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Netflix Finally Confirms House of Cards Will Finish Its Sixth Season, Spacey Won't Return [UPDATED]
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Netflix has announced its future plans for its first original series, House of Cards. Following sexual assault allegations against the show's star, Kevin Spacey, the future of the sixth season was uncertain. But Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos has now confirmed details of how it will all wrap up.
In November, Netflix said it wouldn't distribute House of Cards if Spacey continued to be part of the sixth season. Now Spacey is officially out, and the show's producers, Media Rights Capital, have apparently figured out a way to move forward with a season centered on Robin Wright's character.
According to Variety, Sarandos announced the news at UBS's Global Media and Communications Conference in New York. The show's production hiatus will extend into the new year; it will resume with an eight-episode season sometime in early 2018. Gizmodo has confirmed those details with a person at the company who has knowledge of the schedule.
As more and more alleged sexual assault victims have come forward to confront powerful men in Hollywood, Netflix has had to scramble to decide what to do with some of its original content. In addition to Kevin Spacey, the streaming service has cut ties with Louis CK following a New York Times investigation into sexual misconduct that he admitted was true. But the company has not yet taken any action in the case of Danny Masterson. The actor stars in the Netflix sitcom The Ranch, along with Ashton Kutcher. Four women have accused Masterson of raping them in the early 2000s and law enforcement is investigating the incidents.
On Monday, the Huffington Post reported that Andy Yeatman, Netflix's director of global kids content, didn't realize he was speaking with one of Masterson's alleged victims when he told her that "higher-ups at the company don't believe the four women who have accused Masterson of violent rape."
The woman claims that she was speaking with Yeatman on the sidelines of a soccer game that their respective children were playing in when she asked why Netflix has been reluctant to distance itself from Masterson. Referring to the actor's accusers, Yeatman reportedly told her, "we don't believe them." To which she replied, "I'm one of them."
When reached for comment, a Netflix spokesperson referred us to a company statement supplied to The Huffington Post. It reads:
While he was coaching a youth soccer match today, Mr. Yeatman ― a Netflix kids' programming executive ― was approached by a stranger who did not identify herself or explain her connection to Danny Masterson...
Mr. Yeatman's comments were careless, uninformed and do not represent the views of the company. Further, he would have no insights into decision making on The Ranch. We are aware of the allegations against Danny Masterson and we are following the current investigation, and will respond if developments occur.
When the accuser told Yeatman that "Netflix is going to regret this, this is a mistake, they're going to see," he reportedly said, "we'll see." Netflix denied that he said that.
Update 12/5/17: According to Variety, Netflix has dropped Danny Masterson from The Ranch. "As a result of ongoing discussions, Netflix and the producers have written Danny Masterson out of 'The Ranch,'" a Netflix spokesperson told the outlet. "Yesterday was his last day on the show, and production will resume in early 2018 without him." Masterson said he was disappointed, denied the rape allegation, and vowed to clear his name.
[Variety, Huffington Post]
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Remembering Howard Munce
Howard Munce — a much-admired artist, indefatigable Westport volunteer, World War II veteran, good friend and beloved human being — died yesterday. He turned 100 in November, and enjoyed a townwide celebration in his honor at the Westport Historical Society.
A few days before that event, "06880" wrote:
Mark your calendars, Westport. On Friday, Howard Munce turns 100.
Howard Munce at work.
In a town long known for its great artists, illustrators and painters, he's a towering figure. Howard's resume — advertising director, graphic designer, sculptor, cartoonist, book author, teacher — ranks him with the most prominent creative folks in our history.
He served his country in World War II, seeing action as a Marine platoon sergeant at Guadalcanal.
He's served his town too. Howard has been an honorary board member of the Westport Arts Center. For over 25 years, he volunteered as graphics director for the Westport Library.
Whenever he was asked to help — donating dozens of paintings and illustrations to the Permanent Art Collection; curating exhibits for the Westport Historical Society; mentoring young artists — he always said "of course."
Howard Munce epitomizes 2 of our community's proudest traits: our arts heritage, and our spirit of giving back.
He's been a proud Westporter since 1935. He came here to live with family friends, while commuting to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. One of his first jobs was modeling for famed artist Harold von Schmidt.
Westport has been an important part of Howard's life ever since. And he's been an even more important part of ours.
(Birthday card/Denise Woods. Photo on right/Lawrence Untermeyer)
Previewing the party a few months earlier, I wrote:
Munce's resume is beyond impressive. Trained at Pratt Institute, he was a Young & Rubicam art director beginning in the late 1940s — after World War II, when he saw action as a Marine platoon sergeant at Guadalcanal.
Munce is professor emeritus at Paier College of Art; honorary president of the Society of Illustrators in New York City, and an honorary board member of the Westport Arts Center. For over 25 years, he volunteered as graphics director for the Westport Library, and — with Fisher — co-curated the black-and-white drawings by Westport artists in its McManus Room.
Howard Munce, in his 90s. (Photo/Kristen Rasich Fox)
But those are facts. Far more important is Munce's humanity.
Whenever he is asked to help — donating dozens of paintings and illustrations to the Permanent Art Collection; curating exhibits for the WHS; mentoring young artists — he always says "of course." With a sparkle in his eye, a smile on his face, and a handshake as firm as a 20-year-old's.
Until a couple of years ago, he clambered up ladders to make sure every exhibit he oversaw was properly hung.
At 99, Howard Munce no longer climbs ladders. Then again, he doesn't have to.
He long ago reached the top.
BONUS FACT: In 2008, Howard Munce was grand marshal of the Memorial Day parade. Here's his speech:
For an interesting story on Howard Munce's World War II experiences in New Zealand, click here. For a 2013 tribute to Howard from the magazine Five O'Clock, click here.
Categories: Arts, Looking back, Organizations, People
Tags: Howard Munce, Westport Historical Society


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MANITOBA GOVERNMENT EXPANDING VISITOR ACCESS AT HOSPITALS
Easing of Restrictions at Hospitals, Health Centres Balances Safety and Compassion to Meet Needs of Patients: Friesen
Manitoba hospitals and health centres will be restoring visitor access for patients as part of Manitoba's Phase Two reopening, Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Cameron Friesen announced today. The gradual easing of visitor restrictions will restore the ability for patients and their loved ones to visit while measures to prevent the introduction and spread of COVID-19 within Manitoba's hospitals remain in place.
"Connecting with family members, loved ones and support systems are an important part of the healing process for someone in the hospital. During the peak of the pandemic, in-person visits had to be limited as we took every necessary step to prevent the spread of this virus," said Friesen. "With the co-operation of Manitobans, our COVID-19 response has been successful and we are now pleased to be in a position to allow in-person visits to occur."
This expanded visitor access follows the successful introduction of outdoor visits at Manitoba's personal care homes last week, the minister noted, adding Manitoba's hospitals and health centres have also been tasked with finding ways to accommodate outdoor visits following the trial earlier this week at Victoria General Hospital.
All visitors must comply with infection prevention and control measures, which includes strict hand hygiene and maintaining physical distancing (six feet/two metres apart) at all times.
"We recognize that solitude and separation can have a significant and negative impact on a patient's health and well-being. Our goal is to find a balance for the longer-term; a balance that will enable visits with loved ones to occur, with all necessary precautions in place," said Friesen.
Friesen indicated the likelihood of COVID-19 being a part of the 'new normal' for a longer duration requires finding a longer-term balance between preventative measures and the many benefits of in-person interaction between patients and their loved ones.
Most patients will be eligible to identify a single designated support person who may visit daily. Most sites are expected to be up and running between Friday and Monday, the minister noted. Facilities will begin implementation as early as June 5, with all sites expected to welcome designated support people as visitors by the week of June 8.
For current information on COVID-19 in Manitoba, such as steps people can take to reduce their risk and workplace guidance for businesses, visit www.manitoba.ca/covid19.


If you have been asked to be the Maid of Honour, or Bridesmaid for a family member of friend, then one of the next stages is to plan a hen party! After you have sent out the invites, sorted out the decorations and ordered in the food, the only thing left to do is organise hen party games.
Hen party games are an integral part of a classic hen party, so you need to make sure they are perfect for the occasion. To help you out, here are twenty of the best games to play with your fellow hens.
This game involves getting into teams and being creative with toilet paper! Each team nominates a bride, and proceeds to fashion them a gorgeous gown out of toilet paper. Whoever's dress is voted the best determines the winning group!
Buy the wedding printed toilet paper!
This is a more adult version of the childhood classic pin the tail on the donkey! Print out a picture of your bride's favourite hunk, and fashion a pair of trunks from coloured paper. Take turns to wear a blindfold and stick the trunks where you think they should go. Closest wins!
Take advantage of the Prosecco craze by playing a trendier version of beer pong. You just use Prosecco instead of beer, much tastier and more refined!
Put your knowledge and friendship on the line by setting up a quiz to see how well each member of the party actually knows the bride-to-be. Definitely one of the most tense hen party games you can play!
Another of those childhood hen party games that has a naughty twist, you can have a competition to see who can create the sauciest sculpture using Play Doh! It's the perfect mixture of childhood innocence and adult fun!
Split into teams and try to write a poem about the bride-to-be and her upcoming wedding. Read them out to her and have her pick a winner. It is bound to be hilarious, and you could even keep them for the wedding speeches!
Have some fun with this one. Print out a few different pictures of the engaged couple on vacation, and have the guests try to guess where in the world they are.
This is one of the best hen party games because it is fun and also intoxicating! Have everybody come up with the best cocktail they can, and the proof will be in the tasting! You can find some inspiration from this Business Insider article.
Relive some of your childhood with a fun game of truth or dare. If you want to play it safe, go with truth. But if you are in the mood to have a little fun then opt for a dare instead.
Learn a little more about your fellow hen party guests with a fun game of never have I ever. Somebody suggests an act or scenario, and you have to drink if you ever done that thing!
Celebrate your bride-to-be's impending coupledom by testing everyone's knowledge on famous celebrity couples. Print out pictures of some well known and some not so well know, and have them guess for points.
Have all your guests celebrate their friendship with the bride-to-be by completing a questionnaire. Include questions like where did they meet, what their first impression was, and their favourite memories together. It will be fun to read through them later on.
Make paper masks for all the guests that have the groom's face on them. When the bride pops to the toilet, make sure that you are all wearing them to surprise her when she returns!
Put lots of classic dance songs in to a hat, and play charades with the group. You have to do the dance until somebody can guess its correct name. Think Macarena, Cha Cha Slide, YMCA … all the classics!
Okay, it might not strictly be a game, but karaoke is still a fun thing to do at a hen party. If you really want to add an element of competition then you can always turn it into a mini X Factor!
After you have played dance charades, you can finish things off with classic movie charades. To make it special for the bride-to-be you can include all of her favourite movies.
Get everybody in the mood for a wedding by making a quiz about all the weird and wonderful wedding traditions around the world.
Another classic party game from childhood with a mature wedding twist. You can make it so that gifts are all bit naughty. Classic hen party stuff!
Put your naughty drawing skill to the test by playing Pictionary. This Pictionary, however, is solely for all of the naughtiest and rudest things that you can ever imagine! Put your dirty mind to the test and see which fellow hen is on your wavelength!
It's one of those classic hen party games that actually suits any kind of party. Put a bunch of celebrity names and characters into a hat and pull one out to stick to your forehead. You then ask your friends yes or no questions until you can finally guess who you are supposed to be!
View more Hen Party Games on Etsy.com.
The more organised and pre-planned a hen party is, the more relaxed and fun it is going to be. Make sure that you choose hen party games that you think the bride-to-be is going to like. After all, it is her special day and you want to make her as happy as possible. Try to get a nice mixture of party games, some word based, some music based, some action based.
Most of all, remember to have fun with it!


ISLAMABAD: Chinese President Xi Jinping will address the joint session of Parliament on Tuesday (today).
The session will begin at 9:25AM and the Chinese first lady along with a 60-member delegation will be in attendance.
President Xi Jinping's address will be followed by Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Assembly and the Chairman Senate.
Sources have informed Geo News that the security of Parliament will be the responsibility of the 111 Brigade during the Chinese president's address.
The joint session will be attended by chief ministers, governors, service chiefs, diplomats and other important personalities.


Be forewarned: while this Sticky Note Review doesn't contain spoilers, it does mention the tone of the ending.
In the Afterlight is the third book in The Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken. It follows The Darkest Minds and Never Fade.
Six Word Summary: Powered teens fight government for survival.
#stickynotereviews In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken. End of a series. First, I want to say that I enjoyed this series. I needed something like this to cleanse the palate after reading a few books I wasn't so fond of. That's out of the way. Now. I liked that it ended on a hopeful note, but I have so many questions. Did Sam get out? What is going to happen to all those Reds? Will the government be taken to task not just for the camps, but also for what they did to the Reds, the kids, and the country? At least we know that the darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.


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Explore Individual differences in anterior brain asymmetry and fundamental dimensions of emotion
Individual differences in anterior brain asymmetry and fundamental dimensions of emotion
A. J. Tomarken (Author), R. J. Davidson (Author), R. E. Wheeler (Author), R. C. Doss (Author)
Abstract: This research assessed whether individual differences in anterior brain asymmetry are linked to differences in basic dimensions of emotion. In each of 2 experimental sessions, separated by 3 weeks, resting electroencephalogram (EEG) activity was recorded from female adults during 8 60-s baselines. Mean alpha power asymmetry across both sessions was extracted in mid-frontal and anterior temporal sites. Across both regions, groups demonstrating stable and extreme relative left anterior activation reported increased generalized positive affect (PA) and decreased generalized negative affect (NA) compared with groups demonstrating stable and extreme relative right anterior activation. Additional correlational analyses revealed robust relations between anterior asymmetry and PA and NA, particularly among subjects who demonstrated stable patterns of EEG activation over time. Anterior asymmetry was unrelated to individual differences in generalized reactivity.
URL: http://zotero.org/groups/contemplative_sciences/items/HZNE8DD9


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This book contains poems and short prose that I have been inspired to write. My hope is that you find help and encouragement through the reading of these poems. I write from my own life and have found that they help when you are feeling down and depressed. Please enjoy the reading of my book and may God bless you everyday. I want to allow God's light to shine through all the broken places in my life. One heart at a time I want to reach the spiritually disconnected and introduce them to Jesus through my writing so living an ordinary life is no longer an option. I want to share my daily struggle to represent God in my everyday life. I want them to realize they are not alone. We are in this struggle together.
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package contactus.core;

import com.google.gson.annotations.JsonAdapter;
import com.vk.api.sdk.client.actors.UserActor;
import contactus.gson.SessionJsonAdapter;

import java.time.Instant;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

@JsonAdapter(SessionJsonAdapter.class)
public class Session {
    private final Integer userId;
    private final String accessToken;
    private final Instant expiration;

    public static final Session EMPTY = new Session(null, null, null);
    private static final Pattern AUTH_URL_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("^[^#]+#access_token=(.+)&expires_in=(.*)&user_id=(.*)$");

    public Session(Integer userId, String accessToken, Instant expiration) {
        this.userId = userId;
        this.accessToken = accessToken;
        this.expiration = expiration;
    }

    public Integer getUserId() {
        return userId;
    }

    public String getAccessToken() {
        return accessToken;
    }

    public Instant getExpiration() {
        return expiration;
    }

    public UserActor getActor() {
        return new UserActor(userId, accessToken);
    }

    public boolean isAuthorized() {
        return userId != null && accessToken != null && expiration != null;
    }

    public static Session parseUrl(String url) {
        if (url == null) {
            return EMPTY;
        }

        Matcher matcher = AUTH_URL_PATTERN.matcher(url);
        if (!matcher.find()) {
            return EMPTY;
        }

        String token = null;
        Integer userId = null;
        Instant expiration = null;

        try {
            long expiresAfterSec = Long.parseLong(matcher.group(2));
            expiration = Instant.now().plusSeconds(expiresAfterSec);
            userId = Integer.valueOf(matcher.group(3));
            token = matcher.group(1);
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            System.out.println("Wrong URL format: " + url);
        }

        return  new Session(userId, token, expiration);
    }
}

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Looks like there won't be a finished version of ISIS anytime soon – after putting some more work into it, I had some of the more important mechanics working, but realized that it just wasn't fun.
Back to the electronic drawing board.
ISIS is my attempt at creating – and eventually finishing this time around – a small game in Unity. The basic premise is creating a Space Invaders-inspired game that breaks away from the standard "You down here, they up there" scheme the original and its various clones rely on. How to do this? By placing the game on a hexagon!
Apart from the obvious difference that there are no borders on the sides of the screen which stop your movement, the biggest advantage is that the game will allow you to go beyond the standard "One screen, one stage" template by creating layouts of various separate hexagons, allowing the introduction of proper level design and objectives (like destroying the power generators in the three outer sections before being able to harm the centre section's main enemy).
I will post screenshots of the current version later.
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Funnily enough have just made soda bread with thyme and leftover cheese in it to go with leftover quiche for supper tonight! I just used goats cheese though – like the sound of your cheese mix. Looks yummy and very cute pic of Jacques stirring.
Oh I fancy using up a little bit more of our gluttony of cheese in some soda bread! And obviously some foccacia too.
Thanks, it's a total cheese fest and extremely naughty!.
Thanks Vanesther, go for it!. Calorific non-diet heaven.
So glad I'm not the only person stumbling over Quality Street and tripping over crisps and crackers at every turn. With the house reduced by the departure of the duo of student daughters, there's only so much food one can get through in a day!
It's quite a mission isn't it? Obviously not an enjoyable one at all!
I love homemade bread of any kind and this looks scrumptious! Thanks for posting Louisa.
This has to be about the easiest and quickest homemade bread there is, made in minutes and baked in 35.
I nearly always use mustard when cooking with cheese as it enhances the flavour of cheese that little bit more, a trick my mum taught me!
Happy New Year to you by the way! Very similar to a muffin mix really, only in the shape of a loaf! A cheat's bread :).
This looks right up my street and so easy to knock up too. Bookmarked. And a happy new year lovely.
Ah thanks Sian, happy new year to you too!
The bread was really nice and easy to make and the red onions make it really tasty and the cheese was oozy and nice and warm and I added ham because I have so much ham (last week there was a sale for ham). We had it straight from the oven with some spicy chickpea soup. My children really enjoyed eating it, they wanted more in the morning. Your website has great, homely recipes, I browse often to see what I can make. Thanks so much for stopping by!!!
Thanks for dropping by my blog! And I love the look of this recipe – currently trying to avoid cheese but I reckon there's a couple of good substitutes I could throw in….
Oh please do try, and I'd be interested to know what substitutes you use?


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Tag Archives: Forecasting
2015 Mass Atrocity Forecasts
In my last post, I looked back on how my predictions fared in 2014. While there are a couple different ways to measure success, all in all I was a little under 50%.
Here are my predictions for 2015. Like last time, I'll not do a simple yes/no, but rather a percentage of how likely a mass atrocity is to happen. By mass atrocity, I mean 1,000 deaths caused intentionally by a discrete combatant group against another discrete noncombatant group. I'm including more countries than I did last year, and hopefully this will offer more accurate forecasts.
Nigeria (95%)
Iraq (95%)
Syria (95%)
Pakistan (75%)
Afghanistan (70%)
South Sudan (70%)
Sudan (65%)
Mexico (55%)
CAR (50%)
North Korea (50%)
Somalia (30%)
DRC (30%)
Libya (25%)
Gaza (25%)
Cameroon (20%)
Ukraine (10%)
Rwanda (10%)
Lebanon (10%)
Burundi (5%)
Yemen (5%)
Chad (5%)
Guinea (5%)
Kenya (5%)
Ethiopia (5%)
Burma (5%)
Eritrea (5%)
Zimbabwe (5%)
Mali (5%)
Explaining my forecast for each of the 28 countries here would be tedious and probably unnecessary, so I'll skip it. However, I'll select a few countries where my risk prediction doesn't generally line up with the consensus in the atrocity prevention community.
In Nigeria, Boko Haram has probably already committed a mass killing in 2015, and across the border in Cameroon, Boko Haram is also active, though the chances of a mass atrocity are lower if not insignificant.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are not countries on the traditional atrocity prevention agenda, but that has more to do with uneasy relationship between anti-atrocity advocates and the U.S. military than the countries' risk. Their respective Taliban's both committed atrocities last year, and it seems likely that trend will continue.
In Mexico, it's never a question of absolute casualty figures but how those casualties are categorized. Because there aren't clear numbers on how many cartel members die as opposed to civilians, it's hard to know whether more than 1,000 are killed by a specific drug cartel, even if thousands will almost certainly die in 2015.
In the DRC, like Mexico, more than 1,000 are highly likely to die. However, the splintered nature of armed groups in the country's east means I think it's more likely than not no single group will kill 1,000 civilians. The situation's not dissimilar in Libya, where there is rampant violence, but it is committed by a myriad of militias.
Israel probably committed a mass killing in Gaza last year, and while confrontations between Hamas and Israel seem to operate on two or three year cycles, there's still a decent chance Israel 'mows the grass' again this year.
While Rwanda is often praised as one of Africa's most efficient governments, this sheen of good governance masks a political powder-keg. Whenever the elite coalition Kagame has built fractures, the struggle to fill the resulting power vacuum will likely result in mass violence. The same principle applies in Zimbabwe and Eritrea.
Finally, Burundi and Burma are two countries that have been high on the atrocity prevention agenda that I rated at only 5%. In Burundi, it seems the government has repressed the opposition enough that ruling elites are unlikely to be threatened during the 2015 election. There are some parallels here with Burma. While the treatment of the Rohingya minority is horrendous, it seems Burma's elites have settled on forcing emigration rather than initiating a mass killing, which would be more politically risky.
Tags: Afghanistan, Boko Haram, Burma, Burundi, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Forecasting, Gaza, Guinea, Hamas, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Rohingya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Looking Back on My 2014 Mass Atrocity Forecasts
A year ago, I took a stab at predicting which countries would experience mass atrocities in 2014 (defined as 1,000 noncombatant intentional deaths caused by discrete group). My predictions were fairly accurate, if not perfectly so. Here's what I predicted. I've put "YES" next to places that did experience atrocities and "NO" next to the countries that didn't. For the countries where it's simply too hard to know, I've put a "?". I don't want to get too in-depth into how I determined whether atrocities occurred, but I have some explanations in the footnotes for countries that are hard to judge one way or the other.
Syria (95%) – YES
South Sudan (85%) – YES
Iraq (85%) – YES
CAR (75%) – YES [1]
Sudan (60%) – YES
Afghanistan (50%) – YES [2]
North Korea (50%) – ? [3]
Mexico (35%) – ? [4]
Nigeria (30%) – YES
Burma (20%) – NO
DRC (20%) – NO [5]
Egypt (10%) – NO
Mali (5%) – NO
Venezuela (5%) – NO
To judge how accurate I was, one measure is to see each case as containing 100 points. If an atrocity did happen, then I get the number of percentage points that I predicted (for example, I get 95 out of 100 for Syria) and if one did not happen, I get the result of subtracting the number of percentage points I predicted from 100 (for example, I get 80 out of 100 for Burma). Because my predictions were not just yes/no, this method helps account for the probabilistic aspect. Measuring this way, I did very well, receiving 920 out of a possible 1200, excluding Mexico and North Korea because of the inconclusive judgments. However, that score should really be 920 out of 1400, because civilian deaths in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas conflict constitute a mass atrocity. Similarly, the Pakistani Taliban committed a mass atrocity. A mass atrocity may have occurred in Somalia, but the numbers don't seem high enough to definitively say for sure.
There are a few problems with this metric for success, though. First, my numbers success rate is considerably boosted by the very high probability (the "No Shit List") and the very low probability cases. If I remove the cases where I predicted probabilities above 80% and below 20%, and add in Pakistan and Gaza, my score comes out to a much less impressive 375 out of 800, even though by the standards of forecasting international events, it's not bad.
The results of my projections have both optimistic and pessimistic ramifications for the ability to forecast atrocities. On the one hand, being a little less than 50% accurate in medium-risk cases is much better than the standard 65%-80% false positive ratio that's common even in the best performing models (though it's easier to outperform statistical models in one year than five). Additionally, with the exceptions of Pakistan and Gaza, no episodes of atrocities occurred in countries with probabilities less than 30%. On the other hand, in every case that I listed a probability that an atrocity would happen and it did, the country had been experiencing large-scale violent conflict at the beginning of 2014. One of the two cases I missed was also the one not experiencing large-scale violent conflict then.
Therein lies the problems. It's fairly easy to predict where atrocities will occur for countries already experiencing mass violence. While it is certainly useful to predict anywhere where atrocities will occur, the real prize of forecasting is to identify the cases where atrocities will occur that aren't obvious to the casual observer. Because mass atrocities are such rare events, that's frustratingly difficult.
In my next post, I'll put up my mass atrocity forecasts for 2015.
Update (1/16/15): Earlier today I realized that in analyzing my predictions I had missed the chance to analyze whether I had been overly optimistic or pessimistic about mass atrocities in 2014. I'm particularly interested to see if I avoided the bias that generally has forecasts over-predict the likelihood of rare events, which atrocities are.
I'll do this by adding up the percentage points I predicted in total (and divide my 100) and then compare that to the actual occurrence of atrocities. If we exclude the atrocities that happened that I didn't predict, I predicted there would be 5.4 mass atrocities in 2014. Within my prediction sample, there were actually 6 mass atrocities. So I was pretty close. My accuracy here was helped because each country that had a mass atrocity in 2014 in my predicted list also had one in 2013.
However, if I include Gaza and Pakistan (as I probably should), I was less accurate, again predicting 5.4 atrocities when 8 actually occurred. For whatever reason, I bucked the trend and under-predicted the number of atrocities that would occur in 2014.
Clarification (1/4/15): For this post, I defined a mass atrocity as 1,000 deaths in a single year. While this is partially consistent with other definitions for a mass atrocity used by The Early Warning Project and my thesis, it doesn't clarify the conditions for when a mass atrocity continues over multiple years. The convention is that 1,000 is required in the onset year, and then if the number of deaths drops below a much lower threshold for a few years, then the mass killing episode ends. For example, by the Early Warning Project's definition, a state-led mass killing episode continued in Myanmar last year, even though as far as I can tell, the casualty numbers were well under 1,000. For my predictions, because I'm only looking at one year at a time, I'm thinking about whether death counts will reach 1,000 each year. Neither definition is better than the other, but for the purposes of my predictions, the 1,000 threshold every year makes more sense.
[1] Though the numbers aren't entirely clear, it seems very likely that more 1,000 noncombatants were killed by anti-balaka forces (and possibly ex-Seleka forces too) in 2014.
[2] By July, more than 1,500 civilians had already been killed, with 74% of those caused by anti-government forces (mostly the Taliban). The total number had risen to over 3,000 by November, with the Taliban responsible for 75%.
[3] Obviously, the North Korean regime isn't releasing data on its prison camps, but investigations by Amnesty and the OHCHR makes it seem very likely more than 1,000 civilians died in 2014. However, the lack of data makes it impossible to know for sure.
[4] Like North Korea, there's just not enough data to say. It's not that we don't know that huge numbers of people were killed by organized crime, but it's unclear how many of those count as civilians (cartel members are combatants in this case). It seems likely, but one can't be sure.
[5] While the civilian death toll almost certainly exceeded 1,000 in 2014, to my knowledge, no one single group can claim to have killed more than 1,000 noncombatants.
Tags: Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan, Burma, CAR, DRC, Egypt, Forecasting, Gaza, Iraq, Israel, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela
I'm Not That Great a Forecaster: Looking back on my past predictions and learning how to improve
In early January of 2013, I wrote two posts that outlined six conflicts to watch for civilian protection advocates in the coming year. Without any concrete methodology, I picked out Sudan, Afghanistan, Mali, Kenya, Syria (specifically violence in a post-Assad Syria), and Central Asia. Arguably, I was wrong in five of the six cases if the criteria is that the violence had to get significantly worse from 2012 to 2013 in the manner that I predicted (it gets even worse when you think about all 2013 conflicts I omitted; Nigeria, Egypt, CAR, and Iraq all experienced episodes of mass killing that have intensified since 2012). I'll briefly outline how I did country by country, address what I did wrong, and because it's that time of year again, propose predictions for 2014. If you don't want to read the whole thing, feel free to skip to the bulleted predictions.
Sudan had a turbulent year, but it's nothing really out of the ordinary for the troubled country. #SudanRevolts returned in September and October and prompted a fairly superficial cabinet reshuffle, but not much else. Violence continued to rage in Darfur, South Kordofan, and Blue Nile. Although violence increased in Darfur and perhaps South Kordofan, it was not a radical departure for 2012. In my last sentence of my Sudan section, I briefly mentioned South Sudan. While the violence in Jonglei between the Lou Nuer and Murle ebbed slightly in 2013, any progress made in the country was obliterated by the crisis that began on December 15th and has enveloped the country. It's unclear how many people have died, but it probably constitutes a mass killing. Mali has certainly experienced some violence in 2013, but there is no way that it was worse than 2012. The French-African intervention was fairly successful at expelling the jihadist-Tuareg alliance from Northern Mali. Fairly successful elections went ahead and the leader of the initial coup, Amadou Haya Sanogo, has been arrested and will be put on trial.
Afghanistan is probably the only case I got right. Civilian casualties increased in the first half (and possibly the second) of 2013, marking a reversal in 2012's trend. For every success there's a failure, and Kenya is that failure. The March elections went off smoothly, and so I was really wrong. I was right to predict that 2013 would be worse than 2012 for Syrians, but it didn't happen in the way I thought. At the time, it seemed very likely Assad would fall, initiating a mass killing of Alawites in and around Latakia. That didn't happen. Instead, massive violence continued against civilian populations throughout Syria mostly with the exception of Latakia. Finally, like Kenya, I really got Central Asia wrong. There was not significant violence in any Central Asian country (excluding Afghanistan) this calendar year. Regime change could have potentially caused conflict, but those pesky autocratic regimes just won't go away.
So how can I improve? First, it would have helped if I had had a concrete measurement for what constituted conflict. Second, it would have made sense to have had a constant metric for assessing why I thought conflict would occur in certain places. Figuring out what my predicted conflict zones had in common and why they were different from other potential conflict zones would have improved my methodology, even if creating a model from a hunch isn't the best social science (if someone wants to pay me to blog I promise my methodology will be more robust). My analysis also would have improved if I had laid out specifically what changes I was looking for and how they fit into a larger historical narrative. For example, while there was both a history of and a potential for political instability in Central Asia, my only data points were the 2005 massacre in Andijan, Uzbekistan and the 2010 violence in Osh, Kyrgyzstan.
So moving into my predictions for 2014, rather than creating a complete methodology of my own, I'm going to borrow two of Jay Ulfelder's crowd-sourced forecasting projects as points of reference. The first is the Center for Genocide Prevention's online opinion pool (password needed). The opinion pool aggregates the opinions of currently fifty individuals interested in atrocity prevention to create averaged probabilities about the likelihood of a particular event. The questions are generally phrased like this, "Before X date, will an episode of state-led mass killing occur in Y country." The second is a wiki survey also originating from the Center for Genocide Prevention. The results demonstrate how much more likely any particular country is to experience an episode of state-led mass killing than other countries during 2014.
In order and with percentages, these are the countries that I think are most likely to experience a mass killing (defined as more than 1,000 civilian deaths) in 2014:
Burma (20%)
Egypt (10%)
Venezuela (5%)
My predictions are largely based on the crowd-sourced forecasts from Jay's two projects, aren't identical. I'll explain why, country by country, below.
Obviously, the chances that a mass killing will happen in Syria are very, very high (the wiki survey is definitely wrong in placing Syria 6th). However, the opinion pool's average probability that there will be a mass killing of Alawite civilians in Latakia province stands at 43%. I think this is too high, and the real probability stands nearer 15%. For a mass killing of Alawites to happen, the Assad regime would have to collapse or severely weaken. Demonstrated by my false prediction of his doom in early 2013, Assad has proven surprisingly durable. Civil wars tend to last a long time, so especially with the increasing fragmentation of the opposition, it's doubtful Assad will be defeated anytime soon.
South Sudan, Iraq, and CAR all have ongoing conflict that will almost certainly include a case of mass killing, committed either by government or rebel forces, in 2014. Iraq and CAR definitely experienced a mass killing episode in 2013, and South Sudan probably did, but the concrete numbers to confirm it don't exist. I pegged the chances of a future mass killing as slightly lower in CAR only because of the combination of the peacekeeping force and the higher potential for resolution than in South Sudan.
Jay Ulfelder, in his review of mass killing in 2013, wrote of Sudan, "…where the uncertainty is not whether the regime is engaging in mass killing but in how many parts of the country at once and targeting how many different groups." He's right, and unfortunately civilians in Darfur, South Kordofan, and Blue Nile will likely continue to suffer in 2014. In the opinion pool, a question asks the probability that Sudan will carry out a mass killing of anti-government activists will occur in 2015, and places the average at 31%. I think this is far, far too high. Despite significant anti-government protests, the body count has always remained low. The Sudanese regime is intelligent in this respect, instead opting for mass arrests of protest leaders. The scarcity of bloody street confrontations decreases the potential of igniting the paradox of repression. It is also telling that the bloodiest anti-government protest this year happened in Nyala, South Darfur. Khartoum is happy to take the fight to enemies in the periphery, but remains wary of the threat from the center. If the government were to significantly weaken, there's an increased chance it would unleash lethal violence against anti-government activists. However, despite increasing organization from the political opposition and calls that the regime was about to fall, the NCP remains in power.
Afghanistan probably experienced a mass killing with the Tailban as the perpetrators in 2013, and there aren't a lot of positive signs for the future. In North Korea, it's basically impossible to tell how many people are dying each year in giant concentration camps. 50% is simply a wild guess.
Drug violence in Mexico is out of control, but I'm hesitant to peg a high probability of a mass killing because it's unclear what share of civilians vs. cartel members are killed in drug violence (in a tweet, Jay confirmed that cartel members count as combatants). Bottom line: a lot of people will die in Mexico in 2014, but it may or may not constitute a mass killing.
Nigeria experienced a classic case of a counterinsurgent mass atrocity last year, and despite some international attention on the issue, there is still a decent chance it happens again. Nigeria is 14th on the wiki survey for the chances of state-led killing (too low in my opinion) for 2014 but doesn't appear as a question in the opinion pool.
Burma is a country that is very much in the news for people interested in atrocity prevention, but I'm more optimistic than other analysts about the prospects for 2014. Burma's counterinsurgencies against ethnic-minority armies are long-running, but have recently had quite low body counts. I see no reason for that trend to stop. The opinion pool predicts there is a 35% chance of a mass killing of Rohingya in 2014. No single rioting incident has yet escalated to widespread killing (the Meiktila incident killed dozens, not hundreds). Despite the massive persecution the Rohingya face, the levels of lethal violence have remained relatively low. Without an obvious trigger, I think more slow-motion ethnic cleaning is far more likely than a full-blown mass killing in 2014.
DRC placed fourth in the wiki survey. Perhaps this is a bit excessive, but not completely unwarranted. The combination of a country in transition from autocracy to democracy, the prevalence of armed groups in the Kivus, and intrusive neighbors means the risk of a mass killing in the DRC remains relatively high.
Egypt also suffers from an unfortunate history. Last year, the government undertook a mass killing in response to pro-Morsi demonstrations. A similar scenario could repeat itself, violence in the Sinai could rapidly increase, or even less likely, a civil war that involves mass killing could erupt. All of this is plausible, if not incredibly likely (Egypt is 15th in the wiki survey).
The situation is not absolutely analogous to the DRC's, but Mali also suffers from a somewhat unstable post-major conflict environment. The opinion pool average for a state-led mass killing rests at 13%. I think this is too high (probably suffering from the bias that comes from forecasting rare events) because of the progress Mali has made since 2012, but not terribly so. In the wiki survey, Mali is 3rd, which strikes me as overly pessimistic.
Finally, Venezuela is a bit of a stretch, but I decided to include it anyways. Few atrocity prevention advocates are paying attention despite the high political instability and absolutist rhetoric coming out of the Maduro administration. Though Venezuela appears 82nd on the wiki survey and isn't in a region of the world that has been prone to mass killing recently, I think a political crisis resulting in a government mass killing is plausible if still very unlikely.
Correction: Jay Ulfelder wrote this in a comment, "One point of clarification about Syria and some of the other cases you discuss: in both the statistical modeling and the wiki survey, we're looking at the risk that a *new episode* of mass killing will start, not the risk that the one(s) we're seeing now will continue. So Syria could hypothetically get a very low predicted probability or rank if the models or crowd deemed it unlikely that the state would begin deliberately killing large numbers of civilians from a discrete group it isn't already targeting now. Hence the question in the Syrian case about Alawites but not one about the groups the regime is killing in large numbers now." I didn't realize that when I wrote the post.
Tags: #SudanRevolts, Afghanistan, Assad, Bashir, Burma, CAR, Central Asia, DRC, Egypt, Forecasting, FSA, Iraq, Jihadists, Kenya, Mali, Mexico, NCP, Nigeria, North Korea, Rohingya, South Sudan, SPLM, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela


As you can probably tell, I love talking about technology and podcasting. These topics (among others) are ones that I'm hugely interested in and passionate about. Since my podcast network, Radio CSS Media, doesn't currently have a tech related show I enjoy it when I'm able to jump in on the tech talk on other people's shows. I've been honored to be asked to be a guest host on a couple of shows recently so I thought I'd share them with you.
As you may know I'm a huge Android fan and user of many of Google's other products so I was thrilled when John Hanlon, host of the Google At A Glance podcast, asked me to come on their show. I had a blast talking with John about the latest Google related news stories. You can check out that episode here.
More recently I was contacted by Steve Lee, founder and producer of NetCast Studio, to join him and his cohosts on the Waves of Tech podcast. This technology show is unique in that it approaches tech news from the standpoint of how the technology affects the lives of the everyday user. So it's more commentary and opinion than just news, which I really like. You can check out that show here.
Also, both my wife Kristin and I were guests on a segment of a recent episode of Spinal Column Radio with host Dr. Thomas Lamar. This was not a technology related show, but I thought I'd share it anyway. You can check out that episode here. The segment with us begins at 1:05:50.


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"The medical version of the world's hardest math problem".
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Cyanobacterial neurotoxin. Neurodegenerative disease. Contamination.
Who would have imagined that these three terms would leave neurologists and nutritional anthropologists searching for the answer to the medical version of the world's hardest math problem?
It may be hard to comprehend, but the journey to uncover the truth falls on a long and convoluted path. It all began when enthnobotanist Paul Alan Cox visited the Indigenous people of Gaum to explore the rainforest on a quest to conquer cancer. Shortly after arriving, his career took a pivotal turn and he found himself following a new trail of clues.
He began trying to connect the dots between cyanobacterial neurotoxins, neurodegenerative disease, and contamination.
It is undeniable that he played a role in pioneering the interest within this field. Since then, there have been major scientific developments in the fields of neurobiology, epidemiology, and ecology.
This research has led to the unlikely hypothesis that B-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a cyanobacterial neurotoxin found in contaminated shellfish and drinking water may be a major contributing factor in neurodegenerative diseases. In fact, lab tests revealed that BMAA causes convulsions in chicks and rats and damaged neurons in rats and mice.
Because cyanobacteria photosynthesize, scientists once classified them as algae (and many people still refer to them as blue-green algae). Modern genetics however, reveals a distinct evolutionary lineage. Cyanobacteria either form symbiotic relationships with other organisms or live alone in fresh and marine waters, where they can erupt in sprawling and often toxic blooms associated with high nutrient inputs. They also are found in desert crusts, where they spring to life with seasonal rains.
The incidence of cyanobacterial blooms have increased worldwide and may grow even more widespread with warming climates. This widened presence of cyanobacteria is alarming within the scientific community after the suggestion that they may be partially responsible for Alzheimer's Disease and Huntington's disease. We don't fully understand the minute details, but many scientists have pledged to figure it out.
This is where the environmental link comes into play.
We don't know exact description of how these three factors are linked, but we do know that the precautionary principle tells us that we shouldn't sit it out.
In fact, it has been proven over and over again that no matter how hard we try to separate our mental, physical and spiritual health from the overall health of the earth..it cannot be done. The health of the global ecosystem is integral to health of those who call it home. These gene-environment interactions cannot be escaped.
So what is being done? Well, most plans suggest that we must raise awareness amongst our communities about the presence of these cyanobacterial toxins in recreation, agriculture, aquaculture, and drinking water supplies. Currently, this is being achieved via workshops, seminars, handbooks, and other professional international and local projects. Researchers argue that these actions also need to be implemented in developing countries.
In addition, multidisciplinary working groups have been established, however strict guidelines that aim to prevent cyanobacterial blooms still need to be implemented, followed, and enforced.
After all, policies can only be implemented if there is knowledge about why they are needed.
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package com.jetbrains.edu.learning.stepic;

import com.google.gson.FieldNamingPolicy;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.intellij.openapi.application.ApplicationManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.StringUtil;
import com.intellij.util.net.HttpConfigurable;
import com.intellij.util.net.ssl.CertificateManager;
import org.apache.http.*;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.DefaultConnectionReuseStrategy;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.Proxy;
import java.net.URI;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class EduStepicAuthorizedClient {
  private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getInstance(EduStepicAuthorizedClient.class.getName());
  private static final String ourClientId = "hUCWcq3hZHCmz0DKrDtwOWITLcYutzot7p4n59vU";
  private static CloseableHttpClient ourClient;

  private EduStepicAuthorizedClient() {
  }

  @NotNull
  public static CloseableHttpClient getHttpClient() {
    if (ourClient != null) {
      return ourClient;
    }
    final StepicUser stepicUser = StepicUpdateSettings.getInstance().getUser();
    ourClient = initializeClient(stepicUser);
    if (ourClient == null) {
      final StepicUser user = login(stepicUser);
      if (user != null) {
        StepicUpdateSettings.getInstance().setUser(user);
        ourClient = initializeClient(stepicUser);
      }
    }
    return ourClient;
  }

  public static <T> T getFromStepic(String link, final Class<T> container) throws IOException {
    return EduStepicClient.getFromStepic(link, container, getHttpClient());
  }

  /*
   * This method should be used only in project generation while project is not available.
   * Make sure you saved stepic user in task manager after using this method.
   */
  @NotNull
  public static CloseableHttpClient getHttpClient(@NotNull final StepicUser stepicUser) {
    if (ourClient != null) {
      return ourClient;
    }
    ourClient = initializeClient(stepicUser);
    if (ourClient == null) {
      final StepicUser user = login(stepicUser);
      if (user != null) {
        StepicUpdateSettings.getInstance().setUser(user);
        ourClient = initializeClient(stepicUser);
      }

    }
    if (ourClient == null) {
      ourClient = EduStepicClient.getHttpClient();
    }
    return ourClient;
  }

   /*
   * This method should be used only in project generation while project is not available.
   * Make sure you saved stepic user in task manager after using this method.
   */
  public static <T> T getFromStepic(String link, final Class<T> container, @NotNull final StepicUser stepicUser) throws IOException {
    return EduStepicClient.getFromStepic(link, container, getHttpClient(stepicUser));
  }

  @Nullable
  private static CloseableHttpClient initializeClient(@NotNull final StepicUser stepicUser) {
    final List<BasicHeader> headers = new ArrayList<>();
    final String accessToken = stepicUser.getAccessToken();
    if (accessToken != null && !accessToken.isEmpty()) {
      headers.add(new BasicHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken));
      headers.add(new BasicHeader("Content-type", EduStepicNames.CONTENT_TYPE_APP_JSON));
      return getBuilder().setDefaultHeaders(headers).build();
    }
    return null;
  }

  @NotNull
  private static TrustManager[] trustAllCerts() {
    // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate for this connection
    return new TrustManager[]{new X509TrustManager() {
      public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
        return null;
      }

      public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
      }

      public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
      }
    }};
  }

  @NotNull
  private static HttpClientBuilder getBuilder() {
    final HttpClientBuilder builder = HttpClients.custom().setSslcontext(CertificateManager.getInstance().getSslContext()).
      setMaxConnPerRoute(100000).setConnectionReuseStrategy(DefaultConnectionReuseStrategy.INSTANCE);

    final HttpConfigurable proxyConfigurable = HttpConfigurable.getInstance();
    final List<Proxy> proxies = proxyConfigurable.getOnlyBySettingsSelector().select(URI.create(EduStepicNames.STEPIC_URL));
    final InetSocketAddress address = proxies.size() > 0 ? (InetSocketAddress)proxies.get(0).address() : null;
    if (address != null) {
      builder.setProxy(new HttpHost(address.getHostName(), address.getPort()));
    }
    final TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = trustAllCerts();
    try {
      SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
      sslContext.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
      builder.setSslcontext(sslContext);
    }
    catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException | KeyManagementException e) {
      LOG.error(e.getMessage());
    }
    return builder;
  }

  private static StepicUser login(@NotNull final StepicUser user) {
    final String login = user.getEmail();
    final String refreshToken = user.getRefreshToken();
    if (StringUtil.isEmptyOrSpaces(login)) {
      return showLoginDialog();
    }
    else if (StringUtil.isNotEmpty(refreshToken)) {
      final StepicWrappers.TokenInfo tokenInfo = login(refreshToken);
      if (tokenInfo != null) {
        user.setupTokenInfo(tokenInfo);
      }
    }
    return null;
  }

  private static StepicUser showLoginDialog() {
    final StepicUser[] stepicUser = new StepicUser[1];
    ApplicationManager.getApplication().invokeAndWait(() -> {
      final LoginDialog dialog = new LoginDialog();
      dialog.show();
      stepicUser[0] = dialog.getStepicUser();
    });
    return stepicUser[0];
  }

  @Nullable
  public static StepicUser login(@NotNull final String email, @NotNull final String password) {
    final List<NameValuePair> parameters = new ArrayList<>();
    if (password.isEmpty()) return null;
    parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("client_id", ourClientId));
    parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("grant_type", "password"));
    parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", email));
    parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", password));

    final StepicUser user = new StepicUser(email, password);
    final StepicWrappers.TokenInfo tokenInfo = getTokens(parameters);
    if (tokenInfo != null) {
      user.setupTokenInfo(tokenInfo);
      final StepicUser currentUser = getCurrentUser(getHttpClient(user));
      if (currentUser != null) {
        user.setId(currentUser.getId());
      }
    }
    ourClient = initializeClient(user);
    return user;
  }

  public static void invalidateClient() {
    ourClient = null;
  }

  private static StepicWrappers.TokenInfo login(@NotNull final String refreshToken) {
    final List<NameValuePair> parameters = new ArrayList<>();

    if (refreshToken.isEmpty()) return null;
    parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("client_id", ourClientId));
    parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("content-type", "application/json"));
    parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("grant_type", "refresh_token"));
    parameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("refresh_token", refreshToken));

    return getTokens(parameters);
  }

  @Nullable
  static StepicUser getCurrentUser(CloseableHttpClient client) {
    try {
      final StepicWrappers.AuthorWrapper wrapper = EduStepicClient.getFromStepic(EduStepicNames.CURRENT_USER,
                                                                                StepicWrappers.AuthorWrapper.class,
                                                                                client);
      if (wrapper != null && !wrapper.users.isEmpty()) {
        return wrapper.users.get(0);
      }
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
      LOG.warn("Couldn't get author info");
    }
    return null;
  }

  @Nullable
  private static StepicWrappers.TokenInfo getTokens(@NotNull final List<NameValuePair> parameters) {
    final Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setFieldNamingPolicy(FieldNamingPolicy.LOWER_CASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES).create();

    final HttpPost request = new HttpPost(EduStepicNames.TOKEN_URL);
    request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(parameters, Consts.UTF_8));

    try {
      final CloseableHttpClient client = EduStepicClient.getHttpClient();
      final CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
      final StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
      final HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
      final String responseString = responseEntity != null ? EntityUtils.toString(responseEntity) : "";
      EntityUtils.consume(responseEntity);
      if (statusLine.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
        return gson.fromJson(responseString, StepicWrappers.TokenInfo.class);
      }
      else {
        LOG.warn("Failed to Login: " + statusLine.getStatusCode() + statusLine.getReasonPhrase());
      }
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
      LOG.warn(e.getMessage());
    }
    return null;
  }
}


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What's an automated external defibrillator?
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Why launch this program now?
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Q: nested queries - inner query loop ends outer query loop I have 2 queries that loop through their recordsets to give output from the inner loop. The outer query loop has several records and the inner query should fire for each record. I'm only getting the first recoed of the outer query loop once the inner loop runs.
I have tried naming $result for the inner query to $result2 and get the error: sqlsrv_fetch_array(): supplied resource is not a valid ss_sqlsrv_stmt resource.
// outer loop
$serverName = "livedata";
$connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"ParishHomilyArchive", "UID"=>"ParishUser", "PWD"=>"P@\$\$word" );
$conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo);
if( $conn === false ) {
 die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

if (isset($_REQUEST['Par_Num'])){
    $PN = $_REQUEST['Par_Num'];
}
else{
    $PN = 0;
}

$sql="SELECT Staff.StaffID, Staff.Name, Staff.Photo,     Staff_Position.StaffPage_ID, StaffPages.StaffPageName FROM parishStaff.dbo.StaffPages RIGHT JOIN (ParishStaff.dbo.Staff_Position RIGHT JOIN ParishStaff.dbo.Staff ON Staff_Position.Staff_ID = Staff.StaffID) ON StaffPages.StaffPageID = Staff_Position.StaffPage_ID WHERE (((Staff.par_Num)=" . $PN . ")) ORDER BY Staff.Name, StaffPages.StaffPageName;";

$stmt = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql);
if( $stmt === false ) {
     die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

$result = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql);

while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($result)) {

    //output outer loop stuff

    //inner loop
    $serverName = "livedata";
    $connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"database", "UID"=>"User", "PWD"=>"password" );
    $conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo);
    if( $conn === false ) {
         die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
    }

    if (isset($_REQUEST['Par_Num'])){
        $PN = $_REQUEST['Par_Num'];
    }
    else{
        $PN = 0;
    }

    $sql2="SELECT StaffPages.StaffPageID, StaffPages.StaffPageName FROM parishStaff.dbo.ParishPages INNER JOIN ParishStaff.dbo.StaffPages ON ParishPages.StaffPage_ID = StaffPages.StaffPageID WHERE (((ParishPages.Par_Num)=" . $PN . ") AND (Not (StaffPages.StaffPageID)=(SELECT StaffPages.StaffPageID FROM ParishStaff.dbo.StaffPages LEFT JOIN (ParishStaff.dbo.Staff_Position LEFT JOIN ParishStaff.dbo.Staff ON Staff_Position.Staff_ID = Staff.StaffID) ON StaffPages.StaffPageID = Staff_Position.StaffPage_ID WHERE (((Staff.StaffID)=" . $row['StaffID']. " )))));";

    $stmt = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql2);
    if( $stmt2 === false ) {
         die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
    }
    $result = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql2);

    while($row2 = sqlsrv_fetch_array($result)) {

        //output inner loop stuff

    }

}

I want the outer loop to not end after first iteration of inner loop.

A: To answer your question I rearranged your code a little and set different variables on outerloop resultset and innerloop resultset. I also removed code that were not actually useful for anything like:
$stmt = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql2);
if( $stmt2 === false ) {
     die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}
$result = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql2);

Above creates a resultset in $stmt and then creates a resultset in $result. There's only need for one call to the sqlserver here.
<?php
//This is BEFORE loop.. Just need to connect once
$serverName = "livedata";
$connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"dbname", "UID"=>"user", "PWD"=>"password" );
$conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo);
if( $conn === false ) {
 die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

if (isset($_REQUEST['Par_Num'])){
    $PN = $_REQUEST['Par_Num'];
}
else{
    $PN = 0;
}

$sql="{your SQL-statement}";
$result_outerloop = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql);
if( $result_outerloop === false ) {
     die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($result_outerloop)) {

    $sql2="{your SQL-statement}";
    $result_innerresult = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql2); //Not same variable as $result_outerloop
    if( $result_innerresult === false ) {
        die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
    }

    while($row2 = sqlsrv_fetch_array($result_innerresult)) {
        //output inner loop stuff
    }

}

But as @Sean Lange points out the SQL itself are not good practice at all. Please read up on parameterized queries. It's actually much easier than doing the way you are doing it.

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Epigenetics is the science that shows that we do not need to be victims of our genetic inheritance. The Human Genome project, was expected to confirm the existence of over 100,000 individual genes.
However, it was discovered that only 23,000 genes make up the human genome, barely more than the common fruit fly and far less than those found in a grain of rice.
This raised the question of what else could be controlling gene expression?
The answer is Epigenetics, which is the interaction between environmental signals and the process of adaptation that living systems use to thrive. Back in 1700's Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that life forms could acquire 'information' from their environment and incorporate it into their epigenome.
Quantum Physics was incorporated into the field of molecular biology by Erwin Schrödinger to set the basis for what we now know as epigenetics.
Today, we know that gene expression that is not mediated by coding DNA, representing only 2% of the genomic expression. It is rather influenced by informational signals received from the environment by non-coding DNA, which represent the remaining 98% of what is referred to as junk DNA.
Harmful signals emanating from the environment cause disharmony, so the human body responds accordingly changing the phenotype without altering the genotype. This change is reflected in our physiology.
These signals include information from the air we breathe, the food we eat, the impact of the electromagnetic environment and even the 50,000+ thoughts we have per day.


Under the screen based environment, computerised matching of orders and quotes takes place. At the end of the trading session the member has to download his daily transaction reports etc. from the system. At the end of the Settlement period Delivery Price (usually the closing price at the last day of the Settlement period) will be fixed by the system to enable the members to receive or deliver scrips at uniform rates and netting of trades is done by the system and the following Settlement reports are generated by the system for each member. The member can download these reports on second day of the Settlement end date.
- Statement of scripwise net deliveries to be made by the member.
- Statement of scripwise net deliveries to be received by the member.
- Balance Sheet showing the net receivable or not payable by the Member.
The Members has to deliver the Securities (otherwise known as Securities pay-in) to the Exchange as per the Statement of scrip-wise net deliveries downloaded by them.
- The securities pay in takes place three working days after the trade date. Members have to deliver the shares by 11.00 a.m. on the pay in date through their depository participant. The Execution date for the Depository Participant is usually one day before the securities pay in date. The securities pay in takes place through both Depositories (i.e. NSDL & CDSL) simultaneously.
- The securities pay in for trades done through the odd lot segment are done on the third working day after the trade date. Members have to deliver their shares in physical form to the clearing house by 12.00 p.m. on the securities pay in date.
- Monies payable/receivable by the member on account of receipt/normal delivery of shares. - Monies payable/receivable by member on account of odd lot receipt/delivery of shares. This is done separately from the rolling settlement and through a separate balance sheet.
- Turnover charges and Securities Transaction Tax (STT) based on the turnover of member. The rate of turnover charges varies as per slab system of total turnover by member.
Based on the above figures net payable or receivable position of the members is computed and reported to the members vide their download of Balance Sheet.
The Clearing Bank debits on the 3rd day within 11 a.m. from the last date of settlement period, the Settlement Accounts of the members maintained with the Bank with net payable amount appearing in Member's Balance Sheet. Separate Balance Sheets are generated for Rolling Settlements and Odd Lot Settlements.
The Clearing Bank credits on the 3rd day after 3 p.m. from the last date of Settlement period, the settlement accounts of the members maintained with the Bank with net receivable amount appearing in Members Balance Sheet separately for Rolling Settlement and Odd Lot Settlement.
The securities pay out takes place on the same date as the securities pay in date i.e. in the third working day after the trade date. The securities pay out is done simultaneously through both depositories (NSDL & CDSL) and the process is usually completed by 3 p.m.
Auction Rate : This is the weighted average rate of all the selected offers based on the lowest price. Only the selected quantity from the offers is considered for this purpose. This has relation to defaulter debit note.
Cut-off Rate : This is the maximum rate and minimum rate at which an offer is accepted. This rate will be closing rate of the scrip on the Auction Day plus a cut-off percentage as decided by the Exchange. At present this percentage is 20%.
Closeout Rate : This rate is used to compute the amount to be given to the Buyer in case there is no offer or partial offer in the Auction. This rate is the highest rate on the trade date plus 20% OR the highest rate from the trade date to the auction date, whichever is higher.
After the Auction Session the System accepts the lowest offers and if there are no offers for the scrip the same will be closed out at close-out rate. Accordingly the members have to download their Auction Reports and deliver the shares to the Exchange 2 working days after the auction. The Exchange then delivers the same to the Members who are to receive the shares. The process for the securities pay in and pay out for Auction is the same as that of the settlement process. Thereafter the exchange advises the Clearing Bank to debit the accounts of defaulters with the difference of Auction rate and Original Delivery rate and credit the accounts of Auction Sellers.
In case of default in Odd Lot trades, no auction takes place for any short or non delivery of shares. Instead, the shares are directly closed out against the defaulting member.


There's something about a new year that makes me want to organize and put away. You too? I'm thinking these cardboard-yet-classy Wallpockets would make straightening up even more satisfying.
While hiding away all sorts of small objects, the recycled cardboard pentagons double as modern art. Cleverly designed by Tim Karoleff for Ampersand [edit: no longer available].
Remember, the giveaway for two packages of Box-Envelopes, perfect for mailing dimensional cards, ends this Sunday, January 8.
I don't think I've seen before objects like these. I like them for their design and utility.
Best wishes for the new year, Ann.
You put together a wonderful Fab Friday collection, Ann! I haven't gotten one thing done, ha, but that's ok. I am full of inspiration! Happy Friday to you!
What a beautiful idea to upcycle and so useful too.
Happy New Year! Looking forward to even more wonderful paper art inspiration on your blog in 2012!
The wallpockets are so funky!!
Thanks for the links to the great window displays and the photoshoot with Yulia.