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Mission, BC – The Fraser Valley Music Awards took place at The Stage on Wednesday evening, and 15 awards were presented, along with a slew of other stocking stuffers for local musicians' holiday seasons. Below is a rundown of each performance and award presentation, accompanied with photos for access here.
Kellen Saip (Chilliwack) accepted the Country award; 15 hours later his daughter, Finley Lyric is born.
The Inclusivity Award for Excellence by a Queer identifying artist is awarded, with the winner providing the following statement: We feel humbled and honoured to receive this award but we're also sad and frustrated that we can't receive it publically because of the way our personal lives could be affected at this point in time. It's painful to deny our queer identities as musicians. We hope that, soon, LGBTQIA2S+ people of every circumstance can be themselves without fear.
Professional music video productions are awarded to Loans, The Crescent Sky, and Quintessential Jazz Band. The next installment of CIVL's Battle of the Bands and Dakota Leslie Live Performer of the Year Award is announced for the new year.
Saint Soldier and Rozsa (Cultus) perform their new song, Dark Shades – they have also been awarded a split vinyl release along with The Kwerks (Langley). They will be provided with the Digital Marketing prize together to promote this release.


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What exactly is 'broiling'? I don't think we do this in the UK.
To Broil, is to cook the food by placing it a measured distance below direct, dry heat. Most ovens have a broiler section that is used to cook meats, fish and poultry or melt or brown foods.


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Senior Associate, Veirano Advogados, Rio de Janeiro
10 years of experience as in corporate and employment law in Brazil
Bachelor's in law (honors), Universidade Candido Mendes
Received a scholarship from her firm to earn an LL.M. at Vanderbilt
As a senior associate with one of Brazil's leading law firms, Marcella Cruz often found herself working with U.S. clients doing business in Brazil and wanted to learn more about the American legal system. When her firm, Veirano Advogados, offered her a scholarship to earn an LL.M. at an American law school, she began searching for top-ranked law schools and applied to six programs.
Marcella ultimately chose Vanderbilt because it met her criteria: A top-ranked law school in a pleasant and affordable city where she and her husband would enjoy spending a year. "I wanted to study at a good university, and after that I was looking for a good place to live that was affordable," she said. "When I researched universities in the U.S., it was clear that Vanderbilt was top-ranked. I also liked that the classes are small and that I would study with the J.D. students, which was really important because I wanted to learn what it was like to study law in the U.S."
Vanderbilt requires all LL.M. and first-year J.D. students to take a one-week introductory class, The Life of the Law, during student orientation week. "The class was great, because when you arrive at law school, you have no idea how things work," she said. "Life of the Law helps you build the confidence you need to start your law classes."
Marcella's biggest learning curve were the profound differences between Brazil's civil legal system in Brazil and the American common law system. "Civil law is completely different than common law, so I learned new things in every class," she said. Having completed her LL.M., she believes her understanding of the American legal system will improve her ability to serve American clients. "Knowing how the U.S. system works will help me understand the concerns my firm's American clients have while doing business in Brazil," she said. "Studying at Vanderbilt gave me insight into their perspective—it allowed me to get into their heads!"
Marcella took Corporations from Professor Randall Thomas, and Securities Regulation from Professor Yesha Yadav. "My classes challenged me every single day," she said, "but even thought it was challenging, the professors were all supportive and always ready to take your questions. The quality of the classes at Vanderbilt truly exceeded my expectations."
She moved to Nashville with her husband, and the couple became friends with Alvaro Manrique Barrenechea LLM'19, a Peruvian attorney who lives in Nashville and recently passed the New York Bar exam. "Alvaro invited us to his house for Christmas," she said.
Marcella and her husband enjoyed their year in Nashville. "Rio is a very cosmopolitan city, and I wanted to live in an interesting city in the U.S.," she said. "Nashville is a great place to live! You can go to concerts and bars and also enjoy nature, since there are lots of great parks where you can hike."
She looks forward to applying what she learned in Vanderbilt's LL.M. program in her Brazilian legal practice. "I wanted to pursue a master's in law in the U.S. in order to understand the culture and deliver the best work I can to my clients," she said. "I gained confidence in English and in understanding U.S. law."
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is an analysis of the alignment of the K-12 Common Core Math Standards (CCMS) (and state math standards similar to the Common Core) with the findings of recent cognitive research.
What does this have to do with Chemistry? Chemistry is a quantitative science, and the goal of the ChemReview project since 2006 has been to help students with the math needed to succeed in quantitative science courses. It was hoped that with the adoption in most states of CCMS-type standards, such help for students would no longer be needed, because students would arrive in first-year chemistry with the essential mastery of pre-requisite math fundamentals. The analysis in the paper above finds this did not happen. Though the CCMS are superior in some areas to previous math standards in most states, in many key areas the CCMS ask students to solve problems in ways that science says the human brain simply cannot do.
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Love these posts. Been awhile since last pieces, please post more…. Many, many education leaders need to read this research and implement the ideas into STEM programming.
I love your paper! I have watched the degeneration of arithmetic/ mathematics instruction since my first year teaching, 1971 (the year California adopted the New Math) and have tried to pry parents away from the ever evolving, nightmarish state and national standards ever since. Thank you for an articulate and scientific back-up. You might be interested in recent research in memory that I heard about from the late Dr. Karyn Purvis, founder of the Karyn Purvis Institute for Child Development at Texas Christian University (child.tcu.edu). She stated that scientists have recently discovered that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain unless you do it with play, in which case it takes only 10 to 20 repetitions to create a new synapse! My study of learning styles has also led me to understand that you can move information into long term memory exponentially faster if you use the modality favored by your student. It's like finding a super highway to the brain. (www.learningsuccessinstitute.com) Sadly, those directing our education system have been ignoring scientific information about learning for at least 100 years.


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World Cup awaits new winners as England, New Zealand face off in final
13 July 2019 - 18:10 By Telford Vice in London
Joe Root and Eoin Morgan celebrate victory by 8 wickets during the Semi-Final match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 between Australia and England at Edgbaston on July 11, 2019 in Birmingham, England.
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Cricket's men's World Cup trophy will sparkle with the names of new champions after the final at Lord's on Sunday.
England and New Zealand will meet in the 48th and last match of the six-and-half week tournament.
The teams have been to four finals between them but neither have won the title.
England were last in the decider in 1992, when they lost to Pakistan, and New Zealand in the 2015 edition of the white-ball game's global showpiece, when Australia won.
"It's a culmination of four years of hard work, dedication, a lot of planning and it presents a huge opportunity to go on and try and win a World Cup," England captain Eoin Morgan said.
"The support we've had throughout has been unquestionable and that makes you feel extremely lucky to be part of a team that has that sort of support."
To get this far, the teams had to beat illustrious opponents.
India were favourites going into the tournament, a status unchallenged until New Zealand defended a target of 240 in their semi-final at Old Trafford.
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In the other semi, at Edgbaston, England overwhelmed five-time champions Australia, beating them by eight wickets with 107 balls to spare.
Sunday's match will pit England's juggernaut batting line-up against New Zealand's gun attack.
England own the tournament's two highest totals — 397/6 against Afghanistan at Old Trafford and 386/6 against Bangladesh in Cardiff — and have passed 300 six times in their 10 matches.
Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root and Jason Roy have combined to score five centuries, while Kane Williamson's two tons are New Zealand's only hundreds.
Twenty-seven totals have been higher than New Zealand's best effort, the 291/8 they made against West Indies at Old Trafford, and they are the only one of the 10 original sides who have not reached 300.
But only once in this World Cup have a team made 250 or more batting first against the Kiwis.
It only adds to Sunday's narrative that the side who hold that distinction are England, who totalled 305/8 at the Riverside and won by 119 runs.
Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult and Matt Henry make New Zealand the only team with three bowlers among the top 13 wicket-takers.
But England's Jofra Archer, who has struck 19 times, has more wickets than any of them.
The beaten semi-finalists were the top two teams after the league stage with seven wins each.
Sunday's protagonists have each lost three times, with England winning six games and New Zealand five.
That makes the Kiwis underdogs, a stature they are only too happy to accept.
"A lot of people say that on a number of occasions, which is great and I think England deserve to be favourites," Williamson, their captain, said.
"Coming into this tournament from the start, they were favourites and they've been playing really good cricket.
"But whatever dog we are, it's important that we focus on the cricket that we want to play.
"We have seen over the years that anybody can beat anybody — regardless of breed of dog."
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June 6, 2016 – Charlotte, North Carolina and Montgomery, Alabama – Carousel Capital announced today that its portfolio company, Joe Hudson's Collision Center ("JHCC" or the "Company"), one of the largest providers of automotive collision repair services in the United States, has continued to rapidly expand its footprint through organic and acquired additions to its locations. Since Carousel's initial investment to recapitalize JHCC with management at the end of 2014 the number of operating locations at JHCC has approximately doubled as it continues to provide quality services to its customers and insurance industry partners. JHCC's most significant acquisition to date involved the operations of Collision Central based in Texas, which has led to new location additions in key Texas markets since closing.
Based in Montgomery, Alabama, Joe Hudson's Collision Center operates over 40 locations in Texas, Alabama, Florida and Georgia providing award winning quality services to its customers and insurance industry partners. Founded in 1989, JHCC offers its customers free and accurate computerized estimates, along with quality, guaranteed repair work utilizing I-CAR certified technicians. The company delivers it services while providing real time information through its repair tracking system, enabling customers to monitor the status of their repairs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through a web-interface. For its insurance partners, JHCC offers the resources necessary to expedite claims while providing the highest levels of customer service, resulting in satisfied policyholders.


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Home > News > Rudy K. Metayer receives UT LBJ School of Public Affairs outstanding alumni award
Rudy K. Metayer receives UT LBJ School of Public Affairs outstanding alumni award
By Eric Quitugua on August 19, 2019
Pflugerville Councilman and Chamberlain McHaney attorney Rudy K. Metayer will be honored as an outstanding alumnus of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin on September 20.
Metayer, who earned his executive master in public leadership at the school in 2016, will receive the 2019 Rising Leader Award. The award "recognizes the efforts of a recent alumnus who improves the quality of public service in the United States and abroad at all levels of government and civic engagement."
The son of Haitian immigrants, Metayer is of the first generation in his family to complete higher education, receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas College of Liberal Arts, the EMPL, and a law degree from University of Texas School of Law.
Metayer is a community advocate, teaching at-risk children; co-authoring an honor code for the university; helping to set up a community policing partnership with local law enforcement and the State Bar of Texas, which he served as a director; and establishing pro bono legal advice clinics for veterans. He has also been named an Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year by the Austin Bar Association and is a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.
"I'm humbled and honored to receive this prestigious award from my alma mater," Metayer said in a press release. "The skillset, knowledge and support provided by the LBJ School professors and staff have blessed me with the tools to serve the citizens of Pflugerville and the State Bar of Texas. At [a] time in our country's history when government is viewed by many with skepticism and faith diminished, the LBJ School is a beacon and reminder of the power of people working together for a common cause to benefit not certain parts of society, but all people. The University of Texas is a special place, and [the] LBJ School is one of its crowning jewels. What starts here really does change the world. Thank you again for this award. I hope to keep making you proud."
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Porsche, Audi Tease Sleek EV Prototypes
Porsche unveiled its prototype battery-powered Mission E, alongside Audi's e-tron quattro concept SUV.
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Tesla's not the only luxury electric vehicle maker in town. Porsche is showing off an EV concept at this week's Frankfurt Auto Show that will take you from zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds.
The Mission E, currently just a prototype, will include support for eye-tracking, gesture control, and even holograms. Plus, a rear-view-mirror-mounted camera recognizes if the driver is in a good mood, and showcases it as an emoticon that can be shared via social media.
It runs an 800-volt drive system, or double what is found on today's EVs, and has a 310-mile driving range. Porsche tipped a 15-minute charge time to reach 80 percent with the 800-volt port on the front left wing, though drivers can also use 400-volt charging stations if necessary. The Mission E could also be charged via a coil embedded in the floor of the garage.
"Every square inch, every angle, every radius of the Mission E reflects one thing above all else: emotional sportiness in the best tradition of Porsche design," the Volkswagen-owned company said in a news release.
Don't empty your bank account just yet: A final decision whether to build the car is expected at the end of the year. Porsche's electric sports car could hit the streets by 2019.
Rival Audi, meanwhile, used to show to formally reveal the e-tron quattro concept car (above).
Meant to preview Audi's all-electric, luxury-class sport SUV coming in early 2018, the prototype "combines driving pleasure with great range, an expressive design, and excellent comfort," Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, member of the Audi Board of Management, said in a statement.
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The e-tron quattro concept sports three electric motors: one to drive the front axle, and two more in the rear, with total output of 320 kW. Dragging behind Porsche only slightly, Audi's vehicle sprints from a standstill to 60 mph in 4.6 seconds, before reaching a top speed of 130.5 mph.
A 95 kWh battery enables a range of more than 310 miles, and can recharge with an output of 150 kW in around 50 minutes. The concept car is also equipped with Audi Wireless Charging technology. Inside, you'll find a virtual cockpit of curved OLED screens, with additional displays for control over lights and systems like media and navigation.
Audi teased its all-electric SUV last month, just after teaming up with Samsung and LG to produce EV batteries. Samsung SDI and LG Chem will provide Audi with "powerful cell modules" to be used in a future vehicle.
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Highest Traces of Cocaine Found on U.S. Bills
By Jeanna Bryner
Tornado Science, Facts and History
Paper money contains high traces of cocaine, regardless of whether or not the paper money came into direct contact with the drug. And U.S. bills take the top spot, covered in the greatest amount of the illegal powder, while Spanish notes are the most highly contaminated in Europe, a new study finds.
The findings, detailed in the latest issue of the journal Trends in Analytical Chemistry, reflect the popularity of the illicit drug, the researchers say.
"These findings should not be surprising, because cocaine and other drugs are traded using cash, which is handled by the same fingers that directly touch the drugs or wrappings," chemists Sergio Armenta and Miguel de la Guardia from the University of Valencia in Spain write. "Moreover, many cocaine users use a wrapped banknote to sniff this drug, so inducing direct cocaine contamination of the banknotes."
Armenta and de la Guardia analyzed Spanish notes for cocaine traces, finding they contained an average of 155 micrograms of cocaine. (A gram of cocaine would fill about half a tea bag. A microgram is one-millionth of that amount.)
They also reviewed previous research focusing on cocaine concentrations found in different currencies around the world.
German Euros contained levels of cocaine that were five times lower than the Spanish ones. For Irish bank notes, one statistic suggested that of 48 notes studied the highest concentration found was 0.5 micrograms.
The chemists found U.S. bills contained an average of between 2.9 and 28.8 micrograms of cocaine depending on the year and city, with a maximum of more than 1,300 micrograms found on some 1996 bills.
One study based on 356 notes showed just 6 percent of Swiss francs were contaminated with cocaine at levels above one nanogram per note, where a nanogram is one-thousandth of a microgram. Some data suggest, the researchers found, that between 40 percent and about 50 percent of British pounds were contaminated with cocaine at levels of about 0.0011 micrograms per note.
It turns out, money really is dirty, and not just with drug traces. One past study revealed 94 percent of $1 bills collected from a community in western Ohio contained disease-causing or potentially disease-causing bacteria. The study, published in 2002 in the Southern Medical Journal, was led by Peter Ender, chief of infectious diseases at Wright-Patterson Medical Center in Ohio.
That's not too surprising, as $1 bills stay in circulation for an average of 21 months, according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, during which time they get handled by plenty of people. For larger bills, the life span is even longer, with $20 bills lasting about 24 months and $50 bills staying in circulation for 55 months.
When you handle coins, stuff also gets transferred to your hands, though it's mainly iron atoms (iron is one of the metals in change). Another research study revealed iron atoms from coins cause oils on your skin to break down, producing a "metallic" odor.
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Jeanna served as editor-in-chief of Live Science. Previously, she was an assistant editor at Scholastic's Science World magazine. Jeanna has an English degree from Salisbury University, a master's degree in biogeochemistry and environmental sciences from the University of Maryland, and a graduate science journalism degree from New York University. She has worked as a biologist in Florida, where she monitored wetlands and did field surveys for endangered species. She also received an ocean sciences journalism fellowship from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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Renewable energy access key to climate adaptation in Africa: UN chief
"As the continent that has contributed least to the climate crisis, Africa deserves the strongest possible support and solidarity", he told an online dialogue for leaders convened by the African Development Bank.
Mr. Guterres warned that "adaptation must not be the neglected half of the climate equation".
Old models failing
Although Africa has abundant and untapped renewable resources, it has received just two per cent of global investment in renewable energy over the past decade, he reported.
Old models of development and energy use have failed to provide Africans with universal energy access, he said, meaning hundreds of millions of people still lack reliable and affordable electricity or are cooking with polluting and harmful fuels.
"We can provide universal access to energy in Africa primarily through renewable energy. I call for a comprehensive package of support to meet this objective ahead of COP26," Mr. Guterres said, referring to the UN climate change conference in November.
"It is achievable. It is necessary. It is overdue. And it is smart: climate action is a $3 trillion investment opportunity in Africa by 2030," he added.
'Major finance gap'
However, the Secretary-General pointed to "the major finance" gap blocking progress towards this goal. He urged developed countries to deliver on their $100 billion climate commitment made over a decade ago.
"Developed countries and main financers must ensure a swift shift of the billions to support African green investments, to increase resilience and to create the conditions for scaled-up private finance", he said.
"And the private sector must step up and get organized to provide immediate, concrete solutions to governments. Local authorities can work with unions and community leaders on reskilling and social security nets."
Commitment and fiscal autonomy
While African Governments also can lead the way by committing to ambitious adaptation and mitigation plans, they first need to regain their fiscal autonomy, he said.
The Secretary-General stressed the need to extend the debt moratorium for developing countries, made last year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and even cancelling debts where appropriate.
Furthermore, Special Drawing Rights, a type of supplementary foreign reserve maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), must also be made available to support Africa's recovery.
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Being that Miller is a smaller community, we rely on and support our neighboring organizations in their events, regardless of religious or public or private group. Sometimes we plan events together such as a movie night or the community seder.
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FDR vs. Churchill -- The American System Against the British Empire
The Other War; FDR's Battle Against Churchill and the British Empire, by Lonnie Wolfe, The American Almanac, August 28, 1995.
Roosevelt's "Grand Strategy" To Rid The World Of British Colonialism: 1941-1945, by Lawrence K. Freeman, The American Almanac, July 14, 1997.
Roosevelt at Casablanca
FDR vs. Wall Street: Morgan's Fascist Plot Against the United States, And How It Was Defeated,by L. Wolfe
Part I, The American Almanac, July 4, 1994
Part II, The American Almanac, July 11, 1994
Part III, The American Almanac, July 18, 1994
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Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, made March 4, 1933. Printed in The American Almanac, April 21, 1997.
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Roosevelt's TVA: A Model For Global Development, printed in The Executive Intelligence Review, June 12, 1998.
The TVA and China's Three Gorges Dam
The TVA on the Jordan
The TVA and the Indian Subcontinent
American Exceptionalism In The 20th Century, by Jeffery Steinberg. Printed in the Executive Intelligence Review, October, 1998.
Review of The Chairman: John J. McCloy, by Kai Bird:
How Our World Was Nearly Destroyed, by Lyndon LaRouche. Printed in the Executive Intelligence Review, October, 1998.
How Mr. Fix-it Nearly Wrecked The World, by Stuart Rosenblatt. Printed in the Executive Intelligence Review, October, 1998.
Churchill's Plans for WWIII. Printed in the Executive Intelligence Review, October, 1998.
British Aimed For End of Germany, Not Nazism. Printed in the Executive Intelligence Review, October, 1998.
What's Wrong With Nuclear Disarmament?. Printed in the Executive Intelligence Review, October, 1998.
Dropping the Atomic Bomb:
Of What Is Leo Szilard Guilty?, by Lyndon LaRouche. Published in The Executive Intelligence Review, July 1, 1994.
What Sudoplatov Failed to Mention: British Geopolitics and the Atom Bomb, by Carol White. Published in The Executive Intelligence Review, July 1, 1994.
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Q: bombardier add header as json I trying to add json as value for http request header in bombardier, but when I deserialize it in ASP.NET application I get exception : Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: 'Input string 'key' is not a valid number. Path 'key', line 1,
the value of this key is a string
What is wrong?
this is my bombardier params:
-c 5 -n 1 -l   -H ""HeaderName": {"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}" -m POST http://localhost:5000/v2/ -H "Cookie: CookieName1=value1 ; CookieName2=value2; CookieName3=value3"

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Q: Is a redeclaration of an untagged structure a compatible type? For purposes expressed in this question, we want to do this:
typedef struct { int a; } A;
typedef struct { struct { int a; }; int b; } B;

A *BToA(B *b) { return (A *) b; }
B *AToB(A *a) { return (B *) a; }

The desire is that the casts conform to C 2011 6.7.2.1 15, which says "A pointer to a structure object, suitably converted, points to its initial member (or if that member is a bit-field, then to the unit in which it resides), and vice versa."
Since the struct { int a; } inside B does not have a name, let's call it A'.
"Suitably" is not explicitly defined. I presume that if b is a valid pointer to an object of type A', then (A *) b performs a suitable conversion, and, similarly, if a is a pointer to an A' that is in a B, then (B *) a is a suitable conversion.
So the question is: Is A * a valid pointer to an object of type A'?
Per 6.7.6.1, A * is compatible with A' * if A is compatible with A'.
Per 6.2.7, "Two types have compatible type if their types are the same… Moreover, two structure, union, or enumerated types declared in separate translation units are compatible if their tags and members satisfy the following requirements: If one is declared with a tag, the other shall be declared with the same tag. If both are completed anywhere within their respective translation units, then the following additional requirements apply: there shall be a one-to-one correspondence between their members such that each pair of corresponding members are declared with compatible types; if one member of the pair is declared with an alignment specifier, the other is declared with an equivalent alignment specifier; and if one member of the pair is declared with a name, the other is declared with the same name. For two structures, corresponding members shall be declared in the same order…"
These cannot be the same type by 6.7.2.3 5: "Each declaration of a structure, union, or enumerated type which does not include a tag declares a distinct type."
Since they are not the same type, are they compatible? The text in 6.2.7 says they are compatible if declared in separate translation units, but these are in the same translation unit.

A: I haven't seen anything in the standard that says that both struct are compatible and thus I would say that they are not.
The only thing that could get you a limited compatibility between the structures is the use of an union, as mentioned in 6.7.2.1§6:

One special guarantee is made in order to simplify the use of unions: if a union contains
  several structures that share a common initial sequence (see below), and if the union
  object currently contains one of these structures, it is permitted to inspect the common
  initial part of any of them anywhere that a declaration of the completed type of the union
  is visible.

i.e., something like
typedef struct { int a; } A;
typedef struct { union { struct { int a; }; A export; }; int b; } B;

A *BToA(B *b) { return &b->export; }
B *AToB(A *a) { return (B *) a; }

should be safe, but for read accesses only: the standard did not really bother to specify what "inspecting" the common initial sequence means, but seems to use it in opposition to "modify".

A: As you laid out in the question, the standard clearly and unambiguously says that  two struct definitions struct { int a; } in the same translation unit declare two incompatible types. Notwithstanding the fact that this might be "weird". Compilers have always followed the standard.
This seems like reasonable behaviour to me: if you happen to have semantically unrelated structs in your project that coincidentally have a member list with the same types, you do want the compiler to reject an accidental assignment between the two.

Re. the code in your question, according to 6.7.2.1/13,

The members of an anonymous structure or union are considered to be members of the containing structure or union.

So I would treat the definition of B as being equivalent to:
typedef struct { int a; int b; } B;

for purposes of further analysis.

A: There are two situations in which compatibility of structures is relevant:

*

*In deciding whether values or pointers of one type may be coerced into values or pointers of the other, without use of the casting operator and without producing a diagnostic.  Note that for this purpose, separately-declared structures are incompatible even if they are structurally identical, but that this kind of compatibility is irrelevant when passing structures or pointers between compilation units.

*In deciding whether a value of, or pointer to one type, may be safely given to code which expects the other.  Passing untagged structures between compilation units would be impossible if structurally-identical types were not regarded as compatible for this purpose.  Compilers used to regard structurally-identical types as compatible for this purpose even within a compilation unit, and there was never any good reason for compilers to do otherwise in cases where one or both types are untagged, but because the Standard doesn't mandate such treatment it has become fashionable for compilers to senselessly weaken the language by blithely assuming that a pointer to one such type won't be used to access members of another.
Unfortunately, when the Standard was written, its authors didn't think it was important to expressly mandate all the obviously-useful things that compilers were already doing, and which sensible compilers would continue to do.  The net result is that useful constructs which used to be supported and non-controversial will be unreliable unless otherwise-useful optimizations are disabled.


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The Sunday Papers
Feature by Matt Cox Contributor
Sundays are for hanging out in a field playing board games. Or for reading the best writing about videogames - although not much grabbed me on that front this week.
Here, have something about radically political board games instead. Did you know the suffragettes made a board game about feminism and police violence? Regardless, Renee Shelby's piece for ROMchip is worth checking out. The game involves a blend of politics, territory control and hostage negotiation. I'm sad that apparently only one copy still exists.
For all of the archival accounts and contemporary representations of the movement, histories on the WSPU tend to overlook a remarkable yet wholly ordinary object they created—a board game. Suffragetto (ca. 1907–8) is a contest of strategy, invasion, and violence between suffragettes and police—with each side aiming to advance six game pieces into the opposing side's home base while defending its own political home from infiltration (fig. 1).
Here's Eurogamer's Christian Donlan raving about a game he describes as "Fortnite with crabs". It is good to see a nice man get excited about crabs.
It's so simple, too. You take a crab and scuttle about the place, eating everything smaller than you, running from everything bigger. This is pretty much the algorithm for crabs, I gather. This is pretty much what goes on in their heads. The more you eat, the bigger you get. Eventually - I have never reached this point - you must be crowned king of the crabs. What a moment that will be! I wonder if crabs urinate through their faces too. I should really look some of this up.
I missed this back in May. Over on the "We Make Money Not Art" blog, Regine interviewed a filmmaker who's designing an exhibition that lets you experience Cotard's syndrome, a bizarre neurological disorder that makes you believe you don't exist. I doubt anyone could truly recreate the experience without fiddling directly with my neurons, but I'd love to see them try. Kind of.
Marleine van der Werf, a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores ideas about reality and the perception of reality, is currently researching how she could use immersive cinema to visualise this type (dis)embodiment.
The Living Dead will be an 'out-of-body experience', a multi-sensory installation that allows you to feel what it is like to have Cotard's syndrome. Using wearables, sound, smell and virtual reality, the experience is inspired by the true stories of people who suffer from the Cotard syndrome.
Sound the "Guardian Long Read" alarm, because the latest by David Epstein is both good and largely about sports. It's a deep dive into practice, and the various approaches famous sportsfolk take to it. The broader takeaway is a familiar one about specialisation not being great, but I always like seeing that kind of claim backed up with research.
Elite athletes at the peak of their abilities do spend more time on deliberate practice than their near-elite peers. But scientists have found that, at a younger age, those who go on to become elite athletes typically devote less time to deliberate practice in the activity in which they will eventually become experts. Instead, they undergo what researchers call a "sampling period". They play a variety of sports, usually in an unstructured or lightly structured environment; they gain a range of physical proficiencies from which they can draw; they learn about their own abilities and proclivities; and only later do they focus in on one area. The title of one study of athletes in individual sports proclaimed "late specialisation" as "the key to success"; another was titled Making It to the Top in Team Sports: Start Later, Intensify, and Be Determined.
For Aeon, Mathmatician Ian Stewart wrote about social physics, a field that uses maths to predict human behaviour on a large scale. Come for the exciting Asimov comparison, stay for the cool lesson about how bell curves work.
Psychohistory, a fictional method for predicting humanity's future, takes a hypothetical mathematical technique to extremes, for dramatic effect. But, for less ambitious tasks, we use the basic idea every day; for example, when a supermarket manager estimates how many bags of flour to put on the shelves, or an architect assesses the likely size of a meeting room when designing a building. The character of Seldon was to some extent inspired by Adolphe Quételet, one of the first to apply mathematics to human behaviour. Quételet was born in 1796 in Ghent in the Low Countries, now Belgium. Today's obsessions with the promises and dangers of 'big data' and artificial intelligence are direct descendants of Quételet's brainchild. He didn't call it psychohistory, of course. He called it social physics.
Jason Schreier did a quick round up of the best speedruns from Summer Game's Done Quick. Have a mosey.
Invitca took a look at the emergence of war games, and how sociopolitical shifts impacted their design. S'neat.
Music this week is All About Windmills by the Peatbog Faeries.
Matt Cox


In Amsterdam, Carmen goes undercover to nab a mastermind who's been replacing priceless paintings with amazingly accurate forgeries.
Ms. Snap contemplates motherhood and the possibility of freezing her eggs. Ms. Bennigan battles technology in the classroom. Ms. Watson pressures her students to win the science fair.
Democratic presidential hopefuls address their controversial pasts, Ronny Chieng calls out an Oscar snub, and Amanda Seales discusses her stand-up special "I Be Knowin'".
Stephen welcomes actress Drew Barrymore, TV personality Mo Rocca, with musical guest Maggie Rogers.


Lying Beliefs | CHANGE THE PAIN!
Do you ever wonder why you seem to be 'haunted' only by the past experiences that made you feel 'horrible' and you are never bothered by the past experiences that were pleasurable?
Well here is what I have come to realize; the only reason why we are not haunted by the pleasurable moments of the past is because these moments are 'congruent' with our true nature; therefore they do not require our attention, considering they do not require to be changed. Simply because they meet the requirement as to how we want to feel!
However, any previous moment that resulted in a bad or miserable experience constantly attacks us. These moments are relentless and they persistently demand our attention and the overwhelming question is WHY?????? Why do we choose to welcome and hang on to these destructive experiences that we should let go?
There's an 'innate' part of who we are that truly wants to change these 'unpleasant' moments. Meaning, the soul of who we are wants to 'desperately' fix or repair a broken moment in time. In truth we yearn to rewrite this bad story in order to recreate a happy ending. This is indeed why we are so drawn and attracted to these horrible past experiences.
Therefore, our minds constantly interrupts us with these disturbing moments, by grasping our awareness and forcing us to "pay attention" to these depressing moments in hopes that we can determine how to change the way these moments made us feel. And as we fight to rewrite our past—the struggle becomes intensely real!
Although we cannot rewrite what has already been etched in stone; we do have the power to write a brand new love story at this 'very moment.' Which means our POWER rest only in the presence of NOW!
Meaning, your mind will continue to attack you with these crippling moments until YOU make a conscious effort to change 'your mind' in this "Brand NEW moment" to 'CHANGE' how you feel about any past experience that prevents you from moving forward. And the very moment you choose to accept a bothersome past experience for what it was, and you decide to show 'indifference' toward it; then you have in turn rewrote this past experience simply by changing how you feel about it.
And the very moment you perceive any bad experience in a 'congruent' manner, this experience has no choice but to let you go. See, our power rest only in our 'present' perception and if you begin to perceive a previous moment in a pleasant manner—-then it will never haunt you again!


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2023 Subaru Solterra Dimensions
BoxerPwr · Nov 17, 2021
Here is the list of dimensions for the Solterra if you want to compare it to another vehicle or measure it for your garage.
Specification 2023 Solterra
Wheelbase (in.) 112.2
Length (in.) 184.6
Seating Capacity 5 passenger
Ground clearance (in.) 8.3
Longer wheelbase than an Outback, does that mean it will/should drive smoother? And 8.3 ground clearance, that's excellent for this class of vehicle. Happy to see they didn't keep it low for efficiency. Staying true to their core values.
Longer wheelbases are a characteristic of e-skateboard platforms. The new Hyundai Ioniq 5 has a longer wheelbase than their large ICE SUV, the Palisade. It should result in a slightly smoother ride, but maybe longer turning radius.
I would have liked to see more clearance, 8.7", like the other Subaru SUVs. That at least would make it more desirable for the adventure off-road crowd. I fear there is too much Toyota in this Subaru.
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Longer wheelbase on EVs is likely going to be common...it allows for more interior space without increasing the overall footprint. That's made possible by the reduction in space for the drivetrain as compared to an ICE or hybrid vehicle.
Yeah, I like the idea of that. Still waiting for someone (Subaru!) to launch an actual wagon-class EV. There's a reason I'm driving an Outback, instead of a CUV like Forester. That extra depth in the cargo hold is quite useful for my day-to-day, but not necessarily a deal breaker.
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Don't know if it will ever actually make it to the US in that form, but the VW Space Vizzion is the only one I've seen that you could call a wagon.
Unfortunately, that is the reality of the US market. People have associations for wagons the same way the would for minivans. Instead, people have chosen to drive more expensive crossover and full size SUV's that are also less efficient. From a business & marketing standpoint, I understand their decision and can't blame them (kind of like how manual transmissions are going extinct aside from some entry-level base trim cars or sports cars.)
I'm guessing Volvo will come out with an electric wagon at some point too, but we'll see. Agreed that not enough people would instinctively think a wagon would work for them, regardless of whether or not it would.
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This summer I picked up a plastic 2016 Rockstar to test and compare against other popular freestyle designs like the Pyranha Jed. With the 2015 ICF Freestyle World Championships in mind, Jackson designed the 2016 Rockstar to be more focused on wave performance than the previous version, the 2014. This meant a slightly narrower hull, slightly less volume, and slightly harder edges. To be honest, most of the spec changes are so slight that I can barely see them by looking at the hull. The feeling on the water, however, is noticeably different than the 2014 Rockstar.
Overall I give the Rockstar an "A" grade for comfort. I'm not a huge fan of the inflatable foot bag but that is easily replaced with a piece of carved foam. The back band is broad and tall, which keeps my back supported and helps me maintain a good posture when paddling. Personally, the rope/cleat tightening system does not bug me. Ropes will wear down but ratchet systems with moving parts will eventually break as well. Six of one, half-dozen of the other — pick your poison.
I also love that the seat pad keeps me sitting high in the boat. This gives me a ton of leverage to get the boat inverted in holes and waves. I instantly notice a difference when I sit in the Pyranha Jed, which does not come with such a high seat. Of course you can add a foam pad to the Jed, but it's nice the Jackson just includes the pad from the get-go.
Finally, Jackson's knee/thigh braces are superior to other playboats on the market. Not only do Pyranha's braces feel loose and non-ergonomic to me, my knees rub uncomfortably against the hull of the boat and I usually end up with bruised knees. The Jackson knee braces are far more comfortable and make me feel more in-touch with the boat.
Sizing: At 5'10", 165, and a size 9.5 foot, I am just about perfectly sized for the medium Rockstar. I can even wear my Astral Brewers in the relatively spacious bow. If I were 10 lbs heavier I would upsize to the large. Paddlers down to 150 lbs will likely find that the medium size is still a good fit.
Let's face it, modern playboats really just aren't meant to be super fun when paddled downstream. They're designed to excel while surfing waves and holes. Sure it's fun to throw some "macho moves" or other down river tricks, but they really aren't that great just for paddling downstream. In this department, the 2016 Rockstar is largely the same as its predecessor and perhaps marginally better than the Jed. Paddling this boat downstream requires careful attention to your body position and posture — you have to make sure you're not too far forward or too far back. You'll also need a bombproof roll. Because the stern so short and your center of gravity is so high, it's easy to sink your stern and carp your rolls if you don't have precise rolling technique. Basically, I don't recommend paddling this boat as your day-to-day river runner unless you're excited about the extra challenges it will present or unless you are an expert paddler focusing on down river freestyle.
The 2016 Rockstar felt only moderately better than its predecessor in the small rodeo holes at the whitewater park in Buena Vista, CO. The ends felt slightly more "slicey" for cartwheels and more stable for McNasties/Phonics Monkies, but not majorly improved. Loops felt about that same but with slightly less pop, likely due to the wave-focused volume distribution. I highly recommend purchasing the Jackson Happy Thruster air bag for hole boating. It will make the boat more buoyant, more poppy, and better overall.
Although it's only a minor improvement over its predecessor, the 2016 Rockstar still outshines the Jed and other freestyle boats when it comes to hole boating performance. I accredit this to the shape of the top deck of the kayak, which creates a stable feeling when plugging for loops or initiating cartwheels.
This is what we've been waiting for. I spent two weeks surfing the wave in Glenwood Springs, CO, to get a feel for the boat's wave performance. This is the place where I truly noticed that the 2016 Rockstar is an upgrade. The boat feels faster and more responsive than the 2014 version while remaining loose and forgiving. Easy to spin but still aggressive enough to lay down a big edge to initiate snappy aerial tricks.
The latest Rockstar still feels less aggressive than the Pyranha Jed. If you're focused only on wave performance for aggressive carving and aerial maneuvers then the Jed, with its super-hard-carving edges, might have the Rockstar beat. But the 2016 Rockstar took major steps forward in its wave performance and is, I think, a better all-around boat when you take into account its excellent down river performance, hole performance, and comfort.
Overall, the 2016 Rockstar is an improvement over the 2014 Rockstar and is, in my opinion, a better overall freestyle boat than other competing designs. For paddlers who want an aggressive freestyle boat for any feature, large or small, this is the boat I recommend. That being said… don't take my word for it. Go demo one at your local kayak shop!


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Nike's Move to Zero Mission Gives Underwear an Overhaul
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Nike's Move to Zero initiative is zeroing in on undies.
The sportswear Goliath unveiled last week the Nike Dri-Fit ReLuxe men's boxer brief, which comprises at least 75 percent recycled polyester to reduce waste and carbon emissions. German footballer and FC Bayern Munich winger Leroy Sané will be the face of a new campaign to highlight Nike's latest effort to transition to net-zero carbon emissions and "help protect the future of sport."
The Reluxe fabric, the Swoosh firm said, was created "for the everyday athlete and inspired by the outdoors and nature." It's designed to wick sweat away, keeping its wearer "dry and confident throughout the day."
Move to Zero has already inspired a line of sneakers, dresses, hoodies, T-shirts, joggers and shorts featuring reclaimed materials and efficient manufacturing methods, but it doesn't relate only to products. Unveiled during Climate Week NYC in 2019, the initiative promises to power all Nike-owned and -operated facilities with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, and to reduce Nike's global supply-chain emissions by 30 percent by 2030. The Oregon firm says it already diverts 99 percent of its footwear-manufacturing waste from landfills and recovers more than 1 billion plastic bottles per year to create yarns for new jerseys and uppers for its Flyknit shoes. Both its Reuse-A-Shoe and Nike Grind programs transform waste into new products, playgrounds and running tracks.
"At Nike, we believe that climate change is the defining issue of our generation," Noel Kinder, the company's chief sustainability officer, said at the program's launch. "And the reality is if there's no planet, there's no sport, and as you can imagine, sport is very important to us."
Producing recycled polyester is less carbon-intensive than its virgin counterpart, which is a plus. But some environmental campaigners have cast doubt on its environmental bonafides. In July, the Changing Markets Foundation published a report describing textiles made from plastic bottles as a "false solution" and a "one-way street" to the landfill or incinerator because they're difficult to recycle again at scale. Although many brands have increasingly adopted recycled polyester as an "easy fix," fiber-to-fiber recycling remains "minuscule," representing 0.1 percent to 1 percent of material use.
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"Indeed, because mechanical recycling makes the fiber lose its strength, recycled PET clothes are not guaranteed to be infinitely recyclable, and often lose durability when repurposed multiple times," the report's authors wrote. "In other words, downcycling PET bottles to clothes is not a circular solution, and eventually these products end up in [the] landfill. In comparison, PET bottles can be recycled back into PET bottles many times if they are part of clean, separated waste streams."
With legislation from the European Union and elsewhere mandating recycled content targets for plastic bottles, any competition from apparel production will disrupt the amount of recyclable PET feedstock being used for bottle-to-bottle recycling, the Changing Markets Foundation said. The concept of recycled synthetics also doesn't address the problem of "perpetuating disposable solutions and overconsumption of natural resources."
"While it is crucial for the industry to ramp up investment and focus efforts on truly circular recycling technologies, the only way to bring down the growing waste and plastic-pollution crisis—which these industry tactics supposedly aim to achieve—is to curtail overproduction in the first place," the authors said.
Some brands are trying to shake off their own reliance on petrochemicals, both virgin and recycled, by investing in plant-based alternatives such as bio-based nylon, leaning into time-tested materials like wool or experimenting with fibers made from eucalyptus pulp or food waste. The urgency to decarbonize fashion has become more urgent in light of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which sounded a "code red for humanity."
"The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned earlier this month. "Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible."


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Amritpal Singh Wiki, Age, Family, Biography & More
Amritpal Singh called the "Bhindranwale 2.0" in Punjab's religio-political circles, is the head of 'Waris Punjab De,' an organisation formed with the aim to fight for social justice and preserve the rights and culture of Punjab. Amritpal Singh joined the organisation in 2022.
Amritpal Singh Sandhu was born in 1993 (age 29 years; as of 2022). Reportedly, after studying till class 10, he enrolled himself on a Polytechnic course in Kapurthala, Punjab, but he didn't complete the course and moved to Dubai to join the family transport business.
Height (approx.): 5′ 11″
Amritpal Singh's family hails from Amritsar's Jallupur Khera village.
There is not much information about his parents. Amritpal Singh has twin sisters and an elder brother.
Religion/Religious Views
Amritpal Singh Sandhu follows Sikhism.
"Punjab is for Punjabis"
Reportedly, Amritpal Singh Sandhu believed Sikhs as the "slaves" to Hindus and according to him, the 'Sikh rule' would be the only solution to put a stop to slavery. On the seventh anniversary of the Behbal Kalan killings, where the police officials opened fire at the people protesting against the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in Behbal Kalan village, Amritpal Singh said,
Sikhs have been slaves for 150 years. We have developed a slave mentality. First, we were slaves to the British, now we are slaves to the Hindus. The only way we can be totally free is when we have Sikh rule."
Amritpal Singh addressing the cowd at Tibbi Saheb Gurdwara in Faridkot on the seventh anniversary of Behbal Kalan killings – linked to the Bargari sacrilege case (2015)
Transport Business in Dubai
In 2012, Amritpal moved to Dubai where he managed his family's transport business. On 20 August 2022, Amritpal Singh, leaving behind his permanent resident status in Canada, moved back to India to take over the leadership of Waris Punjab De.
Chief of Waris Punjab De
Reportedly, Amritpal Singh is the chief of 'Waris Punjab De,' an organisation formed by Punjabi actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu to fight for social justice and preserve the rights and culture of Punjab. He took over the leadership of the organisation after Deep Sidhu's death in a road accident near Sonepat on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal highway on 15 February 2022. He, however, never met Deep Sidhu but was connected with him on social media. On 29 September 2022, he was declared the chief of the 'Waris Punjab De' group at the 'Dastarbandi' (turban-tying ceremony), the one-year anniversary of the founding of the organisation.
The Speech at Rode village in Moga, Punjab
Amritpal Singh, in the native village of slain Khalistani militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, addressed the public on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the installation of 'Waris Punjab De' and said that they should not consider themselves as independent and assured the revenge of Bhindranwale's killing. Amritpal Singh, in his speech, said,
We all (Punjabis) are still slaves. Those who think we are 'azad' (free), should consult a doctor. We have to fight for freedom. Our waters are being looted. Our Guru is being disrespected. Those who indulge in sacrilege, will not be handed over to police or sent to courts. Ohda sodha laguga (we will punish them)."
An Illegal Appointment as the Head of the 'Waris Punjab De'
Reportedly, Deep Sidhu's brother Mandeep Sidhu claimed that Amritpal illegally entered the leadership of the group 'Waris Punjab De.' In an interview, Mandeep Singh mentioned that Deep Sidhu never talked about him and somewhere disliked him. He claimed that Deep had Amritpal's number blocked in his phone. While talking about Amritpal's designation as the head of the 'Waris Punjab De' group, Mandeep Sidhu said,
An impression is being given that Deep Sidhu had groomed Amritpal and our family is a party to the decision to appoint Amritpal as the head. However, this is not true. In fact, Deep never talked about Amritpal and seemed he disliked him. He had blocked Amritpal's phone for 15 days in January and February."
House Arrest Under Sudhir Suri's Murder Case
Reportedly, following the murder case of the leader of state-based Shiv Sena (Taksali), Sudhir Suri, who was shot dead on 4 November 2022 during a protest outside the Gopal Mandir in Amritsar, the Punjab government was told by the ministry of home affairs to monitor the activities of Amritpal Singh following which he was kept house arrested at Singha village in Moga, Punjab. According to the sources, Sudhir Suri's family held Amritpal responsible for his death. Amritpal, however, was kept under house arrest for security purposes. Reportedly, around nine CCTV cameras were placed on the lanes connecting his two houses in the village to keep an eye on him.
Amritpal Singh claims that despite of no formal religious schooling, he could cite the tales of historical struggles and injustices against Sikhs.
In an interview, Amritpal Singh mentioned Bhindranwale, a militant and leader of the Sikh organization 'Damdami Taksal' and the protagonist of the Khalistan movement, as his "inspiration". He said that he wanted to be like him. Amritpal Singh said,
Bhindranwale is my inspiration. I will walk the path shown by him. I want to be like him because that's what every Sikh wants, but I am not copying him. I am not even equal to dust of his feet."
Reportedly, Amritpal's uncle, Harjit Singh, told the media that when Amritpal, along with one of his classmates, decided to cut their hair, the family was disappointed; however, on his return to Punjab from Dubai and taking Amrit (holy water), his uncle expressed his happiness. While talking about changes in Amritpal, Harjit Singh said,
Our family is very religious. When Amritpal drifted away from it, we didn't like it. He told us that he and another boy, his classmate, had planned to cut their hair. While Amritpal cut his hair, that boy ran away. We are very happy that he has taken Amrit (holy water) now."
Amritpal Singh's look before returning to Punajb
According to Amritpal, he used to be aggressive but returning to Punjab and adapting to the culture of Sikhism turned him into a calm person. Amritpal Singh in an interview said,
I used to be aggressive. Now I don't hold grudges. If someone criticises me, that doesn't depress me anymore. I have a very large vision."
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Shooting for the movie "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" took over Barney Greengrass on Wednesday.
UPPER WEST SIDE — Sturgeon fans were out of luck, but film buffs were happy: the legendary Barney Greengrass on Amsterdam Avenue and West 86th Street was closed Wednesday so the bagels and smoked fish store could be used as a film set.
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" was shooting inside Barney Greengrass, which has been featured in several movies including the 1998 romantic comedy "You've Got Mail," starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Hanks also stars in "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," along with Sandra Bullock and John Goodman. The movie is based on Jonathan Safran Foer's novel about a boy whose father died on September 11th.
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" will also be shooting at West 98th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, according to neighborhood blog My Upper West, and at West 86th Street and West End Avenue, according to On Location Vacations.
Scenes for "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" were filmed at Barney Greengrass on Wednesday.
Upper West Siders earned a reputation as film set grumps last summer when a local man head-butted a production assistant on the set of "Premium Rush," but on-lookers outside Barney Greengrass were cheery on Wednesday.
"Pretty neat, huh?" said a man who stopped to snap a quick picture of the lights, cameras and walkie-talkie-wielding crew members. "I don't even know what movie it is. But I'm a tourist, so all this stuff is neat to me."
Barney Greengrass was closed all day Wednesday, but will re-open Thursday, an employee said.


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Q: Ruby - include? returning false when object is indeed in array my_hash = Hash.new{|h,k| h[k] = []}
name = 'John'
my_hash[name] << '7'
my_hash[name] << '9'
name = 'Jane'
my_hash[name] << '7'
my_hash[name] << 'J'

array_info = my_hash.values_at('John')
puts array_info.class                   => array
array_info.each do |ele|
   puts ele                             => 7, 9
end
removed = array_info.include?('7')
puts removed                           => false ??!?!?????

array_info just printed 7 as an element in the array, so we know that it exists.  So why would array_info.include?('7') not return true??

A: Take a look at array_info. Puts-ing it shows that your ele values are indeed in that array, but your array is nested inside another array.
removed = array_info.first.include?('7')

Will return true.


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Delegates Bell and Toscano spoke at the May 11, 2011 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. The meeting was held at the Charlottesville Senior Center. Following the presentation, questions were taken from the audience. The program was moderated by SSV Secretary Bill Davis.
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An honors graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia Law School, Rob Bell served as a state prosecutor for five years. He prosecuted over 2,400 cases, working with the police and crime victims to bring criminals to justice.
Representing the 58th House District (County of Greene and parts of Albemarle, Fluvanna, and Orange Counties), Rob has written laws that crack down on drunk driving. He was named the 2005 Outstanding Legislator by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)-Virginia. He is also interested in school safety. In recent years, he has written laws to ban criminal sex offenders from school property during school hours and to require additional background checks on school personnel. In 2008, Rob helped overhaul Virginia's mental health laws in light of the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
An Eagle Scout, Rob was an active volunteer with the Boy Scouts and with the public schools prior to his election in 2001. Rob's wife, Jessica, is a school teacher. She is currently staying home to raise their children, Robbie and Evelyn. The Bells live in Albemarle County and are members of Aldersgate United Methodist Church.
David Toscano
David Toscano was elected to his first term in the Virginia House of Delegates in November 2005 representing the 57th House District (City of Charlottesville and part of Albemarle County). David was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1950, the first of five children. He was educated in the public schools, received a bachelor's degree from Colgate University in 1972, a Ph.D. from Boston College in 1979, and a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1986. He has taught at various colleges and universities, including Boston College, the University of Maryland (European Division), Piedmont Virginia Community College, the University of Virginia, and James Madison University. He is an attorney with Buck, Toscano & Tereskerz, Ltd., specializing in family law and real estate. David served on the Charlottesville City Council from 1990 to 2002 and as Mayor from 1994 to 1996. David is a resident of the City of Charlottesville, where he lives with his wife of 30 years, Nancy A. Tramontin, and their son, Matthew. David serves on the Courts of Justice, Transportation, and Science and Technology Committees in the House of Delegates. He is also a member of the Disability Commission, the Joint Commission to Study Math, Science and Technology Education in the Commonwealth, and the Joint Subcommittee to Study Land Use Tools in the Commonwealth. He is also a member of the United Way Board and the Chamber of Commerce.
At the May 11 SSV meeting, Delegates Rob Bell and David Toscano, provided their perspectives on the 2010 General Assembly session. Both delegates discussed how Virginia's budget is smaller than it was years ago. Indeed, in 2007 the budget was $17 billion and then went down as low as $14.7 billion and now is up to $16.6 billion. Even though the total pie is smaller, spending on Medicaid and schools is up leaving even less for everything else. Toscano noted that even though Medicaid is the single fastest growing part of the budget, Virginia ranks only 49th with regard to Medicaid reimbursement rates.
Delegate Bell cited the work on legislative changes to the protective order laws. Given such situations as that of Yeardley Love, legislators determined that it should be easier to get an order against someone even if you are not married to that person. The new law enables an individual to get a protective order regardless of the relationship between the parties.
Delegate Toscano talked about the significance of the redistricting process and asked members of the audience, "Do you know what district you're in now?" Both districts have changed.
Areas requiring major legislative attention cited by the delegates included transportation, the Virginia Retirement System fund (which is $17 billion in arrears), and higher education.
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Lacson: Bato del Rosa to undergo 'plebehood' in Senate
By: Marlon Ramos - Reporter / @MRamosINQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:24 AM May 16, 2019
MANILA, Philippines — Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa, who banked heavily on President Duterte's support for his Senate bid, could count on the help of another former boss in his new job.
Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Wednesday assured Dela Rosa, who served under him when he headed the Philippine National Police, that he would be apprised of his new responsibilities once he was officially sworn in as senator.
"Bato need not worry. He will undergo another period of plebehood under my supervision since we are both in the majority bloc," Lacson told the Inquirer in a text message.
Tips or lectures
In a televised interview on Tuesday, Bato said he was looking for a seminar or training to help him learn how to craft laws in the Senate.
Lacson said the Senate had been offering lectures to rookie senators and that he had attended one when he first joined the 24-member chamber 18 years ago.
"We will be meeting with the new members and give them some tips or lectures," said Lacson, who was also Dela Rosa's upperclassman in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA).
Lacson belongs to PMA Class 1971 while Dela Rosa is a member of PMA Class 1986.
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I've built up a list of UNIX commands over the years for doing basic text analysis on written language. I've built this list from a number of sources (Jim Martin's NLP class, StackOverflow, web searches), but haven't seen it much in one place. With these commands I can analyze everything from log files to user poll responses.
Mostly this just comes down to how cool UNIX commands are (which you probably already know). But the magic is how you mix them together. Hopefully you find these recipes useful. I'm always looking for more so please drop into the comments to tell me what I'm missing.
For all of these examples I assume that you are analyzing a series of user responses with one response per line in a single file: data.txt. With a few cut and paste commands I often apply the same methods to CSV files and log files.
Sometimes you get confronted with a set of results that are far larger than you want to analyze. If you want to cull out a few lines from a file, but you want to eliminate the biased ordering in the file, it's very helpful to create a random sample of them.
This just adds a random number to the beginning of each line, sorts the list, takes the top 100 lines, and removes the random number. A quick and easy way to get a random sample. I also use this when testing new commands where I want to just try the command on 10 lines to verify I got the command right. I'm a big believer that randomized testing will find corner cases faster than you can think of them.
This is pretty straight-forward, take each line (lowercased) and sort alphabetically. Then use the awesome uniq -c command to count number of identical responses. Finally, sort by most frequent response.
This is why sort | uniq -c | sort -rn is easily my favorite UNIX command.
Along with most frequent response you often want to look at most frequent words. This is just a natural extension of our previous command, but we want to remove stop words ("the", "of", "and", etc) since they provide no useful information.
Pretty much the same command except we are replacing spaces with carriage returns to break the document into words rather than lines. It would be a good improvement to do better tokenization than just splitting on whitespace, but for most purposes this works well.
The stopwords_en.txt file is just one stop word per line. I usually pull my list of stop words from Ranks.nl which also has stopwords in many other languages besides English.
Most Frequent words are great, but they throw away a lot of context (and hence meaning). By examining pairs of words (bi-grams) you can retain a lot more of the context.
Here we take our list of words and concatenate sequential words together separated by a comma. To indicate the end/beginning of a response we use sed G to add an extra line between each response before we split the responses into words. Then we filter out those beginning and ending words (grep -v -e "^," | grep -v -e ",$") so that we are left with only the bi-grams.
I'm not doing any removal of stop words in this case. To do that you would want to remove all bi-grams where both words were stop words which would probably mean creating an exhaustive list of them. Not too hard to do, just haven't found it necessary yet.
All you need to do is create a third file to concatenate together. Everything else is pretty much the same. Of course we could continue to expand this to 4-gram, 5-grams, etc, but if your documents are short then this won't differ very much from your most frequent response results.
This is not a UNIX command, but is such a great, easy way to get better information about the ideas in a set of responses that I have to include it.
I'm not going to explain the math for how topic modeling works, but essentially it groups words that co-occur together in a document to create a list of topics across the entire document set. Each "topic" is a weighted list of words associated with the topic, and each topic has a weight that indicates how frequent that topic is across all documents. By looking at this weighted list of words you can easily pick out the most common themes across your responses.
Depending on the size of your dataset, you almost certainly will need to play with the number of topics you generate. 50 or 100 is often fine, but if you were generating topics across something as diverse as Wikipedia you'd clearly need many more. If you don't have enough topics then it is very easy for the topics to seem like a meaningless grouping of words. I usually look at the data results with 50, 100, and 300 topics to get a feel for the data.
Once you decide how many topics make sense with your dataset this technique is a powerful way to extract and rank the meaning from a large set of responses.


One of the nicest routes I have cycled is a circular route to Islay and back from the mainland.
Having a few days free in October, my son and I decided to take the bikes and head to Islay.
Day 1 – Catch the ferry to Arran, cycle Brodick to Lochranza and stay overnight in Lochranza SYHA hostel – Approx 24 miles.
Day 2 – Catch the ferry to Claonaig, cycle to Kennacraig, catch the ferry to Port Askaig on Islay, cycle down through Islay to Port Ellen and stay overnight in Port Ellen – Approx 24 miles.
Day 3 – Catch the ferry back to Kennacraig, cycle to Tarbet, catch the ferry to Portavadie, cycle to Colintraive via Tighnabruaich, catch the ferry to Rhubodach on Bute, cycle round to Rothesay and finally catch the ferry to Wemyss Bay where we would be picked up – Approx 33 miles.
Seven ferries, three islands and approximately 80 miles….. hopefully a comfortable three day trip with great views, a few memorable climbs and downhills without it turning into a slog!
Our drop off point was Ardrossan on the Clyde Coast where we purchased our Hopscotch tickets from the CalMac Office. The weather forecast was mixed but it was dry when we made our way onto the ferry to Arran.
The predicted rain closed in as we arrived in Brodick and headed north to Lochranza with the rainwater streaming down the road as we hauled up the main climb of the day from Sannox to Lochranza. The long haul up was rewarded with a fast descent to the distillery just outside Lochranza and hot drinks (but not whisky :-)) in the cafe before booking into the hostel for our overnight stay. We had our own small room, were able to purchase some food which we cooked in the hostel kitchen and there was plenty of opportunity to dry out our gear after the day's soaking.
We caught the small ferry out of Lochranza in the morning and had it all to ourselves as it made its way over to the Kintyre peninsula. A short five mile 'up and over' cycle brought us to Kennacraig, the ferry departure point for Islay. Skies were a bit grey but the rain was holding off as we waited to board the ferry.
Lunching on the ferry, we arrived at Port Askaig and made our way south west to Bowmore, resisting the temptation to take the very short ferry crossing over the Jura and cycle up and down Jura's only road. Islay has many distilleries, so large grain trucks passed us occasionally on the road but they were always careful to give you lots of room when passing on the otherwise fairly quiet roads. From Bowmore we took the 'main' road which runs right by the island's airport and were lucky enough to see a plane land as we cycled along. After a few stops to admire the scenery on the island, we arrived at our B&B in Port Ellen just as the light was starting fade – we had also made it through the day without getting wet which was a bonus. Evening meal was had in a local restaurant, preceded by a walk to admire the views and the stillness of the harbour area.
Catching the ferry from Port Ellen in the morning, we arrived back in Kennacraig where we cycled to Tarbert to catch the ferry to take us over to Portavadie on the Cowal peninsula. Cycling over to Tighnabruaich from Portavadie was a gentle introduction to the steep climb out of Tighnabruaich which gave some brilliant views over the Kyles of Bute and the Isle of Bute. A bit of huffing and puffing but we were rewarded with some great descents back to sea level at Colintraive.
This was our best day in terms of the weather, clouds were high, the light was good and it stayed dry all day – not bad for October! The ferry crossing to Rhubodach on the Isle of Bute was the shortest ferry crossing of our trip and it was followed by a flat coastal cycle round to Rothesay bay where we dined outdoors on some fish and chips before catching our last ferry back to the mainland. Arriving in Wemyss Bay, we were then picked up and taken home, falling asleep in the back – a cracking trip!


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Should Acupuncture Be Used More Widely in the NHS?
Posted on 2015-12-22 2015-12-22 by WE Clinic London
By Rachel Pugh, 13 october, 2015
Every woman needing pain relief while giving birth at University College London hospital (UCLH) is offered acupuncture, with around half of the hospital's midwives specially trained to give the treatment. UCLH is far from typical in this respect, though: acupuncture is not standard throughout the UK and many health practitioners claim patients are often denied access to it through the NHS because of entrenched scepticism from sections of the medical establishment.
Dr David Carr is one of a number of clinicians who is determined to change that. A clinical lecturer in maternal foetal medicine at St George's, University of London, he is also an accredited acupuncturist working at the Royal London hospital for integrated medicine (RLHIM). In 2013 he established a flagship maternity acupuncture service at UCLH NHS trust, which has trained 120 of its midwives.
He has also trained a further 100 midwives, obstetricians and anaesthetists throughout the UK since January 2014 – funded by the UCLH charity – to provide acupuncture to women in labour through a one-day course endorsed by the British Medical Acupuncture Society.
Carr says: "There are conditions for which acupuncture works and others where it doesn't. It is not a cure-all, and should be open to scrutiny. But the focus of my work is for acupuncture to become a standard part of midwifery training, and at the same time change perceptions among clinicians about its appropriate use for a whole range of other conditions."
The form of acupuncture in use in the NHS, and being taught by accredited trainers like Carr, is western medical acupuncture (WMA) – evolved from Chinese acupuncture but using current medical knowledge. The difference is that WMA has discarded mystical concepts like yin, yang and qi, and considers itself to be part of conventional medicine rather than an "alternative".
The UK lags behind many other European countries in its support for acupuncture. Just 2,500 medical professionals here are qualified to practice it, compared with 45,000 in Germany. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) recommends WMA specifically for the treatment of only two conditions – lower back pain (which costs the NHS £1bn a year) and headaches. In Scandinavia its use in childbirth is commonplace.
A growing body of healthcare practitioners believe it should be offered routinely for a variety of conditions, including pain in labour, cancer, musculoskeletal conditions and even irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
At a time of NHS cuts the use of needles at 8p per unit look attractive. In St Albans, where a group of nurse-led clinics have been using acupuncture since 2008 for patients with knee osteoarthritis, economics have been put under scrutiny. WMA was offered to 114 patients rather than a knee replacement costing £5,000, and 79% accepted. Two years later a third of them had not required a knee transplant, representing an annual saving of £100,000, as estimated by researchers to the St Albans local commissioning group.
Dr Adrian White, a lead researcher, said: "This first evaluation shows the practicability of offering a low-cost acupuncture service as an alternative to knee surgery."
So why is acupuncture not being used more widely? The difficulty of proving its efficacy is clearly one of the biggest stumbling blocks. An analysis of 29 studies of almost 18,000 patients found acupuncture effective in treating chronic pain compared with sham acupuncture. But even treatment proponents question whether a randomised controlled trial – the gold standard of medical research – works, given that faking treatment is nearly impossible.
Emotional responses clearly play their part. Physiotherapist Anna Housley, from University hospital of south Manchester (UHSM), has used it with spectacular results to relieve phantom pain in amputees. She says: "I could have helped more people if some of the doctors had been more open-minded. Although some medics were very supportive, others were not and one doctor told me that he did not see any benefit in acupuncture, and would therefore not refer any patients to me."
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Rebecca Jackson, a physiotherapist specialising in knees and hips at UHSM, classes herself as being a "very medical model" but uses acupuncture on about a third of her patients. She feels professionals like herself need to think outside the medical model.
She describes a woman who had exhausted conventional treatments but could not lift her arms above 90 degrees, but after two 25-minute sessions of acupuncture was able to lift them above her head. Jackson says: "Acupuncture completely challenges all my scientific training and I did not get it at first. But now I almost feel that the proof lies in what you are doing."
The key, according to professor of gastroenterology at the University of Manchester Peter Whorwell, lies in educating medical students, most of whom are taught nothing at medical schools about a treatment popular with patients. Whorwell, an international expert on IBS says: "Some teaching about acupuncture should be in the curriculum – even in a couple of units. Patients with serious IBS tell me that their GPs will not refer them for acupuncture, but they are making a judgement on something that they do not know anything about."
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Texans: Paying for Health Care is Toughest Living Expense
A new survey from the Episcopal Health Foundation finds 60% of Texas say health care is their biggest household expense. Photo: AdobeStock
by Mark Richardson
HOUSTON – More than half of all Texans say they struggle on a daily basis to afford health care, according to a new survey. The findings come from the 2019 Texas Health Policy Survey from the Houston-based Episcopal Health Foundation.
Brian Sasser, chief communications officer with the foundation, said the poll illustrates a major health-care crisis in which even those Texans who carry health insurance, because of high deductibles and copayments, are having trouble accessing and affording care.
"Texans are telling us that health care is now the toughest living expense to afford. That includes other than rent, mortgage and monthly utilities and transportation costs, even food," Sasser said. "That's kind of a stark reminder of the crisis in Texas."
Sasser said faced with costs they can't afford, 60% of Texans said they or someone in their household skipped or postponed health-care needs. He said those surveyed reported they sometimes skipped dental care or checkups, postponed needed medical care, skipped a test or treatment, didn't fill a prescription, or cut pills in half or skipped doses. He added that many people reported problems getting mental-health care.
Sasser said the survey found, not surprisingly, low-income Texans are hit the hardest.
"If you have health insurance and you have a stable job, cost is tough already," he said. "And if you don't have health insurance, you don't have a stable job, you are low income, it just compounds the fact that not only is health care hard to afford, but it's hard to access that care without insurance."
Sasser said Texas lawmakers had numerous opportunities during the recent legislative session to take steps toward resolving the problem, such as expanding Medicaid coverage or funding a statewide health plan. But the body failed to improve care.
"Our polls are telling us two things: One, that they're having trouble affording and accessing health care; and that, two, the state has a big role in helping solve that problem," Sasser said. "And so far, not much has been done to address it."
The Episcopal Health Foundation serves 11 million Texans in a 57-county area in the southeast part of the state.


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