Coney Island is the place to go for sand and surf, the Cyclone and zany side shows. But Steven L. Volla thinks the oceanfront community's real attraction sits just north of the boardwalk at Ocean Parkway and Avenue Z.
Volla, chairman of Wayne, Pa.-based Primary Health Systems, is negotiating for control of Coney Island Hospital, a 460-bed public facility operated by New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., the nation's largest municipal hospital system. Coney Island is one of at least three hospitals up for sale or lease under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's embattled privatization plan.
As part of his election-year platform in 1993, the mayor suggested turning over HHC hospitals to the private sector, which he believes is better prepared to make the kinds of investments that will enable the public facilities to thrive in today's managed-care environment.
According to City Hall, the long-term lease of Coney Island will save taxpayers an estimated $100 million from operations, capital improvements, subsidies and debt repayment over the first five years of the 49-year contract. In the year ended June 30, 1995, the hospital's operating expenses alone exceeded $212 million. But City Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi seriously doubts the city's estimate. From what he's been able to learn, the proposed sale of Coney Island and other public hospitals "will hurt uninsured patients, for sure" and "will cost the city more money," he said.
Coney Island's saga illustrates the difficulties involved in reforming a large public hospital system. Politics and emotions tend to cloud the task at hand: restructuring the public "safety net" to cope with the financial and competitive pressures imposed by managed care.
The mayor has been roundly rebuked for failing to reveal the specific financial and operational effects of privatization. Public health advocates also charge that the mayor lacks a specific list of criteria for measuring proposals from would-be operators, and that the process has been so secretive even HHC board members didn't receive advance notice of the PHS deal.
But Maria K. Mitchell, the mayor's health policy adviser, says these are "code words" for criticizing the mayor and his policies. The goals-improving quality, running more efficient hospitals and providing the same or better access-always have been clear, she said. In fact, she said, the city has produced a letter of intent that meets those goals.
Under the letter of intent, PHS-New York, an affiliate of Volla's private, for-profit hospital chain, tentatively agreed to defease or tender Coney Island's $43.6 million in debt and spend at least $25 million on major capital improvements. City officials now are engaged in negotiating a final contract for a 49-year lease with PHS. However, the city council is suing the mayor on the theory that the council has a role to play in the disposition of any city hospital. The suit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, is scheduled for argument this month.
Coney Island gives PHS a foot in New York's not-for-profit-dominated hospital community. It also provides the raw material for wresting tremendous efficiencies.
For starters, Volla said PHS would convert Coney Island's old four- and six-bed wards to private and semiprivate rooms, modernize obstetrical services, clean out emergency room congestion and expand ambulatory-care services. To attract locals who don't use the hospital, the company plans to develop geriatric-care services and seek Medicare managed-care contracting opportunities, he said. In 1995, the hospital generated 30.8% of net patient revenues from Medicare, 54% from Medicaid and the balance from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, self-paying patients and other payers.
Volla said he intends to do things that will erase Coney Island's "public" stigma, boost revenues and serve the community. As it is now, the hospital loses two-thirds of its potential market share to competing facilities, he said. According to the city's offering memorandum, the hospital's major competitors are Manhattan's academic medical centers and Maimonides Medical Center, a private, not-for-profit teaching hospital in Brooklyn. Volla said the company also intends to build a three- to four-hospital network in Brooklyn within the next 18 months.
"If it looks like a public hospital, walks like a public hospital and talks like a public hospital, then it must be one," he said.
But a "public" hospital is exactly what some community activists and public health advocates are fighting to preserve. They believe Giuliani's attempt to spin off Coney Island and two hospitals in Queens is a policy borne of political favoritism and fiscal greediness, having little to do with what's best for the city's poor and uninsured. Privatization, they say, puts HHC in the hands of operators with very different concerns.
Public health advocates are outraged by the city's attempt to cast off Coney Island, one of HHC's healthier hospitals, to a private, for-profit company. "This battle is about stealing public good for private gain," declared one community activist at a recent strategy session. "They've got more time. They've got more money. They've got more power. We've got people."
At a recent conference sponsored by the United Hospital Fund, a New York-based philanthropy, the challenge was summed up by Stanley Brezenoff, a former first deputy mayor who's now president of Maimonides Medical Center. Brezenoff said what must be avoided in a discussion of public or private ownership of hospitals is "a kind of ideological commitment to one form or another as if they are ends in themselves."
Ownership, said Charles Brecher, a public health professor and executive vice president and director of research for the Citizens Budget Commission, is "an inadequate concept for discussing the future of the hospital safety net." Brecher told the conference privatization is a good idea where there is "greater efficiency through means of competition," such as the small package delivery business pitting the U.S. Postal Service against the United Parcel Service. But in his view, "this model has little relevance to privatizing HHC."
A 1995 analysis co-authored by Brecher says the particular hospitals selected for privatization are not supported by "clear logic" (May 22, 1995, p. 17).
Publicly, the mayor and other top officials have said HHC's operating structure limits individual hospitals' ability to effectively compete in an increasingly competitive environment. With networks forming all over the city, Giuliani hopes to free HHC hospitals to strike new partnerships that ensure access, quality and cost-effective care.
But it's also clear the mayor doesn't believe the city can continue subsidizing public hospitals at the same level it has in the past. At Coney Island, for example, the city slashed tax subsidies to $181,000 in the year ended June 30, 1995, from the $10.3 million allocated in the previous budget. Obviously he believes the private sector can achieve efficiencies that will save the city millions on future operating subsidies and capital requirements.
The Giuliani administration wants to strike while the iron is hot. "If we wait until a new healthcare delivery system is in place," First Deputy Mayor Peter J. Powers wrote in a letter to Comptroller Hevesi, "HHC will be further isolated from the rest of the system-exacerbating the existing inequities and ensuring a two-tiered system that is beyond repair."
Researchers at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service project that 12,185 fewer beds, or 36.4% of the city's total bed capacity, will be needed in New York by 2000. HHC alone is expected to close 3,000 beds because of anticipated reductions in utilization and loss of market share.
"I think the most irresponsible thing we can do is to do nothing," said Maria K. Mitchell, the mayor's health policy adviser and chairwoman of HHC's board of directors.
HHC must change, agreed Lani Sanjek, a member of the coordinating committee of the Commission on the Public's Health System, a coalition of public health advocates. "I think it's a question of in which direction you look for change," she said.
But some observers say community health advocates have failed to be heard because they haven't presented anything fundamentally different from the status quo. There are other options between preserving a public hospital system and parceling it off to private hands.
At the United Hospital Fund meeting, John H. Short, a managing partner with Phase II Consulting in Salt Lake City, presented one option. His model calls for spinning off a group of HHC hospitals as a private, not-for-profit corporation.
"The mayor should not be in the hospital business," Short said. HHC has inadequate control over labor relations, procurement policies and even its leadership because all these are determined by officials outside its own board, he said.
In New York, community ties to the public hospital system always have been strong. Recently, about 35 Coney Island-area residents, many of them senior citizens, turned out for a strategy session on scuttling the Coney Island deal. Meeting organizers described the fight to preserve Coney Island as a "war" and PHS executives as "sharks." One woman, referring to Nomura Securities' $100 million debt capitalization of PHS, declared, "We don't want Japan to come in and take over."
The community activists are part of the Campaign to Save Our Public Hospitals, a labor-backed coalition whose members include the District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the Committee of Interns and Residents; the New York State Nurses Association; and more than a dozen other organizations.
There's a lot of fear that Coney Island Hospital no longer will take care of the uninsured and underserved as it had in the past, said Stanley Hill, DC 37's executive director. "History has shown us that, in terms of private hospitals, if you don't have insurance, you're not going to get the care," he said.
On April 15, DC 37 and leaders of labor, political, religious and community organizations filed a $791 million lawsuit against the mayor and the city, charging that city subsidies of HHC have fallen short of the minimum required under law. Filed in state Supreme Court, the suit contends that under the 1969 law creating HHC, the city is obligated to provide at least $175 million in tax levy subsidies plus adjustments for inflation.
Based on inflationary trends, the city should have contributed $780 million to HHC in 1996 and allocated $800 million for 1997, according to the suit. But the city budgeted just $97 million in 1996. At least two other lawsuits challenging the city's authority to privatize hospitals and the mayor's authority to enter hospital lease arrangements also have been filed.
Marianne Engelman Lado, assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is assisting with legal challenges aimed at preserving the city's safety net for the uninsured. "The very mission of HHC is on the line," she said.
Mitchell, the mayor's health policy adviser, doesn't see it that way. She headed Giuliani's advisory panel on the future of HHC, which recommended steps for transitioning the city out of the business of owning and operating a hospital system. The panel recommended that the city maintain "a full commitment to serving the uninsured" throughout the transition, and that is what the city intends to do, she said.
In the letter of intent involving the Coney Island deal, PHS-New York agreed to continue providing "the same level of access" currently provided by the hospital up to a "trigger point." The stop-loss arrangement obligates HHC to "subsidize" PHS-New York or "provide other relief." Skeptics question whether poor and uninsured patients will really have the same access they've always been assured.
Mitchell is taking a good deal of heat. Critics have attacked the advisory panel's composition and recommendations, its failure to fully address indigent care in its initial report, the city's behind-the-scenes dealmaking and alleged lack of planning for community needs.
Why the city would parcel off HHC hospitals at a time when most New York City hospitals are attempting to form networks themselves also troubles some.
"It's ironic because in some ways HHC is a model of how healthcare is likely to be structured in the city," said Deborah Bell, DC 37's coordinator of healthcare policy.
But Mitchell said HHC hospitals never have operated as a network. The structure has precluded individual hospitals in the corporation from entering joint ventures with private hospitals that might result in better regional systems of care. How anyone could say private hospitals are trying to replicate the HHC system is "a bit of a leap," she said.
Critics ask, if the mayor is committed to real reform, why didn't he choose to spin off HHC's King County Hospital Center? It's the largest, most used and one of the most financially troubled of the lot. If the cream of HHC's crop of hospitals is skimmed off, what financial consequences will the city suffer?
"I think that would have been an easy choice to make, but I don't know that it would have been successful," Mitchell responded.
For the year ended June 30, 1995, Coney Island lost $11.3 million on $220.9 million in net patient service revenues. But there's little doubt PHS will turn it around. Healthcare executives said Volla, former president and chief executive officer of American Healthcare Management, runs a tight ship. In Cleveland, where the company has acquired or has agreements to purchase five hospitals, PHS executives have earned a reputation as tough negotiators.
But critics question whether the quality of care will be better. A May 1996 report by the Cleveland Health Quality Choice Program finds higher-than-predicted mortality rates in some departments of two PHS hospitals: St. Alexis Hospital Medical Center and Deaconess Hospital. However, because the data are about a year old, they generally reflect the performance of previous operators, according to Dwain Harper, D.O., the Quality Choice Program's executive director. Changes in quality take a minimum of six months to a year to affect, he said. PHS didn't acquire the hospitals until shortly after it was formed in June 1994.
A Coney Island agreement would represent a rough-and-tumble victory for the city's top Republican. So far, though, privatization has moved ahead in fits and starts, with no known commitments for either Elmhurst Hospital Center or Queens Hospital Center, the other two hospitals up for bid.
But if some "big conglomerate" were to make an offer, "Rudy Giuliani would sell our system in two seconds," Hevesi charged. As chief of the city's financial affairs, Hevesi has authority to approve all debt issuances and review changes in HHC's debt structure.
"I have no ideologic problem with privatization," Hevesi said. But so far, the city has failed to show how the proposed sale or lease of HHC facilities will improve patient care or reduce costs, he added.


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Q: How to give an item to a Guild Member in Dragon Age Legends? I'm playing Dragon Age Legends on Google Plus. When I select a piece of loot, I get gifts popping up at the bottom, telling me I can give them to my Guild Members.

But when I drag it to one of them, nothing happens. So I'm wondering how I can give an item to a Guild Member?

A: It's either a server error, or you're trying to give the gift to an NPC. What's supposed to happen is that you drag the item down to a guild member, and a dialog box will pop up, asking you if you want to pay "shipping costs" to send the selected item to the recipient.

The cost varies with the value of the item. If you click Send & Post, the item becomes available to the recipient, and the gold and item are deducted from your inventory.

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Q: Transitioned from Subversion to Git, how do I push to heroku gracefully? I had been using a Subversion for my source control, combined with git ONLY to deploy (push) to heroku. My pattern was: Update local working copy from latest master at remote subversion repository. Then do git commit and git push heroku (Git was set to ignore .svn stuff). This working copy I only used to push to heroku, I had another subversion folder for doing live development, and committing to the remote subversion repository for tracking.
I have now switched to git fully. I did a complete import from subversion into a new remote git repository. I've successfully been working on my local working copy of the git repo (origin), and pushing changes when it suits me (also collaborating with one other developer, but I basically run the operation).
MY Question:
I would now like to return to my OTHER git working copy that I had previously been using to push to heroku (that has .svn/ stuff  in it as well). I'm thinking of just adding my new git repository as an [origin] entry in the .git/config.. pulling the latest changes from my new git remote, and pushing to heroku, but I'm wondering if it will freak out.
It will try and merge and get confused won't it? AND, even if the pull worked, will the heroku remote get confused about a push that originated from some new git repo?
I could clobber (delete) that working copy (used to push to heroku from subversion), and make a new clone of my new git repository, then add heroku to the .git/config. But I'm concerned pushing to heroku will still cause it to get confused, since I used to push from a different working copy.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks in advance!

A: If I understand you correctly, you want to switch back to the former SVN repository as your working copy, and you want to preserve the old SVN history?
There are a couple of options available.

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*Push the recent changes from the new Git repository to Heroku, then switch to the old repository and pull from Heroku. This will bring you old repository up to date.

*Temporarily change the URL in the old repository's config file to point to the local path of the new repository. Pull the recent changes from there, and then revert back to the Heroku URL when done. This will also bring your old repository up to date.
The first option is the most expedient, and the second is the long way round. Either way, you will have the same net result of an up to date local repository containing all history. The surplus new repository can be disposed of in either case.
Edit:
To address your concerns about whether Heroku will care about the origin of the commit, in brief, no the repository on Heroku is another git repository that accepts commits from authenticated users.
As long as the credentials are correct, the originating repository does not matter. This is the beautiful thing about DVCS - there is not one controlling or corruptible repository - It is entirely possible for you to now clone from Heroku on another machine and continue work from there. As long as your credentials are the same, the history will show any and all commits you push, but does not care where from.
If your desire is to simply use a clean repository to work with, the new one will be the favorite. The old one can be deleted without ill effects.
To prove this - check the SHA-1 hashes for a commit in both new and old repositories, and you will see they are identical. The hash is unique for all commits, and can be used to check the code integrity at all times. There will never be more than one change for any given hash.

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*As a side note, the repository is portable in that it is entirely self contained, and can be moved around freely on your storage space, or even be used on external storage such as a USB thumb drive.


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"""Tests for tfx.extensions.google_cloud_big_query.ml.pusher.executor."""

import copy
import os
from typing import Any, Dict
from unittest import mock

from google.cloud import bigquery
import tensorflow as tf
from tfx.dsl.io import fileio
from tfx.extensions.google_cloud_big_query.pusher import executor
from tfx.types import standard_artifacts
from tfx.utils import io_utils
from tfx.utils import json_utils

class ExecutorTest(tf.test.TestCase):

  def setUp(self):
    super().setUp()
    self._source_data_dir = os.path.join(
        os.path.dirname(
            os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))),
        'components', 'testdata')
    self._output_data_dir = os.path.join(
        os.environ.get('TEST_UNDECLARED_OUTPUTS_DIR', self.get_temp_dir()),
        self._testMethodName)
    fileio.makedirs(self._output_data_dir)
    self._model_export = standard_artifacts.Model()
    self._model_export.uri = os.path.join(self._source_data_dir,
                                          'trainer/current')
    self._model_blessing = standard_artifacts.ModelBlessing()
    self._input_dict = {
        'model': [self._model_export],
        'model_blessing': [self._model_blessing],
    }

    self._model_push = standard_artifacts.PushedModel()
    self._model_push.uri = 'gs://bucket/test_model_path'
    self._output_dict = {
        'pushed_model': [self._model_push],
    }
    self._exec_properties = {
        'custom_config': {
            'bigquery_serving_args': {
                'model_name': 'model_name',
                'project_id': 'project_id',
                'bq_dataset_id': 'bq_dataset_id',
                'compute_project_id': 'compute_project_id',
            },
        },
        'push_destination': None,
    }
    self._executor = executor.Executor()

    # Setting up Mock for external services
    self.addCleanup(mock.patch.stopall)
    self.mock_bq = mock.patch.object(bigquery, 'Client', autospec=True).start()
    self.mock_check_blessing = mock.patch.object(
        executor.Executor, 'CheckBlessing', autospec=True).start()
    self.mock_copy_dir = mock.patch.object(
        io_utils, 'copy_dir', autospec=True).start()

  def _serialize_custom_config_under_test(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
    """Converts self._exec_properties['custom_config'] to string."""
    result = copy.deepcopy(self._exec_properties)
    result['custom_config'] = json_utils.dumps(result['custom_config'])
    return result

  def assertPushed(self):
    self.mock_copy_dir.assert_called_with(
        src=mock.ANY, dst=self._model_push.uri)
    self.assertEqual(1, self._model_push.get_int_custom_property('pushed'))

  def assertNotPushed(self):
    self.assertEqual(0, self._model_push.get_int_custom_property('pushed'))

  def testPipelineRoot(self):
    self._model_push.uri = '/none_gcs_pipeline_root'
    with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
      self._executor.Do(self._input_dict, self._output_dict,
                        self._serialize_custom_config_under_test())

  def testBigQueryServingArgs(self):
    temp_exec_properties = {
        'custom_config': json_utils.dumps({}),
        'push_destination': None,
    }
    with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
      self._executor.Do(self._input_dict, self._output_dict,
                        temp_exec_properties)

  def testDoBlessed(self):
    self.mock_check_blessing.return_value = True
    self._executor.Do(self._input_dict, self._output_dict,
                      self._serialize_custom_config_under_test())
    self.mock_bq.assert_called_once()
    self.assertPushed()

  def testDoNotBlessed(self):
    self.mock_check_blessing.return_value = False
    self._executor.Do(self._input_dict, self._output_dict,
                      self._serialize_custom_config_under_test())
    self.mock_bq.assert_not_called()
    self.assertNotPushed()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  tf.test.main()

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As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallentry to involve in the same neglect a lady on whom that beadle had looked with an eye of tenderness and affection, and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words--trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated--hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands. Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which, he will be prepared to show, that a beadle properly constituted: that is to say, a parochial beadle, attached to a parochail workhouse, and attending in his official capacity the parochial church: is, in right and virtue of his office, possessed of all the excellences and best qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies' beadles, or court-of-law beadles, or even chapel-of-ease beadles (save the last, and they in a very lowly and inferior degree), lay the remotest sustainable claim.
Mr. Bumble had re-counted the teaspoons, re-weighed the sugar-tongs, made a closer inspection of the milk-pot, and ascertained to a nicety the exact condition of the furniture, down to the very horse-hair seats of the chairs; and had repeated each process full half a dozen times; before he began to think that it was time for Mrs. Corney to return. Thinking begets thinking; as there were no sounds of Mrs. Corney's approach, it occured to Mr. Bumble that it would be an innocent and virtuous way of spending the time, if he were further to allay his curiousity by a cursory glance at the interior of Mrs. Corney's chest of drawers.
Having listened at the keyhole, to assure himself that nobody was approaching the chamber, Mr. Bumble, beginning at the bottom, proceeded to make himself acquainted with the contents of the three long drawers: which, being filled with various garments of good fashion and texture, carefully preserved between two layers of old newspapers, speckled with dried lavender: seemed to yield him exceeding satisfaction. Arriving, in course of time, at the right-hand corner drawer (in which was the key), and beholding therein a small padlocked box, which, being shaken, gave forth a pleasant sound, as of the chinking of coin, Mr. Bumble returned with a stately walk to the fireplace; and, resuming his old attitude, said, with a grave and determined air, 'I'll do it!' He followed up this remarkable declaration, by shaking his head in a waggish manner for ten minutes, as though he were remonstrating with himself for being such a pleasant dog; and then, he took a view of his legs in profile, with much seeming pleasure and interest.
He was still placidly engaged in this latter survey, when Mrs. Corney, hurrying into the room, threw herself, in a breathless state, on a chair by the fireside, and covering her eyes with one hand, placed the other over her heart, and gasped for breath.
'Not for the world!' replied Mrs. Corney. 'I couldn't,--oh! The top shelf in the right-hand corner--oh!' Uttering these words, the good lady pointed, distractedly, to the cupboard, and underwent a convulsion from internal spasms. Mr. Bumble rushed to the closet; and, snatching a pint green-glass bottle from the shelf thus incoherently indicated, filled a tea-cup with its contents, and held it to the lady's lips.
'I'm better now,' said Mrs. Corney, falling back, after drinking half of it.
Mr. Bumble raised his eyes piously to the ceiling in thankfulness; and, bringing them down again to the brim of the cup, lifted it to his nose.
Mr. Bumble tasted the medicine with a doubtful look; smacked his lips; took another taste; and put the cup down empty.
'Very much so indeed, ma'am,' said the beadle. As he spoke, he drew a chair beside the matron, and tenderly inquired what had happened to distress her.
'We are all weak creeturs,' said Mrs. Corney, laying down a general principle.
Nothing was said on either side, for a minute or two afterwards. By the expiration of that time, Mr. Bumble had illustrated the position by removing his left arm from the back of Mrs. Corney's chair, where it had previously rested, to Mrs. Corney's aprong-string, round which is gradually became entwined.
Mrs. Corney drooped her head, when the beadle said this; the beadle drooped his, to get a view of Mrs. Corney's face. Mrs. Corney, with great propriety, turned her head away, and released her hand to get at her pocket-handkerchief; but insensibly replaced it in that of Mr. Bumble.
'The board allows you coals, don't they, Mrs. Corney?' inquired the beadle, affectionately pressing her hand.
'And candles,' replied Mrs. Corney, slightly returning the pressure.
The lady was not proof against this burst of feeling. She sank into Mr. Bumble's arms; and that gentleman in his agitation, imprinted a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose.
'Such porochial perfection!' exclaimed Mr. Bumble, rapturously.
'Yes,' replied Mrs. Corney, bashfully.
'Ye--ye--yes!' sighed out the matron.
Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits. While it was being disposed of, she acquainted Mr. Bumble with the old woman's decease.
'It wasn't anything particular, dear,' said the lady evasively.
'No, no, love!' interposed the lady, hastily.
'They wouldn't have dared to do it, love,' responded the lady.
Unembellished by any violence of gesticulation, this might have seemed no very high compliment to the lady's charms; but, as Mr. Bumble accompanied the threat with many warlike gestures, she was much touched with this proof of his devotion, and protested, with great admiration, that he was indeed a dove.
The dove then turned up his coat-collar, and put on his cocked hat; and, having exchanged a long and affectionate embrace with his future partner, once again braved the cold wind of the night: merely pausing, for a few minutes, in the male paupers' ward, to abuse them a little, with the view of satisfying himself that he could fill the office of workhouse-master with needful acerbity. Assured of his qualifications, Mr. Bumble left the building with a light heart, and bright visions of his future promotion: which served to occupy his mind until he reached the shop of the undertaker.
Now, Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry having gone out to tea and supper: and Noah Claypole not being at any time disposed to take upon himself a greater amount of physical exertion than is necessary to a convenient performance of the two functions of eating and drinking, the shop was not closed, although it was past the usual hour of shutting-up. Mr. Bumble tapped with his cane on the counter several times; but, attracting no attention, and beholding a light shining through the glass-window of the little parlour at the back of the shop, he made bold to peep in and see what was going forward; and when he saw what was going forward, he was not a little surprised.
The cloth was laid for supper; the table was covered with bread and butter, plates and glasses; a porter-pot and a wine-bottle. At the upper end of the table, Mr. Noah Claypole lolled negligently in an easy-chair, with his legs thrown over one of the arms: an open clasp-knife in one hand, and a mass of buttered bread in the other. Close beside him stood Charlotte, opening oysters from a barrel: which Mr. Claypole condescended to swallow, with remarkable avidity. A more than ordinary redness in the region of the young gentleman's nose, and a kind of fixed wink in his right eye, denoted that he was in a slight degree intoxicated; these symptoms were confirmed by the intense relish with which he took his oysters, for which nothing but a strong appreciation of their cooling properties, in cases of internal fever, could have sufficiently accounted.
'It's quite a cruelty,' said Charlotte.
Charlotte uttered a scream, and hid her face in her apron. Mr. Claypole, without making any further change in his position than suffering his legs to reach the ground, gazed at the beadle in drunken terror.
'Oh, Noah,' cried Charlotte, reproachfully.


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Which MP is most popular with startups? What do they really want from the government? A new survey has answers
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The team over at Startup Muster, one of the largest and most comprehensive surveys of the Australian start-up ecosystem, though still buried in analysis of the data they collected in this year's survey, are excited to share a couple of findings.
When asked to name a politician that has been particularly supportive of the start-up industry, long-time Liberal MP for Wentworth in Sydney, Malcolm Turnbull (pictured) garnered the most votes, named by roughly one in ten respondents (9.9 per cent).
"I'm not surprised to see Malcolm Turnbull is getting the support he's received from the start-up community," said one entrepreneur Alex Whiteside of EasyCompanies, a rapidly growing start-up.
"When we're dealing with the government we're often using systems older than ourselves," he explained. "As an entrepreneur himself, Turnbull remains connected to the community and advocates for a future where Australia relies more on our unlimited intellectual and innovation capability rather than our limited natural resources."
Why is Turnbull Aussie start-ups' favourite MP?
Turnbull, who is also the Minister for Communications, has in the past pointed out that creating the right conditions to promote innovation and boost productivity is a priority for the government. "We are improving the regulatory conditions that enable start-ups and tech companies to thrive."
"Part of this process has been unwinding changes to the tax treatment of Employee Share Schemes that were introduced by the former government in 2009 and which effectively brought to a halt the use of such schemes for start-up companies in Australia," he explained.
Turnbull has also revealed that they are also considering the introduction of smart laws to enable crowd funding as has been done in comparable markets including the US, New Zealand, Canada, Israel and the UK – a move that would be very welcome in the Aussie start-up scene.
"We must get out of the way of business and get the regulatory settings right to ensure that incentives exist to encourage our most promising tech entrepreneurs to turn that great idea into a truly transformative product," he concluded.
Who is Aussie start-ups' second favourite MP?
Alex Greenwich, independent Member for Sydney, was the second most popular MP with 2.9 per cent of responses naming him as their preference.
Alex has invested time in understanding and speaking to start-ups, including several weeks spent working from the Fishburners start-up space in Sydney.
"All levels of government need to lift their game in supporting digital entrepreneurship," he has previously said. "The future growth of our economy will not be dug out of the ground, it will be found in the innovation sector. From education to immigration, governments need to do what it takes to support this vital sector."
Murray Hurps, Startup Muster founder and GM of Fishburners says he was impressed with Greenwich when he arrived at Fishburners with his understanding of the issues facing start-ups, and impressed even further by the time he invested meeting with each of the over 100 start-ups in the Fishburners space over the following weeks.
However, in perhaps the most telling finding about how start-ups feel about the government and our politicians in general, it is worth noting that 45 per cent of the respondents answered "None" when asked to name a politician that has been particularly supportive of start-ups and another 27 per cent were "Unsure".
So what do start-ups want from the government?
When asked to name the most important thing government could do to support the industry, the most frequent responses involved either increased funding/grants (38 per cent of responses), or incentives for founders and investors to balance the financial risk (29 per cent).
"Matching grant funding from Coalition and Labor governments over many years has been crucial to the success of many Australian companies," Katherine Woodthorpe, former board member Commercialisation Australia highlighted.
"These include well known success stories like ResMed and Cochlear, and many less familiar companies like Moldflow, OnMarket Bookbuild and GoCatch."
"Since 2008, funding has reduced drastically and is now at an all time low," she pointed out. "In a world where we will no longer be able to rely on natural resources for our economic wellbeing, the need for smart companies with smart jobs to deliver our economic future becomes paramount."
"We need to nurture these companies, and this Startup Muster survey has indicated that government funding is crucial in their success," Katherine concluded.
Shadow Minister for Communications, Jason Clare seems to agree, previously saying, "Governments don't create successful start ups. People do that. Smart people. Innovative people. But Government does play a role. And it is more than just getting out of the way."
"We are a smart country. We have created everything from wifi to the black box," she pointed out. "But we have lots of challenges. Our venture capital industry is small and not well developed. We still don't have crowd funding and we are off the pace in R&D. We are also not producing enough workers with STEM skills. We need to fix this and fix it fast."
Finalizing the proposed ESOP reforms was requested by 13.3 per cent of start-up founders, which should mean a large number of happy start-up founders when changes are implemented on July 1st.
Improving support networks for start-ups (8.5 per cent), reducing red tape (7.6 per cent) and improving education for entrepreneurs and coding skills (6.9 per cent) were also among the top responses.
Furthermore, 4.4 per cent of respondents want government to simply "Get out of the way" and another 4.4 per cent want it to support start-up hubs and coworking spaces.
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I do not know. But looking at the data the values are very close.
To get the sd we would have to run the simulation many times and use the formula. But by inspection you can see the dispersion is going to be small.
I've run several 10,000-cycle simulations in LB and each result was a smidge over 223.0. The result of a 100,000 cycle was 223.03524.
My Excel results varied more, but all were still only just < or > 223. I only tested up to about 1,000 cycles, which would account for the variation difference between the two programs.
I started running 10 100000-cycles, but I wasn't at the computer long enough to check.
I got a shade over 223 also.
Here's my M code. As you'll see, I was thinking LB while coding M...but it works.
My initial code was slow because I was testing for '200 ones' from the first pick ( ), but changing the test to commence after 199 picks reduced processing time to 1/7th of previous.
My LB code for 100,000 cycles took well over 9 hours c.f. M's 271 seconds.
So, again, just a touch > 223.
That is fine. It is okay to go from one language to another looking for the same type of commands in each language.
That's really the only way I'll get anywhere with M for now. Anything that would require more dedicated study effort will have to wait until I get more time to be able to spend at it...but little by little I'm picking a few things up. Thanks for dangling the "extra credit" carrot...it motivated me.
Go at your own pace. You did well.
while. (+/a) < 200 do.
There may be a way to eliminate the loop and speed up.
About 15.8 seconds for 10000 trials.
What's the time taken by the mathematica code?
I do not know, I never ran a simulation of this one that did not use the answer to speed it up.
I am trying phrontister's code.
That's okay, he has mentioned his time for simulation.
I thought you had posted your code in this thread.
His code will do about 30 seconds but it is procedural and does not make use of the faster functional paradigm. Also it is not compiled.


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Published: 09/04/2021 Updated: Friday, 9 April 2021 7:34 PM GMT+10
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The Newcastle community is in mourning after the death of Knights junior Elijah Faalua in a car accident that has prompted a police investigation.
Faalua, 17, was killed in a car accident near Cessnock on Thursday night when a car driven by another 17-year-old crashed into a barrier on a private road.
Police said Faalua died at the scene after suffering critical injuries when he was thrown from the front passenger seat.
"The Newcastle Knights extend our sincere condolences to the friends and family of Harold Matthews Cup player Elijah Faalua, who tragically passed away in a motor vehicle accident on Thursday," the NRL club said.
Faalua played for the Knights' under-17s team last Saturday, while the team was not scheduled to play this weekend.
The promising player had primarily played on the wing for the Knights but scored a try in a win last month when he was moved to fullback.
Friends and locals posted tributes to Faalua as news of the accident spread on Facebook.
"God always takes the best! Rest easy Elijah Faalua," one friend wrote.
Newcastle Knights junior Elijah Faalua has died aged 17. Credit: Facebook
"Your goofy personality and your gorgeous smile will forever be missed! You were such a big part of everyone's lives and it's just heartbreaking knowing you won't be around anymore.
"My condolences go out to his beautiful family, his friends and anyone that knew him. Rest in paradise beautiful boy xx."
Another person wrote: "So so sad and such a talented young man, who will be sadly missed by all he has touched in his short time on earth. Condolences to his family and friends. Tell your family and friends you love them daily as you never know what's going to happen."
Maitland District Junior Rugby League Association described Faalua as a "true young gentleman".
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"As a rugby league community we are devastated, but we stand strong together. We have lost a true young gentleman, who was loved by all whom had the privilege of knowing him," officials wrote.
Maitland Touch Association urged parents in the "very shaken" community to look out for their own in the wake of Faalua's death.
"We ask that you check in with your kids, this isn't something for them to carry alone," the league wrote.
Faalua is the second NRL junior to have been killed in a car accident in the past year, after St George Illawarra Dragons under-20s player Stevenson Upulasi died in Sydney last July.
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NSW Police said the teenage driver of the car was taken to hospital with minor injuries and underwent mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
"Inquiries are underway into a single-vehicle crash near Cessnock overnight," NSW Police said.
"About 11.15pm (Thursday 8 April 2021), emergency services were called to a private road at Pelaw Main and found a Subaru Forrester had hit a barrier.
"A 17-year-old youth suffered critical injuries after he was thrown from the front passenger seat and died at the scene.
"The 17-year-old driver of the vehicle was taken to John Hunter Hospital with minor injuries; he's also undergone mandatory testing.
"Officers from Hunter Valley Police District established a crime scene and have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.
"A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner."
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Day 6 of the 24 Days of Christmas Crafting!
Today I decorate a strand of fairy lights with paper stars! And, because they run off of a battery, I can place them anywhere. Light up your paper projects by using LED strands instead of standard bulb light strands.
Do not use standard bulbs with your paper projects. Standard bulbs (such as your typical Christmas lights) produce too much heat and can set your paper on fire. Make sure you are using lights that are specifically marked as LEDs.
LED Strand — This link is to the LEDs I used. They come 6 strands to a package. My instructions are for using one strand.
NOTE: I love these lights! I used them for the centerpieces for my daughter's wedding (set into blue wine bottles) and for a light effect around my wrists on a Halloween costume.
Cutting these by hand, while certainly possible, may take a while. I am doing a new craft every day this holiday so I needed something faster. I cut these on my Cricut. If you are comfortable with the design software for your craft machine, you can probably build your own design in the application. It's just a star with a hole in the middle. The hole in the middle needs to be large enough to go over the LED bulb.
To save you some time, you can download the design from my Resource Library.
For these stars, I wanted six points (kind of like snowflakes). I also wanted them to be three-dimensional. For each 3D star, I needed 6 cut-out stars. Since my LED strand has 20 lights, that means 120 stars to cut out.
Use six of your cut out stars.
Score from point to point. Scoring a line on each star is not a required step but will make folding them produce a crisp fold that goes all the way to the point of the star.
Fold each star in half.
Apply glue to one half of a folded star and affix one half of another star to that glued area. Clip and set aside. Repeat for the remaining two sets of two.
When the glue has set, remove the clips. You now have three pieces.
Apply glue to one half one star and affix one half of one of your other star sets to this. Clip in place.
Open up the remaining unglued area and apply glue to both halves. Affix your remaining star set and clip in place. All the pieces of this star are now together and waiting for the glue to set. In all of these "waiting for the glue to set" steps, continue making more stars.
When the glue has set on the completed star, remove the clips. Thread the end of the LED strand through the hole in the middle of the star and move it down the strand to the LED bulb that is closest to the battery pack. Apply a dot of glue where the wires of the strand lie against one of the points of the star. Clip into place until the glue sets.
Repeat for your remaining stars.
After all the glue has set and you remove your clips, you can use this strand of lighted stars anywhere in your house or office to add some holiday decor.
These are some ways you can use your strand of LED paper stars!
These were yesterday's Christmas craft. Today's craft can help light up these Wood Veneer "Joy" plaques.
You can go back and make the Nougat Candy Tree and use your new lights to decorate it!


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Later this month Michael Vick will appear in front of a Sussex County Judge and is expected to plead guilty to state charges of dog fighting. Vick, the former superstar NFL quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons has been serving his 23 month sentence on federal charges for dog fighting for which he is scheduled for release on July 23rd 2009. The Surrey County Commonwealths Attorney Gerald Poindexter recently said that Vick would be likely given the same deal he gave to his co-defendant Quanis Phillips–a three year suspended prison sentence and a fine of $2,500 so long as he remains in good behavior during the terms of his probation. It is likely that once Vick takes the deal his attorneys will attempt to move Vick to a half-way house for the remaining six months of his federal sentence so that he can prepare to transition back into society.
People deserve second chances especially those who have owned up to their mistakes. Vick has made it very clear that he will attempt to make an NFL comeback despite his two year suspension from the league. Although his former Falcons team and their owner have made it clear that it will not be with them, it's inevitable that at least one team will give him a second chance if they have the opportunity. However, once released, the NFL will have the final say on his reinstatement and ultimately whether he is given his second chance in 2009.


A week after Cyclone Idai lashed southern Africa, flooding still raged Thursday as torrential rains caused a dam to overflow in Zimbabwe, threatening riverside populations. The confirmed death toll in Zimbabwe, neighboring Mozambique and Malawi surpassed 500, with hundreds more feared dead in towns and villages that were completely submerged. Aid agencies and several governments continued to step up their deployments, with helicopters in short supply for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the cyclone. Spokesman Herve Verhoosel of the World Food Program told reporters in Geneva of the alarming news that the Marowanyati dam in Zimbabwe was hit by heavy rains overnight, putting populations in the region at risk. Zimbabwe s defense minister said more than 120 bodies had been washed into neighboring Mozambique, where residents there buried them, and more bodies were still being recovered in rivers, raising the official death toll in the country to 259. Most of the bodies were .


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Beto O'Rourke Invites Students To Democrat Debate Who Knelt During National Anthem at High School Game
Martin Mawyer
Three high school graduates who knelt during the playing of National Anthem at football game were invited to Tuesday evening's Democrat debate by Beto O'Rourke. Michael Lynn III (left) Roje Williams (second from right) and Matthew Abdullah (right)
Presidential candidate, Beto O'Rourke, invited three former Michigan high school football players to the Democrat debate Tuesday evening who had taken a knee during the playing of the National Anthem at a 2017 game.
The three Lansing Catholic High School students claimed, at the time, they were protesting America's history of racism and were following the example of former NFL football quarterback Colin Kaepernick. A fourth kneeling player was also invited, but could not attend the Tuesday evening event due to his college schedule.
All four students were benched for part of the 2017 game by their coach.
After the game one of the players, Michael Lynn III, told the Lansing State Journal that he was on a mission for "social justice" and that he would continue that mission "regardless of the consequences."
All four players were later honored by the Lansing City Council during a ceremony in December 2017.
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Martin Mawyer is president of Christian Action Network which he founded in 1990. Located in Lynchburg, VA. CAN was formed as a non-profit educational organization to protect America's religious and moral heritage. He is the author of several books, including, "Your Are Chosen: Prepare to Triumph in a Fallen World."


"archaic mindsets and processes which systemically lets down women, especially those in more vulnerable circumstances".
Despite the weight of the subject matter, "Once Told" is a blackened but beautiful song. Lead singer Julie Hawk's vocals float above potent drums (Sam Campbell) and striking guitar (Matthew Harris) and bass (Chris Handsley).
"Once Told" will be released February 19th of 2016 via Veta Records.


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My last post was to explain the process of hacking a bit, which Samy uses to just figure out a way to do things without having any manuals, just reading the tells of the devices. In the latest video he is actually explaining a method of figuring out the credit card storage technology and then create his device (the Magspoof) which can register on a live credit card device and defeat the Chip and pin technology.
My point has been that the real criminal hackers are doing the same thing.
I don't think we as a society have figured out the abilities of innate hackers such as Samy Kamkar.
The answer is to have a continual Oversite of the potential attackers coming in and using your resources and finances for their ends.
Contact us as we can help you develop a counter-strategy to the higher threat levels.


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Click the "Send" button to send the post to the Group or Teacher you have selected.
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