This is a collection of wrap-ups and photos from previous holidays.
Each day staff fill in reflections from their day. What worked well? What could have been done differently? After each holiday period we have de-brief's and put plans and goals together to address these reflections and keep the program evolving and developing.
There's also some photos from previous holidays to give you an idea of the variety and fun that the children have with us.
Monday 24/09/18: Movie Day. Today we'll be giving the children the experience of being in front of the camera and filming some skits and dialogue sequences, just like they do in the movies. "Lights, Camera, Action!" The film performances will also be emailed out to parents. In the afternoon, we'll be watching a movie on the big screen and appreciating how the professionals do it. Includes making pop corn, bowling, sport, art & craft, etc too.
Tuesday 25/09/18: Science day – The eyes have it. We'll be looking at the science of what we see. The kids will have a chance to find their blind spot, look at convex & concave mirrors, see colours vs. light/shade and examine how we see the world. Including some great optical illusions (like the one right) and 3D Magic Eyes. The picture's not moving, but why does it look like it is? At the end of the day we'll understand why.
Wednesday 26/09/18: Drama day – The more the merrier. Today's drama day will see the children building sets, props and writing a script for our fantastic Healthways Theatre productions. Drama teachers will help the children work through different ideas about how they could use "the more the merrier" theme to create some unique stories and characters. Video of performances will also be emailed to parents.
Thursday 27/09/18: Nepal & Everest. Hello and "Namaste" from Nepal. Today we'll be celebrating the country that has: Eight of the 10 highest peaks in the world, with a climbing obstacle course; An 80% Hindi population, with a kids-yoga class with a special-guest yoga teacher; A 0% poaching record, with a tiger wildlife protection safari; And we'll be cooking one of Nepal's most popular foods "momo" which is a type of dumpling.
Monday 01/10/18: Imagine: Unicorns, Dragons & other Mythical Creatures. Every culture has a story about mythical creatures and the amulets that tame them. Today we will be making our own metal amulets in art & craft, we will be giving ourselves colourful makeovers as we assume our mythical powers, and we will be making edible rainbow unicorn poo… which children think is hilarious!
Tuesday 02/10/18: Happiness Happens. Based on the theory of 'pay it forwards' we are going to be looking for things that make us happy and ways we can make others happy too. We'll be making 'harmony bead art' in art & craft, we'll be looking around our world to see what pledges we can make to help our friends, AND we'll be designing and cooking our own emoji's. Plus, all our games today will have a "silly" element that will make the kids laugh.
Wednesday 03/10/18: Science day – Robots. This is sure to be a popular and fun filled day. In construction teams, today we will be making robots. The robot kits have arrived at Healthways, and we'd like you to meet "H-way" (pictured right) the Healthways demo-robot that the teachers have made. The children will have to follow construction instructions to build 3 different robot designs that all walk. Additionally in the afternoon, the children will have a go at making electrical circuits with a CPU (central processing unit) to show how computers in robots work.
Thursday 04/10/18: Hold your Horses! We owe a great amount to horses. They've made our lives better by doing our work, acting as transport and even as companions. Today, we will be looking at the ways we include animals in our lives. We'll be making horse shoes from clay sculpture, looking at animals who have rescued people, and learning about how animals are trained. Including a visit from Theresa's dog, Murphy, who the children will be able to practice some hands-on training and commands with.
Friday 05/10/18: Honey I shrunk the kids. Today we get tiny. We are making miniature wooden furniture and using photography to explore scale, size and perspective (such as the photo right). No need to bring your own camera, there will be plenty provided. Photos will be emailed out to parents. Includes a visit from a photographer who will be showing the children their cameras and explaining the different things that the buttons and dials do.


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Q: Can Lagrangians model all possible dynamics? We use Lagrangians and variational calculus for almost all of physics, from Newtonian mechanics to QFT.
Is there any theorem in mathematics that guarantees that all possible dynamics of objects (say time evolution of fields, particles) can be translated into a problem of variational calculus provided we find the right Lagrangian?
In most cases (say EM and CM), we start with observable dynamics then condense them into a differential equation (Maxwell's equations and Newton's second law). Then we recast the DE into a Lagrangian. But the same is not exactly true of QFT is it?
In some sense, are there physical processes whose dynamics cannot be modelled using variational calculus?

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230 U.S. 340 - Missouri Pacific Railway Company v. J W Tucker
230 US 340 Missouri Pacific Railway Company v. J W Tucker
33 S.Ct. 961
57 L.Ed. 1507
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, Plff. in Err.,
J. W. TUCKER.
No. 52.
Submitted November 14, 1912.
Decided June 16, 1913.
Mr. Balie P. Waggener for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 341 intentionally omitted]
Mr. John S. Dawson, Attorney General of Kansas, and Messrs. S. N. Hawkes and Richard Henry Towne, and Mr. John W. Tucker, pro se, for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 342-346 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the opinion of the court:
By an act of February 17, 1905, the legislature of the state of Kansas prescribed a schedule of maximum rates to be charged by common carriers for the transportation, between points in that state, of 'illuminating oil, gasolene, fuel oil, or crude petroleum, in cans, barrels, tanks, or tank cars,' and provided that every such carrier 'which shall demand, exact, or receive for such transportation or delivery any sum in excess of the rates hereby made lawful shall be liable to any person injured thereby in the sum of $500 as liquidated damages, to be recovered by action in any court of competent jurisdiction, together with a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court.' Laws 1905, chap. 353, p. 589.
In December, 1906, there were shipped from Humboldt, Kansas, to Cawker City, in that state, 25 barrels of fuel oil, of which J. W. Tucker was the consignee. The shipment was carried from the point of origin about 253 miles over the railroad of the Santa Fe Company to Concordia, and thence to the point of destination, about 47 miles, over the line of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company. According to the statute the charge for the entire transportation should have been $12, but the Missouri Pacific Company demanded and collected therefor from Tucker, the consignee, $3.02 in excess of that sum. He thereupon brought an action in one of the courts of the state, under the act before named, to recover from that company $500 as liquidated damages and a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court. The company defended upon the grounds that the statutory rates were confiscatory and void, and that the statute, and particularly the provision for the recovery of $500 as liquidated damages, was so arbitrary and unreasonable as to be repugnant to the due process of law and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Other defenses, based on the state Constitution, were interposed, but we need not notice them. The plaintiff recovered a judgment for the $500, which was affirmed by the supreme court of the state, the Federal questions being decided adversely to the company (82 Kan. 222, 108 Pac. 89), and the latter prosecutes this writ of error.
As the right of recovery and the judgment sustaining it were rested upon the provision imposing a liability for liquidated damages in the sum of $500, we come at once to the question of the validity of that provision under the 14th Amendment.
Primarily it is to be observed that the rates prescribed by the legislature, while presumptively valid, are not conclusively so; that to require the company, in the operation of its road, to give effect to rates which prevent it from obtaining a reasonable return for the service rendered to the public is to deprive it of its property without due process of law; and that whether the prescribed rates are thus in excess of the state's power (see Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. North Carolina Corp. Commission, 206 U. S. 1, 24-26, 51 L. ed. 933, 944, 945, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 585, 11 Ann. Cas. 398, and cases cited) is a question which the company is entitled to have determined in appropriate judicial proceedings. And it also is to be observed that the act of 1905 and other laws of the state, as construed by the state court, afford the company no opportunity for securing a judicial determination of the validity of these rates otherwise than as it may do so in a defensive way when charged, in a case like this or in some criminal prosecution, with failing to give effect to them.
Being a common carrier, the company is not at liberty to accept or decline shipments of oil. It must receive and carry them when offered, and must be ready to name to shippers the rates at which that service will be rendered. If the statutory rates permit a reasonable return, they are controlling; if they prevent it, they are invalid. But of their obligatory character the company is not the judge. And yet it must choose whether it will give effect to them or no, and then must abide the result of its action. If they be so unreasonably low as to be invalid, it cannot give effect to them without sustaining a serious and irreparable loss; and if effect be not given to them and they be subsequently adjudged lawful, the enforcement of the prescribed liabilities and penalties will likewise entail a most serious loss, for the transactions involved must necessarily be numerous. In one of the briefs it is said that the intrastate oil shipments on the company's lines in Kansas in a single year are as many as 10,000. Thus it will be perceived that the position of the company, with no right itself to institute a proceeding to determine for itself and all shippers the validity of the legislative rates, is one of exceeding perplexity.
On the other hand, the interests of shippers and consumers of oil must be considered no less than those of the carrier. Experience teaches that to secure adherence to rates, even when lawfully prescribed, it is essential that deviations from them be discouraged by adequate liabilities and penalties.
It is in the light of these considerations that the validity of the provision imposing a liability for liquidated damages in the sum of $500 for every charge in excess of the legislative rates must be tested.
It will be perceived that this liability is not proportioned to the actual damages. It is not as if double or treble damages were allowed, as often is done, and as we think properly could have been done here. Nor is it as if there would be difficulty in proving or ascertaining the actual damages, thereby furnishing a reason for prescribing a liquidated amount reasonably approximating the probable damages, taking one case with another. Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. v. Cram, 228 U. S. 70, 57 L. ed. ——, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 437. What the statute does is to authorize a recovery of $500 in every case, whether the shipment be of 1 barrel, or of 10 or 25 barrels, or of a tank car; and this although it is of common knowledge that the possible damages in respect of the charge for carrying any of these from one point in the state to another could never be more than a small fraction of that sum. In the present case the shipment was of 25 barrels for a distance of 300 miles, and the excess over the legislative rate, $3.02, was less than 1-150 of the authorized recovery.
The state court, although recognizing that the solution of the problem is not free from difficulty, reached the conclusion that 'so long as the defendant [the carrier] cannot be made to suffer until a competent court had passed upon the justice of the legislative rates, the guaranties of the Federal Constitution are not infringed.' But that this view fails to recognize the real plight of the carrier is made plain by the following extract from the opinion in Ex parte Young, 209 U. S. 123, 147, 52 L. ed. 714, 723, 13 L.R.A.(N.S.) 932, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 441, 14 Ann Cas. 764:
'If the law be such as to make the decision of the legislature or of a commission conclusive as to the sufficiency of the rates, this court has held such a law to be unconstitutional. Chicago, M. & St. P. R. Co. v. Minnesota, 134 U. S. 418, 33 L. ed. 970, 3 Inters. Com. Rep. 209, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep 462, 702. A law which indirectly accomplishes a like result by imposing such conditions upon the right to appeal for judicial relief as works an abandonment of the right rather than face the conditions upon which it is offered or may be obtained is also unconstitutional. It may therefore be said that when the penalties for disobedience are by fines so enormous and imprisonment so severe as to intimidate the company and its officers from resorting to the courts to test the validity of the legislation, the result is the same as if the law in terms prohibited the company from seeking judicial construction of laws which deeply affect its rights.
'It is urged that there is no principle upon which to base the claim that a person is entitled to disobey a statute at least once, for the purpose of testing its validity, without subjecting himself to the penalties for disobedience provided by the statute in case it is valid. This is not an accurate statement of the case. Ordinarily a law creating offenses in the nature of misdemeanors or felonies relates to a subject over which the jurisdiction of the legislature is complete in any event. In the case, however, of the establishment of certain rates without any hearing, the validity of such rates necessarily depends upon whether they are high enough to permit at least some return upon the investment (how much it is not now necessary to state), and an inquiry as to that fact is a proper subject of judicial investigation. If it turns out that the rates are too low for that purpose, then they are illegal. Now, to impose upon a party interested, the burden of obtaining a judicial decision of such a question (no prior hearing having ever been given) only upon the condition that, if unsuccessful, he must suffer imprisonment and pay fines as provided in these acts, is, in effect, to close up all approaches to the courts, and thus prevent any hearing upon the question whether the rates as provided by the acts are not too low, and therefore invalid. The distinction is obvious between a case where the validity of the act depends upon the existence of a fact which can be determined only after investigation of a very complicated and technical character, and the ordinary case of a statute upon a subject requiring no such investigation, and over which the jurisdiction of the legislature is complete in any event.'
What was said in that case is conclusive of the question here. True, the act then under consideration subjected the officers and agents of the carrier to penalties not found in the act now before us, but, notwithstanding this, we think the liabilities and penalties imposed by the Kansas statute bring it within the controlling principle of that decision. As applied to cases like the present, the imposition of $500 as liquidated damages is not only grossly out of proportion to the possible actual damages, but is so arbitrary and oppressive that its enforcement would be nothing short of the taking of property without due process of law, and therefore in contravention of the 14th Amendment. See Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Texas, 212 U. S. 86, 111, 53 L. ed. 417, 430, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 220; Standard Oil Co. v. Missouri, 224 U. S. 270, 286, 56 L. Ed. 760, 769, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 406. Upon this ground the judgment is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

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From today WordPress.com users can get a working preview the look and feel of the next admin interface.
We've drawn new icons, increased contrast and font size, and generally modernized the design from top to bottom. We're still working on it, but you can preview it starting today! To step into the future, head over to Users → Personal Settings in your blog's dashboard and check "Enable experimental admin design (MP6)," then Save Changes.
It looks very nice, but so far it's just a cosmetic change. I reminds me a little of services like Squarespace and Virb, so I fear there's a slight danger of WordPress losing its character.
Designers and developers can get involved on the Make WordPress UI blog.
Yesterday I launched a new blog: Rapid Notes. It's just hosted on a free WordPress.com account for now, and will probably stay that way.
I created this new outlet because I wanted a place to store and share the fascinating things I find online every day. I'm not going to put just any old thing up there, but it'll be a busier blog than many of my others. Much busier. The idea is to help me identify what my real passions are by looking at the common themes of the items I post. I'll be spending time getting the tags and categories — the taxonomy — just right. Then as the blog grows I'll be able to look at my archives determine… well… something hopefully.
One of the things I like about using WordPress.com is getting an early look at features destined for the self-hosted version, WordPress.org.
Playing with these settings will make any widget you add determine whether it should be shown or hidden based on the page it appears on. For example, you could create a Recent Posts widget that only appears on posts, or a Top Posts & Pages widget that only appears on archive pages.
Recently I've been taking advantage of the WordPress.com custom design upgrade to pimp my theme, so I thought I would share some of the CSS I have written. Twenty Eleven is the second most popular theme in the WP.com directory, so why not make yours stand out too?
I'm a big fan of Twenty Eleven, however it is starting to show its age. It's funny how these designs date so quickly. Twenty Ten looked positively cutting edge compared to Kubrick (which was itself a very modern theme back in 2006!). I have been tempted to update to the newer Twenty Twelve, but feel that I have invested too much time and effort into getting the look and feel of my blog just right. Instead I'm pulling some of the future back into the past.
WordPress.com has produced some cool-looking reports for users, summing up blog activity for 2012. It's really just a pretty stats page, but it's very well done with CSS animated fireworks, parallax effects and colourful graphics. You can see the complete report for halfblog.net here.
In 2012, there were 133 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 657 posts. There were 306 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 91 MB. That's about 6 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was September 24th with 754 views. The most popular post that day was Minimalistic iPhone 5 wallpapers.
Tonight I have been tweaking my custom CSS and I noticed a rather cool setting. It turns out that you can write LESS or Sass directly into the CSS stylesheet editor that is available to WP.com users with a paid upgrade or to WP.org users via Automattic's excellent Jetpack plugin.
WordPress.com now lets you embed pictures from Instagram.
Our finance department isn't able to do it. One challenge is that our ad partners like Google Adsense don't pay until a site has earned over $100. So if our finance department paid out accounts less than $100 we'd always be losing money on those.
Plugins are shiny toys to a WordPress geek. We love to play with them, share our favourites and learn about any new cool ones that will make our old blogs perform new tricks.
Now seemed like the perfect time to list some of my personal favourites. Most of these I have used, and the rest are on my list to try very soon.
There is also some opinionated advice near the end of the post on what kinds of plugins are best avoided.
Here's a fun trick I learned last night while creating a WordPress theme, and also works for WordPress.com blogs like this one.
As an experiment, I've been running WordAds on this blog for one month, and managed to earn a stonking $5.26.
This week I created a new Cardiff hyperlocal blog for the Maendy, 'Lower Heath', western-edge-of-Cathays area known to the council as the ward of Gabalfa.
It's a funny area to cover. Wikipedia says Gabalfa "is characterised by an enormous fly over road at the Gabalfa Interchange, where the A48 road meets the A470 road (North Road) which leads from Cardiff to northern Wales, and the A469 road (Caerphilly Road)", which about sums the area up.
The second WordPress Users Wales meet-up is on Wednesday 29th February at The Promised Land, from 6.30pm. As before, register with Eventbrite.
Apparently this is a traditional date for women to make marriage proposals, so there is the potential for the night to take an unexpected turn!
WordPress.com are making it easy to black out your own website in protest of SOPA/PIPA. I realise that these are US bills, but the ramifications of such harmful legislation will be felt all over the world. If you are a US citizen, please take a stand!
I've just submitted this blog to be considered for the new WordAds for WordPress.com blogs.
We've resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn't terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google's AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot of time and effort into your blog and you deserve better than AdSense.
My blog may get too little traffic or not be focused enough to easily pair the content up with appropriate ads (or the reviewers (hello there!) may simply not appreciate my post about the bad ads on WordPress.com), but I have my fingers crossed.
If you run a WP.com blog with a custom domain, you can apply for WordAds too.
The first WordPress Users Wales meet-up is on Monday 28th November (6.30pm – 8.30pm) at The Atrium in Cardiff. The evening is free, and you can sign-up on Eventbrite.
Thanks to Pippa and Chris for organising this user group. I think it will become a useful companion to the Cardiff Blogs events for those bloggers who want to get a bit more technical and tinker with the nuts-and-bolts of blogging.


BOSTON — The Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday approved the first retail license for an independent marijuana store not affiliated with a larger medical marijuana company.The commission gave a final license to Caroline Frankel to open Caroline's Cannabis in Uxbridge."We're taking it from a mom and pop perspective," Frankel said. "All we've seen (so far) is big business."All nine retail stores open in Massachusetts to date are affiliated with companies that operate medical marijuana dispensaries. They generally have their own operations for growing marijuana and manufacturing products.Frankel applied only for a retail license. She plans to buy her products wholesale from other cultivators and product manufacturers.


When millionaire hedge fund manager James is nailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, the judge gives him 30 days to get his affairs in order. Desperate, he turns to Darnell to prep him for a life behind bars.
When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James (Will Ferrell) is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell (Kevin Hart) — a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket — for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.


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Q: Unexpected result with max and min functions in numpy arrays I have some troubles with numpy arrays and I don't know if it is my computer(I'm having some problems with it) or something else.
At the moment when I introduce the following I these get unexpected results:
import numpy as np
names=np.array(['jungle', 'mountain', 'sea', 'lake', 'forest', 'desert', 'house',
 'city', 'mountain'], dtype='<U20')
max(names)
'sea'
min(names)
'city'

It should be "mountain" the maximum and "sea" the minimum
Can anyone reproduce this? Or it is my computer :(

A: Strings are compared by the code point of each letter (starting with the first letter, until there is a difference):
>>> "AAAAA" < "B"
True
>>> "a" > "A"
True

If you want to compare by length instead of case-sensitive "lexicographical" order, use key=len as a second argument:
max(names, key=len)


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The Bay View Houses is a housing project of the New York City Housing Authority in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. It has twenty-three, 8-story buildings with 1,609 apartments. The 34.02-acre complex is bordered by Seaview Avenue, East 102nd Street, and Rockaway Parkway.

Development
Construction on the Bay View Houses began in November 1954 and was completed on June 7, 1956. It was designed for middle-income families to keep these residents from moving to the suburbs. The Bayview Houses was mostly inhabited by low- to middle-income working class New Yorkers.

The development was designed in the superblock style which bounds the property with local roads and without roads crossing. The buildings take up roughly 14% of the site to ensure green space, typical of the time. This design ignores the surrounding environment, particularly the view of Jamaica Bay from the buildings. Located in the center of the development is the Bay View Houses Farm, managed by East New York Farms.

In Progress To Be Converted Into RAD PACT Section 8 Management
The development is currently in the process of becoming converted into RAD PACT Section 8 Management where there will be a Public-private partnership between NYCHA and private companies to manage the development in order to bring in the capital funding needed to revitalize and upgrade the development into better conditions.

Notable residents

John Brockington (born 1948), former NFL player
Steven Keats (1945–1994), actor
John Salley (born 1964), former NBA player and the first player to win an NBA championship on three different teams
Howard Schultz (born 1953), former CEO of Starbucks

See also
New York City Housing Authority
List of New York City Housing Authority properties

References

External links
Fact sheet

Residential buildings in Brooklyn
Canarsie, Brooklyn
Public housing in Brooklyn

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Congrats to Allison Miller and Bryan Falcón – Recipients of the 2019 Buffalo Exchange Arts Award!
Each year, Buffalo Exchange teams up with the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona to award an artist in Southern Arizona with the Arts Award. Candidates are selected by two separate panels of experts who are familiar with the Southern Arizona Arts scene and judged based on both the candidates' artistic endeavors and the impact they've made in the community. Since 1994, Buffalo Exchange has awarded almost $240,000 to 26 Southern Arizona artists.
Rebecca Block and Kerstin Block with Allison Miller and Bryan Falcón
For the 25th round of recipients in 2019, Buffalo Exchange Founder & President Kerstin Block and her daughter, Vice President Rebecca Block, celebrated by offering two awards of $10,000 – one in performing arts and one in visual arts."We created the Arts Award because we believe art is essential to the well-being of the community," says Kerstin. "This year, we're glad for the chance to honor Allison and Bryan, who both have an incredible impact on the local area."
Allison Miller with Buffalo Exchange Founder Kerstin Block and CFSA Director of Community Investments Kelly Huber
Meet Allison, a Tucson-Born Muralist
Allison Miller, a muralist and native of Tucson, has spent much of her career giving back to the community through public art projects. She currently coordinates and facilitates murals that are artistically accessible for community members, allowing young artists and other volunteers to contribute. "A lot of it for me is involving people in creating an identity for their specific space," says Miller, "whether it's a park or their jogging path. When people are invested in beautification, they keep it that way." Having worked on dozens of murals, Miller's art is a familiar sight and an ode to the unique identity of Tucson.
Scoundrel & Scamp Postcard: Images by Tim Fuller, Design by Cat Dog Mouse Media
Scoundrel & Scamp Production of Blood Wedding: Photo by Tim Fuller.
Bryan Falcón with Buffalo Exchange Founder Kerstin Block and CFSA Director of Community Investments Kelly Huber
Meet Bryan Falcón, Founder of Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre
Bryan Falcón, winner of the performing arts award, is the Artistic and Managing Director of the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre, a nonprofit he founded with his wife after becoming enamored with the art scene and diverse culture of Tucson. Bryan believes that theater uplifts society by transporting people to places that they would not otherwise go. "We have a chance to step into somebody else's skin for a little while and try to understand and, hopefully, walk away with some sort of connection to the heart," says Bryan.
Allison Miller Mural
It's reasons like these that Buffalo Exchange has continued this award for the past 25 years. "Art is not something that humans do when they have nothing else to do," said Spencer Block, Buffalo Exchange co-founder. "Art is an essential part of the human condition. It happens everywhere and in all circumstances." To learn more about the history of the Arts Award and to see a list of all other artists who've been honored over the years, visit the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona's website!
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Q: Passing a variable in Magento when placing the order I have a magento site and I need to pass a variable through POST when the user places the order.
I have this code in info.phtml
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And then I have the form:
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This is working very well in Firefox and Chrome. However in IE, the form is being submitted twice. I checked from Fiddler and the first time the POST variable is there but obviously it is lost when it is submitted again.
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Meet Jeffrey Pessin
A new associate editor
for The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Jeffrey Pessin, director of the Diabetes Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, joined the ranks of the associate editors at The Journal of Biological Chemistry in November 2012. Pessin has won awards for his work on the molecular underpinnings of diabetes and in 2011 was elected to be a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Would you briefly explain what your research group is studying and how you entered the field?
We are examining the signaling pathways and integrative physiology that are responsible for diet-induced adipose tissue inflammation and development of fatty liver disease. I got into this area because Michael Czech (now at the University of Massachusetts) gave a seminar when I was a graduate student (at the University of Illinois). I was very impressed by the seminar. So I applied to his lab, and he accepted me. He was interested in insulin regulation and glucose metabolism. That, to me, was just a fascinating topic. The science and the experience of discovery were unbelievable. It was a tremendous environment. Dr. Czech's laboratory was the first to identify the complex subunit structure of the insulin receptor and to identify the nature of the facilitative glucose transporter proteins. When I opened my own lab, I wanted to do work along the same lines, because I was so excited by the data and the findings. One thing just evolved into the next and the next, and now I've been doing this for 30 years! We're still finding new and exciting data by examining the mechanism controlling glucose and lipid metabolism that underlies the fundamental basis for insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes.
Is your research mostly basic science?
There has been a shift these days. When I first started, our research efforts were entirely basic, using tissue culture or biochemically reconstituted systems in vitro. We still do some basic, hardcore biochemical research, but primarily our interests are in using animal models to study integrative physiology and the mechanisms responsible for altered pathophysiologic states. Science has dramatically changed over the years. For example, only a few years ago, if you needed to express a protein or identify a gene, you had to clone it yourself. Now you simply order it. Moreover, making genetically engineered mice was a very expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive process. Although still expensive now, many genetic mouse models are available, and more are becoming available at a rapid pace. Even for those not yet (readily) available, there are a variety of sources that will make the mice for you. I like to consider our efforts preclinical, as we use a lot of knockout and transgenic mice.
How did you choose science as a career?
I knew I wanted to be a scientist when I was in college. Before then, I wanted to be a professional basketball player. But I wasn't tall enough, so I didn't quite make it as a college player. So I thought, "I'd better learn some things!" When I went to college (at City University of New York), I started out as a chemist, because my adviser told me that to be a good biochemist I needed to be a good chemist first. I did my undergraduate and master's degrees in chemistry. Then I decided to apply to biochemistry departments because I wanted to learn about metabolic pathways and enzymes. That's what I started doing as a graduate student. Toward the end of my graduate career, Mike Czech came to the university to give a talk. I was so inspired that I said, "That's the guy I want to work for!"
Do you still play basketball?
No, I'm too old. I stopped when I was in my mid-40s because of my knees. I injured my knees too much. At the University of Iowa (Editor's note: Pessin was a member of the faculty there between 1983 and 2003), I played in the prime-time league. I played with B.J. Armstrong and Brad Lohaus. So I've played with some NBA players. It was tough playing against those guys, because they were bigger, stronger and faster, but I was able to hold my own. It was actually a lot of fun. Now I play tennis. It's a lot easier on the body!
What does it mean to you, on a personal level, to be an associate editor for JBC? What was your reaction when you were asked to be an associate editor?
I was honored but concerned over the amount of effort that this would take. After talking to (Editor-in-Chief Martha Fedor), I decided it was an important aspect of the peer-review process and that I should give it a try. I made my career publishing in the JBC. If you ever look at my CV, you'll see that for the first 25 years it's mostly JBC.
What do you do outside of the lab? Hobbies?
I am an amateur cabinetmaker and make various types of furniture. I started it when I was in graduate school. My wife and I, we both grew up in New York. It was a pretty difficult place to live in the 1960s and 1970s. There was a lot of crime with drug violence. Once, there was a gun fight right in front of my house. I grew up in a rough neighborhood. We both decided we wanted to get out of there, so when I graduated college we decided I was going to graduate school (outside of New York). We came from poor families. I picked the school that gave me the biggest stipend, which was the University of Illinois. We moved there. We were out of place. We both grew up in Brooklyn, and here we were in the middle of the Midwest, where we knew nothing about anything. There were two people with whom we had our orientation picnic, Pam Anderson and Peter Torgenson. We hit it off with them, and they took us under their wing to show us what it was like to live outside of New York!
Peter did a lot of woodworking, and he showed me how to handle wood, how to join pieces together using just chisels to cut mortise and tenon joints. Then I bought a couple of books. Peter and I would talk about woodworking, and we would do projects together. I've made three-quarters of our bedroom furniture. I've made nightstands, dressers, headboards and lots of picture frames. I just built my sister a set of cabinets for her kitchen. It takes time, and I do it slowly just for fun.
What do you think is the most exciting thing about science these days?
The rate of discovery now is incredible compared to before, and we're only still touching the tip of the iceberg. It's a very exciting time, but it's also much more difficult. There's a lot more information you have to sift through. But as we're learning more, it's becoming more comprehensible, because things are beginning to make sense now. That's why we are in the best time to develop therapeutics for various diseases.
In the old days, it was hit-and-miss. Almost all drugs before the last 10 years came from random screenings. But we're actually at the point now where we can make integrated predictions about how a drug will work and how to select for those with higher therapeutic potential. We are also beginning to develop personalized medicine. There are a couple of examples. Plavix is a drug like that. (Editor's note: Plavix, also called clopidogrel, is an anti-blood clotting agent.) There are certain people who have an enzyme difference that prevents the metabolism of Plavix into its active form, and these patients should be treated with other antiplatelet therapies.
The sad part is that the funding is the worst it has ever been. I've never seen funding so difficult … in my whole (scientific) history since 1975. We've gone through very difficult times in the past, but nothing like this. We are at the point where we can make tremendous breakthroughs, but, at the same time, we're being held back because of a lack of funding.
For scientists in training, do you have any words of wisdom or a favorite motto?
Don't try to predict where science will take you. It is much better just to enjoy the journey.


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It's Fun - It's Addictive - It's ZUMA!
One of the best puzzle games ever
Zuma is a tile-matching puzzle video game published by PopCap Games. It can be played for free online at several Web sites, and can be purchased for a number of platforms, including PDAs, mobile phones, and the iPod.[1] An enhanced version, called Zuma Deluxe, is available for purchase in Windows and Mac OS X versions and as an Xbox Live Arcade download for the Xbox 360 and a PlayStation Network download for the PlayStation 3.
he objective of Zuma is to eliminate all of the balls rolling around the screen along a given path (the path is clearly visible in all of the levels except for the last level) with other balls before these balls reach the yellow skull structure, which will open to varying degrees as a warning of oncoming balls. The player can carry two balls at a time and can switch at any time. As soon as one ball reaches the skull, the rest follow and the player loses a life. To prevent the balls reaching the skull, the player can eliminate the balls by firing a colored ball from the stone frog idol's mouth towards the chain of balls that will continue to push forward until the player fills the yellow bar, which is when the balls will stop producing off-screen. When three or more of the same color come in contact, they explode, possibly triggering other explosions as part of a chain reaction. The level is completed when after the bar is filled, the player eliminates all of the balls on the screen.
Zuma deluxe is one of the most challenging and addictive game ever. The purpose of this game is to find the secrets of Zuma and protect the ancient civilizations. There are several colored balls in a chain who are coming towards the stone frog. Make groups of three or more balls of the same color and destroy them. If you hit good, you will receive special bonuses that will bring you good points. With magic balls you have the opportunity to destroy many more balls than with normal one. Try to avoid the balls reach the stone frog or the game will end. It won't be easy, but if you want to go through all the levels, you have to show that you are a good gamer and defeat your limits.
Zuma's Revenge
Destroy all the groups formed of at least three balls from the same color. You can control the frog that is firing with balls clicking the mouse. Click on the direction you want the ball to go and release it. There are magic balls that can bring you a lot of points if you fire them. Have fun!
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Archives for September 14th, 2017
Activists Wish to Combat Sex Trafficking by Altering an Essential Web Law
Like	|	Julie |	Sep 14, 2017 |	Uncategorized
Many technology businesses thinks about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to be a structure of the Internet economy. The 1996 law offers website owners broad resistance for content sent by users. Supporters say that permits sites to host a wide array of user-generated content without fretting about getting taken legal action against.
Now, Congress is thinking about the very first considerable change to the law in its 21-year history. Critics say specific sites have concealed behind the law while releasing advertisements for the sexual exploitation of kids. Activists are promoting legislation that would take a sex trafficking exception to Section 230, permitting state prosecutions and personal suits versus sites that host advertisements for sex with kids.
" We've crafted a law that safeguards a sector of business with total resistance versus civil actions by victims even where there's proof that company has purposefully helped with the trafficking of that child," states Samantha Vardaman of the advocacy company Shared Hope.
The legislation is popular on Capitol Hill. The Senate variation of the legislation takes pleasure in at least 27 co-sponsors from both celebrations. Comparable legislation in your home has a bipartisan group of more than 100 co-sponsors. With that type of momentum, the proposal has a genuine opportunity of becoming law. More useful information is available when you visit elite law firm.
The technology market and free-speech supporters say the law is a bad idea. They argue that even a narrow exception to Section 230 would open the floodgates for state authorities and personal complainants to pester sites.
Critics mention that Congress passed legislation in 2015 created to enable the feds to prosecute websites that host advertisements for sex with kids. They argue that Congress ought to see how well that law works before legislating even more.
Critics say that shutting down prominent websites would merely press ads underground where they will be harder for law enforcement to track.
This is truly a battle over Backpage.
I stated previously that "particular sites" have concealed behind Section 230, but the dispute over the legislation has focused practically completely on one website: Backpage.com. After Craigslist closed its adult services area in 2010, Backpage rapidly turned into one of the Internet's leading locations for advertising sexual services.
In 2015, a Senate investigative committee finished the deal with a thorough examination of Backpage and its business practices. According to internal Backpage files acquired by Senate detectives, adult advertisements represented 93 percent of the company's advertisement earnings in 2011. Much of these advertisements were for prostitution-- a service that's unlawful all over in the United States, aside from a couple of counties in Nevada.
Senate private investigators say Backpage executives understood that a big portion of Backpage advertisements was for prohibited services. In the website's early years, mediators were advised to decline advertisements that seemed to get prostitution. That was bad for business, so mediators started modifying user-submitted advertisements rather, erasing words and expressions that showed a specific deal of sex for money.
In 2010, the company began automating the procedure so that words and expressions indicating unlawful prostitution-- like "complete," "no limitations," and catalog for services finished in under an hour-- were instantly removed from advertisements-- but the remainder of the advertisement was published online. In October 2010, a Backpage authorities approximated that the company was modifying 70 to 80 percent of advertisements to remove out troublesome expressions.
Obviously, altering the words in an advertisement does not change the sort of service the marketer is providing. "Cleaning up" an advertisement for prostitution does not change that it's a deal of sex for money. It merely assists to insulate Backpage from the reaction the website would otherwise get for helping with an unlawful deal.
Disturbingly, Backpage apparently took the exact same technique when it got advertisements for sexual exploitation of kids. Instead of declining these advertisements outright, the Senate report declared, Backpage's software application would remove terms like "lolita," "little lady," "school woman," and "amber alert" from advertisements before publishing the remainder of the advertisement online. (In a 2011 email, a Backpage executive informed a Texas police officer that "amber alert" was "either a dreadful marketing tactic or some sort of strange brand-new code word for an under-aged person.").
We asked Backpage for discussing the claims in the Senate report, but it decreased to talk about the record.
" Backpage frightens people," states Daphne Keller, a legal specialist at Stanford University. She indicated a movie about Backpage, called I Am Jane Doe, that was commonly distributed on Capitol Hill and stimulated lawmakers into action.
Hosting advertisements for minor sex services has made Backpage no lack of opponents, and the company has relied greatly on Section 230 to evade both prosecution and civil suits.
In 2015, California submitted pimping charges versus the 3 guys behind the website: Carl Ferrer, Michael Lacey, and James Larkin. The case was dismissed because the trio delighted in security under Section 230. California rapidly submitted another case versus Backpage on charges of money laundering.
In 2015, courts also dismissed a suit from 3 confidential minor women who say they were trafficked on Backpage. The court ruled that Section 230 does not permit victims to take legal action against a website over advertisements sent by 3rd parties. The mom of another trafficking victim submitted a claim versus Backpage this year.
With Backpage mainly protected from direct legal attacks, public authorities have tried to find methods to assault Backpage indirectly. In 2015, Thomas Dart, constable of Chicago's Cook County, used legal hazards to encourage Visa and MasterCard to drop Backpage as a customer. Backpage took legal action against in federal court, which ruled that Dart's project breached Backpage's First Amendment rights.
Anti-trafficking supporters say that this highlights an issue with Section 230. They argue that Backpage is assisting in and making money from the sexual exploitation of kids, and Section 230 leaves victims and police without any way to hold them liable. They've been lobbying Congress to pass legislation that enables state district attorneys and personal complainants to go after business like Backpage.
Challengers say deteriorating Section 230 is an error.
Free speech supporters and technology business do not purchase this argument. And they indicate 3 huge issues with the Senate's Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and its House buddy, the Allow States and Victims to eliminate Online Sex Trafficking Act.
They say that Congress currently acted to resolve this issue. Under Section 230, the courts have provided sites broad resistance versus state district attorneys and personal complainants, but the law leaves the door open for prosecutions at the federal level. In 2015, Congress changed sex trafficking laws to make advertising minor sexual services a criminal activity. This arrangement was commonly deemed a Backpage killer.
2 years later, federal district attorneys do not appear to have used this brand-new law. There are reports that district attorneys in Arizona are working on a case versus the Backpage creators. Critics of brand-new sex trafficking legislation argue that Congress must wait and see if federal district attorneys can deal with the issue using the 2015 law before they think about rewriting Section 230.
Challengers also worry that developing a Section 230 exception for child exploitation might be a camel's nose under the camping tent that would eventually expose a vast array of sites to unimportant litigation. The Senate costs would permit "any State prosecution or civil enforcement action targeting conduct that breaks a Federal criminal law forbidding sex trafficking of kids." Critics say it's not clear what "targeting" means here.
Santa Clara University legal scholar Eric Goldman states we need to envision if a state passed a law stating, "If you do not confirm all of your users, you are responsible for any non-authenticated content promoting sex trafficking of kids." That, Goldman states, might be considered a law "targeting" a federal criminal activity. It might also have significant impacts on many sites-- not simply business running adult personal advertisements-- might be required to include age-verification abilities to their websites.
That issue does not impress Mary Leary, a teacher at the Catholic University Law School and a fan of the legislation. "I think this language is prepared really directly to not go there," she informed Ars in an August interview. "There's no federal criminal law that states you need to age-verify users.".
We will not know for sure who is right unless Congress passes the legislation and states start making the most of the brand-new exception to Section 230. The technology market and complimentary speech supporters worry that even a little change to Section 230 might produce headaches for website operators with no connection to the sex trade. The existing law offers website owners blanket resistance, enabling them to deal with suits rapidly and with very little cost. A brand-new exemption might unlock for unimportant litigation that declares to be connected to sex trafficking. Even if these suits are eventually thrown away, technology business might deal with substantial legal expenditures in the meantime.
Even if that holds true, activists say it's a little rate to pay to stop the sexual exploitation of kids.
" The bottom line is the interests that are taking on here are financial versus human securities," Vardaman states. "It's defense of kids. We cannot fathom the world where we place economics over the defense of our kids."
Why closing Backpage may not decrease trafficking
Protectors of Section 230 also question whether closing a website like Backpage would, in fact, help victims of trafficking.
" There is neither an empirical structure for the presumption that the platforms trigger trafficking nor any proof that shuttering them would decrease trafficking," composes Notre Dame legal scholar Alexandra Levy. "To the contrary, permitting Internet platforms on which sexual services are brokered to flourish might be crucial to collaring traffickers and recuperating victims."
Backpage's critics have made much of how reports of online sex trafficking have escalated over the last few years. That may be because the issue has become worse. Another possibility, Levy points out, is that Backpage has made it much easier for the authorities to find out about trafficking events and do something about them.
If activists prosper in closing Backpage, that will not spell completion of sex trafficking, Levy argues. Ladies will continue to be trafficked, with their services marketed somewhere else. And, most importantly, these underground places are less most likely to assist police to recognize and save the victims.
Vardaman isn't really encouraged by this argument. She keeps in mind that there appears to have been a short-term reduction in trafficking activity in the wake of the 2010 shutdown of Craigslist-- but she acknowledges, "Backpage did ultimately surpass Craigslist's level of earnings and activity."
The issue, in Vardaman's view, is that the authorities didn't "fill deep space with brand-new or imaginative police method" after Craigslist was closed. Vardaman acknowledges that closing Backpage will not trigger trafficking to disappear-- but she thinks that it's an action in the ideal instructions.
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U.S. Appeals Court States Texas Can Execute Citizen ID Law
The state of Texas won at least a short-term success on Tuesday in its quote to carry out a questionable citizen recognition law when a federal appeals court remained a judgment by a U.S. district court judge that disallowed its enforcement.
A three-member panel of the United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans voted 2-1 to put the lower court judge's judgment on hold while it thinks about the constitutionality of the law, which was passed this year by the state's Republican-controlled legislature.
That expense was indicated to repair components of a 2011 citizen ID step that was considered among the strictest in the United States and based on years of court obstacles throughout the Obama administration.
President Donald Trump, who campaigned on cutting citizen scams, has supported Texas' quote to need that citizens reveal a type of recognition.
" The state has made a strong revealing that it is most likely to be successful on the benefits (of the case)" Judges Jennifer Elrod and Jerry Smith composed in a six-page judgment.
In a four-page dissenting viewpoint, Judge James Graves composed that if the 5th Circuit was going to use up the case, it needs to have remained the whole law from working up until the last judgment was provided.
Lauren Ehrsam, a spokesperson for the United States Department of Justice, stated in a composed declaration "We are happy that the Fifth Circuit has remained the injunction and enabled Texas to continue with its properly enacted citizen recognition laws.".
" Preserving the stability of the tally is important to our democracy, and the Fifth Circuit's order permits Texas to continue to meet that task as this case moves on," Ehrsam stated.
Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa might not be grabbed discuss the judgment on Tuesday night.
Hiojosa has formerly compared the citizen ID requirements to "Jim Crow-era techniques" developed to keep Republican legislators in power. Critics say the Texas law and comparable statutes enacted in other states were customized to make it harder for minorities and immigrants, consisting of black and Hispanic citizens who are less most likely to have the licensed IDs and have the tendency to prefer Democrats, to cast tallies.
Backers say the laws are required to avoid citizen scams and disappear burdensome than the requirements enforced by states for owning an automobile.
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Judge Andrew Napolitano: DACA and the Guideline of Law
Previously today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed that in 6 months, the Department of Justice will start the long procedure for deportation procedures versus 800,000 youths who concerned America as children and children in the care of their moms and dads and others because those entries into this nation were and stay illegal.
When President Obama signed various executive orders trying to state the conditions under which unlawfully immigrated grown-ups whose kids were born here might legally stay here, he was challenged in federal court and he lost.
Sessions think that the federal government would lose once again if it decreased to deport those who came here unlawfully as children and kids.
Soon after President Obama formalized 2 programs, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (frequently referred to as DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (frequently, DAPA), in a series of executive orders, the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that DAPA-- the orders safeguarding undocumented immigrants who are the moms and dads of kids born here-- was unconstitutional.
Before signing his executive orders, Obama aimed to convince Congress to change federal migration laws so regarding allowing those who came here unlawfully and bore kids here and those who came here unlawfully as babies to stay here with work licenses, high school diplomas, Social Security numbers, tasks and other indicia of stability and permanence. After Congress decreased to vote on the Obama proposals, he authored his now-famous DACA and DAPA executive orders. He generally chose to do on his own what Congress had decreased to do legislatively.
Obama's executive orders were not unique; they simply formalized what every president since Ronald Reagan-- consisting of President Donald Trump-- has efficiently done. Each has decreased to deport undocumented immigrants who bore kids here or who were brought here as kids. President Obama alone revealed the guts to put this in composing, thus offering immigrants notification of what they should do to prevent deportation and the federal government notification of whose deportations must not happen.
Various states challenged Obama's DAPA orders in federal court. The states argued that because they are needed to offer a social safeguard-- health center emergency clinic, public schools, monetary support for the bad, and so on-- for everybody within their borders, whether there legally or unlawfully, DAPA was increasing their monetary problem beyond their capability or will to pay. Specified in a different way, they argued that the president alone was successfully engaging these states to invest state tax dollars versus the will of chosen state authorities. The states also argued that DAPA was such a significant discrepancy from the migration statutes that Congress had composed that it totaled up to the president's rewording the law and therefore taking over the constitutional powers of Congress.
A federal district judge concurred with the states, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit verified that judgment. That court held that by increasing the monetary concern on states versus the will of the chosen authorities of the states, the president had breached the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution-- which ensures a representative kind of federal government in the states, not one where a federal authority can inform state authorities ways to invest state tax dollars.
It also ruled that by implementing his executive orders rather of the laws as Congress composed them-- those laws mandate deportation for all who came here unlawfully, no matter their age or household status-- the president was cannot make sure that federal laws be imposed. That habits, the court ruled, breached the Take Care Clause of the Constitution, which forces the president to implement federal laws as they were composed, not as he may want them to be.
The Supreme Court decreased to step in by a 4-4 vote, thus allowing the 5th Circuit choice to stand undisturbed.
When Sessions revealed today that DACA will not be followed March 5, 2018, he stated he is positive that DACA is unconstitutional on the exact same factors that the courts discovered DAPA to be unconstitutional. There are ethical, constitutional, legal and financial arguments on this that will be a barrier to the cancellation of this enduring program.
Ethically, many of the recipients of DACA are totally Americanized young people who know no other life but what they have here and have no roots in the nations of their births. Many are serving the United States in the armed force.
Constitutionally, DACA has efficiently remained in place since 1986, and 800,000 people below 40 have prepared their lives in dependence upon it. Lawfully, when an advantage has been offered by the federal government and trust, the courts hesitate to rescind it, although the 5th Circuit revealed no such unwillingness.
Financially, the summary elimination of more than three-quarters of a million people from the labor force would have major unfavourable repercussions for their companies and dependents and for fragile financial forces, and there would be unfavorable financial repercussions to the federal government, also, as each declared difficult case-- everyone whose deportation is purchased-- is entitled to a hearing at the federal government's cost.
Now many Republican and Democratic legislators in Congress wish to make a close variation of Obama's executive orders about immigrant babies (DACA) the unwritten law-- something they decreased to do when Obama was president. Were this to happen, the tables would be switched on Trump. He would be faced with the constitutional task of imposing a federal law that he has condemned.
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Over the years we have been privileged to participate and share our knowledge with teachers and students of the Chirag School, a child centered primary school in Uttarakahand. We have also trained para teachers to work alongside government teachers as part of Chirag's mission in the Kumaon region.
We have also participated in Sitla for story telling and literacy related ideas at a community library established by a dedicated couple committed to improving and enriching the lives of local children.
In the past we ran a Saturday morning program for children of construction workers around our centre in Defence Colony, New Delhi. The program ran for two hours where we used music, movement and play to instil joy that every child deserves to experience. The children were also provided with a nutritious meal.
Through songs and read-alouds the children were exposed to enriching language, listening and speaking skills. Through play they developed their imagination, strengthened their motor skills, learnt turn taking, sharing, negotiating skills and built their confidence. We were supported by the Learning Matters community who generously donated hygiene supplies and clothes that we shared with the families of the children.
We were surprised and will never forget when one day, a young girl felt such gratitude that she untied a knot from the bottom of her chunni and took out two one rupee coins to give us.


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Q: Tensorflow: how to create feature_columns for numpy matrix input I'm using tensorflow 1.8.0, python 3.6.5.
The data is iris data set. Here is the code:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
import tensorflow as tf

X = iris['data']
y = iris['target']
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2)

input_train=tf.estimator.inputs.numpy_input_fn(x=X_train,
            y=y_train, num_epochs=100, shuffle=False)
classifier_model = tf.estimator.DNNClassifier(hidden_units=[10,
                  20, 10], n_classes=3, feature_columns=??)

Here is my problem, how do I setup the feature_columns for a numpy matrix?
If I covert the X and y to pandas.DataFrame, I can use the following code for the feature_columns, and it works in the DNNClassifier model.
features = X.columns
feature_columns = [tf.feature_column.numeric_column(key=key) for key in features]

A: You can wrap your numpy ndarray in a dictionary and pass it to numpy_input_fn method as input x and then use the key in that dictionary to define your feature_column. Also note that because each data in your X_train has 4 dimensions, you need to specify the shape parameter when defining tf.feature_column.numeric_column. Here is the completed code:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
import tensorflow as tf

iris = load_iris()

X = iris['data']
y = iris['target']
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2)

input_train = tf.estimator.inputs.numpy_input_fn(
                  x = {'x': X_train},
                  y = y_train,
                  num_epochs = 100,
                  shuffle = False)

feature_columns = [tf.feature_column.numeric_column(key='x', shape=(X_train.shape[1],))]

classifier_model = tf.estimator.DNNClassifier(
                       hidden_units=[10, 20, 10],
                       n_classes=3,
                       feature_columns=feature_columns)


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10/28/2013 02:32 pm ET Updated Oct 28, 2013
No, Barack Obama's Twitter Account Wasn't Hacked (But A Link Shortener Was)
By Paige Lavender
The group that runs President Barack Obama's Twitter says his account was not hacked, but a link shortener used by Organizing for Action was compromised.
A Monday afternoon post from Obama's Twitter account showed a preview of a Washington Post story on immigration, but clicking the link took readers to a Syrian revolution video on YouTube instead.
An OFA official confirmed to the Huffington Post that an account with the group's link shortener was hacked -- but that was all.
"At no point did they have access to the twitter handle," the official said.
OFA has its own customized link shortener, as opposed to using the built in Twitter function. The group was authoring its own tweets, but if they attempted to put in a URL, they became vulnerable to the hackers.
"Only the links within our tweets had been hacked," the OFA official said.
The original tweet with the compromised link was deleted and replaced with a link to the Washington Post story Monday afternoon:
Immigration is a bipartisan issue: http://t.co/PI3AcScpxG #ActOnReform
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 28, 2013
The AP reports a group called the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the action. The group aligns itself with Syrian President Bashar Assad and has taken credit for hacking into social media sites in the past.
"Obama doesn't have any ethical issues with spying on the world, so we took it upon ourselves to return the favor," the group said, according to the AP.
Sam Stein contributed to this report.
This post has been updated with more from the AP on the Syrian Electronic Army.
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Obama Is Not An American Citizen
One of the most popular Obama conspiracy theories (aka the Birther Movement), endorsed (or not denied) by the likes of Tom Delay, Lou Dobbs, Chuck Norris and Liz Cheney, it claims that Obama is not an American citizen, thus rendering his presidency illegitimate, or something. The theory hinges on the false claim that his birth certificate is fake. Birther queen Orly Taitz (a lawyer and dentist from California) continues to lead the march, despite her lawsuit getting thrown out and a $20,000 fine.


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Miranda Lambert, Brandi Carlile Lead Country's 2023 Grammy Awards Nominees
Carena Liptak Published: November 16, 2022
Contributing Authors: Billy Dukes
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A full list 2023 Grammy Awards nominees was announced on Tuesday (Nov. 15) in a livestream reveal by the Recording Academy from the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.
Miranda Lambert is on top in mainstream country categories, with nods in four, and Luke Combs, Maren Morris and Willie Nelson followed closely behind her with three country nominations a piece.
Jimmie Allen, who was a Best New Artist nominee in 2022, was on hand to help reveal the nominees in country categories. Three-time Grammy winners Dan + Shay were also part of the announcement. In addition to their role as presenters, they performed "Tequila," the song that won them their very first Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance in 2019.
Dan + Shay also returned to the screen later in the broadcast to say a few words about the impact of country legend Loretta Lynn, who died in early October. Lynn won three Grammy trophies over the course of her career, and earned 18 nominations.
Country songwriter Laura Veltz, who has co-written hits for artists like Dan + Shay, Lady A and Kane Brown, earned a nomination in the brand-new Songwriter of the Year category. Additionally, singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt earned a nod for Song of the Year, for the title track of her 2022 album, Just Like That. Raitt picked up four nods in total, the other three of which came in Americana categories.
Brandi Carlile had a massive outing when the nominees were announced, earning nods not only in country and Americana fields, but in all-genre categories, as well. Her song "Broken Horses" earned a mention in the Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song categories, and she also scored a mention in the Album of the Year category for In These Silent Days and a mention in the Record of the Year category for "You and Me on the Rock." That makes Carlile one of the most-nominated acts at this year's show. Only Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar earned more nominations; Carlile is tied with Adele for third most-nominated, with seven nods apiece.
Willie Nelson also comes in with a robust four nominations, snagging a mention in the Best Roots Gospel Album category for his album The Willie Nelson Family in addition to three nods in country categories.
Bluegrass upstart Molly Tuttle picked up a nod for Best Bluegrass Album, but her biggest mention came in an all-genre category: She's a contender for Best New Artist.
The 2023 Grammy Awards will return to Crypto.com Arena (formerly Staples Center) in Los Angeles after a year in Las Vegas. Chris Stapleton was country music's big winner in 2022, with three Grammy wins, including Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song and Best Country Album.
The 2023 Grammys will air on CBS on Feb. 5, 2023.
Remember: The best way to watch the 2022 Grammy Awards is on CBS, with ToC on your phone!
2023 Grammy Awards Nominees (Country):
Best Country Solo Performance
Kelsea Ballerini, "Heartfirst"
Zach Bryan, "Something in the Orange"
Miranda Lambert, "In His Arms"
Maren Morris, "Circles Around This Town"
Willie Nelson, "Live Forever"
Best Country Duo / Group Performance
Ingrid Andress feat. Sam Hunt, "Wishful Drinking"
Brothers Osborne, "Midnight Rider's Prayer"
Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert, "Outrunning Your Memory"
Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton, "Does He Love You -- Revisited"
Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde, "Never Wanted to Be That Girl"
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss"Going Where the Lonely Go"
Best Country Song (Awarded to Songwriters)
Maren Morris, "Circles Around This Town" (Ryan Hurd, Julia Michaels, Maren Morris and Jimmy Robbins)
Luke Combs, "Doin' This" (Luke Combs, Drew Parker and Robert Williford)
Taylor Swift, "I Bet You Think About Me" (Taylor's Version) (Lori McKenna and Taylor Swift)
Miranda Lambert, "If I was a Cowboy" (Jesse Frasure and Miranda Lambert)
Willie Nelson, "I'll Love You Til the Day I Die" (Rodney Crowell and Chris Stapleton)
Cody Johnson, "'Til You Can't" (Matt Rogers and Ben Stennis)
Best Country Album
Luke Combs, Growin' Up
Miranda Lambert, Palomino
Ashley McBryde, Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville
Maren Morris, Humble Quest
Willie Nelson, A Beautiful Time
Tobe Nwigwe
Abba, "Don't Shut Me Down"
Adele, "Easy on Me"
Beyoncé, "Break My Soul"
Mary J. Blige, "Good Morning Gorgeous"
Brandi Carlile featuring Lucius, "You and Me on the Rock"
Doja Cat, "Woman"
Steve Lacy, "Bad Habit"
Kendrick Lamar, "The Heart Part 5"
Lizzo, "About Damn Time"
Harry Styles, "As It Was"
Dr. John, Things Happen That Way
Keb' Mo', Good to Be...
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raise the Roof
Bonnie Raitt, Just Like That...
Best American Roots Song (Awarded to Songwriters)
Anais Mitchell, "Bright Star" (Anais Mitchell)
Sheryl Crow, "Forever" (Sheryl Crow and Jeff Trot)
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, "High and Lonesome" (T Bone Burnett and Robert Plant)
Bonnie Raitt, "Just Like That" (Bonnie Raitt)
Aoife O'Donovan and Allison Russell, "Prodigal Daughter" (Aoife O'Donovan and Tim O'Brien)
Brandi Carlile feat. Lucius, "You and Me on the Rock" (Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth)
Best American Roots Performance
Bill Anderson feat. Dolly Parton, "Someday It'll All Make Sense"
Madison Cunningham, "Life According to Raechel"
Fantastic Negrito, "Oh Betty"
Aaron Neville with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, "Stompin' Ground"
Aoife O'Donovan, "Prodigal Daughter" and Allison Russell
Best America Performance
Eric Alexandrakis, "Silver Moon (A Tribute to Michael Nesmith)"
Asleep at the Wheel feat. Lyle Lovett, "There You Go Again"
Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Black Violin, "The Message"
Brandi Carlile feat. Lucius, "You and Me on the Rock"
Bonnie Raitt, "Made Up Mind"
Best Bluegrass Album
The Infamous Stringdusters, Toward the Fray
Del McCoury Band, Almost Proud
Peter Rowan, Calling You From My Mountain
Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway, Crooked Tree
Yonder Mountain String Band, Get Yourself Outside
Best Folk Album
Judy Collins, Spellbound
Madison Cunningham, Revealer
Janis Ian, The Light at the End of the Line
Aoife O'Donovan, Age of Apathy
Punch Brothers, Hell on Church Street
Country Stars Walk the 2022 Grammy Awards Red Carpet
Country stars stepped out in style on the red carpet before the 2022 Grammy Awards in Las Vegas.
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