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package com.facebook.presto.execution.resourceGroups;

import com.facebook.presto.SessionRepresentation;
import com.facebook.presto.memory.ClusterMemoryPoolManager;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnySetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import io.airlift.json.JsonCodec;
import io.airlift.units.DataSize;

import javax.annotation.concurrent.GuardedBy;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Provider;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import static com.facebook.presto.memory.LocalMemoryManager.GENERAL_POOL;
import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;
import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState;
import static io.airlift.units.DataSize.Unit.BYTE;
import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;

public class FileResourceGroupConfigurationManager
        implements ResourceGroupConfigurationManager, Provider<List<? extends ResourceGroupSelector>>
{
    private final List<ResourceGroupSpec> rootGroups;
    private final List<? extends ResourceGroupSelector> selectors;

    @GuardedBy("generalPoolMemoryFraction")
    private final Map<ConfigurableResourceGroup, Double> generalPoolMemoryFraction = new HashMap<>();
    @GuardedBy("generalPoolMemoryFraction")
    private long generalPoolBytes;

    @Inject
    public FileResourceGroupConfigurationManager(ClusterMemoryPoolManager memoryPoolManager, ResourceGroupConfig config, JsonCodec<ManagerSpec> codec)
    {
        requireNonNull(config, "config is null");
        requireNonNull(codec, "codec is null");

        ManagerSpec managerSpec;
        try {
            managerSpec = codec.fromJson(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(config.getConfigFile())));
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            throw Throwables.propagate(e);
        }
        this.rootGroups = managerSpec.getRootGroups();

        ImmutableList.Builder<ResourceGroupSelector> selectors = ImmutableList.builder();
        for (SelectorSpec spec : managerSpec.getSelectors()) {
            selectors.add(new StaticSelector(spec.getUserRegex(), spec.getSourceRegex(), spec.getSessionPropertyRegexes(), spec.getGroup()));
        }
        this.selectors = selectors.build();

        memoryPoolManager.addChangeListener(GENERAL_POOL, poolInfo -> {
            synchronized (generalPoolMemoryFraction) {
                for (Map.Entry<ConfigurableResourceGroup, Double> entry : generalPoolMemoryFraction.entrySet()) {
                    double bytes = poolInfo.getMaxBytes() * entry.getValue();
                    entry.getKey().setSoftMemoryLimit(new DataSize(bytes, BYTE));
                }
                generalPoolBytes = poolInfo.getMaxBytes();
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void configure(ConfigurableResourceGroup group, SessionRepresentation session)
    {
        List<ResourceGroupSpec> candidates = rootGroups;
        List<String> segments = group.getId().getSegments();
        ResourceGroupSpec match = null;
        for (int i = 0; i < segments.size(); i++) {
            List<ResourceGroupSpec> nextCandidates = null;
            ResourceGroupSpec nextCandidatesParent = null;
            for (ResourceGroupSpec candidate : candidates) {
                if (candidate.getName().expandTemplate(session).equals(segments.get(i))) {
                    if (i == segments.size() - 1) {
                        if (match != null) {
                            throw new IllegalStateException(format("Ambiguous configuration for %s. Matches %s and %s", group.getId(), match.getName(), candidate.getName()));
                        }
                        match = candidate;
                    }
                    else {
                        if (nextCandidatesParent != null) {
                            throw new IllegalStateException(format("Ambiguous configuration for %s. Matches %s and %s", group.getId(), nextCandidatesParent.getName(), candidate.getName()));
                        }
                        nextCandidates = candidate.getSubGroups();
                        nextCandidatesParent = candidate;
                    }
                }
            }
            if (nextCandidates == null) {
                break;
            }
            candidates = nextCandidates;
        }
        checkState(match != null, "No matching configuration found for: %s", group.getId());
        if (match.getSoftMemoryLimit().isPresent()) {
            group.setSoftMemoryLimit(match.getSoftMemoryLimit().get());
        }
        else {
            synchronized (generalPoolMemoryFraction) {
                double fraction = match.getSoftMemoryLimitFraction().get();
                generalPoolMemoryFraction.put(group, fraction);
                group.setSoftMemoryLimit(new DataSize(generalPoolBytes * fraction, BYTE));
            }
        }
        group.setMaxQueuedQueries(match.getMaxQueued());
        group.setMaxRunningQueries(match.getMaxRunning());
    }

    @Override
    public List<? extends ResourceGroupSelector> get()
    {
        return selectors;
    }

    public static class ManagerSpec
    {
        private final List<ResourceGroupSpec> rootGroups;
        private final List<SelectorSpec> selectors;

        @JsonCreator
        public ManagerSpec(
                @JsonProperty("rootGroups") List<ResourceGroupSpec> rootGroups,
                @JsonProperty("selectors") List<SelectorSpec> selectors)
        {
            this.rootGroups = ImmutableList.copyOf(requireNonNull(rootGroups, "rootGroups is null"));
            this.selectors = ImmutableList.copyOf(requireNonNull(selectors, "selectors is null"));
            Set<ResourceGroupNameTemplate> names = new HashSet<>();
            for (ResourceGroupSpec group : rootGroups) {
                checkArgument(!names.contains(group.getName()), "Duplicated root group: %s", group.getName());
                names.add(group.getName());
            }
        }

        public List<ResourceGroupSpec> getRootGroups()
        {
            return rootGroups;
        }

        public List<SelectorSpec> getSelectors()
        {
            return selectors;
        }
    }

    public static class ResourceGroupSpec
    {
        private static final Pattern PERCENT_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("(\\d{1,3}(:?\\.\\d+)?)%");

        private final ResourceGroupNameTemplate name;
        private final Optional<DataSize> softMemoryLimit;
        private final Optional<Double> softMemoryLimitFraction;
        private final int maxQueued;
        private final int maxRunning;
        private final List<ResourceGroupSpec> subGroups;

        @JsonCreator
        public ResourceGroupSpec(
                @JsonProperty("name") ResourceGroupNameTemplate name,
                @JsonProperty("softMemoryLimit") String softMemoryLimit,
                @JsonProperty("maxQueued") int maxQueued,
                @JsonProperty("maxRunning") int maxRunning,
                @JsonProperty("subGroups") Optional<List<ResourceGroupSpec>> subGroups)
        {
            this.name = requireNonNull(name, "name is null");
            checkArgument(maxQueued >= 0, "maxQueued is negative");
            this.maxQueued = maxQueued;
            checkArgument(maxRunning >= 0, "maxRunning is negative");
            this.maxRunning = maxRunning;
            requireNonNull(softMemoryLimit, "softMemoryLimit is null");
            Optional<DataSize> absoluteSize;
            Optional<Double> fraction;
            Matcher matcher = PERCENT_PATTERN.matcher(softMemoryLimit);
            if (matcher.matches()) {
                absoluteSize = Optional.empty();
                fraction = Optional.of(Double.parseDouble(matcher.group(1)) / 100.0);
            }
            else {
                absoluteSize = Optional.of(DataSize.valueOf(softMemoryLimit));
                fraction = Optional.empty();
            }
            this.softMemoryLimit = absoluteSize;
            this.softMemoryLimitFraction = fraction;
            this.subGroups = ImmutableList.copyOf(requireNonNull(subGroups, "subGroups is null").orElse(ImmutableList.of()));
            Set<ResourceGroupNameTemplate> names = new HashSet<>();
            for (ResourceGroupSpec subGroup : this.subGroups) {
                checkArgument(!names.contains(subGroup.getName()), "Duplicated sub group: %s", subGroup.getName());
                names.add(subGroup.getName());
            }
        }

        public Optional<DataSize> getSoftMemoryLimit()
        {
            return softMemoryLimit;
        }

        public Optional<Double> getSoftMemoryLimitFraction()
        {
            return softMemoryLimitFraction;
        }

        public int getMaxQueued()
        {
            return maxQueued;
        }

        public int getMaxRunning()
        {
            return maxRunning;
        }

        public ResourceGroupNameTemplate getName()
        {
            return name;
        }

        public List<ResourceGroupSpec> getSubGroups()
        {
            return subGroups;
        }
    }

    public static class SelectorSpec
    {
        private final Optional<Pattern> userRegex;
        private final Optional<Pattern> sourceRegex;
        private final Map<String, Pattern> sessionPropertyRegexes = new HashMap<>();
        private final ResourceGroupIdTemplate group;

        @JsonCreator
        public SelectorSpec(
                @JsonProperty("user") Optional<Pattern> userRegex,
                @JsonProperty("source") Optional<Pattern> sourceRegex,
                @JsonProperty("group") ResourceGroupIdTemplate group)
        {
            this.userRegex = requireNonNull(userRegex, "userRegex is null");
            this.sourceRegex = requireNonNull(sourceRegex, "sourceRegex is null");
            this.group = requireNonNull(group, "group is null");
        }

        @JsonAnySetter
        public void setSessionProperty(String property, Pattern value)
        {
            checkArgument(property.startsWith("session."), "Unrecognized property: %s", property);
            sessionPropertyRegexes.put(property.substring("session.".length(), property.length()), value);
        }

        public Optional<Pattern> getUserRegex()
        {
            return userRegex;
        }

        public Optional<Pattern> getSourceRegex()
        {
            return sourceRegex;
        }

        public Map<String, Pattern> getSessionPropertyRegexes()
        {
            return ImmutableMap.copyOf(sessionPropertyRegexes);
        }

        public ResourceGroupIdTemplate getGroup()
        {
            return group;
        }
    }
}

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Backed by some of the world's leading investors, Preply is a global language learning marketplace, connecting tutors with millions of learners from all over the world. Since the company launched in 2012, students have signed up to more than five million lessons. We're continually improving our product through A/B experimentation and need your help to build a product that delivers life-changing language education to the world! Learn more in "Some more about us..." below.
Join Preply engineering!
We are searching for a Frontend Engineer (React/Typescript) who is passionate about the vision of our product.
Our Frontend Engineers are an integral part of our cross-functional product teams. You will be part of the entire feature lifecycle from ideation and brainstorming to deploying your unit-tested and instrumented code to production.
We release our product 50-60 times per day by leveraging technologies like Kubernetes (Skaffold+Helm), Docker, and top-notch CI/CD processes. As a fast-growing company we have diverse technical challenges (sometimes we even write about them on our Engineering Blog) that will allow you to develop your skills at scale.
Visit our Tech Radar to learn more about the technologies we use at Preply.
As a Frontend Engineer you will:
You will work in a cross-functional team alongside the Product Manager, UI designers, copywriters and backend engineers to deliver engaging frontend features and experiments to our users. You will be customer-focussed and have page speed and site performance at the top of your mind in the work you do.
Develop and own frontend features in React/Typescript, launched in our A/B test framework
Collaborate with backend engineers to design GraphQL endpoints
Mentor and help grow other engineers
Balance short-term speed of development with the long-term technical quality of our systems
Learn the needs of our users and define solutions with your product manager and tech lead. Think beyond the code and about our customers.
Help us make our best practices even better (test culture, code reviews, mentoring)
Good knowledge of JavaScript and React
Experience with CSS technologies such as CSS Modules, Styles Components etc
Experience developing web applications
A great collaborator with excellent communication skills
High level of self-organization, ownership, and responsibility
Experience mentoring others
Minimum B2 English level
Bonus skills: Typescript, NextJs, end-to-end testing frameworks
An opportunity at a high-growth trajectory company with solid investor backing.
An open, collaborative, and international culture where your opinion is highly valued and appreciated.
A monthly allowance for self-development on Preply.com.
A competitive financial package, with generous leave allowance and health insurance.
A free book delivered to you on your birthday
Some more about us...
Backed by some of the world's leading investors, Preply is on a mission to shape the future of effective learning. Fueled by a belief that live engagement with a teacher is still the most effective way to learn a new skill, Preply is building a personalized learning space that will enable people to reach their goals in the fastest way possible.
We have diverse technical challenges (sometimes we write about them on our Engineering Blog) that will allow you to develop your skills across our stack. We also A/B test most of our changes in production, both from a product and a technical perspective before scaling it to all customers.
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I used to write about feminism a little bit, back to a year or so ago, back when my eyes were first opened to the history of oppression and violence against women in our society and around the world. I guess once you start exploring any kind of injustice, it's a bit like stepping through a door you can't go back through. Because now I see it everywhere – I see women downtrodden, I see women under pressure, I see women being forced into boxes they don't want to be in. We live in a culture that feels more comfortable with page three models than breastfeeding mothers – and comparatively, women in the UK have things easy.
I stopped writing about it because it was exhausting me, and because I knew other people were writing about it better than I ever could, and because I knew we were raising our daughter to understand this: that she can be whoever she wants to be and have whatever job or hobbies she wants, one day, that she can be strong and pretty at the same time, that her worth is not in her looks alone.
Last summer – whilst pregnant with a very obvious bump, and suffering from a dodgy pelvic joint that made my leg give way at random intervals – I went for a walk, and I got catcalled. It was a hot day and I was wearing a fairly short dress. I had, in a rare moment of energy during what was a pretty exhausting pregnancy, bothered to do my make-up. I felt quite confident (if a bit limpy). And maybe that confidence showed, or something, because I am not normally a woman that suffers from catcalling. I am a tiny, bespectacled, pale-skinned woman normally dressed in jeans, a t-shirt, and a pair of slip on shoes that were once white and are now definitely not.
Anyway, some idiot leaned out of his window and wolf-whistled. Then he yelled something I'd rather not repeat here in case my Mum is reading it.
Far from being flattered (because being told, in a very aggressive way, that I am f***able by a strange man is not what I would call a compliment. I've kind of said it now, haven't I? Oh well), I went cold. As in literally cold – goosebumps. I was walking down an alley, and there were no other adults around. It suddenly occurred to me that I was totally alone, with my tiny daughter, and my unborn child, and I didn't feel safe. In the middle of the day.
I was angry about it. I shouted something equally unrepeatable back at him. And then I ran home. Dodgy hip and unwieldy bump and all. He yelled something slightly more threatening as I left.
Okay, I'm kind of joking with that last one.
But what I wanted to tell him was that I am a person, not a thing, and that his objectifying me wasn't on, and that he needed to get with the program and realize that it isn't acceptable to scream disgusting 'compliments' at people whenever he fancies it.
But I didn't because I was caught off-guard and I am human.
Anyway, I was pondering this the other day, and trying to find the reasons why I've started rolling my eyes sometimes at other feminist issues. I occasionally lurk around a couple of message boards (it's a bit less creepy than it sounds), and I find the 'feminism' topics particularly interesting (obviously). But I find myself, sometimes, totally alienated from it.
When we split ourselves into groups, as humans, there's always a bit of in-fighting about what is acceptable within the group and what isn't (which is why there are, at current count, approximately 41,000 Christian denominations worldwide). And there are always extremists. I've written about this before, but I wouldn't want to associate myself with the Westboro Baptist Church people, for instance. Even though I am a Christian, I am not that kind of Christian.
I am a feminist, but I am not that kind of feminist.
I rely on my husband for income. This is a biggy. I am not financially independent. I am, however, in a loving marriage and I trust my husband with my life. But apparently, because we're not financial equals, I shouldn't 'count' as a feminist.
I think 'boys clubs' and 'girls clubs' are fine, as long as the girls and boys have the opportunity to engage in the same kind of activities. I am not that one person that demands her daughter be let into the Scouts.
I don't see 'girly' things (i.e. – pink, sparkly, floaty, flouncy clothes and toys) as being inherently bad. In fact, I think categorizing those things as being 'not of worth' is actually damaging and kind of insulting. I just think, again, that children should have equal access to everything.
I like men. (Apart from stupid catcalling men). I don't think that men are scumbags. I don't say things like that, either. I don't think women are better than men – I think we deserve equal rights. Which goes both ways. I do care about boys being stereotyped, too.
I don't think men and women are the same. Sorry, I don't. I believe children are individuals, and there's nothing wrong with a girl that likes rough and tumble and a boy that likes to push a dolly pram around. But do I think there are fundamental differences between a man and a woman (other than the obvious physical stuff)? Yes. I do.
So there we go. According to some message boards, I should be kicked out of the Feminist Club, because I am not worthy.
Let's stick to what's important here: in the UK, the gender pay gap is the smallest it's ever been. At the end of August, I casually popped along to my nearest church to vote in our local election. Why? Because feminists fought for it. Once upon a time, those rights did not exist, and now they do, and it's all down to a movement that some people like to describe as a bunch of man-hating weirdos.
Women who came before me paved the way for me, and my daughter, and our rights, and I am grateful for it, and if the events of Hollywood in the past couple of weeks have told us anything, there is much work yet to be done.
Which is why I still call myself a feminist.
Even if I am a 'bad' one.
Would you call yourself a feminist? Have you ever felt excluded from feminism?
I usually won't touch this topic with a ten foot pole, but I so appreciated your honesty!
I think a lot of women feel this way. I think the definition of feminism/feminist has gotten grossly misconstrued. Now we (women) are just sort of all over the place on this. By definition, you are 100% a feminist. Not even a bad one.
It drives me crazy how the extremists have totally taken feminism beyond what its about and turned it into a platform to not only slate men, but also to slate any woman they don't feel fits their opinion on what a woman should be (which goes against everything feminism represents). It's these extremists who give all feminists a bad name and make people shy away from the issues rather be labelled a man hater or something worse.
Feminism for me represents a woman's right to choose. You choose to live your life your way and that is feminism right there.
I get that people are passionate and that's a good thing. But when people are so extreme it does put people off engaging with a topic that everyone should know more about!
I must be a terrible feminist then because not only do I believe that men and women should be equals but I also believe that men very often get a really bum deal, simply by virtue of their gender.
I also shudder at the increasing misuse of the word, misogynist – I'm sure that most people who bandy it around have no idea what it actually means. Sure, some men are sexists, some men are chauvinists but that doesn't make them misogynists. And it doesn't mean we all live under some all-powerful, female oppressing patriarchy. Or kyriarchy.
It also doesn't mean that women are not sexist and chauvinistic.
It's a terribly sad fact of modern life that while women are crying out against being objectified and 'oppressed' by men, they are very often doing the same thing *to* men, yet cannot or will not see it. All too often, it seems that what neo-feminists want is to have the world exactly as they decree but not extend the same rights and courtesies to men. That is not remotely like equality. That is oppression.
Really good post, Megan, I found myself nodding in agreement a lot!


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Swaggy P wears Kanye's lifestyle Yeezy shoes in game
HOUSTON (AP) Nick Young marked his new deal with Adidas and sent the Internet abuzz on Saturday night by wearing Kanye West-designed Adidas Yeezy 750 Boosts in the Los Angeles Lakers game against the Houston Rockets.
The flamboyant star, who goes by the nickname Swaggy P, explained why he wore the lifestyle shoes that aren't really made for basketball.
''I just signed with Adidas, welcome to the three stripes, Swaggy P,'' he said to The Associated Press. ''And I had to come in with some style and that's basically what it's all about.''
The move made waves in part because the street shoes are nearly impossible to get, and some on Twitter worried he might get hurt wearing them. But Young scored 13 points and said there was no need for concern.
''It felt good,'' he said. ''It actually felt good on my feet. I was worried about the same thing, but once I put them on and got out there on the court it was just time to play.''
His teammates were excited by his choice of footwear and kept yelling: ''Tell `em about the Yeezy's, Nick Yeezy'' as he fielded questions about the game.
The struggling Lakers have won just three games this season and lost 126-97, but Young did something he hasn't done in his time in Los Angeles in the lopsided defeat: He had his first-ever assist to Kobe Bryant. He thought it might have had something to do with the shoes.
''It was the Yeezy's tonight that got the assist for him,'' he joked.
The suede, grey high-tops have a Velcro flap over the laces and retail for $350, but they make so few pairs that they sell on EBay and other resellers for thousands of dollars.
Young said he knew wearing them on the court would cause a stir and smiled broadly when told that his Instagram post of a picture of the shoes already had more than 30,000 likes during the game. His move was made more interesting considering former Rockets star Tracy McGrady sat courtside wearing the exact same shoes.
So can we expect Young to wear these again?
''Yeah Swaggy P don't have no limits when it comes to shoes,'' he said. ''As long as I can play I'm going to bring some heat out here.''
The Lakers have dropped six in a row and 13 of their last 14. Young said showing his individuality helps him deal with the struggles.
''You've got to do something to try to get your spirits up while you losing and all that and that's where I find confidence and my joy and trying to keep doing it, keep doing stuff like this,'' he said.
Then he finished lacing the shoes, fastened the Velcro closure and walked out of the locker room.
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Arlington Heights relying on pot and reserves to avoid property tax hike
Arlington Heights officials are relying on a projected $500,000 in new annual revenues from Verilife, the marijuana dispensary on the south side of town, to help plug a hole in the 2021 budget that's been hampered by economic effects of the coronavirus. Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer, August 2020
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Posted11/10/2020 5:30 AM
Despite the ongoing pandemic, Arlington Heights won't have to raise its property tax levy for the second year in a row, thanks at least in part to a new revenue source -- taxes from recreational marijuana sales -- and to reserve funds, officials said.
The expected $500,000 annual cash infusion from a new 3% local tax on cannabis sales comes after village trustees in August overturned their earlier ban on recreational pot sales. Under an 18-month pilot program, the Verilife dispensary at 1816 S. Arlington Heights Road is able to expand to general adult use sales from solely medical use sales.
During initial review of the proposed $192.5 million budget for 2021 Monday night, village officials also said they plan to take nearly $692,000 from reserves to balance a budget that's been hampered by the economic downturn.
A few months ago, officials thought they'd have to use $1 million more, but then they refined revenue projections and got better quotes on employees' health insurance.
At $28 million, the reserve fund represents nearly 40% of general fund expenditures, and the village's policy is to maintain at least 25%.
"These circumstances kind of validate that decision because we know there are times where we need to draw upon that, and this is one of those," Village Manager Randy Recklaus said.
Recklaus said the village is also holding 13 jobs vacant temporarily to reduce costs. But he didn't think the lower staffing would be sustainable, as demand for village services hasn't diminished, he said.
Among other reasons the village is able to hold the line on property taxes, according to officials:
• In March, just as the pandemic took hold, they used last year's budget surplus to pay down a portion of police and fire pension liabilities.
• The village has lower annual debt service payments after selling new bonds.
• Bond proceeds and an increase in motor fuel tax funds from the state, tied to an increase in state gas taxes, are being used.
The 2021 spending plan proposes a host of public works projects, including $11.5 million to resurface or rehab streets, $7.3 million for stormwater control projects, and $4 million to replace old water mains.
The village represents 12% of an average homeowner's property tax bill, while schools encompass two-thirds.
The village board will continue its review of the proposed budget during another virtual meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, with further examination of individual department budgets.
Final approval of the budget and levy is expected Dec. 7.
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Joliet hires law firm to step up debt collection
Joliet has been collecting about half of the parking fines owed to the city in recent years. (Shaw Media)
JOLIET – The city has hired a nationwide law firm to help collect unpaid fines and fees that have been mounting in recent years.
Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson will join the city's two other collectors in trying to recover unpaid parking fines, ambulance fees, water bills and other assorted fines and fees owed Joliet.
City officials previously have said that less than half of parking fines have been collected for the period between 2014 and 2016. The collection rate on ambulance bills was 4 percent in 2016.
Unpaid fines and fees are estimated at $2 million. (City staff at an August city council committee meeting incorrectly listed unpaid debt at $4.1 million, which was reported in a Herald-News story at the time.)
"We're hoping to step up the collections," Joliet Finance Director Jim Ghedotte said last week. "A lot of the problem is finding the people."
The Linebarger firm's national presence may make it more effective in tracking down people who have left Joliet, Ghedotte said.
At the same time, he said, Joliet hopes to incorporate more modern collection procedures. The city has employed two local collection agencies since 1980, Ghedotte said.
"We wanted to upgrade the contract," he said. "There are a lot of processes for collection agencies that did not exist in 1980."
The city will continue to employ Credit Discount and Audit and Central Adjustment Bureau to collect debt on accounts they now have.
New debt will be sent to the Linebarger firm, which is expected to start collections in March.
Linebarger has an office in Chicago, but its principal office is in Austin, Texas. The company has 46 offices nationwide with 31 of them being in Texas.
In Illinois, the firm does collections for Chicago, the state of Illinois, Springfield, Waukegan and other municipalities.
Linebarger will be paid 22 cents on every dollar it collects, according to a staff summary of the contract. The city has been paying 33 cents on the dollar for collection services.
The City Council in December approved a one-year contract with Linebarger.
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Cascade Tracking Team performs wildlife monitoring pro bono for conservation and wildlife non-profits. We currently work with Forterra (formerly the Cascade Land Conservancy), surveying and monitoring parcels placed in public trust in the I-90 corridor of the Cascade Mountains. We have also surveyed land adjacent to the Northwest Trek wildlife park in Eatonville, Washington and helped with several bioblitzes in the region. If your organization holds land in Washington State for the benefit of wildlife or the natural world and needs that land surveyed or monitored for mammal presence, let us know.


The statistics are staggering. Nearly a third of all children in developing countries suffer from malnutrition. Worldwide, poor nutrition is linked to more than half of all child deaths.
Now a global effort—the largest ever—is under way to combat this health crisis, led by researchers in the UVA School of Medicine. A $30 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund a five-year study to investigate how malnutrition and intestinal infections lead to serious lifelong physical and cognitive problems.
Scientists don't fully understand the causes of malnutrition or the complex relationship between malnutrition and intestinal infection. It's not simply a matter of access to food; many children who have enough to eat are malnourished. A focal point of the project—the study of genetic differences in the populations involved—will shed light on what factors account for susceptibility to infectious organisms and malnutrition.


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Sporting students at the University of Aberdeen have pipped their RGU peers in this year's Granite City Challenge - the largest one day varsity event in Britain.
Around 700 people and 35 teams competed in sports ranging from trampolining and Gaelic football to water polo and tennis.
And when the final whiste blew, Aberdeen emerged victorious by 17 points to 13, regaining the trophy they lost in 2008 after a run of 11 unbeaten years.
Gordon Cox, Vice President of Sport at the University of Aberdeen's Students' Association said: "It was a brilliant effort by all our teams. We were desperate to regain our hold on the trophy, but knew it would be tough after last year's setback.
""There is a huge competitive edge between the two universities but there was also a lot of fun had on the day and the rivalry always remained friendly. It was a real carnvial atmosphere and we were pleased, and not a little relieved, to come out on top once again."
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Did you order to have one shipped @ ATT store?
Discussion in 'iPhone' started by timmciglobal, Jul 11, 2008.
Well I got there and no iphones... so the guy said he could order me one but it would probably be 3-4 weeks for a 16 gig black, did anyone else select to have one ordered? Same time frame?
The apple store 45 min from me says it's still available I don't know what to do? Are those CDF orders cancel able?
I got mine ordered around 10:00am (EST) this morning and she said 7-10 days. I went back this evening because I was on that side of town and asked if they get more stock do they go to walk-ins and we have to wait, or do they go to those who ordered and she said they thought about that this afternoon and that they'll go to those of us who ordered already.
My rep was very capable and very cute. When I get my iPhone I'll have to ask her if her number comes preloaded and if not can I get it!
i ordered a 16gb black through the at&t store today she told me 3-5 days possibly sooner.
I ordered a 16 GB Black and paid $15 for shipping so I would have it on Saturday or Monday.
I chose the extra fast shipping.
Hello fellow Lynchburgian. Went to the same AT&T store as you. Sorry to say that any phones that come in don't go to those who ordered first. (Which is what I was hoping for, only seemed fair to me) Your ordered phone will come in with your name on the shipping label, and they aren't allowed to give you any other phone. This is what we were told by that stores manager. They honestly couldn't tell us when they will come in either, but they are hoping between 5 to 7 days. Stinks, but after waiting in line this morning, we didn't want to drive all the way to Richmond and risk them being out too. Looks like Richmond is going to have stock tomorrow though.
My hubby does agree with you on the girl though, he saw her today as well and said she is a cutie.
I ordered mine tonight around 8:00 PM in Ann Arbor, MI. They told me 7-10 days. That is how I did the original iPhone, too. Of course that one came to the house instead of going to the store since I could activate it myself. My local Apple Store lists them as in stock for tomorrow. Because of the FAN discount I am waiting.
I arrived at the AT&T store with my son at 7am this morning and we were numbers 23 and 24 in a line of about 50 people. We got in the door at 10am after a long wait because of itunes running very slow and it taking forever to activate a phone. We got the last two 16gb black phones in stock and they were taking orders after us and were telling everyone the phone would be in on Monday. I went to work and after work at about 7pm I went to the Apple Store in the local Mall to get some accessories and there was a line of about 100 people. The sales guy in the store said the line was at the shortest it had been all day. He said they had plenty of phones and would not run out of any of the models. So it seems that AT&T held back some phones to get demand up but the Apple Stores will have plenty. The AT&T guy said the phones would be shipped from their warehouse in Memphis and that there were plenty of them at that warehouse.
That page is probably being taxed hard right now cause its taking a while to show up.
Well that's really depressing. But another Lynchburgian here (Lynchburger? I'm not sure what we're supposed to be called), no way!
And what time were you there? I arrived around 9:30am. I have brown hair and a beard.
I have been looking at the In Progress thing all day long. Until the status changes to shipped, the In Progress is moving as fast as the lines this morning.
what time did you order your phone at the at&t store ?
Whenever I enter the order number to check it redirects me to the main wireless screen?!
more than likely because the page is timing out and the page is set to redirect when time out.
Everybody and their grandmother is checking their status right now.
mine doesnt even recognize that my order has been places when I check the link in the iCare email... gay... I'm checking back tomorrow to see if they have more in cuz they told me I could get it if they got them in stock.
if your using the order number on your receipt, try using the last 5 digits... and the zip code of the AT&T store you order the iPhone from. This is because the iPhone is being shipped to the AT&T store and not to you directly.
Thanks, Far Seide! The last five digits worked!
what was your status ?


The world's fastest growing security technology is computer face recognition. Traditionally it has been pretty poor, but it's slowly improving. A computer is now as good as a person. Already Google's algorithms can accurately match child and adult photos of the same person, and Facebook has an algorithm that works by recognizing hair style, body shape, and body language — and works even when it can't see faces. And while we humans are pretty much as good at this as we're ever going to get, computers will continue to improve. Over the next years, they'll continue to get more accurate, making better matches using even worse photos.
Matching photos with names also requires a database of identified photos, and we have plenty of those too. Driver's license databases are a gold mine: all shot face forward, in good focus and even light, with accurate identity information attached to each photo. The enormous photo collections of social media and photo archiving sites are another. They contain photos of us from all sorts of angles and in all sorts of lighting conditions, and we helpfully do the identifying step for the companies by tagging ourselves and our friends. Maybe this data will appear on handheld screens. Maybe it'll be automatically displayed on computer-enhanced glasses. Imagine salesclerks — or politicians — being able to scan a room and instantly see wealthy customers highlighted in green, or policemen seeing people with criminal records highlighted in red.
Science fiction writers have been exploring this future in both books and movies for decades. Ads followed people from billboard to billboard in the movie Minority Report. In John Scalzi's recent novel Lock In, characters scan each other like the salesclerks I described above.
This is no longer fiction. High-tech billboards can target ads based on the gender of who's standing in front of them. In 2011, researchers at Carnegie Mellon pointed a camera at a public area on campus and were able to match live video footage with a public database of tagged photos in real time. Already government and commercial authorities have set up facial recognition systems to identify and monitor people at sporting events, music festivals, and even churches. The Dubai police are working on integrating facial recognition into Google Glass, and more US local police forces are using the technology.
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other companies with large databases of tagged photos know how valuable their archives are. They see all kinds of services powered by their technologies — services they can sell to businesses like the stores you walk into and the governments you might interact with.
Other companies will spring up whose business models depend on capturing our images in public and selling them to whoever has use for them. If you think this is farfetched, consider a related technology that's already far down that path: license-plate capture.
Today in the US there's a massive but invisible industry that records the movements of cars around the country. Cameras mounted on cars and tow trucks capture license places along with date/time/location information, and companies use that data to find cars that are scheduled for repossession. One company, Vigilant Solutions, claims to collect 70 million scans in the US every month. The companies that engage in this business routinely share that data with the police, giving the police a steady stream of surveillance information on innocent people that they could not legally collect on their own. And the companies are already looking for other profit streams, selling that surveillance data to anyone else who thinks they have a need for it.
This could easily happen with face recognition. Finding bail jumpers could even be the initial driving force, just as finding cars to repossess was for license plate capture.
Already the FBI has a database of 52 million faces, and describes its integration of facial recognition software with that database as "fully operational." In 2014, FBI Director James Comey told Congress that the database would not include photos of ordinary citizens, although the FBI's own documents indicate otherwise. And just last month, we learned that the FBI is looking to buy a system that will collect facial images of anyone an officer stops on the street.
In 2013, Facebook had a quarter of a trillion user photos in its database. There's currently a class-action lawsuit in Illinois alleging that the company has over a billion "face templates" of people, collected without their knowledge or consent.
Last year, the US Department of Commerce tried to prevail upon industry representatives and privacy organizations to write a voluntary code of conduct for companies using facial recognition technologies. After 16 months of negotiations, all of the consumer-focused privacy organizations pulled out of the process because industry representatives were unable to agree on any limitations on something as basic as nonconsensual facial recognition.
When we talk about surveillance, we tend to concentrate on the problems of data collection: CCTV cameras, tagged photos, purchasing habits, our writings on sites like Facebook and Twitter. We think much less about data analysis. But effective and pervasive surveillance is just as much about analysis. It's sustained by a combination of cheap and ubiquitous cameras, tagged photo databases, commercial databases of our actions that reveal our habits and personalities, and — most of all — fast and accurate face recognition software.
Don't expect to have access to this technology for yourself anytime soon. This is not facial recognition for all. It's just for those who can either demand or pay for access to the required technologies — most importantly, the tagged photo databases. And while we can easily imagine how this might be misused in a totalitarian country, there are dangers in free societies as well. Without meaningful regulation, we're moving into a world where governments and corporations will be able to identify people both in real time and backwards in time, remotely and in secret, without consent or recourse.
Despite protests from industry, we need to regulate this budding industry. We need limitations on how our images can be collected without our knowledge or consent, and on how they can be used. The technologies aren't going away, and we can't uninvent these capabilities. But we can ensure that they're used ethically and responsibly, and not just as a mechanism to increase police and corporate power over us.


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Civil Servants More Corrupt Than Politicians-Kennedy Agyepong
New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand and Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central in the Central region Kennedy Ohene Agyepong is claiming that civil servants lead the chart when it comes to corruption in the country.
He believes the civil servants are more corrupt than politicians even though there is the growing the perception that politicians are more corrupt.
"Go to most of the prominent settlements and estates in Ghana, most of the houses you see there are for these civil servants yet the politicians are accused of being corrupt", he alleged.
According to him, the leakages in the system through corruption are the factors affecting the development of the country which the first president never envisaged.
"It is not only NPP or NDC……Kwame Nkrumah did not expect this magnitude of corruption in the country we are witnessing today. We must all work towards cleansing the system", he advised.
The outspoken politician believes that civil servants in connivance with some politicians are ripping off the nation diverting state funds into personal accounts which must be stopped if the grow yearns to grow.
To this end he declared his resolve to serve the country and promised to expose persons including members of his party who will engage in fishy deals.
"I am going to serve my country and those who think they can come and blow cash, I will crash them. The NPP is not perfect and cannot deliver the promises in one year. There will be mistakes in the NPP but we will correct those mistakes", he emphasized.
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In this video we get to witness something very rare and unusual.
Golden Retriever Sampson is suffering from narcolepsy.
He can't walk more than a few steps without falling asleep.
This is hard to watch and I am sure living with Sampson is a constant struggle. How can the poor guy even eat anything when he falls asleep between every bite.
Then there is the constant explaining to the passers by who wonder what is wrong with the dog.
It is like anything in life, you make the most out of the situation.


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Bern Township is one of the fourteen townships of Athens County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census found 572 people in the township.

Geography
Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
Marion Township, Morgan County - north
Wesley Township, Washington County - east
Decatur Township, Washington County - southeast corner
Rome Township - south
Canaan Township - southwest corner
Ames Township - west
Homer Township, Morgan County - northwest corner

Communities
Sharpsburg lies in the township's northwest corner and is home to the township's office.

Name and history
Bern Township was organized in 1828, having previously been part of Ames Township. Bern Township is mostly coterminous with survey township 7 North, Range 12 West. Six sections forming the easternmost tier of the survey township were transferred in 1807 to Washington County.

It is the only Bern Township statewide, although there is a Berne Township in Fairfield County.

Government
The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Athens County, Ohio
1828 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1828
Townships in Ohio

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Vespertine's shaved white asparagus with white chocolate. Obviously.
At Vespertine, chef Jordan Kahn's new otherworldly Culver City restaurant, a meal for two with wine pairings and tea service costs around $1,200 — roughly as much as a pair of orchestra seats for Hamilton at the Pantages. But while both promise a once-in-a- lifetime experience, only Vespertine provides dinner and a show. Set in a dramatic glass-and-steel building by starchitect Eric Owen Moss, the 20-plus-course meal is a three-hour immersive escapade, complete with a musical score and platings that wouldn't look out of place on pedestals at MOCA. Every detail—from the choreographer-trained servers, who glide like ballet dancers in monkish robes through the dining room, to the blackened ceramic dishes, which look as though they survived a forest fire—is part of an intense narrative created by Kahn.
Beran's vision is for diners to be participants rather than just consumers. To that end, he opts for the counter-centric seating of restaurants like Trois Mec and Le Comptoir, with nearly half of Dialogue's 18 chairs arranged at a walnut counter. Here Beran cooks and serves, making it easy to talk to the chef about how he spent nine months barrel-aging the burnt onion syrup that's part of a Wagyu rib eye course on the opening tasting menu.
If all goes as intended, the intimate dinner will play out like a live episode of Chef 's Table, a full narrative unfolding in real time. But as with Vespertine, don't expect the price to equal the cost of your Netflix subscription.


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Like most of the Applications, the Chatbot is also connected to the Database. The knowledge base or the database of information is used to feed the chatbot with the information needed to give a suitable response to the user. Data of user's activities and whether or not your chatbot was able to match their questions, is captured in the data store. NLP translates human language into information with a combination of patterns and text that can be mapped in the real time to find applicable responses.
Users want to ask questions in their own language, and have bots help them. A statement that sounds as straight-forward as "My login isn't working! I haven't been able to log into your on-line billing system" might sound straight forward to us, but to a bot, there's a lot it needs to understand. Watson Conversation Services has learned from Wikipedia, and along with its deep learning techniques, it's able to work out what the user is asking.
A chatbot that functions through machine learning has an artificial neural network inspired by the neural nodes of the human brain. The bot is programmed to self-learn as it is introduced to new dialogues and words. In effect, as a chatbot receives new voice or textual dialogues, the number of inquiries that it can reply and the accuracy of each response it gives increases. Facebook has a machine learning chatbot that creates a platform for companies to interact with their consumers through the Facebook Messenger application. Using the Messenger bot, users can buy shoes from Spring, order a ride from Uber, and have election conversations with the New York Times which used the Messenger bot to cover the 2016 presidential election between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. If a user asked the New York Times through his/her app a question like "What's new today?" or "What do the polls say?" the bot would reply to the request.
A chatbot is an artificial intelligence (AI) program that simulates interactive human conversation by using key pre-calculated user phrases and auditory or text-based signals. Chatbots are frequently used for basic customer service and marketing systems that frequent social networking hubs and instant messaging (IM) clients. They are also often included in operating systems as intelligent virtual assistants.
As AOL's David Shingy writes in Adweek, "The challenge [with chatbots] will be thinking about creative from a whole different view: Can we have creative that scales? That customizes itself? We find ourselves hurtling toward another handoff from man to machine -- what larger system of creative or complex storytelling structure can I design such that a machine can use it appropriately and effectively?"
Aside from being practical and time-convenient, chatbots guarantee a huge reduction in support costs. According to IBM, the influence of chatbots on CRM is staggering. They provide a 99 percent improvement rate in response times, therefore, cutting resolution from 38 hours to five minutes. Also, they caused a massive drop in cost per query from $15-$200 (human agents) to $1 (virtual agents). Finally, virtual agents can take up an average of 30,000+ consumers per month.
Chatbots have been used in instant messaging (IM) applications and online interactive games for many years but have recently segued into business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) sales and services. Chatbots can be added to a buddy list or provide a single game player with an entity to interact with while awaiting other "live" players. If the bot is sophisticated enough to pass the Turing test, the person may not even know they are interacting with a computer program.
An AI-powered chatbot is a smarter version of a chatbot (a machine that has the ability to communicate with humans via text or audio). It uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) to get a better understanding of the intent of humans it interacts with. Also, its purpose is to provide a natural, as near human-level communication as possible.
In a bot, everything begins with the root dialog. The root dialog invokes the new order dialog. At that point, the new order dialog takes control of the conversation and remains in control until it either closes or invokes other dialogs, such as the product search dialog. If the new order dialog closes, control of the conversation is returned back to the root dialog.
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Companies most likely to be supporting bots operate in the health, communications and banking industries, with informational bots garnering the majority of attention. However, challenges still abound, even among bot supporters, with lack of skilled talent to develop and work with bots cited as a challenge in implementing solutions, followed by deployment and acquisition costs, as well as data privacy and security.
Several studies accomplished by analytics agencies such as Juniper or Gartner [34] report significant reduction of cost of customer services, leading to billions of dollars of economy in the next 10 years. Gartner predicts an integration by 2020 of chatbots in at least 85% of all client's applications to customer service. Juniper's study announces an impressive amount of $8 billion retained annually by 2022 due to the use of chatbots.


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DEA Acting Administrator makes first visit to Panama
WASHINGTON - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy Shea arrived in Panama this week on an official visit, marking the first time a DEA Administrator visited Panama, a hub for regional DEA operations. Upon his arrival, Acting Administrator Shea and United States Chargé d'Affaires to Panama Stewart Tuttle met with...
DEA announces 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
Louisville, Ky. – DEA is holding its 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 24 at locations across the country. The nationwide event aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for...
DEA announces launch of Project Safeguard
Louisville, Ky. – Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea today announced that the DEA will direct resources to help reduce violent crime in communities throughout the country. Under this initiative, called Project Safeguard, DEA will identify and prioritize ongoing drug trafficking investigations with a nexus to violent crime...
DEA disrupts illegal steroid operation in West Virginia
HUNTINGTON, Wv. – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) today announced that it has effectively dismantled an illegal steroid manufacturing and distribution facility, operating out of a private residence in Huntington. DEA Special Agents, working closely with their law enforcement partners, discovered a fully-operational clandestine laboratory used to manufacture illegal steroids...
DEA-led operation nets more than 500 arrests targeting Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). This announcement marks the successful conclusion of six months of investigative and...
DEA installs drug collection box in Louisville federal building
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Drug Enforcement Administration's Louisville Division today announced that a prescription drug collection box is now available in the lobby of the Mazzoli Federal Building, located at 600 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Place, in downtown Louisville. This is the first permanent prescription drug collection box in...
Two men plead guilty to roles in large multi-drug trafficking conspiracy across Hampton Roads Virginia
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Two Hampton men pleaded guilty today to their respective roles in a multi-kilogram drug trafficking conspiracy that operated in the peninsula area of the Hampton Roads. According to court documents, Marcid Byrd, 35, was a cocaine source of supply to Damarcus Mackie, 44. Once Byrd was...
Baltimore man sentenced to prison after agents recovered fentanyl he hid in an illegal taxi
BALTIMORE – U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Devron Lasha Young, Jr., age 22, of Baltimore, Maryland, yesterday to five years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute approximately 75 grams of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl—enough to kill 37,500 people...


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TFF drawdowns to 'ramp up': RBA
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The banking sector is set to increase its take-up of the Reserve Bank's $90-billion term funding facility, according to the central bank's assistant governor, Christopher Kent.
In March, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) launched a term funding facility (TFF) as part of its response to the economic fallout from COVID-19.
The TFF is aimed at supporting the flow of credit to small and medium-sized businesses by providing authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) with three-year funding facilities at a fixed rate of 0.25 per cent.
Under the TFF, ADIs can draw down on funding of up to 3 per cent of their existing outstanding credit and will have access to additional funding if they increase lending to business, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The initial allowance of the TFF totals $90 billion and is due to expire at the end of September.
However, to date, take-up of the TFF has been subdued, with drawdowns totalling just $26 billion.
ANZ Research has noted that banks will need to draw down just under $6 billion per week until the end of September to take their entire initial allowance.
In an address to media on Monday (27 July), RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Christopher Kent said banks are in no rush to draw down on the TFF, with cheaper alternatives available.
"There are a few reasons why banks have not taken up more of this funding at this stage in the program," he said.
"One is simply that many banks have accessed even cheaper funding from other sources in recent months, albeit at shorter tenors than three years.
"In particular, banks have been able to issue bank bills at rates below 25 basis points."
Mr Kent added that banks have also benefited from strong deposit growth over the past few months.
"Bank deposits have grown, and an increasing share of deposits have been paying rates below 25 basis points," he said.
Mr Kent said he expects drawdowns to "ramp up" in the coming weeks, with some banks holding off to prolong their repayment obligations.
"With no pressing funding need right now, and ample alternative short-term funding at low cost, delaying the drawdown is a useful option," he observed.
"The calculus underpinning the decision of some banks to delay drawing on their initial TFF allocations will change closer to the deadline of 30 September."
He continued: "At that time, it will make sense for banks to compare the certain 25 basis point cost of the TFF with the uncertain cost of other sources of funding over the next three years, including bonds that would mature over that period.
"So, our expectation and liaison with the banks suggest that the take-up of the TFF will ramp up as we get closer to the end of September."
Mr Kent concluded by stressing that despite the low-take-up, the TFF has had a "significant impact" on the overall functioning of liquidity markets.
"On the funding side, the ability to draw on the TFF means that banks can be selective in how they raise money, and this has contributed to overall bank funding costs falling by around 60 basis points since February," he said.
"And on the lending side, we have seen interest rates on new fixed-rate mortgages fall by around 65 basis points since February, and rates on SME loans fall by around 60 basis points."
A second allowance totalling $60 billion will be available for banks upon the expiry of the initial $90-billion allowance in September.
[Related: Bank drawdowns on $90bn TFF dry up]
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Q: Retrieve list of videos from folder in Vimeo Swift 5 I want to query a page of videos from a folder I have hosted on Vimeo. However when doing so, I receive:
Error Domain=com.alamofire.error.serialization.response Code=1011 "Request failed: not found (404)" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Request failed: not found (404), NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://api.vimeo.com/users/{user-id}/projects/{project-id}/videos, com.alamofire.serialization.response.error.data={length = 51, bytes = 0x7b226572 726f7222 3a225468 65207265 ... 666f756e 642e227d }, ...

I have attempted using different endpoints of the forms: /users/{user-id}/folders/{folder-id}/videos, /users/{user-id}/projects/{project-id}, and /users/{user-id}/folders/{folder-id}, all giving back the same error. I'm currently creating the client and requesting the videos this way:
appConfiguration = AppConfiguration(clientIdentifier: "{id}",
    clientSecret: "{secret}", scopes: [.Public, .Private], keychainService: "")
sessionManager = VimeoSesssionManager.defaultSessionManager(baseUrl: VimeoBaseURL,
    accessToken: "{access_token}", apiVersion: "3.4")
client = VimeoClient(appConfiguration: appConfiguration, sessionManager: sessionManager)

...

var request: Request? = Request<[VIMVideo]>(path: path)
_ = client.request(request) { result in
    switch result {
    case .success(let response):
        ...
    case .failure(let error):
        print("Error retrieving videos: \(error)")
    }
}

However, I have also tried authenticating before hand using the AuthenticationController as specified in the VimeoNetworking GitHub. When testing with the folder id's and the user id on Vimeo's API Reference webpage, everything works fine and I'm able to receive the page of videos just fine.
So I just want to know what I need to do differently to retrieve the page of videos as I was able to do in the Vimeo API Reference website.

A: The reason the 404 error was being returned was because the Access Token I had created for the application only had the "public" modifier, but when I created a token with the public, private, and video_files, modifiers it worked as expected!

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Like the LG G5, Samsung's Galaxy S7 features an always-on display mode that relieves you of having to press buttons or pick up your phone numerous times throughout the day to do something as simple as check the time or date. We love the idea of always-on displays or similar functionality like Motorola's Moto Display that was introduced over three years ago. These types of features essentially kill off simple tasks that you once needed to complete multiple times per day. If that's not innovation, I don't know what is.
So we thought we would take a look at Samsung's take on an always-on display because they seem quite proud of the implementation. How does it work? Can it be customized? Are there other uses outside of checking time, date, and battery percentage? How does it compare to Motorola and Google's similar features?
With always-on display, Samsung is harnessing the power of the Super AMOLED display they used in the S7, which allows them to light up individual pixels as needed. When you see the clock or calendar lit up when your phone has been locked and the screen is mostly black, only the pixels you see are being powered, rather than the entire display. This allows Samsung to enable an always-on display for an entire day instead of completely killing your battery in a matter of hours.
In terms of options, Samsung is letting you tweak some settings with their always-on display (found in Settings>Display>Always-on display). For example, there are seven different clock combos to choose from, two different calendar modes, and even a couple of image-only styles. The clock allows for select background images as well, but that's pretty much it. Actually, I shouldn't say "that's it" since Samsung is currently the only phone manufacturer allowing you to tweak an always-on feature – both Motorola and Google give you one setup.
The always-on displays of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are capable of showing some notifications that you have pending. Unfortunately, these notifications only show for Samsung's suite of apps like the dialer and text messaging app. If you were hoping to see notifications for Hangouts or Gmail or Inbox or Google Calendar, you are out of luck. And that, is where this implementation is severely lacking.
If you look at the image above, which shows the Moto X Pure Edition and Nexus 6P on each side of the S7, you can see the major difference between each phone's implementation of the idea. The Galaxy S7 is only showing a couple of notification icons for missed calls and text messages, while the other phones are showing additional icons for Hangouts, Inbox, and even my Nest cameras. Had the Moto X or 6P also received a call, they would show that as well. The 6P and Moto X also allow you to interact with notifications that come in, while the S7's always-on display doesn't allow for any interaction. Tapping, swiping, or touching the S7's always-on display returns nothing. In order to get into missed notifications, you have to then press the home or lock buttons, which then fully wakes the phone.
Where the S7 stands out over those two is in the fact that it is always-on. All you need to do to kick it on and keep it on, is lock your phone. The Moto X requires a wave over the display or a notification to arrive before it displays information. The Nexus 6P needs either a notification to arrive or a full pick-up-and-tilt by you. For doing something as simple as checking the time or battery percentage, I think it's obvious that the Galaxy S7 is king here. But if you were looking for a full-blown interactive always-on setup, you get a better experience with the other two phones.
Obviously, Samsung can improve this by at least showing notification icons for other apps that aren't their own. We don't know if or when they will do that, but their first versions of multi-window and Edge display were severely lacking in this department as well, yet did get better over time.
To see an even deeper look at all of the settings and how the Galaxy S7's always-on display compares to these two phones, check out the video below.
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In this experiment I tried to find possible ways of guiding and shaping flashlight with the help of Plastic Optical Fiber.
Take a frontal photo of your flashlight's head. In Illustrator or any image manipulation software draw the contour of the profile, than print out. I scaled the outline work up and down to have more sizes printed, than I measured the flashlight to see which one fits exactly.
Glue together 3 profiles. Put between them small pieces of plywood.
Roll over some paper tape around a pencil (with the sticky part outside) than roll out on the inner part of both structures. You can reinforce the margins with bits of paper tapes.
Cut a straw to desired length (mine is 24 cm/9.4 inch).
Put a tape on one ending to close, than you can start to put small amount of optical fibers into it, than cut to size. In this way you won't have to sand a lot.
Glue temporary those 2 small structure on a sheet of plywood, reinforce them with paper tape.
Start to put optical fibers in it.
Note: these fibers are very delicate to handle, specially at the end of this process. If you bend them to hard, than won't be straight anymore and you have to change them.
Insert 1-2 pencil between the fibers to make them tight and not move inside the plywood structure.
Mix together the two compound epoxy resin and start to dip fibers into mixture. You have to be very fast, because glue sets in 5 minutes. Use gloves and prepare paper towel in case there will be spilling.
When you are ready you hold well the unglued part and start to push down the lower structure till you arrive at the top of the bunch. This is not easy because the fibers together with the glue becomes very thick. It was good that there was space enough for glue.
Sand both endings with different grades of sandpaper. At the end I used a nail polish.
Use another velcro to tight them together. It can be more longer or can have double width.
I made this flashlight extension 2 years ago, just didn't have time to play with it, so these images are more just a play. This needs more development to make it work. I think it could be more useful as accent light in object, insect photography.
very good instructable!! loved your photos & videos, easy to understand instructions. You should hurry & enter the light contest!
I did something like this with plastic optical fiber a few years ago. I took the fiber ends out to a ring I cut out of a plastic (translucent white) cutting board, and mounted the ring on a step-up ring that I could put on my lens. It made for a great ring light.
Very good, maybe you share a photo of your gadget and image you made with the ring, so it could be usefull for others as well...or you can make an instructables.
I wish I had taken photos while I was making it. I have thought about redoing it and making an instructable out of the V2 build.
I'll dig it out and take a picture or two tonight though.
...maybe just distort image and play with.
And if you do this to increase the size of a phone screen?
With this end tightly bound you might also have been able to melt and fuse the ends, pressing the molten end against a flat surface to flatten it.
You can't melt the tubes, because you mess up the way light enter into the fibers.
Have you tried it? Fusing optical fibres is often done in industry. Adding glue is not a lot different because of the similar refractive indices.
Very clever, could be really cool for some photography setups -- almost looks like 'light puppetry'. Oh, and nice .gifs!
I guess for real photographers, they would be concerned with how much light gets through the fibers to see if it is really useful for illumination. It also might change the color temperature of the light too acting as a filter. But thanks for sharing though.


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Chicago Restaurant Closings
South Loop's Adored NOLA-Style Praline and Beignet Shop to Close This Week
The owner of Akhirah's Praline Candy & Coffee House says he's hunting for a new location
by Naomi Waxman Oct 1, 2019, 10:57am CDT
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Akhirah's features New Orleans-style beignets like these.
The South Loop's New Orleans-style sweets and coffee spot is slated for temporary closure while ownership seeks out a new location. Akhirah's Praline Candy & Coffee House will close its doors this week, owner Arron Muhammad wrote on the shop's Facebook page on Monday. Akhirah's has operated at 1845 S. State Street since its opening in 2016, offering diners traditional and "gourmet" pralines, as well as chicory coffee and fluffy beignets featuring flavors such as peach cobbler and pecan pie.
"Due to some unfortunate circumstances, we are sorry to announce that Akhirah's will be closing our doors at 1845 S. State St. this week," Muhammad wrote. "We do have plans to relocate and reopen."
The shop's location on the corner of South State Street and South Archer Avenue has suffered due to a lack of foot traffic, he elaborated in a phone call. Unexpected building and licensing costs further escalated the pressure on Akhirah's leadership and ultimately prompted the planned shutter and relocation. "It's been a struggle to keep our doors open because there's just not a lot of flow here," Muhammad said.
Posted by Akhirah's Praline Candy & Coffee House on Monday, September 30, 2019
Akhirah's will close by the end of the week, but Muhammad isn't sure which day will be its last. He also isn't sure where or when he will reopen the shop but said he has a few potential locations in mind. Named for his youngest daughter, the restaurant first opened more than three years ago in the South Loop. A WGN feature story aired last year drew crowds, but "when the dust settled, so did everything else," said Muhammad. Undaunted, he said he is happy to make beignets in any location.
Pastry fans longing for the flavors of the bayou can still find the delicate puffs of fried dough doused in powdered sugar while Akhirah's is on the move. Brian Jupiter offers beignets at Ina Mae Tavern & Packaged Goods in Wicker Park, and Paul Fehribach of Andersonville's Big Jones offers a lightly spiced version on his current brunch menu. Other standout beignets can be found at Darnell Reed's restaurants Luella's Southern Kitchen and Luella's Gospel Bird, and Lowcountry in Wicker Park and the South Loop.
Stay tuned for updates on when and where Akhirah's lands.
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