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Spiteful Mutants?
June 9, 2020 evolutiontheorist Psychology and Evolution	bioleninism, genetics, hierarchy, Industrial Society and Its Future, mutational load, mutations, politics, social organization, spiteful mutants, urbanization
I recently received an inquiry as to my opinion about the "spiteful mutant hypothesis." After a bit of reading about genetic deletions in rat colonies I realized that the question was probably referring to bioleninism rather than rodents (though both are valid).
Of Mice and Men: Empirical Support for the Population-Based Social Epistasis Amplification Model, by Serraf and Woodley of Menie, is an interesting article. The authors look at a study by Kalbassi et al., 2017 about social structures in mouse populations. Experimenters raised two groups of mice. One group had mice with normal mouse genes; mice in this group were sensitive to mouse social-cues and formed normal mouse social hierarchies. The other group had mostly normal mice, but also some mice with genetic mutations that made them less sensitive to social cues. In the second group, the mutant mice were not simply excluded while the rest of the mice went on their merry way, but the entire structure of the group changed:
Among the more striking findings are that the genotypically mixed … litters lacked "a structured social hierarchy" (p. 9) and had lower levels of testosterone (in both Nlgn3y/- and Nlgn3y/+mice); additionally, Nlgn3y/+mice from genotypically homogeneous litters showed more interest in "social" as opposed to "non-social cues" (p. 9) than Nlgn3y/+mice from genotypically mixed litters [the latter did not show a preference for one type of cue over the other, "showing an absence of interest for social cues" (p. 9)].
In other words, in litters where all of the mice are social, they can depend on each other to send and receive social cues, so they do, so they form social hierarchies. Somehow,t his makes the (male) mice have a lot of testosterone. In litters where the mice cannot depend on their companions to consistently send and receive social cues, even the genetically normal mice don't bother as much, social hierarchies fail to form, and the mice have less testosterone.
A "spiteful mutation" in this context is one that imposes costs not only on the carrier, but on those around them. In this case, by changing the social structure and decreasing the testosterone of the other mice.
It's a good article (and not long); you should read it before going on.
So what is bioleninism? I've seen the term kicked around enough to have a vague sense of it, but let's be a bit more formal–with thanks to Samir Pandilwar for succinctness:
Developed by Spandrell (alias, Bloody Shovel) it takes the basic Leninist model of building a Party to rule the state out of the dregs of society, and shifts this to the realm of biology, wrong-think biology in particular, building the party out of people who are permanent losers within the social order.
I think the term gets used more generally when people notice that people in positions of power (or striving to make themselves more powerful via leftist politics) are particularly unattractive. In this context, these people are the "spiteful mutants" trying to change the social structure to benefit themselves.
We humans, at least in the west, like to think of ourselves as "individuals" but we aren't really, not completely. As Aristotle wrote, "Man is a political animal;" we are a social species and most of us can't survive without society at large–perhaps none of us. Virtually all humans live in a tribe or community of some sort, or in the most isolated cases, have at least occasional trade with others for things they cannot produce themselves.
Our species has been social for its entire existence–even our nearest relatives, the other chimps and gorillas, are social animals, living in troops or families.
We talk a lot about "increasing atomization and individualism" in populations that have transitioned from traditional agricultural (or other lifestyles) to the urban, industrial/post-industrial life of the cities, and this is certainly true in a legal sense, but in a practical sense we are becoming less individual.
A man who lives alone in the mountains must do and provide most things for himself; he produces his own food, is warmed by the efforts of his own ax, and drinks water from his own well. Even his trash is his own responsibility. Meanwhile, people in the city depend on others for so many aspects of their lives: their food is shipped in, their hair is cut by strangers, their houses are cleaned by maids, their water comes from a tap, and even their children may be raised by strangers (often by necessity rather than choice). The man in the mountains is more properly an individual, while the man in the city is inextricably bound together with his fellows.
There isn't anything objectively wrong with any particular piece of this (fine dining is delicious and hauling water is overrated), but I find the collective effect on people who have come to expect to live this way vaguely unnerving. It's as though they have shed pieces of themselves and outsourced them to others.
Or as Kaczynski put it:
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.
(I have not read the whole of his manifesto, but I keep returning to this point, so eventually I should.)
How different are we from the little bees who cannot live on their own, but each have their role in the buzzing hive? (This is where the spiteful mutant hypothesis comes in.) Bees don't arrange themselves by talking it over and deciding that this bee would be happy visiting flowers and that bee would be happy guarding the hive. It's all decided beforehand via bee genetics.
How much "free will" do we really have to chose our human social relations, and how much of it is instinctual? Do we chose whom we love and hate, whom we respect and whom we deem idiots? Did we chose who would invent a billion dollar company and who would be homeless?
(We don't really know how far instincts and biology go, of course.)
Any genes that affect how human societies cohere and the social hierarchies we form would likely produce different results if found in different quantities in different groups, just like the genes in the mouse models. Such genes could predispose us to be more or less social, more or less aggressive, or perhaps to value some other elements in our groups.
One of the most under-discussed changes wrought by the modern era is the massive decrease in infant mortality. Our recent ancestors suffered infant mortality rates between 20 and 40 percent (sometimes higher.) Dead children were once a near-universal misery; today, almost all of them live.
Among the dead, of course, were some quantity of carriers of deleterious mutations, such as those predisposing one to walk off a cliff or to be susceptible to malaria. Today, our mutants survive–sometimes even those suffering extreme malfunctions.
This doesn't imply that we need high disease levels to weed out bad mutations: the Native Americans had nice, low disease levels prior to contact with European and African peoples, but their societies seem to have been perfectly healthy. This low-disease state was probably the default our ancestors all enjoyed prior to the invention of agriculture and dense, urban living. They probably still had high rates of infant mortality by modern standards (I haven't been able to find numbers, but our relatives the chimps and bonobos have infant mortality rates around 20-30%.)
That all said, I'm not convinced that all this so-called "autistic" behavior (eg, the mouse models) is bad. Humans who are focused on things instead of social relations have gifted us much of modern technology. Would we give up irascible geniuses like Isaac Newton just to be more hierarchical? The folks implicitly criticized in the "bioleninist" model are far more obsessed with social hierarchies (and their place in them) than I am. I do not want to live like them, constantly analyzing ever social interaction for whether it contains micro-slights or whether someone has properly acknowledged my exact social status ("That's Doctor X, you sexist cretin.")
I want to be left in peace.
Digit Ratios and Mutational Load
December 30, 2015 November 28, 2015 evolutiontheorist Genes and HBD	digit ratio, genes, genetics, HBD, IQ, mutational load, Slate Star Codex
"Mutational load" is the idea that organisms contain some number of deleterious mutations. Some mutations will kill you outright, like the one for Tay-Sachs disease; some mutations greatly reduce your fitness but aren't immediately lethal, like the inability to sweat; and some mutations are potentially problematic but mostly just kind of annoying, like colorblindness.
Random mutations happen all the time as a result of genetic transcription. The obviously bad ones tend to get weeded out of the population pretty quickly, but the ones with only a mild effect on fitness can stick around for a pretty long time. Under harshly Malthusian conditions where organisms compete for limited resources and danger and disease lurk at every turn, deleterious mutations will tend to get weeded out pretty quickly, but increase the food and decrease the danger/diseases, and a far larger % of your population will reproduce, including people who would previously have died.
One of the areas where mutational load seems to play a significant role is in IQ. I commented on a study n the subject back in "Is Genius Fragile?" While obviously a great variety of things go into determining one's IQ, like whether you were in a good mood when you took the test and if your parents dropped you on your head as an infant, this particular study found that the major difference between extremely-high-IQ kids and normal-to-low-IQ people was that the normal-to-low people had a higher frequency of rare, slightly deleterious mutations. The lower the IQ, the more of these mutations.
Each mutation obviously has only a small effect–you could have several and still come out pretty smart. But to be one of the super smart kids, you had to basically be one of the lucky folks who escaped almost all of them.
IQ is interesting in another way: it is more variable in men than women. People make a big deal out of the greater preponderance of men than women at the very high end of the IQ distribution (especially math ability;) this is, we are frequently told, due to the pernicious evil effects of the patriarchy's black-magic mind-control rays convincing women that they are bad at math. Strangely, however, we are never told that the opposite effect–the fact that the ranks of the intellectually retarded are also disproportionately male–is also due to the magical effects of the patriarchy.
BTW, if you think it is a problem that the evil patriarchy is preventing girls from getting math PhDs, but have no problem with boys being over-represented among the retarded, you are a horrible person.
No, it's not the patriarchy. It's the Y chromosome.
You see, because random unpleasant shit happens, like snake bites and random mutations, nature has built us with a fair amount of redundancy. If something happens to one of your eyes, you've still got the other. If something happens to one of your hands, you've got an extra. Etc. This is true on the genetic level, too, which is why you can survive even with small, fitness-reducing mutations.
But men have slightly less genetic redundancy than women, because they have an X and Y chromosome instead of two Xes. If a woman has a wonky mutation on one of her Xs, the other X may have a mutation that makes up for it. If a man has a wonky mutation on his X, his Y chromosome may have nothing to counteract it (and likewise, if there's a wonky one on his Y, his X may have nothing to counteract it.)
Some mutations are good, some are bad, and some are neutral. Height is fairly neutral. The average man is taller than the average woman, but the spread from tallest men to shortest men is bigger than the spread from tallest women to shortest women. All women tend to cluster closer to the female average than men; there are both more "short men" and "tall men" than "short women" and "tall women."
Likewise with IQ; there are both more male geniuses and retarded than female geniuses and retarded, most likely as a result of men having lower genetic redundancy to counteract the effects of mutational load.
On to digit ratios!
SlateStarCodex recently posted the results of the SSC/Less Wrong survey, which included digit ratios.
(To measure your digit ratios:
1. Place your right hand firmly on the plate of a photocopier or scanner with fingers straight. Close cover of place a sheet of paper over your hand to prevent glare from overhead lights. Ensure that the bottom crease and finger tip can be clearly seen in the photocopy.
2. Use a ruler or calipers to measure the distance from the middle of the bottom crease to the tip of the finger to the nearest hundredth of a centimeter.
3. Once you have the measures for both your ring and index finger, then divide the length of your index finger by the length of your ring finger. The result is 2D:4D (2nd digit divided by 4th digit).
If possible, please give three digits – for example, 0.915. Some people may have digit ratios slightly greater than 1, which is okay.)
Inspired, the husband and I decided to measure ours, too. Since we didn't have a photocopier on hand, and were lazy, we just used a common tape measure. We measured both hands and checked each other's work, but both of our hands came out identical.
I got a ratio of 0.971, he got 0.957.
(Note that the closer the ratio is to 1, the closer your fingers are to being the same length. The further the ratio is from one, the further apart your finger lengths are.)
Scott notes that the average male digit ratio in his survey was 0.972; the average female digit ratio was 0.975.
According to Wikipedia, a study of 136 males and 137 females at the University of Alberta found:[17]
Males: mean 0.947, standard deviation 0.029.
Females: mean 0.965, standard deviation 0.026.
People have taken to calling lower digit ratios (further from one) more "masculine," and higher digit ratios (closer to one) more "feminine." Which leads to the question of why all of these Rationalist math-nerds, whose community is definitely majority male and whose field is regarded as a stereotypically "Male" thing, should all have such overwhelmingly girly hands.
My first thought was that math nerds are effeminate. Which they are, for certain definitions of effeminate. But mathy women tend to be kind of masculine, which isn't what this data shows. My second thought was that femininity/masculinity may be additive rather than subtractive–that is, having an extra unit of "masculinity" doesn't necessarily mean someone must therefore lack a unit of "femininity" in a directly linear fashion. Some people could be very low in both femininity and masculinity, or high in both.
My third thought was that maybe measuring digit ratios is too complicated by measurement error and bias and random noise due to things like "how do your fingers crease?" and "did you actually use a copy machine?" A LOT of social science research doesn't replicate at all.
My fourth thought was that a large difference between one's finger lengths sounds a lot like physical asymmetry–which is caused (among other things) by mutational load.
Symmetry has long been recognized as one of the things people look for in a mate. Asymmetric faces (and bodies) are deemed less attractive than symmetric ones. Symmetry is a sign of good health, good lifetime nutrition, few parasites, and low mutational load. Asymmetry is a sign of things gone wrong.
Men display more of the effects of mutational load due to their Y chromosomes, so we'd expect to see a wider range of male digit ratios than female ones–which is indeed what the Alberta study found. Really dumb men probably have very different digit lengths, while really smart men trend toward even fingers. Women, because of their two X chromosomes, are probably just less likely to have really uneven fingers (just as they are less likely to be really dumb.)
The Slate Star Codex and Less Wrong cohorts, on the other end of the spectrum, are very smart people in whom we would expect to see lower mutational load.
The latest study I read on autism found that sufferers have a higher mutational load than the background population; while such an explanation is less fun than "autistics are secret math geniuses," it is sensible. At any rate, if so, we should find a correlation between autism and divergent digit ratios, which the SSC/LW survey did. (Why autistics tend to be male should be immediately obvious.)
Likewise, if homosexuality is caused by some kind of genetic or parasitic agent, we would expect it to correlate with digit divergence. According to the Wikipedia, lesbians have more divergent digits than heterosexual women, but the jury is still out on gay men.
Interestingly, Wikipedia reports that the Han Chinese (who score very well on IQ tests,) have very even fingers, and that the Jamaicans (who do not do so well on IQ tests,) have very divergent ratios. (However, like much of this digit ratio research, I regard this as speculative.)
Of course, like height, there my also be an androgenic effect, such that men are supposed to (for whatever reasons) have slightly different digit ratios than women. After all, even the SSC/LW sample had more divergent ratios for the men than the women, even though the whole SSC/LW population probably has about equal mutational loads (having been pre-selected for high IQ, which = low mutational load.)
update on the cathedral
August 10, 2015 October 3, 2015 evolutiontheorist Political Critiques, The Cathedral	Bruce Charlston, Cathedral, mutational load, NRx
YLS Clinical Students Represent Immigrant Women and Children Detained in Texas
Yale students debate renaming Calhoun College:
"Even if we could rename every single residential college after radical people of color, racism would still manifest itself on our campus every day.
"Because institutions such as Yale and the federal and state governments are inextricably implicated in the maintenance of racism in this country in ways that will take more to undo than hollow symbolic gestures.
"Don't get me wrong, symbolism is important. But to fixate on a futile debate about whether or not to change the name of Calhoun College is to miss the more fundamental question of how to shift power relationships on our campus so that they are more racially just."
The counter-article:
"Yale should do a better job of commemorating. I propose a yearly vigil on Dec. 20, the anniversary of Calhoun's home state of South Carolina's secession. We can read aloud the testimonies of the slaves Calhoun thought subhuman, and of the Union soldiers who fought to destroy his evil dream incarnate. In doing so, we will emphasize what Dean Holloway worries is too often ignored: "that African Americans have a humanity that ought to be respected." It could be, I think, a solemn institutional repentance. Perhaps Calhoun's victims would appreciate our piety on their behalf."
I'm not sure what they're disagreeing over.
From the Harvard Crimson: Delving Deep Inside Amy Schumer The significance of society's inability to find women funny
That's… significant?
"As Christopher Hitchens once said, and as Amy Schumer video commenters often echo, maybe women aren't funny because they've never needed to be funny. I mean, it's just evolution. Throughout the years, as dinosaurs evolved into chickens and as carrier pigeons evolved into iPhones, human males evolved a sense of humor because it got them laid more often. One knock-knock joke, and before he knows it, the lucky man is a father to a litter of funny boys and unfunny girls. Or something like that. Science!"
Wow, I think I have missed the ev psych theories on humor. But I don't really have much of a sense of humor, so maybe I just haven't been reading the correct things.
"Sorry to burst your bubble, but while humor is a lot of things, it's a lot more than just a flirting device used by men to woo women. …
"No, humor is far more powerful than that. Humor—particularly satire—is a tool of social commentary and criticism. It's a way for people to hold up a mirror in front of society's face and point out all the pockmarks.
"Women, of all people, know that society is deeply flawed. When we routinely get paid less than our male colleagues, and when the length of our skirts determines whether or not we deserve to live—well, how could we not turn to humor to shine a light on society's failings?"
Criticizing society is more powerful than evolution?
Sorry, hon. But evolution wins. Every match. Every time.
Also–skirt length determines whether or not we deserve to live? What the hell has happened to Harvard? Did it get taken over by the Taliban sometime last year and no one told me?
Harvard Law would like to note that it practically started the gay marriage bandwagon: The Road to Marriage Equality
"In an essay titled "Recognition, Rights, Regulation, Normalisation: Rhetorics of Justification in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate," Halley expressed concerns that although limiting marriage to heterosexual couples indeed deprecated the relationships of gay couples who wished to marry, the fight for equality had too readily adopted language emphasizing the normative value of traditional coupling. Instead, Halley argued, the movement should question widespread assumptions about marriage and monogamy, leaving the door open for a broader range of non-traditional relationships."
Luce Foundation Awards $400k to Harvard Law for the development of SHARIAsource
"SHARIAsource is a new initiative of Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society that will provide an online portal of resources and analysis on Islamic law, in cooperation with scholars of Islamic law and policy in the United States and around the world.
"SHARIAsource aims to be the go-to site for researchers, journalists, and policymakers, as well as generally interested readers seeking to grasp the basics and the complexities of Islamic law—a frequently recurring topic in news and policy circles. The portal will accomplish this goal by collecting primary sources (court cases, legislation, and fatwas) about Islamic law, and offering scholarly analysis and policy papers about them. The analysis will come from recognized experts in Islamic law and related fields in the United States and abroad."
Actually, that sounds kind of useful. I once tried to do a project on Gypsy law, but got bogged down when I realized that law is really boring. Also, I couldn't figure out how to find any Gypsies to talk to in real life in order to figure out if "Gypsy law" actually has any relevance to their lives.
Oh, and from Penn, which I guess is technically still in the IVY League, but really shouldn't be with shit like this: I Sometimes Don't Want to Be White Either
Hey, there should be a comma before "either."
"There was a time in my 20s when everything I learned about the history of racism made me hate myself, my Whiteness, my ancestors… and my descendants. I remember deciding that I couldn't have biological children because I didn't want to propagate my privilege biologically. …
"Maybe it felt good to distance [Dolezal] from the overwhelming oppressiveness of Whiteness — her own and that of her country and of her ancestors. But the lesson for me is remembering how deep the pain is, the pain of realizing I'm White, and that I and my ancestors are responsible for the incredible racialized mess we find ourselves in today. The pain of facing that honestly is blinding. It's not worse than being on the receiving end of that oppression.
"Ali Michael, Ph.D., is the Director of P-12 Consulting and Professional Development at the Center for the Study of Race Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education and co-editor of Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice. For readers interested in how White people can work towards racial justice — and still be White — or how a White person could have a positive racial identity without being a White supremacist, please pick up one of these books!"
Penn wins the WTF of the month award, despite that article about about Ruth Bader Ginsburg being a "Pop culture icon." WTF.
In other news, Bruce Charleston reflects on, The destruction of the 'basic instincts', common sense and human nature – reflections on the mutational meltdown of Man
"We currently believe that general intelligence has declined by approximately two standard deviations (which is approximately 30 IQ points) since 1800 – that is, over about 8 generations. …
"Michael and I immediately recognized that the rate of change in intelligence that we were observing was too fast to be accounted for my natural selection favouring lower intelligence; although this does have a significant role.
"We soon began to recognize that the primary mechanism was likely to be mutation accumulation due to the decline in child mortality rates from more than half to about one percent – child mortality having, through human history, served as the main (but not only) selective 'sieve' to remove the spontaneous fitness-reducing mutations which occur with every generation."
It's a great post, IMO. I've been talking about the effects of the end of high infant mortality for a while (in conversation, not so much here, since this is a new blog and all.) I think the potential for unforseen effects is pretty high.
"In a sense, the reduction of intelligence may be one of the lesser concerns about this world of what looks increasingly like a mutational meltdown. Because mutations will also damage what might be termed the 'basic instincts' of the population or species.
"In particular, mutation accumulation will be expected to affect social and sexual instincts of the kind we used to call 'common sense' and 'human nature'."
To be fair, I am not so keen on endless population growth, myself. I think curbing growth is a sensible reaction to overpopulation, rather than something to be concerned about it. (Though obviously one does not want to get overwhelmed by people who don't curb their growth.)

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Oporto Sports client and Guyana men's senior head coach, Michael Johnson, recently opened up to The Guardian's Ben Fisher about the challenges he's faced in his coaching journey to date.
In the honest interview, Johnson reveals how he was ready to quit football, before a phone call from West Bromwich Albion manager Darren Moore and a soundbite from Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers changed his approach.
Johnson's Guyana suffered a narrow 2-1 defeat to French Guiana on Tuesday evening and will next face Belize on Saturday 23 March 2019 in a must-win game to enable the Golden Jaguars a chance of Gold Cup qualification.


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Jan Béghin, selon l'état civil Jean-Marie Béghin né le  à Ypres et mort le , est un homme politique belge flamand, membre du CVP qui passa au Sp.a en 2004.

Il est licencié en mathématiques et en sciences économiques.

Biographie
Né d'un père francophone et d'une mère néerlandophone, Jan Béghin passe sa jeunesse à Ganshoren. Après des études secondaires au Sacré-Cœur néerlandophone de Ganshoren, il est licencié en mathématiques et en sciences économiques à la .

Après ses études, il a rejoint le CEPESS, le service d'études commun du CVP et du PSC. En 1971, il est élu conseiller communal de Ganshoren, où il a été échevin des travaux publics, du troisième âge et de la culture néerlandaise de 1977 à 2000. Il a quitté le conseil communal de Ganshoren en 2004.

De 1972 à 1989, il a été membre de la Commission néerlandaise de la culture de l'agglomération bruxelloise, dont il a été le vice-président de 1979 à 1988 et le président de 1988 à 1989. Au sein de cette organisation, il a été responsable de la jeunesse et des sports et, à partir de 1988, a dirigé le groupe de travail Éducation. De 1982 à 1988, il a également été directeur du Centre de contact et de culture Bruxelles.

Le , il fait son entrée au parlement de la région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Il a été premier vice-président pour le CVP puis le CD&V de ce même parlement du  au . Il est l'un des initiateurs de la création du Fonds d'impulsion sociale à Bruxelles. Grâce à son mandat au parlement de Bruxelles-Capitale, il a également siégé au Parlement flamand de  à . Par son mandat au parlement, il était également membre du Commission communautaire flamande, dont il était le secrétaire.

En 2004, il passe au sp.a, à cause du cartel entre le CD&V et la N-VA. Il était d'avis que ce dernier était un parti anti-bruxellois avec lequel il ne voulait pas collaborer. Pour le sp.a, il est redevenu premier vice-président du Parlement de Bruxelles-Capitale de 2006 à 2009. En 2009, il met fin à sa carrière de député.

En 2009, il avait sept mandats, dont deux étaient payés. Il n'avait pas déclaré son mandat de gérant de 'Retis' depuis .

Il meurt en 2022 après une courte mais grave maladie.

Fonctions politiques
 Conseiller communal à Ganshoren (1971-2000)
 Premier échevin (1977-2000)
 Membre du Parlement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale :
 du  au
 depuis le  au
 Premier vice-Président du Parlement bruxellois (1989-2004)
 Député flamand élu de Bruxelles (1997-1999)

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Personnalité du Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams
Personnalité du Socialistische Partij Anders
Naissance en septembre 1949
Naissance à Ypres
Décès à 72 ans
Décès en mai 2022
Décès à Alost

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Q: What would be best practice for placing pre-processing and augmentation of images in a TFX pipeline? I have a semantic segmentation deep learning model which i want to deploy on kubeflow using TFX.
As I am moving the standalone DL code to TFX components I was having some questions

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*The input images and masks  will be stored in a tf-record. Would it be good practice to do the pre-processing like cropping, resizing, combining mask and image to ground truth, before the TFX pipeline starts (i.e ExampleGen)?

*Alternatively, would it be better practice to store the raw images and maskes in tf-record and then do pre-processing in Transform component of TFX?

*I also have some code for data augmentation during training. Would it be better to apply the augmentations in the trainer component or the transform component of TFX?

I would highly appreciate any pro tips or cautions to look out for in general!

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Phillip: "My style is inspiration is constructivism."
Caroline: "These clothes are borrowed from my best friend Shira and I think I wore them just because of the festival."
He's got the Cali-French sailor look going on and she has the I was a teenager in the late 80's look. They look fun and perfect for the musical festivities.
I love his moccasin-esque chukkas and her sandals go with the carefree vibe of her outfit.
And with this post, I'm (finally) done with my Austin pictures. For some reason, I had no idea I took nearly 100. Whoa, right? Now I can get back to beloved SF. Have a nice night everyone!


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WJM Secondary School Code of Conduct
In addition to adherence to the District Code of Conduct, students are expected to adhere to the rules for WJM Secondary listed below. Contravention of the school rules will result in an escalating set of consequences and/or interventions that may include community service, detentions, revocation of privileges, mediations, counselling, parent conferences, behaviour contracts, and in-school or out of school suspensions. The age and maturity of a student will be considered when consequences are applied. In order to facilitate a safe and secure campus, school officials may have a responsibility to notify other members of the school community or members of community agencies in the event of a serious breach of the code of conduct.
Our goal is to provide a safe, caring and orderly environment where staff and students can work and learn effectively.
1. Because we value respect, fairness and compassion, students are expected to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner free of bullying and all forms of harassment including sexual harassment. Students will refrain from any behaviour that discriminates against others on the basis of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation.
2. Because we value respect, safety and self-control, students will refrain from any physical violence including fighting. Watching and/or filming a fight is considered to be promoting violence and is against school rules and policy.
3. Because we value honesty, courage and taking responsibility, students are expected to be forthcoming with information that will assist school staff in addressing behaviour that threatens individuals, disrupts the school or endangers school staff or students. Students who threaten those who have given information or lodged a complaint may be suspended from school attendance.
4. Because we value respect and self-control, students are expected to conduct themselves as exemplary citizens both at school and in the community. Conduct by any student off school property or in the community that adversely affects the school shall be considered a breach of code of conduct. In addition, the school code of conduct remains in effect for all school activities and events such as field trips, sports travel, dances and sports events.
5. Because we value safety, respect and taking responsibility, students must follow safe driving practices on and near the campus; in addition, they must adhere to restrictions in accordance with their "L" or "N" designation. Driving infractions may result in revocation of parking privileges and/or suspension.
6. Because we value health and wellness, in accordance with provincial government policy, the W.J. Mouat campus is a tobacco free area. No smoking is permitted at any time. Students who smoke on or within sight of school property shall be considered in breach of the District Code of Conduct.
7. Because we value respect and safety, students are expected to adhere to all safety rules posted in high-risk areas such as shops, science or food labs and the gymnasium. Students may be photographed and/or video taped for safety reasons. Students may not bring laser pointers to school, nor may they bring props or costumes that may appear to be threatening or dangerous.
8. Because we value diligence, respect and courtesy, students are expected to attend all assigned classes, to be on time, and to be prepared to engage in the task of learning, unless they are excused due to illness or family emergency. ALL EXCUSED ABSENCES REQUIRE A PARENT PHONE CALL TO THE OFFICE the morning of the absence or a note on the day of the student's return. Students must seek parent permission and sign out in the office if they need to leave the campus during the school day. Students arriving late (more than half an hour) for school are expected to sign in at the office to get a "late slip" to give their teacher.
9. Because we value diligence, respect and courtesy, as per district policy, schools "cannot give permission for students to be away from class for reasons other than illness or family emergency"; if parents believe it is essential for students to be absent for other reasons and remove them from school, then the "consequences must be borne by the student." These consequences may include a poor mark or failure in a course. Parents are encouraged to plan vacations during the holidays designated on the school calendar. Teachers may be willing to provide assignments to students who are absent for extended periods, but they are not obligated to do so.
10. Because we value diligence, respect and fairness, all students are expected to write Semester End Exams during the scheduled times. Students who miss district or provincial exams for reasons other than illness or family emergency may be assigned an exam mark of zero, or may be required to postpone writing until the next exam sitting.
11. Because we value respect and courtesy, students are expected to wear clothing appropriate to the school setting. Clothing that promotes drugs, alcohol, sex or inappropriate behaviour, that states or implies crude or inappropriate language, or that is inappropriately revealing, is unacceptable. (See W.J. Mouat Dress Code)
12. Because we value fairness, respect and honesty, students are responsible for the return of all textbooks and curricular materials assigned to them. All losses and damages incurred are the responsibility of the student.
13. Because we value respect, safety and taking responsibility, students are expected to stay away from any areas deemed out of bounds by the administration.
14. Because we value diligence, safety and respect, our campus is "closed" to visitors. WJM students may not invite guests to loiter on the campus or visit classes. Student visitors are welcome only when they are attending specific events sponsored by school staff or administration. All persons arriving at the campus for appointments or inquiries are expected to report to the main office.
15. Because we value courtesy, respect and self-control, students are expected to use E-mail and the Internet appropriately. Students must not post messages, comments, or images which are threatening, or which damage the reputation of our students, our staff or our school.
16. Because we value honesty and diligence, students are expected to avoid cheating and/or plagiarism. Academic dishonesty may result in consequences ranging from forfeiture of assignment or exam credit to suspension from school attendance. Repeat offenders may be suspended and/or taken to a Board of Review. Academic dishonesty may negatively impact a student's ability to apply for and receive scholarships and bursaries.
17. Respectful and courteous use of cell phones and other technology is expected of all students. Innappropriate use may result in the confiscation of your cell phone by a teacher or administrator. Teachers are free to set their own classroom cell phone rules, which must be followed by each student in the class.
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Nowadays internet plays a key role in our lives so it is possible to say that the online and the offline environments are highly intertwined. Specifically, young people use the internet for entertainment, socializing and gaining information. It has been observed that young people usually seek for two kind of information, one of them is different types of opportunities in education, employment and training and the other one is "answers" to several types of questions related to psychology, health and sexuality. For instance, young teenagers may look for information about sexually transmitted diseases or how to terminate an unexpected pregnancy, since they feel uneasy to discuss these topics with their peers, parents or school counselors.
Due to the development of web 2.0 applications each one of us can produce and consume information simultaneously. As a result, it gets harder to assess the validity of information found on the internet. In my opinion, the youth information infrastructures in Europe (Eurodesk, ERYICA, Youth Information Centers etc.) and the youth organizations have a really important role in providing high quality information to young people. It is also important to enforce the already existing cooperation between youth information infrastructures and youth organizations.
Moreover, the provision of high quality information is correlated with the active participation of young people online and offline. First, they know that their opinion can be heard and thus contribute to the development of youth policies. Secondly, they become aware of different forms of active participation, especially the structured dialogue and finally young people become strong actors on decision making processes. Cyber bullying is definitely a barrier of the online active participation of the young people; as a result, EU and youth stakeholders should cooperate in the development of infrastructures in the field of online hate speech.
It is obvious that web 2.0 gives us unlimited possibilities to educate young people about several social issues, motivate them to participate online and inform them about opportunities around the world. Personally, I believe that all kind of youth infrastructures should cooperate in order to provide young people with high quality information.
The article was published on "YEU INTERNATIONAL NEWSMAIL SEPTEMBER 2013".


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A design classic. An unusual wall lamp providing direct light. Painted steel adjustable arm and reflector.
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using PoESkillTree.Computation.Common.Builders;
using PoESkillTree.Computation.Common.Builders.Actions;
using PoESkillTree.Computation.Common.Builders.Buffs;
using PoESkillTree.Computation.Common.Builders.Effects;
using PoESkillTree.Computation.Common.Builders.Entities;
using PoESkillTree.Computation.Common.Builders.Skills;
using PoESkillTree.Computation.Common.Builders.Stats;
using PoESkillTree.Computation.Common.Builders.Values;
using static PoESkillTree.Computation.Console.Builders.BuilderFactory;

namespace PoESkillTree.Computation.Console.Builders
{
    public class BuffBuilderStub : EffectBuilderStub, IBuffBuilder
    {
        public BuffBuilderStub(string stringRepresentation, Resolver<IEffectBuilder> resolver)
            : base(stringRepresentation, resolver)
        {
        }

        public IStatBuilder Effect => CreateStat(This, o => $"Effect of {o}");

        public IActionBuilder Action =>
            Create<IActionBuilder, IEffectBuilder>(ActionBuilderStub.SelfToAny, this, b => $"{b} application");
    }

    public class BuffBuilderCollectionStub : BuilderCollectionStub<IBuffBuilder>,
        IBuffBuilderCollection
    {
        public BuffBuilderCollectionStub(
            string stringRepresentation, Resolver<IBuilderCollection<IBuffBuilder>> resolver)
            : base(new BuffBuilderStub("Buff", (current, _) => current), stringRepresentation, resolver)
        {
        }

        private IBuilderCollection<IBuffBuilder> This => this;

        private static IBuilderCollection<IBuffBuilder> Construct(
            string stringRepresentation, Resolver<IBuilderCollection<IBuffBuilder>> resolver)
        {
            return new BuffBuilderCollectionStub(stringRepresentation, resolver);
        }

        public IStatBuilder CombinedLimit => CreateStat(This, o => $"{o} combined limit");

        public IStatBuilder Effect => CreateStat(This, o => $"Effect of {o}");

        public IBuffBuilderCollection ExceptFrom(params ISkillBuilder[] skills) =>
            (IBuffBuilderCollection) Create(
                Construct, This, skills,
                (o1, os) => $"{o1}.Where(was not gained from [{string.Join(", ", os)}])");

        public IBuffBuilderCollection With(IKeywordBuilder keyword) =>
            (IBuffBuilderCollection) Create(
                Construct, This, keyword,
                (o1, o2) => $"{o1}.Where(has keyword {o2}]");

        public IBuffBuilderCollection Without(IKeywordBuilder keyword) =>
            (IBuffBuilderCollection) Create(
                Construct, This, keyword,
                (o1, o2) => $"{o1}.Where(does not have keyword {o2}]");
    }

    public class BuffBuildersStub : IBuffBuilders
    {
        private static IBuffBuilder Create(string stringRepresentation) =>
            new BuffBuilderStub(stringRepresentation, (current, _) => current);

        public IBuffBuilder Fortify => Create("Fortify");
        public IBuffBuilder Maim => Create("Maim");
        public IBuffBuilder Intimidate => Create("Intimidate");
        public IBuffBuilder Taunt => Create("Taunt");
        public IBuffBuilder Blind => Create("Blind");

        public IConfluxBuffBuilderFactory Conflux => new ConfluxBuffBuilderFactory();

        public IBuffBuilder Curse(ISkillBuilder skill, IValueBuilder level) =>
            (IBuffBuilder) Create<IEffectBuilder, ISkillBuilder, IValueBuilder>(
                (s, r) => new BuffBuilderStub(s, r),
                skill, level,
                (o1, o2) => $"Curse with level {o2} {o1}");

        public IBuffRotation Rotation(IValueBuilder duration) =>
            (IBuffRotation) Create<IStatBuilder, IValueBuilder>(
                (s, r) => new BuffRotation(s, r),
                duration, o => $"Buff rotation for {o} seconds");

        public IBuffBuilderCollection Buffs(IEntityBuilder source = null, IEntityBuilder target = null)
        {
            string StringRepresentation(IEntityBuilder s, IEntityBuilder t)
            {
                var str = "All buffs";
                if (source != null)
                {
                    str += " by " + source;
                }

                if (target != null)
                {
                    str += " against " + target;
                }

                return str;
            }

            return (IBuffBuilderCollection)
                Create<IBuilderCollection<IBuffBuilder>, IEntityBuilder, IEntityBuilder>(
                    (s, r) => new BuffBuilderCollectionStub(s, r),
                    source, target, StringRepresentation);
        }

        private class ConfluxBuffBuilderFactory : IConfluxBuffBuilderFactory
        {
            public IBuffBuilder Igniting => Create("Igniting Conflux");

            public IBuffBuilder Shocking => Create("Shocking Conflux");

            public IBuffBuilder Chilling => Create("Chilling Conflux");

            public IBuffBuilder Elemental => Create("Elemental Conflux");
        }

        private class BuffRotation : FlagStatBuilderStub, IBuffRotation
        {
            public BuffRotation(string stringRepresentation, Resolver<IStatBuilder> resolver)
                : base(stringRepresentation, resolver)
            {
            }

            public IBuffRotation Step(IValueBuilder duration, params IBuffBuilder[] buffs) =>
                (IBuffRotation) Create<IStatBuilder, IValueBuilder, IEffectBuilder>(
                    (s, r) => new BuffRotation(s, r),
                    this, duration, buffs,
                    (o1, o2, o3) => $"{o1} {{ {string.Join(", ", o3)} for {o2} seconds }}");
        }
    }
}

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This verse is part of the final track, 'Days Are Shorter,' from our latest album When Gawd Ready. It is a direct reflection of my experience in the nine to five while also hustling in the studio.
Working ridiculous hours, handling a garnishment, and having no extra funds was a struggle. On top of paying bills and maintaining a household, I had to scrape together enough money to bankroll recording sessions.
Looking back, this period in my life represented a blessing in disguise. Back then, you couldn't pay me to see the silver lining, but now I have more perspective. With my back against the wall, I wrote some of my best raps recounting the trenches of the artist-work life balance.
Rapping and becoming an artist has always been my dream. To reach the next level, I need to work to support myself until I can make a living off of music.
A few years ago, I worked in the automotive manufacturing business as an assemblyman. I clocked in seven days a week, twelve hours a day.
Suffering as an artist and as a person, I had no days off to relax or record. Even in darkness, I focused on small victories. On the job, I befriended people who became supporters of my music which helped spread the word.
Now, I work in the mining business as a Vac Truck Operator. I have more flexibility to attend shows and write in my downtime.
Having a set schedule, I can further accelerate my development as an artist. I can plan events, rehearsals, and studio sessions.
The drive to create great music demands sacrifice. My finances, love life, leisure, even my thought patterns are affected. I am continuously pondering the next verse or analyzing melodies in my head.
The independent side of the business magnifies these sacrifices even more harshly. As a unit, we have absorbed multiple financial losses during the release of our latest album. Seeking the best team to make this project a reality, we paid people who did not meet our standards. We trusted talent and handed over money to partners who did not perform.
We choose to frame these losses as lessons, but this perspective does not always come easily. Learning from our missteps, we plan to do everything in our power to more thoroughly vet those who work alongside us.
This game requires thick skin.
Once people saw our billboard we designed to promote the album, the inquiries skyrocketed. The buzz generated in Birmingham South-Side was incredible. The love we felt from texts, calls, and reposting overwhelmed us.
Of course, all of this love made us feel the pressure as a unit. We wanted to drop the album but the timing wasn't right. We still had a few more pieces of the puzzle to complete.
This project would not be determined by some else's deadline. Only ours mattered. The extra time was worth the wait.
We had to trust OUR process.


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Sony Acquires Savage Game Studios For New Mobile Division
by nucleus 30th August 2022 2nd September 2022 0259
Today, we announced that we have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Savage Game Studios, a hugely talented team of creatives with many years of experience making some of the most popular mobile games enjoyed by players around the world. They were founded a few years ago with the goal of fearlessly exploring bold new ideas. We share their tireless ambition to innovate, along with a continued drive to expand our audience and bring PlayStation to more people than ever before, making them a perfect fit to join PlayStation Studios.
Established in 2020 and led by myself and fellow Co-founders Nadjim Adjir and Michael McManus, Savage Game Studios was born of our many years of mobile game development experience spanning a number of massively successful global IP. Our guiding vision was a creative space where experimentation and taking risks weren't warily avoided, but rather eagerly embraced. We've all worked at big studios and while we respect the advantages of ample resources, we wanted to stay small and nimble so we could call our own shots.
"So why then," you may be thinking to yourself, "would you join PlayStation Studios?" We made this deal because we believe that PlayStation Studios' leadership respects our vision for how we can best operate and succeed, and because they too are not afraid to take chances. All of that, plus the ability to potentially tap into PlayStation's amazing catalog of IP and the fact that we will benefit from the kind of support that only they can provide… The harder question to answer would be "why not?"
As we assured you before with our plans to bring select titles to PC, our efforts beyond console in no way diminish our commitment to the PlayStation community, nor our passion to keep making amazing single-player, narrative-driven experiences. It's been a tremendous year for games on PS5 and PS4, with huge releases including Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, MLB The Show 22, and on November 9th, the highly anticipated God of War: Ragnarök. PlayStation VR2 is also on the horizon, and promises a huge leap forward in presence and immersion, bolstered by best-in-class software like Horizon: Call of the Mountain. We're proud of our releases on PC as well, with Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered and the upcoming Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection giving gamers without PlayStation hardware a taste of our amazing library of first-party titles.
Our mobile gaming efforts will be similarly additive, providing more ways for more people to engage with our content, and striving to reach new audiences unfamiliar with PlayStation and our games. Savage Game Studios is joining a newly created PlayStation Studios Mobile Division, which will operate independently from our console development and focus on innovative, on-the-go experiences based on new and existing PlayStation IP.
I hope you'll join me in welcoming Savage Game Studios into the fold, and that those of you who enjoy mobile gaming in addition to console or PC will look forward to what they have in store. They're already working on a new unannounced AAA mobile live service action game. It's too early to reveal more, but I'm so excited for when they'll be able to.
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I changed my tires this morning, and stopped in at a local breakfast place to get a bacon, egg,and cheese sandwich, and I saw the news on the morning show, and I can't quite explain how it felt. The experience didn't seem real, and my initial reaction was that nothing you see on the screen is real. I wanted to make a quick video attempting to capture this feeling. Now I'm not saying it's the same thing, but the people who founded the US were considered terrorists by England…and the United States is responsible for creating both Sadam and Osama, so when the U.S celebrates the killing of these men (however much they may have deserved it), it leaves a caustic taste in my mouth. Celebrating an eye for an eye, or a murder, just does not sit right. That Vengeance cover of New York Newspaper is a good example. It disgusts me. And at the same time, I think, do I really feel this way?
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1. Execution via the safeexec is not working. Throws the error `setgroups failed`. Consequently the safe_execute() function of the class [ComandExecutor](./evaluate/utils/executor.py) has been modified to call run() directly. See the comments in the safe_execute() function and change the function accordingly.
2. While creating outputs from the solution code during creation of testcases, the resource limits are being set to default values. Ideally we should retrieve the SafeExec object for the testcase and return the appropriate resource limits. Check the comments in the function get_resource_limit() of the class [CreateOutput](./assignments/assignments_utils/create_output.py).

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Luv-Local is a branded local market direct mail product with unmatched return for the advertiser. As proven in other markets all across the United States over many years, the coupon book format is regarded by consumers as the "gold standard" for value from local market merchants. Local merchants who try and use Luv-Local will immediately see the impact of direct mail market saturation campaigns.


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Nashville SC Looks to Extend Nine-Match Home Unbeaten Streak
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NASHVILLE — Nashville Soccer Club returns to action on Wednesday, Nov. 4 (7:30 p.m., CT) to take on FC Dallas at Nissan Stadium, presented by Vanderbilt Health. The match will be broadcast live on MyTV30, ESPN 94.9 for English radio and El Jefe in Spanish.
Coming into its 22nd league game, Nashville owns a 7W-6L-8D record following a 1-1 home draw against Eastern Conference foe Chicago Fire FC on Oct. 31. Currently in seventh place in the Eastern Conference with 1.38 points per game, Nashville SC will now aim for seeding in the final two games.
Wednesday will mark the fourth and final time Nashville will square off against FC Dallas. In its last three meetings, Nashville has earned two wins and a tie, and is yet to concede a goal. The Boys in Gold earned their first win in MLS club history against Dallas on Aug. 12 and since then have claimed 11 of 15 possible points from the Texas teams (Houston Dynamo and Dallas) owning a 3W-0L-2D record and outscoring the two sides by a total of 7-1.
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Bexhill motorcyclist, 22, remains in hospital after serious collision
Serious accident in Hooe on May 6, 2019
A 22-year-old motorcyclist remains in hospital with serious injuries after a collision near Hooe.
Police said they were called at 9.50am on Monday (May 6) after a motorcycle collided with a tree on the B2095 at Hooe.
The rider, a 22-year-old man from Bexhill, was taken to hospital with serious injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening, according to police.
A police spokesman said the incident, involving a black Honda CB650, did not involve any other vehicle.
A spokesman for the South East Coast Ambulance Service confirmed crews were called to the scene.
He said: "We were called at approximately 9.35am on Monday (May 6) to reports a motorbike had left the road.
"Ambulance crews attended the scene and were joined at the scene by the air ambulance service.
"The motorcyclist was assessed and treated at the scene before being airlifted to Royal Sussex County Hospital with potentially serious injuries."
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Q: Filtering doesn`t work on three level dimension can someone help me out maybe?
I have the following mdx:

and the following structure of the Relationship dimension:

And when in excel I try to filter on the attribute hierarchy: User Story Team, it only works for the two level user hierarchy named: Feature-User Story Hierarchy, but for some reason for the three level hierarchy named: Relationship it doesn`t work
Can someone please help me understand how to fix it?
Thank you

A: Ok, I found a solution
When I used the Attribute User Story Team from the the separate Dimension for the User Story, it didn`t filter for the three level hierarchy
However, when I use the attribute hierarchy: User Story Team from the DWH Dim Relationships dimension instead, it works as needed


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Meet CNNMoney's Tech 30 stock index
by Julianne Pepitone @julpepitone September 17, 2014: 11:19 AM ET
The CNNMoney Tech 30 index measures the performance of 30 major technology stocks around the world.
Meet the CNNMoney Tech 30: an index of the most important tech stocks.
The goal of the Tech 30 is to give CNNMoney readers a daily look at how shares of the most influential technology companies are faring.
The editors and writers of CNNMoney's technology team picked the 30 companies. To qualify, the stocks had to have shares publicly traded in the United States that are easy for the average investor to buy. (Sorry, Samsung!)
The Tech 30 is a mix of the industry's giants, such as Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Cisco (CSCO), Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT).
But we also included Chinese tech titans Baidu (BIDU) and Sina (SINA), European heavyweights SAP (SAP) and ARM Holdings (ARMH) and leaders in more specialized industries such as video game companies Activision Blizzard (ATVI) and Electronic Arts (EA), security firm Symantec (SYMC) and online travel king Priceline (PCLN).
Check out the entire CNNMoney Tech 30 portfolio
The pure-tech focus differs from other tech stock barometers. The Nasdaq, for example, is often cited as a "tech index" but only 42% of the composite is made up of tech companies. The S&P 500 Information Technology index includes several stocks that aren't typically considered at the cutting edge of tech, such as MasterCard (MA), money transfer service Western Union (WU) and consulting firm Accenture (ACN).
To track the performance of the Tech 30 index, we "invested" $1,000 in play money in each of the 30 stocks on January 2, 2014. So the baseline for the index is $30,000.
The CNNMoney Tech 30 portfolio page displays values for both the index as a whole and the specific stocks. The graphic at the top of the page measures the stocks' performance relative to one another from the beginning of the year. The bubbles for the better-performing stocks will appear larger.
We don't plan to make regular changes to the Tech 30. But if a current Tech 30 company is acquired or goes private, we'll replace it by "investing" in a different stock.
We may also choose to add shares of newly public companies when appropriate. Twitter (TWTR), for example, was not on our original list when we first started thinking about creating the index last summer. But we knew we had to add Twitter to the Tech 30 once it filed for its initial public offering.
We'll include the Tech 30's performance in our daily market writes as well as in stories from our investing and technology writers about these 30 companies.
Check out the CNNMoney Tech 30 here.
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New Pitcairn economic plan under way.
ANGWIN (Napa County) Calif., February 22, 2000—Pitcairn Island, most of whose inhabitants are descendants of sailors who mutinied aboard H.M.S. Bounty in the late 18th century, have once again demonstrated a spirit of fierce independence in acceptance of an economic plan to continue human life on the tiny South Pacific isle.
With a threatened depletion of the Pitcairn Investment Fund, which has long provided financial subsidies for transportation and costs of island living, the Pitcairners have rejected a budgetary aid plan similar to one for St. Helena island, another remote British protectorate, and have, instead, chosen a modified subsidy plan which will extend the life of the investment fund.
Seeing the intrusive nature of the St. Helena plan, which includes review of the personal financial status of families, and annual audits to insure that aid is appropriately targeted, the Pitcairners have voted to allow a more than doubling of their electrical charges and the initiation of ocean freight charges on items that were once free of charge or heavily subsidized.
The new economic plan, though, does provide help to Pitcairn's pensioners and families with children, in an attempt to blunt hardship they might incur without such help. Now in its second month of operation, the new plan will be reviewed at the end of six months to assess its effect, say British government officials.
Full details of the new plan have been received by the Pitcairn Islands Study Center, a museum-research facility for scholars, journalists and others, which is located on the campus of Pacific Union College here.
Paradoxically, one of the reasons for initiation of the new economic plan has come about because of the Pitcairners attempt to better their lives. A recent, developing foreign market for dried fruits has found several electric fruit dryers humming away at most Pitcairn homes.
The islanders were charged 20 New Zealand cents per electrical unit, while the cost to the Pitcairn Investment Fund was 50 cents per unit, not including the cost of parts and maintenance of electrical generating equipment. With the growth of the fruit drying industry, the drain on the fund became ever greater. Now study is being given to the use of solar fruit dryers.
Quick to adjust to the realities of the new plan, the Pitcairners are also switching from electricity provided by diesel generator to liquid petroleum gas, at a lower per-unit cost.
The island's new economic plan was developed in concert with an economist and an official of the British Department for International Development by Pitcairn Commissioner Leon Salt. If the plan accomplishes what is expected, the Pitcairn Investment Fund will remain solvent for 10 years, extending it at least five years beyond earlier projections.
According to Commissioner Salt, income received beyond current projections may increase allowances for paid positions on Pitcairn, one of which nearly every adult Pitcairner holds. One such favorable possibility is income the island may receive through a recent recapturing of its Internet domain registry, ".pn," by action of the United States government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Another attempt to increase the investment fund will include vigorous efforts to increase the sale of Pitcairn's stamps, long popular with philatelists throughout the world. Samples of Pitcairn's attractive stamps can by seen on the island's website at http://users.iconz.co.nz/pitcairn/stamps.htm
Yet another possibility for additional island income is a resurgence in the number of cruise ships calling at Pitcairn. Currently 10 such vessels are on schedule to make calls at the island, where in earlier years only two or three such visits were made. The Pitcairners sell curios and fruits and vegetables to those on the ships.
Pitcairn Islands Study Center, 1 Angwin Ave., Angwin, CA, USA. Herbert Ford, 707-965-6625, 707-965-2047, Fax: 707-965-6504, Email: hford@puc.edu, Website: http://library.puc.edu/pitcairn


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Q: Make draggable item above all others with React Native Animated.View and PanResponder I have a render method with these components:
<View style={styles.root}>
    {p.parts.map((part, index) =>
        <Animated.View
            key={`part${index}`}
            style={[
                this.draggables[index].pan.getLayout()
            ]}
            {...this.draggables[index].panResponder.panHandlers}
        >
            <SphereView part={part} />
        </Animated.View>
    )}
</View>

And this style:
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
    root: {
        flexDirection: 'row'
    }
});

Drag and drop is working, but the problem is that when I drag the second element, it is shown above only the first and below all others. I want the component being dragged to be above all others.
I've tried various combinations with zIndex and none worked.
How to do it?
Edit: I've now just achieved with with the "elevation" style in Android. Is it the correct approach (even for iOS)?

A: It's a shame that most of the PanResponder questions on SO (or at least the ones Ive seen) have no answer. You can use zIndex. Just set the zIndex to 999 or something during the drag, and then on release, set it to the original zIndex+1, so that it STAYS above the other images. If you kept all of the dragged elements at 999, they would no longer overlap after one drag.
Elevation only works on android, but zIndex works on both, and will not create a shadow/3D effect


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Historic Memphis church celebrates 150 years of ministry
Posted 7:23 pm, December 16, 2015, by Mike Suriani
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis church celebrates an important milestone and prepares for the challenges ahead.
First Baptist Church, Lauderdale turned 150 years old in November.
The church played an important role during the civil rights struggle and has never strayed from its commitment to the inner city.
"This church is one of the historical churches of Memphis," said Dr. Noel Hutchinson Jr., the pastor of First Baptist Church, Lauderdale.
The church was one of the first African-American churches in Memphis and the first African-American Baptist Church.
First Baptist Church, Lauderdale is a 400-member "house of God" with deep roots in Memphis and celebrating its 150th church anniversary.
"It speaks to the congregation itself. And its stick-to-it-iveness. And its purpose," Hutchinson said.
That "purpose" dates back to 1865 when the church, whose first members came directly out of slavery, worshiped at Main Street and Beale Street under a wooden shelter called a "brush arbor."
In 1869 the "First Colored Baptist Church" built a huge cathedral at Beale Street and Fourth Street at a cost of $100,000.
Following a split in church leadership, the congregation moved several times, but has been at 682 South Lauderdale Street since 1939.
Jeraldine Sanderlin has been attending for 70 years.
"It's just part of me, and if I'm not here on Sunday morning...I am just lost," Sanderlin said.
The church played an important role during the civil rights movement in Memphis.
NAACP members met in the basement of the church to hold strategy sessions. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was among them.
The challenges now are different as the church aggressively ministers to the community beyond its four walls, where poverty and crime are prevalent.
Yvonne Holmes is the minister of music and a fifth-generation member. She said First Baptist, Lauderdale's 150th anniversary is significant to African-Americans.
"As a black church, that's something what we should be very proud of. You don't find too many churches that have stayed together for that long a period of time," she said.
First Baptist, Lauderdale will present the church's 75th rendition of Handel's Messiah on December 21 at 6 p.m. The performance is open to the public.
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Conditions for Case Reopening in UK
13/12/2017 LBU Editorial News
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Trials in UK courts are complex and involve many proceedings, which is why mistakes can occur in any stage of the trial. If some of them can be corrected in due time, others are not found until a sentence has been issued. This is when a case can be reopened; but before proceeding to reopening a case, the magistrates must decide the course of action based on the evidence and even testimonies of witnesses.
A clear distinction must be made between reopening a case and appealing a sentence, as these are two different things in the UK justice. If the appeal implies requesting a higher court to review sentence, the reopening means a re-trial of the case under different circumstance. Case reopening can only be decided by the Magistrate Courts in the UK.
What are the circumstances leading to a case reopening in the UK?
Before delving into the retrying of cases in the UK, there is a very important aspect which must be considered: each case is particular and will be treated as such by the judge disposing its reopening.
The first and most common type of case reopening in the UK is when acting in the best interest of justice. There are various factors which can influence a verdict which is why a thorough consideration before issuing a verdict is necessary in order to avoid errors: any errors in judgment or proceedings during a trial may overturn a sentence and have a case reopened.
According to the Magistrates Court Act of 1980, there are also specific situations which automatically impose case reopening: skipping a stage during the trial, passing a sentence in absence of the accused or if any delays leading to a change in the sentence have appeared.
The procedure for reopening a case
We mentioned in the beginning the difference between the appeal and the case reopening in the UK. Another difference between the two procedures implies a limited period of time for an offender to file for an appeal, while in the case of case reopening there is no statute of limitation.
Also, there is no special petition to be filed when asking for a case reopening, but an application under Section 142 of the Magistrates Court Act should reduce any delays and the case reopening should be considered faster.
The offender can also ask to appear before the court and present the circumstances under which the retrying of the case should be considered, and the magistrates are bound to consider the reopening of the case if the judicial grounds are met.
Case reopening is not often met in the UK, however if there are sufficient reasons and evidence to lead to such procedure, the Magistrate Court has the general power to order new trials.


Neonatal transfers are not uncommon. About ten per cent of babies born needing neonatal care in 2014 needed to be moved at least once from one unit to another. Most babies will be moved to a neonatal unit within the same network, but some will be transferred to a unit in a different network altogether.
This leads to some families having to travel very long distances to be with their baby. It also adds significantly to the pressure that many transport services are under.
of emergency transfers were because the unit was full.
of services reported staffing gaps in the one week snapshot we asked about.
services did not have a dedicated team to move babies at night.
Neonatal transport services are organised regionally and each nation has its own set of standards for how neonatal transport services should run. Below is some information about neonatal transport in each UK nation from our most recent series of Baby reports.
In 2014/2015, 855 transfers took place because neonatal units were full or understaffed, and did not have the capacity to care for the baby.
142 of these transfers were of ventilated babies, suggesting they were very sick.
There was wide variation between transport services, with some reporting no transfers of ventilated babies, and some undertaking as many as 57 during the year.
There are two neonatal transport services in Wales. In North Wales, the service works with the Cheshire and Merseyside Neonatal Transport Service and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
There were 66 transfers of babies in 2014/2015 due to a lack of capacity.
This was nearly a quarter of all emergency transfers.
During 2014/2015, 39 babies were transferred due to a lack of capacity at their neonatal unit, 20 of which were extremely ill.
One of the most significant challenges facing the transport service is recruiting and retaining staff.
While a service can be provided 24/7, some non-urgent transfers will be undertaken by an independent provider, and will not with neonatal or paediatric staff.
The overall number of transfers fell between 2014/2015 and 2016/2017 with the only exception being for transfers due to lack of capacity, which increased.
All services should have access to enough vehicles, equipment and staff members so they can cope with the number of babies they need to transfer.
All services should make sure parents are supported during a transfer, and supported to accompany their baby where that is possible.
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