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Linda Parris Bailey: I heard that you were at the National Institute of Directing and Ensemble Creation this summer.
Diane Rodriguez: Yes. It was interesting because I had just left Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group (CTG), which is a major institution, where I worked for twenty-five years—most recently as associate artistic director. There's a process and rigor you have to have when you're at an institution. But there's another kind of rigor you need when you're an artist. The Institute invited me, and for two weeks I was acting like an artist again. I felt like I was re-meeting myself.
Tell me a little bit about your transition right now.
Linda: I'll be leaving the executive and artistic position at the Carpetbag Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee in December. We have been prepping for this for about six years, and we have someone poised to take over the organization. We have introduced him to all of our circles; people like him and think he's an amazing leader.
I wanted to put this in place because I'd observed pretty much the opposite in several organizations, and the leadership transitions were really devastating. With the help of the board and some subsequent grants we got, we've been able to bridge the transition in a relatively smooth way.
Diane: You've been preparing the organization for the leap when you depart, but what about you? For your personal creative fabulousness, how are you going to continue? Or are you going to do something completely different?
Linda: My first love really has always been playwriting, and I have worked in ensemble for the last forty-six years. That is pretty much my home base, my way of working. For me, the next step is being a solo playwright and expanding the way I imagine my work and my plays beyond the ensemble.
My frame is bigger now and I'm not writing for a particular group of people. That's freeing, on one hand, but the part that is a little scary is that I don't have the ensemble's voices to rely on in terms of feedback. They added so much to the text as a group.
I am working on two projects now, which will take me into 2022. And I'm also making sure that people know I'm available for certain projects. I was doing devised work before it was called devised work, so that's a part of my practice. I'm looking forward to expanding that idea and doing work I want to do. I also love to curate. What about you?
Diane: I let my theatre know I was going to leave a year ahead of time, and in that year I set up projects for my first season away from CTG. I'm directing three plays I love this year, one at Trinity Rep in Providence, Rhode Island; one at a small theatre here in Los Angeles called Playwrights Arena; and one a show at the San Francisco Playhouse. They're all plays by women and they're all Latinx playwrights.
I tell stories of my people through my plays and also through my directing. In an effort not to skip a beat, I might have overcommitted myself. It's been a fountain overflowing. Creatively, my solar plexus is open and the ideas flow, and I'm not afraid to talk about them. I still have people who want to hear my thoughts, which has been helpful.
While I'm no longer a current Theatre Communications Group board member, I'm still involved on the national level about how we can integrate our field in a much better way than is being done now. I'm on the National Endowment for the Arts National Council, and people there also want to hear field-wide ideas. For years, everyone was like: "Diane, you are powerful." But I didn't really know how to exercise power. We were never taught. I didn't have a role model in front of me. I had to figure it out, and I'm still figuring it out.
In our careers we have transitional moments. You said receiving the National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant in 2015 was one for you, right?
Linda: Yeah.
I'm at a point now where I am engaged as both a leader and a learner. I was always teaching and mentoring, and I wasn't getting taught and mentored.
Diane: Why was that?
Linda: You, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, and Cathy Edwards all shifted my perspective on how to support Carpetbag. It was fabulous being in a room of very powerful women of color and hearing encouragement and support for work I'd been doing for some time. I needed to hear that at that point in my career. You made me think about utilizing my individual work and individual success, and leveraging that into support for the company.
I tend to be focused on ensemble and collective work, and I didn't realize I could use what was happening to me as an individual as a platform to leverage the whole. That shifted my perspective. And I needed that shift to help me make this transition. Things in the last three years have been coming at the right time. I got a Creative Capital grant, I have all of this creative energy, and I'm connecting to people I've wanted to work with but couldn't because of resources and the company.
Diane: Which is very important.
Linda: I am in a place where there's a balance between the two and it's feeding my creative energy. That's exciting. But I also have a fear of being excluded from professional networks now, that I won't be active enough in them to be a part of that activity moving forward.
I met with the elders at Alternate ROOTS two weeks ago, and we decided to engage and energize a network of us. We want to make sure we are playing an active role, both within our artwork and within the organization, and that we are not only seen as elders with great advice about the past but that as active artists, too.
Diane: There is a certain amount of belief in yourself that may seem like ego, but it's belief in yourself that gets you through. There are a lot of things awaiting you, including working with directors you've never thought you'd work with. Why not ask them? Why not ask Moisés Kaufman to direct your play, do a workshop? Go for it. Get an agent. Do the whole thing because that's what you haven't done.
I have done the opposite in terms of elders because I don't have a network of them. I have a lot of friends who are still very much working, and we are elders, but we aren't taking the time to meet in Los Angeles. I've got to get that together. It's a good idea.
I hang out with a lot of young people. There's a group here called Teatro Luna, from Chicago, and they've settled in Los Angeles. They pay something like just under two thousand a month in rent. In order to meet that monthly nut, they rent it out for yoga, prenatal classes, baby showers—you name it. And then they use the space to do their ensemble work. They open it up, too, so I use it as a workspace. It helps me to be around their energy, and they help me think about things in a very, very different way.
The new producer for the Latinx Theatre Commons, Armando Huipe, is based here in Los Angeles and they're a very good friend. We've thought about all meeting together on a certain day of the week just to be together and not be isolated. That's how I've tried to manage isolation because I'm a people person.
When you started out and were a young woman leading a company, did you find that being female in leadership was an issue? How did you negotiate all of that?
Linda: As a young woman I did not assume gender would be a barrier, and that was probably naïve of me, but I thought of barriers in terms of race and economics. Carpetbag is a culturally specific organization, but I live in an Appalachian city where the Black population, the population of people of color of any kind, is very small.
Those kinds of barriers were my focus. But I was raised to believe I could do anything I wanted, and I had firm support from my family and friends. I came up against gender more externally, in terms of dealing with organizations and foundations. I kept noticing I would say something in meetings and then people would talk around it, and then usually the same idea was re-spoken by a white male participant and everybody was like, "Oh, what a discovery." You go, Boy, I don't quite know how to combat that in a way that's not being seen as this whiny, young African American woman in the room.
Because we were an ensemble company, we had the freedom to create without seeing the work being shaped or the barriers being there for us in the process. For women working for large organizations or even small organizations, the gender barrier is present and true. But my experience being the lead shifted my focus. You certainly walked into it and through it, but having the confidence and security of the ensemble protected me.
I grew up on the road for the ten years I was with the company. I realize now that we were a representative of contemporary American theatre, while in the United States we were a little Chicano group running around and wearing masks and being funny.
Diane: I joined the Teatro Campesino around the same time you went to Carpetbag. And I stayed there for eleven years, which were formative. There's been much written about the women in the group and how Luis Valdez, the founding artistic director, was a strong voice, and how the roles we were playing were submissive. But oddly I remember none of that. I remember us all being wild and crazy and loud, going: "I want to play that part." "No, you can't." "Well then let me play that part, which is way more fun and more comedic." The women ended up playing roles that were neither men nor women, and we were able to play both men and women. I really was a performer, and I had a great time doing it.
The work we did at that time was necessary for inspiring our people, our community. The ensemble helped define who all of us were as women. We knew within the company how strong we were.
Linda: In my case, I was the primary writer, so I was writing from a woman's point of view.
Diane: That's a huge difference. We didn't know the word devised at the time, but we did improvise a lot of the work Luis scripted. So it wasn't only his voice, although it did become his voice later as we moved along.
We toured Europe endlessly—I grew up on the road for the ten years I was with the company. I realize now that we were a representative of contemporary American theatre, while in the United States we were a little Chicano group running around and wearing masks and being funny. Hardly on the same level as the way we were positioned abroad.
Being positioned in Europe that way, we understood the importance of what we were saying on a world perspective. How people look at us from the outside and how people look at us from the inside. It definitely was tilted, and it continues to be in many ways.
Linda: We toured a lot in the United States, probably more than 60 percent in the south. The most rewarding part of it was the acceptance and ownership of the work in those small communities. We were appreciated and well treated. One of the moments I remember distinctly was doing Red Summer in my home community. It was the story of Knoxville's so-called race riots in 1919, which was really a mob action against the Black community. We partnered with an activist organization, routed in the community, called Solutions to Issues of Concern in Knoxville, and we completely sold out the house. That was a special moment.
Diane: When I think about my highlights I always go back to the Teatro. I started a group called Latins Anonymous. There were four of us, two women and two men, and we wrote sketches and did them in Los Angeles. It was unbelievable for people. We ended up doing a show for six months—it spoke to the Latino experience in a way that was hilarious and people left feeling good about who they were. Personally and artistically, I understood my comedic abilities through Latins Anonymous.
How have you changed since when you started? And how has society changed in terms of accepting your work and the work of the company?
Linda: Certainly the passion for the work remains the same—the willingness to work seven days a week, to work twenty-hour days. There also continues to be an African diaspora, and examining how it exists in the world today is something I am intrigued by. As we become aware of our globalness, how does that fit into my frame of being a Black woman, of being a woman of color?
It's very interesting to talk to young artists now about terminology, about who we are and whether or not we can define ourselves outside of the white European culture—not just the European canon. People are accepting and rejecting African American terms. I'm a Black woman and woman of color—where did that come from?
I'm in a different place, but I still believe there is something about us that speaks to the diaspora, and I think it's shifting and changing. We are hardly made up of one thing. But there certainly is a culture that dominates our experience. That intrigues me as I move forward. And I think it is changing. People are thinking in new ways about who they are and also carrying old baggage about who they are. There's a search for place and how we remain human in this moment, when we are so aware of the challenges of race and culture and language and identity, and we're being challenged about who we are.
I vacillate between that having changed and that having not changed at all, and I'm wondering where we're headed and ultimately how we hang on to our humanity. I'm also dealing with more issues around mortality. As you get older, you begin to lose people, and you have to be thinking about your own mortality and what you hope to leave behind.
There are certain worlds we haven't been allowed into or encouraged to go into, and platforms that very little of our work exists on.
Diane: I still like the life of putting on a show that means something, that people relate to and enjoy. The community that's seen me grow up on stage has lifted me up. I have worked really hard, and I've been able to open doors for people and give people money and encourage people. I'm still doing that, but, as you were saying, we have to think of our mortality and we have to think about what gives us joy.
After a while I wanted to take care of myself, so I decided to leave. I've thought about what it is in my daily life that gives me joy, and those things I continue to do. At the Institute, there was this notion that if we share too much, things would be taken from us. I don't want to live with that fear. How do you feel about that?
Linda: Because our work has not been documented and codified in ways that other processes have been, there's a concern about letting go of the ownership of things we've created and important processes built on our engagement with communities. In the traditional theatre world, the process is developing a series of activities and then codifying them in a book and selling them. That's part of the academic world, that's part of the professional world. And we haven't been part of that.
There's a sense that, if we are not in that arena, when certain people experience things or see things they are stolen, somebody else codifies them. Somebody else is given credit and credence. There's also an economic impact to that, which we haven't seen. There are certain worlds we haven't been allowed into or encouraged to go into, and platforms that very little of our work exists on. People have experienced a loss, and that's what makes people cautious.
Diane: The world has changed. There are how many Latinx people getting their MFAs, writing books? My community needs to recognize that and know that people are looking for content to publish. We have to start participating in that. We don't need to depend on anybody else but our own people because there are so many academics from our various communities. Let's start sharing our work, getting it out, publishing it, talking about it.
Do you have hope for the future? I'm a hopeful person.
Linda: What else is there? And have we seen change? Yes, we've seen change.
Diane: What keeps you going?
Linda: I have two theories: the theory of the spiral and the theory of the continuum. The spiral theory comes from my husband, who's an electrical engineer and taught math to young people. He showed my son that numbers are simply a spiral—they go around and hit the same point, just expanded: one, ten, one hundred. And it's a genius way to talk about a life. We pass the same point many times in our lives but hopefully we're a little further expanded. That expansion is what makes progress and what gives me hope for the future. We'll hit this same point in time but we'll hit it with an expanded knowledge and more experience.
The second theory is that everything we do and where we are at any given moment is on the continuum. Those two ideas keep me balanced and hopeful and recognizing the temporary nature of where we sit at any given moment.
I think the legacy I pass on is hope. John O'Neal once said to me that I was "a cheerleader for the revolution." If I cannot offer hope, what else can I offer?
Diane: It reminds me of what I mean when I think of being embraced by my community, embraced by my people. I live with a symbol that was shared with me when I was in San Juan Bautista, where the Teatro was based. It's a DNA strand. One strand is you and the other is community. And you are in the middle and you live your life there.
Feeling like I have a place has kept me connected in the middle of what is personal and what is community. That gives me great hope and makes me not feel alone, like there is continuous movement. When we leave the world, that movement will continue.
Very cool, Linda. We've come to the end of our convo.
Linda: I knew I was going to enjoy talking to you.
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Q: How to compute the angle between two vectors expressed in the spherical coordinates? Given two vectors $u, v \in \mathbb{R}^d$ represented the spherical coordinates is there a simple formula to compute the angle between the two vectors? Without loss of generality, we can assume that the vectors $u$ and $v$ have unit norm.
I am not sure that the following notation is standard, but I assume that the vector $u$ is defined with $\rho = 1$ and the angular components $\theta_1, \ldots, \theta_{d-1}$. We can obtain the Euclidean components as follows: $$u_{x_1} = \cos \theta_1$$ $$u_{x_2} = \sin \theta_1 \cos \theta_2$$ $$\ldots$$ $$u_{x_{d-1}} = \sin \theta_1 \ldots \sin \theta_{d-2} \cos \theta_{d-1}$$ $$u_{x_d} = \sin \theta_1 \ldots \sin \theta_{d-2} \sin \theta_{d-1}.$$
One way to find the angle is to represent the two vectors in the Euclidean coordinates and compute arccos of the dot product. Is there a simpler way?
As pointed out in comments, is there a generalization of the Haversine formula?

A: Here is a recursive idea that might work.
Let $s_1$, $s_2$,..., $s_{n-1}$ the sines of the angles of the first vector on $S^{n-1}$, $c_1$, ..., the cosines, and $s'_{\nu}$ and $c'_{\nu}$ those for the second one.
With $p$ being the scalar product, we have $p=1$ for $n=1$, $p=c c'+s s'$ for $n=2$ and generically $$p(n)=c_1 c'_1 + s_1 s'_1 p(n-1)$$ where $p(n-1)$ is the scalar product of the vectors given by the angles $[\theta_2,...]$ and $[\theta'_2,...]$ on $S^{n-1}$(i.e. by removing the first angle of each sequence).
This, of course, still requires all sines and cosines, but my idea is to simplify $p(n-2)$ using the haversine formula and hope that this reduces the number of calls to trigoniometric functions.

A: Simple, alternative derivation of Ralf's formula, without the guesswork:
Angle between the vectors:
$$\alpha = \arccos\left({{u \cdot v}\over{|u|  |v|}}\right)$$
$$u \cdot v = \sum_i u_i v_i $$
in hyper-spherical coordinates (n+1 dimensions, hence n angles):
$$u_i(n) = |u| \cos(\theta_i) \prod_{j=1}^{i-1}{\sin(\theta_j)} $$
except when i=n:
$$u_n(n) = |u| \prod_{j=1}^{n}{\sin(\theta_j)} $$
and similar for v (I will use $\phi$ for the angles of v).
With unit vectors we combine the three formulae to:
$$\cos(\alpha) = \sum_{i=1}^{n-1}{\cos(\theta_i)\cos(\phi_i) \prod_{j=1}^{i-1}{\sin(\theta_j)\sin(\phi_j)}} + \prod_{i=1}^{n}{\sin(\theta_j)\sin(\phi_j)} $$
which can be written as a recursive rule:
$$\cos(\alpha)_n = \cos(\theta_{n-1})\cos(\phi_{n-1}) \cos(\alpha)_{n-1} + \prod_{j=1}^{n}{\sin(\theta_j)\sin(\phi_j)} $$
Which is similar to what Ralf's answer contains (cos/sin switched).

A: Perhaps a change to a different basis in spherical coordinates could make the problem simpler, or even lead to a direct solution. For example, if you want to know the angle subtended by the arc from NYC to Cleveland, you could slide the lat/long lines until the prime meridian passed through both cities, and one was on the equator.
Of course, when you start out with what seems like a different approach, you often find yourself doing the same arithmetic.

A: Let's not overthink. We can assume that the length of each vector is 1. Figure the (x,y,z) locations of the vectors, and then the Euclidean distance, d,  between them. Then the angle is one angle of an isosceles triangle with two sides = 1  and one side = d.

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Despite the best efforts of firefighters and others to control the blaze at Intercontinental Terminals Company ITC plant fire in Deer Park , the fires at a Houston-area petrochemical plant engulfed at least 8 tanks and involved the release of a hazardous chemical–benzine. Elevated benzine levels have resulted in the evacuation of nearby buildings and schools and a "Shelter-in-place" advisory has been issued for Deer Park and Galena Park. People in those areas are requested to stay indoors, close their fireplace damper and not run their air conditioners so as to not draw in the outside air to avoid pollution and benzine exposure.
The Intercontinental Terminals Company plant in Deer Park converts crude oil to gasoline and machine oil. For unknown reasons, a fire broke out and quickly spread. However, firefighters used over 135,000 gallons of foam and massive amounts of water to partially contain the blaze.
Starting with the Texas City plant explosion in 1947, Greater Houston has seen more than its share of industrial plant fires. Generally, plant managers are under intense pressure to maximize output in order to meet demand. A rushed environment and volatile chemicals is a recipe for disaster.
The workers' compensation system provides benefits to employees who are injured in plant explosions and other such incidents if the plant owner chooses to provide his employees with worker's compensation coverage. If the plant owner does not provide worker's compensation or the victim is not an employee or contractor covered as a borrowed servant, then that is when retaining a work injury lawyer to seek compensation for negligence becomes important.
Crude oil and other such chemicals burn at a different temperature from refined gasoline. So, many victims sustain third and fourth-degree burns. These injuries always require painful skin grafts from expensive burn centers. After the surgery, these victims must endure many months of physical therapy to regain lost function.
Chemical burns are common as well. The flames at the Deer Park plant engulfed a large chemical vat of toluene. This noxious chemical is an industrial solvent and a fuel additive. It sears ears, noses, and throats. Furthermore, if inhaled, it also could cause permanent neurological damage.
Smoke and fumes from chemical fires may cause a number of other illnesses as well, including cancer. In fact, Texas workers' compensation law contains a presumption that firefighters who develop cancer and certain other illnesses probably got sick because they inhaled toxic smoke.
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As the smoke billows from the Deer Park plant, the workers are not the only people at risk. Neighbors must breathe the same air that workers breathe.
Non-employee victims can always file civil damage claims. But there are issues. For example, these victims must establish negligence, or a lack of ordinary care, by a preponderance of the evidence (more likely than not). Additionally, cancer and other serious illnesses often do not appear until after the statute of limitations has expired. Victims can typically use the discovery rule to extend the statute of limitations, but these cases are quite complex.
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On Saturday, December 10, the cast of GENERAL HOSPITAL will be working side-by-side with fans for the 3rd Annual House That GH Fans Built. A fundraiser for Habitat For Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, the cast members that are confirmed for the build are Dominic Zamprogna (Dante), Lisa LoCicero (Olivia), Kelly Sullivan (Kate), Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis), Jane Elliot (Tracy), Leslie Charleson (Monica), Lexi Ainsworth (Kristina), Ronnie Marmo (Ronnie), Sean Blakemore (Shawn), Kirsten Storms (Maxie), Andrea Bogart (Abby), Jason Cook (Matt), Jason Thompson (Patrick), Kimberly McCullough (Robin) and Brianna Brown (Lisa).
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Susan Boyle finds "perfect" way to follow up her smash of a debut with Lou Reed tune and concept video
After a blockbuster debut from Susan Boyle's debut album I Dreamed a Dream during Thanksgiving week last year, the UK songstress is under lots of pressure to repeat her previous success with her sophomore album The Gift(Syco/Sony); expected to hit stores on Nov. 9. "Perfect Day," a rendition of Lou Reed's 1972 ballad, marks the first single to be selected for the new release. The song shifts away from the Broadway rock of Reed's original and delves deeply into entrancing strings, a heavenly chorus and Boyle's operatic performance.
The imagery of the companion video is, at best, cinematically therapeutic. Far stronger than some of those tranquil DVDs nestled on end caps at Walmart. After Boyle walks through the dark and gloomy grimness of the night in the opening sequences, she sings the uplifting chorus ("Oh it's just a perfect day/I'm glad I spend it with you…You just keep me hangin' on") to a euphoric scene of rainbows, green meadows and with the morning sun piercing through the clouds. Every note that follows produces hope and inspiration of brighter days ahead. At the end, her hands ascend in a worshipful majesty as if she's found refuge in crossover gospel ("You're gonna reap just what you sow").
Analysts may be doubtful that Boyle will command the same type of sales domination of her debut, but "Perfect Day" will surely wash away most of those doubts.
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Dedication strategy is a strategy in asset management that is designed to match expected returns on investments with their anticipated subsequent liabilities. It is a cash flow matching used by investors in selecting investment portfolios. It involves investing in certain investment portfolios in which the expected returns are matched to pay future liabilities. Investors use a dedication strategy when investing in pension funds or insurance portfolios with the goal to match the anticipated return on the investment with future liabilities.
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When an investor invests with the aim of funding certain future liabilities with the anticipated returns on investment, this is a type of cash flow matching called a dedication strategy. Dedication strategy is most effective when the investor or portfolio manager can predict future liabilities and also forecast the likely returns of earnings that an investment portfolio will accrue over a period of time. There are certain types of portfolios that the dedication strategy is commonly used for, they include fixed income securities, corporate bonds, government bonds, low-risk bonds, mortgage-backed securities and others. Pension funds and insurance companies often use dedication strategy, they make investments with the goal that the anticipated earnings on the investment would meet future liabilities.
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Mount Darnley ist ein  hoher Berg im südzentralen Teil von Bristol Island im Archipel der Südlichen Sandwichinseln.

Wissenschaftler der britischen Discovery Investigations kartierten ihn 1930 von Bord der Discovery II. Namensgeber ist Ernest Rowland Darnley (1875–1944), Vorsitzender des Ausschusses zu den Discovery Investigations von 1923 bis 1933.

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On August 24, 2012, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities ("DPU") issued Order 11-11-C (the "Order") in its ongoing Inquiry into Net Metering and Interconnection of Distribution Generation under D.P.U. 11-11 (the "Inquiry"). The Order resolves questions initially raised by the DPU in the Inquiry on May 11, 2012 related to the definition of the terms "unit" and "facility" under the net metering regulations previously promulgated by the DPU at 220 CMR 18.00 et seq.
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From living in the shadows of her husband to finding her own foothold in American politics, Hillary Clinton has definitely come a long way. She has been an inspiration to millions
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Education Yale Law School University in New Haven, Connecticut
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Net worth $31.3 Million
Early Life and Taste of Politics
of women across the world. She is the first ever lady in the history of USA, who went on from being a First Lady to be selected into the US Senate.
Hillary Clinton was born Hillary Rodham in Illinois in Chicago on 26th October 1947. She went to Yale University to study law and it was here that she met and fell in love with Bill Clinton. During college days, she was quite active in student politics.
During her college years, Hillary got her firsthand experience of the political scene, when in 1971 she went to Washington DC to support the then US Senator Walter Mondale with his subcommittee for migrant workers in the country. Later in 1972, she worked for George McGovern when he was contesting the presidential elections.
She played a key role during the Watergate Scandal as at that time she was an advisor in the Judicial Committee of the House of the Representatives.
Marriage and Journey as First Lady
Hillary married her college sweetheart Bill Clinton on October 11th, 1975 and officially became Hillary Clinton. In 1978, Bill Clinton was elected the Governor which led to Hillary becoming the first lady of the state Arkansas, which she continued to be for close to twelve years with just a minor gap in between.
When Bill Clinton decided to contest the presidential elections in 1992, she proved to be a pillar of support for him. Later, when he won the elections, he appointed her as the Head of the National Health Reform Task Force.
However, in 1998, when her husband was embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky Sex Scandal, she openly supported her husband, though she decided to leave the marriage.
Becoming a Senator and Contesting Presidential Election
With her husband's presidential rule being short-lived, Hillary Clinton decided to take to the political arena in full swing and became victorious as the election for US Senate by defeating Rick Lazio in New York. She was later reelected to the Senate in 2006.
In the year2007, she decided to contest the Presidential Election with an idea to become the First Lady President of USA. However, her competitor Barrack Obama proved to be much in favor which is why she decided to pull out of the election.
Hillary's mettle was definitely was missed on Obama, who after becoming the President nominated her to be the US Secretary of the State. As the US Secretary, she worked extensively for improving Women's Rights and Human Rights and became the First US Secretary to have travelled extensively.
When the US Diplomat Christopher Stevens and three other ambassadors were killed in Bengzhai, Libya in 2012, Hillary Clinton and her team came under scrutiny. During the investigation, she took full responsibility for the whole incident and resigned from her post in 2013.
She aims to run for the Presidential Elections of USA in 2016 and hopes to make her dream of becoming the First Woman American President.
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JDevlieghere added a comment to D61090: [SBHostOS} Remove getting the python script interpreter path.
I don't think there's any reason to have the Command Interpreter know which ScriptInterpreter is being used, so entangling them like this is awkward.
Am I missing some reason why it makes sense to do this on the CommandInterpreter?
JDevlieghere updated the diff for D61090: [SBHostOS} Remove getting the python script interpreter path.
JDevlieghere committed rGc95c08baa1af: [SystemInitializerFull] Fix header sorting (NFC) (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359141: [SystemInitializerFull] Fix header sorting (NFC).
JDevlieghere committed rL359141: [SystemInitializerFull] Fix header sorting (NFC).
JDevlieghere created D61090: [SBHostOS} Remove getting the python script interpreter path.
JDevlieghere committed rG10b113e8aa60: [ScriptInterpreterPython] find_first_of -> find (NFC) (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359138: [ScriptInterpreterPython] find_first_of -> find (NFC).
JDevlieghere committed rL359138: [ScriptInterpreterPython] find_first_of -> find (NFC).
JDevlieghere committed rG196123255e40: [Docs] Add more redirects (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL359063: [Docs] Add more redirects.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359063: [Docs] Add more redirects.
JDevlieghere committed rG6d0dc28a32cf: [Docs] Update the CI page (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rG6f7759672dcd: [Docs] Move external links up (authored by JDevlieghere).
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JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359062: [Docs] Update the CI page.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359061: [Docs] Move external links up.
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JDevlieghere committed rG36371d61ec8d: [Docs] Fix link to C++ docs (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL359052: [Docs] Fix link to C++ docs.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359052: [Docs] Fix link to C++ docs.
JDevlieghere added a comment to D60227: [Remarks] Add string deduplication using a string table.
JDevlieghere committed rGdb41fe166a53: [Reproducers] Limit logging to calls that cross the API boundary. (authored by JDevlieghere).
[Reproducers] Limit logging to calls that cross the API boundary.
JDevlieghere committed rL359016: [Reproducers] Limit logging to calls that cross the API boundary..
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359016: [Reproducers] Limit logging to calls that cross the API boundary..
JDevlieghere closed D60984: [Reproducers] Limit logging to calls that cross the API boundary..
JDevlieghere committed rG3ba5f66177a4: [Docs] Add missing leading slash (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359005: [Docs] Add missing leading slash.
JDevlieghere committed rL359005: [Docs] Add missing leading slash.
JDevlieghere committed rG056fde75271c: [Docs] Add 301 redirects for old URLs (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB359004: [Docs] Add 301 redirects for old URLs.
JDevlieghere committed rL359004: [Docs] Add 301 redirects for old URLs.
JDevlieghere committed rGd44a7be17b67: [Docs] Move API docs to the front page (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL358928: [Docs] Move API docs to the front page.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358928: [Docs] Move API docs to the front page.
JDevlieghere created D60984: [Reproducers] Limit logging to calls that cross the API boundary..
JDevlieghere accepted D60642: [dsymutil] Collect parseable Swift interfaces in the .dSYM bundle..
JDevlieghere committed rG32176baee78d: [Reproducers] Fix lifetime issue (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358916: [Reproducers] Fix lifetime issue.
JDevlieghere committed rL358916: [Reproducers] Fix lifetime issue.
JDevlieghere added inline comments to D60642: [dsymutil] Collect parseable Swift interfaces in the .dSYM bundle..
JDevlieghere committed rGd600e6fa85b5: [Tests] Split float test into float and doubles (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL358792: [Tests] Split float test into float and doubles.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358792: [Tests] Split float test into float and doubles.
JDevlieghere committed rGf7f03622eca6: [Docs] Add more info about building the docs (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358777: [Docs] Add more info about building the docs.
JDevlieghere committed rL358777: [Docs] Add more info about building the docs.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358773: [Docs] Make Doxygen functional.
JDevlieghere committed rG52cf94090fcb: [Docs] Make Doxygen functional (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL358773: [Docs] Make Doxygen functional.
JDevlieghere committed rGf2293a95dee0: [Docs] Add LLDB bots (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358693: [Docs] Add LLDB bots.
JDevlieghere committed rL358693: [Docs] Add LLDB bots.
JDevlieghere committed rGea6037d84edd: [Shell] Simplify Extracting Python Version (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358635: [Shell] Simplify Extracting Python Version.
JDevlieghere committed rL358635: [Shell] Simplify Extracting Python Version.
JDevlieghere accepted D60802: Implement sys::fs::copy_file using the macOS copyfile(3) API to support APFS clones.
JDevlieghere accepted D60780: [tools] Only build lldb-instr and lldb-vscode if asked..
JDevlieghere added inline comments to D60780: [tools] Only build lldb-instr and lldb-vscode if asked..
JDevlieghere added a comment to D60780: [tools] Only build lldb-instr and lldb-vscode if asked..
JDevlieghere requested changes to D60780: [tools] Only build lldb-instr and lldb-vscode if asked..
We need to define these variables in the cache and make sure the test suite knows about them.
JDevlieghere accepted D60667: Allow direct comparison of ConstString against StringRef.
Thanks for doing this, Raphael!
JDevlieghere added a comment to D60599: Move postfix expression code out of the NativePDB plugin.
JDevlieghere committed rGbb6e3f6be7ed: [test] Fix & re-enable CommandScriptImmediateOutputFile on Windows (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL358216: [test] Fix & re-enable CommandScriptImmediateOutputFile on Windows.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358216: [test] Fix & re-enable CommandScriptImmediateOutputFile on Windows.
JDevlieghere committed rG1fefee6a6e77: [test] Disable CommandScriptImmediateOutputFile on Windows (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL358213: [test] Disable CommandScriptImmediateOutputFile on Windows.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358213: [test] Disable CommandScriptImmediateOutputFile on Windows.
JDevlieghere committed rGd843da6218d8: [test] Convert CommandScriptImmediateOutput from pexpect to lit (authored by JDevlieghere).
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JDevlieghere committed rL358180: [test] Convert CommandScriptImmediateOutput from pexpect to lit.
JDevlieghere closed D60566: [test] Convert CommandScriptImmediateOutput from pexpect to lit.
JDevlieghere updated the diff for D60566: [test] Convert CommandScriptImmediateOutput from pexpect to lit.
JDevlieghere created D60566: [test] Convert CommandScriptImmediateOutput from pexpect to lit.
JDevlieghere abandoned D60563: [pexepect] Add a small sleep between pexect calls.
Apparently Pavel already investigated and fixed this in r357459. We also discussed a better way to make this work by checking the echo of the command passed to sendline.
JDevlieghere added a comment to D60563: [pexepect] Add a small sleep between pexect calls.
To give a little more context: the particular issue I was looking at (TestCommandScriptImmediateOutput) occurs with sendline. We send a bunch of commands and always check for the prompt. I can reproduce the error when piping the test commands directly to LLDB.
JDevlieghere created D60563: [pexepect] Add a small sleep between pexect calls.
JDevlieghere committed rL358135: [NFC] Remove ASCII lines from comments.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358135: [NFC] Remove ASCII lines from comments.
JDevlieghere committed rG8b3af63b8993: [NFC] Remove ASCII lines from comments (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere closed D60508: [NFC] Remove ASCII lines from comments.
JDevlieghere committed rG6a7412a893da: [testsuite] Split Obj-C foundation test (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL358088: [testsuite] Split Obj-C foundation test.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB358088: [testsuite] Split Obj-C foundation test.
JDevlieghere created D60508: [NFC] Remove ASCII lines from comments.
JDevlieghere accepted D60227: [Remarks] Add string deduplication using a string table.
LGTM with the outstanding comments/questions addressed.
JDevlieghere added a comment to D55718: [ARC] Basic support in gdb-remote process plugin.
JDevlieghere committed rG7e01ce2ed15a: Fix doxygen warning about function argument (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL357983: Fix doxygen warning about function argument.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB357983: Fix doxygen warning about function argument.
JDevlieghere closed D60443: Fix doxygen warning about function argument.
JDevlieghere accepted D60443: Fix doxygen warning about function argument.
JDevlieghere added a comment to D60442: Add missing space between \btrue.
I think I don't have commit access (yet) and would like if someone can commit this for me. It was my first commit to the LLDB project and I wanted to get familiar with phabricator and the arc tool. Is phabricator here to stay or are there plans to move to github or something else? I'm just a bit confused still about some SVN revisions showing up here and there and why that is. I guess it will clear up in some time.
JDevlieghere committed rG721b8d1557a1: Add missing space between \btrue (authored by JDevlieghere).
JDevlieghere committed rL357980: Add missing space between \btrue.
JDevlieghere committed rLLDB357980: Add missing space between \btrue.
JDevlieghere closed D60442: Add missing space between \btrue.


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HKC has provide a Smart Mirror to construct an IoT environment while user can easily have a nice cooking experience.
Integrate with Carrot Home Automation System, users can control kitchen electronic devices such as lighting, audio visual, air conditioning by one touch on smart mirror, control smart locks for opening or locking kitchen cabinets, view daily information such as time, date, temperature and RSS news. Android based widget for users to customise and download more Apps from Google Play Store!
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The middle portion is made of the Smart Mirror. A wall-box is to be embedded inside this partition wall and the smart mirror (shown in dark gray) will cover this wall box. A power connection is to be provided by others inside this wall box. This Smart mirror is mounted on the wall box using special fixing accessories that enable the mirror to be removed from the front side for maintenance purpose.
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M. swimming wins home meet
November 11, 2012 by Alex Wagner
The Bucknellian Archives
Marshall Lambert '14 swims the breastroke. With his help, the bison dominated Lafayette as they won 14 of 16 events.
Scott Padula
In the first home meet of the year, the Orange and Blue men's swimming and diving team defeated Lafayette 186-112. The Bison dominated the meet throughout, winning 14 of a total 16 events. Further demonstrating their dominance, the Orange and Blue swept the Leopards, maintaining all three top spots in six different events. With the win, the Bison are now 3-2 overall and 2-1 in the Patriot League on the season.
"It did not take much for the team to be ready; all week we were itching to race. By the time it was the start of the meet, it was full force by the Bison. I think this speaks a lot to the coaching staff and the work we have put in so far. We are determined and we do not plan on changing our attitude moving forward," Billy Krause '13 said.
Leading the charge was Mike Nicholson '14 who captured three individual victories on the day. Nicholson first won the 1,000 freestyle by 22.46 seconds before taking the 100 breast and 200 backstroke. In the latter two events, Nicholson set personal bests with times of 58.22 and 1:56.05, respectively. In 12 individual races on the season, Nicholson now has 10 victories and two second place finishes.
Joining Nicholson with multiple victories on the day were teammates Christian Treat '13 and Matt Hadley '14. Treat defeated his competition in the 200 freestyle and 200 IM, while Hadley swam to victory in the 100 backstroke and 500 freestyle. Other Bison winners included Krause, Bryce Suchomel '13, Trevor Reitz '14, Chris Ortiz '16 and Tyler Wenzel '16.
"The Lafayette meet was a great indicator of our energy level and enthusiasm for this upcoming season. Our men have displayed a level of confidence that was invigorated by the large support of the Bison fans this past Saturday. This is what we need to build off of and is especially important when we are going into a stretch of the year that will be particularly tough," Treat said.
The Orange and Blue will swim in the Kinney Natatorium again this weekend when they host the Bucknell Invitational Nov. 16-18.
Filed Under: Men, Sports, Swimming & Diving


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There's been a gentle slope to population growth over the post-war years; the metro area gained about 5% during the past decade.That means low demand for housing and the median price of about $80,000 in early 2011 is down about 10% from the boom years. A tidy three-bedroom home can be bought for less than $90,000.


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Navigation Esplanade to Host East End Table on March 11
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East End Table [EET] is a community experience that blends culture and cuisine. EET hosts pop-up dinners in unusual East End settings showcasing some of the area's best creative talent and some of Houston's most notable chefs. EET - Navigation Esplanade offers an al fresco dinner under the stars at one of Houston's premiere open…
District I CIP Meeting to Take Place February 24
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This summer, City of Houston departments are opening their doors to provide opportunities for you to earn while you learn about what it takes to serve the residents of the nation's 4th largest city. Most positions are for 32 hours per week, at $7.25 per hour. The application process will be open from February 15…
Navigation Esplanade Earns Prestigious ULI Development of Distinction Award
The Navigation Esplanade was recently awarded the prestigious designation of best Urban Open Space at the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Development of Distinction Award Ceremony. Navigation_Esplanade from Urban Land Institute on Vimeo. "The Navigation Esplanade exemplifies what a community can achieve when it works together. A weekly farmers market in a food desert, and support…
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Join the Houston East End Chamber of Commerce on Monday, February 29th at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Houston Hobby Airport (8181 Airport Blvd) for a discussion on the Houston East End Vision from our City of Houston's elected officials: Mayor Sylvester Turner, Council Member Robert Gallegos and Council Member Karla Cisneros. During the luncheon,…
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On February 13, 2016 from 1:00 to 5:00, just in time for Valentine's Day, visit East End artist studios, galleries, and theaters on a self-guided tour of some of Houston's most interesting creative spaces. The second East End Houston Cultural District open house will give visitors a glimpse into some of the incredibly unique cultural…


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NATO about to lose Turkey's alliance
Burhanettin Duran Posted On December 5, 2017
As U.S. President Donald Trump's first year in office comes to an end, Turkey-U.S. relations remain as strained as ever. Washington's support for People's Protection Units (YPG) militants, the failure to extradite Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) leader Fetullah Gülen and its reluctance to cooperate with the Turks on defense issues, along with an ongoing court case in New York that is supposedly dealing with alleged violations of the Iran sanctions, are the top items on the agenda right now.
Turkey and the United States reached a point in their relationship, which has been severely damaged by the Syrian civil war, where the term "strategic partnership" means little — if anything at all. Following the trilateral summit in Sochi, President Trump made an effort to repair Washington's ties with Ankara by telling his Turkish counterpart that he was going to end the "nonsense" delivery of weapons to YPG militants. However, Pentagon officials reiterated their commitment to working with the group, which left the Turks confused.
The ongoing rift between Turkey and NATO is resulting from the U.S.-led organization ignoring Ankara's concerns on its national security
The thinly-veiled disagreements between the White House, the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon on foreign policy are indicative of a broader confusion on policy issues that the Trump administration has been unable to address over the past year. Meanwhile, Turkey continues to welcome President Trump's efforts to work more closely with Ankara, notwithstanding the contradictions in U.S. foreign policy. Therefore, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ignored the Pentagon statement and made it clear that the White House was his only counterpart in the United States. He added that his phone call with President Trump was "an encounter where we were able to be on the same wavelength regarding Turkey-U.S. relations for the first time in a while." Noting that he had "discussed, at length," a range of issues including the YPG and FETÖ with his American counterpart, President Erdoğan said the conversation would continue over the next days and weeks.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson voiced Washington's concerns over Turkey's rapprochement with Russia and Iran — interestingly enough, with reference to NATO. Mr. Tillerson, who has been overshadowed by the "de facto Secretary of State" Ivanka Trump, made three interrelated points in a speech delivered at the Wilson Center: The future of the Euro-American alliance, the rise of the Russian threat and the "benefits" of Turkey's NATO membership. The Trump administration's call on NATO allies in Europe to increase their financial contributions, Mr. Tillerson said, was both "a new commitment" and "a redefinition of the alliance." Then, he talked about the Russian "challenge" and argued that, while the U.S. and Europe wanted to "normalize" their ties with Russia, the Russians tried to drive a wedge between Europe and the U.S. through cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns designed to interfere in elections. Finally, he urged Europe to support Washington's plans to contain Iran and made the following remarks about Turkey, "We ask Turkey, as a NATO ally, to prioritize the common defense of its treaty allies. Iran and Russia cannot offer the Turkish people the economic and political benefits that membership in the Western community of nations can provide."
One could make the case that reminding Turkey of the "benefits" of NATO membership was more reasonable than calls by several media outlets in the U.S. to kick Turkey out of NATO. However, Mr. Tillerson conveniently ignored the "costs" that his country's misguided Turkey policy entailed in recent years. In other words, U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson, who wants to "redefine" NATO with more European money, is turning a blind eye to the fact that NATO, for lack of a better word, neglected Turkey's vital security interests for years, nor is he willing to admit that Turkey's war on terror has been negatively affected by the alliance's refusal to put the "common defense" principle to work. Ironically, a quick glance at Washington's take on the YPG and FETÖ reveals that it was the United States that undermined the alliance. The current state of affairs between Turkey and NATO not only raises questions about the reliability of this so-called alliance, but also turns NATO capitals into sources of anti-Turkey sentiment and fuels anti-Westernism in Turkey.
It is no secret that NATO desperately needs to reflect on Turkey's security problems, as the country faces more serious threats today than at any point since the Cold War ended. In the face of a wave of chaos and terror coming from Syria and Iraq, Ankara has been left alone by its self-proclaimed allies. Every passing day, more Turkish people believe that NATO fails to live up to its responsibilities toward Turkey with regard to preventive and traditional security. To make matters worse, the harboring of PKK and FETÖ militants by European governments at a time when the U.S. provides shelter to Fetullah Gülen and supports YPG militants raises questions about the necessity of the NATO membership.
Under the circumstances, the right way to redefine NATO is to look out for the vital security interests of all allies –as opposed to "reminding" them of the benefits of membership.
This article was first published by Daily Sabah on December 5, 2017.
Burhanettin Duran
bduran@setav.org


It was as if the Internet never existed. In the week leading up to the drawing for the $656 million Mega Millions jackpot, lottery players had little choice but to stand on long lines at convenience stores and snack shops. Indeed, at some stores on the California border, Nevadans lined up for as long as six hours to buy tickets because their own state lottery doesn't participate in Mega Millions.
In-store lottery sales have never faced competition from the Internet. But eventually the Web finds a way. Late last month, Illinois became the first state to sell lottery tickets online. It's unlikely to be the last. In its first week, myillinoislottery.com sold $1.2 million worth of tickets.
The game changer was a December legal opinion from the Justice Department. Under the DoJ's new view, a 1961 betting ban known as the Interstate Wire Act applies only to sports wagers, paving the way for all sorts of other Internet-based gambling. Mike Malouf, an analyst for Craig-Hallum Capital, thinks another five to 10 states could launch online lottery sales in the next 12 months. And all 43 states with lotto programs are surely now exploring the Internet as a way to close budget gaps.
LOTTERIES ARE ALREADY BIG business in the U.S. Revenues totaled $56 billion last year, or roughly $180 a person. The sales are intended to load up state coffers, but investors can get a piece of the action through Scientific Games (ticker: SGMS), a longtime maker of instant lottery tickets that also provides back-end technology and Website support for lottery commissions. The company has a 20% stake in the private group that runs the Illinois lottery.
Scientific Games introduced the first secure, instant lottery ticket in 1974. Today, the company can print up to 45 billion scratch-off tickets per year. The ticket business, which also includes customers from Italy, China and the U.K., makes up 57% of Scientific Games' revenue. And because there's a lot of technology at work behind the scenes, states use the company's servers and software to monitor and validate local lotto sales in real time. Scientific Games also provides retailers with point-of-sale systems that can print Mega Millions and Powerball tickets. The company gets a small cut of lotto sales, so revenue rises along with jackpots.
Investors are taking notice, after several years of neglecting the stock. Shares of Scientific are up 17% in the last month to $11.88. Malouf thinks they could rise to $15 in the coming year, buoyed by new technologies and greater interest in lottery games here and abroad. For 2012, analysts expect Scientific Games to earn $40 million, or 41 cents a share, on revenue of $969 million. Wall Street pays more attention to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization because of the company's high debt load. Ebitda is likely to grow 7% this year, to $346 million, and 14% in 2013, according to FactSet.
Scientific Games is being careful not to alienate its brick-and-mortar retail base. Chief Marketing Officer James Kennedy views Internet offerings as complementary. The company already runs loyalty reward Websites in five states, where lotto players can earn points and prizes on losing tickets bought at retail. Long-term, the Internet can help engage consumers who wouldn't otherwise find themselves in a lotto line, Kennedy says.
Now if only there were an algorithm that could improve your odds.
It was as if the Internet never existed.


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package eu.fbk.fm.alignments.scorer;

import eu.fbk.fm.alignments.DBpediaResource;
import twitter4j.User;

import java.util.Date;

/**
 * Scores the date of the post returned with the profile
 *
 * @author Yaroslav Nechaev (remper@me.com)
 */
public class ActivityScorer implements FeatureProvider {
    public static final double MAX_DAYS = 100.0;

    private static double daysFromToday(Date date) {
        long difference = new Date().getTime() - date.getTime();
        assert difference > 0;
        return (double) difference / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
    }

    private double unScaledFeature(User user) {
        if (user.getStatus() == null) {
            return MAX_DAYS;
        }
        double days = daysFromToday(user.getStatus().getCreatedAt());
        return days > MAX_DAYS ? MAX_DAYS : days;
    }

    @Override
    public double getFeature(User user, DBpediaResource resource) {
        return unScaledFeature(user);
    }
}

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Being in a relationship indicates communication between two people. Imagine going to Facebook and changing your status to say that you are "in a relationship" when only one party agrees to those terms. You might expect some taunting or teasing for such a public declaration.
In a growing relationship with Christ, we should expect two-way communication. The Bible compares a relationship with Christ to the way a bride relates to a groom. Following Christ is a serious matter and indicates that both parties be involved intimately. Those in relationships know one another well.
At least once a week I sit and find a calm moment on a bench dedicated to a godly woman I never met, Kaye Shipley. I came to know who she was through her husband, Mark, who didn't know me, but still drove out of his way to pick me up in St. Louis. Oddly, I met him again in the parking lot of the national WMU building in Birmingham, Alabama. That's how I learned about the family connection to the bench in the memorial garden at our office.
Smells affect us in different ways. In our little neighborhood, a steak grilling at the neighbor's house makes us want to invite ourselves to dinner. The connection between memory and our sense of smell allows us to associate places and events with different scents. I like the smell of cinnamon at Christmas and watermelon in the summer, but there are certain smells that trigger bad memories and even danger, such as the smell associated with natural gas.


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Nine states are suing the Trump administration to stop 3D-printed guns
DIY gun proponent Cody Wilson promised to fight the multi-state lawsuit: "If we are a named party, we will litigate and defend our rights."
Washington State attorney general Bob Ferguson [Photo: Joe Mabel/Wikimedia Commons]
Washington State's attorney general will lead a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from permitting the public to download computer files for designing 3D-printed guns, his office said in a statement Monday.
Last month the Trump administration settled a 2015 lawsuit brought by Defense Distributed, a company led by gun rights activist Cody Wilson, after the U.S. State Department forced it to remove materials related to the printable guns from its website under munitions export control laws. Defense Distributed has said it will start making computer-aided design specifications for guns available for downloads on August 1.
"These downloadable guns are unregistered and very difficult to detect, even with metal detectors, and will be available to anyone regardless of age, mental health, or criminal history," said Bob Ferguson, the state's attorney general, in his statement about the lawsuit, which is being jointly filed by eight other states. "If the Trump administration won't keep us safe, we will."
Critics generally say easily printable guns could allow people to circumvent federal, state, and local gun restrictions by home printing their own weapons with little oversight. Advocates say the files are protected by the First and Second Amendments in the U.S. Constitution.
Libraries with 3D printers. Now is a really good time to check your policies to see if there is a restriction on patrons making weapons with it. If not, there should be. https://t.co/f9qXI80Xrh
— jessamyn west (@jessamyn) July 30, 2018
Ferguson's office argues that the federal settlement violates the Administrative Procedures Act, since the government didn't conduct any kind of study or give required notice to Congress before changing its rules on printable weapons. Washington State, which, according to the statement, is joined by Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Maryland, New York, and the District of Columbia in the lawsuit, also argues that the settlement violates its constitutional right, under the 10th Amendment, to regulate firearms.
Since he was elected last year, Ferguson has gained a reputation for litigating against the Trump administration, with cases that range from the White House's travel ban to the erosion of net neutrality to child separation policies. In May, Ferguson sued Facebook and Google for violating campaign laws, and this month forged an agreement with Facebook that would end the ability for advertisers to prevent certain groups from seeing ads.
Defense Distributed promises to "defend our rights"
Monday's lawsuit isn't the first to attempt to stop the spread of 3D-printed guns. Defense Distributed agreed to temporarily block people in Pennsylvania from its website, amid legal pressure, and is also involved in separate litigation with the state of New Jersey and city of Los Angeles, the Washington Post reports. The office of Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro claimed that by Sunday, 1,000 people had downloaded plans for AR-15 rifles from the website after they were made available last Friday, earlier than the August 1 date.
Court documents related to the case filed by Washington in a Seattle federal court weren't immediately available on Monday, though Ferguson's office said in its statement it would soon make them available. The lawsuit includes Defense Distributed because the company would be impacted by a ruling in Washington's favor, according to the statement.
"I can only comment when I've seen the filings," Wilson said in an email to Fast Company. "If we are a named party, we will litigate and defend our rights."
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är en kommun i Main-Kinzig-Kreis i Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt i förbundslandet Hessen i Tyskland. Kommunen bildades 1 juli 1972 genom en sammanslagning av de tidigare kommunerna Mottgers, Schwarzenfels och Weichersbach.  Altengronau, Jossa, Oberzell och Sterbfritz uppgick i  1 juli 1974 och Züntersbach 1 januari 1977.

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Cameras show teen escaping sheriff's office the moment he's left alone
By John Hadden	Global News
Posted March 1, 2019 3:41 pm
1:03 Cameras show teen escaping sheriff's office moment he's left alone
WATCH: Quantrell D. Schwartzlow makes a brazen escape from a Wisconsin sheriff's office – Mar 1, 2019
A Wisconsin sheriff's office recently installed bars on its second-storey windows after a teen escaped from the building the moment he was left alone.
The Rock County Sheriff's Office says officers took Quantrell D. Schwartzlow into custody on Oct. 18 at 11:07 a.m. during the execution of a search warrant.
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The 17-year-old was wanted on charges of second-degree sexual assault, strangulation, suffocation and battery.
Schwartzlow arrived at the detective bureau just over 20 minutes later for questioning.
Security footage, released this week, shows that an official told him to wait "a minute" before he could remove the handcuffs he was wearing. That's when the door closed and the teen was all alone.
Schwartzlow was out of the building 10 seconds later.
A news release states that Schwartzlow was "briefly left unattended" in a locked interview room.
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1:09 Inmate falls through ceiling trying to escape from jail
Inmate falls through ceiling trying to escape from jail – Feb 8, 2019
WMTV reports that the teen fell anywhere from 12 to 16 feet, while a second security camera showed him fleeing across a lawn.
Janesville police officers located him four hours later. Schwartzlow was back in custody at 3:39 p.m., according to police, and was brought to the Rock County Jail.
"As a result of his escape from custody, he was arrested for escape," said Capt. Todd Christiansen.
The teen pleaded not guilty to charges in December, according to NBC.
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