On the afternoon of July 8, Zheng Yang, director of the Shanghai Municipal Financial Service Office, met with a visiting group led by Sir Gerry Grimstone, chairman of Standard Life Plc. They discussed a number of topics including accelerating Shanghai international financial center construction, strengthening the linkage between free trade zone and international financial centers and promoting Sino-UK financial cooperation.
Zheng briefed the guests on the latest development of Shanghai international financial center construction and the progress of Shanghai free trade zone in the past three years. Zheng said Shanghai will strive to promote the opening and innovation of the city's financial industry, create a favorable financial environment and enhance the level of financial services as the city is seeking to build itself into an international financial center that is adapt to China's economic strength and the international status of yuan by 2020.
Strengthening constructions of market system, institutional system, regulatory system, supervision system and legal system and promoting the interaction of the free trade zone with financial center construction will be on the top of working agenda in the future, Zheng said.
Zheng said he hoped that China and the UK would enhance cooperation and continue to explore the golden era for Sino-Britain financial cooperation.
Grimstone introduced the potential impact of the Brexit on British economy and financial situation. He also pointed out the Brexit could be a good opportunity to deepen the financial cooperation between China and the UK and between Shanghai and London against the backdrop of the golden era.
Grimstone said they are looking forward to Shanghai's continuing effort to strengthen supervision system, construct legal system and promote the interaction between the free trade zone and the international financial center, and are willing to further explore a stock trading link between Shanghai and London and to participate in the construction of Shanghai international insurance center.


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Ten Years of Peoplehood Activism and What Next?
Image courtesy JCC Global
By Dr Shlomi Ravid
Mordecai Kaplan says that what is unique about the Jews is not only their collective consciousness but also the fact that they are conscious of that consciousness. We live an era where the "social being" that determined Jewish consciousness (to borrow from Karl Marx) has dramatically changed. We cannot realistically expect the emergence of a collective Jewish consciousness as a byproduct of today's Jewish upbringing. If we are to nurture Jewish collective consciousness we have to do it through education broadly defined. We have to engage the minds and hearts of today's Jews with openness and through dialogue driven by a deep belief that collectively we Jews can make a difference.
My first public Peoplehood programming took place a decade ago. I was involved with planning the San Francisco Jewish Federation Board trip to Israel for the first time in its history. Most apparent in those days was a general state of confusion regarding the meaning of Peoplehood, coupled with skepticism and sometimes cynicism regarding the significance of the topic and its contemporary relevance. People described it as the "Jewish Buzz word" (replacing "continuity"), a modern "watered down version of Judaism," an expression of "secular Judaism" or just rolled their eyes in distrust or to signify total lack of understanding. It is important to remember those initial reactions of the field because despite major changes they do tend to linger.
The dominant response to the above challenges in the initial years of building the field was an attempt to define and explain what Peoplehood means. The emphasis was on the conceptual level and there was a sense that if we succeed in providing the "silver-bullet" definition of Peoplehood our major problems will go away. As a philosopher in training I have always been skeptical of definitions and find them not always useful. I can define Peoplehood as "the collective consciousness of the Jewish People" and even defend that definition, but does it really provide anything significant for those asking? I believe that what they are telling us is that they don't understand what we mean by Peoplehood. That problem does not get solved by offering a definition. How many of us can define "morality"? However, years of learning from life and from our educators help us develop an intuitive understanding of the concept and sometimes even guide our behavior.
A decade later we are at a very different place today regarding Peoplehood. Over the last three years, in multiple meetings with leaders and educators throughout North America, I have sensed a distinct shift of the conversation from the "what" to the "how." Not that everything is clear, but leadership is now asking: How do we engage our communities with Peoplehood? The challenge of explaining the meaning of Peoplehood did not disappear but it is not perceived as a daunting obstacle to addressing the issue in practice. It seems like there is an agreement that while we will continue studying and interpreting what Peoplehood means (as is the case with most things Jewish) we understand enough to assess the challenges in practice and respond through policy and actions. The last editions of the Peoplehood Papers are very telling here (see for example: Engaging Millennials with Jewish Peoplehood – What Does it Take). They express the commitment of young Jews to collective causes coupled with an interest to further engaging their peers. It seems that the day of How Peoplehood has arrived!
And yet, recognizing the importance of the issue provides a necessary but insufficient condition for changing the reality. Below is a list of issues that have to be addressed if a significant change is to be expected:
1. A Peoplehood educational strategy: Most of the educational work in Jewish Peoplehood focuses today on direct engagement and experiential dimensions. While this is a positive development in itself, the key to the Jewish future lies in Jewish collective consciousness development. Without a deep belief in the value of Jewish civilization to ourselves and the rest of the world, the Jewish collective enterprise on both its local and global level will become obsolete. We need to advance from experiencing Peoplehood to developing Peoplehood consciousness as our strategic goal.
2. Peoplehood educational resources: We need to enhance the depth and spread of Peoplehood nurturing tools. The Peoplehood Educational Toolkit is but a first pilot tool. Its importance is first and foremost in making the statement that developing educational tools is the way of the future. It says to the Jewish world: The time has come to move from conceptual deliberations to developing practical tools for engagement and teaching – and for using them. The conversation now has to shift from defining Peoplehood to how best to nurture collective identity and how to make our tools more impactful.
3. Education broadly defined: We need to expand our work beyond what is typically understood as narrowly defined education. A stronger focus should be placed on leadership development and on working with adults and young adults in our communities including current, both lay and professional, institutional leadership.
4. Engaging Millennials: We need to develop the language of Peoplehood and the educational tools that will resonate with and appeal to a new generation. The good news is that we don't need to do it for them. We can do it with them. It is time for a multi-generation Peoplehood conversation.
5. A local-global approach:
North America: The time has come to consider the development of a North American Center for Jewish Peoplehood that will provide resources and guidance towards the implementation of the above items. It should focus on developing content and resources, training and dissemination, convening of potential change agents, leadership development and advancing the filed in general.
Israel: The Israelis have to be engaged with this agenda. Israel is too important and Israelis need to be reminded of the main reason for the establishment of the State of the Jewish people – the need to ensure the continuity of the people. The challenge of peoplehood in Israeli society is complex, but in some respects the time is ripe.
Europe, Latin America & the rest of the Jewish world: Most of the Peoplehood conversation currently takes place in North America and Israel. In the rest of the Jewish world this is a nascent conversation that needs to be empowered and nurtured. This topic impacts all Jews and special efforts should be directed to advance the conversation throughout the Jewish world.
A global dialogue: Frameworks and platforms to advance the Peoplehood dialogue between communities from all corners of the Jewish world should be created and strengthened for the sake of the development of a genuine global Jewish dialogue. One that is not limited to our interests and needs as a group, but explores what good we can bring to humanity and the world as a people. That articulates our collective destiny in the 21st century. The current state of the Jewish dialogue over the collective Jewish agenda is troubling and if anything confirms the vulnerability of our collectivity.
6. A holistic mobilization: The whole community needs to be engaged in the "Peoplehood movement." Our future as a collective will influence the lives of individual Jews as well as our future as a people. We need to mobilize the establishment, Jewish philanthropy, educators, activists, clergy and "amcha Israel" to contribute to the enhancement of Jewish collective identity. In this ever changing, highly individualized and "post-everything" age, success can be reached only through a holistic communal effort.
Much has been achieved over the last decade. The Peoplehood conversation, after nearly 80 years of being dormant, has found its way back into the agenda of the Jewish people. It is not a coincidence. At the beginning of the 21st century the Jewish People, if it seeks to be viable, has to offer a reinvigorated purpose and find ways for inculcating Jewish collective consciousness. The past decade built the foundation to impacting the Jewish landscape in the next decade. Transitioning effectively from concept to practice will be the challenge. Our aspiration to involve every young Jew in the Peoplehood conversation should begin by engaging the change agents and educational institutions throughout the Jewish educational system. Let's at the least commit that every Jewish educational entity will address the challenges of Jewish Peoplehood, in one way or another, by 2025.
Shana tova,
Dr Shlomi Ravid is the founding director of the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.
Special thanks to Lisa Grant for her helpful comments.

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Free Speech Religion Sports
Supreme Court's conservatives denounce 9th Circuit for 'troubling' view of teachers' free speech rights
Greg Piper - Associate Editor •January 23, 2019
'A public employer cannot convert private speech into public speech'
Football coach Joe Kennedy won't get his day at the Supreme Court in response to being fired by his Washington state school district for praying on the 50 yard line after games.
But the Supreme Court's four conservatives made clear they were turning down his petition for review because of bungling by the lower courts, particularly the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In a statement written by Justice Samuel Alito and joined by Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the justices said the trial court "should have made a specific finding as to what [Kennedy] was likely to be able to show regarding the reason or reasons for his loss of employment."
The Bremerton School District gave Kennedy "two quite different reasons" why it objected to his postgame prayer: failing to supervise his players because he was praying, and suggesting the school district was "endorsing religion" because of where and when he was praying. It cited these reasons again when it put him on leave and when it told the public why he was on leave.
Only the first reason is legitimate from a free-speech perspective, the Alito statement reads.
The trial judge's "brief, informal oral decision … melded the two" justifications. The court should have determined if Kennedy could likely show "he was not really on duty at the time," or was only on duty "in the sense that his workday had not ended" but could "engage briefly" in private conduct, whether praying or "calling home or making a reservation for dinner at a local restaurant."
The 9th Circuit "was even more imprecise" by recounting all of Kennedy's "prayer-related
activities over the course of several years" – even his private praying in the stands after he was suspended.
MORE: School lets Buddhist coach pray on field after game, not Christian coach
Former Bremerton High football coach Joe Kennedy, who prayed after games, won't get his job back, court rules: https://t.co/RH7FTWi8Vh pic.twitter.com/caJxw7PFdq
— John de Leon (@DeLeon_Times) August 24, 2017
Because it's being asked to answer "highly fact-specific questions," the high court will not grant discretionary review, the statement reads.
It goes on to scold the 9th Circuit for its "troubling" understanding of public school teachers' free speech rights, which "may justify review in the future."
The appeals court interpreted a 2006 Supreme Court decision known as Garcetti as prohibiting on-duty teachers and coaches from engaging in "expression that the school does not like … provided that they are within the eyesight of students":
Under this interpretation of Garcetti, if teachers are visible to a student while eating lunch, they can be ordered not to engage in any "demonstrative" conduct of a religious nature, such as folding their hands or bowing their heads in prayer. And a school could also regulate what teachers do during a period when they are not teaching by preventing them from reading things that might be spotted by students or saying things that might be overheard.
This Court certainly has never read Garcetti to go that far. While Garcetti permits a public employer to regulate employee speech that is part of the employee's job duties, we warned that a public employer cannot convert private speech into public speech "by creating excessively broad job descriptions."
The 9th Circuit is inviting further review if it continues to interpret Garcetti this way, Alito's statement continues. Its decision can be read to mean coaches must "refrain from any manifestation of religious faith—even when the coach is plainly not on duty," including when he attended games as a fan. The four justices found this "remarkable."
MORE: School district defends firing Christian coach for silent prayer in court
Kennedy still has "live claims" under the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, but he chose to emphasize the free-speech claim, the statement explains.
This may be because of prior Supreme Court decisions that "drastically cut back" on free-exercise and Title VII protections, the justices say – and they imply Kennedy should challenge them. "In this case, however, we have not been asked to revisit those decisions."
Reason noted that the 9th Circuit's ruling against Kennedy suggested he express his religious beliefs in ways that are not obvious to others as religious: praying in his office, praying "nondemonstratively" with students or praying in private before and after games.
In his request for a rehearing before the full 9th Circuit, Kennedy said the school district was still letting a coach engage in a Buddhist chant at the same spot. The 9th Circuit's ruling does not address this seemingly selective enforcement of school district rules.
Read the four justices' statement.
MORE: Kennedy demands full 9th Circuit rehearing for praying after games
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Forgiving student debt is a terrible idea
Greg Piper
Greg spent several years as a technology policy reporter and editor for Warren Communications News in Washington, D.C., and guest host on C-SPAN's "The Communicators." He co-founded the alternative newspaper PUNCH and served as a reporter, editor and columnist for The Falcon at Seattle Pacific University.


There was some rain last night, but I slept through it. I only knew because the bucket that catches the leak on my back porch had a bit over half an inch of water in it. There was no way to tell if any snow fell. If it did, it was entirely gone by the time I went out. But the forecast still predicts a 42% chance of snow between three o'clock and eleven o'clock tomorrow morning, with a 49% chance of rain for a couple of hours after that. My guess is that nothing will come of it. Though the vagrant breezes are cold tonight, and there have been sprinkles now and then, the clouds break up frequently, allowing stars and the waxing half moon to appear. Something tells me it will not be a Bulwer-Lyttonish dark and stormy night.
The predicted highs for the warm days coming up next week keep getting higher. Thursday is now up to 76 degrees, and Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are all predicted to have highs of 74. Downright toasty, that is. The anticipation of that is making it easier to get through these last few cold nights. It's supposed to get down to 34 tonight. I'm so glad the cold will soon be over. I need a time of mildness to prepare myself to kvetch properly about how hot it will be getting in a few weeks.
The local PBS station has returned to its pre-begathon schedule, so I got to see English people murder one another tonight. Actually it was only one Englishman murdering his wife, but it's probably best that I ease back into it after some weeks without English murder. Overindulging can be hazardous when one has been starved.
My goodness, I almost forgot that I'd written anything tonight when I got distracted and then almost fell asleep on the couch. Does that sentence make sense? Does anything I say? The almost-nap was probably trying to tell me something. I'll listen.
Oh, I heard swans flying north last time I was outside. Spring is surely here at last.


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package org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.intentions.conversions;

import com.intellij.openapi.editor.Editor;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiClass;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiMethod;
import com.intellij.util.IncorrectOperationException;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.intentions.base.Intention;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.intentions.base.PsiElementPredicate;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.GroovyPsiElementFactory;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.GroovyRecursiveElementVisitor;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.statements.GrStatement;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.statements.arguments.GrArgumentList;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.statements.branch.GrAssertStatement;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.statements.expressions.GrExpression;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.statements.expressions.GrMethodCall;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 * @author Sergey Evdokimov
 */
public class ConvertJunitAssertionToAssertStatementIntention extends Intention implements PsiElementPredicate {

  private static final Pattern PATTERN = Pattern.compile("arg(\\d+)");

  private static final Map<String, String[]> ourStatementMap = new HashMap<String, String[]>();
  static {
    ourStatementMap.put("assertNotNull", new String[]{null, "assert arg0 != null", "assert arg1 != null : arg0"});
    ourStatementMap.put("assertNull", new String[]{null, "assert arg0 == null", "assert arg1 == null : arg0"});

    ourStatementMap.put("assertTrue", new String[]{null, "assert arg0", "assert arg1 : arg0"});
    ourStatementMap.put("assertFalse", new String[]{null, "assert !arg0", "assert !arg1 : arg0"});

    ourStatementMap.put("assertEquals", new String[]{null, null, "assert arg0 == arg1", "assert arg1 == arg2 : arg0"});

    ourStatementMap.put("assertSame", new String[]{null, null, "assert arg0.is(arg1)", "assert arg1.is(arg2) : arg0"});
    ourStatementMap.put("assertNotSame", new String[]{null, null, "assert !arg0.is(arg1)", "assert !arg1.is(arg2) : arg0"});
  }

  @Nullable
  private static String getReplacementStatement(@NotNull PsiMethod method, @NotNull GrMethodCall methodCall) {
    PsiClass containingClass = method.getContainingClass();
    if (containingClass == null) return null;

    String qualifiedName = containingClass.getQualifiedName();
    if (!"junit.framework.Assert".equals(qualifiedName) && !"groovy.util.GroovyTestCase".equals(qualifiedName)) return null;

    String[] replacementStatements = ourStatementMap.get(method.getName());
    if (replacementStatements == null) return null;

    GrArgumentList argumentList = methodCall.getArgumentList();
    if (argumentList == null) return null;

    if (argumentList.getNamedArguments().length > 0) return null;

    GrExpression[] arguments = argumentList.getExpressionArguments();

    if (arguments.length >= replacementStatements.length) return null;

    return replacementStatements[arguments.length];
  }

  @Nullable
  private static GrStatement getReplacementElement(@NotNull PsiMethod method, @NotNull GrMethodCall methodCall) {
    String replacementStatement = getReplacementStatement(method, methodCall);
    if (replacementStatement == null) return null;

    @SuppressWarnings("ConstantConditions") final
    GrExpression[] arguments = methodCall.getArgumentList().getExpressionArguments();

    GroovyPsiElementFactory factory = GroovyPsiElementFactory.getInstance(method.getProject());

    GrAssertStatement statement = (GrAssertStatement)factory.createStatementFromText(replacementStatement);

    final Map<GrExpression, GrExpression> replaceMap = new HashMap<GrExpression, GrExpression>();

    statement.acceptChildren(new GroovyRecursiveElementVisitor() {
      @Override
      public void visitExpression(GrExpression expression) {
        Matcher matcher = PATTERN.matcher(expression.getText());
        if (matcher.matches()) {
          int index = Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(1));
          replaceMap.put(expression, arguments[index]);
        }
        else {
          super.visitExpression(expression);
        }
      }
    });

    for (Map.Entry<GrExpression, GrExpression> entry : replaceMap.entrySet()) {
      entry.getKey().replaceWithExpression(entry.getValue(), true);
    }

    return statement;
  }

  @Override
  protected void processIntention(@NotNull PsiElement element, Project project, Editor editor) throws IncorrectOperationException {
    GrMethodCall methodCall = (GrMethodCall)element;

    PsiMethod method = methodCall.resolveMethod();
    if (method == null) return;

    GrStatement replacementElement = getReplacementElement(method, methodCall);
    if (replacementElement == null) return;

    ((GrMethodCall)element).replaceWithStatement(replacementElement);
  }

  @NotNull
  @Override
  protected PsiElementPredicate getElementPredicate() {
    return this;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean satisfiedBy(PsiElement element) {
    if (!(element instanceof GrMethodCall)) return false;

    GrMethodCall methodCall = (GrMethodCall)element;

    PsiMethod method = methodCall.resolveMethod();
    if (method == null) return false;

    return getReplacementStatement(method, methodCall) != null;
  }
}

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The Saint Paul Police Department classifies crime according to the FBI's UCR guidelines. This UCR Program provides a nationwide view of crime based on submission of uniform crime statistics by local law enforcement agencies throughout the country. To best depict total crime and to provide the most meaningful data to police administrators, it was determined that the UCR Program would collect data on known offenses and persons arrested.


Russia's Orthodox church has announced it will cut ties with the head of the church in Constantinople in a bitter row over plans to recognise a rival branch in the pro-Western portion of Ukraine.
The Russian renunciation of ties came as Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople and de facto head of the Orthodox church's 300 million Christians, looked set to approve the new Ukrainian church in a serious blow to the authority and prestige of Moscow.
Ahead of the decision, Patriarch Bartholomew sent two representatives to Ukraine this month, sparking fury in Russia where the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, continues to see Ukraine as part of a greater Russia.
In an apparent pre-emptive move against Bartholmew's impending recognition, the Russian Orthodox Church said on Friday it would no longer conduct joint services with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and its own Patriarch, Kirill, will stop mentioning Bartholomew I in his prayers.
"Essentially this is a breakdown of relations. To take an example from secular life, the decision is roughly equivalent to cutting diplomatic ties," the Russian Church's Metropolitan Hilarion was quoted by RIA news agency as saying.
Patriarch Kirill, who is seen as a strong ally of President Vladimir Putin, wants to prevent pro-Western Ukraine from getting an independent church.
The Orthodox church in Ukraine is split between a branch whose clerics pledge loyalty to Moscow and one that is overseen by the unrecognised Kiev-based Patriarch Filaret.
The split has deepened following the Russian annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of a separatist uprising in Ukraine's east in 2014.
The Kiev Patriarchate's leader has been sharply critical of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and in 2014 suggested he was possessed by Satan.
The rival Moscow Patriarchate vies for influence in Ukraine with the Kiev Patriarchate - a branch of the Orthodox Church that broke away from Moscow in 1992 after the fall of the Soviet Union - and with other Orthodox and Catholic denominations.
Bartholomew I, known as Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, is regarded as the "first among equals" of the world's Orthodox Christian believers.
The Moscow Patriarchate, the legal term for the Russian Orthodox Church has a sizeable following in Ukraine.
Kiev considers it a tool for the Kremlin to wield influence, while the Moscow Patriarchate sees itself as the only legitimate Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
The Kremlin said it was following the situation closely and opposed any split in Orthodoxy, adding that the state should not intervene in church matters.
"Of course for Moscow and indeed for the entire Orthodox world the single preferable scenario is the preservation of unity of this Orthodox world," said a Kremlin spokesman.


Well, I was right about why the Conner tape drive I bought wouldn't work: Despite what the salesperson in the store assured me, the drive is not NT compatible. Conner makes a SCSI version of the same drive, and they do have an NT driver for that unit. Unfortunately, I bought the IDE version, for which an NT driver is not available <sigh>.
I believe I'm going to go with an outfit called Commercial Bankcard, in Atlanta. They're actually the most expensive place I spoke with (although all of them were pretty close), but I got a better feeling talking to them than I did from talking to most of the others. I'll let you know how it works out.
Since I'm having so much fun spending money I don't have, I bit the bullet and ordered Quota Manager from NTP today. (That's the program that will let me limit the amount of disk space each of my subscribers can use.) At least, I think I ordered it; they were supposed to fax me a confirmation, which never happened. I'll call them tomorrow to see what's going on.
BTW, it's costing me $500 to get this critical capability. If I were using UNIX, from what I understand, this function would be built in. Of course, if I were using UNIX, I would know even less about what I'm doing than I do now, if you know what I mean.
Finally (for tonight), I've been exchanging Email with the creator of a package called PolyForm, which (he says) will allow me to make forms capabilities available to my subscribers without giving them access to CGI scripts. It's important for me to be able to provide forms capabilities; but, for security reasons, I don't want to allow general access to CGI on my server. I think that PolyForm may do the trick for me.
I have no idea of how much PolyForm costs. But if it's like everything else I've had to buy to get this venture off the ground, it'll be more than I could possibly imagine.
Am I becoming cynical, or what? Well, maybe this time I'll be pleasantly surprised.


Did you know that NASA specifically seeks individuals who have a history of struggle and failures when searching for astronauts and engineers? Those who have bounced back and grown from their mistakes bring with them a unique set of strengths over those with straightforward success stories.
If you want to succeed at something, attitude is critical to success.
Persistence – even in the face of adversity – is what builds resilience. If you think your intelligence is fixed and you (or your peers or your parents) tend to speak in those terms – you're selling yourself short! Whether you say "I'm a genius" or "I stink at Math," you're ignoring the fact that your brain power and potential aren't a non-negotiable given. Your brain is what you make of it!
Anyone and everyone can grow new neural networks by training their brain. If you're bad at math, you can become better. If you're great at it, you can be incredible!
It's what we call growth mindset. It's critical to your success – and it's what our contest is all about!
Share a video you showing progressive development of a new skill. Need an example? Start here.
This entry was posted in Educator Edition, Full Time Edition, Homeschool Edition and tagged #FLVSBrainChallenge, Adversity, Attitude, Contest, Engineering, Grit, Growth Mindset, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, Psychology, Resilience, Social Media, STEM, Video Contest on June 30, 2015 by Marissa Draeger.


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import { async, ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';

import { Comp1125Component } from './comp-1125.component';

describe('Comp1125Component', () => {
  let component: Comp1125Component;
  let fixture: ComponentFixture<Comp1125Component>;

  beforeEach(async(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      declarations: [ Comp1125Component ]
    })
    .compileComponents();
  }));

  beforeEach(() => {
    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(Comp1125Component);
    component = fixture.componentInstance;
    fixture.detectChanges();
  });

  it('should create', () => {
    expect(component).toBeTruthy();
  });
});


Jake White has backed Patrick Lambie and Francois Steyn to become the best 10-12 combination in Super Rugby this season.
"Pat Lambie will play at fly-half for 80 minutes of every game," White told SA Rugby about a player whom Springboks coach Heyneke Meyer uses at fullback more often than not. "Frans Steyn will play 12 for me. It gives Lambie a massive amount of confidence having Frans play beside him.
"We have a philosophy about how we want to play, and if it means those two play next to each other for the whole season then we will make them the best 10-12 combination in Super Rugby."
Steyn suffered a disappointing season in 2013, producing inconsistent form as he sustained injuries, but White told SA Rugby: "I've known what makes Frans tick since he was a schoolboy at Grey College. I know how he thinks.
"His whole life has changed, he has a child now, his value system has changed, and I'm sure that will have an impact on the way he plays and prepares. Last year, he went through three coaches before the year ended. He likes stability, he likes to be guided without force. He is a prodigy, a sensational player, a freak. He was spoken about as the guy who could change rugby. That's what's so exciting.
"I sat him down and told him I really need him to show everyone what I think he can do. That's important, because when he's next to Pat, you will see a much better Pat Lambie. He's still a work in progress. He came back here and had a knee op, so he's not 100% yet, but everyone knows what his 80% is and that's better than most people when they're 100%."
White had previously anointed Lambie as fly-half, saying in November that the playmaker was going to play No.10 "and nowhere else" for the Sharks.
"To be fair to him, because he's so talented, he can actually be messed around," White said in November. "It reminds me a bit of when [former Springboks utility] Brent Russell was here - he could play in so many positions. He was always on your bench because he's good enough, but then he tends to never find a position he can settle in."


text:
<?php

namespace backend\models;

use Yii;
use yii\base\Model;
use yii\data\ActiveDataProvider;
use backend\models\Programming;

/**
 * ProgPostsSearch represents the model behind the search form about `backend\models\Programming`.
 */
class ProgPostsSearch extends Programming
{
    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            [['id', 'hits', 'hide'], 'integer'],
            [['resource', 'res_link', 'title', 'entry_title_description', 'entry_image', 'category', 'date_of_publication', 'full_text', 'meta_desc', 'meta_key'], 'safe'],
        ];
    }

    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function scenarios()
    {
        // bypass scenarios() implementation in the parent class
        return Model::scenarios();
    }

    /**
     * Creates data provider instance with search query applied
     *
     * @param array $params
     *
     * @return ActiveDataProvider
     */
    public function search($params)
    {
        $query = Programming::find();

        // add conditions that should always apply here

        $dataProvider = new ActiveDataProvider([
            'query' => $query,
            'pagination' => [
                'pageSize' => 6,
            ]
        ]);

        $this->load($params);

        if (!$this->validate()) {
            // uncomment the following line if you do not want to return any records when validation fails
            // $query->where('0=1');
            return $dataProvider;
        }

        // grid filtering conditions
        $query->andFilterWhere([
            'id' => $this->id,
            'date_of_publication' => $this->date_of_publication,
            'hits' => $this->hits,
            'hide' => $this->hide,
        ]);

        $query->andFilterWhere(['like', 'resource', $this->resource])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'res_link', $this->res_link])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'title', $this->title])
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'Arcadia #6:' Advance Comic Book Review
Answers that beg more questions. It seems like in the world of Arcadia, with every nugget that we learn, we get tossed around in a whirlwind of more unknowns.
'The Spire #4:' Advance Comic Book Review
Quick recap: The Spire is fantasy taking place in a land in which one of its prominent cities is part of a spire that shoots treacherously high into the sky. Below are the denizens that are looked down upon due to their race or poverty level. Up in the spire reside the royalty. An attack on the royalty and a murder have put an undo amount of stress on the Captain of the City Watch, Sha, who is a different race than those that have royal blood. Sha is a badass fighter with ample amounts of wit and helpful, thin tentacles that shoot out of her back for fighting and climbing. She also has an eye patch – badass. She also happens to be emotionally exhausted. To carry the weight and responsibility of the city guard in the face of racial bias and the shifting sands of royal support would do that.
'Colder: Toss the Bones #2' - Advance Comic Book Review
Reading an issue of Colder I imagine is like being cooked like a lobster. You don't notice the temperature change until it's too late.
There's something psychologically methodical about how Paul Tobin and Juan Ferreyra (Prometheus: Fire and Stone) layout their story from page to page and panel to panel that slithers back behind your subconscious, hides there, and then starts poking at it, taking the form of a gnawing discomfort. Much of it has to do with the patience they exhibit. They don't just throw creepy images or violent mayhem at you right away. In fact, much of the creepiness occurs because, sometimes, things don't happen for several pages at a time, and with Nimble Jack spreading madness, you kind of don't want it to.
'Fistful of Blood #1:' Advance Comic Book Review
I jumped at the opportunity to read what I believed to be a new offering from Kevin Eastman (TMNT) and Simon Bisley (Lobo, Heavy Metal, etc.), thinking it would be a fun trip back to the '90s. Little did I know that it quite literally is a trip back in time, as it's a republishing of something from Heavy Metal.
'Memetic:' Advance TPB Review
The trade paperback of Memetic collects all three issues of James Tynion IV (Batman Eternal, Ufology) and Eryk Donovan's (In the Dark, Imaginary Drugs) 2014 three-issue, paranoia-laced, completely unnerving horror series about the spread of information in the social media world.
'Rat God:' Advance Hardcover Review
Richard Corben is one of those names you recognize immediately. From Heavy Metal Magazine to drawing some of the most popular rock album covers (Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell), he's left his mark on pop culture for a wide spectrum of people for decades now. He's a name spoken alongside some of the masters like Frank Frazetta and for good reason. His artistic prowess has an otherworldly grace to it. Some of my memories of his work range from Hellboy, Aliens: Alchemy, a couple of Punisher one shots, Hellblazer, and the list goes on. Though it's hard to pin him down as he's not known for one thing, when he works, I pay attention.
'This Damned Band #3:' Advance Comic Book
Secondary plots and background noise are all pushed to the foreground in the third issue of Paul Cornell and Tony Parker's This Damned Band. As the elements intertwine and slowly begin to close in on the hapless and drug-induced band members of the band Motherfather, their personalities begin to spiral out of control. No one is left unaffected.
'Sons of the Devil #5:' Comic Book Review
You know those moments when you say something knowing that, as you say it, there's a much better way of actually approaching the situation, but for whatever reason, you reach down to the part of you that is most afraid, terrified actually, of making the right choice and you doom yourself anyway. And then, you crumble because that may have been it. You just keep pushing away the things you love.
'Zodiac Starforce #2:' Advance Comic Book Review
Every now and then, you have to do a cool thing as a boyfriend. My girlfriend is a huge Sailor Moon fan – she sings along with the opening credits. I'm an anime fan, so one day not long ago, I suggested we watch the new series, and so we are. It's really entertaining watching her face light up. The good thing is, I'm also enjoying it. Far more than I imagined I would. Zodiac Starforce has the same sort of appeal. Awesome and entertaining female characters who do power poses to activate their magical abilities that have been given to them by a force from the astral plane named Astra! I can almost hear a theme song playing over the top of their transformation scenes.
'Colder: Toss the Bones #1' – Advance Comic Book Review
This is the first I've read of the Colder series, Toss the Bones being the third story arc.
I wouldn't be able to tell you much about who the hero, Declan, or his friend, Reece, are, as they spend most of the time in this first issue not wanting to talk about what happened in the previous series, but while they are attempting to take a "me" (in this case a "we") day, a pretty terrifying character named Nimble Jack, long-lost offspring of The Joker and Salvador Dali, wreaks havoc on just about everyone he comes into contact with.
'Cognetic #1:' Advance Comic Book Review
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The Prime Minister faces more serious issues than the arrangement of her cabinet
British Prime Minister Theresa May. Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
There is a sense of relief that it is Theresa May in charge, and not one of her more volatile opponents
We will miss David Cameron more than we realise, probably more than he will miss us
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The phrase "a week is a long time in politics" has been so overused lately it has almost ceased to have any meaning at all. Nonetheless, Britain's political landscape has radically shifted in the past seven days. Last Friday, two hopefuls for Tory leader were getting ready to spend eight weeks battling it out. Since then, one has dropped out, David Cameron has resigned and moved out of Downing Street, a new Prime Minister has been invited by Her Majesty the Queen to lead the country, and the upper echelons of government have been gutted and restocked with ranks of unexpected faces. Truly, Britain does not mess around.
On Wednesday evening Theresa May swiftly stepped up as the second woman to become Britain's Prime Minister. With her appointment, the UK becomes the fifth OECD country to have had more than one female head of government. The British news cycle yesterday centred almost exclusively on her ruthlessly efficient cabinet reshuffle, which expelled Tory heavyweights such as former Chancellor George Osborne and former Justice Secretary Michael Gove, both of whom had harboured hopes of leadership. There was something satisfactorily tidy about the resulting cabinet: a state-school educated woman in a same-sex relationship heading up Education, Women and Equalities; two vocal Brexiteers in charge of the new departments for Exiting the EU and International Trade; Boris Johnson, Britain's most well-known political export, put in charge of the Foreign Office. And Andrea Leadsom, who during the referendum campaign assured farmers they would be better off outside of the EU, has been appointed to Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where one imagines she will have to have some awkward conversations explaining the withdrawal of EU farming subsidies.
Then last night, tragedy struck in the French city of Nice – a wakeup call to both Mrs May and the press that Britain's new Prime Minister faces more serious issues than the arrangement of her cabinet. During the festivities for Bastille Day, a holiday celebrating liberty and freedom, a lorry ploughed through the crowds and killed at least 84 people, injuring many more. At the time of writing, there are unconfirmed reports that IS has claimed responsibilty, but this has not come through any official channel.
Theresa May built her leadership campaign on the idea that she was the candidate you'd want at the helm during a storm. She might not be inspirational, but she was experienced, sensible and clear-headed. And now Britons, even those who do not support her or the Tories, are breathing a sigh of relief that it is Mrs May in charge, and not one of her more volatile opponents. France is reeling from a brutal attack and Britain's security is at risk, making May's "safe pair of hands" more relevant at the end of her first full day in office than she could have imagined. Yesterday, the French Foreign Minister issued a flurry of insults expressing his disgust at Boris Johnson's appointment as Foreign Secretary. That all seems very long ago now.
As May calls an emergency Cobra meeting and the new cabinet ministers adjust to their roles, one man's swift exit from the political stage has been almost forgotten. What is to become of David Cameron, and how is his legacy to be remembered? This week, his departure as Prime Minister was cemented in the public consciousness by the whimsical tune he hummed after announcing his resignation, and by his final, vigorous Prime Minister's Questions, in which he assured the public that Larry the Downing Street Cat would remain at Number 10. Books are already being written about this period in British history, and about the "essay-crisis Prime Minister" who gambled his fortune on the EU and lost. My guess is that we will miss Cameron more than we realise, probably more than he will miss us.
Three weeks ago, the morning after the referendum, I wrote "Britain has a clean slate – now we must decide what we will do with it". We do not yet have an answer, but recent events have revealed that Prime Minister Theresa May is sure to make her mark on the future of the UK.


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George Gately Gallagher (21 de diciembre de 1928 – 30 de septiembre de 2001), fue un caricaturista estadounidense. Fue creador de la tira cómica  Heathcliff, también conocida en español como Isidoro, el Gato y Pícaro, el Gato. Este personaje tiene algunas semejanzas con la popular historieta Garfield. Gately nació en una familia de amantes de las tiras cómicas. Su padre era doodler aficionado y su hermano mayor John era también un dibujante. Él creció y fue a la escuela en Bergenfield, Nueva Jersey.

Tiras cómicas
Más tarde Gately estudió arte en el Instituto Pratt en la Ciudad de Nueva York. Después de graduarse, trabajó en una agencia de publicidad durante 11 años lo que no le trajo mayores satisfacciones económicas. Viendo el éxito obtenido por su hermano mayor, George decidió incursionar en la creación de tiras cómicas y en 1957, vendió su primer trabajo firmándolo como "George Gately" y luego como "Geo Gately" para evitar confusión con el nombre de su hermano. En 1964, Gately creó su primera tira cómica llamada Hapless Harry (Harry el desgraciado), que se publicó durante unos años en varios periódicos. Pero su creación más memorable vino en 1971 en forma del gato gordo de color naranja, Heatcliff que recibió diferentes nombres, apenas comenzó a internacionalizarse su trabajo. Desde 1985, Star Comics, perteneciente a Marvel Comics, comenzó a producir las historietas del personaje. La serie duró 56 números. Star Comics añadió un spin-off adicional en 1987 llamado 'Heathcliff's Funhouse'. Se trata de una combinación de material nuevo y reeditado.

Nombre del personaje en otros idiomas
 Suecia: "Katten Nisse"
 Finlandia: "Katti-Matti"
 Polonia: "Łebski Harry"
 Francia: "Isidore"
 América Latina: "Heathcliff"
 México: "Heathcliff"
 Brasil: "Lorde Gato"
 España: "Isidoro"
 Italia: "Isidoro"
 Portugal: "Heathcliff"
 Venezuela: "Pícaro, el gato"

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Q: Google Cloud Security Account Context not working in Intellij Application Runner I am unable to authenticate my Dataflow Beam application when I run it in Intellij Idea. This worked for me at one point recently and now it doesn't.
Auth is failing with 403 forbidden '"Access Denied: Project [myProject]: User does not have bigquery.jobs.create permission in project [myProject].'

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*I have verified that I DO have this permission in both my gcp user and service account.

*I have set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS with the path to a service account json in my MacOS Zshell profile.

*This same profile configuration works when I run a different client lib Node JS app in VSCode using the same service account token.

*This same java Dataflow pipeline authenticates when I run/debug it in Eclipse IDE.

*Running mvn package from terminal on the same pipeline is also authenticating and writing the template to my GCS storage bucket.

*I have added additional service accounts to my gcloud configuration with 'gcloud auth activate-service-account' and can see them listed with 'gcloud auth list'

*I have tried setting the active account to both service accounts.

*I have tried setting the --serviceAccount Beam option to a service account I know has correct permissions.

*I would like to try to setting the service token path to the BigQueryIO java Dataflow connector as I am able to do with the Node JS client lib, but it doesn't seem possible?

*The debugger does work and I can hit a break point.

*I have tried installing latest and Version: 2020.1.1 Build: 201.7223.91 29 April 2020

*I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Intellij and creating a new project.

It appears as though this security context is not getting passed to the Dataflow Java Beam library, but the exception output does say 'Inferred default GCP project 'fubotv-prod' from gcloud.' so apparently some args are getting through.
Perhaps there is some cached response build state or something?
I spent all day stuck on this. I am at my wits end. I would really like to debug my Dataflow pipeline again with Intellij. Any solutions, ideas, random words of encouragement are much appreciated!

A: As discussed in the comments, a way of debugging what is happening can be printing the var env in your code in IntelliJ in order to see if the environment variables are correct
As concluded in the discussion, IntelliJ has its own SHELL context which makes the OS's variables not accessible if you don't explicitly restart the application.

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Government must stand up to An Post management
Sinn Féin Communications Spokesperson Seán Crowe TD has called on the Government to stand up to management at An Post to preserve essential public services particularly in rural Ireland. Deputy Crowe made his comments today as speculation mounted that An Post are to announce the further notice of closure of up to 500 post offices.
He said, "It is expected that An Post will soon announce the closure of up to 500 post offices throughout the state which they claim is because many of the offices are no longer viable. However, we now have the ridiculous situation where the Post Office in Roscrea is being downgraded as we speak despite being situated in one of the fastest growing towns in North Tipperary. This leads one to question An Post's interpretation of the word viable.
"Regardless of the viability or profitability of many of these offices, one of the primary functions of An Post is to provide a service to the people of the state and we must remember that the company made €120 million from the sale of SDS services giving them plenty of financial flexibility.
"It is my belief, and it is shared by many, that the real reason behind An Post management wanting to sell off so many of its offices is that it is part of a fattening up process of the company in preparation for its eventual privatisation. This cannot be allowed to happen.
"This company must be forced to stand by its public service commitment. We need to preserve essential public services particularly in rural Ireland where this proposal would have huge detrimental effects on many communities." ENDS


He was somehow able to telepathically contact his "real" mom, Lulu, in the few weeks after he was born. A grainy photo sent to her by his breeder cemented the relationship, and his blog, To Aire is Divine, was born.
After traveling cross country for the first time via airplane, Bogart first set paw down on the streets of Los Angeles. And he liked it well enough to almost immediately fall asleep. He has lived, loved, and lost his way through Los Angeles, CA, Portland, Oregon, across the country to Philadelphia, and finally, Pittsburgh.
Bogart's full AKC name really was Bogart Handsome Devil. The Bogart was directly inspired by Humphrey Bogart, a class act and "real man". The Handsome Devil, well that was the easy part. One look at his fuzzy little mug and it was set.
Bogart was indeed a Renaissance Man – skilled in the arts of subtle inter-dog negotiations, manipulation of pet store employees for the procurement of free treats, and the gentle dominance of his hapless humans – he ruled his kingdom with a fuzzy fist.


Here's a list of the games submitted in 2014 and made publicly available by their creators.
In Active Shooter the players take on the role of students involved in a school shooting. Difficult subject matter is addressed with a combination of free role play, voting mechanics, and a simple board game.
A game about the fears and doubts of a group of adventurers as they celebrate on the eve of their first adventure. How will they deal with their new life as soon-to-be heroes, and will we find out who they really are, as they are about to cross the threshold into the life of adventurers?
The Aftermath explores changes in privilege, power and social expectation due to a short-term physical injury. This mobility impairing injury causes long standing effects social effects, and changes relationships. Using the spoon metaphor, the aftermath explores how one injury changes the lives and relationships of everyone involved.
An RPG sitcom about stardom, fame, and recognition. The game revolves around a group of likeable, but somewhat awful artists and their petty struggles to be more successful, more famous, or just more something than their peers. They usually fail.
The Bear divides players into factions: Prisoners, who time-travel to save the world from nuclear war; Camp Police, who monitor and interrogate the Prisoners; and The Dead, citizens of the past who are unaware of their impending doom. Will players learn enough from one another to prevent their fate?
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf is a game about a village in the state of crisis, and the villagers willing to do anything to make that crisis go away... and perhaps use it to their advantage. It's about taking a situation that's familiar and digging deeper, turning it on its head. You've probably heard of the popular game Werewolf. What happens if there is no Werewolf, only bad luck and bastards?
Café Incognito: that busy, bustling hub where the secret agents of four rival countries mingle and meet. Can you keep your head, and keep your identity secret, while puzzling out the loyalties of your fellows? A yarn-spinning whirlwind of allies, enemies, truth, lies, gossip and garbled codephrases.
Charging of the Light-Bearer is a game of onerous solutions. As elders you are one, but one of you must stand out. None want the blessing of being the new light-bearer, but one must take up the call. Will it be you?
Chimerical Defense Force is a game for 3 to 6 players who take on the roles of chimerical monsters planning the defense of their dungeon home against adventurers.
Conse|cution is a short, freeform game about persecution and some of its consequences. You play a short story about a family who hides from persecution and flees into exile with the aid of several helpers. The game focuses on the strains endured and the small community forged.
Contact is a silly party game that tackles some serious issues. Partner with everyone, find new ways to make physical contact, act out unpredictable quirks, and try to guess your friends' quirks.
Conventioneering is a satirical pick-up-and-play freeform game in which 2 to 8 players take on the role of strangers discussing various topics while waiting in line to an event, or unwinding in the lobby of their hotel after a long day at the con.
In this game, love doesn't exist. Good luck with your relationship.
As a member of a new improv-heavy jazz-rock band, can you achieve your personal musical vision, while helping your band cohere into a successful or even hot act? Get ready for band meetings, secret votes, and playing out performances using unique narrative techniques.
Don has a secret, a terrible secret. By the end of this meeting the secret will change everything, that is, unless you do something about it. You all had a week to prepare, was it enough? A game about defining characters while overcoming challenges in less than an hour.
A group of people come together to talk about and play out their dreams. Each person in the group is having recurrent dreams that involve a bear. Play this brief, live-action, freeform game in two hours or less. For three to six players.
A brief sci-fi game about a crew trying to stop an assassination while slowly regaining their memories. Gameplay is fast and story-based, shifting between the present (peace negotiations) and the past (memories).
Every player portrays iterations of someone named Uri, incorrectly loaded into an artificial world: a "Reallike" of the historical period 2014 or thereabouts. The game features cards describing shards of Uri's memory or questions to pursue, and also features concern about whether or not you, personally, are the real Uri - or if you're a glitch - or if you're a virus.
Group Date is a game about disparate (and, at times, discordant) personalities looking for love. A quick personality quiz sorts the players into teams, who then play out a series of three short dates--with a twist. Group Date is meant to be a quick, accessible and lighthearted freeform larp.
A group-created eulogy for a made-up person that results in a tangible artifact to represent that person.
HERE LIES _________ is a collaborative eulogy building game that will result in the creation of a permanent artifact honoring the departed.
Hibernation Agents is a game for 3 to 6 players about capable agents awakening after hundreds of years into a strange world. Inspired by the comic series Prophet, it tells cinematic sci-fi stories of not quite heroes navigating surreal alien landscapes with only their instincts and wit to guide them.
The year is 20XX. The presidential debate is at hand: do you support rights for sentient toasters? How about time travel research in order to save endangered species? Play presidential candidates, media handlers, and just hard-working citizens deciding whether to blow up the moon to stimulate the economy.
Are you a person who daydreams about what other people are like? Imagine giving them depth by creating their memories and desires. Imagine how that will shape their journeys through life. Just ... Imagine.
You have one hour to negotiate a peace treaty before the assembled alien armadas go to war, killing you and everyone else on this backwater little planet called Earth.
The king has decided to celebrate the realm's 100th birthday by having a grand tournament, and the call has gone out throughout the land for all of the greatest and powerful knights to come and joust for wealth and fame! HUZZAH! What he wound up with was a bunch of jerks.
You've lived a successful life, but now you wonder whether it was the right one. So you registered for Lifechanging, a service which lets people swap lives. Talk to others. Think whether their life is better. Finally, decide whether to keep the life you have or become someone new.
Players perform "magical" gestures based on four elements: Fire, Air, Water, Earth. Defeat evil princess Preiaya to save dear friend Donzo the dragon. This is a free-form, semi-LARP game. Have fun watching i.e magicians of the "School of Voluptuous Eruptions" perform fire magic, demonstrating gestures of sexual prowess!
One Night Out is a game of dramatic improv, using playing cards as a mechanic for character development and interaction, and focused on real people in real circumstances.
Patchwork is a game about siblinghood, played in scenes of light and heavy events in a family's life. The game includes warm ups and physical safety markers to promote a safe space in which players can open up and play with honesty and vulnerability.
The bad news? You've died and gone to Hell. The good news? You get to buy yourself some peace & quiet from the torment. But not all places are created equal. 3 to 9 players tour – and attempt to buy – houses in the afterlife. Dark humor.
In a massive electronic waste heap in Ghana, sentient robots struggle to survive and understand their new lives. RESTART is a live-action role-playing game about these robots, designed to be played in 2 hours by 3-9 players in an open space. Everyone will take on the role of a machine or a human, with a few players acting as facilitators as well.
Restless is a game for 3-8 players about a group of survivors being hunted through the abandoned ruins of the world by a monstrous, unyielding horde.
PRCV is a game about volunteers returning from 18 months of aid work in Burkina Faso. They wait in an airport departure lounge to be separated, maybe forever, and still have some in-country business to resolve. Some very terrible business they can't leave entirely behind.
The engine coughed roughly and finally stopped. It took you a moment to realise you were stuck in the cold of the tundra, hours away from any civilisation. And the snow just doesn't seem to help… "Snow" is a minimalistic experiment, a try to let players lead the action, with a very limited intrusion of the GM. Cars and intense feeling included.
There's a Fan Fic for That... is a game about creating live action "fan fiction" stories. Set in alternate universes and crossing multiple canons the stories can be funny, romantic, or full of angst. Remain "in character" as your Characters are put into strange or ridiculous situations. Give feedback to the Author in your role as a Reader.
Top Secret Admirer is a [redacted] freeform game about seeking love and intrigue in the intelligence community. When your date has a security clearance—and maybe ulterior motives—they might be sizing you up as well as checking you out. Will you betray your loyalties? Or will your heart betray you first?
It is a game about the deprivation of liberty. You and some friends will represent characters that cannot leave a place. You may imagine yourself locked up for some reason in the space you are now occupying, or think of other funny or dramatic situations.
Troupe explores the nature of collaboration, both in terms of what we are capable of producing and of the ways in which we mask or shape or identities to do so. Players take on the role of members in a performing troupe and acts alternate between "on stage" presentations for an audience and "off stage" encounters that put members in conflict with one another.
You were superheroes who screwed up big time, though you don't remember it. No one does. Reality was altered and the history that you used to know no longer exists, and never did. Now it's trying to reassert itself. Will you leave the world like this, or change things back?
In a city where people ______________, _________________ have taken over. Can you ______________ the _______________ before it is too _______________? In [Your Game Here] by [Your Name Here], players create the salient details of the scenario in a Mad-Libs style fashion before runtime. This is a theater-style 2-hour larp.


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import nnabla as nn
import nnabla.function as _F
import nnabla.functions as F

from .backward_function import UnaryDataGrad

class SliceDataGrad(UnaryDataGrad):

    @property
    def name(self):
        return 'SliceDataGrad'

    def __init__(self, ctx, start=None, stop=None, step=None):
        super(SliceDataGrad, self).__init__(ctx)
        self._func = _F.Slice(ctx, start, stop, step)

def slice_backward(grad_inputs, inputs, input_shapes, outputs, output_shapes, start=None, stop=None, step=None):
    """
    Args:
      grad_inputs (list of :obj:`nnabla.Variable`): Propagated grads to this backward function.
      inputs (list of :obj:`nnabla.Variable` and None): Input Variables of the forward function
          if this backward function depends on it. Otherwise, None is set instead.
      input_shapes (list of tuple of :obj:`int`): Input shapes of the forward function.
          The shapes of the inputs in which None is set can be passed.
      outputs (list of :obj:`nnabla.Variable` and None): Output Variables of the forward function
          if this backward function depends on it. Otherwise, None is set instead.
      output_shapes (list of tuple of :obj:`int`): Output shapes of the forward function.
          The shapes of the outputs in which None is set can be passed.
      kwargs (dict of arguments): Dictionary of the corresponding function arguments.

    Return:
      list of Variable: Return the gradients wrt inputs of the corresponding function.
    """
    dy = grad_inputs[0]
    x0_shape = input_shapes[0]
    ctx = nn.get_current_context()
    df = SliceDataGrad(ctx, start, stop, step)
    df.xshape = x0_shape
    dx0 = df(dy)
    return dx0

def slice_data_grad_backward(grad_inputs, inputs, input_shapes, outputs, output_shapes, start=None, stop=None, step=None):
    """
    Args:
      grad_inputs (list of :obj:`nnabla.Variable`): Propagated grads to this backward function.
      inputs (list of :obj:`nnabla.Variable` and None): Input Variables of the forward function
          if this backward function depends on it. Otherwise, None is set instead.
      input_shapes (list of tuple of :obj:`int`): Input shapes of the forward function.
          The shapes of the inputs in which None is set can be passed.
      outputs (list of :obj:`nnabla.Variable` and None): Output Variables of the forward function
          if this backward function depends on it. Otherwise, None is set instead.
      output_shapes (list of tuple of :obj:`int`): Output shapes of the forward function.
          The shapes of the outputs in which None is set can be passed.
      kwargs (dict of arguments): Dictionary of the corresponding function arguments.

    Return:
      list of Variable: Return the gradients wrt inputs of the corresponding function.
    """
    gdx = grad_inputs[0]
    gdy = F.slice(gdx, start, stop, step)
    return gdy


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Home English Skyscraper, B-grade Hollywood Thriller
Skyscraper, B-grade Hollywood Thriller
Skyscraper full movie review and rating
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Moller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber and Hannah Quinlivan
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Despite being visually exciting, suspenseful and entertaining, "Skyscraper" is a lowbrow, one-dimensional, fun B-grade action thriller that is absolutely worth a watch.
The premise is simple and the plot is predictably straight laced. Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson), an ex-military operative who has lost his leg in an explosion, now owns a security company that has been appointed to service 'The Pearl', the tallest building in the world, built by the Asian Financier Zhao Long Ji (Chin Han).
Fit with the latest security measures, the building seems insurmountable, till a group of mercenaries led by Kores Botha (Roland Moller) try to sabotage the building by burning it down because of their differences with Zhao Long Ji.
Sawyer's stakes in saving the building are doubled as his wife Sarah and two children; Georgia and Henry, are stranded in the blazing skyscraper. How he rescues his family and Zhao and saves the building from being completely destroyed, forms the crux of the film.
The film is serious at times with by-the-numbers, over-the-top set action pieces and a few little twists here and there that defy expectations. The audience may find the set pieces to be incredibly entertaining, but in actuality, they don't particularly mesh with the narrative. But then, as an action film it delivers the goods.
Overall, the film is Dwayne's canvas. He entices the audience with his jaw-dropping stunts especially when he is dangling outside the building with nothing but a rope and wrapped prosthetic leg keeping him alive, the notion of "suspension of disbelief" only goes so far to save it.
He and Neve Campbell, who plays his wife Sarah, have surprisingly solid chemistry and together they as a couple make the telling of the film relatable. The kids are there to tug you on the emotional note, which definitely seems forced.
Overall, the film delivers on pretty much everything it promises and even adds a layer of emotion when looking at the family dynamics.
In fact, it even tries to reach the levels that the original "Die Hard" did, but then the ridiculous dialogue at the end – "You nearly need a shower" belittles Sawyer's endeavour and takes away from the seriousness of the events one witnessed. IANS
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were stifled during the credit crisis - though hopefully some provisions of the Volcker Rule will survive, particularly those related to bank restructuring. We would be far along the road to economic recovery had we dealt with our crisis the way Sweden durably dealt with its own in the early 1990's (essentially taking a large portion of the banking industry into receivership, wiping out existing shareholders, writing down bad assets, and then taking the banks public to recapitalize them under new owners). Bernanke, in contrast, has been at the forefront of the kick-the-can strategy of bailouts, accounting changes, customizable stress tests, and helicopter money. "


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The Planetizen News Brief - 12/3/09
Atlantic Yards moves ahead, CityCentre cuts ribbons, and the DOT throws money at buses and streetcars -- all on this week's Planetizen News Brief, produced for Smart City Radio.
Planetizen
December 2, 2009 - 17:00
Full Transcript (Audio available as .mp3 at Planetizen):
After much controversy and years of delays, the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn appears to be moving forward. The New York State Court of Appeals ruled recently that the state can use its eminent domain powers to seize private property to enable development of the 22-acre project. Sited on a former railyard, the proposed Atlantic Yards project includes16 highrises with more than 6,000 apartment units and a new 18,000-seat arena for the New Jersey Nets basketball team. The New York Times reports that the 6-to-1 ruling by the appeals court backs up the state's assessment that the land can be considered blighted, clearing the way for the acquisition of that land from a few landowners who are holding out. Opponents have bemoaned the project and this new ruling, arguing that the state is taking private property for private benefit rather than the public good. Though opponents plan to fight the decision, the Atlantic Yards project now seems almost guaranteed to go through.
And out in Las Vegas, another mega-project is revealing itself to the public this month. The massive 18 million square-foot CityCenter on the Las Vegas strip will have its grand opening this month, with three of its four hotels and a shopping center cutting ribbons. Articles from Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer look at the project and what it could mean for the city. As the only major project to complete construction in Las Vegas this year, CityCenter is seen as both a last gasp for the struggling desert city, and a sign of hope for the future. The project takes a very un-Vegas approach to development, aiming at a dense urban feel. Big name architects like Daniel Libeskind, Rafael Viñoly and Norman Foster all have buildings in the mix, and the project's intended walkability offer a decidedly different approach to development in a city known for excess and extravagance. Though the design may earn CityCenter international praise, how well it serves the city's crumbling economy remains to be seen.
And finally, inner-city transit advocates have been thrown a bone by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Secretary Ray LaHood recently announced plans to award $280 million worth of grants to cities looking to build and expand bus and streetcar networks. Streetsblog reports on the announcement, which LaHood made in New Orleans, a city that is working on expanding its historic streetcar system. Cities like New Orleans could be awarded up to $25 million for their transit expansion plans through this new grant program. Funding is expected to roll out in the spring.


I arrived in Kona, Hawaii yesterday for The Ironman. I started coming here in 1989 to watch the race and support friends, TrainingBible Coaching athletes, and my own client-athletes. This is one of the few years I don't have a client racing. So I'll be free to be an outside observer this time around. As an impartial observer a couple of things have already become apparent to me.
The first is that it is HOT! Really hot. The temperature in the early afternoon is around 90F and the relative humidity is the same - about 90%. I walked a couple of miles to buy groceries today just so I could get some sort of exercise today. I was dripping sweat by the time I was back to the air conditioned room. I'm from the Phoenix area where 105F is common but our humidity is much lower. Phoenix heat is nothing like this. Heat is also a much greater burden than moderate altitude. I spend my summers in Boulder where the altitude is about 5000 feet and train a lot in the mountains at 7000 feet and higher. The physiological 'cost' is nothing like the heat here. I feel very sorry for the athletes who come here from places like Denver (where they have already gotten snow), Minneapolis, Chicago and other cities north of 40 degrees latitude. It's very difficult to adapt to weather like this when it's chilly and threatening to snow. But there are ways. Some day I'll write about them. Too late now, however.
The other thing that has stood out for me so far is that triathletes spend a lot more time on their feet in the days before a race than road cyclists do. Roadies tend to lay around a lot in the days before a race. Of course, they often have team support which takes care of getting groceries and drives the riders to meals. Triathletes could learn a lot from roadies in this instance. I've seen triathletes today walking long distances, and it's less than 48 hours until the start of their biggest race of the year. They need someone to come along on the trip and take care of them. This could be a spouse or a hired 'gofer' (roadies have a nicer for them - 'soigneurs'). In the last few days before a race athletes should never walk when they can ride, never stand when they can sit, and never sit when they can recline. Rest is the key now.
Definitely! Triathletes are on their feet too much pre-race. My hubby & I rotate training for iron-distance events. He's thought about offering IM Sherpa services. It makes sense, if the athlete & Sherpa trust each other.
Agreed about people being in the sun, walking around too much before race day. Not to mention those I (still!) see hammering up and down Alii Drive on the bike or running.
With regard to roadies, guys who race their bikes for a living don't get 2-3 week tapers before a big race. They are working hard every day, with rare days off from training, so they understand exactly how to use their rest time wisely. Triathletes... not so much. Compound that with the type A, nearly OCD personality that characterises many Kona Ironman participants and you end up with people who can't sit still in the few days before the race.
I was struck by your comment about heat burden vs. altitude. I live at 9000 feet and it seems to give me an advantage especially in high altitude events, but I felt like doing some heat training really helped me this year. In fact, I felt like without experience and adaptation riding in the heat I would not have finished the Ring of Fire 24 hour TT.
BTW, thanks for your blog. I've never commented here before, but I enjoy reading your informative posts.


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Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix: Red Bull, Webber Have One Last Chance
By Daniel Zylberkan
Fernando Alonso is the leader of the Formula One World Drivers' Championship for the first time since the Bahrain Grand Prix.
But he is coming to a track that should be another piece of cake for the Red Bull boys.
The Formula One circus is coming to another track full of medium- and high-speed corners and relatively little straight bits. Interlagos is most comparable to Hungary, only a bit faster.
The result for qualifying: a Red Bull lock out of the front row and the Red Bull finished first and third on Sunday, but only because Sebastian Vettel was handed a drive-through penalty during a safety car period.
But Alonso in the Ferrari was very close to the Red Bulls at the Hungaroring, finishing second. To further the situation at Red Bull, it isn't as simple as the one at the Scuderia.
Both Webber and Vettel have a chance of winning the championship and the team has not unequivocally said that it will support one driver over the other.
Down the paddock, the boys from Maranello have put their full support. Alonso and Massa says that he is fully supportive of helping his teammate in any way possible.
In a bizarre moment, a Brazilian magistrate in Sao Paulo has said that if Massa allows his Spanish teammate during the race, in any way changing the result of the race, he could be sentenced to a six years in prison for fraud.
Meaning that Ferrari's unequivocal support for Alonso could be illegal in Brazil. Things are always funny at Interlagos; this year it's sure to be even crazier.
If Alonso wins the race on Sunday and Webber finishes fifth or lower, the Spaniard will have the championship, deciding the championship in Sao Paulo for the sixth straight year.
I think it'll be difficult for Alonso to be able to cinch up the championship on Sunday, because Red Bull will be very fast and they have rid themselves of the bad luck after a horrible Korean Grand...


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Crytek Acquires Rights to Homefront IP
Crytek GmbH
24 Jan, 2013, 20:33 GMT
FRANKFURT, Germany, January 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Studio committed to delivering blockbuster experience with Homefront 2
Crytek GmbH today announced the acquisition of the intellectual property rights for the Homefront franchise following an auction of assets by THQ Inc. Crytek's association with the Homefront IP began in autumn 2011, when the developer announced it would be creating the second game in the series in partnership with THQ Inc. Following THQ's recent decision to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy and the subsequent sale of the publisher's assets, Crytek submitted the high bid at auction to secure the rights to the Homefront franchise.
Crytek CEO, Cevat Yerli, said: "Since we first reached an agreement to develop Homefront 2, we've been firm believers in the IP and its potential to excite and amaze players. Our cooperation with THQ was always positive and we would like to thank them for all their support over the last two years and express our sympathy to those affected by the recent events at the company."
Development work will continue on Homefront 2 at Crytek's UK studio in Nottingham. "From day one, the Homefront 2 team has been committed to creating a game that takes the series to new heights and features the level of quality and innovation associated with Crytek," said Nick Button-Brown, General Manager of Games at Crytek. "Nothing has changed with regards our development of the game, and we look forward to sharing the finished product with players."
About Crytek GmbH
Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is an independent company at the forefront of the interactive entertainment industry, and is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of gaming by creating standout experiences for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, mobile devices and games-as-service using their cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE®.
The company's headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Crytek also has studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea), Nottingham (UK), Shanghai (China) and Istanbul (Turkey).
Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has consistently been recognized for excellence in its field, earning accolades such as the 2011 Develop Award for Best Independent Studio and a 2010 Red Dot Design Award. Its multi-award winning games include Far Cry®, Crysis® (awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards), Crysis Warhead® (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008
Awards), Crysis® 2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and Gamescom 2010) and Warface (awarded Best Social/Casual/Online Game of Gamescom 2012). For more information, please visit http://www.crytek.com.
Jens Schaefer
Senior PR Manager
jens@crytek.com
Phone: +49-6921977661071
SOURCE Crytek GmbH


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This is the first preliminary data summary for the 2003 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from June 2 through June 4 by Texas vessels sampling Texas' inshore and offshore waters. Catch data from the Texas vessels were taken with 20-ft trawls.
The catch data west of the River indicated that the highest brown shrimp catch rate was 4.8 lb/hr of 53-count shrimp at 29°32.5' N. lat. and 93°55.8' W. long., in 6 fm. The catch data west of the River indicated that the highest white shrimp catch rate was 8.5 lb/hr of 20-count shrimp at 29°34.5' N. lat. and 93°34.2' W. long., in 5 fm. No pink shrimp were caught west of the River during this sampling period. The highest finfish catch rate west of the River was 126 lb/hr reported in 4 fm at 29°35.5' N. lat. and 93°52.4' W. long., with Atlantic croaker being the predominant finfish species.
The catch data from Texas indicated that the highest catch rate of brown shrimp was 31.2 lb/hr of 131-count shrimp in 6 fm at 29°21.8' N. lat. and 94°33.3' W. long. The highest catch rates for white shrimp were 22.8 lb/hr of 19-count shrimp in 6fm at 28°27.5' N. lat. and 96°13.5' W. long. The catch data from Texas indicated that the highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 0.5 lb/hr of 109-count shrimp in 12 fm at 26°05.8' N. lat. and 97°02.5' W. long. The maximum finfish catch rate was 212 lb/hr in 6 fm at 28°27.5' N. lat. and 96°13.5' W. long., with Atlantic croaker being the predominant finfish species.