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What currency is Lord Ganesha on?
Among various examples of widespread Hindu influence in Indonesia, is the 20,000 rupiah note with an inscription of Lord Ganesha alongside a picture of Ki Hajar Dewantara in the front. The backside of the note has a picture of a classroom with children studying.
What country is Ganesh from?
Ganapati, being the most popular deity in India, is worshipped by almost all castes and in all parts of the country". Devotees believe that if Ganesha is propitiated, he grants success, prosperity and protection against adversity. Ganesha is a non-sectarian deity.
How do you pay respect to Ganesha?
However, before you ask Ganesha for his favor, you need to prepare yourself to worship him and to offer him your respect and reverence….Speak to Lord Ganesha, once you've visualized him.
Approach him in a relaxed manor.
Speak to him in his right ear.
Be assured of the personal connection between you and Lord Ganesha.
Do Muslims believe in Ganesha?
Muslims like me may not worship Ganesha as a God but the sense of reverence for this deity exists in the mind of every Maharashtrian and especially every Punekar like me. The city of Mumbai also boasts of two of the most famous Ganesh idols in India.
Is Thailand a Hindu?
Hinduism is a minority religion in Thailand followed by 0.02% of its population as of 2018. Despite being a Buddhist majority nation, Thailand has a very strong Hindu influence. The popular Thai epic Ramakien is based on the Buddhist Dasaratha Jataka, is a Thai variant of the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Is Ganesh a Buddhist god?
Ganesha also appears in Buddhism, not only in the form of the Buddhist god Vināyaka, but also portrayed as a Hindu deity form also called Vināyaka. His image may be found on Buddhist sculptures of the late Gupta period.
What makes Lord Ganesha angry?
Goddess Parvati created Lord Ganesha to guard the entrance while she takes a bath. Ganesha lost his head to Shiva's divine fury but did not break the trust of his creator and breach his duty. When Parvati learnt of this, she was enraged and decided to destroy the world.
Where can you find a Ganesha on a currency note?
You might be surprised to know that Ganesha can not only be found in their currency note, but also in the logo of their topmost Institute of Technology. In spite of being the world's largest Muslim country, they still believe in Hindu mythology and we too should be proud of it.
What is the theme of the Indonesian 20, 000 rupiah note?
Indonesian 20,000 Rupiah Currency Note Featuring Lord Ganesha. An Indonesian currency note was issued in 1998 with the theme – Education. Going with the theme of the note, the most loved Indian God of Ganas, Ganesha who represents wisdom, was featured on the reverse of this 20,000 rupiah banknote.
Why are there so many Hindu symbols in Indonesia?
There are plenty of Hindu motifs present throughout the country, the Ramayana and Mahabharata tales are widely prevalent among the natives, there is a Krishna-Arjuna statue at Jakarta square, the Indonesian military has Hanuman as their mascot and the Bali tourism logo is inspired from Hindu mythology and its symbolism.
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We show that the types of singularities of Schubert varieties in the flag varieties Flagₙ, n ∈ ℕ, are equivalent to the types of singularities of orbit closures for the representations of Dynkin quivers of type 𝔸. Similarly, we prove that the types of singularities of Schubert varieties in products of Grassmannians Grass(n,a) × Grass(n,b), a, b, n ∈ ℕ, a, b ≤ n, are equivalent to the types of singularities of orbit closures for the representations of Dynkin quivers of type 𝔻. We also show that the orbit closures in representation varieties of Dynkin quivers of type 𝔻 are normal and Cohen-Macaulay varieties.


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Are robotic systems the solution?
As pervasive labor shortages plague farms, many farmers investigate automation as a means of decreasing their need for labor; however, could this provide a long-term, sustainable and environmentally sound solution? As part of the 2021 Grow-NY Summit hosted by the Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture at Cornell AgriTech, a panel of ag technology experts discussed aspects of robotics aiding farmers.
Kirstin Petersen, assistant professor at Cornell University, emceed. Petersen leads the Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab at Cornell. The panelists were Girish Chowdhary, Mark DeSantis and Adam Fine.
Chowdhary is the CTO at EarthSense and co-founder who is also an associate professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He directs the Field Robotics Engineering and Science Hub (FRESH) at UIUC and is the chief scientist on the Illinois Autonomous Farm.
DeSantis is the CEO of Bloomfield, an artificial intelligence-driven ag tech company. He has led several AI and tech-based companies and has served as director of government relations for Texas Instruments and held policy positions as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the administration of George H.W. Bush.
Fine is the U.S. business development manager for Blue White Robotics US and has worked in ag startups for eight years. As a co-founder of an autonomous ag business, he has placed in both the Genius NY and Grow-NY competitions.
"Are robots going to start taking over jobs?" Petersen posed, kicking off the panel discussion.
While robot-run farms may seem dystopian to some, Chowdhary views labor in ag as a different kind of issue. "The way to look at it is the kind of jobs in ag are often very low paying and there's a long history of exploitative jobs in agriculture," he said. "We need to grow in a way that's sustainable. The labor crisis is causing us to make not the best choices. We want to introduce robotics to provide labor where it's needed so we can do the right things, like planting cover crops that are often not done because of labor shortage."
DeSantis sees a trend among times of innovation. "Everyone fears automation whether it's an automated factory or a cotton gin," he said. "The nature of the work changes. The grower manages to the plant rather than the acre. It changes the nature of the work on the farm, but it doesn't eliminate human labor. It's not so much that the work goes away, but the nature of the work changes."
He foresees a whole new host of jobs in agriculture. "There will be whole new job titles no one ever thought of before," he said. "If you want to see the future of ag, look inside a high-end cannabis grower. It's a controlled environment and there are a lot of high-tech tools available for those very expensive crops."
He thinks the use of those tools for lower-priced crops will become ubiquitous once those tools become more affordable for growers.
Fine views the adoption process as the biggest challenge. "There sometimes is an education barrier," he said. "Needs may change from one area to the next. Teaching it isn't always the most effective but offering it as a solution [is]."
He added that keeping new tech affordable and with a very evident value proposition makes farmers more likely to want to adopt it. For example, demonstrating that the technology will replace jobs with automation helps farmers see that investing in the technology will help them save money immediately.
Chowdhary believes that farmers have been waiting for this type of help. "They drive eight to 10 hours to talk with us," he said. "'Can they weed my farm? Can I have 10 of them?'"
Keeping up with that scale in crops like corn and soybeans "is just the beginning," he added. "I think as a start-up, they're trying to keep up with that demand on limited budgets."
DeSantis also believes that developing and maintaining a relationship with farmers is important to the adoption process. "It's not just the check they write you but changes internally to make use of your products," he said. "Farms are driven by their routines and processes. You have to minimize the changes they make. You try to make your solution fit into the stream of activity that's already happening there."
Some ag tech companies fulfill the promise of what their products do, but their issue is how farmers must change their farm's routines and processes to accommodate it.
"The cost of that was farming more than the check they wrote," DeSantis said. "Pay attention – to anyone starting a company in ag and technology. Understand the true cost of adoption. They'll show up and tell you how hard it is to adopt your product."
Fine said that a site inspection is part of his company's adoption process. "We attack the easiest tasks first," he said. "We slowly grow with the grower. It's a very intimate approach. It's growing it to the point where they're comfortable."
Chowdhardy said the farmer should remain at the center of the process. "Everything is about how can we make it easy for them to use it," he said. "How is the product working for them?"
While purchasing new technology to automate on the farm may seem trendy and future-oriented, DeSantis said that it must make a positive difference in the farm finances.
"We want to make products that bring farming to a more sustainable set-up," he said. "We have financial and environmental incentives. The options farmers have available have not yet worked to bring those into balance. The goal is to create options that bring those into balance. It has to be easy for the farmer to use. It's very easy for humans to underestimate how hard it is for robots to walk down a row."


Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale has taken to Twitter to jab Sarkodie after it was announced SarkCess Music signee, Strongman, had parted ways with the rapper.
The label, owned by award-winning rapper Sarkodie, worked with the young talent with the aim of helping to market his enormous talent.
Strongman was signed in March 2017, but after several months of rumours of friction between both parties, they have agreed to go their separate ways.
Shatta Wale took to Twitter to blame the separation on Sarkodie's finances.
The dancehall artiste alleged Sarkodie was too broke to extend the contract between him and Strong man.
Some people did not take his comments lightly. They called him out on the whereabouts of the SM Militants he signed and also dragged in the career of his baby mama Shatta Michy.
Also, artiste like Kwaw Kese has jumped in to defend Sarkodie. In a tweet, he called people to support and appreciate artistes like Sarkodie who are trying hard to push other artistes.


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Педро Вускович Браво (; 25 февраля 1924, Антофагаста — 10 мая 1993, Мехико) — чилийский экономист и политический деятель хорватского происхождения. Министр экономики в правительстве Сальвадора Альенде, автор экономического плана его правительства. Много лет занимался академической деятельностью, как в Чили, так и в Мексике.

Биография
Родился в Антофагасте, окончил Университет Чили и начал в нём преподавать статистику. Одновременно стал работать в Экономической комиссии ООН для Латинской Америки, которой отдал 20 лет своей жизни. Автор экономической программы Народного единства, в 1970 году, после победы на выборах Сальвадора Альенде, был назначен президентом на пост министра экономики.

В экономике начал политику национализации стратегических предприятий и горнодобывающей промышленности, заморозки цен на товары первой необходимости и ускорение земельной реформы. Чтобы побороть "саботаж" со стороны собственников, в 1971 году объявил о введении государственного контроля за экономикой: «Цель наших действий, которая будет достигнута путём отмены частной собственности, состоит в разрушении экономических оснований империализма и правящего класса».

В 1972 году на посту министра его сменил Карлос Матус, а сам Вускович был назначен вице-президентом крупнейшей государственной корпорации «Корфо».

После военного переворота в 1973 году был арестован и содержался в концлагере на острове Досон. В результате международного давления — выслан из страны. Вместе со многими другими политическими эмигрантами начал преподавать в Мексике, в том числе в Национальном автономном университете Мексики, где одним из его учеников был Жуан Педру Стедиле.

В 1990 году, во время правления Патрисио Эйлвина, ненадолго вернулся в Чили. Однако после этого вернулся в Мексику, где прожил свои последние годы.

Книги
 Una sola lucha: El desafio politico de Chile. Editorial Nuestro Tiempo. 1978
 La crisis en America Latina: Un desafio continental. Editorial de la Universidad de las Naciones Unidas. 1990
 Pobreza y desigualdad en America Latina. UNAM. 1993

Ссылки
 Jacobo Schatan. In memory of Pedro Vuskovic. CEPAL Review Nº 50. August 1993
 Eduardo González. Entrevista con Pedro Vuskovic. Cuadernos Políticos, número 57, mayo-agosto de 1989

Экономисты Чили
Социалисты Чили
Революционеры Чили
Политики Чили
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This ragtime composition by Mr. Stolyarov celebrates all of the helpful automata in our present and future (including the program that performs it). It is played in Finale 2011 software using the Steinway Grand Piano instrument.
The artwork is "Ragbot" by Wendy Stolyarov – available for free download here.


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Do science advisory committees facilitate the functioning of Multilateral Environmental Agreements? Are their roles purely technocratic and apolitical?
Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance: Expert Institutions and the Implementation of International Environmental Treaties, by Pia M. Kohler, Anthem Press, 2019, 226 pp.
Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) are key instruments of international global environmental governance. To facilitate the functioning of the MEAs, there is a provision of science advisory committees. In recent decades, such instruments have grown significantly and the role of these committees has become institutional. The committees, in their role as a repository of knowledge, compile relevant evidence from peer-reviewed studies. The role of these committees, while recognized as crucial, is often considered purely technocratic and entirely apolitical.
Pia M. Kohler's book makes a radical departure from the mechanical understanding of the committees to frame them as an active source of knowledge coproduction connecting science and policy with significant power of deciding on what constitutes evidence and how to translate the evidence into governance. Due to the reframing of the role of science advisory committees, Kohler scrutinizes who these experts are and how they organize their work to answer the global implementation challenges. While the theme of the book may fit into the larger question of how science diplomacy influences policy, dealt in great detail in the works of MIT's Larry Susskind and Harvard's Sheila Jasanoff, what separates Kohler's contribution is her effort in untangling the institutional mechanism that links science and policy at the global scale.
Kohler's methodology is qualitative that includes participant observations, elite interviews and archival analysis. She analyzes the proceedings from specific angles of the three science committees established under the Montreal Protocol, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. For example, in the case of the Montreal Protocol, she examines how the question of the relative strength of experts from developing and developed countries became controversial when some exemptions were granted to the developed nations under the protocol. While the book focuses entirely on environmental issues, its central message is broad in its applications. It provides original insights into the question of increasing rule-based structuralism that is becoming common to international governance institutions. The book is a timely contribution and provides clear recommendations to design science committees for more effective global environmental governance.
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PsychologySalon: How common is suicide in depression?
How common is suicide in depression?
In the field of mental health there is perhaps even more ambiguity than in most other professions, hence a stronger desire to seize on certain ideas and hold them tight.
One of these is the oft-repeated adage that 15% of people who experience a major depressive episode will eventually go on to end their lives. I have heard this notion – and seen it repeated in government mental health planning documents – more often than I can count.
One reason for its appeal is the urgency which it attaches to depression treatment. The way to get taken seriously in the healthcare system is to be treating a lethal illness. If we can underline the severity and lethality of a disorder, it is more likely to receive funding.
There is no question that depression treatment is underfunded and undersystematized in healthcare, both in Canada and in the United States. The World Health Organization has estimated that unipolar major depression accounts for more years lost to disability or premature death than any other single health concern in countries with developed market economies (WHO, 2008). More than heart disease, more than cancer.
My office faces a tower block in Vancouver constructed specifically for research into cancer. Good, I'm happy for that. But if anyone thinks that a new tower will soon go up devoted to depression, they're dreaming.
So what about that 15% figure? Ask someone citing it where it comes from and they will not know. It is an old certainty, somehow established in the mental health consciousness.
There's just one problem. Like many old certainties, it's wrong.
Do the math. Take the reasonably well-established lifetime incidence of depression – about 10% in most surveys, though this rises to a high of 16.9% in the United States (Andrade et al, 2003). Look at the average age at onset and the remaining years of life expectancy, then calculate how many suicides you'd need each year to hit the 15% mark. Compare that with the actual annual suicide figures – something that most countries keep close track of.
The result is generally more suicides than we get from all causes in total. Even if every person who ended their life was diagnosed with major depressive disorder (something that is very much counter to the facts), we still do not have sufficient numbers of deaths. The 15% figure is impossible.
So where does this 15% figure come from?
Find references to it and sift backward in the literature and you arrive, most often, at Guze & Robins, 1970. This early meta-analysis (a statistical compilation of earlier studies) reviewed 17 studies and came up with the 15% figure. A later review upped the figure to 18.9% when additional studies were added (Goodwin & Jamison, 1990).
The classic debunking article in this area is Bostwick & Pankratz (2000), a slightly acid-tinged corrective which is difficult to read without sensing impatient rage and eye-rolling on the part of the authors. They point out a few little problems.
First, the studies looked at in these earlier meta-analyses were largely of previously hospitalized patients, not of the depressed population as a whole. People who are hospitalized generally have a more severe form of the illness, and often find their way to hospital precisely because there is a fear that they will end their lives – or have actually attempted to do so.
Second, the studies don't actually look at how many people in their samples eventually committed suicide. They look at deaths in the few years after hospitalization (the highest-risk period), and calculate the percentage of these that were attributable to suicide. Of course, the majority of people did not die; they went on beyond the date of the study, presumably to pass on eventually from any of the diverse causes that will one day get us all.
This is a particularly groan-inducing distortion of the data. Try the same calculation for anyone else. If we look at deaths during teen years (a relative rarity), we discover that unintentional injury accounts for 48% of cases in the US (Minino, 2010). Imagine someone taking this figure and saying "The teen years are hugely dangerous: 48% of teenagers will die of injuries!" We'd smack them and send them back for remedial statistics classes. In mental health, we run out and repeat the insight endlessly.
Third, the studies in the early meta-analyses generally relied on definitions of depression that have since been broadened significantly. It's much easier to get a diagnosis of depression today than in 1970, when the category was restricted to the most severe cases. Taking a statistic from those cases and blithely applying it to the depressed population of today is a glaring error.
As well, most of the studies blend unipolar and bipolar patients in their samples. Given that the rate of suicidality is likely to differ between these groups (with most estimates suggesting a higher rate for bipolar 1 disorder than for major depression), this muddies the result further.
These errors don't tend to cancel each other out. Each of them, taken singly, is likely to lead to a gross overestimate of suicide rates among the depressed. Together, they make the resulting estimates almost worthless. And yet Bostwick and Pankratz cite textbook after textbook that not only accepts the figures, but applies them to the overall spectrum of people with mood disorders.
So what's the real figure?
The short answer to this question is that we simply don't know, but that the 15% figure is certainly wrong.
Bostwick and Pankratz struggle with the limitations of the data, but suggest an estimate of 8.6% for those who had been hospitalized specifically for suicidality.
When the analysis is of patients hospitalized for affective disorders, whether or not they experienced suicidality, the lifetime risk drops to 4.0%.
When studies with blended inpatient and outpatient populations are examined, the risk is estimated at 2.2%.
'But we still do not have an estimate for a good sample of never-hospitalized patients, nor for unipolar depression exclusively – both factors which would likely lower the risk estimate still further.
Simon and Von Korff (1998) looked at the incidence of suicide among members of a health plan in Washington state who had been diagnosed with depression. The risk of suicide varied from 224 per 100,000 person-years for people who had been treated with inpatient care, down to 0 per 100,000 for those treated by their primary physician without medications. (One cannot take from this that treatment is itself a risk factor, as severity generally dictates the level of treatment a person receives.) Compare these figures with the population-wide suicide rates in the United States - 12.0 per 100,000 - and Canada - 11.5.
Pending better estimates, it's hard to say what the real risks are for "garden-variety" clinical depression. But can we please, please stop citing the 15% figure? It isn't correct, it never was, and it's long past time to lay it to rest.
Andrade, L., et al. (2003). The epidemiology of major depressive episodes: Results from the International Consortium of Psychiatric Epidemiology (ICPE) surveys. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 12, 3-21.
Bostwick, J. M. & Pankratz, V.S. (2000). Affective disorders and suicide risk: A reexamination. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 1925-1932.
Minino, A. M. (2010). Mortality among teenagers aged 12-19 years: United States, 1999-2000. NCHS Data Brief No. 37.
Simon, G.E., & Von Korff, M. (1998). Suicide mortality among patients treated for depression in an insured population. American J of Epidemiology, 147, 155-160.
WHO (2008). The global burden of disease: 2004 update. Geneva: World Health Organization.


* Last week, Health Committees passed measures to set an essential health benefits standard, streamline and intregate enrollment for health and human services, and more.
* Bills to reform individual health insurance market, including preventing denials for pre-existing conditions, up this week in key health committees.
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California's effort to implement and improve the federal Affordable Care Act advanced last week, as both the Assembly and Senate committees passed key bills, including two to set a standard for essential health benefits for health insurance. Other important measures, including bills to reform the individual insurance market and ban the practice of denying care to those with pre-existing conditions, are up in those committees this week.
This actions come as a deadline approaches: bills that were introduced in 2012 must pass out of the first policy committee by April 27th.
For reports on past committee action, visit the Health Access Blog at http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1019412729&msgid=4584911&act=XQ9M&c=5484&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.health-access.org&l=5, where Health Access posts same-day reports on Health Committee actions. From the past several hearings where key health bills came up, the blog has posts about the committee actions both in March in the Assembly, and in the Senate, and in April when the committees passed the essential health benefit bills, and also legislation regarding wellness programs (in the Assembly) and bills to streamline enrollment for health and human services, and improve independent medical review (in the Senate).
A full list of the many bills that are pending to fulfill the promise of the federal health reform is available on the Health Access website, including those that have already advanced part-way through the legislative process in the past year. To be ready for reform in late 2013/day one of 2014, implementing legislation needs to pass and be signed in 2012.
Letters for bills being heard during this meeting are due on Tuesday April 10, 2012. Meetings are held in Room 4202 of the State Capitol.
* AB1461 (Monning) Prevents insurers from denying or discriminating for pre-existing conditions, and otherwise conform and phase-in new insurance market rules for individuals who purchase insurance on their own. Limits different premiums based on age to 3:1.
* AB2350 (Monning) Requires health plans and insurers to provide information about the number of people enrolled in specific products in order to track the number of people who are enrolled in non-comprehensive health insurance or in grandfathered plans that do not provide new consumer protections.
Letters for bills being heard during this meeting are due on Wednesday April 11, 2012. Meetings are held in Room 4203 of the State Capitol.
* SB961 (Hernandez) Prevents insurers from denying or discriminating for pre-existing conditions, and otherwise conform and phase-in new insurance market rules for individuals who purchase insurance on their own. Limits different premiums based on age to 3:1.
Letters for bills being heard during this meeting are due on Tuesday April 17, 2012. Meetings are held in Room 4202 of the State Capitol.
* AB2204 (Hernandez) Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and utilize a health equity tool to measure progress toward health equity goals as part of regular evaluation of goals and progress.
Letters for bills being heard during this meeting are due on Wednesday April 18, 2012. Meetings are held in Room 4203 of the State Capitol.
Again, for a broader list of legislation introduced this year impacting health care consumers, or a more specific list of this year's bills related to implementing the Affordable Care Act in California, visit the Health Access California website.


Fostering information exchange and collaborative research and development for advanced nuclear reactor technologies, this Section provides information to the IAEA's Member States on technology status and development trends for advanced reactor systems and their applications.
With the goal to achieve high efficiency and competitive economics in future Water Cooled Reactors, the Section works with Member States on technology advances and innovations and organizes training events for nuclear professionals in state-of-the-art technology. It also delivers to Members States comprehensive and up-to-date information about evolutionary nuclear power plant designs and innovative reactor concepts.
The Section also covers all technical aspects of current, evolutionary and innovative fast reactors and the research and development, design, deployment and operation of subcritical hybrid systems. It offers the largest international forum for exchange of information in the area of fast neutron systems.
Coordinating and supporting research in several technology development areas of high temperature reactors, the Section facilitates information exchange and knowledge management. It supports studies to show the potential of high temperature reactors to provide process heat and high efficiency, and therefore cost-effective, electricity generation.
The Section supports Member States in identifying and developing small and medium-sized or modular reactor technologies that fulfil the need for flexible power generation for a wider range of users and applications. It helps develop roadmaps and recommendations that focus on the needs of countries embarking on nuclear power programmes.
The Section supports Member States in the development of new and emerging applications of nuclear technologies and the exchange of information on non-electric applications, such as nuclear desalination or the efficient water management of nuclear power plants.


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package it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.ints;

import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.ObjectListIterator;

import java.io.IOException;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import org.junit.Test;

@SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
public class IntArrayFrontCodedListTest {

	private static java.util.Random r = new java.util.Random(0);

	private static int genKey() {
		return r.nextInt();
	}

	private static boolean contentEquals(java.util.List x, java.util.List y) {
		if (x.size() != y.size()) return false;
		for (int i = 0; i < x.size(); i++)
			if (!java.util.Arrays.equals((int[])x.get(i), (int[])y.get(i))) return false;
		return true;
	}

	private static int l[];

	private static int[][] a;

	private static void test(int n) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
		l = new int[n];
		a = new int[n][];
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
			l[i] = (int)(Math.abs(r.nextGaussian()) * 32);
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
			a[i] = new int[l[i]];
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
			for (int j = 0; j < l[i]; j++)
				a[i][j] = genKey();
		IntArrayFrontCodedList m = new IntArrayFrontCodedList(it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.ObjectIterators.wrap(a), r.nextInt(4) + 1);
		it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.ObjectArrayList t = new it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.ObjectArrayList(a);
		// System.out.println(m);
		// for(i = 0; i < t.size(); i++)
		// System.out.println(ARRAY_LIST.wrap((KEY_TYPE[])t.get(i)));
		/* Now we check that m actually holds that data. */
		assertTrue("Error: m does not equal t at creation", contentEquals(m, t));
		/* Now we check cloning. */
		assertTrue("Error: m does not equal m.clone()", contentEquals(m, m.clone()));
		/* Now we play with iterators. */
		{
			ObjectListIterator i;
			java.util.ListIterator j;
			i = m.listIterator();
			j = t.listIterator();
			for (int k = 0; k < 2 * n; k++) {
				assertTrue("Error: divergence in hasNext()", i.hasNext() == j.hasNext());
				assertTrue("Error: divergence in hasPrevious()", i.hasPrevious() == j.hasPrevious());
				if (r.nextFloat() < .8 && i.hasNext()) {
					assertTrue("Error: divergence in next()", java.util.Arrays.equals((int[])i.next(), (int[])j.next()));
				}
				else if (r.nextFloat() < .2 && i.hasPrevious()) {
					assertTrue("Error: divergence in previous()", java.util.Arrays.equals((int[])i.previous(), (int[])j.previous()));
				}
				assertTrue("Error: divergence in nextIndex()", i.nextIndex() == j.nextIndex());
				assertTrue("Error: divergence in previousIndex()", i.previousIndex() == j.previousIndex());
			}
		}
		{
			int from = r.nextInt(m.size() + 1);
			ObjectListIterator i;
			java.util.ListIterator j;
			i = m.listIterator(from);
			j = t.listIterator(from);
			for (int k = 0; k < 2 * n; k++) {
				assertTrue("Error: divergence in hasNext() (iterator with starting point " + from + ")", i.hasNext() == j.hasNext());
				assertTrue("Error: divergence in hasPrevious() (iterator with starting point " + from + ")", i.hasPrevious() == j.hasPrevious());
				if (r.nextFloat() < .8 && i.hasNext()) {
					assertTrue("Error: divergence in next() (iterator with starting point " + from + ")", java.util.Arrays.equals((int[])i.next(), (int[])j.next()));
					// System.err.println("Done next " + I + " " + J + "  " + badPrevious);
				}
				else if (r.nextFloat() < .2 && i.hasPrevious()) {
					assertTrue("Error: divergence in previous() (iterator with starting point " + from + ")", java.util.Arrays.equals((int[])i.previous(), (int[])j.previous()));
				}
			}
		}
		java.io.File ff = new java.io.File("it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.test");
		java.io.OutputStream os = new java.io.FileOutputStream(ff);
		java.io.ObjectOutputStream oos = new java.io.ObjectOutputStream(os);
		oos.writeObject(m);
		oos.close();
		java.io.InputStream is = new java.io.FileInputStream(ff);
		java.io.ObjectInputStream ois = new java.io.ObjectInputStream(is);
		m = (IntArrayFrontCodedList)ois.readObject();
		ois.close();
		ff.delete();
		assertTrue("Error: m does not equal t after save/read", contentEquals(m, t));
		return;
	}

	@Test
	public void test1() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
		test(1);
	}

	@Test
	public void test10() throws Exception, ClassNotFoundException {
		test(10);
	}

	@Test
	public void test100() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
		test(100);
	}

	@Test
	public void test1000() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
		test(1000);
	}

	@Test
	public void test10000() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
		test(10000);
	}
}

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Audio: KU law professor Stephen Ware interviewed by Paul Ibbetson about Kansas' undemocratic judicial selection
DIARY / Benjamin Hodge // Posted at 1:15 am on December 17, 2012 by Benjamin Hodge
KU professor Stephen Ware: "This violates basic equality among citizens, the principle of one-person, one-vote. The current system elevates one small group and treats everyone else like second-class citizens."
Earlier this month, I posted an op-ed written by Stephen Ware in the Lawrence Journal-World. Ware is a professor of law at the University of Kansas. I encourage you to read that article. In part, he wrote:
"None of the other 49 states uses the system Kansas uses to pick its two appellate courts. And for good reason, because the Kansas system is a shockingly undemocratic way to select lawmakers.
At the center of the Kansas system is the Supreme Court Nominating Commission; most of the members of this commission are picked in elections open to only 10,000 people, the members of the state bar. The remaining 2.8 million people in Kansas have no vote in these elections.
This violates basic equality among citizens, the principle of one-person, one-vote. The current system elevates one small group and treats everyone else like second-class citizens.
Kansas lawyers tend to be fine people but they're not superheroes. They don't deserve more power than lawyers have in any of the other 49 states."
Below is the audio of a radio interview between "Conscience of Kansas" host Paul Ibbetson and Professor Stephen Ware.
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"The Conscience of Kansas" runs daily at 5-6 p.m. in central Kansas on 105.7 FM "The Patriot," the station that carries Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity.
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About Paul Ibbetson:
Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the 5 books including, Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association's 2008,2009, 2010 and 2011 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KRMR The Patriot 105.7 FM.
Connect with Benjamin Hodge at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Tumblr, mrcTV.org, YouTube, The Kansas Progress, and LibertyLinked. Hodge is President of the State and Local Reform Group of Kansas. He served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, an at-large trustee at Johnson County Community College, a delegate to the Kansas Republican Party, a Republican precinct committeeman in Johnson County, and was founder of the modern Overland Park Republican Party. His public policy record is recognized by Americans for Prosperity, the Kansas Association of Broadcasters, the Kansas Press Association, the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government, the NRA, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Kansas' largest pro-life group, and the Kansas Chamber of Commerce.
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i know that when the stepover is less than 50% that the feed can increase to keep the same chip thickness(chip thinning). i was hoping someone would have the formula for the sfm increase if you can get any? the seco salesman in my area had a formula, but he has moved. i looked on seco's website but cant find anything. any help will be great.
I need to know if the sfm will have an increase as the stepover decreases. i know the feed will increase, just didn't know if i can get more sfm also.
Yes you can achieve more sfm as well.
Enter your numbers and it will give you increased feed and sfm depending on what you are cutting.
sweet. I downloaded the hsmadvisor with 30 day free trial. exactly what i needed. went from 250sfm to 495sfm. ill see how it works.
I have the full version of that software. It works really good for me. Good luck.
Same here. Really good softaware.
having him send me a quote now.
Thanks! That is quite a vote of confidence.
Since quite a few guys here (as it turns out) use my software I would like to let you know that I have completely redesigned the speed and feed calculator's interface.
I am inviting you to try it and let me know of your impressions.
Downloaded and testing now. I have 4 different projects I want to push the limits of the machine and tools. Your recommendations and a job recently I did not head and was breaking endmills. I backed down the step over to your recommendation and ran very smooth. Your speeds and feeds were spot on, but I thought 20% step over on a 1/4 endmill sticking out 2.1" would be fine, but your program advised only 9% and when I followed that I did lose some cycle time, but I was popping $55 endmills my way I backed off and 9% was perfect.
Might make the suggestion about were to install in Bold since I fought that all the time with people. They would just install where they wanted and then get pissed when the program acted weird.
Love the integration with Mastercam X9 works great. I also got it for my tablet to. great tool.
There are bugs to weed out and things to improve on.
Initially i did not realize the scope of work i would have to do.
I can relate to that I got this one part I am plugging long on. Tons of work I didn't see originally looking at it, but glad the customer gets it and it letting us work with them to get it completed.


Distribution is marketing, sales, advertising and business development, and it is key to every business. It's the engine that makes the car go. Regardless of how great your product or service is, if no one knows about it, it is not going to sell.
If you don't sell, you're dead.
At my company I fill every role except that of designer or programmer. There are people with great engineering skills handling those areas. I am sales, support, marketing. Business development is on me. Coming up with advertising copy, and finding opportunities to advertise also falls to me. It's my job to hack away at distribution approaches and opportunities until we find things that work, and enable us to hit our goals for sales, position and growth.
A story I like to tell is of my first foray into small business. I started selling computer parts online. I spent 6 months coming up with a business plan, building a website, etc. When we finally launched on Dec 2nd 2002, it was a dud. I hadn't considered how anyone would find my store and so I had zero converting traffic until around Dec 22nd when I got my first sale.
Everyone needs distribution whether they are blogging, trying to find a new job, or running business of any size.
Earlier I said that distribution is marketing, sales, advertising and business development but it's really much simpler than that.
Distribution is about getting your message (about your product, your firm's market position, your public relations, testimonials, endorsements, media mentions) out to the right people. So really it is all about promoting and sharing relevant information.
When it comes to distributing your message there are many popular and well understood channels available to you.
Question and Answer sites (Quora, Yahoo Answers).
These are only some of the better known ways to get the word out about your business, and each one is probably worth at least several hours of research before you can start.
The channels listed above are great, but they aren't niche specific, and every niche is different. If you want to compete in a mature market, you will need to know what the bigger players are doing to get their message out. They've probably already done the hard work, and found channels which are effective. You can copy that hard won knowledge by simply following and emulating what they do.
If your market is less mature, or you feel you need an edge, that's where you can start what I like to call, Distribution Hacking.
Don't limit yourself when it comes to distribution channels. There is nothing to stop you from creating a unique way to get a point across to the right people.
In this image, you can see cohorts by traffic source. This information was pulled from the Google Analytics statistics for a content marketing campaign. I'd like you to notice that we have multiple websites driving us traffic. These are cohorts.
Within these cohorts may be even more cohorts. Specific groups, posts, links or pages driving traffic to your website.
Your job is to investigate these traffic sources so you understand which content is being distributed AND driving traffic back to you. Who is sharing or posting it? What content are they favoring?
Once you're able to better understand these traffic sources and their effect on your business, you're now able to start distribution hacking by distributing more of the content which gets you positive results, through the channels that have emerged as your best performers.
Another distribution hack you can do is surveys. When I was pre-launch at CommunitySEO I did a survey of my mailing list, getting insight into which groups of my readers used Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter etc. Another survey question asked them to declare their role in the market, whether they were a publisher, advertiser, agency representative, service provider etc. Cross referencing these answers, I could know which groups preferred to be reached through which social channel, and I have directed my efforts based along those results.
Surveys can be done very cheaply. SurveyMonkey has a free plan that is enough for small tests.
Qualroo (formerly KISSInsights) is also a great service which offers persistent surveys on your website. They have a free plan that can get you started collecting valuable feedback from visitors in under 5 minutes.
Regardless of which option you choose, if you do surveys, try to remember that shorter is better, and that open-ended questions will get you the most insightful results.
Oh, and did I say shorter is better? Let me say that again. Shorter is better. Ask one or two questions that give you insight, don't abuse the respondent by burying them in a multi-page nightmare.
If you're going to do any distribution hacking, give yourself a chance to measure the results. That means making sure you have Analytics installed.
That also means setting up proper campaign tracking. Learn to tag URLs in content that you distribute so you can follow which source is sending traffic for which piece of content.
Make sure that you're able to measure how many people open your emails, how many people stay on your site, how many people complete actions besides ordering (like registering a profile).
If your business is going to thrive, you will need to solve distribution. Having a great product isn't enough. People have to know about it.
It's never too early to start marketing and building relationships. Hack distribution.
Great post. So many people overlook client referral as a 'distribution channel', and just let them come through the door passively. You need to track referrals every bit as carefully as PPC, and do what you can to nurture them (consistently saying 'thank you' and updating the referrer is a basic a lot of people miss out on).
Indeed, your clients can be your best salesmen!
I was reading and reading thinking "the content locking popup is coming any second". And then it never happened.
Our plan is to let you read uninterrupted in order to win hearts and minds!
It's very easy to forget that there are so many avenues to get business. Too often, myself especially, I rely on 1-2 promotion methods, and if one were to dry up, I might be hooped.
Whether new to business, or a vet, this is great information.
Albeit not the same Adam as Adam Steele, I definitely agree with what the other Adam said. Google has been my only traffic source for too long, and it's good to read reminders like these every now and then. Good stuff.
Agreed. We just started a 12 month plan to focus on a different distribution channel to focus our brand. Commit to that channel for 30 days and you'd be surprise the traffic and brand footprint you can leave.
Great post. We have gotten so many referrals from the partnerships we have built an from current and past customers, and as Iain mentioned in his comment above, we are learning how to better nurture the people that could or already are sending us referrals so that we can make the most of that distribution channel. It's amazing what a difference just taking a little time to reach out can make.
I agree, and once you're able to get referrals running, it can be a self-sustaining channel.


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The Excavation of a Former Slave Village at Good Hope
Good Hope began as a sugar estate in 1774 and belonged to John Tharpe, the largest land and slave owner in Jamaica. On June 10, 2015, The Trelawny chapter hosted a presentation at the Trelawny Parish Library on the current archaelogical findings at Good Hope Great House in Trelawny.
The Chapter Chair, Marina Delfos recapped the presentation as follows:
"The talk given by Hayden Bassett and Ke Vaughn Harding on the Good Hope Slave Villages was absolutely fascinating. The main focus was the general slave village, in which they are now conducting their third year of work and some information on the domestic slave village attached to the Great House, which they just started working on this year.
Hayden described the methodology used to determine the location of the slave village and the unearthing of artefacts. He was able to determine how some of the individual yards were positioned due to the sweeping patterns that were uncovered i.e. larger broken pieces of pottery would be swept to the edges of the yard each day and the pieces left behind would get trampled upon leaving tinier pieces on the ground by the dwelling.
Artefacts consisting of broken china
Glass wine bottle. cir. 1700s, unearthed in 2015
Ke Vaughn has started the process of reconstructing the slave village using the information documented by Hayden and his team of University of the West Indies archaeology students. This process has resulted in the creation of architectural renderings that depict the village as it would have appeared between the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The illustrations are not only geared at depicting the buildings as they stood, but also aim to provide a glimpse into the domestic lives of enslaved people. This they depicted by indicating how and where the enslaved inhabitants socialized, cooked, ate, planted personal crops and raised their own livestock, among other crucial routines surrounding their home lives.
Of the over 12,000 artefacts already uncovered during the 2014 excavations, and those uncovered from this year (final count yet to be tabulated) some of the interesting items include cooking and eating implements, buttons, beads and other items previously used for personal adornment, tools of skilled tradespeople who lived in the village, animal bones bearing butcher marks, which provides insight into some of the contents of the inhabitants' diets, and a late 18th - early 19th century livery button bearing clearly identifiable elements of the Tharp Family Crest. We were able to view a few of these at the meeting.
A cabinet has been constructed by Falmouth Heritage Renewal, funded partially by our Chapter, and has been placed in the Trelawny Parish Library to expose members of the public to the new and insightful information on the lives of the Good Hope enslaved population. There is a second cabinet located in the Welcome Area at the Chukka Tours attraction on the Good Hope Estate. It contains artefacts and information conveying similar themes to those expressed by the one at the Trelawny Parish Library in Falmouth." -- Marina Delfos
Other fascinating facts that were unearthed included the genealogical breakdown of the slave population on the estate.
Creole (or those who were born in Jamaica) made up 56% (in blue)
Eboes (shaded red) made up a significant part of the population at 18.1%
Coramantee (shaded orange) 5.6%
Chamba (shaded purple) 4.7%
Most of the enslaved people were born in Jamaica and the rest is an interesting mix of different tribes -- mostly from modern day Nigeria. Can you imagine sixteen languages spoken on this one estate? (data from estate's original records at Cambridge Univ.).
Breakdown of slave population
How the archealogical excavation determined hierarchy on the plantation. As Marina mentioned above, buttons among other artefacts, were found on the site. The buttons were from the uniforms of the liveried slaves, emblazoned with the crest of Good Hope. These buttons were found, concentrated in one area. During the excavation, it evolved that these uniformed servants lived separate and apart from the field slaves, and closer to the great house.
From left to right: Ke Vaughn Harding, presenter; Hayden Bassett, presenter (between Marina Delfos (Chair, Trelawny) and Marcia Kohler (Vice Chair, St. Ann); snack time with audience members
Contributors: Marina Delfos, Lena Rose (editor and photographer), Paul Chang (photos)


This was posted on December 4, 2012 by Teri Maxwell.
From where I do my back exercises upstairs, I can listen to my three girls exercising in the basement. Their ages are currently sixteen, twenty, and thirty. I can hear lots of laughter and happy chattering. Next comes silence when they are working hard, and it starts all over again.
On Anna's twentieth birthday, they decided they wanted to have a sewing day. They dug through the sewing cupboards for fabric that needed to be used, picked out patterns, and brought their sewing machines, cutting mats, and ironing board to the dining room so they could be together while they worked on their projects.
These three girls spend hours with each other doing kitchen work, and I still hear them talking when they go to bed at night. My heart rejoices with these kinds of interactions between the girls because it proves that they enjoy each other, they choose to be together, and they will maintain those relationships throughout their lives even when they are married with families of their own.
Right now our boys who aren't married and live at home are eighteen, twenty-one, and twenty-three. They are the same way as the girls are in their relationships although maybe they don't talk quite as much, but that could be debatable. They exercise together. When there is a work project at our house, Nathan's house, or Joseph's house, they tackle it as a team for hours and hours. They have their offices in their bedroom so there is talk and communication that goes on throughout the day in addition to accomplishing their vocational work. Then somehow there are still words leftover for the nighttime talks that they have as well.
Not only do the girls have good relationships and the boys, but they also have great relationships with each other. From the main floor of our house, I can hear them practicing an hour or two each day in preparation for doing Christmas music at a local church and also at a community Christmas concert our family is having this month. They do kitchen cleanup together after each meal with much talking as they work. They love to sit in the living room before and after family Bible time—talking! They encourage each other. They challenge each other. They help each other. They pray for each other. They laugh with each other. They weep with each other.
Are they perfect in their relationships? No. There are times when one hurts or offends another. When that happens, though, there is a desire for restoration so they ask forgiveness of each other. There are times when they have different opinions that spark lively discussions. Those discussions can move into what can seem like an attack on one person. Sometimes, they are selfish. However, when those situations occur, they don't want them to continue. They move toward dealing with the problem. Do you know that blesses my heart almost as much as seeing the positive side of their interactions? That is because it shows me that they don't want to hurt, offend, or be selfish when interacting with one of their siblings. It grows out of a heart of love. They are learning how to deal with the problems that will surface in a marriage relationship and when they are parents.
I am so grateful to the Lord for the relationships He has allowed and built between our children. I know that there are things He led Steve and I to do when the children were younger that has had a positive outcome on those relationships. "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore" (Psalm 133:1-3).
Regularly, when I talk to a mom, she either bemoans the fact that her children share a bedroom or she's excited that they are moving to a home where each child will have his own space. The Lord showed us as our family grew the benefits of our girls sharing a room and our boys sharing a room. Room-sharing helped the children develop hearts of love toward each other rather than the selfish focus that generally comes when a child has his own room.
As the boys share a bedroom and the girls share another one, they have the ability to talk with each other when they are going to sleep at night and when they are waking up.
This was posted on December 4, 2012 by Steve Maxwell.
Years ago I knew a man who had a number of rental properties in our town. I was often amazed when he would tell me about the condition of the house when the tenants moved. He generally had to spend significant time and money repairing the damage that had been done to his house in order to prepare it for those who would live there next. Teri and I rented homes early in our marriage, and if I were to compare how I treated the rental house versus how I treated houses we have owned, sadly, I would have to confess that I was not as careful of a tenant as I could have been.
In the past, some of my jobs required a fair amount of air travel which usually meant a rental car at the destination. I still shudder at the memory of how those rental cars were driven by my coworkers when I traveled with others. In fairness, I know I was not as careful with the rented vehicles as I was with my own.
As I have grown in the Lord, I have come to see clearly how it was not right for me to be less concerned about another's property than I was about my own property. I should have been even more careful with their possessions than I was with my own. "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth" (1 Corinthians 10:24). I am called to look out for and be careful with property or interests especially when they belong to someone else. It is an attitude of laziness and selfishness when I'm not as careful with another's possessions as I am with my own.
Have you considered the matter of stewardship with regard to your body? Even to call it "your body" is a misnomer assuming you have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Since the first of this year, our family has repeated these verses at each meal before we eat. It hasn't taken us this long to memorize those verses (smile), but we wanted to cement them as a priority of our hearts.
It is easy to go through life without the awareness that we are not our own. Look at 1 Corinthians 7:23. "Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men." The Greek word for "bought" used here is defined in this way: "primarily, 'to frequent the market-place,' the agora, hence 'to do business there, to buy or sell,' is used lit., e.g., in Matt. 14:15. Figuratively Christ is spoken of as having bought His redeemed, making them His property at the price of His blood (i.e., His death through the shedding of His blood in expiation for their sins)" (Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament and New Testament Words). Those who have repented of their sin and placed their faith in Jesus are owned by Him. Therefore I am His property, and my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
At the end of 2011, following a family discussion and unanimous agreement, we decided to make 2012 a year of special health focus. One aspect was that we would pay particular attention to how we treated the temple of the Holy Ghost, also known as "our bodies." We asked ourselves if we were treating God's temple with great care and consideration because our bodies were owned by Him. What about you? What type of tenant are you? Are you a good steward or a bad steward?
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MoviePass Plans Another Revamp for January
Posted by Victoria Rosenthal | Dec 6, 2018 | Entertainment, First Look, Movies | 0
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MoviePass is ringing in the New Year with a whole new strategy: a three-tiered subscription system, according to Engadget.
The service—AKA the only reason you go to the movies anymore—will offer three different subscriptions plans ranging from $10 to $25 per month depending different areas of the U.S.
The Select plan continues the movie viewing service's three-movie limit ranging from $10 to $15 per month based on geography. Subscribers get to choose from a limited selection of movies and days to view them.
The next tier up is the All-Access plan, which also keeps the three-movie limit. However, subscribers can see any movie they want, excluding 3-D, at participating theaters at any time at a price tag ranging from $15 to $20.
Although it's the most expensive, the Red Carpet plan lets subscribers see three movies, including one IMAX, 3-D, or other large-format screening per month. The big-ticket monthly plan ranges from $20 to $25.
MoviePass will split the prices into three different zones ranging from the cheapest in bottom-tier markets, like the Midwest, to top-tier, such as New York or Los Angeles. Subscribers in Zone 1 have access to the lowest pricing while Zone 2 subscribers can choose the Select or All-Access plans for $3 extra and Red Carpet for $2 extra. Meanwhile, subscribers in Zone 3 are left with the highest prices.
To avoid scaring off too many customers, the service launched a limited-time holiday offer. Starting today, customers can purchase yearly subscriptions of the All-Access plan for $120 per 12 months and $99 for two or more. If they opt for the Red Carpet plan, customers can subscribe for $150 for 12 months or $140 for two or more.
MoviePass' goal is to break even on ticket costs—a feat the company failed to accomplish with its original business model. Customers actually caused the movie-going service to lose money every time they used the app following the drop in service prices last year.
The change-up follows significant price drops in recent years, falling from $50 to $35 and then, to its lowest price last year. Now, MoviePass must sit back and wait to see which customers still find the service the bang for their buck they hoped for.
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Q: Controlling node.js application's events via external website I'm creating my first nodejs app. I wanted to ask for a idea for safe controlling node.js application from external website(server)...
Explanation:
Im running steambot on a server... The bot can chat/trade/etc.
On my website (example.com/bot) ive got actions: trade 'these' items with 'this' person... I used simple POST form without authentication, that is pretty dumb, but Im trying.
Question:
What is the best way to tell the bot what to do via only my website (since the POST form you can copy an use whereever you want) + to send information as JSON object f.e.
Thanks ! ^^

A: IMO, your best bet would be to use a realtime communication library like socket.io.
Server:
var app = require('http').createServer(handler)
var io = require('socket.io')(app);
io.on('connection', function (socket) {
  socket.on('trade', function (data) {
    // Make your server-side bot do stuff
    bot.doTrade(data.itemId, data.userId);
  });
});

Client:
<script src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script>
  var socket = io('http://localhost');
  $('#tradeBtn').click(function () {
    socket.emit('trade', { itemId: 123, userId: 456 });
  });
</script>

Socket.io uses multiple methods of communication with the server behind the scenes. It will first try to use websockets and if that fails it will fall back on server-sent events or long-polling if necessary. The nice thing about socket.io is that you don't have to worry about that much; it just takes care of it for you. You can listen for and emit events from both the client and server to facilitate realtime communication between the server and client page.

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There are many benefits to getting a Spa Facial and why you should get them regularly. When we look good we feel more confident. When we feel good, we exude happiness on to those around us. Life becomes a better place.
All skins need a deep cleaning; just like going to the dentist and getting your teeth cleaned, Facials help to exfoliate away dead skin, draw out impurities, a deep cleaning of pores and hydrate the skin. The skin is left clean and smooth and hydrated.
With regular Facials your esthetician will be able to keep up with your skin's ever changing needs and help recommend the right products and regimen for that moment.
Facials stimulate blood circulation to the face. This is very important as our blood is what carries nutrients and oxygen to the skin. Stimulation keeps the complexion nice and skin glowing.
Facial massage is not only stimulating but helps to relax muscle tension, a common cause of wrinkles.
Steam helps to detoxify our skin and softens the skin for easier extractions and penetration of products.
Facials remove build up of dead skin cells, dirt and makeup that get trapped in the pores. Exfoliation is key to maintaining smooth, clean skin.
Masks and serums help to correct skin issues, hydrate and plump skin making your skin look healthy and more youthful.
Creams make the upper layers of skin soft and subtle, helping to alleviate dryness and irritations.
Facials help you relax for an hour. We all need to pamper ourselves on occasion and get away from the every day hustle and bustle of life. Thinking about only ones self for a few hours a month is not selfish, its healthy. Its necessary in order to have a healthy mind, and a youthful appearance!
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HEALTH CARE–ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA [Internet]. In: Loscalzo J, Jameson JL, Longo DL, Hauser SL, Fauci AS, Kasper DL, editors. Harrison's Manual of Medicine. McGraw Hill Inc.; 2017. [cited 2019 April 21]. Available from: https://harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623338/all/HEALTH_CARE_ASSOCIATED_PNEUMONIA.


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Australia's Big Deal Australia continues to attract numerous cross border investors purchasing hospitality real estate. Sydney is the site of the majority of transactions, according to JLL. The China based Sunshine Insurance Group recently paid a record $463 million for
3 Trends for 2015 Raymond Torto, Harvard University lecturer and recently retired CBRE global chief economist, and Douglas Poutasse, executive vice president and head of strategy and research at Bentall Kennedy, cited three positive real estate trends in their remarks
Poland's Big Deal Amazon is coming to Poland Panattoni Europe is set to deliver more than 200,000 sm to Amazon in two distribution centers located in Poznań and Wroclaw, Poland. "The distribution centers are the biggest contract in the history
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West San Francisco's Big DealThe City by the Bay started the new year off right, with the highest price yet paid for an office property. Invesco bought 101 Second St., a 90 percent leased office building in San Francisco's South
Canadian Investors Buy Elsewhere Given the small size of Canada's commercial real estate market, many domestic commercial real estate investors have been actively acquiring properties in the U.S. and other markets according to Jones Lang LaSalle. Canada's assets are clustered
Dubai's Big Deal A Hong Kong based investor group, Chow Tai Fook Endowment Industry Investment Development, has purchased $1.9 billion in residential and hotel assets in the stalled Dubai Pearl project, a 20 million sf mixed use development in Dubai.
Briefly Noted Hospitality — With more money available for construction lending, Pittsburgh has become a mecca for limited service hotels, with the number of rooms increasing more than 1,000 percent since 2007, according to a HotelNewsNow.com analysis of STR data.
South Florida's Big Deal Florida's net lease market is one of the nation's most active, according to a recent report by Calkain Cos. and Beshears & Associates. Banks have the lowest asking and sales cap rates, averaging 4.95 percent and
As investors continue their search for stability and yield, accelerated capital flows into global real estate are set to continue in 2015. Macro and micro economic, demographic, and global shifts — coupled with increasing allocations from sovereign wealth funds, pension
U.K.'s Big Deal U.K. shopping center transaction volume reached £2.7 billion in the first half of 2014, up from £2.2 billion in 1H13, with 28 properties changing hands, according to DTZ. The largest transaction was Land Securities purchase of a
Midwest Chicago's Big Deal Hardly considered the Second City these days, Chicago has yet to reach the stratosphere of New York's office prices where Five Times Square and the Time Warner Center sold for $1.5 billion and $1.3 billion respectively
Gone Green Building or managing sustainable office buildings is now the norm rather than the exception, according to a CBRE report. In the past nine years, the percentage of certified green buildings in the largest 30 markets has grown from
West Las Vegas' Big Deal The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino brought more than the "just the right amount of wrong" to Deutsche Bank, which sunk $4 billion into constructing and running the 3,000 room property after foreclosing on the original
The Great Retail Class Divide According to Cassidy Turley's Spring Retail Report, national credit tenants rule the roost today and their rule is class A shopping centers or nothing at all. Class B centers should be upgrading to compete with
Japan's Big Deal Hotel investors are focusing on the Asia Pacific market, Japan in particular, according to JLL. Singapore based Ascendas Hospitality Trust recently bought the 17 year old Namba Washington Hotel Plaza in Osaka, Japan, for $87 million. It
East Washington, D.C.'s Big Deal More than seven years in the making, Washington, D.C.'s southwest waterfront project known as The Wharf broke ground in March. The $2 billion, 27 acre, mile long mixed use development on the Washington Channel will
South The sale of the Fifth Third Center in downtown Charlotte, N.C., shows the strength of a class A trophy property even in a tertiary market. Cousins Properties bought the 30 story tower for $215 million from Parmenter Realty Partners,
Spain's Big Deal CBRE Global Investors purchased the El Boulevard Shopping Center in Vitoria, Spain, for €153 million ($193 million), proof of Spain's returning retail investment market. It is the region's leading retail mall, attracting upward of 9 million visitors
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NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Association of State Treasurers and its ABLE Committee encourage the United States Department of Housing of Urban Development to promulgate rules or release guidance to ensure funds in ABLE accounts are disregarded when determining eligibility for federal housing programs.
Now therefore be it resolved, that the National Association of State Treasurers and its affiliate, the College Savings Plans Network urge any private or public organization entering a state to advocate that the state grant tax or other benefits to out-of-state section 529 qualified tuition programs first advise the public official responsible for administration of the state's plan of their intent to participate in the discussion of state tax or other benefits for section 529 qualified tuition programs.
two years after the effective date of the legislation or policy; and then to have one year following the tax year in which Qualified Higher Education Expenses are incurred to take a tax-free distribution from a 529 account for Qualified Higher Education Expenses for each subsequent year.
THEREFORE, be it resolved that NAST supports financial literacy as part of an ongoing educational curriculum that includes a state-designed high school graduation requirement in each state in the United States.
Now, therefore be it resolved, The National Association of State Treasurers does not support the "Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act of 2017" (H.R.4015) in its current form (or substantially similar bills in subsequent Congresses) and recommends that public retirement funds oppose passage of H.R.4015, so as to maintain the integrity and efficacy of the relationship between institutional investors and proxy advisory firms.
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VPZ are the UK's leading retailer of e-cigarettes with over 100 stores across the country. This is our 118th store in the UK and part of a roll out of many new stores which will see UK based company treble in size in the next 2 years.
Public Health England estimates that vaping is 95 per cent less harmful than smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes. Latest figures also show that approximately 2million people in the UK have already quit smoking by switching to vaping, with 500,000 more presently trying to switch. Furthermore, Cancer Research UK estimates that there are currently 9.4million smokers in the UK who can still potentially switch to vaping.
With the new store opening in Thornaby, our aim is to encourage the public to make the switch to vaping as a healthier alternative to traditional tobacco.


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Police Captain Toys with Scammer Who Calls Threatening Her with Arrest for Drug Trafficking
By Josh Manning
Published August 30, 2019 at 8:03am
Have you ever gotten one of those scam phone calls and wished there were someone nearby who really knew how to deal with them that you could put on the phone?
Police Capt. Ann Stephens from Apex, North Carolina, got one of those calls herself, and she toyed with the scammers for 10 minutes before finally getting them to hang up on her.
I've gotten calls saying my computer has a virus, a complaint has been filed against my wife, and that the IRS demands I pay back taxes — but this scam was one I personally haven't run into before.
The clueless scammer told Capt. Stephens she was being charged with drug trafficking along with 24 other ridiculous charges.
Have you ever been called by a scammer?
The scammers' angle was to rattle off the charges and then tell Stephens her bank accounts would be frozen.
The scammer, however, offered to make sure not to freeze her accounts where illegal activity had not taken place — such courteous scammers.
Since no illegal activity took place at all, Capt. Stephens was expected to give banking information for every account she had, after which the scammers would quietly drain those accounts.
You can watch her mess with them in the video below.
After nearly 10 minutes of asking questions they could barely answer and getting transferring from "junior officer John Black" to "senior officer Jason Brown" (see what they did there?), Capt. Stephens was finally too much for the scammers who hung up and moved on.
Capt. Stephens then shared solid insights on what to do with scam calls like the one she had taken.
"Don't ever give out your information. Don't ever verify their information even if they have it," she said.
"A lot of people want to engage the scammer and keep them on the phone and have a little fun with them," Capt. Stevens said to WTVD. "But a lot of people don't have time or are just afraid to do it, so I think they got to live vicariously through us."
If you want to mess with scammers too, you might take a look at the Jolly Roger Telephone Co.
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The site, founded by a hobbyist who turned faking out scammers into a cottage industry, provides a number of semi-intelligent "robots" that have been built and programmed to string scammers along by saying things that no scammer would expect a computer recording to say.
For example, one recording asks the scammer to give little pitch, then asks the scammer to repeat himself, saying "I'm sorry. I had a bee on my arm and wasn't listening to you."
The site will even record the conversations their bots have with scammers and email copies to you.
I have personally used the service to confound, anger and drive to profanity many a scammer and telemarketer.
Whether you do what Capt. Stephens did, use the Jolly Roger guys, or just mess with scammers on your own, you're taking the most valuable thing they have — time. That's time they could be using to take advantage of someone who might not know it's a scam.
So, while you don't have to mess with them, you're certainly doing a service to humanity if you do.
Josh Manning
Editor-at-Large, The Western Journal
Josh Manning is editor-at-large at The Western Journal. He holds a masters in public policy from Harvard University and has a background in higher education.
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Josh Manning grew up outside of Memphis, TN and developed a love of history, politics, and government studies thanks to a life-changing history and civics teacher named Mr. McBride.
He holds an MPP from Harvard University and a BA from Lyon College, a small but distinguished liberal arts college where he also served as an interim vice president.
While in school he did everything possible to confront, discomfit, and drive ivy league liberals to their knees.
After a number of years working in academe, he moved to digital journalism and opinion. Since that point, he has held various leadership positions at The Western Journal and now serves as editor-at-large.
He's married to a gorgeous blonde who played in the 1998 NCAA women's basketball championship game, and he has two pre-teens who hate doing dishes more than poison. He makes life possible for two boxers -- "Hank" Rearden Manning and "Tucker" Carlson Manning -- and a pitbull named Nikki Haley "Gracie" Manning.
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Skeans said the man, wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat, had tried to knock him down twice before he was taken away by security.
The man, who had entered the media platform holding reporters covering the speech, shouted at news crews "f— the media" as he was escorted out amid chants from the crowd: "Let him go.


The increase in women interested in the field has also affected the type of work being produced: "The focus of the curriculum has moved beyond mainstream superhero and adventure comics to a wide range of genres. SVA's [faculty member Keith] Mayerson pointed to the 'manga revolution and the graphic novel revolution.'" Expansion of curricula has also been prevalent in these schools, and Price list the program's Senior Portfolio series as being an example of the development outside of foundation classes as well as a stronger focus on the business side of the field.


Studying abroad will increase your students' language proficiency, intercultural competence, leadership skills, and self-confidence. You have an important role to play in encouraging students to apply for the study abroad programs and scholarships that will change their lives!
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Too many students still assume that study abroad programs are just for college students, or that they are financially out of reach for their families. CIEE works hard to provide generous scholarships to thousands of students every year, bringing the world within reach. You play an important role in raising awareness of this incredible opportunity, and in encouraging your students to apply for our programs and scholarships. These tools will help you to get the word out, and support you in making sure students are aware of deadlines and program requirements.
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You want your students to be as prepared as possible to make the most of their study abroad experience. These tools will help students set goals for their experience, manage expectations, think critically about what they would most like to take away from their time abroad, and research their destination and its culture.
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The most impressive feature of the Irkutsk region is Lake Baikal, an ancient rift valley lake; this is the world's deepest and oldest lake. Lake Baikal holds one third of the planet's fresh water and is home to thousands of species of marine animals found nowhere else.
Cut off from the ocean many thousands of years ago, marine and plant life evolved without interference, creating a substantial biodiversity.
A rare example of eco-friendly industry in Russia is the wood pulp mill on the edge of Lake Baikal, which purifies waste water through filtration before emptying it back into the lake.
Hiking and climbing tours in the area of Lake Baikal – from mid May until late September.
Cross-country skiing through the Taiga and across the ice of Lake Baikal – from late February until mid March.
Ice skating on Lake Baikal – end of January to the beginning of February, when there is the least amount of snow on the ice.
Typically, the coldest period is the first part of February (-35 to -40 C).
The Circumbaikal railway section, along the shores of Lake Baikal, is a highlight of your private Trans-Siberian journey. This portion of railway is from the old original Trans-Siberian route when wagons and people were moved from one side of the Angara River to the other by icebreaker ferries. Once the shortcut was built in the 1950's this scenic section was lost to the main line. It became an add-on programme and in recent years has suffered from lack of numbers and railway budgets, thus reducing the tourist train timetables.
A highlight of your Tzars Gold Private Trans-Siberian is a leisurely journey along this lake side route with several stops to allow enjoyment of the surrounding areas. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are taken with the lake views and depending upon the weather lunch may be an outside BBQ. Also, depending upon railway traffic control it is can be possible to have breakfast as the sun rises over the lake!
Lystvyanka is home to the Limnological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The institute has a small, but very interesting, museum about the flora and fauna of Baikal and its region.
Lystvyanka offers many more options during winter because the lake freezes – you have skating, ice fishing and hovercraft excursions, husky sledding and more.
When we started our independent Trans Siberian programmes the first village on the shores of Lake Baikal to offer accommodation was Lystvyanka. It was and still is, the easiet to get to from Irkutsk as well as being the cheapest lake village option.
Over the years, with the growing number of tourists, both Russian and foreign, the village has progressed to become more of a 'town'. This change has benefits as well as downsides.
Downside? Well, for those who are looking for that 'fairy tale Siberian lakeside village', Lystvyanaka has – inevitably – moved on from that concept. If you take a side road off the main lakeshore road and head up into one of the small valleys you can see a bit of that rural village ambience.
Lystvyanka is still a viable stopover option but, if you want to have more of a rustic village stay you should consider one of our alternative options. Lystvyanka is still the cheapest option so if money is 'number 1' stick with this option. During the winter season one of our alternatives cannot be used.
Once you've reached Lake Baikal you are sure to encounter pozy. Also known as buuza (in Buryat) or buuz (in Mongol), these steamed meat dumplings make up the most famous traditional dish of Buryat and Mongol cuisine. In Buryatia there are even festivals devoted to them.
Pozy are a relative and similar in name to Chinese dumplings (bao-dzi), while their appearance recalls Georgian khinkali and Tatar and Central Asian manty. They are salted meatballs of minced mutton or beef seasoned with herbs and garlic or onion and folded into a pocket of dough with an opening at the top. Similar to khinkali, you should eat them with your hands and drink the sauce inside after the first bite. If your trip includes a stay in Khuzhir, the biggest village on Olkhon Island, drop in at Yurta, a cafe located on ul. Pushkina. As the name itself suggests, it's a very small café located in a wooden yurt.
And who can pass up Omul? This is a fresh water fish unique to Lake Baikal. It is smoked and sold hot on the street around Lake Baikal. The burnt brown skin and white flesh are flavoursome, a real treat which goes down well in cold Siberia.