hakucho: The set is complete!
I finished my ballband kitchen set! In addition to my appliance covers and towel, I now have a ballband cloth and two potholders to match. I'm happy :) I would have made a few more ballband cloths (you can never have too many) but I had to stop because of my ravelympics knitting!
Today I cast on my 1st olympic sock. Didn't do much on it, but it's officially started. The games have begun (8:00 am here on the East Coast) and now I have to get serious and do some power knitting (maybe? not really). Not sure how many projects that I will actually be able to complete. It was advised to set up more than you actually think you can do because once the games begin you can't add any more projects. I have 2 sets of socks and 3 dishcloths and 1 washcloth all lined up in my ravelry notebook. I know that is truly very over ambitious of me, but I guess that's why I'm on team OOYPP (Overly Ambitous, but Plausibly Possible)! Now back to the ballband set. I've had a few inquiries as to " how to". Provided you already know how to knit the infamous ballband I'll give you an idea of how I did each one. Just keep in mind your appliance may be a different size from mine, then you'll probably have to do some improvising.
First off...here is how to make a simple ballband towel. Cast on 90 stitches and knit using the ballband dishcloth pattern the towel until you complete 33 ball band rows or desired lenght.
Now if you would like to make a rather large toaster (Cuisinart Classic Toaster Oven) cover you need to make a towel with the above directions and two ballband cloths with 13 ballband rows. Crochet the pieces together being careful to space the pieces so the result is even. If desired use crab stitch to edge the crocheted seams.
Repeat these 12 rounds until there are 20 ballbands for the Oster and 26 ballbands for the Kitchen Aid.
End with 1 knitted round and the last row k2 tog until there are 90 stitches and do a 3 needle bind off or crochet the front and back together creating a sack. If desired use crab stitch to finish off the edge.
Once you've made these it's easy to use exactly the same technique to make a potholder. Using small circular needles or dpn cast on72 stitches and knit in the round. The only thing different from the covers is that you need to close off both the top and the bottom. The first one I made I crocheted the top closed, but used the 3 needle bind off for the bottom. You could crochet both closed. I made a little loop by crocheting a chain(12) and slip stitched it to make the chain thicker. The second potholder I used a provisional cast on , then when I was finished knitting I used a 3 needle bind off for both the top and bottom. I like the 3 needle bind off better.
The one on the left, top and bottom are 3 needle bind offs and the one on the right has the bottom crocheted shut.
I love it all, what a beautiful kitchen you have now.
That bag is great too.
WOW, that bag really rocks! Looks like you planned it that way :) And I love your matching kitchen--thanks so much for sharing your patterns!
That is a really great bag, too.
I started my Ravelympics socks while at a sheep show today.
I love the potholders and I am going to have to try that. And I love the bag - the pooling is great! Good luck with your Olympics knitting!
Your potholders look wonderfully thick & cushy! I like the 3-needle bind-off look best, too.
I love your tote bag! To me the pooling looks like lightning...the speed at which she (you) knits!! Rootin' for you in Ravelympics!!
The crocheted tote bag is stunning - looks like a cross between an Australian and Egyptian design - nicely serendipitous.
I love those potholders. They're adorable and are just the thing to make you be happy about cooking instead of knitting (at least you're using handknit potholders, right?) Fun!
Again, very, very nice objects. The pattern on the bag is a work of art.
Love that bag and zig zags. Cool!
Congrats on getting the whole set done. I love those potholders!
Oh...thank you for sharing how to do the ballband in the round!!! YAY!
Oh wow, I thought that design on your bag was intentional. That's really cool pooling!
Good luck with Ravelympics. You've signed on for quite a lot of projects. I only signed up for one cable scarf (my Triumph Scarf), and finishing up my MIL's scarf (Regina Scarf) for the WIPs Wrestling event. I know it doesn't sound like much.
We must be in the same blog reading boat, lol. I haven't had much time in recent weeks to keep up either. The great thing about my blog reader is that it keeps track of everything for me so I'll know which ones I need to get to.
Good advice about setting up more projects then you might need. I didn't do that and I might be in trouble!
What a great crochet bag! I have not attempted that skill yet, I think I'm still afraid of it. The pattern is snappy -- I love it!
I look forward to following your Olympic knitting progress.
Your bags are always awesome and I also LOVE the ballband insanity. I've been there!
Your new pot holder look great, and very thick, that's good. Your crochet bag is very cool with the effect you got from pooling! I like crochet bags a lot more, than knit ones, they are stronger and last longer. Good luck with your Knitolympics and reaching your goals!
Dude, the lightning bolt bag is flipping awesome. You so could not have gotten it to do that had you wanted it to! I love it.
Ooh thanks for the lovely pattern, I need a cover for my Molly, I mean my Kitchenaid. I will go and see what colours I have to make it in! Bet your kitchen looks the bees knees now. Good luck with Ravelympics, I have a medal for some socks already, cheating a bit though as it was for WIP Wrestling!
Very nice set. Once I'm done with the baby knitting I'll have to make a few.
i love the potholders and thanks for the tips on how to make them. that's what my kitchen needs..a set of handmade potholders! :) thanks also for telling how to do a ballband towel!
I really love the ballband yarn, wondering what it is that you used, but I'm going to go view older posts now, just found your fantastic blog!
Hi there. I'm catching up with some blogs since I haven't been reading much in the past month.
Everything looks great. The kitchen set is lovely, and I really like the crocheted bag.
I'm trying to do some stuff right now too, but it's been slow going.
I hope you drop by my site again soon. Hopefully I'll have something to show.


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For the world to be peaceful, it might help if we had a new peace symbol. It is easy. If we turn it upside down, we create a symbol of celebration and well-being. It is certainly a better image for what our dear planet needs. Maybe if we turn upside down lots of things in our world, maybe we could co-create a better world.
and the Season of Peace, January-February-March.
In the Ancient Runes, this symbol means protection. Wow, I am celebrating that discovery!
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An interesting thing happened. In 2015, this picture went up and had a lot of words from many languages which all translated as LOVE. Now the image has been removed, not just from this page, but from the media library, and from my home computer. This is not the first example of censorship in my life, but I leave the space to remind us that there is an illusion that we are free, that we have freedom of free speech, and that we have privacy.
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With back-to-school season in full swing, it's time to talk about how parents can help their children succeed academically — without sacrificing their sleep. Especially for middle school and high school students, there is increasing pressure to perform well academically. Homework loads increase in middle school and high school, along with the time preteens and teenagers spend doing extracurricular activities, including sports. When you factor in the time adolescents spend at school, participating in extracurriculars, socializing with friends and spending time with their family, this leaves few hours in the day for actual sleep. It's not hard to see how all of these commitments results in later bedtimes — as a way to make time for studying and keeping up with schoolwork.
Delaying bedtime in favor of studying was linked to an increased risk of students having trouble understanding the material being taught in class, as well as students doing poorly on tests, quizzes or homework assignments.
Teens who don't get enough sleep are more likely to engage in risky or unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, drinking, drug use and fighting.
Teens who sleep less are more likely to gain weight. Teens who sleep fewer hours are more likely to consume more calories in a day and eat higher-fat foods and snacks, compared to teens who get enough sleep.
Teens who get less sleep are more likely to feel depressed and anxious. There is evidence to suggest that teens with sleep problems are at a higher risk for mental health issues and behavioral problems.
Keep all technology out of the bedroom — Teens are often glued to their screens at all hours of the day. This includes checking their phones, watching TV, using an iPad and doing homework on a laptop. Electronic and digital devices should be kept out of the bedroom. Exposure to the light emitted by these devices is actually disruptive to sleep and can keep teens awake. Make a "no screens" bedroom policy for your whole family and stick to it. This includes parents who might have the same poor bedtime screen habits as their kids.
Find the right bedtime by working backward — Compared to adults, teens need more sleep, about nine hours every night. Figure out what time your teen needs to get up in the morning and work backwards from there, to ensure that your kid gets enough rest.
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Editors, Daily Planet:
Great! Berkeley has new parking meters that have a paper trail, but our Diebold voting machines still do not.
Anne Wagley
STYLE OFFENSE
Does Richard Brenneman own the Daily Planet, or just know where the proverbial body is buried? Why else, after numerous reader complaints is he allowed to continue to report serious crime in his "Snidely Whiplash/Dastardly Deed" style?
As the victim of a violent assault and robbery, and as a citizen deeply concerned with the quality of life these crimes jeopardize, it is offensive to me to read of any crime reported in such a manner. Mr. Brenneman's reporting style is beneath your otherwise intelligent standards. He should indulge himself in a creative writing class ASAP and leave the crime reporting to a more professional journalist.
C. Hooper
PARKING PROPOSAL
While I live in Oakland, I enjoy shopping the Saturday Farmers' Market. Having gotten a ticket in a white zone, I would suggest a Saturday exemption. The school and government offices served by the white curb aren't open during market hours and parking is tight.
Roger Radius
SPIRAL GARDENS
I'm shocked that any "Religious Society" would destroy a valuable neighborhood asset such as the Spiral Community Gardens. Now, if they had bought the lot and then offered to help raise food there, I could have imagined Buddha's principles in action. Besides, the extra organic produce could then have been included in the Temple's Sunday Brunch or given where it was needed most.
Karl Reeh
LIBRARY WEEDING
I was interested to see the article about the incompetent library weeding recently conducted at the Berkeley Library because I have already written two letters to Library Director Jackie Griffin. Of course, she did not reply.
My first letter was to Mayor Bates, complaining that it was impossible to communicate with Ms. Griffin and outlining my concerns. Apparently, his office forwarded my message to Ms. Griffin, since she did send me an e-mail saying that all I had to do was contact her directly and she would reply—copying the mayor, of course. I did this in December, but received no reply. In January, I sent Ms. Griffin a second message, but have as yet heard nothing from her.
Of course all libraries have to discard books, but the recent weeding was not handled in an intelligent and informed way using the American Library Association guidelines for discarding books. It is clear that the librarians making the decisions about which books to discard were not subject experts.
Just one example of several possibilities that I know about: All three volumes of the Pax Britanica Trilogy—a major historical work by the great British historian and travel writer Jan/James Morris—were in the catalogue and on the shelves last fall. When I returned the first volume and tried to check out the second, I discovered that (although it was listed in the catalogue and supposedly on the shelf) it was missing. At the reference desk, the librarian looked up the trilogy and told me that it was being discarded. She told me that she would tell the librarian weeding that section that this was an important set of books by a major writer and that it was still being used by patrons, but also suggested to me that this particular librarian had no background in the subject area she was weeding. Apparently, the staff was under pressure to simply get rid of as many books as possible. Of course, the three volumes now are no longer part of the library collection—and are not available at either the Alameda County system or the Contra Costa County system .
I do not believe that the weeding practice "mostly targets books that are out of date or so worn that they are no longer of value." The weeding at Berkeley's library seems to have been erratic, at best, and incompetent at worst.
Bruce Reeves
TORTURE TACTICS
Shocked and surprised by our use of terror tactics on prisoners in Iraq? You shouldn't be. Torture while interrogating prisoners is standard government policy and its procedures are spelled out.
How do I know this? Two years ago, on Dec. 26, 2002, the Washington Post ran an article which detailed the torture methods that were used.
They quoted security officials who defended "the use of violence against captives as just and necessary."
The newspaper article, written by Dana Priest and Barton Gellman, was written because of a photograph that embarrassed our government. It was taken in Afghanistan.
Remember the picture of a naked and shackled prisoner of war in a metal tube who was being transported to our base in Cuba?
When that picture was published, there was no apology. Just the promise to find and punish the person who released the photograph.
Quoting from the article on the use of terror on prisoners of was in Afghanistan, it was reported that prisoners are "kept standing or kneeling for hours in black hoods" and are "at times held in awkward positions and deprived of sleep with a 48 hour bombardment of lights —subject to what are known as 'stress and duress' techniques."
Had enough? It gets worse. Read on. "Some who do not cooperate are turned over, rendered, in official parlance, to foreign intelligence services whose practice of torture has been documented by the U.S. government and human rights organizations."
There are three more columns which end with, "according to one official who has been directly involved in rendering captives into foreign hands," that the understanding is that "we don't kick the (expletive) out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the (expletive) out of them."
So, when our government claims torture "is not official policy, not systematic," the government is lying.
The press talks of "cruel American captors. And they are being held accountable." Rightly so.
But they were trained in methods of torture. And they were not the major culprits. Punishing them will not keep terror tactics from being used again.
I can only hope that the exposure of the real culprits (those who established torture as acceptable policy) will help change that policy.
Should not the originators of that policy be charged and punished for what President Bush has accurately labeled "reprehensible" and "outrageous" behavior?
Bernice Turoff
Marguerite Hughes is a very misguided and uninformed individual and so are the people of Berkeley. Please tell her that if it was not for Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the founding fathers she would not have the right of freedom of speech. I do not think she is fully informed on the impact that Thomas Jefferson had on this country. If they do not want Thomas Jefferson's name on the school maybe they should rename it after Abraham Lincoln. Oh, that's right you all already renamed a school that once was named after President Lincoln to Malcolm X Elementary. What a contrast in views of human rights. Lincoln held this union together during its darkest hours and Malcolm X wanted to 'by any means necessary' kill the white man. What a wonderful place to live Berkeley must be to have such a skewed out look on American history.
David W. Craig, SSgt, USAF
I'm very curious about developments in the story of the Oakland girl who slashed the elderly woman's throat as she was walking in the Berkeley hills. It appears that the suspect was in the company of an adult county social worker. And that the suspect and the county worker fled the scene of the attempted murder together without giving aid to the victim or even calling the police.
The police will not give the press the county worker's name or place her under arrest.
This strikes me as highly suspicious, and an even more compelling story than the horrible attack.
Is anyone reporting this case?
Hello, my name is Cody Newcomb. I go to school at West Ridge Elementary. I am in fifth grade. In our Social Studies class we are studying our country. I got California for my state. I would appreciate if you could give me some information about your state, so I can learn some things about California. I would like to have a car license plate if possible. I would appreciate your time and effort. Thank you!
(Please send letters, postcards, or historical information to West Ridge Elementary, 1401 19th Street, Harlan, IA 51537)
Cody Newcomb
I truly appreciated Joe Eaton's article "Endangered Opposums Really Do Play Dead" (Daily Planet, Feb. 1-3). For years I have been volleyed between neurologists and psychiatrists and neuropsychiatrists and psychopharmocologists because I "display" seizure-like behaviors and experiences. I have experienced grand mal seizures, absense seizures, partial complex seizures, and depression. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on EEGs, video EEGs, and neuropsych evaluations. All indications suggest I have epilepsy, except for the EEGs. Because the EEGs do not pick up the spiking brainwaves indicative of epilepsy, the epileptologist sent me to the psychiatrist. The psychiatrist successfully treated my depression, but I have yet to have successful treatment for my seizures! The most recent study you refer to was an EEG performed at the Children's Hospital in the mid-1960s. Your article suggests that the possum is experiencing a psychiatric reaction to an adverse stimuli rather than a neurological reaction? Such is my lot in life...and I have yet to have adequate treatment for my seizures. I propose finding a research facility that will perform a SPECT on a critter...I hear UCLA has a high resolution SPECT that is being used on mice and monkeys for medical research. Hmmmm...
Patricia K. Stinner
While I suppose I should be pleased to be labeled a "preservation activist" ("Developer Will Move Forward", Daily Planet, April 1-4), I would emphasize the importance of preservation planning in the case of this large block (700 University Avenue) that includes Celia's, Brennan's and the "Train Station".
In particular, the Train Station is a well documented City of Berkeley Landmark as well as being on the State Historic Resources Inventory. The Train Station (built around 1913 by Southern Pacific, after an extended public battle to secure better passenger service for Berkeley) is the incredible resource on the site, and should be the focus of whatever development is proposed. The 700 University Avenue property is large, being bounded by Fourth, Addison, & Third Streets; it could easily accommodate a public plaza, with traffic circulation for the project, in front of the Station. Furthermore, to the north on University Avenue, the City of Berkeley, through its Redevelopment Agency, is spending a considerable sum to develop a transit hub linking AC Transit to the Capitol Corridor Rail.
As a member (and now Chair) of the West Berkeley Project Area Commission (advisory to the Redevelopment Agency), I have seen the work put
in by my fellow commissioners and City staff on this transit project over the last eight years. At the very least, this development needs to link up with those efforts. So, in this case, preservation planning is really just another and critical facet of good urban and transportation planning.
Editors, Daily Planet::
In response to the anti-Al Gore comment by letter writer James K. Sayre in the Planet (April 8-11), I've been studying this peculiar Anti-Gore subculture since before the 2000 Selection. These kinds of personal taunts against Gore were echoed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and other Rapture Right sympathizing journalists in print and on T.V. during the 2000 campaign. This has been well documented by the distinguished media critic for The Nation, Eric Alterman in his book "What Liberal Media". In fact Al Gore was the first victim of the propaganda machine we've come to see now, starkly, in the likes of the Affaire Guckert-Gannon.
During the 2000 Selection the Anti Al Gore chorus was joined by "progressives" who picked up the banner of the Bushies, repeating the lies, even repeating the trivia about his weight and his looks, despite somber team players asking them not to. Later, contrary to the facts, they blamed Gore for "losing" the Election. Who needs the Right Wing? This "jumping gene" of lies seems like a classic example of the pitiful brainwashing Air America is trying to address.
Despite this horrible media distortion, Gore was the first person to vehemently speak out against the War in Iraq on Sept. 23, 2002 in San Francisco. Gore's series of Move-On lectures leading up to the '04 Election were a great contribution to trying to stop Bush in '04. John Judis, a distinguished Democratic theorist writing in a post-election analysis in the American Prospect, said that Al Gore would have been a better candidate than John Kerry. There certainly would have been closer scrutiny of the Bushies stealing votes in Ohio. Al Gore has been teaching college students to be discerning consumers of media since he left office and his legendary lectures concerning the perils of Global Warming are memorable experiences to those who have been lucky enough to attend.
So, when Al Gore is collaborating with Google to re-frame aspects of media, tired old put-downs of Gore seem "retro". He is one of the Democratic Party's leaders for the future, and Howard Dean knows that. The Gore's have been one of the greatest American political progressive families. Like Al Gore says: "Politics is a team sport." I hope Mr. Sayre can re-examine his thinking and quit validating the Right and join the team.
Instead of calling Al Gore's "Current" venture a mere "brainstorm", Sayre should go to the Current website htt://www.current.tv/, and watch some of the award winning short videos. They are great politics. I'm still thinking about one I watched about young people in Iran.
Maureen L. Farrell
The 2004 Budget proposed by the Governor and passed by over 2/3 of the Legislature of the great State of California was unconstitutional.
In 1988 the electorate amended the Constitution of the State of California guaranteeing that the State of California will contribute no less than 48 percent of the total budget in any year to public education. The 2004 budget did not implement this requirement. It was two billion dollars short.
The unconstitutional budget proposed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, approved by the State of California Legislature, accepted so far by the Secretary of State, the Attorney General of the State, and the State Supreme Court, has caused a public education disaster.
It seems that under the current California State Government (as well as the current United States Government) a constitution is not worth the blood spilled for it.
Fellow citizens, this must stop! Every person who becomes a public servant in California is made to swear to do only one thing: "To protect and defend the California State Constitution as well as the United States Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic." Apparently they are too busy ignoring the Constitution to defend it.
Please, gently, remind your public officials of their duty. If they can't be bothered to do that one simple and critical thing, they really can't be trusted to do anything positive for the state.
Harry Wiener
I was very troubled by Judith Clancy's attack letter printed in your April 1 edition, and I appreciate the chance to reply. I honestly cannot tell if Ms. Clancy completely misunderstands (and thus misrepresents) my position, or if she is engaged in deliberate character assassination.
If she is in good faith, I will again attempt an explanation through analogy: Let us say there is a murder in Berkeley. This is a horrible thing and a great tragedy for the family and friends of the victim. Should, say, the City of Los Angeles respond by reporting Berkeley and Mayor Bates to the United Nations for violating the victim's human rights? If a member of the Los Angeles City Council did not favor such an action would she/he be supporting murder? No, crimes by individuals against individuals, no matter how heinous, are not human rights violations by the governing body of the place in which the crime occurred. Otherwise, since human crime exists everywhere, all governments—local, regional, national—would be guilty of human rights violations.
The proper response to the crime is for the Berkeley Police Department to apprehend the culprit and for the justice system of the State of California to convict the culprit. Does this mean that only murderers in Berkeley or California should be caught and convicted? No, just that these are the appropriate agencies to deal with this particular crime, and the United Nations really has no part in this, since it is not a human rights violation.
Now what if murder is committed by militants against civilians as a deliberate tactic of combat? That is a human rights violation, which should be reported to the United Nations and eventually prosecuted as a war crime by the World Court. Both the hypothetical individual crime in Berkeley and the deliberate military policy of killing civilians are murders, they are both horrible and leave a wake of pain and suffering, but only one is a human rights violation under the jurisdiction of the United Nations. It is the nature of the perpetrator, not the nature of the crime that determines this. I hope this clarifies any misunderstanding Ms. Clancy might have.
If instead Ms. Clancy is engaged in character assassination, I can only say that I think it is very sad when public discourse descends to this Swift Boat Veterans kind of disinformation. When I was the chair of the Southern California Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, I was subjected to numerous personal attacks by anti-choice militants. When I was the rabbi of a gay outreach synagogue, I was no stranger to hateful personal tirades by anti-gay extremists. It may be that Ms. Clancy merely misunderstood my position and I hope that she now understands it correctly. However, if she is attacking my "decency" as a cynical way of discrediting my politics, then she is in very poor company indeed.
Jane Litman
A lot of people in Berkeley are hurting because of the cuts in spending, but none more than those of us who depend on the city's swimming pools. The announcement that all of the pools are to be closed this winter is a shock, especially to those of us who have fought to keep at least some of them open all year, raising money, and volunteering to clean up and rehabilitate the most neglected pools.
For many of us, swimming is more than recreation; we are people who for various reasons can't jog or do most other kinds of beneficial exercise, for whom swimming at affordable prices is a lifeline. We need to have one pool, at least, open year-round.
Tonight's City Council meeting will consider a one-time expenditure to save one program or asset from extinction. Some have proposed that the fountain in City Hall Plaza be the lucky winner; well, nobody can swim in a fountain. It's been dry for decades, and can stay that way while we save a pool for those who badly need it. Please come to the council meeting tonight and show your support for swimming, the best hope for health for many of our citizens.
John Spier
The Pope who chose to live and die on TV and the 200 world leaders who appeared for the final show deserve more criticism than praise.
The Pope was correct in seeing abortion as the murder of a living organism and to condemn the loose, pleasure-oriented sexual behavior of our time, as aberrant. But much suffering was caused by his dogmatic inflexibility forbidding all abortions, including those where reason and compassion would command their execution, and his prohibition of the use of contraceptives. To forbid all sexual intercourse between men and women when they have no intention to create offspring, was, in our instant gratification culture, too steep a hill to climb. The defective and unwanted children resulting from this dogmatic inflexibility are a sad burden on our community.
The Pope engaged in Revisionism when he pushed the historic support of Nazi-Germany from the Catholic Church and the historic hostility between Christianity and Judaism under the rug. By doing that he put the Church in the political arena on the side of America and Israel in their conflict with the Muslims. New American language usage, also surreptitiously rewriting history, today is calling Western Civilization a "Judeo-Christian Civilization" instead of what it is correctly: a "Greco-Christian Civilization." Let us be very clear about this. There never was a Judeo-Christian Civilization. Jews, who have not converted to Christianity, are not Christians.
The 200 world leaders at the funeral are all hypocrites and philistines, monkeys dancing on the stage of the circus of the century. They have no business being there. Are they not all leaders of secular states founded on the separation of (a rational) State and (an irrational) Church, commercial cultures where the material body lives separately from the spiritual soul?
May he rest in peace now. He was a simple man of faith, unenlightened and unprepared for the role that Fate bestowed on him.
Jan Visser
Robert Birgeneau, the new UC Berkeley Chancellor, considers diversity on campus to be in crisis and places it at the top of his Things To Do list. He thinks the people of California who followed Ward Connerly and rejected Affirmative Action may now be willing to correct the unintended consequences and stop "underserving" a large and important part of the state's multicultural population.
I am no admirer of Connerly but I thought at the time he had a point: Eliminating race will lead to a racially blind society just as eliminating gender will achieve a gender blind society. He has now risen up against the new chancellor with typically self-serving ferocity (but being now retired with less bite) and again I think he has a point.
Granted that diversity is loaded with political value it can hardly be a substantive matter for one of the world's great universities for it is at best superficial, rooted in appearances, and at worse illusory, based on race, a societal construct of fraudulent intent. Universities are supposed to be places where young minds grow and each mind is by nature endowed with its own uniqueness, like fingerprints or DNA. No two are alike; all student communities are therefore comprised of diverse minds. Thumping for diversity is nonsense.
It is no surprise that in addition to race Birgeneau includes gender in his perceived crisis for he thereby rides the political tsunami initiated by his Harvard counterpart, Lawrence H. Summers.
Such gaffs are natural because all university presidents come from the professoriate with no training whatsoever in the administration of large corporations. The great Columbia University scholar Jacque Barzun concluded, after a short stint on the job, that only two professions may be entered with no prior training—training must be acquired on the job—one profession is that of the university administrator and the other is "the world's oldest profession". Certification in both is achieved only as long as one is able to maintain one's position, so to speak.
Marvin Chachere
Your recent article about worker overtime by Matthew Artz shows how glamorous it is to print W2's, but why should anyone care? People working in private companies don't have to share their W2's.
City employees working overtime are not wrong. They are just picking up hours that could be worked by their fellow employees. In the private sector overtime is used due to a labor shortage or to complete a job due to time constraints. No manager likes to pay it; they do it for business needs. Many workers I know stay away from overtime. They just like to put in their work week and go home. Others work OT whenever they can. I know many people on salary who put in 60 hour weeks. They don't get overtime, they do a job.
Next time instead of publishing dirty laundry why not do a more in depth examination of city management. Are the staffing requirements the city has really necessary? PERS is a great pension plan. Does its cost reflect an over extension of public money, or a realistic plan in an unreal world? How many managers does the city have per employee?
Examination of issues like these might get more savings than publishing officer Jones' overtime and salary.
James Mullesch
Are we really talking about the firefighter overtime issue again? Ho-hum. I'll try not to bore you with the fact that firefighters regularly die in the course of doing their duty. I'll also not go too deeply into the fact that firefighters have life expectancies decades shorter than their civilian counterparts.
Instead I'll stick to the money issue and lay it out as cleanly as I can. OVERTIME SAVES MONEY. A firefighter's total compensation package is equal to
about 65 percent on top of his base salary. An overtime firefighter gets paid time and a half. So if a firefighter gets paid one hundred dollars a day for regular time, then letting him work overtime costs 150 dollars. Hiring a person to permanently fill that vacancy costs 165, not just on a day when there is a
vacancy, but every day until he retires.
"Overtime" is an ugly word; chiefs and managers stake their reputations on bringing down the OT budget. But often overtime is a cheaper way to fill
temporary gaps than hiring permanent replacements.
I think the real issue is the fact that firefighters are one of the few public servants to be justly compensated for their labors. They don't deserve less; others deserve more. The unpleasant truth is that people don't like to see blue collar men and women, many with no education beyond high school, earning $100,000 a year.
Is it just chance or some sort of editorial statement that you followed a front page story on spiralling overtime with a front page story on a three-fire day?
There's no doubt about it: A great way to save a pile of money would be to eliminate the fire department entirely. Of course, then the fires wouldn't go out, but for many people that seems to be a totally irrelevant issue.
Zac Unger
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When people talk about Extreme Programming, they often focus on such things as its adaptive planning style, or its evolutionary approach design. One small but growing trend that particularly interests me is the small but growing number of XP projects that have very low defect rates, by which I mean less than one production bug per month.
The first of these I ran into was Kent's description of a firm that makes food sorting machines. These things have conveyor belts that run past cameras and other sensors which will sort fruit and vegetables into various categories (all this stuff driven by Smalltalk). The team had a hundred or so open bugs at one time, but since adopting XP the bug rate dropped to where they were getting a bug roughly every couple of months.
I was particularly happy to run into the second case I saw - since it involved several of my old friends from C3. They are now building some portal software at Chrysler. Although they started off at the shocking defect rate of one a month, during 2002 they recorded exactly one bug against their system. During this time they were releasing new version of their software every week or two.
One software company has made a big shift to XP. A lot of its work has involved large legacy systems, which are a challenge. But in some new developments they have had some very low defect rates. Two such projects are running at under a bug a month. One of these found pre-install government certification reduced from weeks to days.
We are also seeing some of this at ThoughtWorks. It's early since release on our candidate very low defect projects, but a few are seeing similarly low bug rates.
Although these low rates are only achieved by a minority of projects, it does seem to be a common result that teams that do a serious adoption of XP see significantly lower bug rates. I've heard many tales of significant drops in defect rates, even if they didn't get down to sub-bug-month levels.
I need to stress that so far only a few XP teams are getting the very low bug rates. I have only run into a handful so far. The teams seem to be pretty disciplined and led by people who have a year or two of XP under their belt.
Since this is still a small proportion of projects you should not assume you are going to get super-low bug rates by just adopting XP. Nor should you assume that other processes can't get these kinds of bug rates as well.
But what I can conclude is that these kinds of bug rates are achievable in software development. I can also conclude that some teams who get there consider XP to be a very important tool in helping to do it.


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This is one of the big three festivals in the north-east of Japan. Floats of majestic samurai dolls are paraded through the center of Aomori City.
More than 100 horses are dressed up and paraded from Onikoshisozen Shrine in Takizawa Village, Iwate Prefecture, to Morioka Hachimangu Shrine in Morioka City.
This festival is held at Hachimantai hot spring town and Mt. Iwate Yakehashiri International Exchange Village. The festival comprises many events, including tours of the frost-covered virgin forest, snow sculpture contests, and food stalls.
This is an awe-inspiring sight, with Mt. Iwate in the background.
The spring season of Kakunodate, known as "Little Kyoto" of Southern Tohoku area, is quiet but gorgeous. Weeping cherry trees render the samurai residence exceptionally pretty, and the Yoshino cherry trees on the banks of the Hinokinai River also come into full bloom. The whole town is dyed in a shade of light pink.
Cherry trees seen in the evening at the famous Hirosaki Castle are especially beautiful.
Hachimantai Resort is set at the foot of Mt. Iwate in Towada-Hachimantai National Park in the north of Iwate Prefecture.
Transfer to Hanawa Line train at Morioka, and get off at Obuke Station. Then take a bus for 30 mins.
Take a bus at Iwate Hanamaki Airport for 1 hr and get off at Morioka Station. Take another bus there for 1 hr.


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That's why his experience of voicing a character in animated film "Gladiators of Rome," released in March, was not just work but a new form of enjoyment for him. "When I was first offered the role, I thought, 'I know I'm hot these days (laughs) but would I fit the role of a warrior?' Because I'm not masculine. But I understood once I watched the movie. He was a character that was extremely lazy and not even courageous in the beginning. It was interesting and fun because my voice was in an entire movie." Even after pouring his heart out on his experience on how he was so busy that he had to make time to practice his lines, and that it took several days to record the complex fighting scenes, his conclusion was: "I think dubbing is extremely attractive!" And then he went on to do a bit of cute bragging as well. "I got to dub a commercial after the film. And the staff had set aside about two hours for it. But I finished syncing my lines in just ten minutes so they applauded me. But come on, what could be so hard about dubbing to my own lips? (laughs) Like so, Kwang-hee is a guy who can make you happy just by being with him. Below are his movie picks.
Plot: The only child of a widowed aristocrat is mistreated and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters but with the help of her fairy godmother, she meets with the prince.
Plot: Shakespeare's famous play "Romeo and Juliet" is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona.
Plot: A woman who was a former member of an assassination team, wakens up from a 4-year coma to find that the child she carried in her womb is gone. She seeks to take vengeance on the team of assassins that betrayed her.
Plot: A delivery boy falls for a young girl who's hearing is impaired.
Kwanghee: I think that people these days like cinderella-type stories where a rich man meets with a poor woman, but this movie wasn't like that. I felt jealous of their beautiful yet quiet love, maybe because I can't have what they have (laughs). And I hadn't thought much about it when I went there for work, but the landscape in Taiwan looked amazing in the movie. When I asked others where the film was set, I was told, "It's where you went last time," so it surprised me.
Plot: The story of eight men and women who fall in love with each other.
Kwanghee: I came to look up this film because of Peng Yu Yuan and Ivy Chen who were in "Hear Me." There are a total of eight main characters in the movie and it's about their love, but was very lyrical. I fell in love with Taiwan after watching "Love." But honestly… I don't watch these kinds of films that much anymore. I become jealous when I watch love stories, then I want to fall in love, and then I can't handle the emotions (laughs).
I really enjoyed reading Kwanghee's reasons for why he loves these movies. His answer for his #1 Cinderella was just so cute!


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Universality probability is an abstruse probability measure in computational complexity theory that concerns universal Turing machines.

Background
A Turing machine is a basic model of computation.  Some Turing machines might be specific to doing particular calculations.  For example, a Turing machine might take input which comprises two numbers and then produce output which is the product of their multiplication.  Another Turing machine might take input which is a list of numbers and then give output which is those numbers sorted in order.

A Turing machine which has the ability to simulate any other Turing machine is called universal - in other words, a Turing machine (TM) is said to be a universal Turing machine (or UTM) if, given any other TM, there is a some input (or "header") such that the first TM given that input "header" will forever after behave like the second TM.

An interesting mathematical and philosophical question then arises.  If a universal Turing machine is given random input (for suitable definition of random), how probable is it that it remains universal forever?

Definition
Given a prefix-free Turing machine, the universality probability of it is the probability that it remains universal even when every input of it (as a binary string) is prefixed by a random binary string. More formally, it is the probability measure of reals (infinite binary sequences) which have the property that every initial segment of them preserves the universality of the given Turing machine. This notion was introduced by the computer scientist Chris Wallace and was first explicitly  discussed in print in an article by Dowe (and a subsequent article). However, relevant discussions also appear in an earlier article by Wallace and Dowe.

Universality probabilities of prefix-free UTMs are non-zero
Although the universality probability of a UTM (UTM) was originally suspected to be zero, relatively simple proofs exist that the supremum of the set of universality probabilities is equal to 1, such as a proof based on random walks and a proof in Barmpalias and Dowe (2012).
Once one has one prefix-free UTM with a non-zero universality probability, it immediately follows that all prefix-free UTMs have non-zero universality probability.
Further, because the supremum of the set of universality probabilities is 1 and because the set
is dense in the interval [0, 1],
suitable constructions of UTMs
(e.g., if U is a UTM, define a
UTM U2 by U2(0s) halts for all strings s,
U2(1s) = U(s) for all s) gives that the set of universality probabilities is
dense in the open interval (0, 1).

Characterization and randomness of universality probability
Universality probability was thoroughly studied and characterized by Barmpalias and Dowe in 2012.
Seen as real numbers, these probabilities were completely characterized in terms of notions in computability theory
and algorithmic information theory.
It was shown that when the underlying machine is universal, these numbers are highly algorithmically random. More specifically, it is Martin-Löf random relative to the third iteration of the halting problem. In other words, they are random relative to null sets that can be defined with four quantifiers in Peano arithmetic. Vice versa, given such a highly random number (with appropriate approximation properties) there is a Turing machine with universality probability that number.

Relation with Chaitin's constant
Universality probabilities are very related to the Chaitin constant, which is the halting probability of a universal prefix-free machine. In a sense, they are complementary to the halting probabilities of universal machines relative to the third iteration of the halting problem. In particular, the universality probability can be seen as the non-halting probability of a machine with oracle the third iteration of the halting problem. Vice versa, the non-halting probability of any prefix-free machine with this highly non-computable oracle is the universality probability of some prefix-free machine.

Probabilities of machines as examples of highly random numbers
Universality probability provides a concrete and somewhat natural example of a highly random number (in the sense of algorithmic information theory). In the same sense, Chaitin's constant provides a concrete example of a random number (but for a much weaker notion of algorithmic randomness).

See also
 Algorithmic probability
 History of randomness
 Incompleteness theorem
 Inductive inference
 Kolmogorov complexity
 Minimum message length
 Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference

References

External links

 (and here).
 Dowe, D. L. (2011), "MML, hybrid Bayesian network graphical models, statistical consistency, invariance and uniqueness", Handbook of the Philosophy of Science - (HPS Volume 7) Philosophy of Statistics, P.S. Bandyopadhyay and M.R. Forster (eds.), Elsevier, pp901-982.
 Wallace, C. S. & Dowe, D. L. 1999 Minimum message length and Kolmogorov complexity. Computer J. 42, 270–283.
 Hernandez-Orallo, J. & Dowe, D. L. (2013), "On Potential Cognitive Abilities in the Machine Kingdom", Minds and Machines, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp179-210 (and here)
 Barmpalias, G. (June 2015), slides from talk entitled ``Randomness, probabilities and machines] at the Tenth International Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness (CCR 2015) conference, 22–26 June 2015, Heidelberg, Germany.
 Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, and Chi-Kou Shu. [http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cristian/Calude361_370.pdf Computing a Glimpse of Randomness. Further reading
 Ming Li and Paul Vitányi (1997).  An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications. Springer. Introduction chapter full-text.
 Cristian S. Calude (2002). Information and Randomness: An Algorithmic Perspective, second edition. Springer.
 R. Downey, and D. Hirschfeldt (2010), Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity'', Springer-Verlag.

Algorithmic information theory
Theory of computation
Real transcendental numbers

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Up to 13 orange-bellied parrots will be released into the Tasmanian wild over the coming weeks to help boost the population.
There have been 51 orange-bellied parrots released at Melaleuca in the past two years.
The Department of Environment said it was seeing more wild birds returning to Melaleuca from the mainland in time for the breeding season, with 21 sighted since mid-September, four more than at the same time last season.
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This book reports articles on 14 new, exciting, revolutionary scientific discoveries concluded in the 21st century. It covers areas in physics, physiology, and medicine. It may interest specialized physicists, physiologists, and physicians in all medical specialties as well as any reader with interest in scientific advances. The book comes in 38 chapters covering 598 pages.…mehr
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This book reports articles on 14 new, exciting, revolutionary scientific discoveries concluded in the 21st century. It covers areas in physics, physiology, and medicine. It may interest specialized physicists, physiologists, and physicians in all medical specialties as well as any reader with interest in scientific advances. The book comes in 38 chapters covering 598 pages.
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Ghanem, Ahmed N.§Dr Ahmed Nasr Ghanem was educated in Egypt and qualified in 1974, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt. During his career life he attended many conferences and won the award of Princes Alexandra Memorial Award and reported over 100 articles and authored 7 books on his 14 discoveries in physics, physiology, and medicine.


Mommy told me to make a passcode based login system.
My initial C code was compiled without any error!
Well, there was some compiler warning, but who cares about that?
I'm using xshell in windows so the ssh cmd may different from which under linux.
So obviously, we need to pwn passcode to read the flag file.
Both passcode1 and passcode2 are not initialized after declaimed.
So traditionally, the end bytes of the name variable in welcome() should stay on the stack when passcode1 and passcode2 are using.
Since scanf("%100s", name); limits the input length to 100 bytes, we cannot overflow it.
Please ignore those debug lines starting with 'passcode.*'.
But when I tested it on the ~/passcode, which have the privilege we need, it failed.
From this point, my turned to seeking help.
From the solution vedio and this blog, I learned about GOT modification.
There is a function calling right after scanf(passcode1): fflush(stdin).
The fflush's acture address is stored on 0x0804a004 (GOT, on the stack).
If we can change it to other address of the program, we can skip the checking and get the flag directly.
To achieve that, we just let the value of passcode1 to be 0x0804a004, then when scanf("%d", passcode1), we input the address of somewhere we need.
We can see, right after the two jne, there is printf('Login OK') and system('cat flag').
The address we need is 0x080485d7 (I prefer this) or 0x0485e3.


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Driver suspected of resisting arrest dies in LAPD custody
By City News Service on January 7, 2023 Los Angeles
VENICE, Calif. – A possibly intoxicated man suspected of causing a traffic crash in Venice and then running away died after Los Angeles Police Department officers used a stun gun on him while trying to arrest him, police said Friday.
The crash occurred at the intersection of Venice and Lincoln boulevards around 3:40 p.m. Tuesday, according to the LAPD.
A West Traffic Division officer was flagged down. Witnesses told the officer the man who caused the crash was running in the middle of the street and exhibiting erratic behavior, police said.
The officer then contacted Keenan Anderson and talked to him, then requested backup for a DUI investigation, police said.
As the backup began to arrive, Anderson suddenly bolted from the scene with officers giving chase, the LAPD reported.
Anderson ran in the middle of Venice Boulevard. When officers caught up to him, Anderson allegedly began to resist. Officers used a stun gun, bodyweight, firm grips and joint locks in an attempt to overcome Anderson's alleged resistance, police said.
Anderson was eventually handcuffed and hobbled at the ankles by police. Shortly after his arrest, Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were called to the scene to render medical aid to Anderson because of the use of force, the LAPD reported.
Anderson was then taken to a hospital in Santa Monica where he later went into cardiac arrest and died, police said.
One officer suffered minor injuries.
The in-custody death was being investigated by the LAPD's Force Investigation Division and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office shooting team.
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Rob Thomas brings a new season of Veronica Mars to Hulu this summer
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Just as iZombie has aired its first episodes of its final season, showrunner Rob Thomas is readying Season 4 of the series that made him famous, Veronica Mars. Eight new episodes of Veronica Mars are coming to streaming service Hulu this summer. The new series finds the snarky private investigator five years after the events of the 2014 crowdfunded movie with more detective stories of So-Cal noir. Original actors returning include Kristen Bell (Veronica), Enrico Colantoni (Keith), Jason Dohring (Logan), Percy Daggs III (Wallace), Francis Capra (Weevil), Max Greenfield (Leo), Ryan Hansen (Dick), Ken Marino (Vinnie), Daran Norris (Cliff), and Adam Rose (Max).
Rob Thomas is back as script writer, so expect the same quirky dialogue and pop culture references he's written for iZombie and the first three seasons of Veronica Mars. Don't forget, Thomas's two Veronica tie-in mystery novels are part of Veronica Mars canon. If you missed them, catch our reviews of The Thousand Dollar Tan Line here, and Mr. Kiss and Tell here. Based on Thomas's use of actors from Veronica Mars in his five seasons of iZombie, we wouldn't be surprised to see some cameos from a few members of his iZombie cast to make an appearance.
Sorry, Thomas has not yet announced a few key actors from Veronica's past for the next eight episodes, including best pal Tina Majorino (Mac), or boyfriends Chris Lowell as Piz, or Teddy Dunn as Duncan, or a lost twin sister of murdered friend Lily (Amanda Seyfried).
Hulu has released a trailer for the series. Check it out:
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borg.com Best of Movies, TV, and Print 2015
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Well it's been one long year, with plenty to do and see, plenty of good and not-so-good to read and watch, and as with last year we're certain we reviewed more content this year than ever before. This year was a big year for borgs in TV and film, so we had some difficult decisions to make. All year long we sifted through all that Hollywood had to offer and honed in on the genre TV, films, comics, and other books we thought were worth examining. We went back and looked at it all and pulled together our picks for our annual Best of the Best list.
Today we reveal the entire list–the best genre content of 2015–with our top categories Best Sci-Fi Fix, Best Fantasy Fix, Best Superhero Fix, Best Animated Fix, and Best Borg selected regardless of medium. A dozen properties garnered multiple mentions.
We hope you agree with many of these great creations of the entertainment industries, and wish everyone a great 2016!
Best Sci-Fi Fix – Killjoys (Syfy). Surprised? Killjoys pulled together great worldbuilding, characters and actors in a year of a dozen new sci-fi shows to provide us the closest thing to the next Firefly we've seen in a long time.
Best Fantasy Fix – Galavant (ABC); Runner-up The Librarians (TNT). It aired early in 2015 but nothing surpassed Galavant's medieval high adventure and all-out Princess Bride-style fun.
Best Superhero Fix – The Flash (CW). Of all the Marvel movies and TV series from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to Agent Carter and from Arrow to Supergirl, nothing had us coming back for more each week like the superhero world in The Flash.
Best Animated Fix – Star Wars Rebels (DisneyXD). Compare it to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and see if you think this animated Star Wars galaxy had an even better story and characterization, along with the return of its own group of original trilogy actors, compelling visuals and rousing music.
Best Borg – Pops (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from Terminator Genisys (Paramount). Schwarzenegger created yet another borg that could stand up against his prior successful characters from the series. A cool, moving character in a big year for borgs on screen!
Best Borg Movie – Ex Machina (DNA Films). Incredible storytelling and a small cast of talented actors provided a classic science fiction story and Oscar-worthy film about our favorite subject.
Best Borg TV Series – Humans (AMC). On television the most in-depth look at life as a borg and among borgs has never been portrayed more dramatically than on this year's surprise sci-fi hit series from AMC.
Best Kickass Genre Movie Heroine – Rey (Daisy Ridley), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Disney); Honorable Mentions: Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), Terminator Genisys (Paramount); Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), Mad Max: Fury Road (Village Roadshow)
Best Kickass Genre TV Heroine – Liv Moore (Rose McIver), iZombie (CW); Honorable Mentions: Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), Killjoys (Syfy); Helena (Tatiana Maslany), Orphan Black (BBC)
Want to know who we picked for best villain and best comic books of the year? Take a look after the cut…
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Review–New Veronica Mars novel showcases the private eye heroine you can't get enough of
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For fans of Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham's first tie-in novel Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, previously reviewed here at borg.com, the next novel in the paperback series will get readers even closer to the Veronica of the TV series. Veronica Mars: Mr. Kiss and Tell, is a darker mystery, a hard-boiled detective story, straight out of the hard case crime series of the past. Mr. Kiss and Tell also continues to show the growth of Veronica, now a 29-year-old with responsibilities after she ditched her law career for a P.I. agency gig with her dad.
Nobody knows Veronica better than creator Rob Thomas. The banter, the snarky quips, the Whedon-esque pop culture references all make for a story that is not only consistent with the TV series and 2014 crowdfunded movie, but it remains fresh, taking Veronica into new territory. Thomas and Graham waste no time, providing a powerful beginning: A junk dealer happens upon what could be a mannequin as he is roaming the city. Only it's a woman, barely alive, and we'll learn she's from a family that will be familiar to Veronica Mars fans. Veronica is hired by a hotel to prove that a hotel employee was not the attacker and rapist that left the young woman for dead. But if he didn't do it, then who did?
Veronica has a long history with solving rape cases, cases that became almost a hallmark of her series. This case will take her into the seedy parts of society, with Veronica barreling into danger reminding us that, however well-intentioned, she often makes poor choices. Here she ends up in a hotel with a prostitute and her pimp–a giant thug who makes Veronica an offer that could end her case quickly–but it's also an offer she should refuse. But will she? Has she changed at all?
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Revisiting a classic scene from Miracle on 34th Street
Aztec Empire--Graphic novel series recounts the fall of the Aztecs 500 years ago


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Q: How to apply Normalisation using the MinMaxScaler() to all Columns, but Exclude the Categorical? I am new to using the MinMaxScaler, so please do not bite my head of if this is a very, very simple question. Below, I have the following datatset:
sample_df.head(2)
ID     S_LENGTH     S_WIDTH     P_LENGTH     P_WIDTH     SPECIES
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1      3.5          2.5          5.6         1.7        VIRGINICA
2      4.5          5.6          3.4         8.7         SETOSA

Therefore, how to I apply normalisation to this dataset using the following code below to all my columns, excluding the ID and SPECIES columns?
I basically want to use the preprocessing.MinMaxScaler() to apply normalisation, so that all the features are in a range of 0 and 1.
This is the code I am using...
min_max = preprocessing.MinMaxScaler()
min_max.fit_transform(sample_df)

...but when I execute it, I get this error:
ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'SETOSA'

Any help on how to accomplish what I want to do is much appreciated!
Also, my sincere apologies if this is a really dumb question, but I am new to this.
Thank you!
EDIT (SHOWING ERROR):
Alternatively, if I do this...
min_max = preprocessing.MinMaxScaler()
min_max.fit_transform(sample_df[['S_LENGTH', 'S_WIDTH']])

sample_df.head(2)

...I get this error:
AttributeError: 'numpy.ndarray' object has no attribute 'sample'

A: I doubt this will be very helpful but, you can get the numeric columns with:
num_df = df[[i for i in df.columns if df[i].dtypes != 'O']]

num_df
Out[126]:
   ID  S_LENGTH  S_WIDTH  P_LENGTH  P_WIDTH
0   1       3.5      2.5       5.6      1.7
1   2       4.5      5.6       3.4      8.7

and then apply the MinMaxScaler on it:
min_max = preprocessing.MinMaxScaler()
min_max.fit_transform(num_df)

Out[129]:
array([[0., 0., 0., 1., 0.],
       [1., 1., 1., 0., 1.]])

EDIT:
Using your df:
df
Out[162]:
   ID  S_LENGTH  S_WIDTH  P_LENGTH  P_WIDTH    SPECIES
0   1       3.5      2.5       5.6      1.7  VIRGINICA
1   2       4.5      5.6       3.4      8.7     SETOSA

Use the following code:
num_df = min_max.fit_transform(pd.DataFrame((df[[i for i in df.columns if df[i].dtypes != 'O']])))
num_df.columns = [i for i in df.columns if df[i].dtypes != 'O']
cat_df = (df[[i for i in df.columns if df[i].dtypes == 'O']])
res = pd.merge(num_df,cat_df,left_index=True,right_index=True)

which will give you:
print(res)

    ID  S_LENGTH  S_WIDTH  P_LENGTH  P_WIDTH    SPECIES
0  0.0       0.0      0.0       1.0      0.0  VIRGINICA
1  1.0       1.0      1.0       0.0      1.0     SETOSA

Try line by line the code and let me know if this is what you need.

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The United States government has seized upon the moral ambiguity of revolution to justify a global campaign to contain it, to channel it into acceptable paths, or to crush it. In 1938, President Roosevelt had to summon all his political powers to block the Ludlow Resolution for a constitutional amendment forbidding the President to send troops overseas without a national referendum. Less than ten years after its narrow defeat, his successor secured broad congressional support for use of American military power to put down violent revolution abroad. "We cannot allow changes in the status quo," the President declared, "by such methods as coercion, or by such subterfuges as political infiltration," making clear that it didn't matter whether revolutionaries were natives of the country they wished to change or not. Since violence is the engine of political change over most of the globe, President Truman committed the United States to a prodigious task.
The context of the Truman Doctrine made it perfectly clear that its target was not all "violence" or all "coercion" or all "changes in the status quo," but only those having something to do with "communism." The justification for treating communist revolutions as a unique political phenomenon rested partly on the premise that they were manipulated by the Soviet Union and partly on the dogma that the coming of communism to a society meant the end of its political evolution. It was assumed that once the "iron curtain'' descended upon a country, history stopped. It was lost forever, trapped in an ideological straitjacket. In the twenty years since the war, we have seen the fallacy of this latter assumption. Romania Hungary, and the Soviet Union itself have undergone profound political and social change. They are still communist regimes, but their character has evolved in many important ways, far more radically, certainly, than many right-wing dictatorships that have come to power by military coup but are exempt from the Truman Doctrine.
The word "communist" has been applied so liberally and so loosely to revolutionary or radical regimes that any government risks being so characterized if it adopts one or more of the following policies which the State Department finds distasteful: nationalization of private industry, particularly foreign-owned corporations, radical land reform, autarchic trade policies, acceptance of Soviet or Chinese aid, insistence upon following an anti-American or nonaligned foreign policy, among others. Thus, the American ambassador to Cuba at the time of the brief Grau San Martin government in 1933 found it to be "communistic." In 1937 Cordell Hull privately spoke of the Mexican government, which was nationalizing U.S.-owned oil properties, as "these communists down there," but made no public charge. Since the Second World War, however, the term "communist" has been used to justify U.S. intervention against a variety of regimes with widely differing ideologies and relationships with the Soviet Union, including Arevalo's Guatemala, Mossadeq's Iran Goulart's Brazil, Sukarno's Indonesia, Caamano's Dominican revolutionary junta, as well as insurgent movements in Latin America Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Why a great nation embarks on a campaign to bring order to other societies is not a simple question. Historical analysis offers a set of standard explanations: the restless energy of the powerful, diversion of attention from unsolved domestic problems, insecurity at home, passion for spreading civilization, idealistic commitment to a world order, the quest for markets and raw materials, and, simply, a lust for conquest. As for postwar America, three principal theories have been advanced to explain her assumption of responsibility for opposing revolution in the Third World.
There is the official ideology, which holds that the United States having come to manhood, was tapped by history for a global mission of peacemaking and reform. "History and our own achievements have thrust upon us the principal responsibility for the protection of freedom on earth,'' President Johnson declared at a Lincoln Day dinner in 1965, a trace of sadness mixed with pride in his voice. "For the next ten or twenty years," his predecessor observed three years earlier, "the burden will be placed completely on our country for the preservation of freedom." The world community, at least those members of it with decent motives, look to the United States to lead the world and to keep order. For there is no one else. The power of the United States permits it to transcend the petty conflicts that obsess most of its neighbors on the planet. "It is a very old dream," President Johnson told his countrymen in April, 1965, "but we have the power and now the opportunity to make that dream come true." The dream is Perfect Peace, a world in which "disputes are settled by law and reason." The United States, uniquely blessed with surpassing riches and an exceptional history, stands above the international system, not within it. Alone among nations, she stands ready to be the bearer of the Law.
A few years ago the secretary of defense called in a group of foreign-newspaper correspondents to a special briefing at which he explained at great length that the United States is not and cannot be "the policeman of the world." Ruffled by criticism of the mushrooming commitments the United States has taken in the name of "peacekeeping," the secretary of state has also made a point of inserting in his speeches a stock denial that America plays or seeks the gendarme's role. But the official objections to the epithets of the critics have more to do with public relations than substance. For a variety of reasons the image of the neighborhood policeman is more tarnished than it was a generation ago. In the age of big-city riots, police review boards, and the police state, the neutrality and responsibility of police are no longer taken for granted.
But the police idea is strongly entrenched in official ideology. It is merely expressed in other words, like "guardian" or "watchman," or, as in the Congo and Dominican operations, "rescuer of women and children.'' The world looks to Washington for protection against the insurgent band as well as the foreign invader. The American Responsibility is to provide it, whatever the cost, wherever it can.
Intervention, with all its paraphernalia-the aid missions, the CIA operations, the roaming fleets bristling with nuclear weapons, the Green Berets, the pacification teams, and ultimately the expeditionary forces-is the inevitable consequence of greatness. It is the burden and the glory of the Republic.
Critics of American foreign policy tend to doubt the necessity or the wisdom of this self-appointed mission. Some with a sense of history are well aware that the United States is not the first powerful nation to explain the great role it has claimed for itself in terms of burden and sacrifice. For Cicero too the fledgling empire of the first century B.C. was a "guardianship," a domain over which the Roman people, whether by force or persuasion, could enforce the law of Rome and secure justice for primitive peoples. The British Empire was the "White Man's Burden," imposed by the stern hand of History. "Empire is congenial enough to the Englishman's temperament," George Unwin wrote during World War I, "but it is repugnant to his political conscience. In order that he may be reconciled to it, it must seem to be imposed upon him by necessity, as a duty. Fate and metaphysical aid must seem to have crowned him " In every century, powerful nations have reluctantly "come of age," playing out their imperial destiny by carrying on a mission civilatrice on the land of some weaker neighbor.
Yet many critics cling to the view that like everything else about America, her imperialism is exceptional. It springs from the purest motives. Senator J. William Fulbright, for example, while totally hostile to the policy, stresses American idealism as the furious energy which has prompted the United States to stand guard around the world against revolutions. Such critics do not doubt the sincerity only the wisdom, of official statements such as Under Secretary Ball's remark that the United States has "a role of world responsibility divorced from territorial or narrow national interests." America's leaders may be guilty of the "arrogance of power," a bit quixotic in attempting to remake the world in our own image, naive in thinking that a new liberal order can be ushered in so quickly, but they do not act from the base motives of the older empires. "Unlike Rome, we have not exploited our empire. On the contrary, our empire has exploited us, making enormous drains on our resources and our energies," concludes Ronald Steel in his analysis of what he calls "the accidental empire."
Generations of British schoolboys have been delighted by Sir John Seeley's famous phrase that England conquered half the world in a fit of absence of mind. Such a self-image set them apart from the gross plunderers of the past. The Victorian imperialists were decent, civilized men who stumbled into a global domain. Indeed, as a historian of the time, G. P. Gooch, pointed out, taking over backward nations such as India did not increase England's power, only her responsibilities. Like these British critics, the small group of U.S. commentators who criticize the American empire at all see it as a consequence of bumbling, misguided benevolence, and "the politics of inadvertence."
For all the pride Americans have in Yankee shrewdness at home, there is a folklore tradition that the United States is continually duped abroad. Wily European statesmen from Clemenceau to Stalin have lured our Presidents beyond our shores and tricked them into underwriting their empires. Where the United States finds itself involved in a foreign adventure, it is because she has nobly, if foolishly, agreed to pull someone else's chestnuts out of the fire. If she has managed to turn burdens into opportunities and responsibilities into assets, this has been a happy accident. But quixotic idealism that requires the spending of billions to maintain overseas armies and to finance corrupt regimes is a luxury, these critics assert, when U.S. cities are falling apart and the money could be spent so much better here.
Americans who reluctantly find they must criticize the U.S. crusade against revolution are naturally attracted by this national self-portrait of a well-meaning bumbler. It is consistent with one stream running through our history, a strong anti-imperialist tradition. But it is only a partial vision. Even America is not lucky enough to find herself with the mightiest military force and the greatest aggregate of wealth in history through aimless altruism alone.
Other critics of U.S. policy toward insurgent movements look for more familiar and more sinister motives. Drawing on the ones of Hilferding, Hobson, and Lenin of fifty years ago, they ascribe the development of America's self-proclaimed guardianship not to exceptional idealism but to economic imperialism. They see America not as a bumbler but as a country that has adroitly used its power and good fortune to consume sixty percent of the world's raw materials, to manipulate the global money market, and to control much of world trade. Those who hold these views include not only official communist propagandists, orthodox Marxist critics, a few remaining American populists of the tradition of Robert La Follette and Charles Beard, but also most politicians of the Third World not only the revolutionaries in the hills but also many of the presidents, premiers, and generals in the palaces.
"With only one-fifteenth of the world's population and about the same proportion of the world's area and natural resources," the Advertising Council of America, Inc., has observed in its brochure The Miracle of America, "the United States-has more than half the world's telephone, telegraph, and radio networks-more than three quarters of the world's automobiles-almost half the world's radios- and consumes more than half the world's copper and rubber, two-thirds of the silk, a quarter of the coal, and nearly two-thirds of the crude oil."
These figures cause the Advertising Council to glow with pride and self-congratulation, but for critics, they offer a sinister explanation of America's global role. America, like Britain before her, they say, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power. Such critics point to the widening disparity in income levels between the United States and the rest of the world: In 1965 the individual income level in the United States was 3,500 dollars, 650 dollars in Greece, 718 dollars in Argentina, 123 dollars in Thailand, 97 dollars in Pakistan, and 65 dollars in Mali. They note the fantastic climb in direct private U.S. foreign investment-from 7.2 billion dollars in 1946 to more than 50 billion dollars in 1965. They cite the swift and powerful attacks the United States has mounted against governments like Castro's Cuba, Arbenz' Guatemala, and Mossadeq's Iran which threaten to nationalize American companies or to radically revise the terms of trade and investment. They conclude that America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way. President Johnson's occasional remarks that the poor nations envy us our wealth and would like to take it away from US confirm their view that there is considerable method in what appears to be America's foreign-policy madness.
In the past, foreign investors have been somewhat wary of the over-all political prospect for the region. I must say though that the U.S. actions in Vietnam this year-which have demonstrated that the U.S. will give effective protection to the free nations of the region-have considerably reassured both Asian and Western investors. In fact, I see some reason for hope that the same sort of economic growth may take place in the free economics of Asia that took place in Europe after the Truman Doctrine.... The same thing took place in Japan after the U.S. intervention in Korea removed investor doubts.


When you think of car rental, you probably think of companies like Avis, Hertz, or Enterprise Rent-A-Car. We doubt that you love these companies, either, since the process of renting from them is generally expensive and frustrating.
Wouldn't it be great if there were a car rental solution that was modern, flexible, and tech-savvy? This is what you'll find with Zipcar. Zipcar is a car sharing service that offers car rental for a flat daily or hourly rate. You make your reservation using the Zipcar mobile app, and you use a special card called a Zipcard to unlock and lock the vehicle.
In many cases, Zipcar is cheaper to use than a rental car from another company. For some people, it's enough to make car ownership unnecessary (especially people who live in cities with access to public transit). Still, Zipcar isn't free. To this end, you might be looking for ways to lower the cost of your Zipcar rental.
If so, you've come to the right place. In this guide, we'll take a look at the Zipcar deals and promo codes currently available. Whether you've yet to join Zipcar or are a veteran Zipcar member, you'll find a way to save money in this guide.
Before we start talking about various Zipcar coupon codes and ways to save money on the service, it's best to understand how much Zipcar costs. The company claims the service is cheap in comparison to other car rental companies, but is that really true?
Where Zipcar shines in terms of affordability is with its hourly rentals. This is a service that few other companies offer; you certainly won't find any traditional car rental companies that let you rent a car by the hour. Hourly rentals can be as low as $8 per hour, meaning that you can save in comparison to another car rental company if you just need the car for a few hours.
Once you get into the territory of daily rates, it depends on your situation. Zipcar can still save you money compared to another company, since they include gas in the rental cost. For rentals as long as a week, however, it tends to be cheaper to go with a traditional car rental company. They offer weekly discounts, while Zipcar does not.
In addition to the cost to rent the car, Zipcar members also have to pay a $7 per month or $70 per year membership fee. New users must also pay a $25 application fee (which is non-refundable even if Zipcar rejects your application).
Now that you understand how Zipcar pricing works, let's examine how to save some money when you sign up for the service. Using the referral link of a friend (or from a website you find), you can get $25 in free driving credit when you join Zipcar. Applying this code is as simple as clicking your friend's link and filling out the application.
If you use our referral link from RetailMeNot, you'll get your $25 in driving credit.
This special offer is only available to new customers. The $25 in driving credit effectively negates the application fee (assuming Zipcar accepts your application). From time to time, Zipcar offers special promos in which they'll waive the application fee for new members. They generally do this when expanding into a new city.
To find out about promos like this, your best bet is to go to Zipcar.com. The site will automatically determine what city you're in and show you if a new member promo is available. But what do you do if you're already a Zipcar member? In this case, you still have ways to get discounts. You just have to be more creative.
Getting $25 in driving credit is a nice perk when you first sign up, but that credit won't last long. To keep your Zipcar costs low, you can refer a friend to the service. Using your unique affiliate link, both you and your friend will get $25 in free driving credit when they sign up for Zipcar.
To find your unique referral link, visit the Zipcar referral page. Then, sign in and choose the method you want to use to share your referral link. Your options for sharing the code include email, Facebook, and Twitter. Of course, you can choose to share the link via other methods if you prefer, but email, Facebook, and Twitter are certainly good places to start.
Let's look at strategies you can use to share your referral link via each of these platforms.
This message is certainly cleverer than your typical form referral message, but you should still do some work to personalize it. The more you can tailor your message to your friend's interests and personality, the better your chances of them actually taking action.
For instance, you could mention a place your friend loves to travel and explain how Zipcar could help them get there more easily. Or, you could suggest the two of you take a road trip using a Zipcar.
The next option Zipcar gives you for sharing your referral link is Facebook. They don't suggest any sort of message for you to use, so it's up to you to be creative. Just make it something that sounds natural and interesting. If you write like a corporate advertising agency, it's going to give the wrong impression.
You should instead talk about your experience with Zipcar and how it has improved your life. The details of this are personal, but be sure to be as descriptive as possible. For instance, you could talk about a cool weekend trip you took with Zipcar or how Zipcar allowed you to sell your main car and is now saving you money.
The final option Zipcar gives you is to share your code on Twitter. They do include a suggested message, which reads as follows: "@Zipcar is great! And we both get $25 if you sign up. Check it out:" This is not a great message. Saying that Zipcar is "great" means almost nothing.
Instead, we recommend posting a picture of a trip you took using Zipcar or something else that shows Zipcar in action. This helps you overcome the character limit by telling a story with a picture. You can then include a brief caption explaining what's happening in the picture and briefly mention Zipcar and the discount. This will make for a far more effective post than the default Zipcar one.
We hope you now understand how you can use Zipcar promo codes and referral codes to save money on the service. Whether you're about to join Zipcar or have been using the service for years, you can save money using the right types of promo and referral codes.
Looking to save on other methods of transportation? Check out our guide to Uber Promo Codes and Lyft Promo Codes.
And if you're a new user, click here to get $25 in free Zipcar driving credit.


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