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House Democrats to Vote on Election Denier Hakeem Jeffries for Leader
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Wendell Husebø
House Democrats plan to vote Wednesday on whether election denier Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) will be the next Democrat House leader.
Following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) decision to step down as Democrat leader, House Democrats have scheduled a vote on Wednesday at 9 a.m. to replace her in the position. Jeffries appears to be the chosen Democrat to win the coveted position.
A lawyer from central Brooklyn, Jeffries, 52, is a far-left Democrat who appears to have been hand-picked by Pelosi to lead the Democrats in the next Congress. Jeffries was first elected to Congress in 2013 and has served as the chair of the House Democrat Caucus since 2019.
Since 2016, Jeffries has denied the legitimacy of United States elections a total of nine times. He called the 2016 election "illegitimate," and said it "artificially" made former President Donald Trump president.
Jeffries claimed in 2019 there was a "cloud of illegitimacy that continues to hang over" the Trump administration and that Democrats must "to try to figure out what the heck happened."
Again in 2019, Jeffries claimed "the cloud of illegitimacy hanging over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. grows stronger by the day."
"History will never accept" Trump "as a legitimate President," he tweeted in 2020.
Notably, in light of Jeffries being Pelosi's chosen successor, his election-denying rhetoric matches Pelosi's own position on the 2016 election. Like Jeffries, Pelosi falsely claimed in 2017 that "[o]ur election was hijacked. There is no question."
Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 16, 2017
That Pelosi appears to have chosen a Democrat who has likewise promoted false election claims to succeed her as the House Democrat leader means Democrats will have to decide if they want to elect an election denier, considering the establishment media continually pointed out before the 2022 midterms that some Republican candidates questioned the 2020 election result.
Media bias appears to be shielding Jeffries from criticism. After Jeffries announced his bid for the leadership position, the media refused to note that Jeffries promoted false election claims, just like some Republicans did, according to the same media outlets.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
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Homeopathy for mental fatigue: lessons from a randomized, triple blind, placebo-controlled cross-over clinical trial
Michael Emmans Dean1,
Raj Karsandas1,
J Martin Bland1,
Debbie Gooch2 and
Hugh MacPherson1Email author
© Dean et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
Published: 1 October 2012
Difficulty in controlling attention can lead to mental fatigue in the healthy population. We identified one trial reporting a benefit in patients' attention using a homeopathic formula preparation. One component of the preparation was potassium phosphate, widely available off the shelf as Kali phos 6x for cognitive problems. The aim of this exploratory trial was to assess the effectiveness of Kali phos 6x for attention problems associated with mental fatigue.
We recruited student and staff volunteers (University of York) with self-reported mental fatigue, excluding any using homeopathy or prescribed stimulants, or with a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome. In a triple blind, cross-over, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 86 volunteers were randomized to receive Kali phos 6x or identical placebo 10 minutes before taking a psychological test of attention (Stroop Colour-Word Test). One week later they were crossed over and took the other preparation before repeating the test.
We found no evidence of a treatment effect in a comparison of Kali phos 6x with placebo (Kali phos minus placebo = −1.1 (95% CI −3.0 to 0.9, P = 0.3) Stroop score units, Cohen effect size = −0.17) even when allowing for a weak period effect with accuracy scores in the second period being higher than those in the first (P = 0.05). We observed a ceiling effect in the Stroop test which undermined our ability to interpret this result.
Kali phos 6x was not found to be effective in reducing mental fatigue. A ceiling effect in our primary outcome measure meant that we could not rule out a type II error. Thorough piloting of an adequate outcome measure could have led to an unequivocal result.
Current Controlled Trials
ISRCTN16521161
Crossover study design
Kali phos 6x
Stroop test
This research was part of a programme evaluating homeopathy for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or hyperkinetic disorder (ADHD and HKD). We have published a Cochrane Library review of homeopathy for ADHD and HKD[1]. The review identified four randomized or quasi-randomized placebo-controlled trials[2–5] that used behavioural rating scales, three of which also used subscales of the Conners test[6]. Of the four studies, three used individualized 'classical' homeopathy and substantial differences in prescribing methods between trials and conflicting results make this group of studies hard to interpret[7, 8]. A formula 'complex' preparation was tested in the fourth study[4] and appeared to benefit patients' attention in the Children's Checking Task[6]. However, there has been no independent replication, or further research into the medication. The clinical effects of its individual components (homeopathic dilutions of potassium phosphate and selenium), are only known from anecdotal reports in the homeopathic literature.
Inattention is a problem experienced by many people, especially those with ADHD in whom it is one of three core symptoms that can lead to serious psychological, social and educational/occupational impairment[9]. It has been proposed that control of attention, impulses and thoughts is based on a shared mechanism and that mental fatigue sets in after extensive use of this mechanism, which may then lead to impaired cognitive function[10].
Potassium phosphate is traditionally indicated in standard homeopathic sources for cognitive problems including inattention and concentration difficulties[11]. It is commonly available off the shelf (official nomenclature Kalium phosphoricum, abbrev. Kali phos) with similar indications, but there has been no independent research into its efficacy. As we had encountered difficulties in gaining ethics approval and support from parents and care givers for a study with young people diagnosed with ADHD, we therefore designed an exploratory clinical trial with an efficient cross-over design to evaluate Kali phos in treating the specific symptom of mental fatigue in healthy adult volunteers. In this paper we present the results of the current trial and some of the difficulties and problems with the methodology.
To assess the effectiveness of homeopathic potassium phosphate (Kali phos 6x), an off-the-shelf preparation, for attention problems associated with mental fatigue in healthy adults.
We recruited 86 adult volunteers via online advertisement and internal circulation of emails within the University of York. To be eligible for the study participants had to self-report difficulties in sustaining attention or be experiencing mental fatigue. Additionally they had to be able to communicate in English and consent to avoiding the use of self prescribed stimulants, such as caffeine and energy drinks, on the day of each test. We excluded those who were currently using a homeopathic preparation for any condition, people who were currently using prescribed stimulant medication such as those used for ADHD and people diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome or ME. Those eligible were offered information leaflets and an explanation of the study by the CI (MED). All participants gave written consent to participate.
The homeopathic preparation was a single dose of 0.6 g of lactose powder medicated with Kalium phosphoricum 6x (a decimal dilution equivalent to 1 part in 1 000 000, potentised by serial agitation) in 90% ethanol/water solution. The placebo was a single dose of 0.6 g of lactose powder treated with unmedicated 90% ethanol/water solution. There was no noticeable difference in taste or appearance between the two preparations. Both preparations were supplied by the Helios Pharmacy, London, who coded the batches A and B so that nobody at the trial centre was aware which powder was placebo and which Kali phos. The identity of powders A and B was not revealed by the pharmacy until after completion of the analysis. The pharmacy also supplied the manufacturer's data sheet for the lactose used in both preparations.
The study design was a triple-blinded, placebo-controlled cross-over trial with two arms in which participants were randomly allocated to receive either a homeopathic or placebo preparation in period 1 and vice versa in the period 2.
In both periods the participants completed the 4-question mental fatigue sub-scale of the Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire, giving an integer score between 0 and 4[12]. They subsequently took a single dose of one of the randomly allocated preparations. They familiarized themselves with the software in trial runs of the psychological test of attention. They then performed the test, approximately ten minutes after taking either the homeopathic or placebo preparation. Each participant repeated the procedure at the same time of day, seven days later, those who received Kali phos in period 1 receiving the placebo preparation and vice versa. After completing the period 2 test, participants were asked whether they thought they had just taken Kali phos or placebo.
A review by Swanson et al. concluded that of three domains of assessing cognitive deficits, conflict resolution tasks (CRT) were the best at distinguishing children in ADHD diagnosed groups from control groups[13]. Of these CRTs the Stroop Colour-Word Test has been identified as one of the most sensitive for testing ADHD-specific deficits[14]. Therefore our primary outcome measure was accuracy score on the Stroop Colour-Word Test[15].
The Stroop task involved participants being shown a colour word (e.g. 'red') which was coloured either congruently (e.g. the word 'red' was coloured red) or incongruently (e.g. the word 'red' was coloured green). Participants were required to respond to either the word or the colour of the word by pressing corresponding keys on the computer keyboard (1 = red, 2 = blue, 3 = green). Participants completed 2 practice blocks each containing 9 trials (6 incongruent and 3 congruent). In the first block participants were instructed to respond to the word and in the second block participants were instructed to respond to the colour of the word. Feedback on performance accuracy was provided during these practice blocks. Six test blocks, each containing 27 trials (18 incongruent trials and 9 congruent trials) were then presented. For the first, third and fifth blocks participants responded to the word whereas for the second, fourth and sixth blocks participants responded to the colour of the word. A recovery period of 30 seconds in between each test block was included so that the task was suitable for a linked functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation (this follow-on project was not undertaken). The dependent variable was participants' accuracy score on the incongruent trials (maximum = 108). The test lasted approximately 18 minutes. The measure was adapted for computer presentation using EPrime® software[16] and was used in both periods. We originally aimed to measure the speed of response as a secondary outcome, but the software was programmed with a 3-second delay before the response screen appeared and therefore this could not be reliably measured.
We wanted to be able to detect a fairly small difference in the Stroop score and therefore decided to design the study to detect an effect size of 0.3 standard deviations with power 0.90 and using a significance level of 0.05. For a cross-over trial, we would need the standard deviation of differences between repeated measures at a similar time gap as we proposed for the trial, or the correlation coefficient between such pairs of observations. We could find no pre-existing data allowing us to estimate this correlation, and a pilot study to estimate this would have been almost as time-consuming to carry out as the present study. We therefore arbitrarily set the correlation between the accuracy scores in the first and second periods to be 0.80, believing this would be a reasonable value for a continuous measurement recorded with only seven days between measurements. We estimated that 86 volunteers would be required to give the desired power.
Allocation to treatment order
Allocation was random using our software Clinstat[17] to allocate 86 participants into equal groups in blocks of random sizes 4, 6, 8, or 10. For each participant, the folded papers containing powders A and B were put by JMB into clear plastic envelopes and labelled with the participant number and either "first" or "second". The completed packages were passed to MED who administered them to the participants, all of whom were fully blind to the allocation.
Statistical analysis followed the method of Hills and Armitage[18] using the description of Altman[19]. We have followed Senn by not testing the interaction between treatment and period[20]. As the assumptions of the two sample t methods used were not well met by the data, Mann Whitney U tests were used to confirm the analyses.
Ethical approval was given by the University of York Health Sciences Research Governance Committee on December 12, 2006. The trial registration number is ISRCTN16521161.
In 2007, 86 participants who were eligible for the study were randomly allocated to two groups, group A to receive placebo first and Kali phos second and vice versa for group B after a one week 'washout' period. 84 participants completed both periods of the study (Figure1) and two participants, both in Group B, were unable to attend period 2. They were treated as missing completely at random and not included in the analysis.
Participants' flow chart.
Table1 shows the baseline demographic characteristics and pre-test data for both groups. The majority of participants were female and the majority were students. The pre-test Chalder Mental Fatigue Score fell significantly between period 1 and period 2 (P = 0.0004, sign test).
Baseline demographics and pre-test data
Placebo first:
Kali phos first
n = 43
Mean age ± SD
33.7 (13.3)
33.44 (13.6)
Female:Male ratio
Student:staff ratio
Mean (SD) pre-test Mental Fatigue Score* for period 1
* Based on the Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire
Accuracy scores
Table2 shows the accuracy scores for Groups A and B over both periods of the trial. The data are shown graphically in Figure2. Several things can be seen in these data. The distribution of score is highly negatively skew, with a long tail of lower values. There is a clear ceiling effect, with many participants achieving the maximum score of 108 in both periods of the trial. There is one apparent outlier in Kali phos period 1. There is little to suggest a treatment effect, but there may be a period effect, with period 1 have lower scores than period 2.
Accuracy scores on the Stroop Colour-Word Test for 86 participants in groups A and B, for periods 1 and 2
Placebo first
Kali phos
Accuracy scores for both groups in both periods.
The average correlation between the first and second scores across the two orders was 0.32. This was much smaller than the 0.80 postulated in the design of the experiment. First we asked whether there was evidence for a period effect, i.e. are the Stroop accuracy scores in the first period the same as in the second? For example, there might be a learning effect, with accuracy increasing with repetition of the test. If there were no period effect, we would expect the differences between the treatments to be the same in the two periods. The period effect, second period minus first period, is estimated by the treatment difference for period 2 minus the treatment difference for period 1. This is 3.9. We can estimate a 95% confidence for this using the two sample t method, giving 0.0 to 7.8. There is weak evidence of a period effect, P = 0.05, mean accuracy scores increasing from period 1 to period 2. Although the two sample t test is robust to departures from the assumption of a Normal distribution, particularly when groups sizes are very similar, the data clearly do depart from this (Table2 and Figure2). We therefore also tested the period effect using the Mann Whitney U test. This also provided rather weak evidence of a period effect, P = 0.05.
We estimated the treatment difference allowing for a possible period effect from the difference between the mean differences between periods for those who receiving placebo first and those who received Kali phos first. The estimate of the effect, Kali phos minus placebo, = −1.1 (95% CI −3.0 to 0.9, P = 0.3) Stroop score units. There is no evidence for a treatment effect. The non-parametric equivalent is a Mann Whitney U test of the difference, period 1 minus period 2, between the two orders. Again there is no evidence for a treatment effect, P = 0.3. The two analyses give very similar results.
The standard deviation of the first Stroop scores within treatment groups is 8.6. If we exclude the outlier, we get 6.5. If we take this as a reasonable estimate of the baseline standard deviation, we can use it to estimate the treatment effect in standard deviations. Dividing the difference in score for Kali phos minus placebo by 6.5 gives −0.17 (95% CI −0.46 to 0.13). Hence the estimated treatment effect is much smaller than the 0.3 which this trial was designed to detect and is in the opposite direction, and 0.3 is not included within the confidence interval and so would not be consistent with the data.
The change in the pre-test mental fatigue score from first to second period was highly significant. Participants were selected to have self-reported fatigue, but this was not always reflected in the fatigue score. Two participants had a fatigue score = 0, no fatigue, at the first measurement. They were not screened out on the basis of this score. We asked whether the fall in mean fatigue score could be a treatment effect? There was no evidence of this. The mean fatigue scores at the second period were 2.3 for participants receiving placebo first and 2.1 for participants receiving Kali phos first (P = 0.4, Mann Whitney U test). The corresponding mean falls in fatigue score were 0.5 and 0.6 (P = 0.5).
We then asked whether the change in pre-test mental fatigue score could explain the period effect. We did this by analysis of covariance, with treatment, order, and subject as fixed categorical factors and fatigue score as a quantitative covariate. The estimated treatment effect, Kali phos minus placebo, was −1.2 (95% CI −3.1 to 0.8, P = 0.2), almost identical to the unadjusted analysis. The estimated period effect, second minus first, was 2.9 (95% CI 0.8 to 5.0, P = 0.007), smaller than in the unadjusted analysis but more highly significant. Hence, although there is evidence that fatigue score did explain some of the increase in score from the first to the second period, it did not mask any treatment effect.
Participants' identification of treatment
Participants were asked at the second visit whether they could identify which treatment they had just received, Kali phos or placebo. Of the 84 participants at period 2, 23 guessed Kali phos, 39 guessed placebo, and 22 did not express an opinion. Of the 62 willing to guess, 29 were correct and 33 were incorrect. There is no evidence that guesses were other than random (P = 0.7, sign test comparing proportion correct with proportion incorrect). Of those willing to guess, Kali phos was the choice of 10/30 who actually received Kali phos and 13/32 who actually received placebo (P = 0.6, chi-squared test).
Potassium content of homeoepathic and placebo preparations
The manufacturer's data sheet for the lactose powder identified numerous trace elements including potassium (<0.01%). We performed our own chemical analysis using an atomic absorption spectrophotometer in the Chemistry Department at the University of York which showed a potassium content of approximately one part per million in both Kali phos and placebo preparations.
Synopsis of key findings
In a comparison of a homeopathic preparation (Kali phos 6x) with placebo, in a two period triple blinded cross over study, we found no evidence of a treatment effect. There was weak evidence of a period effect where accuracy scores in the second period were higher than those in the first across both treatment groups. This period effect was not explained by a decrease in pre-test mental fatigue scores from period 1 to period 2. This decrease in mental fatigue scores may be attributable to regression towards the mean. Chemical analysis showed that the (potentized) homeopathic and placebo preparations both contained approximately 1 part per million of potassium. Trace elements are not believed to affect the difference between potentized and unpotentized substances, as it is the potentization that is considered to provide the mechanism associated with therapeutic benefit.
Consideration of findings in respect to the literature
Our Cochrane review of homeopathy for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder[1] found two trials which measured the specific domain of inattention through child completed tasks[4, 5]. Although the trial of a formula preparation of homeopathic potassium phosphate and selenium reported some benefit in attention using the Children's Checking Task[6], when percentage data were converted into raw scores and reanalysed there was no significant difference between homeopathy and placebo[1]. A pooled estimate of the two trials also indicated no evidence of the effectiveness of homeopathy for ADHD[1], consistent with the findings of the current study.
Limitations of study
A clear ceiling effect, as demonstrated in Figure2, shows that a large number of accuracy scores were at or close to 108, the maximum score achievable. It meant that participants who achieved close to the maximum score in period 1 had little room for improvement in period 2. This reduced possible difference between mean scores, but it also reduced the variance of measurements between participants, so may not have greatly affected the estimated effect size. The ceiling effect also reduced the correlation between repeated observations. The original sample size calculation postulated a correlation of 0.8 between scores in the first and second periods. The actual correlation was only 0.3. This must have led to a reduction in power to detect a treatment difference. The confidence interval for the treatment effect size remained quite narrow and clearly excluded the difference we set out to detect, but it remains possible that a more sensitive measurement might produce a different result.
Despite the lack of a positive finding, we support authors such as Dwan et al[21]. who advocate publishing all studies in order to avoid publication bias in subsequent reviews and meta-analysis. In addition, such studies such as ours can highlight ways to improve the research.
The ceiling effect observed was a result of a limitation in our implementation of the outcome measure used, the Stroop Colour-Word Test. The test design included a recovery period of 30 seconds between each block because the test was intended to be used in a parallel neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Additionally there was a 3 second gap before each response could be made. Both these factors meant that many participants found that the test was not sufficiently challenging. Preliminary assessment of the test was informally performed on a small number of volunteers, however a full pilot study was not. Pilot studies for cross-over trials are seldom worth conducting as they require almost as many participants and resources as the actual trial. As Senn notes[20], cross-over trials are carried out where the condition is not life-threatening and there is usually no reason why they should not be repeated with a different design. This is certainly the case here and if this question were thought worthy of further research another trial could be carried out using a more appropriate version of the Stroop test with no ceiling effect.
Clinical and research implications
Several systematic reviews have outlined the weak evidence for the specific effect of homeopathic remedies over placebo[22, 23]. They go on to highlight the lack of rigorously conducted randomized controlled trials that have been published. Such trials have been historically difficult to perform in the field of complementary and alternative medicine primarily because of the lack of funding and because of difficulties in recruiting adequate numbers of participants[24].
'Homeopathy' is an umbrella term that covers many different methods of diagnosis and prescription[7]. It has been argued that placebo-controlled trials are inappropriate in the evaluation of individualised 'classical' homeopathy, which requires therapist-intensive consultations and individualized prescriptions based on each patient's symptom picture and unique characteristics[25]. However formulaic 'clinical' homeopathy is widely available as standardized treatments for predefined conditions or symptoms making it appropriate for rigorous randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials, as in the current study.
Although the current study failed to find any significant effect of the Kali phos 6x on mental fatigue, this may be attributable to the methodological flaws in the implementation of the outcome measure causing a ceiling effect, so a treatment effect cannot be ruled out. This study also has implications for further research in complementary and alternative medicine, providing an example of a resource-efficient cross-over design to evaluate a treatment for the temporary alleviation of a stable condition rather than a cure.
We thank Dr Rajendran Parthipan and Dr. Rathika Kandiah, Chemistry Department, University of York, Professor Charles Hulme, Psychology Department, University of York, and Roger Hadden, Helios Pharmacy, for their help and advice. Michael Emmans Dean was funded by a post-doctoral award from the National Institute for Health Research. Helios Pharmacy kindly provided Kali Phos 6x and placebo free of charge.
Michael Emmans Dean was funded by a post-doctoral award from the National Institute for Health Research.
12906_2012_1142_MOESM2_ESM.jpeg Authors' original file for figure 2
MED was the principal investigator and carried out the trial, JMB did the statistical design and randomization, including preparation of the concealed treatments, and carried out the statistical analysis, RK drafted the first version of the paper, DG prepared the Stroop test, HM was involved in the design of the study and interpretation of the results. All authors were in involved in drafting and approving the final paper.
Dept. of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Dept. of Psychology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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The new proposal for an 8,500-square-foot expansion of division headquarters Uptown stems from a request by council earlier this year that staff review city facilities to see whether they are meeting the city's needs.
The staff's report found that all facilities are doing well, with no immediate needs for expansion or improvements, save the police division buildings.
Currently, the police division operates out of its headquarters at 29 S. State St. and offices in the old Westerville Post Office at 28 S. State St., with storage spread out among four other facilities.
The police division currently operates within a total 42,120 square feet, according to a city staff report. An earlier report completed by an architectural firm recommends that the police division would ideally have 71,880 square feet, though the city's staff said it believes 63,390 square feet would be a workable amount of space.
"The police division, as we've heard about, their minimum requirements are being met. They're scattered across facilities. ... It's certainly not ideal. They're getting by for now," said city Administrative Services Director Adam Maxwell.
"There's not enough space in some cases for staff. There's not enough room for storage, particularly records storage."
The expansion and upgrade to the firing range would address immediate need while the city planned for something else.
City Council members expressed concern about expanding into more space in Uptown, where there is a higher need for building space and parking.
"It just seems rather expensive to me to build storage at this facility and keep in Uptown," said City Council Chairman Mike Heyeck.
Councilman Larry Jenkins also questioned the need to expand within Uptown and, along with other council members, asked to examine the cost of building a separate facility elsewhere.
"Once we invest in here, we've now pinned that function here. I know there's a cost going somewhere else, but we're already looking at a cost," Jenkins said. "We should look to move functions that don't need to be here in our prime real estate for some things that do need to be here."
Council members also asked about the possibility of collaborating with other local law-enforcement agencies to build a shared center, which is something City Manager Dave Collinsworth said the city has explored but is far from pursuing.
The expansion and upgrade would have to be factored in to the city's five-year capital improvement plan if council were interested in moving forward, Heyeck said.
That plan generally goes before council in April, and the work session was meant to generate discussion on how the city might address police needs in that plan, Heyeck said.
Collinsworth said the city will have to make some decisions on police facilities soon, particularly because the shooting range is in dire need of equipment upgrades.
"I wouldn't want to wait more than three years to make a decision," Jenkins said. "I think three years out, we're going to reach a functional life end for our equipment."


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Q: Algorithm for Hand writing recognition Is there any specific algorithm for handwriting recognition?
The algorithm should recognize the hand written letter.
Any one could help would be greatly appreciated in advance.
Thank you

A: You can use a genetic algorithm:
http://www.foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-02/IBS-02-p03.pdf
You can use Greedy Point Match:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/msw/GreedyPointMatchWriteup.pdf
I would suggest reading this paper:
On-Line and Off-Line Handwriting Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey

A: OCR might be a good starting point.

A: There's the dollar family of recognizers which you can use to recognize single or multistroke gestures (and potentially map that to your alphabet) The lastest member of this family is the $P Recognizer. Here's a starting point: http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/pdollar.html

A: Google has released an open source OCR engines Tesseract OCR, and It has an Python binding.
Hope this helps.

A: This one seems to win all the major competitions lately: https://github.com/alexgraves/RNNLIB/wiki

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18 But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faithapart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called afriend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.


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Five men have been jailed for life for a bomb plot linked to al-Qaeda that could have killed hundreds of people.
It has emerged that the ringleader of a UK bomb plot linked to al-Qaeda met two of the 7 July London suicide bombers.
The home secretary rejected calls for a bomb plot inquiry, but will answer questions on a website.
A look at how the ringleader of a gang convicted of a massive fertiliser bomb plot, Omar Khyam, became a terror convert.


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The article, 'India partitioned as raj withdraws' from General OneFile illustrates the emergence of Independent India.
'Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom', said Jawaharlal Nehru to celebrate India's independence from Great Britain. This speech, which is of great value, can be found in World History in Context.
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Anthony "Boots" Martinez (born 15 July 1963) is a Belizean politician. A member of the United Democratic Party, Martinez was first elected to the Belize House of Representatives from the Southside Belize City-based Port Loyola constituency in 2003 after an unsuccessful 1998 campaign. He served as Minister of Public Works from 2008 to 2012 under Prime Minister Dean Barrow. After the UDP government was re-elected in 2012 Martinez became Minister of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation.

Martinez was the 1999 UDP nominee for Mayor of Belize City, but was defeated by David Fonseca of the People's United Party. Martinez is also known to have several houses and estate in Belize.

Martinez will stand down from the Belize House at the next general election.

References

1963 births
Living people
United Democratic Party (Belize) politicians
Government ministers of Belize
Members of the Belize House of Representatives for Port Loyola

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Viveve Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVE), a medical technology company focused on women's intimate health, today announced submission of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for authorization to begin LIBERATE-U.S., a multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, sham-controlled trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Company's proprietary, cryogen-cooled monopolar radiofrequency (CMRF) technology for the improvement of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women.
LIBERATE-U.S. is intended to be a randomized, double-blinded, and sham-controlled trial with enrollment of approximately 240 subjects at up to 25 study sites in the United States. Subjects will be randomized in a 2:1 ratio for active and sham treatments.
The proposed primary efficacy endpoint is the mean change from baseline in the standardized 1-hour Pad Weight Test, an FDA recommended endpoint in SUI clinical research. The study design also proposes to include evaluation of a three-day voiding diary, as well as multiple patient reported outcomes and safety follow-up throughout the study.
Viveve has initiated LIBERATE-International, one of two planned independent, multicenter, randomized registration trials for the improvement of stress urinary incontinence in women and has submitted an IDE to the FDA for LIBERATE-U.S. The results of these two studies, if successful, could support marketing applications in the U.S, and additional countries around the world for this new commercial indication.


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Q: make linux shell send domain instead of ip when use socks5 proxy I'm trying to write a socks5 proxy.
When I setup the proxy by export ALL_PROXY=socks5://domain:port,
and then execute commond curl www.google.com, my proxy server always recieves a 'IP' instead of domain for google in the hand shake data. This intends that the local system did DNS search before send the IP to a socks5 proxy server.
I want to konw how can I make a linux shell send domain instead of IP when use socks5 proxy just like socks_remote_dns setted firefox browser.


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SPRINGFIELD – A local government consolidation measure passed in the senate with bipartisan support. Senator Melinda Bush (D-Grayslake) championed Senate Bill 3, which allows voters to abolish or consolidate local townships, reducing bureaucracy and saving taxpayer dollars.
"Local government consolidation is long overdue," Bush said. "With the senate's passage, we are now one step closer to allowing voters to decide what type of government can best serve the needs of their communities."
Illinois has more than 1,400 townships. Currently, only three Illinois counties have a framework to consolidate, absorb or eliminate local townships. Because of Senator Bush's past work on local government consolidation, Lake County is one of the three counties that allows for consolidation.
Senate Bill 3 allows all 102 Illinois counties to consolidate local townships with voter consent. Senator Bush championed the same legislation last session as SB 388, but the measure died in the House.
"Consolidating local governments will be good for Illinois. It will save taxpayer money and reduce government bureaucracy—two things Illinois desperately needs," Bush said. "I urge the Illinois House to follow the senate's lead and vote to allow local governments to consolidate."
Senate Bill 3 passed the Senate by a vote of 36-14. The legislation now awaits passage of the remaining bills tied to it.
SPRINGFIELD – Senator Melinda Bush (D-Grayslake) joined members from the Illinois Women Moving Forward coalition today to talk about prohibiting businesses from charging women more money than men for the same services.
"Too often women are charged more than men for the same services, while at the same time being paid less for doing the same job. This is unacceptable." Bush said. "Preventing this unfair business practice will move Illinois another step forward in achieving economic equality for women."
Bush seeks to make it illegal for hair salons, barbers, dry cleaners and tailors to discriminate, with respect to the price charged for services of similar kind, against a person because of their gender.
Last session, Senator Bush's "pink tax" legislation repealed sales tax on feminine hygiene products. This latest push builds on Senator Bush's work to remove economic barriers for Illinois women.
Senator Bush is in the process of drafting this legislation, which she plans to file in the coming weeks.
Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 03:40 PM
SPRINGFIELD — State Senator Melinda Bush (D-Grayslake) issued the following statement in response to Gov. Bruce Rauner's State of the State address Wednesday:
"It's time for Governor Rauner to be held accountable for the fact that his refusal to compromise on the budget has taken Illinois backwards these past two years," Bush said. "Every day that the impasse continues, the backlog of bills grows and becomes even more of a burden to our citizens. The people of Illinois are tired of partisan bickering. The Senate is working hard on a bipartisan budget and reform package. It's time for the governor to put politics aside and actually start trying to move Illinois forward. Governor Rauner needs to stop campaigning and start governing. "
Published: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 10:27 AM
SPRINGFIELD — State Sen. Melinda Bush filed legislation today that would continue an economic incentive program for businesses that invest jobs in Illinois.
Since 1999, the Economic Development for a Growing Economy program has issued tax breaks to businesses who bring jobs and investment to Illinois. Once accepted, a company can re-apply for the program annually. The program has offered $1.3 billion in tax credits to create 34,000 jobs in Illinois and retain 46,000 jobs since its creation. Gov. Bruce Rauner has not proposed an extension to the program, which sunsets Dec. 31.
"I represent an area that borders Wisconsin. It's important for us to have these programs available in order to be competitive," said Bush, D-Grayslake. "We all need to work together to make sure we're retaining and attracting businesses."
The legislation is scheduled to be considered as the 100th Illinois General Assembly convenes next year.
Bush outlines property tax appeal methods
New laws support Illinois veterans
Police to receive increased training on domestic violence
Bush, international activists call for plan to save the Monarchs


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Molten Beauty
Tucumcari's Mesalands Community College turns 6,000 pounds of iron into the hottest ticket in town.
by Kate Nelson photos by Minesh Bacrania
Above: Faculty member Joel Kiser chips away the plug on a furnace marked by sacrificial marshmallow Peeps.
THREE KETTLE-LIKE FURNACES chug and hiss, hungry for their first loads of busted-up iron. Ceremonial marshmallow Peeps tied to helium balloons float toward the sky. Students, artists, and onlookers stand briefly in a waft of let's-be-safe-out-there sage smoke. D'Jean Jawrunner has one last chance to bark out warnings and directions before a river of 2,800-degree molten metal turns this Tucum-cari gathering into an annual circus.
"I don't care if you're big or short or whatever—if you need help with something, say it out loud," says Jawrunner, who is, it must be noted, kind of short and somewhat loud. "Don't be quiet and don't wait until the last minute. We can handle anything—if we can hear it."
Huddled in the aluminum building that houses the foundry at Mesalands Community College, she points to the master chief of ovens, the two pour captains (she's one), the shell team, the furnace team, and the water teams—people who will ferry bottles of water to everyone about to manage the high-temp transformation of heavy metal into swords, statues, and tiles. "You may not feel hot," Jawrunner says, "but if they look at your face and shove a bottle of water in it? Drink it."
Just then, furnace master David Lobdell lopes in. "I need a mold!" he shouts. Joel Kiser, Jawrunner's fellow fine-arts faculty member and the foundry's overseer, says in his laconic drawl, "Guys, let's get to your stations."
At 2:28 p.m. on a sunny March day on the eastern plains of New Mexico, the 19th annual Big Pour blasts off. The tide of liquid neon won't stop until well after sunset. From local high schoolers to inexperienced hobbyists, veteran artists, and a few visiting art professors, this gang of about 70 people will lay hands on more than 6,000 pounds of iron, along with buckets of coal-based coke to fuel the low-tech cupola furnaces that help make this one of the largest academic foundries in the world. You can come to watch. You can enroll in a weeklong class and earn some cast-iron cred. You can pay $20 to carve a relief image into a sand block to create a super-heavy souvenir tile. The whole shebang is one of New Mexico's best-kept secrets, but as its 20th anniversary nears, Mesalands president Thomas Newsom says, it's time to start shouting: "This is our Super Bowl of art."
"POUR TEAM READY," Jawrunner yells on the patio behind the foundry's aluminum building. A team appears with a bucket centered on a long pole. They hold it ready while Lobdell knocks a clay plug from the furnace's bottom to release a gush of the most common element on Earth: ferrum, chemical symbol Fe, iron, the product of fusion high in the heavens, the cause of rich and ruddy layers of rock, the roiling core within our planet, the stuff that turns our blood red. Foundry fans, including a national network of I-40 truckers, help the school amass a year's worth of old radiators, bathtubs, and skillets. Broken into half-dollar-size chunks by anyone strong enough to swing a sledgehammer, the iron melts into the radiant waterfall now surging into the bucket. A brilliant red, it's mesmerizingly gorgeous and deadly as can be, on its way to reemerging as something beautiful, something useful, or, when a mold fails, something that can break a person's heart. The team shuffles its 100-pound payload to a series of ceramic molds, hesitates, then braces while twisting the pole, tipping the bucket, releasing a messy dribble.
"HIGHER, HIGHER," Jawrunner hollers. "KEEP MOVING, KEEP MOVING, KEEP MOVING. GOT IT! STOP." First mold filled, a tail's end of flame licking off its top, the team shuffles to the next. "GENTLY, GENTLY, GENTLY, GENTLY. GOOD JOB! NICE EYE!"
Courtney Ford, the other pour captain and an artist from Lubbock, shouts "POUR" at a second team as another furnace's belly fills with lava. Yet another team mans a kiln the size of a walk-in closet. Ceramic molds for 3-D pieces firm up within it, ready to replace the poured molds and get their own shots of iron. Between the patio and a set of backyard bleachers, wooden pallets support at least 100 of the sand blocks. Pour teams hustle between those and the sculpture molds. Heat waves shimmy off the patio floor. Other crews toss more coke and iron into the ovens. Like fireworks, the furnaces shoot plumes of sparks 10 feet into the air. Orange smoke billows out. People cough. The smoke alarm erupts.
Sue Melton, a ceramist from Dallas, came with her sculptor husband to try embedding a piece of delicate lace from her mother's collection into a sand block—an iffy experiment, she readily admits. The pandemonium has driven her to a back corner, where she watches and muses. "All these experienced people have been very interested in my lace," she says. "It's just the nicest group of people to spend a week with."
By 5 p.m., about half the tiles are poured, but the work, the heat, the weight, and the noise have taken a toll. Nearly everyone is garbed in some version of firefighter pants and jackets (Ford wears fringed cowboy chaps), plus heavy gloves sealed to their wrists with duct tape—clothing better suited for a cold snap than a conflagration. A few overheated volunteers find folding chairs and sit, forearms on their knees, eyes focused blankly on the ground, bottles of water drooping downward. But molten iron waits for no one. "HEY, GUYS, POUR!"
STRADDLING I-40, Tucumcari (pop. 4,975) is best known for its kitsch-centric motels and Route 66 nostalgia. But there's more. Dinosaurs, for one. Nearby soil regularly yields evidence of Cretaceous sharks, ferns, figs, and crocodiles. Mesalands' Dinosaur Museum presents a menagerie of them and others from around the world, cast in bronze right there, by foundry students. A broad wind-energy program attracts some of the school's 1,000 students, as does a top-notch collegiate rodeo team.
The fine-arts program owes its soul to the area's ranching roots. Founded in 1979 as a vocational school, Mesalands offered farrier classes, teaching students to shoe horses and craft horse bits. "In a way," President Newsom says, "bronzing is the same as working on the ranch, so it's really at the heart of what we do. The flip side is that New Mexico is an artistic state, and this supports that as one of the best learning foundries around. Some of our students have gone on to being amazing artists."
Patrick Garley was one; he now operates Arctic Fires Bronze, in Palmer, Alaska, where he and his fellow foundry alumni occasionally gather for big pours of their own. Jawrunner and Kiser are both artists as well as teachers and rely on the Mesalands foundry for pouring their works of aluminum, bronze, and iron. Lobdell brings his kit down from New Mexico Highlands University, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where every other year, international artists join his Iron Tribe for a Chinese-style performance pour, throwing molten iron at a wall. (The next one will likely take place in March 2019.)
At Mesalands' Big Pour, a rotating potluck of carb-laden dishes—sandwiches, pastas, cookies, and cake—fuels the crew during the long day, just one sign of how the community cares for its own. "There's a lot of everyone chipping in here," Jawrunner says. "The first year, I forgot to buy banding to wrap around the molds. Oh, no! It was bad. Forty-five minutes later, someone showed up with a bucket of banding. Someone had called someone, who had called him. It's hard not to stay involved in a town like this. You can't let people down."
She almost let them down early in the Big Pour's history. A student who raised homing pigeons had, the year before, kicked off the event by releasing a triumphant flight of the birds. Everyone loved it and wanted to make it a regular event. But when it came time, the student said the pigeons weren't ready. "Evidently," Jawrunner says, "pigeons must practice." So she ran to the store and bought marshmallow Peeps and a few helium balloons, and the "Tradition of the Sacrificial Peeps" was born—along with a side tradition of hiding them. For a full year, Jawrunner and Kiser will find them stashed in drawers, stuck under tables, and tucked onto high shelves, aged into an unappetizing solid.
Half of every year's participants know these traditions, thanks to a devotion that draws them back. Locals expect them and often accost Jawrunner if a favorite visitor doesn't pop into Del's Restaurant or book a night at the Blue Swallow Motel. Mark Hilliard, an art teacher at Wayland Baptist University, in Plano, Texas, cites the camaraderie as part of the appeal, but also the chance to give his students foundry skills, and the plain old economy of the week's $394 tuition. "For full access to a foundry?" he says. "They're giving it away. To have my piece custom-cast at a foundry would be $1,000 at least, and I'm doing five pieces here."
Thanks to all that veteran assistance, the program claims an exemplary safety record—"but for a couple of Band-Aids," Kiser says. That's how high school senior Ashle Brown can play second chair to Texas artist Charlotte Kimball, who oversees how much coke and iron to throw into one furnace. She and all the other mother hens maintain their attention as the hours plow past and the pours build up. A cool evening breeze blows in and, as the sun sinks, the visual effect—somewhere between a campfire and a Fourth of July extravaganza—turns spectacular. Even with their hands encased in safety leathers, students pull out smartphones to capture it.
Out back, the moon casts a pale light on the tile blocks, some still glowing red. Lobdell shuts his furnace down. A little after 7 p.m., the other two blink out, their last spits of slag doused into slurry. A few people head to their motels, but most ignore the exhaustion and crowd into the Tucumcari Elks Club. There, they dance until management kicks them out at 1:30 a.m.
THE NEXT DAY, Jawrunner far more quietly oversees a morning-after breakfast buffet in the foundry's kitchen. Kimball peers into a sack of pancake mix and concludes there's enough left to feed a small family. "Except," she says, "we're not a small family." Out back, artists pick through the cooled molds, hunting down their creations. Of the 38 steps involved in crafting one iron sculpture, a few more await—breaking them out of their molds, sawing off errant bits, buffing them, adding a patina. Some people throw their pieces, molds and all, into truck beds and start the long drive home. Others take on the first tasks here.
"We're bound to find some defects," says Albuquerque artist George Salas as he examines his pieces, including an experimental logo. "Look: One worked, one didn't. I goofed. I'll grind it off. Any goof in the art world is an opportunity to seek a solution."
Chances are he'll return this March, when Jaw-runner and Kiser solve a years-long space problem by moving into a newly renovated building with a covered patio so large and so well lit that "you expect an orchestra to break into the 'Hallelujah' Chorus when you walk out," Jawrunner says. She hopes an army of past participants will join her and Kiser, their students, and the drop-ins. For those who can't come, the college will webcast the whole week. "This event is important to our survival," Jawrunner says as the bacon sizzles. "We're a small school. There has to be a reason to make us a destination. These people here? They're rock stars."
FROM IDEA TO IRON
Most of the participants in Mesalands Community College's Big Pour utilize these two methods to craft their works:
Sand casting. Resin-based sand blocks, which look a bit like oversize adobe bricks, allow artists to carve relief designs on one side. You have to think backwards and with an inverted eye—the deepest parts of the design will stick out the farthest in the final product, which resembles a tile.
Lost-wax casting. Methods differ, but for the simplest process, imagine sculpting an object from wax. When it's finished, dip it into silica and then into a stucco-like substance. Allow it to dry. Place it in a kiln to harden the coating and melt the wax out. Poured iron replaces the wax and replicates the original object.
POUR IT ON
The 20th annual Big Pour at Mesalands Community College welcomes spectators from noon forward on March 9. Show up on or before March 8 and you can carve a sand block for a $20 donation to the school's art club. Contact Kimberly Hannah at kimberlyh@mesaslands.edu for information about enrolling in this or next year's weeklong course. Watch the week's action live at mesalands.edu.
The Mesalands website also has information about the college and its campus, including the Dinosaur Museum.
Soak up the town's other attractions while you're there. Scope out where to stay and what to see at tucumcarinm.com.
Categories: March 2018, Features, Lifestyle, Culture
Tags: Minesh Bacrania, Art, Tucumcari, Mesalands Community College, Big Pour, foundry, D'Jean Jawrunner, David Lobdell, Joel Kiser, Courtney Ford
Author: Kate Nelson


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''Creating'' a consensus requires first ''agreeing that there will be a consensus'', and then means getting many disparate parties to come to agreement. Given the time and resources, let alone the fact that ''we don't even know how many parties there are'', the task of trying to come to some sort of group decision simply isn't feasible. Throw in other factors such as widely differing needs and the question of whether a single destination is even a Good Thing (we're inclined to think it isn't), and you're all the further from that prospect. The other problem is that ''in selecting specific winners and losers we lose any appearance of impartiality''. We've been willing to work with many parties, and have cautioned against some options, some strongly, but we're avoiding saying "this is where you should go". We do plan on suggesting a useful set of at-least-interim homes, focusing in simple, stable, proved, and effective technologies: email, mailing lists, blogs, and well-established forum platforms including Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Reddit, and perhaps a few major social networking platforms, may be in that mix. '''But the policy is that we won't tell you where to go, and that there will be no consensus. We'll offer you the tools to consider and choose for yourself and your community.''' == Q: When will destinations be decided? == A: Given the <s>10-month</s> ''six month'' window and some logistical elements, individual and group commitments are likely to be made by early January, 2019, ''if not sooner''. If you are reading this ''after'' that date and have not yet decided '''you need to chose a straightforward and available option NOW.''' == Q: What do you mean by "commitments"? What authority do you have? == A: The commitments refer to the individuals and/or groups who hope to move together. ''They'' will be committing (and we are among them). The hope is to facilitate gathering information on available options and procedures for moving, by that time. Some may commit earlier, some later. We have no authority other than as information sources, hopefully credible, known to the community. == Q: What are the options? == A: A range of existing [[Social_Platforms|services, websites, platforms, or collections of same]]. The space is interesting, and the range of what might be considered [[Platform_Types|social media]] is broad. Obvious contenders include major commercial services, including those such as Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit. Others see opportunities in Free Software and Federated systems. There are several recently-developed or smaller services, and several new commercially and non-commercially organised sites, as well as new protocols and collaborative platforms. It's an exciting time to be alive. There are strong advocates, and opponents, to almost all of these choices. And there's the possibility that people will retreat to a simple homespun offline existence, which has its attractions. Social media and the Internet have presented some interesting challenges, disappointments, and dangers, as has become apparent in recent years. == Q: How should I/we choose? == A: Again, there's no simple answer. But as guidance: * '''Discuss or research your contacts', friends' and associates' plans.''' Where ''your'' social group goes will be the most significant determinant, generally. * '''Pick a site or platform that exists and is viable ''NOW''.''' If at all possible, that has some years of proven history. * '''Distinguish between "skin" and "bone" factors.''' It's the deep and integral features of a site, its ''bones'', that have the biggest impact on its long-term trends. Topical ''skin'' elements, such as site layout, mobile app, etc., can be improved (if poor) or hide many deeper issues (if flashy). * '''Consider the business, business model, trust, reliability, and community.''' These are all ''bone'' factors that can have tremendous impacts on a site or platform. They tend not to change radically, and rarely improve, if not currently good or viable. * '''Preserve your future options.''' Decisions now that ''don't'' lock you into a single choice are likely best. * '''Think of your own goals.''' What do you ''want'' or ''need'' to get out of your social media / online experience? Do you simply need private chat? Public visibility? Microblogging? Social networking? A full blog? Something more complex? Simple tools like SMS chat, instant messenger apps, email, RSS, and blogs remain surprisingly effective. * '''Does the option give you control over your own data?''' Having to move your content, contacts, photos, and other online data is painful, slow, and possibly expensive. Insuring against having to do this again may be valuable. * '''Privacy, cost, complexity, accessibility, and usefulness all deserve consideration.''' Think of what you care for and what you don't want. Add other concerns you may have. As you look at your goals, your circle's plans (or lack), the options, and what you do and don't want from them, you should find your options narrowing to a few possibilities. ''It's all but certain these won't address all your wants.'' But they should address ''basic needs'' and ''not present showstoppers''. == Q: Are there risks involved? == A: Yes, many. We're working on that in a [[Risks_and_Threat_Models|Risks and Threat Models]] section. These are the usual: data, hardware, financial, copyright, abuse, harassment, malware, vandalism, burnout, propaganda, disinformation / misinformation, technical debt, fascism / demagoguery, groupthink, surveillance, data harvesting, admin betrayal, sellout, plague, famine, pestilence, divine fire, etc., etc. == Q: Self-hosted or volunteer servers are among the options you're considering? == A: Yes. == Q: Who will pay for that? == A: This is one of many questions we're assessing. For some options per user costs appear to be low, though in aggregate, they add up. One option for a self-hosted federated server seems to run about $25/month for about 1,000 users. The per-user per-year rate may be about $0.25, in hosting costs, though there may be other expenses involved. The irony is that the costs are so low that charging individually is not particularly economical, the modern version of "too cheap to meter". This doesn't mean that the costs of larger servers are insignificant. == Q: Would self-hosting from a home be possible? == A: Perhaps. The physical computing needs should be modest, but other factors including choosing platforms, hardware, set-up, administration, security, connectivity (and interruptions), privacy, and security need to be considered. This should be viable for ''some'' users though likely not ''all''. The question is likely to be if it's a matter of few, many, or most. If users share servers or provide services to others, further questions arise, mostly over resolving and addressing control, disagreements, and liabilities. These are among the risk concerns. == Q: Commercial and/or proprietary services are also being considered? == A: Yes. We expect people and organisations will adopt a range of platforms, from major leading contenders (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and even various Google services), to new or less-familiar offerings. == Q: How will those be financed? == A: Also an open question, though advertising, subscription business models, and numerous other business models, some more likely than others, exist. == Q: Are there risks involved with proprietary services? == A: Absolutely. Some are widely recognised, some less so. Surveillance capitalism, state and non-state surveillance, business continuity, product cancellation (as we're facing presently), data loss, buggy software, malware, and more. Life is risk. More below.


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Борис Леонидович Романов (род. 29 марта 1942, Любим, Ярославская область) — советский и российский актёр театра и кино. Народный артист Российской Федерации (2004).

Биография
Борис Романов родился 29 марта 1942 года в Любиме Ярославской области.

В 1959—1961 годах учился в театральной студии при Саратовском драмтеатре, там же в возрасте 17 лет он вышел на профессиональную сцену. Затем поступил в Москву в студию МХАТа, на курс Пилявской и Карева и окончил обучение в 1966 году. В 1966—1982 годах — актёр Московского театра драмы имени Станиславского, в 1982—1985 годах — в Театре драмы и комедии на Таганке. С 1990 года — актёр Московского театра «Эрмитаж».

Подробности своей частной жизни скрывает.

В феврале 2017 года сообщалось о госпитализации актера. Он попал в больницу в нейрохирургическое отделение. Актер получил травму головы после того, как упал в обморок и ударился головой об пол. Это произошло в тот момент, когда Романов находился в гостях у родственника.

Признание и награды
 Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации (1994).
 Народный артист Российской Федерации (2004).

Творчество

Роли в театре
  — Ларс — «Серсо», по пьесе В. Славкина, — реж. А.Васильев / Театр на Таганке

 Московский театр «Эрмитаж»
 Азеф
 Нищий, или смерть Занда
 Зойкина квартира
 Изверг
 Пир во время чумы. Фрагменты — Скупой, Сальери, Священник
 Эрендира и её бабка
 Леокадия и десять бесстыдных сцен
 Дон Кихот

Фильмография
 1964 — Я — «Берёза» — немецкий офицер
 1965 — Игра без правил — эпизод
 1969 — Сердце Бонивура — эпизод
 1970 — Сердце России — член ВРК
 1970 — Спорт, спорт, спорт — купец Калашников
 1973 — Молчание доктора Ивенса — Буами
 1974 — Агония — Балашов 1977 — Пыль под солнцем — художник 1978 — Жизнь Бетховена — Герхард Рау 1979 — Дикая охота короля Стаха — судебный следователь 1979 — Эмиссар заграничного центра — штабс-капитан Воронков 1980 — Рассказ неизвестного человека — господин Грузин 1984 — Парад планет — химик-органик 1985 — Тройка
 1988 — Автопортрет неизвестного
 1989 — Вход в лабиринт — Владимир Константинович Лыжин 1989 — Авария — дочь мента — Андрей Олегович 1990 — Система «Ниппель» — Сеня Родимцев 1991 — Униженные и оскорблённые — Николай Ихменёв 1991 — Коктейль-мираж — дядя Коля, натурщик 1991 — Назад в СССР — отец Пётр 1991 — Отель Эдем — бармен 1992 — Игра всерьёз — Парапетов 1992 — Горячев и другие — врач кризисного центра 1993 — Пистолет с глушителем — «агент Интележент Сервис» 1993 — Аз воздам — профессор Людвиг
 1993 — Преступление со многими неизвестными — Казимир Гнот
 1994 — Железный занавес — Владимир Васильевич Орлов
 1994 — Дом на камне
 1994 — Шоу для одинокого мужчины — Андрей 1995 — Дом — Пётр Петрович Трофимов 1995 — Крестоносец — хозяин особняка
 1996 — Кафе "Клубничка" — Борис
 1996 — Старые песни о главном 2 — папа мальчика / волшебники в фантазиях Леры (нет в титрах)
 1997 — Королева Марго — мэтр Амбруаз Паре 1998 — Паранойя
 1998 — Сибирский спас — священник
 1999 — Что сказал покойник — Желтолицый
 2000 — Марш Турецкого (1 сезон) — Георгий Георгиевич Канстантиниди 2000 — Простые истины — преподаватель танцев в Университете Натальи Нестеровой 2001 — Наследник — священник
 2002 — Марш Турецкого (3 сезон) — Георгий Михайлович Соболев
 2002 — Маска и душа — Геннадий Петрович Кондратьев, главный режиссер Мариинского театра
 2002 — Синоптик (фильм, 2002) (короткометражный)
 2003 — Замыслил я побег — философ
 2003 — Даша Васильева. Любительница частного сыска — доктор Конь
 2003 — Небо и земля — доктор Игорь Янович Рейне
 2004 — Кожа саламандры — Ананьев
 2004 — По ту сторону волков-2 — бен Бецалель
 2005 — Глазами волка — хозяин клуба
 2005 — Доктор Живаго — священник 2005 — Счастье ты моё — Иона Петрович 2005 — Частный детектив — Шлиц 2006 — В круге первом — профессор Чёлнов 2006 — Кромъ — Эжен Кром
 2006 — Любовь-морковь — Фридрих Данилович
 2006 — Седьмой день — старик
 2006 — Тюрьма особого назначения — Григорий Филиппович Рогов, профессор
 2007 — Ангел-Хранитель — Анатолий Крижевский
 2007 — Форсаж да Винчи — Бомелиус
 2007 — Каникулы любви — Иван Сергеевич
 2007 — Слепой-3
 2007 — Срочно в номер — Мезенцев
 2008 — Ермоловы — Клавдий Юльевич Делагар
 2008 — Завещание ночи — Семён Борисович Кучер
 2008 — Знахарь — отец Евстратий
 2008-2012 — Пуля-дура — Фридрих Адамович
 2008 — Савва — Муравьёв, министр юстиции
 2008 — Туман рассеивается — Симон Бюве
 2008 — Ты мне снишься... — Алексей Петрович Дебежев
 2009 — Загадай желание — Волшебник
 2009 — Обитаемый остров — экскурсовод
 2009 — Огни большого города — Павел Звонарёв
 2009 — Окна — Старик-колдун
 2009 — Телохранитель-2 — Вильгельм фон Кёльнер
 2010 — Грозное время — Алексей Басманов
 2010 — Сивый мерин — Михаил Степанович Молин
 2011-2012 — Я приду сама — доктор
 2012-2014 — Марьина роща — Захар Ионыч
 2013 — Куприн — доктор
 2014 — Бесы — слуга в доме Ставрогиных
 2014 — Год в Тоскане — Алексей Филиппович
 2015 — Офицерские жёны — Осинский
 2015 — Семейный альбом (телесериал) — академик Иван Николаевич Колокольцев
 2012 — Ланцет — профессор Иван Игнатьевич
 2019 — Маменькин сынок — Яков Моисеевич Соллертинский
 2019 — Смертельный номер
 2022 — Сердце Пармы — великий князь Московский Василий II Тёмный Музыкальный видеоклип
 1993 — Любовь и Смерть — Вика Цыганова — Смерть''

Примечания

Ссылки

Выпускники Школы-студии МХАТ
Персоналии:Театр им. Станиславского
Персоналии:Театр «Эрмитаж»


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Q: After I remove the apk, whenever I start Debug it tells me the package is not installed I have my Emulator open, and using Command Prompt I remove my application. I didn't closed the Emulator.
Then I go to Eclipse and hit Debug, but doesn't deploy the apk to the emulator, just tells me the package not yet registered with the system.
New package not yet registered with the system. Waiting 3 seconds before next attempt.
Restarting the emulator is not an option, as that takes 10-15 minutes.
What I am doing wrong?

A: I have encountered this occasionally. Doing a clean project before rebuilding and redeploying seems to do the trick.

A: This is eclipse (the point is eclipse can not run your app because can not start the right intent because can not find the right package) and one of the workaround of this is to rename your package in the manifest for example rename
package="com.hernblog.GreenThumbs"

to
package="com.hernblog.GreenThumbs1"

compile and build this, then put it back to the name you wanted
package="com.hernblog.GreenThumbs"

works as a charm :)

A: Clean and re-build may not help.
So, in that case remove the app from your device.
Then re-run your project on your device. That will help.

A: After trying many different solutions for this problem, I found that the line
<application android:debuggable="true" />

in my AndroidManifest was causing this problem.
Removing this line fixed it for me.
Note: You can still build with debugging mode without this line by using the ndk-build option NDK_DEBUG=1

A: im also having same problem.
I just commit my src,res folder in svn.
Then i check out new project from svn then it will works correctly.

A: Also check your "Enabled" option in manifest! Mine turned to off, somehow ..

A: I have also had this problem.
For me it was the fact that my launcher activity (the one with the Launch intent) did not have the "android:label" attribute
WRONG!!!
<application
    android:icon="@drawable/icon"
    android:label="@string/app_name">
    <activity
        android:name=".ui.SplashScreenActivity">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name=".ui.DashboardActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name">
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".ui.LogListActivity"></activity>
</application>

RIGHT - Note the SplashScreenActivity
<application
    android:icon="@drawable/icon"
    android:label="@string/app_name">
    <activity
        android:name=".ui.SplashScreenActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name=".ui.DashboardActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name">
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".ui.LogListActivity"></activity>
</application>


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Home Marijuana News Michigan Michigan's Recreational Cannabis Market Is Booming
Michigan's Recreational Cannabis Market Is Booming
Michigan's legal cannabis market is continuing to thrive and grow.
Just more than a year after recreational cannabis sales began in Michigan, the state's legal cannabis market has grown by leaps and bounds and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. In December, Michigan showed the highest growth in sales of any legal cannabis market in the U.S., posting a 146% gain in gross merchandise value over the previous year, according to data from wholesale cannabis marketplace LeafLink.
Jeff Radway, the CEO of premium cannabis purveyor Skymint, says that Michigan's recreational cannabis market has developed "at the speed of light" since legalization.
"It's been a fascinating challenge to keep pace with. In December of 2019, Michigan became the tenth state in the U.S. to legalize adult-use cannabis," Radway wrote in an email to High Times. "Less than a year in, it surpassed Nevada to become the fifth highest-grossing state for cannabis sales and is now on track to surpass $1 billion in sales in 2021. In addition to its fast-growing new recreational market, Michigan's medical market is ranked #2 in the country, second only to California."
Medical Marijuana Leads The Way
Michigan's success is due largely to its existing infrastructure for medical marijuana, which was legalized in 2008. With a well established medical marijuana program in the state prior to recreational legalization, Michigan already had a large customer base that was ready to see the market grow. But David Egerton, laboratory director at Infinite Chemical Analysis Labs, said that some of the credit for Michigan's success should also go to state regulators. He said that officials with Michigan's Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA) have been much more open to feedback from businesses in the industry than their counterparts in California, where his company began its foray into licensed cannabis laboratory testing.
So far, "the MRA has made more than 40 changes to the initial set of regulations to prioritize public health and safety, update testing regulations, and make it easier for companies to operate and develop new products."
"Companies within the state are doing their best to adapt to new regulations, and it's been a breath of fresh air to have the MRA listen and act upon the feedback that licensed operators provide," Egerton said in a virtual interview.
Pivoting To The Adult-Use Market
While by some measures the legalization of recreational pot has been a resounding success, Egerton notes that the medical marijuana operators that pioneered regulated cannabis in Michigan haven't fared as well.
"The transition to the adult-use market has up-rooted the small-scale, caregiver focused supply chain in an analogous manner to California in 2016 to 2017, and the ripple effect is still being felt across the industry," he said. "While some of the caregivers were able to shift to the licensed marketplace, many others have dropped out as multi-state operators have moved in to compete."
One of the medical providers navigating the path to the regulated adult-use market is Ghostbudster Farms, an operation with six years experience in Michigan's medical market. Part-owner Chris Michael says that the transition has been a difficult one, particularly because of steep financial requirements.
"You have to show $500,000 in liquid assets for just a cultivation license," Michael said in a telephone interview, referring to a Class C license which allows up to 1,500 plants.
"If you wanted a processing license, you had to show another $500,000," and so on. "You're looking at millions of dollars in just showing in assets and liquid before you can actually even get approved."
"It wasn't steered toward the grassroots movement," Michael added. "This is where it came from and these are the people that originally started this movement. And they started this and it just spiraled out and turned completely corporate."
Michael says that Michigan has seen an influx of capital from out of state funding operations that he believes see profit as the prime motivator.
"I'm out here doing it for the love of cannabis and the properties of this plant and what it can actually do," he said. "There's a lot of people that are here just for the money grab. It's like that in every industry, but this one specifically a lot more."
The Future Looks Bright
That isn't the case with Skymint, which is 85% self-funded. Radway said that he is proud to have built his company from the ground up in his home state of Michigan. He's optimistic about the future of the state's regulated cannabis market, and said that companies with a strong brand strategy are likely to continue to grow as Michigan's cannabis industry sees more players enter the market this year and beyond.
"The dramatic rise in 2020 retail cannabis sales reflects a shift Michigan consumers are making from the illicit market to the regulated marketplace," he said. "As our legal market continues to mature and evolve, Michigan consumer habits are going to as well, and this is where top-notch branding, customer service, and consumer loyalty programs will prove critical in 2021."
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