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Q: HibernateException: Use of DefaultSchemaNameResolver requires Dialect to provide the proper SQL statement/command I am running a spring boot app version 2.1.4.RELEASE.  The app is using hibernate 5.4.2.Final and postgresql driver version 42.2.5. Recently i tried to generate the DDL from hibernate in order to see the DDL, and I  stumbled upon a error that is bugging me since days.
Using the PostgreSQL 11.2 version (Ubuntu 11.2-1.pgdg18.04+1)
Now when the app is booting it is running into that exception every time.
If i place a break point on the method
org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.DefaultSchemaNameResolver.determineAppropriateResolverDelegate(Connection connection)

i see where the exception is occurring i.e. at the point
connection.getSchema();

there are helpful comments in this class
unfortunately Connection#getSchema is only available in Java 1.7 and above
and Hibernate still baselines on 1.6.  So for now, use reflection and
leverage the Connection#getSchema method if it is available.

If the JDBC driver does not implement the Java 7 spec, but the JRE is Java 7
then the getSchemaMethod is not null but the call to getSchema() throws an java.lang.AbstractMethodError

well i am running version above 7 i.e. :
java -version
openjdk version "11" 2018-09-25
OpenJDK Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11+28)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11+28, mixed mode)

I am still running into the following exception on spring boot start i.e. !!!! EVEN BEFOR THE PART OF THE CODE (BEANS) ARE REACHED !!!  that are supposed to generate the DDL i.e. the method createSchemaWithHibernate5(LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory).
So that has something to do with the config or the connection type. When i place a breakpoint on then connection type i see it is of type
org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolableConnection

well that one is extending from "DelegatingConnection" which DOES NOT implement the method getSchema() although it is extending the interface
java.sql.Connection

which does have the method getSchema().
I am not sure  how this is supposed to work at all, since none of those are final or abstract classes.
I also see that there is another class called
org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection.

How can i force my app to use this one since i see this one indeed DOES implement the method getSchema().
Here is the exception i am running into:
2019-04-17 10:06:42.487 DEBUG tito-pc --- [  restartedMain] .i.f.i.DefaultIdentifierGeneratorFactory : Registering IdentifierGenerator strategy [enhanced-table] -> [org.hibernate.id.enhanced.TableGenerator]
2019-04-17 10:06:43.004 DEBUG tito-pc --- [  restartedMain] o.h.e.j.e.i.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator     : Database ->
       name : PostgreSQL
    version : 11.2 (Ubuntu 11.2-1.pgdg18.04+1)
      major : 11
      minor : 2
2019-04-17 10:06:43.004 DEBUG tito-pc --- [  restartedMain] o.h.e.j.e.i.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator     : Driver ->
       name : PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
    version : 42.2.5
      major : 42
      minor : 2
2019-04-17 10:06:43.005 DEBUG tito-pc --- [  restartedMain] o.h.e.j.e.i.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator     : JDBC version : 4.2
2019-04-17 10:06:43.023  INFO tito-pc --- [  restartedMain] o.h.d.Dialect                            : HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL95Dialect
2019-04-17 10:06:43.053 DEBUG tito-pc --- [  restartedMain] o.h.e.j.e.s.IdentifierHelperBuilder      : JDBC driver metadata reported database stores quoted identifiers in neither upper, lower nor mixed case
2019-04-17 10:06:54.515 DEBUG tito-pc --- [  restartedMain] o.h.e.j.e.i.DefaultSchemaNameResolver    : Unable to use Java 1.7 Connection#getSchema
2019-04-17 10:06:59.058 DEBUG tito-pc --- [  restartedMain] o.h.e.j.e.i.JdbcEnvironmentImpl          : Unable to resolve connection default schema
org.hibernate.HibernateException: Use of DefaultSchemaNameResolver requires Dialect to provide the proper SQL statement/command but provided Dialect [org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL95Dialect] did not return anything from Dialect#getCurrentSchemaCommand
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.DefaultSchemaNameResolver$SchemaNameResolverFallbackDelegate.resolveSchemaName(DefaultSchemaNameResolver.java:100)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.DefaultSchemaNameResolver.resolveSchemaName(DefaultSchemaNameResolver.java:76)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentImpl.determineCurrentSchemaName(JdbcEnvironmentImpl.java:311)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentImpl.<init>(JdbcEnvironmentImpl.java:266)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.initiateService(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:114)
    at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.initiateService(JdbcEnvironmentInitiator.java:35)
    at org.hibernate.boot.registry.internal.StandardServiceRegistryImpl.initiateService(StandardServiceRegistryImpl.java:101)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.createService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:263)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:237)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:214)
    at org.hibernate.id.factory.internal.DefaultIdentifierGeneratorFactory.injectServices(DefaultIdentifierGeneratorFactory.java:152)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.injectDependencies(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:286)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.initializeService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:243)
    at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:214)
    at org.hibernate.boot.internal.InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.<init>(InFlightMetadataCollectorImpl.java:175)
    at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.complete(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:118)
    at org.hibernate.boot.model.process.spi.MetadataBuildingProcess.build(MetadataBuildingProcess.java:83)
    at org.hibernate.boot.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.build(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:473)
    at org.hibernate.boot.internal.MetadataBuilderImpl.build(MetadataBuilderImpl.java:84)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:689)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:724)
    at org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean.buildSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:615)
    at org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:599)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1837)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1774)
    .....

here is my persistence config:
@Profile("Development")
@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
@Order(value=1)
public class PersistenceConfigDevelopment {

    private static Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(PersistenceConfigDevelopment.class.getName());

    @Bean
    @Primary
    public org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource dataSourceReadWrite1() {

        BasicDataSource dataSource = new BasicDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriverClassName("org.postgresql.Driver");
        dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/develpmentTestDb");
        dataSource.setUsername("admin");
        dataSource.setPassword("notABigSecret");
        dataSource.setInitialSize(20);
        dataSource.setMaxActive(-1);

        return dataSource;
    }

    @Bean
    @Primary
    public org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory() {

        org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory = new LocalSessionFactoryBean();
        sessionFactory.setHibernateProperties(hibernateProperties());
        sessionFactory.setDataSource(this.dataSourceReadWrite1());
        sessionFactory.setPackagesToScan("org.university.");

        return sessionFactory;
    }

    @Bean
    public HibernateTransactionManager transactionManager() {
        HibernateTransactionManager txManager = new HibernateTransactionManager();
        txManager.setSessionFactory(sessionFactory().getObject());

        return txManager;
    }

    @Bean
    public PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor exceptionTranslation() {
        return new PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor();
    }

    @Bean
    public Properties hibernateProperties() {
        return new Properties() {
            /**
             *
             */
            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

            {
                setProperty("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL95Dialect");
                setProperty("hibernate.chach.provider_class", "org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider");
                setProperty("hibernate.show_sql", "true");
                setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create-drop");

                setProperty("hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache", "false");
                setProperty("hibernate.cache.use_query_cache", "false");

                // isolation level
                setProperty("hibernate.connection.isolation", String.valueOf(Connection.TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE));

            }
        };
    }

    @Bean
    public Boolean createSchemaWithHibernate5(LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory) {

        final PostgreSQL95Dialect dialect = new PostgreSQL95Dialect();
        StandardServiceRegistry serviceRegistry = sessionFactory.getConfiguration().getStandardServiceRegistryBuilder()
                .applySetting("hibernate.dialect", dialect)
                .build();

        Metadata metadata = new MetadataSources(serviceRegistry).buildMetadata();

        new SchemaExport()
                .setOutputFile("db-schema.hibernate5.ddl")
                .create(EnumSet.of(TargetType.SCRIPT), metadata);

        metadata.buildSessionFactory().close();

        return Boolean.TRUE;
    }

}

Because of this stackoverflow post i tried changing the drivers i.e.
Implementating Method org.postgresql.jdbc4.Jdbc4Connection.getSchema()
and tried using "postgresql" maven artifact instead of "org.postgresql" but that did not helped as well.
Any help is really appreciated.
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<!--             <version>${orgpostgresql.version}</version> -->
        </dependency>

<!--         <dependency> -->
<!--             <groupId>postgresql</groupId> -->
<!--             <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId> -->
<!--             <version>${postgresql.version}</version> -->
<!--         </dependency> -->

update 17 April
I was able to get rid of the exception  by using another data source i.e. PGSimpleDataSource that also changed the connector to PgConnection, but the DDL is still not being generated. I.e. the file db-schema.hibernate5.ddl is beeing generated but it is empty.
@Bean
@Primary
public PGSimpleDataSource dataSourceReadWrite1() {

    PGSimpleDataSource dataSource = new PGSimpleDataSource();
    dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/developmentTestDB");
    dataSource.setUser("admin");
    dataSource.setPassword("notABigSecret");

    return dataSource;
}

A: I struggled with the same problem myself
11:16:07.675 [AWT-EventQueue-0] DEBUG org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator - Database ->
       name : PostgreSQL
    version : 10.18 (Ubuntu 10.18-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
      major : 10
      minor : 18
11:16:07.675 [AWT-EventQueue-0] DEBUG org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator - Driver ->
       name : PostgreSQL Native Driver
    version : PostgreSQL 9.0 JDBC4 (build 801)
      major : 9
      minor : 0
11:16:07.675 [AWT-EventQueue-0] DEBUG org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator - JDBC version : 4.0
11:16:07.689 [AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect - HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
11:16:07.709 [AWT-EventQueue-0] DEBUG org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.spi.IdentifierHelperBuilder - JDBC driver metadata reported database stores quoted identifiers in neither upper, lower nor mixed case
11:16:07.716 [AWT-EventQueue-0] DEBUG org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.DefaultSchemaNameResolver - Unable to use Java 1.7 Connection#getSchema
11:16:07.718 [AWT-EventQueue-0] DEBUG org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentImpl - Unable to resolve connection default schema
org.hibernate.HibernateException: Use of DefaultSchemaNameResolver requires Dialect to provide the proper SQL statement/command but provided Dialect [org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect] did not return anything from Dialect#getCurrentSchemaCommand

I had to update the drivers so that it showed
11:45:27.477 [AWT-EventQueue-0] DEBUG org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.env.internal.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator - Driver ->
       name : PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
    version : 42.2.23
      major : 42
      minor : 2

And I had to change my dialect to
PostgreSQL10Dialect

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Juan Antonio Samaranch has refused to rule out a run for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Presidency when Thomas Bach vacates the position in 2025.
Samaranch, the son of the seventh IOC President of the same name, suggested in an interview with Spanish radio station COPE that he was weighing up his options.
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In Bush's Texas, workers get screwed by the courts. Two years ago Van Os ran -- unsuccessfully -- against the Bush-appointed Abbott on a platform of moving the Texas Supreme Court back to the center from the right. During his campaign, Van Os turned again and again to the case of Texas Mexican Railway Company v. Bouchet.
Lawrence P. Bouchet had the misfortune of working for a railroad company that didn't subscribe to a workers'-compensation plan -- and then getting hurt on the job. Generally, injured employees collect workers' compensation instead of suing their employers for on-the-job injuries, but that wasn't an option for Bouchet. He sued Texas Mexican Railway for compensation, and the company responded by firing him. And what did the Texas Supreme Court find under the leadership of Bush's appointee Abbott? That Bouchet had no rights. In what can only be described as a case of circular reasoning, the Texas Supreme Court -- in a decision penned by Abbott -- held that because the railroad company didn't belong to a workers'-compensation plan that prevented companies from firing workers who file claims, the railroad company was free to fire Bouchet.
Van Os says the Bouchet case is a perfect example of justice, Bush-style. Bush's "reformers," led by Abbott, have made life in Texas harder for ordinary people. "What they've actually done is proceeded to take the court system in Texas away from the people," he says. "The people that Bush appointed were all corporate lawyers before they became judges. They are out of touch with reality."
To be fair, some court observers and Bush watchers say that although the Bush judges are pro-business and pro-defendant, they are far more "moderate" than their more conservative predecessors. "His judges tend to be moderate-conservative judges," says Anthony Champagne, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. "Bush has quite an impressive record when it comes to Texas. His appointees have been a moderating force on the Texas Supreme Court. They are pro-defense, but not extremely so. They tend to often be well regarded by people on both sides." Even Court Watch reported that "a contingent of four justices initially appointed by Gov. George W. Bush appear to be intent on eliminating the excesses of the GOP old guard elected between 1988 and 1994." Still, Texas conservatives understood that Bush's judges would follow the lead of those parked further to the right. During Abbott's 1998 election run, he raised money from business and defense interests under the "reform" banner. One of his fundraising letters reads: "His election to a full six-year term is critical to continue the reform movement that has done so much to return balance, fairness, and impartiality to the Supreme Court."
Texas courts, with Bush's blessing, have also pushed a socially conservative agenda. One of the best examples of the damage that conservative politics can inflict when they team up with a similarly conservative judiciary came in 1996, when Bush looked to his court appointees to get him out of trouble with the religious right. Bush, midway between his successful 1994 gubernatorial bid and the 1998 re-election that set him up to run for president, found himself in a jam: the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay political group, had successfully applied for a booth at the state's Republican convention. When Republican officials rescinded their approval in late May, just a month before the convention, the state president of the Log Cabin Republicans, Dale Carpenter, took the state GOP to court. He won in Travis County district court. But then the case took an odd legal twist: the state Republican Party appealed the lower-level court decision directly to the Texas Supreme Court, bypassing the court of appeals. If the Republicans had turned to the court of appeals in the widely Democratic district, it's likely that they would have lost. The convention would have started before they had time to appeal again -- and the Log Cabin Republicans would have set up their booth. By bypassing the appeals court, the Republican Party won a chance to have the Log Cabin suit thrown out altogether. In general, the Texas high court, like the high courts of other states, is difficult to reach; getting there requires a time-consuming appeals process. But not, apparently, when it comes to defending against suits filed by gay Republicans.
"I am not aware of another instance in the history of Texas jurisprudence where a party [in a lawsuit] has done this," Carpenter says. "You'd expect that the [state] Supreme Court would tell them no. Instead the Supreme Court granted a hearing for [the following] Monday [after the appeal was filed]. On Wednesday the court ruled against us. Justice in Texas has never been so swift."
Again, the opinion was written by Bush's Judge Abbott. Only nights later, the Republican leadership fêted Abbott and the others at a reception at the convention.
But the swiftness with which the Texas high court acted wasn't the only disturbing aspect of the case: the opinion itself reflected the extent of Abbott's socially conservative judicial activism. The Log Cabin Republicans had based their claim on the Texas Constitution, under which they thought they had a better chance of winning. Unlike the US Constitution, the Texas Constitution gives individuals affirmative rights to free speech. The relevant provision of the Texas document reads: "Every person shall be at liberty to speak, write or publish his opinions on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege." The Log Cabin Republicans believed that this guarantee of an individual's rights could also be legally extended to cover the rights of a private group. Similar suits brought on a federal level had failed, based on the US Constitution, which says more narrowly that Congress "shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech." This was the first case of its kind for the Texas Supreme Court.
Though Abbott and the other judges paid lip service to the idea of doing the politically correct conservative thing -- strictly interpreting the state's constitution -- they actually did the exact opposite (one judge agreed with the decision but wrote his own opinion instead of joining the majority). "When interpreting our state Constitution, we rely heavily on its literal text," Abbott wrote, and then proceeded to examine the central question in the case -- whether the Texas Bill of Rights could be applied to private groups -- without looking at the direct language in the Texas free-speech provision. In other words, the Bush justices did everything but "strictly interpret" the state's constitution.
What those judges did, in fact, flew in the face of what so-called strict constructionists generally do. But, under Bush, this kind of conservative activism from the judiciary is nothing new. For example, the Texas Supreme Court has devised a new legal concept: "legal sufficiency of the evidence." This means that even if a jury finds in favor of a plaintiff, the court can throw out the verdict on the grounds that the evidence that convinced the jury did not satisfy the high court. Generally, juries decide questions of fact; judges decide questions of law. (A question of fact is one like: "Did the driver's negligence cause the accident?" A question of law might be: "What standard does a jury apply to determine negligence?") Under the Texas system, the judges now get to decide both.
Van Os says the Log Cabin suit isn't the only case in which the Texas Supreme Court has reached far beyond its mandate with the state constitution. "They've been reviewing and throwing out jury verdicts. They are really violating the Texas Constitution by reviewing decisions of fact," he points out.
The bottom line? Like Bush, his judges are slick. They want to have things both ways, appealing to the middle ground and conservatives alike. Cases tossed out are not done so with the kind of stark, blunt language that sticks in voters' craws. Rather, the wording of their decisions comes across as measured and reasonable.
The goings-on in Texas very much reflect the lurches to the right that have gotten Bush in trouble in his presidential campaign. They are the legal equivalent of Bush declaring Jesus Christ his most influential political philosopher and going to Bob Jones University to launch his presidential effort in South Carolina. Bush's symbolic actions have direct legal consequences. Bush has pushed -- and is pushing for -- a tough parental-notification provision regarding abortion. He made sure Texas intervened in a controversial school-prayer case, on the side of prayer. He benefited when his judges kept the Log Cabin Republicans out of the state party convention in 1996. This record suggests that Bush will look to presentable but conservative justices to fill up his Supreme Court. If he's elected to the presidency, his picks are sure to carry out a socially conservative agenda and do his dirty work, as his appointees in Texas did in the Log Cabin case.
Just last month, one of Bush's justices -- Abbott again -- sided with religious conservatives on an abortion issue. He ruled with the conservative minority in a six-to-three decision that ended up affirming a teenager's right to file a court appeal for a waiver of the parental-notification requirement. Expect a Bush-stacked Supreme Court to roll back abortion rights. Expect it also to limit the ability of plaintiffs to sue large corporations the way they've been doing recently, with suits against tobacco companies and gunmakers.
Bush's first term as president would probably not differ much from his first term as governor, during which he felt he had to appease the right wing. He would keep one eye on his re-election in 2004 and do what he could to keep the religious conservatives happy. The record of Bush's picks in Texas demonstrates that his idea of reform comes at the expense of working people -- and that he is anything but a compassionate conservative.
The next President could dramatically transform the shape and direction of the US Supreme Court, which is currently divided between conservative and liberal wings.
In the conservative wing are Chief Justice William Rehnquist (appointed by President Richard Nixon) and Justices Antonin Scalia (appointed by President Ronald Reagan) and Clarence Thomas (appointed by President George Bush). In the liberal wing are two appointees of President Bill Clinton's -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer -- as well as John Paul Stevens (appointed by President Gerald Ford). The swing justices are Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor (both appointed by Reagan) -- with David Souter (a Bush pick) ruling with the liberal wing somewhat more frequently. Of these justices, Rehnquist is 75 and Stevens is 79. And both Ginsburg and O'Connor have had brushes with cancer.
In a scenario in which only Rehnquist and Stevens stepped down -- and were replaced by conservatives -- the conservatives would hold a solid bloc of four. An exchange of even one more justice could ensure a five-person conservative majority.
Such a change would have a direct impact on many areas of law. So-called church-state cases have been sharply contested in recent years -- and cases involving abortion rights could also arise.
"I'm not sure the American people grasp the importance of the Supreme Court and how that plays out in the presidential election," says Robert Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "If Stevens steps down, a conservative replacement would solidify the conservative bloc."
A changed Supreme Court could have the biggest impact of all in cases involving the Internet and biotechnology, where the law has yet to catch up with technology.


Morley Performing Arts Pavilion | BSHM Architects, Inc.
With a modest budget of $300,000, the Park Foundation, wanting to expand the park's ability to meet the expectations of a more diverse population, asked the architects to design a covered stage facility with lawn seating for 3,000 patrons for all-weather performances by the local symphony and other musical groups. The building was sited at the west end of a gently sloping meadow, bordered by woods on the east and south, a wooden fence on the north and an existing drive and car park on the west. The simple form and structure is a derivative of a basic symmetrical plan. The performance area is designed to accommodate an 80-member orchestra.
The design borrows materiality (natural stone, cedar shingles, and copper roofing) and context from several earlier Park structures (Pioneer Pavilion, 1821 remodeled 1893; Slippery Rock Pavilion 1910; and Chestnut Hill Pavilion 1939). It was placed on an elevated stone base with the proscenium arch springing from battered stone buttresses. The copper brow extends over the performance area, with the cupola circulating fresh air to the stage.


As children start to learn English they learn lots of new words. To help them learn this vocabulary, there are plenty of fun games you can play at home.
Here are some picture cards for different topics. Each sheet has six items. The items are pictures of words that your child is probably learning at school. You can print these out, preferably onto thick paper or card, cut them out and play games. You can use sets of one topic or mix together cards from different topics.
Cut out two sets, shuffle and place them face down on a table. Take turns to try and make pairs, saying the word for the two pictures you turn over each time. Encourage your children to try and remember where the cards are. If you make a pair, you keep the cards. If you don't, turn the cards over again. The winner is the person with the most pairs at the end of the game.
Choose a card without showing your child and see if they can guess it in less than three goes. Then your child can do the same to you.
Choose a card without showing your child. Now start copying it as best you can onto a piece of paper for your child to guess the word. Then your child can do the same to you. This is also good for developing your child's fine motor skills.
1, 2, 3. What can I see?
As your child learns more and more words you can play this game in a number of different places. In a room at home, or elsewhere, suggest playing this game. Say 1, 2, 3, What can I see? I can see a/an [object]. Then it is your child's turn. Keep going until you run out of words!
Say to your child that you are going to act out a word for them to guess. This can be an object or an action. If they guess, they get a point. Then it is your child's turn.
If you have space at home, it is a nice idea to keep a wall with pictures of words that your child has learnt or is learning in English. These can be the vocabulary cards on this website or pictures cut out of magazines or printed out from the Internet – or they can be pictures that you or your child have drawn. Your children can write the words too if they are able. If you don't have space on a wall, you can keep a book with images and words stuck in it. It can be the child's "English Picture Book".


What a treat we had at The Front Porch today. Beautiful ambience, delicious teas and food, lovely gardens, great service and good friends. Couldn't have been better. I made two reservations to return this month for breakfast and a High Tea. Thank you for this memorable experience.


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I stand by the remarks I made about formation of party: Pugalendi
Coimbatore : Pugalendi, who was removed from AMMK, on Tuesday said that he stood by his remarks about formation of the party and Deputy General Secretary, T T V Dinakaran had to clarify on this.
" I have never said that Dinakaran has removed me. But said that injustice is being done to the loyal workers," Pugalendi told reporters here.
Accusing the party Coimbatore district secretary for providing false information leading to the removal of many party workers, he said that there was an exodus from the party and efforts should be taken to bring them back.
The party district secretaries and zonal organisers had destroyed half of the party and it was painful that Dinakaran was not attempting to revive AMMK, he said.
Former minister Palaniappan and Vettivel, had come to destroy the party, which Dinakaran was also aware, he said.
"I have not taken any decision to join any other party and not talked about the issue to any body," he clarified.
Stating that he stood by his remarks about the formation of the party, Pugalendi said that he was ready to prove his innocence and Dinakaran has so far not sought any explanation from him.
Pugalendi said that he is going write a book on disproportionate asset case (of former chief minister, Jayalalithaa) which will reveal many truths.


If your business isn't recycling, you could be missing out on a lot of benefits. It's not just about helping the environment. There are some real, tangible benefits for businesses that recycle all different types of items in the workplace. Here are some reasons why your business should be recycling everything it can.
Recycling isn't just the right thing to do. It's actually something that can help your business's bottom line.
If you recycle things like cans, glass, paper and other materials, that means there's less going into those waste bins and dumpsters every week. And since your business likely pays some type of waste management fee, you can potentially save on those bills by producing less waste.
If you create a recycling program and track your results to show that you're producing less waste, you can potentially work with your waste management service to negotiate a lower fee, saving your business money in the long run.
In some cases, you can also use recycling as a way to save on new purchases. Technology is a great example of this.
Say you're looking to purchase some new computers for your team. You could just throw the old ones out and buy new ones at full cost. But some retailers will actually take back your old computers, smartphones and other tech devices and recycle them in exchange for a small discount when you buy new ones. This helps the environment and saves you money.
You can also sometimes get cost savings when recycling things like batteries, ink cartridges and more. So check with local retailers about recycling programs before just throwing out any of these items.
Environmentally conscious businesses often open themselves up to new opportunities through those practices.
Since some non-profits and government agencies provide incentives like grants for businesses that have recycling programs or other eco-friendly practices, recycling could actually help you get some extra funding.
To take advantage of some of these programs, make sure you have an official recycling program in place and track the output, since you'll likely have to show the impact of your program in any grant application.
With environmental concerns increasing among Americans, there's a good chance that some of your employees want the ability to recycle at work.
It might seem like a small thing, but along with all of the other potential benefits of recycling, increased employee morale can make a big difference over time for your business. So instead of making those environmentally conscious individuals go out of their way to recycle, make it easy for them by having designated bins and processes for recycling various materials.
Similarly, you probably have plenty of clients or customers who care about the environment. So having a recycling program in place can strengthen your reputation with those consumers.
You can call attention to your recycling program on your website, in press materials or even on social media. Or you could simply allow word to spread naturally as people visit your business and notice your environmentally friendly practices.
And finally, the environmental benefits of recycling can't be overstated. Of course, saving money is likely to have more of an immediate impact on your business. But over time, recycling can help to conserve materials and energy, which can have an impact on bigger markets and potentially even make some of those materials and energy sources more cost effective for your business.
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Recycling tech when you upgrade can get you some great discounts on your next gen product. Highly recommend it.
Really good idea. That is another good reason why businesses should learn to recycle. It is not only good for the environment. There are other benefits as well.
Recycling can really lower your costs and can even make you money. It is not just for technology. If you choose to recycle other raw materials, there are people willing to buy these from you if you collect all of your trash to be recycled.
It is comforting to know that this actions will result in various environmental benefits. Conserving energy and materials can only be beneficial for those who choose to recycle. My fiance would like knowing this since he was looking into a cable recycling machine.


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Brand-new stand-up show from multi award-winning Patrick Monahan who compares life as an Irish/Iranian teenager in the 90s to today. As identity cards and Cool Britannia were being introduced, Monahan found himself on the periphery as a teenager – trying to blend in but ending up with all the other ethnic groups. 'His tales of being an immigrant to Britain are thought-provoking yet hilarious, he loves his audience and they love him back. Patrick is a Fringe Legend and it's easy to see why' **** (Mirror). 'He really hits the mark... great depth' **** (BroadwayBaby.com).
Sorry. We have no upcoming listings for Patrick Monahan: Rewind Selector 90s.
Patrick Monahan does a lot of remembering in his Nineties nostalgia-fest: Do you remember dial-up? Do you remember alcopops? Do your remember mad cow disease? But…
"Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change."
– Sam Kinison


Tea time calls for unique and interesting snacks but coming up with new ideas everyday is challenging. That's especially true if you're having guests over for tea. What if you could serve something new and delicious? Here's a recipe for Rajma Cutlets (Kidney Bean Cutlets) that's easy and yields a crispy and tasty snack. Perfect to be served at parties or for at tea-time with family.
In a large mixing bowl put the boiled rajma, chopped onion, green chili, coriander, salt, red chili powder and amchur.
Soak the bread slices in water and then squeeze within your palms hard to drain out all water.
Crumble the wet bread into the rajma mixture. Mash everything together to make a smooth mixture.
Place a deep frying pan over medium-high heat and pour enough oil in it for deep frying.
Meanwhile, shape the cutlets as desired.
When the oil is hot enough, carefully slide the cutlets in and fry to a nice brown color on all sides.
Transfer to a plate lined with paper towels to soak excess oil. Serve hot with tomato ketchup at tea.


The following positions and activities are staffed primarily by volunteers and are very vital in the support of church worship services, and most require volunteers for services throughout the year. Individuals may volunteer for a number of Sundays in a row and then not for some months, while others prefer to participate on different Sundays and different activities throughout the year or wait to be called.
If you are unsure of how you might be able to participate, please ask. You will be trained and allowed to participate with another experienced volunteer before you do the task alone.
It's no secret that one of the attracting features for guests and new members, as well as regular members, is the warmth of the welcome received when visiting a church. We provide a warm welcome to all King of Kings members and visitors when they walk through the front doors. Individuals in the Greeter/Host volunteer positions stand at the three front doors before each service and greet all those who enter. For guests and new members they provide basic information and directions as necessary. Greeter/Host is a great way to meet members you don't know and to ease into other volunteer activities.
A minimum of two ushers are needed at each service every Sunday. Ushers help with seating, service materials (bulletin) distribution, offering collection, communion access for members, and other activities as required by the pastor. Training is provided with an experienced usher team.
This volunteer assists the congregation with the liturgy and prayers during each service. Those assisting in this capacity do not have to sing but those feeling comfortable enough are welcomed to do so. Pastor will train new volunteers as well as coach them before and during the service.
Two communion assistants are needed for each service. Along with the pastor and assisting minister, each volunteer participates in the sacrament of communion by distributing either the bread or wine to those receiving communion. Volunteers receive training. This is a wonderful gift to give your fellow church members and can be a very moving experience for the one distributing the body and blood of Jesus Christ..
In 4th grade, King of Kings youth can begin to volunteer as the Acolyte who lights the candles on the altar at the beginning of each service and extinguishes them at the end. The acolyte also helps collect the congregation's offering by presenting it to the Lord. Pastor works with new youth volunteers to insure they are comfortable with this activity. Yes, in the absence of youth at some of the services, adults perform those activities.
This is an activity that is not only important in each service, but provides a wonderful opportunity for individual direct involvement in the service. Readers read the 'First Reading,' and then read the 'Second Reading' after the Psalm of the day. Readers should have a clear voice and have reviewed the readings before the service. The readings are available in the office the week before the Sunday of the reading.
Drama Team members are available for activities throughout the year as determined by pastor, the Director of Lay Ministry, summer Day Camp activities, or the Sunday School activities coordinator. No special talent needed, just a desire to participate!
For two days shortly before Christmas, King of Kings provides for the Pueblo community the popular 'Living Nativity' on the church grounds. The nativity is supported by church participants and others who volunteer to: portray a character in the nativity; help with the set-up and tear-down crews; provide soup, cookies and warm drinks for participants and visitors; read the Christmas story as provided by the church. The only experience necessary is the desire to have a good time and share the birth of Christ with the Pueblo community.


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Tetralogija ili kvadrilogija je umjetničko djelo objavljeno u četiri dijela, ili četiri djela koja zajedno čine jednu cjelinu. Najčešće je u pitanju književno ili filmsko djelo.

Neke od najpoznatijih tetralogija su ciklusi Shakespearovih povijesnih drama, Wagnerove opere iz ciklusa Prsten Nibelunga odnosno ciklus filmova o Alienu.

Vanjske poveznice
 Tetralogija

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Licensing Parents: A Statist Idea In Libertarian Drag
Licensing parents is the latest scheme to have all-knowing, always benevolent state bureaucrats dictate the lifelong relationships of all vulnerable beings.
By Stella Morabito
Imagine you cannot raise your own child without special permission from the state. In this matrix, getting permission means getting a license. And getting a license means the state performs psychological evaluations and background checks and passes judgment on your fitness to be a parent. That's that. No license, no kid—you are forcibly separated from your baby.
Now, who do you think would come up with a scheme? Marxists, you say? Of course, and for nearly two centuries. Gender theorists? Oh, yes, and for decades on end. Population control fanatics? No question. How about meddlesome, brain-dead bureaucrats? Check.
But what if I told you this idea came out recently, all dressed up as a "libertarian" essay? Most people think of libertarians as above the fray, all united in their disdain for big government. Which begs some questions: Why would a self-described libertarian propose something so statist, so totalitarian, so authoritarian? What's going on with this? Is this ignorance or is it fraud?
Either way, we ought to inspect the article in question. Personally, I'd rather not consider it. The idea of forcing mothers and fathers to get state approval to raise their own children is so morally repulsive—especially towards the children it pretends to protect—that it shouldn't even be up for debate in a civil society. It feels so much more comfortable just to laugh it off as a fringy blog post, grist for The Onion's parody mill.
But, alas, we don't live in comfortable times. So I bid you trudge along with me to examine where we are, where we've been, and where we may be headed with this.
A Glance at the Modest Proposal
The essay in question is entitled, directly enough: "Licensing Parents," authored by one Andrew Cohen, a philosophy professor. It was posted on a website that claims to be searching for common ground between free markets and far-Left statism, er, "social justice." The blog goes by the name "Bleeding Heart Libertarians." (For those who aren't former Episcopalians or negotiators with communists, you'll need to understand that a "search for common ground" is generally a time tested camel's-nose-in-the-tent ploy. The more gracious the host, the more quickly the camel takes over the tent…)
The corruptible state is first in line to take charge of your relationship with your child and your child's relationship with you.
The essay begins with the devious words, "As a libertarian . . . ." And then, this: "The state should require parents to be licensed. That is, there is no moral right to raise a child, and we would do well to think of it as a privilege that the state grants and can refrain from granting to certain individuals."
Wow. So, when you give birth, mom, when you and dad look on this new human being for the first time, and your heart is bursting with—well, hold on, don't get your hopes up too high, because the corruptible state (show me one that isn't) is first in line to take charge of your relationship with your child and your child's relationship with you.
After all, according to Cohen, parenting is merely another "service," i.e., caregiving. And he believes we ought to license it as we do any other service, like practicing medicine or law or pharmacy. Actually, he doesn't think we should license medicine, law, or pharmacy. You're an adult, see, and you can make your own choices there. But because children can't make their own choices and you might do the child harm, you must be licensed. Cohen provides some anecdotes about child abuse, and says the state should always step in before any such thing can ever even happen. Hence, this scheme to entrust all-knowing, always benevolent, deeply caring state bureaucrats to dictate the lifelong relationships of all vulnerable beings.
The all-knowing, always benevolent bureaucrats will tell you whether you are good parenting stock, and if not, will convict you of crimes before they are committed.
But, wait, there's more! Lest it occur to you that this proposal would require a license for pregnancy, never fear. Cohen has thought this through and he's got you covered. Sort of: "I should be clear: I am not proposing a licensing requirement for pregnancy. I am not sure I would oppose such, but a parental licensing program is not a licensing program for pregnancy." However : "Once pregnant, you violate no law until the child is born—and only then if you decide to raise it without getting a license. And perhaps you are allowed to take the licensing test multiple times if you fail at first. Perhaps you do so after taking parenting classes."
So, now, you're bright-eyed and pregnant and ready to take your test to be allowed to be a mom. What's in store? Well, Cohen figures the benevolent state will give you two tests: One financial and the other psychological. So that's the basic rationale. The poor don't get kids. We're not sure how poor. That's up to the state. But presumably, kids would be removed from those of lesser means and either raised in much more satisfactory state institutions or doled out to richer or better-connected people. Ah, yes, more just. And the all-knowing, always benevolent bureaucrats will tell you whether you are good parenting stock, and if not, will convict you of crimes before they are committed. I think we used to call that sort of thing fascism. Now it's "libertarian," apparently a much more benign form of fascism?
I could extract more quotes from the proposal, but it's all blah-blah-blah smokescreen excuses for statism, which are not worth repeating further. You can read the whole thing at the link above. The arguments are not new, and are modeled on a treatise from 1980, also called "Licensing Parents," an equally disastrous article authored by a certain Hugh LaFollette in Philosophy and Public Affairs.
Privacy, Relationships, and State Control
Now, we've all heard of some pretty bad cases of child abuse out there and we welcome Cohen in being against them, too. But are individual cases or statistics of child abuse relevant here? No, they are entirely irrelevant to the question of giving the state carte blanche to separate all children from their biological parents. That is what is being proposed with parent licensing and that is what all decent people will reject.
This is about whether the presumption of child abuse by state bureaucrats justifies the state takeover of the family.
When we give the state the power to decide—at the outset and for everybody—whether family autonomy and privacy may exist, this means, de facto, that the attributes of autonomy and privacy have already ceased. This is not a debate about whether child abuse is bad. This is about whether the presumption of child abuse by state bureaucrats justifies the state takeover of the family. You know, when you say it that way, it just doesn't seem quite so "libertarian."
And licensing parents would go far beyond the regulation of parenting as an activity of parents. It revokes the moral right (universally held, with the exception of Plato and occasional utopian "thinkers") of parents and their children to know one another, the right of the child to his or her parents, and the right of the parents to their child. Children are left with no moral right to know who their parents are in this matrix. Instead, they are basically state chattel. And, oddly, in all of this talk of revoking the right of biological parents and children to know one another is the perspective of the child, the notion of "responsibility" of biological parents is fatally undermined. If parents have no moral right to raise their biological children, as Cohen professes, then parents can have certainly have no moral responsibility nor any concomitant obligation.
Interestingly, this article concedes that children are "vulnerable beings that we hope will become fully formed persons." Okay, say that's the goal. But on the road to becoming a "fully formed person" the first question said child usually asks is this: "Where did I come from?" Children arrive at that question naturally. Autonomously. It happens as they become self-aware and try to make sense of their relationship with the world. It's a universal and existential question.
Children have a basic right—a natural and a moral right—to know where they came from.
Children have a very deep need to feel grounded in space and time through connection with their birth parents. This is the reality, no matter how hard we may try to deny it. Children can compensate for it and get past it, especially with wonderful adoptive parents. But such separation inevitably produces a sense of loss in kids. To deny its importance is to deny the dignity of the child. We ought to understand and respect these needs.
My point is that children have a basic right—a natural and a moral right—to know where they came from. Any proposal to license parents is based in part on the premise that children have no such right. And no one has the right to take that away from them.
Protection or Pimping for the State?
Ultimately, state licensing of parents puts the state in a position to dictate all family relationships, and in the end, all human relationships. So much for freedom of association.
In shifting rights away from individuals and giving those rights entirely to the state, licensing parents serves to eliminate the institution of family as a buffer zone or mediating institution between the individual and state power. That institution—the family— can and has served well as real protection for the individual from encroachment of state power.
Ultimately, state licensing of parents puts the state in a position to dictate all family relationships, and in the end, all human relationships.
Families—the "little platoons," as Edmund Burke called them— decentralize power away from the state. That's a good thing for anyone who values individual liberty. Undermining or eliminating the family and its moral underpinnings atomizes individuals, leaving them to face the state alone, making us all strangers to one another in the eyes of the State. What becomes most vulnerable, then, are all our personal relationships.
The hubris of this sort of social engineering—you'll note it's devoid of love—is mind-blowing to anyone who ponders it and should be anathema to real libertarians. It puts Cohen in the company of totalitarians who seek to destroy the family to "protect" the presumably downtrodden. Take, for example, gender theorist Martha Fineman, who promotes the abolition of state-recognized marriage so the state can better monitor individuals. Her rationale is that patriarchal men can harm women if marriage is protected by a wall of privacy. Here's a choice quote on that from her book, "The Autonomy Myth": "Once institutional protection was removed, behavior would be judged by standards established [by the state] to regulate interactions among all members of society." (emphasis added)
Yes, the state can give "protection" of this sort. So can any pimp or mobster, for that matter. But centralizing power is an evil and nasty thing to play around with. Beware such ideas bearing the fig leaf of "libertarianism." Unfortunately, libertarianism is now apparently amorphous enough and so wracked with factions it can be used as convenient cover for authoritarian ideas.
So how might anyone get to even considering parenting licenses? Well, it seems we now live in circumstances that allow for incubating such totalitarian ideas. Control freaks will always be among us. But the following conditions allow them much freer rein: the alienation and chaos that comes from the breakdown of family and community; the complacency that comes from easy dependency on state largesse; the ignorance that comes from conformist thinking; and the self-absorption that comes from a culture of nonstop sexual indulgence.
Genderless marriage is really just the intellectual and political precursor to efforts to abolish all civil marriage and to end family privacy.
And the canard of parent licensing was bound to come out of the shadows in the recent wave of statist social engineering attacking the institution of the family . A lot has gone into this brew. "Marriage equality" might look harmless on paper to a lot of folks, but genderless marriage is really just the intellectual and political precursor to efforts to abolish all civil marriage and to end family privacy, as Fineman prescribes. (See more about this major bait and switch operation.) The transgender movement is building on this by working to remove all gender distinctions in law and giving the state greater berth to legally and universally redefine what it means to be human. Combine it all with the uses and abuses of artificial reproductive technologies, and we can discern a path that inevitably leads to state ownership of children.
Alas, some have cultivated a thin veneer of respectability for the idea of "children as state chattel." The prime example is Hillary Clinton's 1996 treatise, "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child," which served as a soft, comfortable introduction to the idea of licensing parents. It was followed in January 1998 by an op-ed entitled "The Child Swap Society," by American Federation of Teachers President Sandra Feldman (d. 2005.)
"The Child Swap Society" ran as an AFT advertisement in several major dailies. Clearly, it was a trial balloon for the idea of parent licensing. In it Feldman recalled a science-fiction story and seriously suggested children might be better off in a lottery in which the state separates children from their parents and assigns them to their caregivers. Most recently, MSNBC anchor Melissa Harris-Perry came right out and said we need a more "collective" rather than private idea of kids, and that they "belong" to their communities, not their families.
With all that as context, we shouldn't be surprised that the idea of licensing parents is rearing its head in libertarian garb.
And What Must We Do?
So, here we are. The battered family, under fierce attack for the last several decades, must brace for yet another assault. Statists posed as "libertarians" are now leading the charge, perhaps posed to help sell the Kool-Aid in a neighborhood near you.
Cohen ends his ominous and peculiar post by asking if licensing parents is politically feasible, and answers: "I think so." Indeed, any utopian scheme seems "feasible" if only you've got enough brown shirts to persuade the reluctant few of its wisdom.
Well, let us reluctant few stand firm. We need to reject this whole bogus monstrosity and throw it squarely back onto the ash heap of history, from whence it came and where it belongs. Forever.
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7.3.1.1 Searching for a Good Decision Tree
1: Procedure DecisionTreeLearner(X,Y,E)
2: Inputs
3: X: set of input features, X={X1,...,Xn}
4: Y: target feature
5: E: set of training examples
6: Output
7: decision tree
8: if stopping criterion is true then
9: return pointEstimate(Y,E)
10: else
11: Select feature Xi∈X, with domain {v1,v2}
12: let E1={e∈E: val(e,Xi)=v1}
13: let T1=DecisionTreeLearner(X \ {Xi},Y,E1)
16: return ⟨Xi=v1, T1, T2⟩
18: Procedure DecisionTreeClassify(e,X,Y,DT)
19: Inputs
20: X: set of input features, X={X1,...,Xn}
21: Y: target feature
22: e: example to classify
23: DT: decision tree
24: Output
25: prediction on Y for example e
26: Local
27: S subtree of DT
28: S←DT
29: while S is an internal node of the form ⟨Xi=v,T1,T2⟩ do
30: if val(e,Xi)=v then
31: S←T1
36: return S
Figure 7.5: Decision tree learning and classification for binary features
A decision tree can be incrementally built from the top down by recursively selecting a feature to split on and partitioning the training examples with respect to that feature. In Figure 7.5, the procedure DecisionTreeLearner learns a decision tree for binary attributes. The decisions regarding when to stop and which feature to split on are left undefined. The procedure DecisionTreeClassify takes in a decision tree produced by the learner and makes predictions for a new example.
The algorithm DecisionTreeLearner builds a decision tree from the top down as follows: The input to the algorithm is a set of input features, a target feature, and a set of examples. The learner first tests if some stopping criterion is true. If the stopping criterion is true, it returns a point estimate for Y, which is either a value for Y or a probability distribution over the values for Y. If the stopping criterion is not true, the learner selects a feature Xi to split on, and for each value v of this feature, it recursively builds a subtree for those examples with Xi=v. The returned tree is represented here in terms of triples representing an if-then-else structure.
Example 7.7: Consider applying DecisionTreeLearner to the classification data of Figure 7.1. The initial call is
decisionTreeLearner([Author,Thread,Length,Where Read],User Action,
[e1,e2,...,e18]).
Suppose the stopping criterion is not true and the algorithm selects the feature Length to split on. It then calls
decisionTreeLearner([Where Read,Thread,Author],User Action,
[e1,e3,e4,e6,e9,e10,e12]).
All of these examples agree on the user action; therefore, the algorithm returns the prediction skips. The second step of the recursive call is
[e2,e5,e7,e8,e11,e13,e14,e15,e16,e17,e18]).
Not all of the examples agree on the user action, so the algorithm selects a feature to split on. Suppose it selects Thread. Eventually, this recursive call returns the subtree for the case when Length is short, such as
⟨Thread=new,reads,⟨Author=unknown,skips,reads⟩⟩.
The final result is
<Length=long,skips,
⟨Thread=new,reads,⟨Author=unknown,skips,reads⟩⟩>
which is a representation of the tree of Figure 7.4.
The learning algorithm of Figure 7.5 leaves three choices unspecified:
The stopping criterion is not defined. The learner should stop when there are no input features, when all of the examples have the same classification, or when no splitting would improve the classification ability of the resulting tree. The last is the most difficult criterion to test for; see below.
What should be returned at the leaves is not defined. This is a point estimate because, at this step, all of the other input features are ignored. This prediction is typically the most likely classification, the median or mean value, or a probability distribution over the classifications. [See Exercise 7.9.]
Which feature to select to split on is not defined. The aim is to choose the feature that will result in the smallest tree. The standard way to do this is to choose the myopically optimal split: if the learner were only allowed one split, which single split would result in the best classification? With the sum-of-squares error, for each feature, determine the error of the resulting tree based on a single split on that feature. For the likelihood or the entropy, the myopically optimal split is the one that gives the maximum information gain. Sometimes information gain is used even when the optimality criterion is the sum-of-squares error. An alternative, the Gini index, is investigated in Exercise 7.10.
Example 7.8: Consider learning the user action from the data of Figure 7.1, where we split on the feature with the maximum information gain or we myopically choose the split that minimizes the entropy or maximizes the likelihood of the data. See Section 6.1.5 for the definition of information used here.
The information content of all examples with respect to feature User Action is 1.0, because there are 9 examples with User Action=reads and 9 examples with User Action=skips.
Splitting on Author partitions the examples into [e1, e4, e5, e6, e9, e10, e12, e13, e14, e15, e16, e17] with Author=known and [e2, e3, e7, e8, e11, e18] with Author=unknown, each of which is evenly split between the different user actions. The information gain for the test Author is zero. In this case, finding out whether the author is known, by itself, provides no information about what the user action will be.
Splitting on Thread partitions the examples into [e1, e2, e5, e8, e10, e12, e14, e15, e17, e18] and [e3, e4, e6, e7, e9, e11, e13, e16]. The first set of examples, those with Thread=new, contains 3 examples with User Action=skips and 7 examples with User Action=reads; thus, the information content of this set with respect to the user action is
-0.3 × log 2 0.3 - 0.7 × log 2 0.7 = 0.881
and so the information gain is 0.119.
Similarly, the examples with Thread=old divide up 6:2 according to the user action and thus have information content 0.811. The expected information gain is thus 1.0 - [(10/18)×0.881 + (8/18) ×0.811] = 0.150.
The test Length divides the examples into [e1, e3, e4, e6, e9, e10, e12] and [e2, e5, e7, e8, e11, e13, e14, e15, e16, e17, e18]. The former all agree on the value of User Action and so have information content zero. The user action divides the second set 9:2, and so the information is 0.684. Thus, the expected information gain by the test length is 1.0 - 11/18 ×0.684 = 0.582. This is the highest information gain of any test and so Length is chosen to split on.
In choosing which feature to split on, the information content before the test is the same for all tests, and so the learning agent can choose the test that results in the minimum expected information after the test.
The algorithm of Figure 7.5 assumes each input feature has only two values. This restriction can be lifted in two ways:
Allow a multiway split. To split on a multivalued variable, there would be a child for each value in the domain of the variable. This means that the representation of the decision tree becomes more complicated than the simple if-then-else form used for binary features. There are two main problems with this approach. The first is what to do with values for which there are no training examples. The second is that, for most myopic splitting heuristics, including information gain, it is generally better to split on a variable with a larger domain because it produces more children and so can fit the data better than splitting on a feature with a smaller domain. [See Exercise 7.8.] However, splitting on a feature with a smaller domain keeps the representation more compact.
Partition the domain into two disjoint subsets. When the domain is totally ordered, such as if the domain is a subset of the real numbers, the domain can be split into values less than some threshold and those greater than the threshold. For example, the children could correspond to X<v and X ≥ v for some value v in the domain of X. A myopically optimal value for v can be chosen in one sweep through the data by sorting the data on the value of X and considering each split that partitions the values. When the domain does not have a natural ordering, a split can be performed on arbitrary subsets of the domain. In this case, the myopically optimal split can be found by sorting values that appear in the data on the probability of classification.
If there is noise in the data, a major problem of the preceding algorithm is overfitting the data. Overfitting occurs when the algorithm tries to fit distinctions that appear in the training data but do not appear in the unseen examples. This occurs when random correlations exist in the training data that are not reflected in the data set as a whole. Section 7.5 discusses ways to detect overfitting. There are two ways to overcome the problem of overfitting in decision trees:
Restrict the splitting to split only when the split is useful.
Allow unrestricted splitting and then prune the resulting tree where it makes unwarranted distinctions.
The second method seems to work better in practice. One reason is that it is possible that two features together predict well but one of them, by itself, is not very useful, as shown in the following example.
Example 7.9: Suppose the aim is to predict whether a game of matching pennies is won or not. The input features are A, whether the first coin is heads or tails; B, whether the second coin is heads or tails; and C, whether there is cheering. The target feature, W, is true when there is a win, which occurs when both coins are heads or both coins are tails. Suppose cheering is correlated with winning. This example is tricky because A by itself provides no information about W, and B by itself provides no information about W. However, together they perfectly predict W. A myopic split may first split on C, because this provides the most myopic information. If all the agent is told is C, this is much more useful than A or B. However, if the tree eventually splits on A and B, the split on C is not needed. Pruning can remove C as being useful, whereas stopping early will keep the split on C.
A discussion of how to trade off model complexity and fit to the data is presented in Section 7.5.


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This is sort of true – the long awaited release of THE DOC revised edition in print. The revised edition was not available before at all. Saturday, June 14, is the release. Preorders have been available as noted on the Black Opal Books publisher website.
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Overexpressing MiR-126 Enhance Ischemic Angiogenesis Via theAKT/ERK-related Pathway.
BACKGROUND:This study was designed to examine whether transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) overexpressing miR-126 enhances angiogenesis in the infarcted myocardium of mice.
METHODS:MSCs were harvested from mice using density gradient centrifugation and adherent culture. MSCs were transfected with lentiviral vectors carrying mature miR-126. Mice models of myocardial infarction were established by ligation of coronary artery. The ligated animals were randomly divided into three groups (15 in each) and after two weeks, were intramyocardially injected at the heart infarct zone with miR-126-transfected MSCs (the miR-126-MSCs group), MSCs (the MSCs group), or medium (the PBS group). Six weeks later, histological study and echocardiographic assessment were performed.
RESULTS:Capillary density of the infarcted region was significantly improved in the miR-126- MSCs group compared to the MSC group and the PBS group (both p < 0.01). Western blot showed that ERK(1), pERK(1), AKT and pAKT gene were dramatically enhanced in the miR-126-MSC group compared to the MSC group and the PBS group (both p < 0.05). Echocardiography showed MiR-126 led to a sustained improvement in cardiac function for at least six weeks at the injected area, as assessed by left ventricular ejection fraction and fraction of shortening.
CONCLUSIONS:Transplantation of MSCs transfected with miR-126 can improve angiogenesis and cardiac function in the infarcted area of the hearts of mice, which may be due to stimulation of the AKT/ERK-related pathway.


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The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank - film telewizyjny z 1988 roku w reżyserii Johna Ermana powstały na podstawie wspomnień Miep Gies Anne Frank Remembered.

Fabuła
Podczas okupacji Amsterdamu przez nazistów w czasie II wojny światowej Otto Frank decyduje się ukryć swoją rodzinę pochodzenia żydowskiego, po otrzymaniu wezwania jego córki Margot do stawienia się do transportu do nazistwoskiego obozu. Miep Gies, asystentka w biurze Ottona Franka ukrywa ich na poddaszu nad biurem.

Film opowiada prawdziwą historię Miep i kłopotów związanych z sekretną pomocą rodzinie i jest oparty na wspomnieniach Miep Gies i Dzienniku Anny Frank.

Obsada
 Mary Steenburgen - Miep Gies
 Paul Scofield - Otto Frank
 Lisa Jacobs - Anne Frank
 Huub Stapel - Jan Gies
 Eleanor Bron - Edith Frank
 Frances Cuka - Mrs. Van Daan (Auguste van Pels)
 Victor Spinetti - Herman Van Daan (Hermann van Pels)
 Ian Sears - Peter Van Daan (Peter van Pels)
 Miriam Karlin - Mrs. Samson
 Georgia Slowe - Margot Frank
 Irissa Cisternino - Koophuis (Johannes Kleiman)
 Gary Raymond - Mr. Kraler (Victor Kugler)
 Jeffrey Robert - Dr. Dussel (Fritz Pfeffer)
 Tom Clark - Karl Silberbauer
 Tom Wilkinson - Silberbauer

Nagrody
Nagroda Emmy - najlepszy scenariusz w miniserialu (1988)

Zobacz też
 Pamiętnik Anny Frank - film z 1959 roku
 Anna Frank: cała prawda - miniserial z 2001 roku

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańskie dramaty filmowe
Amerykańskie filmy o Zagładzie Żydów
Amerykańskie filmy telewizyjne
Amerykańskie filmy z 1988 roku
Anne Frank w kulturze