuts roasting on a open fire, pan-blackened redfish incense in churches, asphalt paving , sweaty horses , and cheap perfume?"
AFAIK, unlike nicotine, none of those are used as insecticides.
I like the new reCAPTCHA, but it's making me hungry 8^D!
Are you related to Fred, Russell?
Russell: "ANonymous is being disingenous at best- the point is that Madison avenue and K Street have been mechandising doubt about product dangers since the days when refrigerators were filled with sulfur dioxide or ammonia."
If that's the entirety of your point, it's a pretty trivial one, and not very clear from your prior comment. I don't think it detracts much from Oreskes & Conway's overall assessment that the same people backed by considerable resources have colluded and used the same tactics to discredit climate science and obscure the health risks of smoking. There seemed to be an implicit criticism of "those clamoring for behavoral [sic] change in the name of climate modeling today" by comparing them with Sagan & Ehrlich and the advertising tactics of the tobacco industry and climate denialism. If that wasn't your intent, sorry, but please try to write more clearly so others can understand you. If that was your intent, it's hardly an apt comparison and easily rejected.
Re: "candles, chestnuts roasting on a open fire, pan-blackened redfish incense in churches, asphalt paving , sweaty horses , and cheap perfume" I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of occasions I've had to deal with all of those alleged offensive odors in the past year, and they're easily avoided. I can't walk across the street or conduct any business in the small metropolis where I live without being assaulted by the stench of inconsiderate smokers. I run a gauntlet, holding my breath, sometimes having to dodge into traffic to get around knots of pedestrians emitting clouds of foul odors that cling to clothing, hair, and skin. As far as automobiles, I'd have no problem with the banning of private vehicles and petroleum fueled internal combustion engines from our downtown, as well as smoking.
Cigarettes and their ilk are one of the few manufactured products that if you use as intended will affect your health for the worse.
The pont is the narative incoherence-- and gross anachronism , of eliding 1950's TV cigarette ads and 1990's climate denial while ignoring the intervening two decades of environmental advertising and Cold War peace movement P-R.
Enlisting culture wars combattants as cultural historians may be an invitation to historiographic disaster, but in political terms that's how the game is played .
"the former medical advisor to RJ Reynolds medical research program. "
Is dead wrong on both points .
As a condition of Rockefeller accepting the RJR grant, he specifically vetoed the perfrormance of any medical research on tobacco. It is my understanding than lions share of the 5 mill a year went to the prion research that won the 1993 Nobel-- a truth whose inconvenience to Naomi's polemic may be reflected in the disconnect of emphasis between her book and the movie John's reviewing, which focuses instead on fire retardants - the unkindest cutaway of all.
RS: Denial is the word that best descibes the DIY review artile to which he refers.
BPL: What part of "ST84's plume heights were too short by a factor of 3" did you not understand?
What part of cherypicking don't you understand : Natural history gives the lie Turco's wishful thinking about vertical transport - The empirical behavior of both forest fire and oilfield fire plumes at highr than TTAPS fuel loadings and thermal fluxes is that soot is observed to partition between boundary layer and lower tropopause , vitiating TTAPS stratospheric transport assumptions-- something you will never learn if you restrict your reading to to the original authors instead of consulting the intergovernmetal studies they so conspicuously fail to cite .
If you want some feeling for how their stonewalling was recieved , try Elliot Marshall's New Republic essay 'The Little Chill." The nuclear winter die hards are the holotypes of climate denial.
Is dead wrong on both points ."
"He also joined a research advisory committee to help the R. J. Reynolds Company make medical grants to universities."
It appears that DesmogBlog's characterization was right on at least one point. To be scrupulously fair, however, Slichter's memoir says nothing about Seitz being a medical advisor.
Tell you what, Russell, I'll write a simulation myself and see what comes out.
Good luck one major analytical beef was that TTAPs never published the FORTRAN code for their I-D model, but the basic protocol seems to have been to tell the system's programmer to turn off the sun for forty days and forty nights to see if something bad happens.
As the subject was thermonuclear war, some thought this a fair use of the precautionary principle, but when you max out 38 papameters in a row to get an optical depth of e to the twentieth, some people begin to get suspicious- capisce?
" joined a research advisory committee to help the R. J. Reynolds Company make medical grants to universities."
What is lost in the fog is that Russell, despite his smoking habit, has not embraced the usual libertarian denial. That makes him quite unusual and worthy of considerable respect, since it cannot be easy. He also is, as he complains, identified with opinions he does not appear to support. Also, I love his humorous montages.
That said, I've always thought a rather high proportion of climate deniers are also cigarette smokers. It's an unintended consequence of an otherwise well-meaning and useful campaign to get toxins out of the public domain.
Another one is the almost universal habit of smokers to not put out their cigarettes, which I suspect is the cause of a good few unnecessary fires.
The resentment of people irritated at the impingement on their freedom is a difficult problem to address.
I'm a big fan of freedom, but I'm an even bigger fan of the future of the human race, and exploitation of hatred does not help.
We are all going to need to make some compromises, and I don't see exactly how we are going to attain those compromises in a society addicted to its privileges.
Hey, when the national policy is Mutually Assured Destruction, who's going to quibble about a little credible exaggeration of the effects of getting into that, eh?
Besides, there are better ways to nuke'em 'til they glow -- do it right, and people will pay for it.
I agree almost entirely, except that Russell's insightful contributions are not lost in the fog for me, as I've tried to express previously, despite my strong disagreements on a couple of points (primarily, from a policy perspective, the significance of uncertainty in the climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling). Arguing whether the climate sensitivity is 1.5C or 5-6C is like arguing whether it's more dangerous for a child to play roulette with one bullet in the chamber or three. My revulsion with the vile smoking habit gets the better of me, but on that point I don't see a need to compromise, nor could I even if I wanted to. I don't think I should have to restrict my life to accommodate oblivious and inconsiderate tobacco smokers (and I'm not saying that Russell is either), although I'm often forced to. I've had far too many otherwise fine walks and other simple pleasures ruined by vile tobacco smoke, in addition to the loss of both parents and several close relatives to smoking related illnesses.
Dr. Connolley "Oreskes said something wrong so I'm gonna trust NN's nitpicking" may be a correct typos on thy Wiki, but discounts every NN pulled from the auditing bag of tricks. His "I did not read anything anyway" looks like thin historiography to rely on if one is into that kind of thing.
Fred's role at Reynold's can't be explained away by the Nobel race.
If uncited material from Vanity Fair and the Ecosyn and Bushhitler websites and a preference for twisted ellipsis over direct quotation from primary contemporary sources, defines your taste in historiography, O&C may well be your cup of tea.
That there were some serendipitous results from RJR funded research is really not germane. The goal was, for the most part, to fund research that would point in any direction other than tobacco.
F. Seitz's role was to identify research projects that fit in with RJR's goals. Was he pulling a fast one on RJR and pointing them to research solely for altruistic purposes (the benefit of mankind), or was he pointing them to research that he hoped/believed might absolve tobacco of the various ills ascribed to cigarette use?
The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but there is a distinct and not so subtle difference in intent.
> Nicolas is depending on our failure to keep the big picture in mind. From a science standpoint, GMI is an inexcusable, disgusting organization. It is the antithesis of what genuine and honest inquiry should be. William Nierenberg's part in its founding is terrible, and it is simply not credible to pretend that he was not engaged in the same anti-regulatory shenanigans as his organization- no matter how much Nicolas would like us to believe otherwise. No matter what Nicolas says about Oreskes and Conway's writing, keep that in mind. Listen to what William himself said in his own words.
A narrative ain't incoherent because it elides things, BTW. It's usually the opposite. The problem would be that O&C's story fits too well.
Defending the George Marshall Institute is unwinnable. Bashing at O&C is a redhibitory counterattack.
The $575,000 Robinson used to start the Oregon Institute was not a severance package but a settlement in lieu of the $25 million which he had sought in a law suit after his dismissal from the Pauling Institute.
Since when Russell has been elected King at Eli's?
he youtube video is Nierenberg talking to the 17th annual meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Who are they, you may be wondering? They are associated with OISM.
The institute is headed by Arthur B. Robinson, who received the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Robinson established OISM in 1980 after a disagreement with his mentor Linus Pauling. Other listed faculty are biochemist Martin D. Kamen (died in 2002), Nobel prize-winning chemist R. Bruce Merrifield (died in 2006), Salk Institute biochemist Fred Westall, electrical engineer Carl Boehme, physician Jane Orient, chemist Noah E. Robinson, and veterinarian Zachary W. Robinson.
What was the disagreement between Robinson and Pauling, again?
Does Russell dispute that Fred has worked for a project that gave Marc Morano the Petr Beckmann award?
Click on the graph to expand.
One nit there: Morano should be underlined as a winner of the Petr Beckmann Award, in honor of a guy who spent much of his life trying to disprove relativity.
Rand Paul was involved with AAPS for a decade or two.
Do recall that Frederick Seitz was SEPP (Singer)'s Chairman of the Board ... including for 2 years after his death, according to SEPP's IRS Form 990s.
Would that be "beef" to you?
It is clear you don't have much respect for O&C but it is not really clear to me how much of MoD you dispute. Do you have a post on this issue which lays out all your specific complaints?
The subject was my assertion that changing subjects is the MoD MO.
Russell, you're too clever when you write about this.
This deserves the John Mashey treatment, side by side, soberly, sorrow not snark.
I recall reading your comments, I recall looking into some of them a bit and deciding you're right and there are some real problems there deserving correction. And I couldn't reconstruct or find that stuff now. Please, do the tedious: organize it.
This sort of thing isn't unusual. There's always one more error.
After publication, the Mashey treatment is needed to make clear what's fixable.
Nitpicking, in my view, is a primary social grace we primates should respect.
But that requires admitting we're lousy.
Lettuce imagine that 2nd hand cigarette smoke were health-neutral. It would remain an obnoxious public habit because it stinks and its stink adheres to the hair, skin, and clothes of not-only-nearby people like glue. What if someone derived joy from misting restaurants, stores, churches, and bars with eau de skunk mixed with Elmer's glue? Ah, personal liberty. But who would defend it with the same sad mix of Epicurus and Spengler as the people who defend smoking?
I think that the evidence I provided satisfies that question.
You have failed to respond to the only question I asked you, BTW.


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import org.apache.flink.api.common.time.Time;

import java.util.HashSet;
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import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
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 * Utility functions for Flink's RPC implementation.
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public class RpcUtils {

	/**
	 * <b>HACK:</b> Set to 21474835 seconds, Akka's maximum delay (Akka 2.4.20). The value cannot be
	 * higher or an {@link IllegalArgumentException} will be thrown during an RPC. Check the private
	 * method {@code checkMaxDelay()} in {@link akka.actor.LightArrayRevolverScheduler}.
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	 *
	 * @param clazz from which to extract the implemented RpcGateway interfaces
	 * @return A set of all implemented RpcGateway interfaces
	 */
	public static Set<Class<? extends RpcGateway>> extractImplementedRpcGateways(Class<?> clazz) {
		HashSet<Class<? extends RpcGateway>> interfaces = new HashSet<>();

		while (clazz != null) {
			for (Class<?> interfaze : clazz.getInterfaces()) {
				if (RpcGateway.class.isAssignableFrom(interfaze)) {
					interfaces.add((Class<? extends RpcGateway>) interfaze);
				}
			}

			clazz = clazz.getSuperclass();
		}

		return interfaces;
	}

	/**
	 * Shuts the given {@link RpcEndpoint} down and awaits its termination.
	 *
	 * @param rpcEndpoint to terminate
	 * @param timeout for this operation
	 * @throws ExecutionException if a problem occurred
	 * @throws InterruptedException if the operation has been interrupted
	 * @throws TimeoutException if a timeout occurred
	 */
	public static void terminateRpcEndpoint(RpcEndpoint rpcEndpoint, Time timeout) throws ExecutionException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
		rpcEndpoint.shutDown();
		rpcEndpoint.getTerminationFuture().get(timeout.toMilliseconds(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
	}

	/**
	 * Shuts the given rpc service down and waits for its termination.
	 *
	 * @param rpcService to shut down
	 * @param timeout for this operation
	 * @throws InterruptedException if the operation has been interrupted
	 * @throws ExecutionException if a problem occurred
	 * @throws TimeoutException if a timeout occurred
	 */
	public static void terminateRpcService(RpcService rpcService, Time timeout) throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException {
		rpcService.stopService().get(timeout.toMilliseconds(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
	}

	// We don't want this class to be instantiable
	private RpcUtils() {}
}


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How do you know what to believe? In order to evaluate text and other forms of media, use your science content knowledge, as well as knowledge about the nature of science and science process skills. You must be able to decide if a claim or statement is indeed scientifically based and if it is based on good science methodology and techniques.
It is not just in advertising that we see false scientific claims. It happens in scientific research as well. An article posted on the Alliance for Human Research Protection website, titled "Cancer Research False Claims," reported findings from the biopharmaceutical company AMGEN. According to the article, AMGEN's head of research challenged the top 53 cancer research projects for cancer drug development. He wanted his team to duplicate and double-check the results before they began their work. "100 AMGEN scientists were astonished to find that they were able to replicate the results of only 6 of 53 widely cited landmark cancer research papers." The article also stated that scientists from Bayer reported similar results. "Of 47 cancer projects at Bayer during 2011, less than one-quarter could reproduce previously reported findings, despite the efforts of three or four scientists working full time for up to a year."
In the May 2011 publication of Scientific American, there was an article titled "An Epidemic of False Claims: Competition and conflicts of interest distort too many medical findings." According to the article, "false positives and exaggerated results in peer-reviewed scientific studies have reached epidemic proportions in recent years." The article states that the root of the problem is the public's increasing expectations of science. "Being human, scientists are tempted to show that they know more than they do."
So, how do we evaluate or judge the reliability of what we hear and see?
Evaluating scientific explanations involves two steps.
Look at these true and false statements from the U.S. Geological Survey. Decide if each statement is true or false, and then click on the appropriate button to submit your answer.
So, what is "good science?" Sound scientific investigations need to be designed and performed in a way that is objective and that is bias free. Two main types of bias are sampling bias and measurement bias.
Click on each box to learn more about each type of bias.
Now, let's practice identifying sources of bias. The examples below are descriptions of studies conducted to collect data about the rate of teenage smoking. Read each study and the results, and then decide what type of bias is present, if any, in the experimental design. (Descriptions and feedback modified from USGS Data Exploration Unit).
Scientists communicate their research ideas, techniques, and results by publishing scientific papers in journals. Articles that summarize findings from many investigations are called secondary research articles or review articles. When a scientist conducts an investigation with original research and results to be published in a journal, the published work is considered a primary research article.
Primary research articles typically follow the same format and have six sections: abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and references. Sometimes the results and discussion section will be combined into one section. Each section of a primary research article has a specific purpose; knowing the parts of a primary research article can help you when you need to conduct research.
Click on the circles on the paper below to learn more about the information located in each part of primary research article. This information comes from the ScienceBuddies website.


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Redskins' Trent Williams, Reed return to limited practice
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) Redskins left tackle Trent Williams and tight end Jordan Reed have returned to limited practice as they go through the NFL's concussion protocol.
Coach Jay Gruden says neither player has been cleared for contact, and both will visit an independent neurologist later in the week.
Gruden also expects wide receiver DeSean Jackson to be out for Washington's game against Tampa Bay on Sunday, calling a quicker return from his hamstring injury ''a long shot.''
Williams, a three-time Pro Bowler, missed Sunday's loss to the New York Jets. He entered the concussion protocol last Friday after sustaining what the team originally termed a neck injury in Week 5.
Reed has missed two games. He has 24 catches for 278 yards and a touchdown this season.
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FASCISTS AMONG US
Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre
by Jeff Sparrow
An Australian editor and journalist argues that we need more information, rather than information blackouts, in response to fascist terrorism.
After a gunman massacred more than 50 worshippers at a mosque and Muslim community center in Christchurch, New Zealand, government officials and media combined to deprive the perpetrator of whatever notoriety and dark glory he had sought. They refused to reveal his name or quote from the 73-page manifesto he wrote to justify his mass murdering. Later, the Columbia Journalism Review would analyze the media coverage and agree that the " 'best practice' for the media included not publishing the shooter's name, the title or contents of his manifesto, the name of the forum on which he posted his document, or any specific memes he deployed." Guardian columnist Sparrow (No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson, 2018, etc.) maintains that all of this was widely shared among the fascist fringes from which the killer arose and that the context could be crucial for the general public as we attempt to prevent repeated occurrences. Instead of further marginalizing the killer as a lone-wolf psychopath, the context provided here places him within a fascist lineage, suggesting that his writings are both coherent and consistent with an evil ideology. Furthermore, the widespread pervasiveness of Islamophobia has made the unthinkable somehow acceptable in the same way that anti-Semitism led to the Holocaust. "The alleged perpetrator of the Christchurch massacre might have entered…by himself but, politically, he was never alone," writes the author. He shows how and where fellow fascists form shadowy internet communities to foment violence against immigrants and minorities and spur dialogue on the "Optics War," "ecofascism," and "accelerationism," terms that are much more common among this fringe than they are within the general public.
Sparrow convincingly argues that the more we understand about the last terrorist, the better we can prevent the next one.
Pub Date: April 7th, 2020
Publisher: Scribe
Review Posted Online: Jan. 12th, 2020


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File: src\time\TimerEvent.ts

/**
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* @module Kiwi
* @submodule Time
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module Kiwi.Time {

    /**
    * A TimerEvent hooks into a Timer and is an object that is generated when you are wanting to executed a callback at a specific point in time.
    *
    * @class TimerEvent
    * @namespace Kiwi.Time
    * @constructor
    * @param type {Number} The type of TimerEvent that this is.
    * @param callback {Any} The method that is to be executed when the event occurs.
    * @param context {Any} The context that the callback is to be called in.
    * @return {Kiwi.Time.TimerEvent} This Object.
    */
    export class TimerEvent {

        constructor (type:number, callback, context) {

            this.type = type;
            this._callback = callback;
            this._callbackContext = context;

        }

        /**
        * The type of object that this is.
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        * @return {String}
        * @public
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        public objType() {
            return "TimerEvent";
        }

        /**
        * Name for the event fired when a timer starts.
        * @property TIMER_START
        * @type number
        * @final
        * @static
        * @public
        * @default 1
        */
        public static TIMER_START: number = 1;

        /**
        * Name for the event fired when a timer repeats.
        * @property TIMER_COUNT
        * @public
        * @type string
        * @final
        * @static
        * @default 2
        */
        public static TIMER_COUNT: number = 2;

        /**
        * Name for the event fired when a timer stops.
        * @property TIMER_STOP
        * @type string
        * @final
        * @static
        * @public
        * @default 3
        */
        public static TIMER_STOP: number = 3;

        /**
        * The callback to be called when this TimerEvent triggers
        * @property _callback
        * @type Function
        * @private
        */
        private _callback = null;

        /**
        * The context in which the callback will be fired
        * @property _callbackContext
        * @type Function
        * @private
        */
        private _callbackContext;

        /**
        * The type of TimerEvent
        * @property type
        * @type Function
        * @public
        */
        public type: number = 0;

        /**
        * Fires the callback associated with this TimerEvent
        * @method run
        * @public
        */
        public run() {

            if (this._callback)
            {
                this._callback.apply(this._callbackContext);
            }

        }

    }

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By Kevin Fish
Students should take action against LGBT bullying
By By Kevin Fish | Oct 7, 2010
Most of us have probably seen one of the interviews with Anderson Cooper or the brief segment Ellen Degeneres did on her show, or have seen something in someone's Facebook status, but for anyone who hasn't heard, bullying is taking on a severe form in targeting the LGBT community in the United States.