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A conversation with Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John E. Hyten
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In an increasingly competitive world, the United States faces a wide range of security challenges. While China and Russia are the primary focus of the nation's defense planning, other long-term challenges such as counterterrorism, North Korea, and Iran are still important priorities, too. To address these and other challenges, the armed forces must not only ensure the highest levels of readiness today, but also make investments to deter the threats of tomorrow.
On September 13, Brookings hosted General John E. Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for a sweeping conversation with Senior Fellow Michael O'Hanlon on the state of American defense, military modernization, the state of the all-volunteer force, the implementation of the National Defense Strategy, and what new approaches the Pentagon under Secretary Lloyd Austin will take in tackling these issues. They also reflected on General Hyten's long, distinguished career as he approaches retirement later this year.
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Q: How do I check ALL letters in a value For example, I have a dict below:
a = {'0': {'a', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'b', 'f'},
     '1': {'c', 'b'},
     '2': {'a', 'd', 'e', 'b', 'g'}}

Let's say my input is 'eb'. I want to check which key contains BOTH 'e' and 'b'. How do I make it such that I get back only 0 and 2 as the keys, instead of 1 as well ( because 1 contains b )?
Because I am using " if letter in v", but this only check each letter('e' , then 'b'). How do I check the entire string ( all character) if they are in the value?
Basically how do I split a string but getting individual characters back NOT in a list form

A: Using set.issubset:
[k for k, v in a.items() if set("eb").issubset(v)]

Output:
['0', '2']

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Isaac Woodard Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Book, Life Story, Linwood Shull, Death, Net Worth and News
Isaac Woodard Jr. was a decorated African American World War II veteran. Hours after being honorably discharged from the United States Army on 12th February 1946, was attacked while still in uniform by South Carolina police as he was taking a bus home. was attacked while still in uniform by South Carolina police as he was taking a bus home.
Isaac Woodard
Isaac Woodard Biography
The attack and his injuries sparked national outrage and galvanized the civil rights movement in the United States. Such miscarriages of justice by state governments influenced a move towards civil rights initiatives at the federal level.
Truman subsequently established a national interracial commission, made a historic speech to the NAACP and the nation in June 1947 in which he described civil rights as a moral priority, submitted a civil rights bill to Congress in February 1948, and issued Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 on June 26, 1948, desegregating the armed forces and the federal government.
Isaac Woodard Age
He was born 18th March 1919, Fairfield County, South Carolina, United States. He was 73 years old when he died on 23rd September 1992, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States.
Isaac Woodard Height
Information concerning his height will soon be updated.
Isaac Woodard Family
He was one of nine children of Sarah and Isaac Woodard Sr., He was born on March 8, 1919, on a farm in Fairfield County, South Carolina. The Woodard family, as landless sharecroppers, was on the lowest rung of what was essentially a feudal society. His family struggled to subsist, and the Woodard children frequently worked in the fields rather than attend school. He quited School at age of 11, after completing the fifth grade, and left home at 15 in search of relief from the family's crushing poverty. His mother would later observe that Fairfield County whites, who owned virtually all of the land and wealth of the community, did not "think of a Negro as they do a dog. Looks as if all they want is our work."
Isaac Woodard Wife
Details about his wife will soon be updated.
Isaac Woodard Education
According to our research, Isaac attended local segregated schools, often underfunded for African Americans during the Jim Crow years.
Isaac Woodard Career
He enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina on 14th October 1942 at the age of 23 years old. He served in the Pacific Theater in a labor battalion as a longshoreman and was promoted to sergeant. He later earned a battle star for his Asiatic-Pacific Theater Campaign Medal by unloading ships under enemy fire in New Guinea, and received the Good Conduct Medal as well as the Service medal and World War II Victory Medal awarded to all American participants. He then received an honorable discharge.
Isaac Woodard Net Worth
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Isaac Woodard Book
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He was one of the sheriffs who dragged Woodard off the bus and repeatedly jabbed him in both eyes with their police batons, blinding him as he was on his way to meet his wife. The beating was later reported to Truman by NAACP leaders in a meeting at the White House on September 19, 1946. Truman was shocked and both opened a Justice Department investigation into the case and promised to create what would become the President's Committee on Civil Rights, the first national civil rights commission.
Isaac Woodard Death
He died on 23rd September 1992, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States.
Isaac Woodard Life Story
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Isaac Woodard was en route to meet his wife on February 12, 1946, when he was arrested and beaten blind by police chief Linwood Shull. Woodward was a 26-year-old Black veteran who had been honorably discharged and was traveling by bus (still in uniform) to Winnsboro, SC. #BHM pic.twitter.com/5hk9a47yWf
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Town honors an African-American WWII veteran blinded in a 1946 police beating
Updated 1848 GMT (0248 HKT) February 11, 2019
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard historical marker was dedicated in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina on Saturday. The bottom portion is written in Braille.
(CNN) A South Carolina town has honored an African-American World War II veteran more than 70 years after he was beaten and blinded by local police.
Officials and community leaders in Batesburg-Leesville unveiled a historical marker of the attack on Sgt. Isaac Woodard Jr.
Woodard had just gotten out of the Army in February 1946 and was on his way home when he got into a dispute with the bus driver after asking to get off to use the bathroom.
The driver complained to the Batesburg police, including Lynwood Shull, the town's white police chief. They brutally beat Woodard, who was still in his Army uniform, and thew him in jail. He was convicted of drunk and disorderly conduct and fined.
The officers were later charged with violating Woodard's civil rights and acquitted.
"I am sorry that this happened and I apologize for this happening," said Batesville-Leesburg Mayor Lancer Shull during the dedication ceremony. The mayor shares the same last name as the police chief but says they are not related and that his family comes from Missouri.
Shull and other city officials worked to vacate Woodard's conviction last year.
"Forgiveness does not condone and it does not forget the act, but for those of us, we can vow to make sure that this act never happens again," he said.
Boxing champion Joe Louis (left) and Neil Scott guide Isaac Woodard up stairs at Hotel Theresa.
Woodard died in 1992, but his nephew, Robert Young, and other relatives came from New York for the ceremony.
Young said his uncle was his best friend, a leader in their community and his family's "illustrious, famous hero."
"Although they took his sight away in the end he was still able to see the creation of appropriate and specific laws needed to fight the inequities and injustice that he suffered at the hands of his fellow men as he returned from the war that he had no say in," Young said.
The attack helped inspire President Harry Truman to create the President's Committee on Civil Rights and to integrate the US military in 1948.
Woodard joined the US Army at Fort Jackson in nearby Columbia, where more than 48,000 soldiers go through basic training each year.
Fort Jackson's commander, Brig. Gen. Milford Beagle Jr., is African-American and said that Woodard helped pave the way for him and made the military stronger and more diverse.
He said he hoped that Woodard never doubted that his sacrifices made a contribution.
"He helped build the bridge that many like me used to cross the river of inequality injustice and prejudice," Beagle said. "The pain that he suffered led to the betterment of future soldiers, the Army and our nation."
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Textual Comparison on Blog and Journal Summary
✅ Wordcount: 4553 words ✅ Published: 1st Sep 2017
In the following I will be reporting on two texts containing a similar research different in terms of presentation: one is a blog and the other is a journal summary. Of importance however, is not their text presentation mode but on how their respective writers made their lexicogrammatical choices. I chose to work with the following features: noun group composition and lexical density.
Lexical density
I computed the lexical density of the texts by estimating how each writer used lexical as well as grammatical units in total.
The entire blog text has a lexical density of 53.78% while the journal article summary has a lexical density of 55.61%. This is an indicator that the journal article has a huge quantity of information-carrying words. The blog text, on the other hand, has comparatively limited information-carrying words. Mostly, you will find incomplete clauses in the blog text like the writer was constructing his/ her own utterances. For example, how the blog post used "The five largest statewide whooping cough epidemics identified" as the journal writer used "The 5 largest statewide epidemics had substantial proportions ". Seemingly, the writer had little time to ponder and plan what they wanted to write. The journal writer had more time to plan as well as shape the units of meaning they wanted to use comparatively. The writer of the journal sufficiently selected the best lexical word befitting, reviewed the text and replaced words before he submitted the text compared to the blogger. The writer of the journal also seems to be well equipped when it comes to vocabulary as well as word finding. Comparatively, the blogger has more difficulties finding words and with their vocabulary. Additionally, the lexical density tells us that there is more information in the journal text compared to the blog text. True to this, the journal text has 355 words and the blog text has 308 words (excluding the last bit about requesting for a copy).
Take "Of the 970 measles cases with detailed vaccination data, 574 cases were unvaccinated despite being vaccine-eligible and 405 (70.6%) of these had nonmedical exemptions (e.g., exemptions for religious or philosophical reasons, as opposed to medical contraindications; 41.8% of total)" from the journal article summary – it has a lexical density of 48.84%. A similar edition of the blog is "Of the 970 measles cases with accompanying vaccination data, 574 cases were unvaccinated despite being eligible to receive the immunization and 405 cases had nonmedical vaccine exemptions, such as religious or philosophical opposition to vaccines", which has 54.29%. Here, the writer of the blogger used more lexical words in the sentence compared to the writer of the journal to tell the same story. The blogger also used lesser words i.e. 35 while the writer of the journal text used 40 words. In the given text, the blogger came strong with his/ her words and overtook the writer of the journal when he said, "despite being eligible to receive the immunization". The journal writer simply wrote, "despite being vaccine-eligible". For the reader, it is easier to understand the blogger because it is not difficult for anyone who is not equipped with vocabularies to know what 'eligible' by itself means. The blogger explicitly tells us how the subject(baby), and the object(vaccine) relate by telling us how the subject would have had an action performed on it. The other sentence does not clearly depict the object nor talk more on it nor the action. When the journal writer uses 'vaccine-eligible', the sentence comes out as vague.
Taking this sentence apart from the text, the lexical words give us a general idea of what the whole text is about which is what the blogger did. The journal writer decided to take the other approach by using grammatical, non-lexical words more to assist us to make a whole from the pieces. Judging from this alone, the blogger intended to convey more information compared to the writer of the journal.
See how in the journal text the writer says "However, several pertussis outbreaks also occurred in highly vaccinated populations indicating waning immunity". The whole sentence has lexical words except for the word 'in'. the lexical density is a clean 92.31%. For the same text in the blog, it amassed a 68.18% lexical density. The prepositions and determinants replaced lexical words. "However, the study also noted that epidemics of whooping cough occurred in vaccinated populations too which highlights the issue of waning immunity". The blogger uses more words because they have incorporated grammatical non-lexical words but that does not increase the density of the sentence. I feel the blogger already told us what they study was about thus, saying 'which highlights the issue of waning immunity' would have been replaced by, 'highlighting waning immunity'. More lexical units, more density less tautology but still maintaining the meaning.
When it gets to the general text, the journal writer's text is more expository compared to the blog text. The reason their lexical densities are not that far apart is because they both used information-bearing as well as lexical words, only that one excelled at it more.
Noun group composition.
With the noun groups, I tackled the four common noun phrases: pronouns, nouns alone, nouns + determinants and nouns + modifiers+ determinants.
When it comes to parts of speech, the journal has 37.08% usage of nouns, 5.48% of adjectives, 5.48% of verbs, 1.83% of adverbs, 15.67% of prepositions, 2.09% of pronouns, 4.18% of auxiliary verbs.
The blog text has 27.32% usage of nouns, 7.92% of adjectives, 14.48% of verbs, 4.37% of adverbs, 17.49% of prepositions, 3.55% of pronouns and finally, a 5.19% of auxiliary verbs.
There are two rules that simply govern how noun groups are used in English. One of them is that many noun phrases have at least two essentials. When a noun is not used in a generalizing manner, there is at least a determiner and a noun. A determiner could be a quantifier like "many", a possessive like "my", a numeral like "thirty", a question word like "whose" and finally an article like "the".
The writer of the journal used longer and many noun phrases compared to the blogger. He was trying to be very accurate about the information being conveyed because it was complex. I made a count of 25 noun phrases with determiners in the blog text. Comparatively, I made 31 noun phrases with determiners in the journal text. When it comes to the noun phrases with determiners as well as modifiers, the journal text beat the blog text by far. An indicator of how complexly the writer of the journal viewed the information before he accurately relayed it. I feel the blogger was very sketchy when conveying the information. He did not want to delve deeper rather just give the reader an idea of the matter at hand.
The writers have both tried to be very noun-centric. They have used many noun phrases as well as been very modest with their variety of verbs. An example is at some point; the two writers have used a noun phrase repeatedly without making use of the pronouns. They ended up repeating a specific term as it was the only way to refer to the concept in the text. An instance is in how they both have used the noun phrase 'The United States' at least more than twice.
The second rule that governs how noun groups are used in English claims other multiple noun phrases also use modifiers. Modifiers can be adjectives, subordinate nouns, adjectival clauses, relative phases or prepositional clauses. Using examples in the blog texts, 'a substantial number' and 'the 5 largest statewide whooping cough cases'. The determiners in the two examples are 'a' and 'the'. Substantial, largest, statewide as well as whooping are adjectives. In this case, 'largest statewide whooping' is an adjectival clause. Lastly, the nouns are 'number', and 'cough cases'. 5 counts as a number which is just part of the clause but is not necessarily important to the clause.
An example from the journal text is 'this phenomenon improved understanding'. This is the determinant here. Phenomenon improved is the adjectival clause and understanding is the noun in this case. Noun phrases are an essential fragment of every sentence.
Noun phrases function first as the subject of clauses. For example, in 'the scientific literature', scientific acts as the subject.Secondly, they act as subject complements. Take "that have occurred since measles was declared eliminated". Measles is the subject and eliminated is the subject complement.
Thirdly, they function as the direct objects e.g. epidemic in the phrase 'The 5 largest statewide whooping cough epidemic'.
A journal text tends to try and be as formal as can be while the blog can be informal. They thus differ in their lexical densities because the writer relayed the information stressing the information differently. The building of noun phrases in the journal is also taken seriously because there are more complex clauses compared to the blogger. The blogger seemingly rushes through to make a submission while the journal writer has to think through and integrate so many aspects of grammar in his writing before submitting.
APPENDIX.
Blog's noun group composition.
Noun alone
Determiner + noun
Determiner + modifier+ noun
The vaccine
A substantial number
The scientific literature
The 5 largest statewide whooping cough epidemic
U.S>
The recent surge whooping cough cases
Measles cases
The disease
An unfortunate comeback
The largest number
Vaccine refusal
That diseased
A record low
The immunization
The researches
Measles outbreaks
The study authors
Cough outbreaks
A rise
Some groups
Vaccination data
Journal's noun group composition
State vaccine mandates
'This phenomenon improved understanding'
Vaccine delay refusal
A review
'The published literature'
'that have occurred since measles was declared eliminated"
'That assessed diseases risk'
The epidemiology
'Which described measles reports'
These diseases
'No history of measles vaccination'
'The measles cases with detailed vaccination data'
'These had non-medical exemptions'
'Which included 10,609 individuals for whom vaccination status was reported.'
'The 5 largest statewide epidemics had substantial proportions'
'A substantial portion'
These outbreaks
'The phenomenon of vaccine refusal'
The U.S measles cases
'An increased risk'
The era
Some populations
'the lowest point in U.S pertussis incidence"
U.S. outbreaks
U.S measles outbreaks
Vaccine delay
Measles studies
Outbreak reports
Vaccine eligible
Pertussis outbreaks
Pertussis resurgence
Blog's lexical density classification by sentence.
No. of sentences
Lexical density by every sentence.
vaccine refusal is fueling the spread of potentially deadly diseases.
"Published this month in Jama the study found that a substantial number of U.S. measles cases that happened after 2000 when the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. occurred among patients who were left purposefully unvaccinated i.e. vaccine refusal."
"They also found that vaccine refusal was associated with an increased risk for whooping cough though waning immunity seems to be contributing as well."
"To conduct the study researchers combed through the scientific literature for reports of measles outbreaks between 2000 and 2015 and for whooping cough outbreaks since 1977 when incidence of that disease reached a record low."
"They identified more than 1400 measles cases since 2000 of which more than 56 percent occurred in children whose parents refused vaccination."
"Among the five largest statewide whooping cough epidemics identified between 24 percent and 45 percent of patients were unvaccinated or undervaccinated."
"Of the 970 measles cases with accompanying vaccination data 574 cases were unvaccinated despite being eligible to receive the immunization and 405 cases had nonmedical vaccine exemptions such as religious or philosophical opposition to vaccines."
"in eight of 12 whooping cough outbreaks from nine studies that included vaccination data the researchers found that 59 percent to 93 percent of unvaccinated patients were left unvaccinated on purpose."
"however, the study also noted that epidemics of whooping cough occurred in vaccinated populations too which highlights the issue of waning immunity."
"the study authors concluded that refusing the vaccine against measles meant that people were putting not only themselves but also other people who had been vaccinated at risk."
"they also wrote that while the recent surge whooping cough cases may be down to other factors too the study clearly demonstrates that refusing to be vaccinated against measles has led to a rise in whooping cough among some groups of people."
"according to CDC though measles was declared eliminated in the u s in 2000 the contagious disease is making an unfortunate comeback spiking to 667 cases in 2014."
"as for highly contagious whooping cough the disease reached a recent high in 2012 with more than 48000 documented cases that's the largest number of reported cases since 1955."
Journal's lexical density by sentence.
No. of sentences.
Lexical density by every sentence
Lexical density.
"association between vaccine refusal and vaccine preventable diseases in the united states a review of measles and pertussis. "
"parents hesitant to vaccinate their children may delay routine immunizations or seek exemptions from state vaccine mandates."
"recent outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases in the united states have drawn attention to this phenomenon."
"improved understanding of the association between vaccine refusal and the epidemiology of these diseases is needed."
"to review the published literature to evaluate the association between vaccine delay refusal or exemption and the epidemiology of measles and pertussis 2 vaccine preventable diseases with recent us outbreaks. "
"search of PubMed through November 30 2015 for reports of us measles outbreaks that have occurred since measles was declared eliminated in the united states after January 1 2000 endemic and epidemic pertussis since the lowest point in us pertussis incidence after January 1 1977 and for studies that assessed disease risk in the context of vaccine delay or exemption."
"we identified 18 published measles studies 9 annual summaries and 9 outbreak reports which described 1416 measles cases individual age range 2 weeks84 years 178 cases younger than 12 months and more than half 56 8 had no history of measles vaccination."
"of the 970 measles cases with detailed vaccination data 574 cases were unvaccinated despite being vaccine eligible and 405 70 6 of these had nonmedical exemptions e g exemptions for religious or philosophical reasons as opposed to medical contraindications 41 8 of total."
"among 32 reports of pertussis outbreaks which included 10 609 individuals for whom vaccination status was reported age range 10 days87 years the 5 largest statewide epidemics had substantial proportions range 24 45 of unvaccinated or undervaccinated individuals."
"However, several pertussis outbreaks also occurred in highly vaccinated populations indicating waning immunity. "
"Nine reports describing 12 outbreaks provided detailed vaccination data on unimmunized cases among 8 of these outbreaks from 59 through 93 of unvaccinated individuals were intentionally unvaccinated."
"A substantial proportion of the u s measles cases in the era after elimination were intentionally unvaccinated."
"the phenomenon of vaccine refusal was associated with an increased risk for measles among people who refuse vaccines and among fully vaccinated individuals."
"although pertussis resurgence has been attributed to waning immunity and other factors vaccine refusal was still associated with an increased risk for pertussis in some populations."
Work cited.
Laufer, Batia, and Paul Nation. "Vocabulary size and use: Lexical richness in L2 written production." Applied linguistics 16.3 (1995): 307-322.
Johansson, Victoria. "Lexical diversity and lexical density in speech and writing: a developmental perspective." Working Papers in Linguistics 53 (2009): 61-79.
Abney, Steven Paul. The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. Pg. 45
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Man Files Case Against Facebook for "Promoting Cow Slaughter"
Another case has been filed against Facebook at a local police station in Lucknow for promoting "cow slaughter," according to a new report.
The case registered under section 153, 290 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, demands action against Facebook for not taking down a group which goes by the name Ao Mil Kar Kaatein Gaai (Let us come together to slaughter cows), The Hindu reported.
The group openly urges and glorifies cow slaughter and uses abusive and dirty words against two religions, said the complainant.
Facebook seems to have taken down the group as we can no longer find it on the site.
Cases against Facebook and other large Internet companies in India have been on the rise, especially since the new Information Technology act has come into effect. The act mandates intermediary websites such as Facebook and Google to take down objectionable content within 36 hours of receiving a notification from the user.
Last year, in a similar case, the Delhi High Court summoned Google, Facebook, Yahoo and 18 other sites for allegedly promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration. The summons was issued based on a petition which said that the websites had many pages that promoted enmity.
About six months ago, the police arrested two young women from Maharashtra for a comment on Facebook which objected to the statewide bandh called by a local political party after their chieftain's death. The case was booked under section 66A of the IT act.
Following widespread criticism of such arbitrary arrests, the Supreme Court and Government directed the police that they need approval of a high ranking police official before making such arrests.
The number of Facebook users in India touched 71 million in December 2012.


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Tag: admissions requirement
Is the University of California about to destroy its own standards?
UPDATE: Soros and Ayres behind the group pushing the destruction of UC's standards
It would seem so as the University of California Board of Regents is proposing the elimination of the SAT subject test as an admissions requirement.
The SAT subject tests asses how well a student performs in 20 different subjects ranging from advanced mathematics to language skills. This part of the SATs have become an important part of admissions at nearly all American colleges and universities. In fact, the Dean of admissions for Harvard has said that subject tests are "Better predictors than either high school grades or the SAT".
So why in the world would the UC Board of Regents want to do this?
Well, you probably already guessed but this is all an underhanded attempt to reinstate affirmative action at UC despite the fact that race based admission policies were outlawed for California in 1996. The basic logic behind this proposal is that lower SAT standards combined with the lower gpa standards they are simultaneously proposing will make more minority applicants eligible and therefor increase ever-coveted diversity.
Now, as expected, the lowering of standards has pissed some people off, here is California Assemblyman Cameron Smyth's objection for example, and rightfully so… But the funny thing in all of this, if there is anything funny about this, is that SAT subject tests actually help minorities get into college. You see, the SAT subject tests enable minority students to showcase their abilities in certain areas, such as the social sciences and language, that would other wise be overlooked.
Thus, and quite unexpectedly, there are people pissed off because this plan would, most likely, hurt diversity in the California University system. California Assemblyman Van Tran is a great example of someone in opposition to the proposal because it would actually hurt minority students, here is his opinion.
A concerned UC grad, who tipped me off about this situation, has also told me that the Regent's meeting where they will be discussing this proposal is coming up in mid November. So everybody try to put as much pressure on the Regent's as possible in order to keep them from willfully destroying UC's admission standards.
Here is the contact information for the Regents:
Email: anne.shaw@ucop.edu
Website: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/
UPDATE: Michelle might want to put this issue on the conservative "to do" list…
UPDATE: There is now a website dedicated to the cause of saving UC's Standards


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Headlines: March 14, 2012
Headline NewsJobless Rates Decline in Key States
Confidence at U.S. Small Companies Climbs to One-Year High
ASA for YouStaffing Law Conference Update: Rooms Available at the Hotel Helix
Legal WatchNew EEOC Task Force Aims to Help Small Businesses
Court: Worker Can Sue Supervisor as Individual in Medical Leave Claim
Trends and ResearchOne in Four Attorneys Plans to Hire in Second Quarter, Robert Half Legal Survey Finds
Marketing and Advertising Executives Reveal Second-Quarter Hiring Plans: The Creative Group
The Sky Is the Limit for Cloud Hiring
Auto Parts Suppliers Hiring as Fast as They Can
9 to 5—at 75
Executives Fear Leadership Shortage
Jobless Rates Decline in Key States
Published March 14, 2012 ■ Headline News
Wall Street Journal (03/14/12) Josh Mitchell
Joblessness remains high but has fallen in a handful of states expected to be closely contested in this November's presidential election. The biggest job gains have come in the industrial Midwest—places such as Ohio and Michigan—where manufacturers have stepped up hiring in response to a surge in auto sales and other exports. The unemployment rate in Michigan fell more sharply than in any other state, to 9% in January, down nearly two percentage points from a year ago. The jobless rates in Colorado and Ohio fell by at least a percentage point each to 7.8% and 7.7%, respectively. In all, six of 10 states expected to be closely contested in the election have a jobless rate below the national average.
Nevada and North Carolina, two states hit hard by the housing bust, each saw their unemployment rate fall by more than a percentage point over the past year, but both states were still stuck in double digits in January, the most recent month for which data are available. U.S. Federal Reserve officials project U.S. unemployment will be between 8.2% and 8.5% by the end of the year.
Business Week (03/13/12) Shobhana Chandra
The National Federation of Independent Business reports its optimism index increased to 94.3, the best reading since February 2011 and the sixth consecutive monthly gain, from 93.9 in January. The pickup in confidence was broad-based as more small companies also said they are increasing wages, anticipating better sales, and planning to grow inventories. The results are "good news for economy watchers," says William Dunkelberg, the group's chief economist. Small businesses are "mostly headed in the right direction, just at a glacial pace." Measures on hiring and investment were a bit less promising. The small-business gauge of plans to add to payrolls dropped one point to net 4%, and those intending to make capital purchases over the next three to six months fell a point, the first decline in five months, to net 23%.
Staffing Law Conference Update: Rooms Available at the Hotel Helix
Published March 14, 2012 ■ ASA for You
Rooms at the Westin City Center Hotel, Washington, DC, have sold out for the 2012 ASA Staffing Law Conference, which takes place at this hotel April 17–18. However, ASA has secured a block of rooms at the Hotel Helix, which is about a 10-minute walk from the Westin. The exact distance between the hotels is 0.3 miles.
Make reservations by calling the Hotel Helix at 800-706-1202 and asking for the 2012 ASA Staffing Law Conference group rate. The group room rate, available until March 23, is $259 (plus tax) per night for single or double occupancy (includes complimentary Internet access), and is subject to room availability.
After March 23, reservations may be accepted at the hotel's prevailing rate, space permitting. Check-in starts at 3 p.m.; check-out is 12 noon. For more information about the 2012 ASA Staffing Law Conference, visit americanstaffing.net.
New EEOC Task Force Aims to Help Small Businesses
Published March 14, 2012 ■ Legal Watch
Business Management Daily (03/13/12)
To help small-business owners without expert legal advice or experienced human resources professionals comply with federal antidiscrimination laws, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has created a small-business task force. The task force will determine how to broaden outreach to small businesses via technology, create technical assistance and training initiatives for small businesses, and develop approaches that specifically target firms with 50 or fewer employees and those owned by women or minorities. It also will enhance the EEOC's Web site to improve small-business training.
Mondaq (03/12/12) Peter L. Frattarelli
A ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals for the Delaware Valley adds the federal Family and Medical Leave Act to the list of employment laws for which supervisors and managers can be held individually liable, meaning that they can face lawsuits from employees dissatisfied with how their FMLA requests have been handled. In Haybarger v. Lawrence County Adult Probation and Parole, an employee sued her employer and her supervisor for allegedly terminating her in retaliation for work that was missed for medical reasons. While the trial court dismissed the claim against her supervisor because she only has the ability to recommend termination, the appeals court broadened the FMLA definition of "employer" to include individuals that have supervisory authority over the employee making the complaint and that are wholly or partly responsible for the alleged violation. It remains to be seen whether the U.S. Supreme Court will make a decision on the matter, but in the meantime, experts stress that employers ensure supervisors and managers receive sufficient training in handling FMLA requests.
One in Four Attorneys Plans to Hire in Second Quarter, Robert Half Legal Survey Finds
Published March 14, 2012 ■ Trends and Research
Robert Half International News Release (03/13/12)
More than one-quarter (26%) of the attorneys interviewed for the quarterly Robert Half Legal Hiring Index plan to hire full-time legal staff during the second quarter of 2012, while 4% anticipate staff reductions. The net 22% increase in hiring activity compares with a net hiring increase of 27% predicted in the first quarter of 2012. Some 57% of attorneys polled expect no change in staff levels in the next three months. More than half (59%) of the attorneys say it is challenging to find skilled legal professionals, up eight points from the previous quarter. Hiring activity is expected to take place predominantly at law firms, and bankruptcy or foreclosure, litigation, and general business or commercial law are the practice areas expected to see the most growth in the coming months.
Some 13% of marketing and advertising executives plan to add full-time staff in the next three months, according to the Creative Group Hiring Index for Marketing and Advertising Professionals, and 3% predict reductions in staff. Most survey respondents, 80%, expect to make no changes to the size of their teams; this is up four points from the previous quarter's forecast. The net 10% of executives planning to hire in the second quarter is up one point from the same time period in 2011 and down four points from the first-quarter 2012 forecast. Account services, Web design or production, and brand or product management are the specialties in greatest demand, according to survey respondents.
Wanted Analytics (03/13/12) Abby Lombardi
More than 5,000 cloud computing job ads were placed online in the U.S. last month, according to Wanted Analytics. Hiring demand for people with cloud skills has spiked dramatically, up 92% compared with February 2011 and 400% compared with February 2010. More than 3,400 of the ads placed last month were for tech talent, a 99% increase from a year ago. Other jobs that increasingly require cloud experience include marketing managers, sales managers, management analysts, and financial analysts.
NPR Online (03/14/12) Tracy Samilton
Automakers are creating thousands of new jobs amid a sales boom, and their suppliers are racing to keep up with the industry's growth, adding tens of thousands of new jobs. In a dramatic reversal, many suppliers, after improving efficiency—through downsizing and buyouts—find themselves short-handed.
With the memory of the recent deep recession still so fresh, companies are still wary about hiring too freely. However, Sean McAlinden—an economist with the Center for Automotive Research—says there actually is a danger of having a shortage of parts and workers. He says the supplier industry will need 174,000 additional workers by 2015, and the pace of hiring right now appears to be too slow.
SmartMoney (03/13/12) Anne Kadet
For millions of workers, retirement has been delayed for years, with some saying they may never retire. The number of working people over age 65 reached an all-time low in 2001, when just 13% held a job. Now that rate is rebounding, and fast; last summer, it hit 18%, the highest level since 1962.
Some employers are beginning to appreciate the unique strengths—people skills, accrued wisdom, and a strong work ethic—that seniors can bring to the table. Principal Financial created a formal staffing program that brings retirees back for part-time temporary work while they continue to collect pensions. "They know the culture and they know their way around," says human resource director Polly Heinen. The typical employee returns three to six months into retirement, taking short-term assignments doing clerical or administrative work for 10 to 20 hours a week. However, according to the Society for Human Resources Management, just 6% of U.S. companies offer formal "phased retirement" programs, down from 13% in 2006.
IndustryWeek (03/14/12) Jonathan Katz
Employers have long fretted about a lack of applicants with the necessary skills to meet modern labor demands, but executives say they are now also having difficultly filling leadership roles within their organizations. Nearly a third of executives polled by Right Management, the talent and career management experts within the ManpowerGroup, cited a lack of high-potential leaders in their organization as their most pressing human resource challenge.
The sluggish economic climate has hampered recruiting efforts, says Michael Haid, senior vice president of talent management for Right Management. "Lean times make it hard for organizations seeking to recruit, retain, or develop future leaders," he says. "And they're keenly aware of the tough competitive environment they're in and the need to hold onto and build leadership."


We needed a way for the users profile folder to follow them whichever PC they logged onto on the Network.
We needed to find a way where we could make life easier for the users and for us. With minimum setup when a user needed to be sat somewhere else.
We created a test security account in active directory with test users as members and created a group policy that enabled folder redirection and selected that we wanted Desktop, Documents, and Favourites following the users wherever they went.


MY PLAYLIST: Top 10 Tracks for June 2013 | THE GOOD . . . THE BAD . . . AND ME.
Therefore, this playlist is the result of such a crazy process. If you fancy to listen, click on the title of the song.
I am totally in love with this duo since they released their first album in 2005. This track, most especially, had captured my heart and my infernally tapping feet. The arrangement of this song is original and very signature "The Kills" sound.
No, there's no mistake in having their name written in all CAPS, because that's how the band's name is stylized.
Anyway, I'm not known to like slow-tempo music. However, when the lyrics are as touching as this record from indie band Walk The Moon, I cannot resist having it played in my console over and over again. It's heartwarming and it's just so painfully beautiful.
A relatively old track, Message In The Bottle is one of those classic records that will not go out of style — for me. I mean, I've been listening to Sting singing of "a hundred billion castaways looking for a home", striking a chord of consciousness into my soul the moment I heard it during my early childhood days. Since then, this song has been an all-time favorite.
From the moment I heard their demo version of Cradle, I've always been on the lookout for more The Joy Formidable. It's probably because Ritzy Bryan – the vocalist and lead guitarist – reminded me so much of Catatonia's Cerys Matthews. Both bands are from Wales, maybe that's one of the reasons. But TJF's unique sound in today's music generation is what makes them adorable. They've been rocking my world ever since that first demo record. This new track is from their sophomore album "Wolf's Law".
I've been immersing myself into a lot of indie rock music for years now and I felt guilty that I haven't paid attention to the local music scene. I blame bands like Vampire Weekend and the rest. It's because of their fresh and upbeat (almost pop-ish) melodies that I got hooked in the first place. Although this track is years older, I still rock to it. And I'll probably continue to rock to it after twenty years. Who knows?
Like most indie music, this song has such a relaxing and catchy tune that became an immediate favorite of mine this month. Their sound is so reminiscent of the new wave sound of the '80s that made me feel nostalgic, not to mention lamenting the fact that there are few artists that can recapture the zeal of that era, bringing such a fresh and original flavor in music today. I admit that I wouldn't have stumbled upon this track on my own if not for a little help from my TV obsession. Sometimes, I think that there's more to watching TV than just visual entertainment. Several TV series feature amazing artists/musicians in their soundtrack repertoire.
It's become rare for me to love a newer band (those who rose to fame here in my country after the 90s), which is so sad really. So . . . going back to homegrown music and searching fa and wide to get back my love for good OPM records, I finally settled down to a group that I heard about two years ago. However, when I read that Franco disbanded last year and frontman Franco Reyes is going solo now after parting ways with former band members, I wanted to start choking someone . . . anyone. Franco Reyes is without a doubt possesses one of the sexiest voices in OPM rock now. But together with the others, they made a helluva good music. What a shame!
Because of this, my subconscious prompted me to play the track (again — while typing away) that made me really listen to them . . . and that is Castaway.
Relatively new to my music radar, this song became an instant "SUPER LIKE"! Maybe it is because this duo's style might be slightly reminiscent of Eminem (back when he was still serious about his rapping) without the destructive angst, mixed with vocals that are has some indie elements to it, and a musical arrangement that sounds so fresh and catchy.
I practically grew up in the 90's – alternative rock's golden years. The decade introduced some of the most influential bands in recent history. But there are those who made small waves compared to bands such as Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Foo Fighters. One of them is Ash. I was introduced to this band after watching a Cameron Diaz and Ewan MacGregor's offbeat rom-com flick titled "A Life Less Ordinary". The story might have been a bit preposterous, but the soundtrack is awesome. Since then, I've always been in the lookout for more of Ash's music.
So . . . that's my personal list of top 10 most played songs this month. Just like my previous lists, I want to be clear that this list list is in no way connected or related to other chart lists out there. This is my own and therefore doesn't restrict to a particular year, era or genre. These songs are the ones on repeat whenever I have my player on.


COH: Europe In Ruins > Forum > General > General Discussion > Is anybody there?
Thinking of coming back; this mod still alive?
Bit of a dichotomy there!!!!!
@doug; Assuming you're still a bit of a soft heart for British armor. The Church Croc right now is pretty good, especially with WM inf being strong in the meta right now. As well as them recently getting access to Comets (at the loss of the BP). Though I think the Comet anti-inf capabilities were nerfed a couple patches ago.
Anybody playing that mod? I'm ready to get stomped by you guys.


Attention Odd Squad fans, there is oddness in your town and Ms. O needs YOU to help solve it. Team up with brand new agents Orian and Oleanna in this live, interactive adventure. With help from Ms. O back at headquarters, kids will put their STEM skills to the test and decode, decipher and unravel clues to stop villains like Father Time and Lady Terrible. Featuring an original script by the creators of Odd Squad and new music including songs by Soundcheck, Odd Squad: Live! is a laugh-out-loud, action-packed experience not to be missed.


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Pederson Hat Trick Lifts Owatonna to Fourth Straight Win
Owatonna senior Collin Pederson scored a natural hat trick in the Huskies 4-1 win over Chanhassen at Victoria Recreation Center Saturday afternoon. Pederson scored three consecutive goals in about a nine-minute span from late in the first period until early in the second. He started his run after the Huskies and Storm traded goals early in the game.
Line-mate and junior Dom Valento assisted on all three markers. Sophomore Taylor Bogen, the third member of the line, helped on two of them. Pederson scored at 11:57 and 15:28 of the opening period on point blank chances off feeds from behind the net. His third goal came at 4:15 of the second period with some great stick work. Pederson has six goals this season. Valento leads the team with ten assists and 12 points.
Junior Zach Kubicek opened the scoring 29 seconds into the game. It was his fifth goal of the season. Junior Zach Kirsh seemed to deliver the puck to Kubicek though he wasn't credited with an assist on the Hockey Hub website.
The Storm evened the game at 4:19 with Jack Hudnut going top shelf past senior Zach Wiese with the assist from Braedan Sanders. There were just two penalties in the game, one per team. Each squad went 0-for-1 on the power play.
Sophomore defense man Wyatt Oldenfendt continued his strong play on the blue line with his heavy-hitting, physical play. Tanner Stendel limped off the ice twice after being ridden hard into the boards, but returned to action both times.
Owatonna had lost to Chanhassen each of the last four seasons.
The Huskies (4-1) out shot the Storm (3-4) 28-19. Owatonna returns to play Tuesday, December 17 at Northfield. The teams enter that game both unbeaten in league games. The Raiders move into Section 1AA this season, adding extra intrigue to the game. Radio coverage will be heard on Kat Kountry 105 FM and on the free, downloadable Kat Kountry 105 app.
The Owatonna junior varsity lost a 2-1 decision. Preston Meier played a solid game in goal with the Storm having a significant advantage of shots on goal.
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The important thing in a final is nothing other than to win … and we did. Sometimes it's not easy to hold a one-goal lead but we can be pleased to have done so and to have completed a historic hat-trick.
I'm especially pleased that we have managed to replace such excellent midfielders as Didier Deschamps and Laurent Blanc with brilliant players like Robert Pires and Patrick Vieira, while there are other youngsters coming through like Mikael Sylvestre and Eric Carrière who show that we should be able to be just as competitive next year as we were in 1998. And we've also proved once again in this tournament that we are a team that likes to score goals, and can do so.
This was a very good performance by my team against the World Champions, so much better than when we played them in Paris. There were lots of things to be satisfied about and we have finished the tournament well, having found that we can live with the strongest teams and continue to make progress.
It's very encouraging for the future, although we need to make our attack more penetrating and get a better balance between attack and defence. Our defence is good, our players have won confidence in the knowledge that they can hold the world's strongest attacks, but we still need to work on individual skills.
Collectively we're very strong, the players learn quickly and follow tactical plans, but they have to be ready to take more individual responsibility. The best way to achieve this is by playing against the best teams in the world, and to learn from the experience.


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Thursday.. Launching the activities of "Cinema Khairy Beshara" in Zawya
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I wrote – Mona Al-Muji:
On Thursday, January 5th, Zawya Cinema will host the activities of "Cinema Khairy Beshara", which will continue until the 31st of the same month.
The program of the event includes 12 films directed by the great creator Khairy Bishara, which will include a group of films that have been restored by the Red Sea Film Festival as well as the National Cinema Center. Contemporary and many young film directors.
The director, Khairy Bishara, is considered one of the most important directors of Egyptian cinema. He presented cinematic works in which a large number of the most important artists of Egyptian cinema participated, with their ideas and content that discussed many of the problems of society, making them join the list of the most prominent works of Egyptian cinema.
The "Cinema Khairy Beshara" program is an opportunity to rediscover his works in their diversity and differences, and to get acquainted with the director who is often described as a rebel. Six panel discussions will be held during the program after a number of films that will be presented, namely "Buoy No. 70", "The Ring and the Bracelet", and "Sweet Day Bitter Day", "Crab" which opens at the opening, "Wild Desire", "Ice Cream in Gleam", "America Chica Pica", "Strawberry War", "Traffic Light", "Moon Night", "Moon" Dog" and three documentaries: "Tank Hunter, Seagull, and Countryside Doctor." The seminars will be moderated by Omar Al-Zuhairi, director Ayten Amin, director Ahmed Fawzi Saleh, and critic Nour Al-Safouri.
It is noteworthy that director Khairy Bishara's artistic debut was through documentaries, especially with the establishment of the National Center for Documentary and Short Films in 1967.
Bishara won many awards throughout his artistic career, including the Idea Award for his documentary film "Tank Hunter" in 1975. He also received the State Encouragement Award in Arts from the Supreme Council for Arts, Literature and Social Sciences.


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"""Tests evaluator of auxiliary operators for algorithms."""

from __future__ import annotations
import unittest
from typing import Tuple

from test.python.algorithms import QiskitAlgorithmsTestCase
import numpy as np
from ddt import ddt, data

from qiskit.algorithms.list_or_dict import ListOrDict
from qiskit.quantum_info.operators.base_operator import BaseOperator
from qiskit.algorithms import estimate_observables
from qiskit.primitives import Estimator
from qiskit.quantum_info import Statevector, SparsePauliOp
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
from qiskit.circuit.library import EfficientSU2
from qiskit.opflow import PauliSumOp
from qiskit.utils import algorithm_globals

@ddt
class TestObservablesEvaluator(QiskitAlgorithmsTestCase):
    """Tests evaluator of auxiliary operators for algorithms."""

    def setUp(self):
        super().setUp()
        self.seed = 50
        algorithm_globals.random_seed = self.seed

        self.threshold = 1e-8

    def get_exact_expectation(
        self, ansatz: QuantumCircuit, observables: ListOrDict[BaseOperator | PauliSumOp]
    ):
        """
        Calculates the exact expectation to be used as an expected result for unit tests.
        """
        if isinstance(observables, dict):
            observables_list = list(observables.values())
        else:
            observables_list = observables
        # the exact value is a list of (mean, (variance, shots)) where we expect 0 variance and
        # 0 shots
        exact = [
            (Statevector(ansatz).expectation_value(observable), {})
            for observable in observables_list
        ]

        if isinstance(observables, dict):
            return dict(zip(observables.keys(), exact))

        return exact

    def _run_test(
        self,
        expected_result: ListOrDict[Tuple[complex, complex]],
        quantum_state: QuantumCircuit,
        decimal: int,
        observables: ListOrDict[BaseOperator | PauliSumOp],
        estimator: Estimator,
    ):
        result = estimate_observables(estimator, quantum_state, observables, None, self.threshold)

        if isinstance(observables, dict):
            np.testing.assert_equal(list(result.keys()), list(expected_result.keys()))
            means = [element[0] for element in result.values()]
            expected_means = [element[0] for element in expected_result.values()]
            np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal(means, expected_means, decimal=decimal)

            vars_and_shots = [element[1] for element in result.values()]
            expected_vars_and_shots = [element[1] for element in expected_result.values()]
            np.testing.assert_array_equal(vars_and_shots, expected_vars_and_shots)
        else:
            means = [element[0] for element in result]
            expected_means = [element[0] for element in expected_result]
            np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal(means, expected_means, decimal=decimal)

            vars_and_shots = [element[1] for element in result]
            expected_vars_and_shots = [element[1] for element in expected_result]
            np.testing.assert_array_equal(vars_and_shots, expected_vars_and_shots)

    @data(
        [
            PauliSumOp.from_list([("II", 0.5), ("ZZ", 0.5), ("YY", 0.5), ("XX", -0.5)]),
            PauliSumOp.from_list([("II", 2.0)]),
        ],
        [
            PauliSumOp.from_list([("ZZ", 2.0)]),
        ],
        {
            "op1": PauliSumOp.from_list([("II", 2.0)]),
            "op2": PauliSumOp.from_list([("II", 0.5), ("ZZ", 0.5), ("YY", 0.5), ("XX", -0.5)]),
        },
        {
            "op1": PauliSumOp.from_list([("ZZ", 2.0)]),
        },
        [],
        {},
    )
    def test_estimate_observables(self, observables: ListOrDict[BaseOperator | PauliSumOp]):
        """Tests evaluator of auxiliary operators for algorithms."""

        ansatz = EfficientSU2(2)
        parameters = np.array(
            [1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0],
            dtype=float,
        )

        bound_ansatz = ansatz.bind_parameters(parameters)
        states = bound_ansatz
        expected_result = self.get_exact_expectation(bound_ansatz, observables)
        estimator = Estimator()
        decimal = 6
        self._run_test(
            expected_result,
            states,
            decimal,
            observables,
            estimator,
        )

    def test_estimate_observables_zero_op(self):
        """Tests if a zero operator is handled correctly."""
        ansatz = EfficientSU2(2)
        parameters = np.array(
            [1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0],
            dtype=float,
        )

        bound_ansatz = ansatz.bind_parameters(parameters)
        state = bound_ansatz
        estimator = Estimator()
        observables = [SparsePauliOp(["XX", "YY"]), 0]
        result = estimate_observables(estimator, state, observables, None, self.threshold)
        expected_result = [(0.015607318055509564, {}), (0.0, {})]
        means = [element[0] for element in result]
        expected_means = [element[0] for element in expected_result]
        np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal(means, expected_means, decimal=0.01)

        vars_and_shots = [element[1] for element in result]
        expected_vars_and_shots = [element[1] for element in expected_result]
        np.testing.assert_array_equal(vars_and_shots, expected_vars_and_shots)

    def test_estimate_observables_shots(self):
        """Tests that variances and shots are returned properly."""
        ansatz = EfficientSU2(2)
        parameters = np.array(
            [1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0, 1.2, 4.2, 1.4, 2.0],
            dtype=float,
        )

        bound_ansatz = ansatz.bind_parameters(parameters)
        state = bound_ansatz
        estimator = Estimator(options={"shots": 2048})
        observables = [PauliSumOp.from_list([("ZZ", 2.0)])]
        result = estimate_observables(estimator, state, observables, None, self.threshold)
        exact_result = self.get_exact_expectation(bound_ansatz, observables)
        expected_result = [(exact_result[0][0], {"variance": 1.0898, "shots": 2048})]

        means = [element[0] for element in result]
        expected_means = [element[0] for element in expected_result]
        np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal(means, expected_means, decimal=0.01)

        vars_and_shots = [element[1] for element in result]
        expected_vars_and_shots = [element[1] for element in expected_result]
        for computed, expected in zip(vars_and_shots, expected_vars_and_shots):
            self.assertAlmostEqual(computed.pop("variance"), expected.pop("variance"), 2)
            self.assertEqual(computed.pop("shots"), expected.pop("shots"))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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A reissue of this classic title brought up to date with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and with a new introduction by Andrew Morton that reflects on the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the original publication of Diana: Her True Story.
A reissue of this classic title with a new introduction by Andrew Morton reflecting on the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the original publication of Diana: Her True Story.
Andrew Morton is one of the world's best-known biographers and a leading authority on modern celebrity as well as royalty. His ground-breaking 1992 biography revealed the secret world of Diana, Princess of Wales. Written with her full, though then secret, cooperation, the book changed the way the world looked at the British royal family. SinceDiana: Her True Story, he has gone on to write Number 1Sunday Timesand New York Timesbestsellers on Monica Lewinsky, Madonna, David and Victoria Beckham, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, and, most recently,17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up.The winner of numerous awards, he divides his time between London and Manhattan.


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IFTTT è un servizio web gratuito (fino a due applet) che permette la creazione di semplici catene di condizioni, chiamate applet. Unapplet viene attivata da altri servizi quali Gmail, Facebook, Instagram o Pinterest e può ad esempio inviare un messaggio e-mail quando l'utente utilizza un hashtag in un tweet oppure può inviare una copia di una foto di Facebook ad un archivio quando l'utente viene contrassegnato (taggato) in essa. IFTTT è un acronimo per If This Then That (ovvero se questo accade allora fai accadere quello) e si pronuncia "/i'ft/".

IFTTT è stato creato da Linden Tibbets, Jesse Tane e Alexander Tibbets a San Francisco, California, ed è stato reso disponibile il 7 settembre 2011. Oggi, i servizi di IFTTT sono ampiamente usati e condivisi dai suoi utenti.

In seguito all'applicazione originaria su web, il 10 luglio 2013 è stata pubblicata la versione per iPhone. Questa conteneva i tre canali specifici per iOS Foto, Promemoria e Contatti. Il 3 aprile 2014 è stata pubblicata una versione di IFTTT per iPad nella quale veniva aggiunto il supporto alle notifiche iOS. Poco dopo nello stesso mese, il 24 è stato rilasciato IFTTT per Android.

Il 19 febbraio 2015 IFTTT ha rinominato l'applicazione originaria in IF e rilasciato un nuovo pacchetto di applicazioni chiamate Do. Queste permettono agli utenti di creare scorciatoie alle applicazioni ed azioni personalizzate. Linden Tibbets ha dichiarato che gli utenti di IFTTT "cucinano" circa 20 milioni di "ricette" al giorno. Tutte le funzioni delle app Do sono state integrate in una versione ridisegnata dell'app di IFTTT.

Possibili alternative a IFTTT sono Zapier, Yubnub e Tasker.

Storia
Il 14 dicembre 2010, il creatore di IFTTT, Linden Tibbet, pubblica sul blog del sito di IFTTT un intervento dal titolo "ifttt the beginning...", annunciando che il nuovo progetto si sarebbe chiamato "IFTTT". Le prime applicazioni del servizio sono state ideate e create da Tibbets e Jesse Tane, cofondatore di IFTTT.

Il 7 settembre 2011, Tibbets annuncia ufficialmente che IFTTT è disponibile per tutti. Quindi, sul suo blog descrive come IFTTT è stato sviluppato. "Negli ultimi nove mesi i nostri beta tester hanno contribuito generosamente creando più di 100 mila processi che nel complesso sono stati usati più di 25 milioni di volte."

Al 30 aprile 2012 erano stati creati un milione di processi.

Il 10 luglio 2013 viene rilasciato IFTTT per iPhone. Sul blog ufficiale, il team di IFTTT scrive: "Potete creare e usare Recipe per queste cose: scattare istantanee dello schermo, aggiungere nuovi contatti, completare attività e organizzare album di foto."

Nel giugno del 2012 il servizio entra a far parte dell'Internet of Things grazie all'integrazione con i dispositivi Belkin WeMo, permettendo alle Recipe di interagire con il mondo fisico.

Il 3 aprile 2014 vengono rilasciati IFTTT per iPad e iPod touch. Inoltre, gli sviluppatori introducono un nuovo canale per le notifiche iOS.

Il 24 aprile 2014 viene rilasciata la versione di IFTTT per Android. L'applicazione aggiunge sei nuovi canali specifici per Android, tra cui SMS e Device.

Come servizio legato all'Internet of Things, alla fine del 2014 IFTTT è stato valutato circa 170 milioni di dollari, cifra che l'ha reso una delle prime aziende nell'IoT in tutto il mondo.

Il 19 febbraio 2015 IFTTT lancia tre nuove applicazioni. Do Button avvia un'azione quando premuto, Do Camera carica automaticamente la foto su un servizio scelto dall'utente (Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, ecc.), e Do Notes fa lo stesso di Do Camera, ma con note di testo al posto delle foto.

Nel novembre 2016 le quattro app sono state riassunte in una. Verso dicembre 2016, l'azienda annuncia una partnership con JotForm.

Dall'8 Ottobre 2020 IFTTT è diventato un servizio a pagamento, resta gratuito per l'utilizzo con un massimo di tre applet.

Parte della rendita di IFTTT proviene dai partner della "Piattaforma IFTTT", che pagano una commissione per poter avere i loro prodotti associati al servizio. Tra questi: GE, BMW, Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, The New York Times, Twitter, Slack e Spotify. I partner possono scegliere tra vari abbonamenti mensili, come il "Lite", che è gratis, il "Basic", che ha un costo di 199$ e il piano "Enterprise", che ha un prezzo mensile di 499$.

Caratteristiche

Panoramica
I termini usati da IFTTT sono:
 Services (Servizi). Sono i "blocchi di costruzione di base di IFTTT". Descrivono una serie di dati per uno specifico servizio web, come YouTube o eBay. Possono anche riguardare azioni controllate da APIs come gli SMS. Possono anche rappresentare informazioni meteorologiche o di titoli azionari. Ciascun Service ha propri trigger e action.
 Triggers (Inneschi). Corrispondono alla parte "this" di un recipe. Sono gli elementi che avviano un'azione. Per esempio, da un feed RSS (RSS feed) si possono ricevere notifiche basate su una parola o una frase specifica.
 Actions (Azioni). Corrispondono alla parte "that" di un recipe. Sono il risultato di quanto avviato dei trigger.
 Applets. Sono l'insieme formato da trigger e action. Per esempio, il like di una foto in Instagram (trigger) caricherà la foto sull'account Dropbox (action).
 Ingredients (Ingredienti). Sono singoli dati resi disponibili da un trigger. Per esempio, il trigger relativo alle email può restituire l'oggetto, il corpo e la data di ricezione del messaggio, l'allegato e l'indirizzo del mittente.

Esempi di utilizzo
 IFTTT può automatizzare processi legati ad applicazioni web, per esempio pubblicando uno stesso contenuto su diversi social network.
 Chi opera nel settore del marketing può usare IFTTT per registrare in tempo reale le menzioni a una o più aziende grazie ai feed RSS (RSS feeds).
Ricevere previsioni meteo personalizzate da Weather Underground e alert dalla World Health Organization in caso di epidemie.
IFTTT ha tantissime applicazioni nella smart home e domotica. Per esempio, è possibile accendere o spegnere luci (o altri dispositivi come condizionatori e TV) compatibili con il servizio, in base alla geolocalizzazione. Cambiare le impostazioni dei dispositivi smart (lampadine, termostati, ecc.) in base alle condizioni atmosferiche o all'orario. Inviare un SMS se un dispositivo smart perde la connessione. IFTTT può anche interagire con gli assistenti vocali Alexa e Google Assistant.

Accoglienza
IFTTT ha ricevuto recensioni positive da parte di Forbes, Time, Wired, The New York Times e Reader's Digest.

Anche la Microsoft ha sviluppato un prodotto simile chiamato Microsoft Flow.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Software per Android
Software per iOS
Web service

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Wizard World Portland: Toots M'Goots: Detective Panda Team
Travis McCollum
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While I was at Wizard World Portland I got to talk comics with a lot of great people. Some of those people were the team behind "Toots M'Goots: Detective Panda."
Talking Comics: What inspired you to write the book in the first place?
Ted (the writer): Mostly the name Toots M'Goots. I say a lot of gibberish names when I stub my toe or call out at somebody, I'll just make stuff up. One of those names was Toots M'Goots I called somebody and then I thought "That should be a character in some kind of thing. Later I thought it sounded better as Toots M'Goots: Detective Panda and then stuff happened and we made it.
TC: What about the other characters in the book?
Ted: The fox, I just saw a picture of a fox when I was trying to think of other characters and I thought that would work. There's not too many foxes I know in cartoons. Just whatever worked really. Some of them (the characters) were stuffed animals named after my girlfriend's stuffed animals. Eugene the Unicorn was one of them and so was Minxy Moo. They are all stuffed animals/pillows…more just pillows. Sometimes I'll name my pillows.
TC: When you got the story, how did you come up with some of the designs for the characters?
Brandi (the artist): Some of them I got the name and a very, very, very brief description of what they are, maybe a suggestion of what they could be. Outside of Eddie (the fox) and Toots, everything else was kind of "Do whatever you want with it." Some of the characters, when you read the names and the descriptions, it's just like a lightning bolt through your head of "Oh I know exactly what they look like." Other ones took a little bit, like Stanzel and Nickel. I kept trying to draw Murdock from The Gorillaz for some reason because he (John) would mention he resembled The Beatles era with their suits and stuff. So I couldn't really get the thought out of my head.
TC: So who's decision was the hat?
Ted: I wanted him to have something special most characters didn't have. Finn has his sword, Batman has his utility belt and Superman has his giant "S." My favorite word in all of comedy is the word "hat." It's a funny word "hat," you either get it or you don't. And a utility hat that's magic I think is unique. I don't care what you think otherwise.
TC: In terms of the villains, how did you come up with the idea for them, especially Unconscious Man?
Ted: Steve and I came up with the idea for the villains years ago. We used to make these videos for fun, like little movies and shorts, and in one of the shorts the villain we came up with was Unconscious Man and his henchmen Stanzel and Nickel. It was a live action movie, only about five minutes long and we never really finished it, but we always liked the idea of Unconscious Man, Stanzel and Nickel and now we're incorporating it into this project.
TC: So what's it been like coming to the convention and seeing everybody as interested as they are, especially as a smaller book with people getting introduced to the character for the first time?
(Note: By midday Saturday they had sold out of all their physical copies of the book)
Brandi: Fantastic is a good word to describe it. I wasn't expecting it to sell out like it did. This is my first ever convention ever so it was definitely awesome. Just being able to watch the kids come up and their eyes light up when they see it, that's awesome. I didn't think it would actually work as well as it did. I'm glad to see all the new fans out there. I hope we can make more.
TC: For people who wanted to get their hands on the comic but couldn't attend the convention, what would be the best way to do that?
Steve (The Third Man): Check us out on Facebook for all the updates. We will be putting out a new print in about a month if everything goes according to plan. If you like us on Facebook we'll send you a little vignette/extra comics that go outside the storyline of Toots M'Goots but still take place in the world of Zoutland. I think that's a nice little freebie/handout for anybody who's just liking the page which is free in and of itself. Eventually we're going to have a construct where we're going to sell those issues.
TC: What's the vignette going to be about?
Steve: It's about endangered sea creatures who are endangered due to gang warfare. And that's kind of our little thing we're going to do. Go to different parts of Zoutland and show you what else is out there. It's not just them (Toots), it's a whole world there.
TC: How soon should we expect to see a second issue?
Steve: About three months. By then we'll probably have an online ordering system and hopefully the word will have spread.
TC: Where did the name Zoutland come from?
Ted: Zoutland came from an expression Steve and myself often like to say when we see something that we enjoy. We'd just go "ZOUT!" And "land" is the opposite of water.
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Journal → Fashion & History
Illustrating Fashion in the 1980s: Vanity
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Rediscovering a very 1980s way of showing fashion
Cover of Vanity illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti. Courtesy Missoni Archive, all rights reserved
Vanity was a magazine published in Italy by Condé Nast between 1980 and 1989. The so-called avant grade magazine was a project conceived by Anna Piaggi, an important and visionary fashion editor, as a "concept magazine" that she herself described as a mathematical axiom, a wonderful synthesis or observation collected in a short saying. The magazine was almost entirely illustrated, with a graphic language that mounted together images and words, configuring as a sort of narrative map of the complex and varied scenario of a pivotal moment for international fashion.
"It was a chance to step out of photography, and just work with illustrators. At that time, 1981 to 1984, it was probably a good idea I wanted to express the idea of fantasies, but the clothes were all tied up with advertising, so to give the clothes a new spirit, I commissioned illustrators, and this was very relieving. The English clothes could be photographed, but the Italian really needed interpretation." (Anna Piaggi, interview appeared on Blitz number 49, January 1987)
The magazine at the beginning was built around the relationship between Anna Piaggi and Antonio Lopez, the most chameleonic among the fashion illustrators who worked in the 1980s. Antonio Lopez is an early talent; start studying fashion at the age of twelve, and his career takes off very early: just over twenty is already a celebrity among the offices New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Interview and Vogue, where illustrates editorials and collections. Lopez had the ability to transform clothes into a design: something that fascinated Rosita Missoni, with whom Lopez collaborated on several occasions, sketching the advertising campaigns for the brand. Lopez's work was essentially a post-production – a sort of re-creation – on the collections seen in the fashion show: he was a connoisseur of the history of fashion, of the construction of clothes and what it means to create, and his illustrations managed to surpass reality in favor of the force of the trait, of the model, of the composition of the image.
Illustration by Antonio Lopez. Courtesy Missoni Archive, all rights reserved
Illustration by Lorenzo Mattotti. Courtesy Missoni Archive, all rights reserved
In 1984, after the departure of Piaggi, who had built the magazine on the contributions of Alfa Castaldi, Vern Lambert and Karl Lagerfeld, and especially on her relationship with fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, the artistic director Alberto Nodolini decided to change route and open the space to contaminations. Nodolini contacted the personalities of the Nuovo Fumetto Italiano (New Italian Comics), a genre that, from the mid-seventies, was safely marching towards the achievement of the status of postmodern avant-garde. In particular, the Valvoline Motorcomics group – born between 1982 and 1983 and composed by Daniele Brolli, Giorgio Carpinteri, Marcello Jori, Jerry Kramsky, Lorenzo Mattotti and Igor Tuveri (Igort) – found in the magazine a space where to experiment with different languages and styles, crafting a definition of fashion that was both imaginative and concrete. The group – whose components, more than illustrators, defined themselves as "visual operators" – was interested in fashion as an active component of cultural reality.
A magazine like Vanity does not present fashion, it creates it. It is no coincidence that Vanity is a culturally more advanced point among all the magazines in the sector, dedicating ample space to services on the trends of art and entertainment, proposing itself to a highly acculturated public according to a line that wants fashion combined with painting, to the performance, to the theater, to the great photography, and which makes a continuous use of references to all this to present the creations of the designers. Vanity creates fashion by imposing on objects that has a visual impact that goes beyond that of stylistic creations in itself, a much, much more mediated impact than that of any other magazine. The same fashion photography is often, in Vanity, more the presentation of an environment, of a situation, than of a garment of clothing. In short, you cannot browse this magazine to learn about clothes: fashion seems to be much more than just clothes. Fashion is that immense cultural construction that fills clothes with meaning, for example, which, presented in the eighties, a sixties-style dress acquires a meaning that is profoundly different from what it could have then. (Daniele Barbieri 1988)
Vanity was not the only editorial product that decides to illustrate fashion rather than relying solely on the photographic lens. Joyce and La Mode en Peintur and, two French magazines, are the best-known examples. La Mode en Peintur was a French magazine contemporary to Vanity (with whom he also shares some contributors, such as the French illustrator Hippolyte Romain), which portrayed the runway collections preferring drawing the photo report. The main differences between other illustrated magazines and Vanity were two: while those magazines chose contemporary fashion as a field of privileged interest, Vanity took care to build a complex discourse, updated on the articulated reality of art, culture and society. While the other magazines considered illustration as a mere and 'simple' mean to show fashion, though more original and less obvious than photography; on the other hand, Vanity managed to narrate the complexity of fashion with a sensitivity that often came from worlds other than that of fashion itself, causing collisions that generated new imaginations and unexpected meanings.
Vanity was published until 1989. It denied conformation and 'great narratives'; it was recognizable thanks to its difference, to its will to portray the unexpected. Vanity was identifiable because it was never the same as itself, because it communicated fashion in unusual ways thanks to illustration and also to graphic expedients. The taste of the magazine changes at least three times in the course of its history, making it an important product and testimony of the atmosphere and ideas of the 1980s.
Illustration by Hyppolite Romain. Courtesy Missoni Archive, all rights reserved
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