One of the advantages of functional languages (such as R) is the ability to create and return functions "on the fly." We will discuss one good use of this capability and what to look out for when creating functions in R.
One of my favorite uses of "on the fly functions" is regularizing R's predict() function to actually do the same thing across many implementations. The issue is: different classification methods in R require different arguments for predict() (not needing a type= argument, or needing type='response' versus type='prob') and return different types (some return a vector of probabilities of being in a target class, some return a matrix with probability columns for all possible classes).
Which (assuming dTrain is a training data frame and dTest is a test data frame) neatly fits and applies a model. The wrapping function pattern is a good way to apply the don't repeat yourself pattern (which greatly improves the maintainability of code).
We demonstrate a slightly less trivial use of the pattern here.
The underlying fitters often contain unused large structures including complete references to training data. This was the subject of the article Trimming the fat from glm models in R.
function closure (for how closures work see here). This was discussed in the article Using Closures as Objects in R.
R's "lazy argument evaluation" semantics can sometimes cause the caller's environment to be inadvertently captured by the returned function (we call the the "unfulfilled promise leak").
The third issue is even more subtle than the others, but can cause problems. We will discuss that after a quick review of reference leaks.
Sailors practice repairing leaks (public domain source).
The strategy in Trimming the fat from glm models in R was to find (by inspection) and stomp-out excessively large referred items to prevent leaks. A number of these items were in fact environments that were attached to functions on the object. Since the functions are already defined the only way to shrink the object is to do brutal surgery on the objects (such as using something like the restrictEnvironmet() transformer advocated in Using Closures as Objects in R).
We use three functions (to neatly separate concerns).
stripGLMModel() is from Trimming the fat from glm models in R and does the ugly work of stomping out fields we are not using and re-writing environments of functions. This is exactly the work we have to do because the glm() function itself wasn't parsimonious in what it returned, and didn't take the wrapping precautions we are taking when it did the fit. So this code is "cleaning up after others" and very idiomatic per-fitter.
wrapGLMModel() Returns a function that has all the right arguments set to perform predictions on new data. This method is re-unifying the predict() calling interfaces to be the same. There are three important points of this function: the training data is not an argument to this function, this function is defined at the top-level (so its lexical closures is special, more on this later), and force(model) is called to prevent a new unfulfilled promise leak (more on this later).
For another situation where force() is relevant (though we used eval() see here).
logisticFitter() wraps the per-fitter different details for fitting and calls the other two functions to return an adapted predict() function.
Some code roughly in this style for glm, bigglm, gmb, randomForest, and rpart is given here. For each fitter we had to find the fitter leaks by hand and write appropriate stomping code.
In R when a function is defined it captures a reference to the current execution environment. This environment is used to bind values to free variables in the function (free variables are variables whose names are not defined in the function or in the function arguments).
x was a free variable in our function, and a reference to the current execution environment (in this case <environment: R_GlobalEnv>) was captured to implement the closure. Roughly this is a lexical or static closure as the variable binding environment is chosen when the function is defined and not when the function is executed. Notice that it was irrelevant that x wasn't actually defined at the time we defined our function.
The problem with R is: R has no way of determining the list of free variables in a function. Instead of binding the free variables it keeps the entire lexical environment around "just in case" it needs variables from this environment in the future.
Example 1: R closure fails to durably bind items in the global environment (due to serialization hack).
Example 2: R closure seems to bind items in intermediate lexical environments.
So in a sense R lexical closures are both more expensive than those of many other languages (they hold onto all possible variables instead of free variables) and a bit weaker than expected (saved functions fail to durably capture bindings from the global environment).
We worry about these environments driving reference leaks up and down.
up-leaks are when we build a function in an environment we hoped would be transient (such as the execution environment of a function) and the environment lasts longer because a reference to the environment is returned up to callers. The thing to look out for are any uses of the function keyword because functions capture a reference to the current execution environment as their closure (their static or lexical environment). Any such function returned in a value can therefore keep the so-called transient execution environment alive indefinitely. These leaks are the most common and we saw them causing a reference to training data lasting past the time it was used for fitting. The base modeling functions such as lm() and glm() have these leaks (though you may not see them in calculating size if you are executing in the base environment, again due to the serialization hack).
down-leaks are less common, but are when a function that gets passed into another function as an argument carries more references and data than you intended. Usually you would not care (as you are only holding a reference, not causing a data copy) because the leak only lasts the duration of the sub-function call. The problem is this can waste space in serialization and cause problems for systems that use serialization to implement parallelism (common in R).
The main reference leak we have been seeing is the leak of our training data.frame (data). In principle the training data can be huge. The whole purpose of the wrapGLMModel() function is to have function where the data is not in the current execution scope and therefore won't be captured when this execution scope is used to form the closure (when we build a function causing the formation of lexical or static closure).
Global/base/library-level wrapping functions would be insufficient precaution (as the data is in fact in the lexical scope of wrapGLMModel() when we happen to be working in that scope), except the global scope isn't saved hack saves us.
The unfulfilled promise leak is an insidious leak. The following code demonstrates the problem.
Notice the radically different sizes from the nearly identical build1() and build2() (which differ only in the use of force()).
R implements lazy argument evaluation through a mechanism called "promises." In the build1() example the argument z (which is just the number 5) is not evaluated in build1(), because build1() never actually used it. Instead the promise (or object that can get the value of z if needed) is passed to the returned function. So z ends up getting evaluated only if/when the function returned by build1() actually uses it.
My advice to avoid environment and variable leaks is: any service functions that are essentially supplying a Currying or a partial evaluation service (binding arguments into functions) should call force() on all of their own arguments to make sure there are no promises holding live references to unexpected environments. The whole reason we write Currying functions at the global or library level is to avoid accidentally capturing variables in the logisticFitter, and the lazy-eval promise mechanism can itself cause an environment capture. These reference leaks can become expensive when serializing objects, or when using parallel systems that transport serialized objects.
A lot of R's programming power comes from conventions working over a few user exposed structures (such as environments). This means in some case you have undesirable side-effects that you must write explicit code to mitigate.


The holidays are almost over, and while gift-giving, music, merriment and parties dominate these last few days of December, cocktails have always been a main staple of the holiday season. Wondering where you can indulge in some boozy holiday potions? We scoured the city to find a few of our favorites.
Every winter when a chilly breeze blows in, Austinites get a craving for winter-centric drinks like egg nog, hot chocolate, apple cider and hot toddies. Contigo is perhaps the top local destination for such booze-laden Christmas beverages. Featuring a enticing toddy menu, the restaurant boasts a lineup of drinks you won't find anywhere else in town, like the Pimm's Cobbler (Pimm's, elderflower, orange, ginger and lemon) and the Teacher's Pet (applejack brandy, apple cider and cinnamon).
For many individuals, Irish coffee is a perfect pairing for all those guilt-inducing holiday desserts. The original Irish coffee was made popular during the mid-1900s when a travel writer from San Francisco was inspired to recreate the drink after gulping it down in Ireland. The Tigress Pub shakes up a near perfect interpretation of this historic beverage. The local bar whips Tullamore Dew whiskey, brewed coffee, brown sugar syrup and real whipped cream together to create this caffeinated cocktail. For those looking for additional winter drinks, The Tigress Pub also features a delicious hot butter rum toddy.
After engaging in exhausting retail therapy, guests can indulge in a perfect holiday pastime: cocktails. The W Austin Hotel's Primetime Happy Hour features half-priced drinks and a selection of delicious bites from 7-10 pm. Edibles like brisket sliders, lamb kebobs and fish and chips are partnered with drinks like the Blind Pig (a bourbon-based cocktail) and Tamarind Margarita (tequila with cointreau, lime and Jarritos Tamarind Soda). The affordable, filling happy hour is perfect for those heading downtown during the holidays.
What better place to sip a glass of eggnog than at a rum bar? Pleasant Storage Room opened its doors earlier this summer with a menu filled to the brim with an assortment of rum-rooted drinks. During the holiday season, the downtown bar features a decadent interpretation of the creamy holiday booze. Sip slowly though — the temptation to power through several glasses of this dessert drink is strong.
Void of the hustle and bustle of downtown, drink.well offers patrons an enticing, well-rounded cocktail menu without the burden of rowdy patrons and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds. In the spirit of Christmas, the North Loop bar compiles a handful of winter-inspired cocktails. Creations like the Winter White (Beefeater London Dry Gin, rosemary-infused Cointreau, fresh lemon and egg white) and the sellout favorite — spiked drinking chocolate — are prominent during the holiday season. Check out the bar's happy hour specials from 4-6 pm, Tuesday through Friday.
Okay, so The Grinch milkshake at Hopdoddy isn't exactly a cocktail, but it's equally intoxicating. A blend of silky vanilla ice cream, fragrant peppermint syrup, chopped Junior Mints, whipped cream and candy cane topping, this frothy green drink tastes as delicious as it looks. This minty treat is only available for a short period of time, so seize the seasonal shake while you have a chance.


The classic Chinatown meal is the dim sum brunch or lunch. For those who've never tried it, dim sum is a meal made up of many small dishes, primarily different sorts of dumplings and buns, a tradition that started in the tea houses that lined China's Silk Road many centuries ago (scholars believe the custom began shortly after a.d. 300, when the long-held notion that tea should not be accompanied by food fell out of favor). And the top place for dim sum in Chinatown today is this cacophonous, always-jammed restaurant, where the clientele is often entirely Chinese, and the dishes range from the expected to the un: boiled snails, tripe stews, eggplant with shrimp paste. Since many of the servers don't speak English, you'll have to point at what interests you. If you make a mistake (hard to do, as it's all tasty), it's no big deal, as most dishes cost just a few bucks.


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Beloved Bestseller "A Dog's Purpose" Now a Heartwarming Film
Based on author W. Bruce Cameron's beloved best-selling novel, A Dog's Purpose, comes director Lasse Hallström's heartwarming and surprising story of one devoted dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.
After its publication in 2010, A Dog's Purpose became an enormous hit, finding an audience with animal lovers across the globe who were charmed by its tender, poignant and humorous take on what our animal companions think of us and why they are truly here. The No. 1-New York Times Best-Selling book spent more than one year on that list and has been translated into 20 languages, and published in 29 different countries worldwide. It even spawned a sequel, "A Dog's Journey," which was published in 2012 and achieved similar acclaim.
The series author, W. Bruce Cameron, is well known as the writer of the best-selling humor tome 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The book was adapted into a hugely popular ABC sitcom, which starred the late John Ritter, and Katey Sagal and introduced the world to The Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco.
Cameron was moved to write the novel when the woman he was dating lost her dog, and she was having a difficult time processing her grief. He explains the inspiration: "We were driving up the California coast on the 101 freeway, and I was hurting for her. Out of nowhere, as if I downloaded it off the Internet, this story came into my head about a dog who doesn't actually die, but is reborn again and again and again, and develops the sense that there might be some purpose why this is happening."
The passenger Cameron was consoling was his future wife—as well as one of his fellow A Dog's Purpose screenwriters—Cathryn Michon. Michon remembers the day quite fondly: "On our way to the Bay Area, we stopped to get a latte, and when I came back to the car Bruce told me he had a story to tell me…and that it was going to be his next book. He told this story for 90 minutes straight, and by the end of it I was completely in a puddle I was crying so much."
For Cameron, watching dogs interact with each other and analyzing their behavior was the most helpful research he did before crafting his novel. The writer explains: "The most important thing I did in researching the book was not reading about dogs, but going to the dog park and seeing how they behave. Dogs have a crazy social structure. Two dogs will be best friends, but when a third dog comes in the dynamic changes instantly." He laughs. "It is 10 times worse than middle school."
According to the story's creator, the most difficult part of writing the novel was keeping it simple: "I'm dealing with a dog, and a dog isn't going to be thinking in complicated metaphors. A dog is going to be mostly about nouns, much less about adverbs. Its vocabulary is generally limited to around 40 or 50 words, and I wanted to write from the perspective of a real dog and not a dog that could understand English."
Given Lasse Hallström's track record of inventive filmmaking, and having already directed an Amblin Entertainment (then DreamWorks) film,The 100-Foot Journey, it was a unanimous decision that the filmic version of this story could not be in better hands. The director claims it is no accident he was attracted to the material: "I made two movies about dogs previously—My Life as a Dog and Haichi—so this is my third dog story. If you have an interest in outsiders and emotions that seems irrational to humans, you can certainly relate to a dog's feelings and a dog's life."
While Cameron and his fellow script writers had to create rules for our story—in terms of what the dog was thinking and could process—Hallström also had to keep things logical…in what some might say is an illogical notion.
"Ultimately, the one rule we had was that the dog could not speak on camera," offers Hallström. "With the narration, the dog's thoughts have human elements to it, and I have become more and more caught up in the idea of reincarnation because of this film. But whether the possibility is real or not…who knows. The point is to be open to the magic that there is something going on in the universe that we cannot yet explain."
Hallström felt his most important task as director was to ground the actor's and dog's performances in reality. His goal was not to stylize anything nor reach for the comedic aspects. "I wanted a tone that feels authentic and has a light touch to it, while being rooted in real emotions—of both the dogs and the humans. It was a fun challenge."
Joining the talented cast of A Dog's Purpose are Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, John Ortiz, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Pooch Hall, and Nicole Laplaca and Primo Allon.
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It occurs with 1 different values: `Yes`.

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In order to have successful content marketing, you need a content strategy. By extension, in order to implement native advertising or branded content, you still need a content strategy as a foundation, plain and simple.
That's the basic premise of a new book, "Content – The Atomic Particle of Marketing," written by the consultant and analyst Rebecca Lieb. She argues that content is the most critical component of any marketing campaign, bringing value not only to companies' owned media channels, but to all its other marketing efforts including social media and offline channels.
Lieb shared more insights with Native Insider.
Native Insider: What is content marketing by your definition, and why is content the "atomic particle" of marketing?
Rebecca Lieb: Content marketing is a term that refers to the creation and sharing of content for marketing purposes. In digital channels, it refers to content that resides on properties the brand or marketer owns -- e.g., a Web site -- or largely controls from a content perspective: social media channels, syndication.
Content marketing differs from advertising in that, unlike advertising, a media buy is never part of the equation.
Content marketing involves a pull strategy vs. a push strategy which is interruptive.
Content marketing is meant to attract consumers; it's informative and educational, funny and entertaining. It leads [consumers] to a desired action.
In its purest form, it's owned media, the stuff you control as a brand: a company Web site, newsletter, email, and social media presence because you control the content on your Facebook page. Facebook is actually converged media: paid, owned, and earned.
I say content is the atomic particle of all marketing because you can't have marketing without content. You can't have social media without content! Even in paid media, ad creative is just another fancy word for content.
NI: What is native advertising?
RL: Native advertising is a form of converged media that combines paid and owned media into a form of commercial messaging that's fully integrated into, and often unique to, a specific delivery platform.
Native advertising is a form of converged media: owned plus paid. Native isn't necessarily only in-feed advertising. Native is also emerging from publishers' brand studios in which you commission a real publisher to create content on your behalf.
NI: You discuss "customer-centric" content in the book. What do you mean by that?
RL: I mean don't talk about yourself, focus on the other person. Content marketing is much more about letting the audience opt into the content. It's more polite.
NI: You say there are different types of content. What are they?
RL: There are three broad buckets of content:entertaining, educational, and utility content.
Entertaining content is something like viral video which people access because it's fun and entertaining, and shareable.
Educational content is used by marketers to help consumers and business decision-makers make the best decisions.
And utility content is primarily mobile in nature and helps solve problems. This type of content could be a tool or an app.
NI: Before brands can even implement native advertising, you assert that they need to devise a content strategy. So what are brands doing wrong with respect to content marketing?
RL: Doing content marketing without having a content strategy. They don't have it tied to specific business goals. It needs to be measured, optimized, and structures need to be developed to produce it in a balanced way. Upwards of 75% of brands don't yet have documented content strategies.
NI: What are brands doing right?
RL: They're documenting their strategy and figuring out how to measure performance. I'm excited that the brands that are mature enough about content, measure it beyond a lift in sales. Unilever, working with Percolate, documented that it saved $1 billion in a year when it became more strategic about content.
NI: What kind of tools for measuring content marketing effectiveness are available?
RL: There are dashboards—some 250 tools to measure content performance have this in common.
You can measure a lot of stuff, but the question is, are you measuring what's relevant? Too many tools only measure the volume of traffic and likes. These are vanity metrics.
You can measure traffic and brand consideration, of course, but also whether you're getting more leads, shortening sales cycles, increasing your share of thought leadership vis-à-vis competitors, and more. Increasingly, there are ways to measure the online/offline resonance as well.
NI: Where is the budget coming from for content marketing initiatives?
RL: It's hard to correlate content marketing budgets. Most marketers don't have a content marketing department and there's no specific budget. The budget is attributable to social media and communications, so it's coming from corporate communications divisions. A lot of the content for content marketing initiatives is recycled and repurposed from social media, paid ads, newsletters, blog posts, etc.
NI: The bottom line: What's overlooked by marketers?
RL: Not having a content strategy, and then they get bogged down in tactics and scare themselves silly. Marketers say they want more content. But what do you really need? They need to be able to measure content performance better, find audiences wherever they are, and be able to target them.
Lieb's book is available now on the Amazon Kindle and in paperback June 28.


I finally got my Wonderchild story completed and up!
Running to go read it now.
Hope you enjoy it. It seemed to take forever to write! I just couldn't get it exactly how I wanted it. I may even tweak it a little more in the future, but Ms Bustamante is getting my attention at the moment.
Holy moley. I'm only on the second chapter and this story has me CAPTIVATED. I had to stop reading to tell you this! Wonderful job!!!
Just finished the story. SO GOOD. I'm heartbroken and in love with Bradley.
And 435 was the final score??? WOW did you succeed in this challenge! AWESOME work!!
I will be enjoying this with my morning cup of joe. Can't wait to get started!
I'm glad you're all enjoying it. It took me so long to get the feel right!
Bradley is now up for download in the gallery!
If anyone downloads him it'd be great to hear (and see) what people do with his life!
Just search for my name cully_c or here he is in all his glory!
I'm not sure there is a way of winning exactly, it's just to see how high a score you can get! It's a good little challenge to do. There's more about it here.
Bradley is so handsome. Added him to my favorites. Looks like an interesting challenge. I am not good a point keeping. I was hoping to start reading your story this A.M. but RL has reared it's ugly head.


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ALPLA, a leading provider of plastic packaging worldwide, has bought an African market leader in the form of Boxmore Packaging. The company, headquartered in Samrand, Johannesburg, specialises in PET pre-forms, PET bottles and closures, and currently employs around 1,000 members of staff at nine Locations.
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175: Dinner Date
Alexandra Erin on March 12, 2008 in 06: A Period of Conflict
In Which Mackenzie Can Check Out Any Time She Wants
I ended up spending most of the rest of the day asleep. Hey, I was stuck in bed… what else was I going to do? It wasn't any sort of solid, satisfying slumber, though. It was more a matter of drifting in and out of a state of semi-consciousness, with confused half dreams of me lying in bed but being unable to move or in some cases open my eyes.
The healing center could get to be a busy place in the afternoon, and little sounds from the hallway outside the room kept intruding into my consciousness. I couldn't believe that being trapped in such an uncomfortable place was actually more conducive to my rest than being cozily ensconced in my own warm, relatively quiet dorm room would have been. Did Lynette think I was going to start chaining fireballs together as soon as I was out of her sight?
I brought this up to her when she checked in on me around four and reported my energy recovery was "disappointing".
"At least here I know you're recovering at all," she said. "Have some more tea and we'll get you out of here yet."
"What exactly is my energy level at right now?" I asked. "Fifty percent? Sixty percent?"
She rolled her eyes.
"Enchantment major, right?" she asked.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It's always the enchantment majors who think in those terms, like the hum… like one's body is a magic wand with so many charges built into it," she said.
"But there is some amount of energy," I said. "And you can obviously measure it."
"I can estimate it," she said. "I'm not a diviner. I can get a very general sense of your well-being… not as much as I could get if I could use my gifts on you directly."
"So what's your general sense of my well-being tell you?"
"That you're getting better but not as fast as I'd like," she said.
"So send me home," I said. "Cut me loose. I swear I'll just go back to my dorm room and sleep all day."
"And then stay up all night," Lynette said. "At least here I can give you a sleeping potion."
"I'll take one with me," I said.
She shook her head.
"Those don't leave the center under any circumstances," she said.
"Let me leave and come back, then," I said.
"Look, if we let you go and you end up seriously hurt then we're in a lot of trouble," Lynette said.
"What if I die under your care?" I asked. "How would that look?"
"Didn't your girlfriend make you promise to behave or something?"
I blushed.
"She's not exactly my girlfriend."
"Whatever," Lynette said. "Anyway, threatening to die isn't going to work. If I truly believed you were a danger to yourself, I'd have you asleep so fast your head would spin."
"Okay, but if you had to estimate what my energy level is, what would you guess?"
"What do you want me to say?" Lynette said. "It's bigger than a bread box? It's over nine thousand?"
"Just as an approximate percent of what it should be," I said. "So I know how much further I have to go."
"Well, this is just a very rough guess, but I'd say you're in the neighborhood of eighty percent," Lynette said.
"That doesn't sound so bad," I said.
"Anything below ninety percent is terrible," she said. "Most routine magic use won't cause you to dip below ninety-five, though a lot of students manage to work their way lower. Most of the time, though, you're actually using a small portion of your own energy to start a reaction."
"Okay, I guess I kind of knew that," I said. "But I just assumed if I was in such bad shape, I must have been close to zero, and anything that much over fifty percent would mean I was good to go."
"Look at it this way," Lynette said. "You're missing something like twenty percent of your body's vital essence. Do you think a responsible healer would let you leave in that condition?"
"No, ma'am," I said.
"Good," she said. "So that's the end of that argument. Your friends are bringing your supper?"
"Yeah," I said. "If that's okay."
"One less thing for us to worry about," she said. "Just make sure they don't tire you out." I blushed. "You have a filthy mind, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised… er, because you hang out with Steff, I mean. I should get back out front. Don't forget to finish that tea."
"Right," I said.
It seemed like Lynette was determined to treat me like any other patient, but she couldn't quite forget what I was. Oh, well. It was probably safer for all involved that way.
Amaranth, Steff, and Dee arrived at half past five.
"Where's Two and Ian?" I asked.
"The pseudowench is helping H.F.H. bring the food," Steff said.
"H. what?"
"Her Friend Hazel," Steff explained. "They cooked up a storm. Chicken soup, fresh rolls from scratch."
"Ian said he had to run a few errands," Amaranth said.
"I have been gathering nuts and mushrooms in the forest at night," Dee said, holding up a large clay bowl. "They should provide adequate sustenance for those who do not ingest meat or grains."
"That's very thoughtful, Dee," Amaranth said.
"Is Celia coming, too?" I asked.
"I'm afraid not," Amaranth said.
"She said 'people like us go into healing centers and never come out'," Steff said, rolling her eyes.
"She's right," I said. "I'm living proof."
"Oh, baby, don't exaggerate," Amaranth said. "It's only been one day. Is Lynette letting you come home tonight?"
"Don't know for sure yet," I said. "She's having a diviner come by to check me out later, but I'd say probably not. If she thought I was doing well enough to leave, she'd probably have got me out of here before dinner time."
Sooni showed up shortly after Hazel and Two had arrived and started apportioning food. She was dressed in a black and red sort of robe/dress with an even higher hemline on the bottom than most of her skirts, and she'd somehow added red highlights to her long looped braids. She carried a woven bamboo basket. My first thought was that she'd decided to join the party after all, but she apparently had other ideas.
"What is going on?" she shrieked, her shiny black eyes flashing around the room.
"We're having another picnic," Amaranth said. "Didn't Mack tell you?"
"You promised me we could have dinner together!" Sooni said to me. "Just the two of us!"
"Aren't you a fast worker?" Hazel said to me.
"Sooni, I told you not tonight," I said. "Weren't you listening?"
"I listened when you promised. I told you I would be back tonight," Sooni countered. "Weren't you listening to me?"
"Sooni, I promised you some night next week," I said.
"Well, I did not hear that," Sooni said. "You should learn how to speak more carefully in the future!"
"Sooni, I promise you I was very specific."
"I just bet that you do, since your promises do not appear to mean anything!"
I sighed.
"Name any day next week," I said. "Write it down. In the mean time, if you want to join everybody else…"
"I did not bring enough food for everybody," Sooni said. She sounded flustered, and even blushed slightly as she admitted this. "If I had known… if you had told me…"
"I did," I said.
"If you had told me better," Sooni said. She held her basket up in front of her like a shield. "I will go now, but do not forget your promise again. Everybody heard it this time."
"Pick a day," I said again. "Write it down and give it to me, so there's no confusion."
"Any day?" Sooni asked.
"Any day," I said.
"Next Friday, then," she said. "We can go to a nice restaurant in Enwich."
"I didn't really mean…"
"You promised!" Sooni shrieked, giving a little hop and stomping her sandal down so hard one of her piles of braids started to unwind. "You are a liar and a cheat and a horrible person and that's why you are going to lose tomorrow!"
Hazel exchanged a knowing look with Two… or rather, she gave Two a knowing look and then turned and gave it to Steff instead.
"Sooni, please calm down," Amaranth said. "Mack didn't mean anything…"
"She never means anything she says, apparently!" Sooni yelled. A pair of male healers appeared in the door.
"Sooni, we'll do whatever you want," I whispered fiercely as they entered. "Just calm the fuck down before you get everybody kicked out, okay?"
"Do… do you mean it this time?" Sooni asked, in a much quieter tone.
"Anything reasonable, subject to my approval as owner," Amaranth said.
"Yeah, okay," I said, grateful for the caveats. In my desperation to get the situation under control, I hadn't thought to add any. "What Amaranth said."
"Okay, but do not try to weasel out of it."
"What's going on in here?" one of the healers asked.
"Some of us just got a little overly excited," Hazel said. "Nothing big."
He looked around the room doubtfully.
"Lynette says you're supposed to keep calm and rest," he said.
"I am," I said.
He cocked an eyebrow at me and then looked at his coworker for support.
"Well, just try to keep things down in here from now on," the other healer said. "And remember everybody needs to clear out of here by eight."
With that, they left us alone.
"So, Sooni, would you like to stay for soup?" Amaranth asked.
"I was not prepared for such a large group," Sooni said, recovering some composure and haughtiness. "I will go, but I will hold you to your promise, Miss Mackenzie." She gave a stiff, shallow bow. "All of your promises."
"What's that mean?" I asked, but she was already heading for the door and did not stop to answer. "All what promises?"
"Now, what exactly was all that about?" Hazel asked. "The last time I saw that vixen, she was stomping you into paste, wasn't she?"
"Sooni is sort of… complex," Amaranth said.
"What's complex about it?" Steff asked. "She wants to bang Mack, obviously."
"What?" I asked. "That's insane. She hates lesbians more than just about anything."
"Insane's the word for it," Steff said. "The sort of comics she reads, girls don't have to be lesbians to wind up in bed with each other. Anyway, haven't you ever heard that the most homophobic people are the ones who are afraid of being gay themselves?"
"I don't know," I said. "I think it's probably remotely possible for somebody to hate gays because they hate gays. Anyway, Amaranth would know, right?" I looked to Amaranth for support. "You could see right away if she was into girls, or me."
"Well… um…" Amaranth said, blushing.
"What?" I asked. "She isn't, is she?"
"I can't exactly get a feel for her," Amaranth said. "Like I said, she's complex. And I think her sense of sex is very underdeveloped. I get the feeling that she might fantasize about dating and marriage and things like that, but… any actual sex in her mind is very abstract and nebulous." She shrugged. "I wish I could tell you, baby, especially since I know you want her so badly."
"I do not!" I said, at the same time Two said, "She does not!"
"I see what I see," Amaranth said, shrugging.
"In the nymph's defense, you were coming pretty hard when she kicked you in the head," Hazel said.
"What I would have given to see that," Steff said. She sighed. I could be wrong, but I think she might have been imagining herself in Sooni's position.
"Let's wait until Mack's out of the healing center before we start thinking of that kind of thing," Amaranth said.
"And let us further wait until the telepaths are out of mindshot," Dee added.
"Sorry," Steff said, making a heroic effort at seeming embarrassed. "Mack inspires a vivid imagination in me. I've got a notebook full of… well, never mind."
"Notebook full of what?" Ian asked from the door.
"Sonnets," Steff said. "Sappy elven poetry."
Somehow, I don't think she was being completely honest.
"Sorry I'm late," he said. He looked nervous about something, and he was trying to keep something off his face. "I had to take care of something."
"Everything okay?" I asked.
"Yeah," he said. "Only…"
"Only what?"
"Only I'm in a band," he said, breaking out into a smile. "There was an ad on the bulletin board for a lute player… I didn't want to mention it before, in case I jinxed myself or something, but I just finished my audition, and they said I'm in."
"Rock!" Steff said. "At least, I assume rock."
"Rock," Ian said. "They've got kind of a… well, their sound is… well, actually they don't have much of a sound yet because it's a new band but everybody seems to know how to play. We just have to play together a bit to find out what kind of band we're going to have."
"That's cool," I said. It sounded underwhelming and lame, but it was cool. Any question that Ian was just a dork with a lute had been settled after I'd heard him play for real.
Now it was official, though. He was in a band.
He was the center of attention for the rest of the meal, happily trumping all talk of Sooni and her weirdness, or our supposed mutual crushes.
Everybody left well before the appointed hour, in order to not walk back to the dorms in total darkness. The scuttlebutt was that the campus had been heating up at night, but I wasn't worried for anybody's safety, with Steff and particularly Dee along for the walk.
Dee might have been a little overly quick to remind people just how dangerous and unforgiving her homeland was, but she did have a point. Only the very strong and the very skilled could survive for long in the subterranean depths.
Lynette brought a divination professor in for a consultation at around seven-thirty. I tried not to roll my eyes when she predictably declared my aura was dangerously dim and predicted another night of total rest would restore it.
"Can I get that in writing?" I asked.
"Divination is not a precise art," she said. "But if our head healer does not declare you fit for duty tomorrow morning, I'll serve you breakfast in bed myself."
"You don't know what you're getting into there, Genevieve," Lynette said. "She's a real bitch in the mornings."
"Hey!" I said.
Lynette shrugged.
"You shouldn't talk about patients like that," I said.
"I'm off duty," she said. "And you earned it."
I didn't really have an answer for that.
"Anyway, here's your potion for the night," she said, putting a vial on the table. "I recommend you take it sometime before ten, if you want to get out of here bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, like your excitable friend."
"She's not exactly my friend," I said. "Anyway, my first class is at ten fifteen. Can you make sure I'm awake in time to get to it?"
"I'll have somebody wake you up, if it comes to that," she said. "But if you don't wait too long to take the potion, it shouldn't be an issue."
"Is Candace really going to be here alone all night?" I asked.
"She's not going to bother you," Lynette said. "I've spoken to her. Multiple times. She's more afraid of you than you are of her."
"People who are afraid of me can do a lot of damage," I said.
"I'll talk to her again before I leave," Lynette said.
Somehow, I didn't find that wholly reassuring.
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I didn't realize it the first time I read this chapter but Lynette made a Dragonball Z quote when talking about power levels "It's over nine thousand" I got a kick out of that.
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BMeph says:
Then shame on you. "Over nine thousand" is as popular an Internet Meme as any of Suzi's lolcat quote.
…You _do_ know that Suzi almost exclusively speaks lolcat Pax, right? 😉
karasu says:
Oh, there are so many allusions to internet memes and other works all throughout the story… There was "The cake is a lie" in history class, "partialtongue" in the last bonus story, … And, of course, "I can haz cheezburger?" ^^
HollowGolem says:
And, I think on a more constructive note, I like the way the author puts them in. Not the fact that she does, but -how- she does.
They are done in such a way as to not really break the flow of the narrative, so that someone who does not understand the meme would not be thrown off. So many nuggets for intended audiences end up alienating peripheral readers, but not ones in prose this well-planned.
zeel says:
Very true, she works them into the dialogue in such a natural fashion that you don't always even catch them the first time. I know I first read this before ever playing Portal, and the cake thing seemed like a perfectly reasonable analogy at the time. Now it's extra perfect since I know the reference.
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My favorite phrases are:
"to know the unknowable, to tange the intangible,
to eff the ineffable."
"You are such a hypocrite! You would have sex with anyone who is willing. And the rest of you aren't even that picky!"
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row row scrye the power! … level… of your patient.
Grant says:
It's fun seeing all the sprinkled internet memes in here, but I immediately came down to comment after reading the Subtitle.
"In Which Mackenzie Can Check Out Any Time She Wants", being a song lyric which is followed up by "but you can never leave".
Haha, man I should be working on a project but I can't stop reading. Oh dear.
"Those don't leave the center under any circumstances"
The potions which will instantly put somebody to sleep for a full eight hours and prevent waking from anything other than a kiss? It is a very good thing people are not allowed to leave with those. Just imagine Puddy with one. Or Greg.
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Ian! Play Wall of Wonder!
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Jeff Rosenfeld
Jeff Rosenfeld is an oboist with the Kensington Symphony and other Bay Area ensembles.
Kids & Families Feature
My Love Affair With Internet Radio
BY Jeff Rosenfeld
On the day my lifelong infatuation with classical radio died, I hardly realized it would be revived by the Internet just a year later and become better than ever — so exciting that my CDs are quickly becoming superfluous, forgotten on their dusty shelves. Studio recordings simply can't compare to the magnetism of the great live performances on Internet radio. (See a list of recommended stations, below.) When I go to a recordings store these days I find myself going through the motions.
Archive Review
Taking the Pulse of Italian Music
At one time, Italian music meant throbbing voices soaring unashamedly through ornate melodies, propelled by the pulsating oom-pah-pah of an orchestra masquerading as a massive guitar. In its latest concert, last Monday at the Green Room of San Francisco's Veterans War Memorial, the Left Coast Ensemble took stock of recent Italian music. The results could not have been further from the distinctively tuneful opulence of Bellini and Verdi. Yet somehow the pulse is still thriving.
Bigger Is Not Bolder
No music makes a bigger statement than the brassy sunrise of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. Because tour programs are generally about making statements, the extravagant tone poem based on Nietzsche's extravagantly confident philosophy is music befitting the San Francisco Symphony's current itinerary. This week the orchestra heads to New York, Vienna, and Prague with the Strauss showpiece in the music folders, but on the basis of Saturday's concert at Davies Symphony Hall, its big statements will be made by the "little" moments.
Musicians Loose in the Asylum
At nearly every turn there was something crazy about the Berkeley Symphony concert on Thursday, making it one of the most stimulating but maddening musical events of the year. To begin with, however, give kudos to the orchestra for scheduling itself two dates in Berkeley's First Congregational Church, instead of Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, barely a stone's throw away. The sanctuary gave the orchestra's sound a welcome bloom but equal clarity to all the instrumental sections. The ensemble seemed commensurately assured, coordinated, and energetic.
The Unbearable Lightness of Music
To say we heard Martin Fröst play the clarinet at San Francisco's Herbst Theatre on Thursday would be an understatement. We came to see his San Francisco Performances debut, and in return he made us see how music can defy gravity. Fröst is a virtuoso with the instrument, and his sound, always miraculously well-tuned, can soar effortlessly and beautifully, thanks in part to a gently stifled tone that, over inhuman stretches, is unbroken by audible breathing.


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Minimizing environmental impact by developing strategic solutions to meet sustainability objectives.
We are proud to join this important initiative and to commit to its universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. The multi-year strategy of the UN Global Compact is to drive business awareness and action in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Two important awards for Intesa Sanpaolo's commitment to sustainability. The Group has been confirmed for the third consecutive year among the 100 most sustainable listed companies in the world in the ranking drawn up by Corporate Knights magazine. The Group was also included in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the Climate Change A List 2018.
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— японская компания, активная в сфере развлечений. Это так же агентство по поиску талантов (занимающееся поиском, воспитанием и продвижением артистов), и компания по производству видео- и аудиоконтента, и рекламное агентство. Кроме того, компания занимается издательской деятельностью, музыкальным программным обеспечением и патентным агентированием. Частный музей Amuse, расположенный в Асакуса, Токио, принадлежит компании. В нём представлены выставки укиё-э и текстиля.

История
Компания Amuse inc была основана в 1978 году, когда она подписала контракт с рок-группой Southern All Stars. Вскоре после этого, в 1981 году, Amuse inc создала дочернюю компанию по производству и распространению фильмов Amuse Cinema City Inc. и выпустила фильм Morning Moon Wa Sozatsu Ni (в главной роли Син Кисида) в том же году, а затем Aiko 16 sai (1983). В 1983 году Amuse inc подписала контракт с актрисой Ясуко Томита. В следующем году Amuse inc открыла свой филиал в США.

Amuse Video Inc была создана в 1990 году как дочерняя компания по производству/продаже видеопрограмм группы Amuse inc. В 1995 году Amuse создала совместное предприятие с Bandai и открыла свой первый кинотеатр. В 2000 году Amuse inc открыла свой корейский филиал. 20 сентября 2001 года компания Amuse inc была зарегистрирована на бирже ценных бумаг в Осаке. Прокатный фильм «Пианист» получил Золотую пальмовую ветвь на Каннском кинофестивале 2002 года.

В 2004 году компания Amuse inc открыла интернет-магазины Ambra. В 2007 году она основала свой музыкальный лейбл Taishita в совместном предприятии с Victor Entertainment. В 2008 году группа инвестировала в Brussels Co. Ltd., компанию, которая занимается созданием бельгийских пивных баров. В 2009 году группа открыла дочернюю компанию Amuse Edutainment Inc. В 2012 году была создана компания Amuse Singapore. Amuse намеревалась дать вторую жизнь J-pop, продвигая группы Flumpool и WEAVER. В 2013 году она произвела и распространила фильм «Вечный ноль». В 2015 году была создана компания Amuse France inc.

В январе 2016 года компания Amuse установила партнёрские отношения с New Japan Pro-Wrestling, акции которой принадлежат Amuse inc. В США Amuse запустила J-Creation для развития связей между японскими и американскими производственными мощностями. В октябре 2018 года Amuse USA запустила Apocrypha: Легенда о Babymetal.

24 июня 2022 года Amuse Inc. объявила об основании новой компании Kulture Inc. и фонда, специализирующихся на Web3 и metaverse с целью создания следующего поколения развлечений. Kobametal, являющийся продюсером группы Babymetal был назначен директором Kulture Inc.

Артисты

 Масахару Фукуяма
 Southern All Stars
 FLOW
 Flumpool
 Гэн Хосино
 Фудзиока Дин
 Cross Gene
 Каори Асо
 Дзюн Ёсинага
 Дзюнко Такеути
 Михо Исии
 Shit Kingz
 Николь Исида
 Масами Исихара
 Рэнка Исияма
 Юка Итая
 Ёси Итиге
 Эри Муракава
 Такафуми Имаи
 SIRO-A
 Рэй Ивата
 WEAVER
 Кори Фрэнкс R&B
 Go Ueki
 Дзури Уэно
 Кэнта Идзука
 Юдзиро Казама
 Руито Аояги
 Такуя Уэхара
 Соити Хирама
 Коуки Мизута
 Сёта Мацусима
 Рё Ёсидзава
 Дори Сакурада
 Сюхей Номура
 Кенто Каку
 Сёго Сакамото
 Даичи Канэко
 Казуки Исига
 Сёма Кай
 Коудай Мацуока
 Юта Косеки
 Такуя Мидзогути
 Кентаро Томита
 Масаки Ота
 Наюта Фукудзаки
 Каната Хосода
 Сюндзи Тагава
 Тайсукэ Ниихара
 Тайю Фудзивара
 Такуя Терада
 Кейсуке Уэда
 Кэйсукэ Ватанабэ
 Кацуми Хёдо
 Дзин Судзуки
 Рика Утикава
 Рёхэй Отани
 Юта Орисака
 Масахиро Ота
 Эми Даймацу
 Масару Омура
 Мэгуми Окада
 Айко Ямайдэ
 Ёси Окуяма
 Хисахиро Огура
 Perfume
 Sakura Gakuin
 Babymetal
 Mafumafu
 Begin
 Porno Graffitti
 Аканэ Саканоуэ
 Куруми Симидзу
 Юрико Ёситака
 Рииса Нака
 Кая Киёхара
 Юри Цунэмацу
 Аяка Миёси
 Эри Фукацу
 Frederic
 ЭДОГА САЛЛИВАН
 Анна Ямада
 Маю Хотта
 Айри Мацуи
 Алисса Яги
 Диос
 Асами Тано
 Хината Сато
 The Oral Cigarettes
 Юта Хираока
 Сакура Фудзивара
 NOA
 TEAM NACS (деловой альянс с CREATIVE OFFICE CUE.)
 Риэ Такахаси
 Тиаки Хоран
 Asterism
 Генри Обед
 Юи Мидзуно

Бывшие артисты Amuse Inc
 Харума Миура
 One Ok Rock
 Такеру Сато
 Рюносуке Камики
 Кимито Тотани
 Сейсю Урагами
 Кинари Хирано
 Казунори Мимура
 Сёта Тагути
 Ито Наото
 Такуя Ёсимура
 Ю Такахаси
 Каору Масаки
 Сума Исихара

Прочие активы

Amuse Models
Amuse Models является подразделением компании Amuse. Компания Amuse Models была основана в 2004 году, её детское подразделение иногда называют Amuse Kids.

В 2014 году Amuse объединилась с Will Corporation и основала модельное агентство, которое сейчас состоит в основном из подростков. Среди талантов, принадлежавших Amuse после слияния с Will Corporation — Дзюри Уэно и Юрико Ёситака.

Kulture Inc.
Kulture Inc. — дочерняя компания Amuse. Kulture была создана в целях дальнейшего развития индустрии развлечений и как место для внедрения технологических тенденций, таких как Web3 и Metaverse, в существующий бизнес, а также для создания новых услуг и развития бизнеса.

Владение акциями
 A-Sketch — совместное предприятие с KDDI
 Taishita Label Music — совместное предприятие с Victor Entertainment
 Amuse Soft Entertainment — объединилась с Amuse в 2015 году
 Amuse Quest
 Amuse Books — объединилась с Amuse в 2003 году
 Amuse Video — продано компании Toshiba
 Amuse Edutainment
 Geishin Creative Tokyo
 TOKYO FANTASY Inc.
 Ayers Inc. — merged with Amuse in 2015
 J-Feel
 Brussels Co., Ltd.
 Kirei Inc (U.S.A.)
 Amuse Korea
 Beijing Geishin Theatrical Art Production
 Geishin Creative Shanghai
 Live Viewing Japan

Примечания

Ссылки

Компании Японии
Компании, основанные в 1978 году
Букинг-агентства
Рекламные агентства Японии
Компании, имеющие листинг акций на Токийской бирже
Медиакомпании по алфавиту

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Yonhap News Agency recently reported the remarks of South Korea's Second Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul regarding the security risks of climate change. The minister provided important commentary on both security risks, as well as the need for a more holistic partnership approach to tackling climatic risks in the Asia-Pacific region. The full article is worth reading and can be accessed here. The minister's remarks were focused mostly on the Asia-Pacific region, but Cho Tae-yul has also spoken about the role of climatic factors in the Arctic, and expressed interest in Arctic Council membership for South Korea.
For your convenience, below are some excerpts from Vice Foreign Minister Cho's remarks from the Yonhap News Agency article.
By Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia in Arctic, Asia-Pacific, climate and security on April 3, 2013 .


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Tamil 3 will be dubbed in Hindi: Dhanush
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By Odishatv Bureau On Feb 10, 2012 - 2:14 PM
New Delhi: `Kolaveri Di` hitmaker Dhanush says that his upcoming Tamil film `3` will be dubbed in Hindi.
Dhanush, 28, who is the son-in-law of superstar Rajinikanth, said there will be some delay to the film`s release because they are planning a global release.
"`3` will be released in Hindi dubbed, Telugu dubbed and Tamil with English subtitle all over d world. It will hit the screens March end or April .. Since its a national release its taking time(sic)," he posted on Twitter.
Directed by wife and debut director Aishwarya Dhanush, the film stars Dhanush and Shruti Haasan in the lead roles.


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A Message from our Headteacher.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our school website. Hopefully this website will provide you with an insight into our school, and offer some practical information which will be of use to you as a member of our school community.
Stithians is a happy school where the pupils and staff enjoy learning. The school offers a broad and balanced curriculum, allowing children to shine in many areas. The school provides the children with a comprehensive range of extra-curricular activities to cater for both sports, arts and ICT.
As a school we celebrate successes using the weekly newsletter and assemblies. The children are encouraged to take responsibility for their learning and develop personal resilience.
In April 2017 the school was inspected and Ofsted judged us as continuing to be a good school. Stithians School prides itself on providing a happy, safe, secure and supportive learning environment. At Stithians School every child is special and unique. All our children are encouraged to care for and support one another.
· "Children in the Early Years are well prepared for the demands of Year 1. They are taught well and make good progress across all aspects of their development. Across years 1 and 2 they are making particularly strong progress in learning phonics and this is evident in their reading and writing. As a result, more pupils are going beyond the expected level in reading for their age".
· "The school's curriculum has been reviewed and provides a wide range of interesting and stimulating activities. Tolerance and respect for others and an understanding of democracy are promoted well through the curriculum and, as a result, pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain".
At the centre of our ethos is the determination that all children can succeed and should enjoy their school experience while achieving their full potential.
I believe that success in Education comes from an effective Home School Partnership. This is achieved through a close and trusting relationship, both working together to promote the aims and ethos of the school.
I consider it to be a great privilege to be the Head teacher of such a busy, vibrant and successful school. If you would like to visit or have any questions don't hesitate to contact me and arrange a meeting.


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How and Where the Poultry Farmers Lose Rs. 1 per Egg
Chander Mohan Updated 30 November, 2019 12:43 AM IST
On the sidelines of Poultry India 2019, Chakradhar Rao, President of the Indian Poultry Equipment Manufacturers' Association (IPEMA) said that the poultry sector is reeling under severe stress due to increased cost of production, particularly feed costs. He said, "In the past nine months, they suffered a loss of Rs 7,500 crore. At Rs 5 to 6 / piece, you may be thinking that the egg prices have hit the roof. But on every egg that you purchase, the producer is making a loss of Re 1.
He added that "Each farmer has lost about Rs 250 on every bird that he owns in the last nine months". Rao said that the industry can't take the cost burden if the farmers are forced to reduce the number of birds in a cage.
The event witnessed protests by angry poultry farmers who demanded support prices for their produce.
They alleged that the NECC (National Egg Coordination Committee) has failed to attend to their grievances. Demanding elections to the national body, they said the farmers in the egg production regions such as Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh were losing heavily because of the lopsided pricing of the egg.
A K P, who represents the Namakkal constituency in the Lok Sabha said, "The NECC is not coordinating well. They need to convene regular meetings with stakeholders such as farmers, farms, and traders to listen to the issues on the ground,"
Echoing the views expressed by the protestors, he said the egg production has been hit very hard because of the poor pricing issues.
Telangana Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivasa Yadav assured that the issue of support price would be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on the poultry industry.
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Apple's iCloud services again hit by global outage
AppleInsider Staff | Apr 23, 2013
The iCloud suite of services experienced an outage Tuesday morning, marking yet another period of downtime for Apple's cloud-based operations.
Update: Later on Tuesday, Apple's iCloud System Status page was updated to reflect downtime for account and sign-in, Apple ID creation, the iTunes Store, and Game Center. Some of the outages spanned more than 5 hours.
The outage appeared to affect a number of iCloud-based services, including Mail, Find My iPhone, and Find My Friends. Users attempting to log in to iCloud.com were also met with a "Connection Error" message that explained that "iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server."
The issues appeared to be worldwide as of Tuesday morning, as readers from around the globe reached out to AppleInsider to detail their own issues.
Despite the multitude of issues, Apple's iCloud System Status website claimed that all iCloud services were online and operational. No downtime was noted by the company.
Issues with iCloud uptime are not new, but the company has seen a number of service outages in recent weeks. Just last Friday, its iCloud-based email service saw a 27-hour outage before operation returned to normal.
A week prior, Apple's iMessage and FaceTime services saw two outages in a span of just a few days. Apple's iCloud System Status page revealed that the problem affected "some users."
jollypaul
Ugh. More bad news. We are experiencing an information vacuum filled by bad news and press speculation. No end in sight. Maybe Apple's extended silence will turn out to be a stroke of genius.
logic368
hmm... i wonder what's been going on... and going wrong. how do you explain these problems??
kozchris
Am I the only one who has not seen any issues with iCloud? I have never had any issues when any of these reports say I should be. I am on the computer for the better part of every day so you would think I would see some issue.
rogifan
Here's where Apple could spend some of its billions...on more cloud infrastructure.
adrayven
Appleinsider uses a service to track apple services.. most times, I think it's wrong, cuz I have never experienced the outages they claim..


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The Caraballo Mountains is a mountain range in the central part of Luzon island in the Philippines, situated between the Cordillera Central and Sierra Madre mountain ranges. The mountains serve as the location of the river source of the Cagayan River, the longest in the country.

Several portions of the mountain range are protected under the National Integrated Protected Areas System, including the Casecnan Protected Landscape and the Pantabangan–Carranglan Watershed Forest Reserve.

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See also
 Geography of the Philippines
 Battle for the Villa Verde Trail

Mountain ranges of the Philippines
Landforms of Nueva Vizcaya
Landforms of Quirino
Landforms of Nueva Ecija


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Q: How to make my rock, paper, scissor run more than once below is what I have so far, I need to implement function simul() that takes as input an integer n and simulates n rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors between players Player 1 and Player 2. Any tips would be appreciated
import random
def simul(n):

    p1 = random.choice("RPS")
    p2 = random.choice("RPS")

    if p1 == p2:
       print("Tie")
    elif (p1 == "R" and p2 == "S") or (p1 == "S" and p2 =="P") or (p1 == "P" and p2 == "R"):
       print("Player 1 wins")
    else:
       print("Player 2 wins")

A: import random
def simul(n):

    for i in range(n):
       p1 = random.choice("RPS")
       p2 = random.choice("RPS")

       if p1 == p2:
          print("Tie")
       elif (p1 == "R" and p2 == "S") or (p1 == "S" and p2 =="P") or (p1 == "P" and p2 == "R"):
          print("Player 1 wins")
       else:
          print("Player 2 wins")

A: You need recursive func. Simple solution is :
import random
def simul(n):
    if n < 1:
        return 'Finished'
    p1 = random.choice("RPS")
    p2 = random.choice("RPS")
    if p1 == p2:
       print("Tie")
    elif (p1 == "R" and p2 == "S") or (p1 == "S" and p2 =="P") or (p1 == "P" and p2 == "R"):
       print("Player 1 wins")
    else:
       print("Player 2 wins")
    simul(n-1)

n = int(input('Enter the number of rounds'))
simul(n)

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While Asian fusion is hardly a new concept, Lou Joe Restaurant makes it its own by blending a variety of Asian flavors, especially those from Guangxi Province in China. The menu includes modern Japanese and traditional Chinese cuisine and sends diners on a delightful journey of tastes right inside the Roslyn Heights establishment.
Lunch and dinner options include chicken and broccoli with brown sauce, steak Thai curry, shrimp and baby eggplant in garlic sauce, steamed Chilean sea bass with yuzu shoyu and lobster with a creamy saffron reduction. Sushi options are extensive with chef-selected tasting menus and signature rolls like Roxy Dragon, Dancing Eel, Ooba Maki and Volcano, to name a few.
A low-key café in Roslyn Heights, Chicken Kebab Restaurant features a wide selection of Mediterranean dishes, some even original family recipes of Turkish owner Nazim Alkan. Along with his wife, Munevver, whom he describes as "the best cook in Turkey," the Alkans serve their guests as if they were family.
On the menu, you'll find savory meat, cheese and spinach pies, hummus, tabuleh, falafel, scordalia, homemade dolma, baba ganoush and saganaki, and that barely scratches the surface of appetizer choices. There are also salads, sandwiches and every kind of kebab imaginable.
In this, the land of diners, Landmark Diner is a standout. As part of the community for more than 45 years, a visit to the Landmark Diner is like a visit to an old friend. Not only does it serve American staples, the diner is committed to taking care of the environment by recycling, using eco-friendly cleaning products, adopting energy-efficient systems and serving all-natural and hormone-free meat.
With options for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert, the voluminous menu contains every kind of dish conceivable, from omelets and pancakes to soups and sandwiches, and salads and burgers to wraps and flatbread pizzas. Landmark Diner also offers traditional Greek platter selections like spanokopita, gyro, souvlaki, kotopoulo and moussaka.
If you are looking for a healthy alternative to fast food, Grill Mark should be your next stop. The café right down the block in Albertson bases its menu on the Mediterranean diet and makes it its mission to serve the freshest, highest quality and tastiest food to its customers.
At Grill Mark you'll find nutritional powerhouses like kale and avocado, all-natural grilled skewered meats, sweet potato fries, fresh fish and seafood, homemade soups and cold-pressed juices. And there's no need to deny your sweet tooth with treats like walnut baklava, cheesecake and rice pudding at hand.


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Q: Execute a Node CLI command within a AWS Lamda function To execute a Node command in my EC2 instance, I just use the following in the CLI
gsjson 1KIg84G9CXErw2bWhkEHWUkOI4CR-biFeLqCtdypaLU8 fruits.json

When I try and execute this within a packaged AWS Lambda function it doesn't work. Here is my Node AWS Lambda code:
var gsjson = require('google-spreadsheet');
var fs = require('fs');

exports.handler = function(event, context) {
    // Create JSON file from Google Sheet using gsjson
    gsjson 1KIg84G9CXErw2bWhkEHWUkOI4CR-biFeLqCtdypaLU8 fruits.json {
        if (err) {
            context.fail("JSON file creation error: " + err);
        } else {
            context.succeed("JSON file created");
        }
    });

    //Read the content from the /tmp directory to check the JSON file exists
    fs.readdir("/tmp", function (err, data) {
        console.log(data);

    });
}

How can I execute the Node command like I would in EC2 CLI but within a AWS Lambda function?

A: You can't just paste a command line command into the middle of your NodeJS code like that and expect it to work. In this case you are including gsjson as a library and you should use it as a library. In the official documentation for gsjson it shows multiple examples of how to do something via the command line, and the corresponding NodeJS API code that would accomplish the same thing. You need to be using the NodeJS API code version.
For example your code would need to change to something like this:
gsjson({
    spreadsheetId: '1KIg84G9CXErw2bWhkEHWUkOI4CR-biFeLqCtdypaLU8'
})
.then(function(result) {
    console.log(result.length);
    console.log(result);
    // do something with the spreadsheet result here
})
.catch(function(err) {
    console.log(err.message);
    console.log(err.stack);
    context.fail(err)
});


Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) constitute 10–20% of all breast cancers and are characterized by the lack of hormone receptors (estrogen and progesterone receptors) and HER2/neu expression (1). TNBC are not eligible to hormonotherapy and Herceptin/trastuzumab targeted therapy and are generally associated with poor clinical outcome (2). Anthracycline/taxane-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the primary systemic treatment but resistance to this treatment is common and the identification of new potential therapeutic molecules is required to improve the outcome of TNBC patients.


Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray. In large bowl, beat cake mix, buttermilk, oil, eggs, cocoa and food color with electric mixer on medium speed 2 minutes. Pour into pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely. Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. Crumble cake into large bowl. Add frosting; mix well. Shape into 1 1/4-inch balls. Place on cookie sheet. Freeze 15 minutes. Transfer to refrigerator.
Dip half of balls in melted green candy and other half in melted red candy; tap off excess. Return to cookie sheet; let stand until set.
Spoon melted white candy into resealable food-storage plastic bag; cut off tiny corner of bag. Pipe designs on cake balls; let stand until set. Gently press 1 cereal piece on top of each cake ball, attaching with white candy. Pipe dot of candy on cereal piece; attach another cereal piece upright in center for ornament hook.