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Corrections Committee
April 9, 2015 - 8:00 AM
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Cohen, Derek (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Smith, Douglas (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
On:
Owens, Rissie (Board of pardons and paroles)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Berry, Traci (Goodwill Central Texas)
Gammill, Erica (Prison Justice League)
Harless, Barbara (Self; North Texas Citizens Lobby)
Henning, Lori (Texas Association of Goodwills)
Johnson, Lauren (Self)
Place, Allen (Texas criminal defense lawyers association)
For:
Arnold, Ellen (Texas Association ofnGoodwills)
Cohen, Derek (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Smith, Douglas (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
On:
Brown, Paul (Windham School District)
Carpenter, Clint (Windham school district)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Berry, Traci (Goodwill Central Texas)
Dewitt, Cathy (Texas Association of Business)
Henning, Lori (Texas Association of Goodwills)
Ortiz, Edwin (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
For:
Jones, Lashondra (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Mitchell, Seth (Bexar County)
On:
Wagner, BJ (Texas Veterans Commission)
Wood, Brandon (Texas commission on Jail Standards)
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For:
Gammill, Erica (Prison Justice League)
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On:
Heard, Courtney (Department of State Health Services)
Spiller, Diana (Texas Commission on Jail Standards)
Zamora, April (Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
On:
Thompson, Rodney (Texas Probation Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Place, Allen (Texas criminal defense lawyers association)
For:
Gaither, David (Generations Behavioral Health)
Leonhardt, Brandy (Generations Behavioral Health)
Morrison, Richard (Self; Ft bend county)
Soland, Scott (Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office)
Stotts, Joseph (Self; Generations Behavioral Health)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Almeida, Connie (Self; Fort bend county)
Dunbar, Glen (Self; Generations)
Lee, Donald (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
Pettit, Misty (Generations Health)
Place, Allen (Texas criminal defense lawyers association)
Ratliff, Tanya (Generations Behavioral Health)
Romero, Michelle (Texas Medical Association)
Short, Jim (Ft bend county)
Simpson, Matt (ACLU of Texas)
Smith, Douglas (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Switzer, Gyl (Mental health america of texas)
On:
Heard, Courtney (Department of State Health Services)
For:
Deitch, Michele (Self)
Dulitzky, Ariel (Self; Human Rights Clinic)
Haufler, Lisa (Self)
Henneke, Elizabeth (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Johnson, Lauren (Self)
Moll, Miguel (Hyped about HYPE)
Nall, Wanda (Self)
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For:
Smith, Douglas (Self; Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Taylor, Jesse (HYPE about HYPE)
Truxton, Raylene (Self; Texas Inmate Families Association)
Walters, Mark (Self; Verus Consulting)
White, Charleston (Self; Hyped about hype youth outreach)
On:
Livingston, Brad (Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Anthony, Earl (Self)
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Berry, Traci (Goodwill Central Texas)
Carden, Dick (Self)
Carden, Richard (Self)
Carden, Sharon (Self)
Cordeiro, Jon (Self; New Name Ministries)
Cummings, Patricia (Texas criminal defense lawyers association)
De hoyos, Neisha (Self)
Elzner, Robert L (Self)
Gammill, Erica (Prison Justice League)
Gladden, Richard (Self)
Gravens, Josh (Texas citizens united for rehabilitation of errants)
Haralson, John (Self)
Henning, Lori (Texas Association of Goodwills)
Iversen, Jackie (Self)
Jones, Jim (Texas voices)
Lobsiger, Leah (Self)
Lobsiger, Leah (Self)
Marzullo, Amanda (Texas Defender Service)
Mcenany, Nancy (Self)
Minick, Stephen (Texas Asssociation of Business)
Molnar, Mary sue (Self; Texas voices for reason and justice)
Simpson, Matt (ACLU of Texas)
Switzer, Gyl (Mental health america of texas)
Ulrey, Wanda (Self)
Wardian, Gary (Self)
Against:
Frahm, Sara (Self)
Marana, Peter (Self)
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About me
An engineer in Control Systems and Robotics, PhD student, currently working on Computer Vision algorithms, Image Processing, Deep Learning for Autonomous Vehicles. CNNs, YOLO v3, Python.
Courses
Publications
- Sichkar V. N. "Design of Deep CNN Model for Effective Traffic Signs Recognition," 2021 International Russian Automation Conference (RusAutoCon), Sochi, Russia, 2021, pp. 367-373. doi: 10.1109/RusAutoCon52004.2021.9537445
- Sichkar V. N. Real time detection and classification of traffic signs based on YOLO version 3 algorithm. Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, 2020, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 418–424. doi: 10.17586/2226-1494-2020-20-3-418-424 (Full-text available also here ResearchGate.net/profile/Valentyn_Sichkar)
- Sichkar V. N. "Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Global Path Planning for Mobile Robot," 2019 International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Applications and Manufacturing (ICIEAM), Sochi, Russia, 2019, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/ICIEAM.2019.8742915 (Full-text available also here ResearchGate.net/profile/Valentyn_Sichkar)
- Sichkar V. N. Effect of various dimension convolutional layer filters on traffic sign classification accuracy. Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, 2019, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. doi: 10.17586/2226-1494-2019-19-3-546-552 (Full-text available also here ResearchGate.net/profile/Valentyn_Sichkar)
- Sichkar V. N. "Fingerprint Identification as Access Control System," 2018 International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Applications and Manufacturing (ICIEAM), Moscow, Russia, 2018, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/ICIEAM.2018.8728874
- Sichkar V. N. Comparison analysis of knowledge based systems for navigation of mobile robot and collision avoidance with obstacles in unknown environment. St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University Journal. Computer Science. Telecommunications and Control Systems, 2018, Vol. 11, No. 2, Pp. 64–73. doi: 10.18721/JCSTCS.11206 (Full-text available also here ResearchGate.net/profile/Valentyn_Sichkar)
Projects
Awards
- Winner of Vladimir Potanin Fellowship Program in 2017
Research work
Scholar Pages and Websites


a flashy-light trippy thing
The plan is to make a personal version of the Dreamachine, a "stroboscopic flickering light art device that produces eidetic visual stimuli".
2022-08-12 The hardware, except for audio-related, is assembled and tested. I've a reasonable plan for functionality, see requirements.md. I've got the skeleton of software together with basic interfaces for the LED lights, rotary encoders and display. I wasn't happy with an off-the shelf rotary encoder library so I've been rewriting that : Esp32RotaryEncoder. That still needs a bit of work but is basically working, good enough to proceed.
Detailed status is in devlog.md.


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Richa Chadha approached for another sports film
by Shyama SudraAlready set to been seen sharing the screen with Kangana Ranaut in a kabaddi film titled ‘Panga’, news has it Richa Chadha has been approached for another sports film that’s on the cards.
The Asian Age, reports suggests that though the script is still in its early stages. She is yet to give her nod to the project.
Chadha has a whole host of projects in the pipeline including writing her own book and gearing up for the second season of digital show ‘Inside Edge’.
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#include <vecmath.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| Matrix4 () | |
| Default constructor. | |
| Matrix4 (Real f11, Real f21, Real f31, Real f41, Real f12, Real f22, Real f32, Real f42, Real f13, Real f23, Real f33, Real f43, Real f14, Real f24, Real f34, Real f44) | |
| Constructor with given component value. | |
| Real & | operator() (Int Col, Int Row) |
| Access grants operator. | |
| Real | operator() (Int Col, Int Row) const |
| Access grants operator. | |
| operator Real * () | |
| Casting operator. | |
| operator const Real * () const | |
| Casting operator. | |
| Matrix4 & | operator+= (const Matrix4 &tm) |
| Addition assignment operator. | |
| Matrix4 & | operator-= (const Matrix4 &tm) |
| Subtraction assignment operator. | |
| Matrix4 & | operator *= (const Matrix4 &tm) |
| Multiplication assignment operator. | |
| Matrix4 & | operator *= (Real f) |
| Multiplication assignment operator. | |
| Matrix4 & | operator/= (Real f) |
| Division assignment operator. | |
| Matrix4 | operator+ () const |
| Unary plus operator. | |
| Matrix4 | operator- () const |
| Unary negation operator. | |
| Matrix4 | operator+ (const Matrix4 &tm) const |
| Binary addition operator. | |
| Matrix4 | operator- (const Matrix4 &tm) const |
| Binary subtraction operator. | |
| Matrix4 | operator * (const Matrix4 &tm) const |
| Binary multiplication operator. | |
| Matrix4 | operator * (Real f) const |
| Binary multiplication operator. | |
| Matrix4 | operator/ (Real f) const |
| Binary division operator. | |
| Bool | operator== (const Matrix4 &tm) const |
| Equality comparison operator. | |
| Bool | operator!= (const Matrix4 &tm) const |
| Inequality comparison operator. | |
| Matrix4< Real > & | Matrix4Transpose () |
| Transposes the matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > & | NoTranslation () |
| Zeros the translation portion of matrix. | |
Public Attributes | |
| Real | _11 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _21 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _31 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _41 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _12 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _22 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _32 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _42 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _13 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _23 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _33 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _43 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _14 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _24 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _34 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
| Real | _44 |
| Matrix element (first digit - column's number, second digit - row's number). | |
Related Functions | |
| (Note that these are not member functions.) | |
| Matrix4< Real > | operator * (Real f, const Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Binary multiplication operator. | |
| void | ZeroMatrix4 (Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Zeros all elements of matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | ZeroMatrix4 () |
| Creates Zero matrix (all elements = 0). | |
| void | IdentityMatrix4 (Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Set matrix to the Identity matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | IdentityMatrix4 () |
| Creates Identity matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > & | Matrix4Multiply (Matrix4< Real > &result, const Matrix4< Real > &a, const Matrix4< Real > &b) |
| Performs full multiplication of two matrices. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | Matrix4Multiply (const Matrix4< Real > &a, const Matrix4< Real > &b) |
| Performs full multiplication of two matrices. | |
| Matrix4< Real > & | Matrix4MultiplyFast (Matrix4< Real > &result, const Matrix4< Real > &a, const Matrix4< Real > &b) |
| Performs fast multiplication of two matrices. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | Matrix4MultiplyFast (const Matrix4< Real > &a, const Matrix4< Real > &b) |
| Performs fast multiplication of two matrices. | |
| Matrix4< Real > & | Matrix4Transpose (Matrix4< Real > &result, const Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Transposes the matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | Matrix4Transpose (const Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Transposes the matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | RotationMatrix4 (const Vector3< Real > &vDir, Real fRads) |
| Creates rotation matrix from vector and angle. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | RotationXMatrix4 (Real rads) |
| Creates rotation matrix about X axis. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | RotationYMatrix4 (Real rads) |
| Creates rotation matrix about Y axis. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | RotationZMatrix4 (Real rads) |
| Creates rotation matrix about Z axis. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | TranslationMatrix4 (Real dx, Real dy, Real dz) |
| Creates translation matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | TranslationMatrix4 (const Vector3< Real > &v) |
| Creates translation matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > & | NoTranslation (Matrix4< Real > &result, const Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Zeros the translation portion of matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | NoTranslation (const Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Vector3< Real > | GetTranslation (const Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Creates translation vector from transformation matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | ScalingMatrix4 (Real size) |
| Creates uniform scaling matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | ScalingMatrix4 (Real a, Real b, Real c) |
| Creates scaling matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | ScalingMatrix4 (const Vector3< Real > &v) |
| Creates scaling matrix. | |
| Matrix4< Real > | OrthonormalizedBasis4 (const Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Creates matrix with orthonormalized basis. | |
| void | OrthonormalizedBasis4 (Matrix4< Real > &tm) |
| Creates matrix with orthonormalized basis. |
The content of matrix is in column-major order.
| 'Real' | parameter defines matrix components numeric type. |
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Access grants operator.
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Access grants operator.
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Creates translation vector from transformation matrix.
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Creates Identity matrix.
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Set matrix to the Identity matrix.
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Performs full multiplication of two matrices.
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Performs full multiplication of two matrices.
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Performs fast multiplication of two matrices. This function doesn't multiply zero portion of matrices (_41,_42,_43 elements) in optimization purposes.
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Transposes the matrix.
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Transposes the matrix.
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Zeros the translation portion of matrix.
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Creates matrix with orthonormalized basis.
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Creates rotation matrix from vector and angle.
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Creates rotation matrix about X axis.
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Creates scaling matrix.
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This walkthrough illustrates how to set up transparent proxying with mitmproxy. We use VirtualBox VMs with an Ubuntu proxy machine in this example, but the general principle can be applied to other setups.
internet <--> proxy vm <--> (virtual) internal network
. Configure DHCP and DNS
We use dnsmasq to provide DHCP and DNS in our internal network.
Dnsmasq is a lightweight server designed to provide DNS (and optionally DHCP and TFTP) services to a small-scale
network.
dns=dnsmasq
to #dns=dnsmasq
in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf sudo restart network-manager
afterwards.sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
# Listen for DNS requests on the internal network interface=eth1 # Act as a DHCP server, assign IP addresses to clients dhcp-range=<IP_ADDRESS>,<IP_ADDRESS>,96h # Broadcast gateway and dns server information dhcp-option=option:router,<IP_ADDRESS> dhcp-option=option:dns-server,<IP_ADDRESS>Apply changes:
sudo service dnsmasq restart
Set up traffic redirection to mitmproxy
To redirect traffic to mitmproxy, we need to add two iptables rules:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 \ -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 443 \ -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
If required, install the mitmproxy certificates on the test device.
Finally, we can run mitmproxy -T
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The proxied machine cannot to leak any data outside of HTTP or DNS requests.


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Although its popularity rose in the U.S. over the past decade, K-pop music as it is known today has been around since 1987 in response to inspiration from Western music such as rock, pop, jazz and rap according to MasterClass. The Los Angeles Film School explains K-pop started in the 1950s with Korean girl group the Kim Sisters.
In short, the genres of K-pop and J-pop were around before the 21st Century, but their U.S. popularity skyrocketed in the 2010s. K-pop and J-pop differ in that K-pop has more R&B, pop and hip-hop influences, while J-pop does not borrow as much outside influences, focusing more on locally-based sounds. In their marketing tactics, K-pop acts borrow the western image of being “cool” and “sexy,” while J-pop acts focus more on cuteness.
Talia Horowitz, a sophomore at Ohio University studying mechanical engineering, is a longtime fan of K-pop and J-pop music who believes Americans have grown a deeper appreciation for K-pop and J-pop acts recently because unlike American mainstream artists, they have practically eliminated the barrier between artists and fans. Many K-pop and J-pop artists take the time to create genuine connections with their fans.
“The interaction is what caught people's attention here,” Horowitz said. “With it being so different from what, like Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Jay Z, like those kinds of artists here do with their fans because they're very much detached almost in, not in a cold way, but in a very different way. And so once that caught on here, I think that K-pop groups saw that there was an opening in the market.”
Anne Judith Wik is a singer, songwriter and composer for the music publishing group Dsign Music. She works with K-pop, J-pop and Latin artists and groups to write English-language songs for them, and she is a part of the process of songmaking from the songwriting to the release. Wik was introduced to the K-pop genre in 2008 by her publisher at the time, and she said he explained to her that it was a huge market that no one knew about yet.
Wik broke down the process of creating a K-pop song for a group of writers. First, the group receives a brief from the label. A brief is a detailed list of which artists are looking for songs,
what types of songs they usually make and sometimes songs by other artists for reference of the sound they are looking for. Once the writers receive the brief, they sit together in a studio and decide which song they are interested in developing from the list.
“When the song is done, we pitch it back to our publisher who then, again, pitches it to the label and then it goes through a system,” Wik said. “They listen to all the songs they get that week and put points on each song. The song that gets the most points actually gets to be the single or gets to be part of the album.”
Anne Judith Stokke Wik via https://www.adressa.no/
Jargon in the English language, as well as the Korean and Japanese languages, is ever-changing, and people need to stay in the loop in order to keep up with the newest and most popular words or phrases.
Wik said she has Korean friends who help her out by giving her tips and sending her links to videos. She also does a lot of research on her own.
“I listen to a lot of music,” Wik said. “I think it’s super important when you write music to have an overview of what’s going on and be able to predict trends, because music goes in waves. It recycles itself, but always with a new twist, (it’s about) trying to decipher what that new twist will be.”
Wik said social media is a huge help when it comes to English jargon and trendy words or phrases. She said because of social media, trends spread much faster, rather than being localized. New fashions and music are at people’s fingertips at all times.
For many, working with people who speak different languages may prove to be a challenge, but not for Wik. Some of the Korean songwriters and producers Wik has worked with have limited English skills, but she said it does not halt the creative process because making music is a universal art.
When everyone in the room is practically jumping up and down in excitement over the song, she knows they are headed in the right direction despite the language barrier.
“I have actually been in sessions where my co-writer, who was going to sing the demo, has actually written Korean lyrics on the spot that I don’t actually know what they mean,” Wik said. “I get a rough translation of it, and it’s exactly what I would have thought to write myself in English.”
Horowitz said once K-pop and J-pop artists noticed the opportunity to gain a large fanbase in the United States, they started to integrate more English songs in their discography, hold more United States tours and even learn fluent English. She brought up the fact that there are still large audiences in the U.S. who do not appreciate K-pop music because they do not understand the lyrics and feel disconnected. She mentioned she thinks there are more reasons to listen to music than to understand the lyrics and that some Americans tend to be close-minded toward other cultures.
“They hear the Korean and they get defensive ... saying that they don't like it because they don't understand it when they could take the time if they really wanted to understand it, to look up those lyrics,” Horowitz said. “They could appreciate the beauty of the languages because that's one of my things is like, I just love the way the other languages sound ... I think they're gorgeous.”
Horowitz said it is frustrating when people with English as their first language cannot get past the barrier of not being able to understand Korean music because the artists spent a lot of time and effort to learn English, which can be difficult to learn, especially as a second language, in order to communicate with their fans and create English songs.
“(English is) a ridiculously difficult language,” Horowitz said. “And I can't imagine the amount of work that they put into it.”
One of the most recent hits Wik was on the writing table for was South Korean girl group Red Velvet’s “QUEENDOM.” She said the writer’s table was four women, which, in the music industry, is impressive as the business side of the industry is frequently male-dominated. The track was written in record time because it had that once-in-a-lifetime flow to it, Wik said.
“I think we finished that whole session in about like, four-and-a-half hours, writing and recording everything, and then obviously there was some post-production,” Wik said. “But like the writing of the song and the recording of the song happened really fast and it really came out so good.”
Red Velvet via SM Entertainment
Wik also has experience working with J-pop artists. She said Japan is a lucrative market, and physical sales, like CDs, are still a big deal there. She said it is an important market because the revenues are so great, and she has experienced nothing but positivity when working in the market.
Some of the first big cuts she helped write were for Japanese superstar Namie Amuro. Amuro was a cultural icon in Japan starting in the mid-1990s, and she returned to the industry in the 2000s, receiving even more attention and love than before.
“I’ve been fortunate to have some singles with her that have done really well,” Wik said. “Those songs were released in 2009, 2010 and we still see revenue from those songs, so they have longevity, and it’s a very big deal to get placements with such an institution like Namie Amuro. She’s adored by people and she’s like a legend.”
Wik said Korean and Japanese music differ in terms of their melodies. J-pop still has pop elements, but it's a blend of the genres that resonate in Japan.
“It’s like pop, but with elements of jazz — like elements of jazz chords and all that — but it’s still pop music,” Wik said. “That’s the thing that you should be mindful of when you’re writing melodies and you’re writing songs for J-pop artists … melody changes because the amount of syllables in a language are different.”
Kanna Taniuchi, who works alongside Wik at DSign Music, said recognizing the similarities and differences between western culture and Asian cultures is important, and one of the ways this awareness can be spread is through listening to diverse music.
“As I am from Japan, (I believe) it’s important to expand our culture to the West and share what we have,” Taniuchi said in a text message.
Stevanie Montgomery, a junior studying nursing, said she believes English-speaking people in the U.S. are showing appreciation for something different from what they are used to, despite the language barrier.
“It makes me happy that people listen to it more because it’s just like something different,” Montgomery said. “It gives a lot of opportunity for Asian Americans in general, just seeing them being recognized and having some type of inclusion.”
Montgomery said she thinks the reason people still avoid listening to K-pop is centered around ignorance, and the fact that they do not have the open-mindedness to listen to different types of music. She said because it has become so mainstream, people are starting to realize there is more music outside of American pop music.
BTS via Louis Vuitton
Montgomery said she feels BTS and other boy groups in particular have such large fan bases because of their talents outside of singing. They are known for their choreography in both live performances and music videos, and when people noticed their musical talents as well as their intricate choreographies, they were drawn to them.
Montgomery said that before K-pop artists and groups started expanding their knowledge on the English language, they were only making Korean songs, and the majority of Americans ignored them until they started creating English songs. She has been listening to the genre for a while now, and the language differences in the music have never been a hindrance to her enjoyment of it.
“I’m a very versatile listener,” Montgomery said. “I’ve been listening to K-pop music since I’d say 2016, 2017. Literally, I was just binge watching a whole bunch of random stuff on Youtube and I saw like, Girls’ Generation, and I was like ‘oh my God, they’re so cool.’”
Yang Chen, a senior studying finance and graphic design, has listened to K-pop since middle school. He said K-pop songs have an impact on his mood. For example, listening to songs like ”After a Long Time” by Baek Ji-Young puts him in a somber mood, while listening to songs like ”Miniskirt” by AOA, just makes him feel happy, even making him want to get on his feet to dance.
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I used one sublingual by grinding and snorting it. Purchased from the fine purveyors on the net. It took 45 minutes to really kick in. It was not as strong or powerful as my Morphine or oxycontin experiences. It was a smooth warm continuous glow. Further, it has a unique anti-depressive effect that I love.
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I received 25 tablets of Clonidine from a friend, in payback of $25 he owed me. I and a friend went to pick it up, and we went with his sister to the mall to get her nails (??) done. On the way to the mall, me and my friend both dropped 2 of these tablets each. Within 20 minutes, we started to feel the normal 'drug euphoria' we get anytime we take a new drug, the giggling, the excitement, and all that good stuff...However, within 40 minutes of taking the pills, we started to actually feel some extreme side effects.
We sat in a Bose store, listening to some music they had playing. We began to talk, and things really started to come easily to the mind at first, then after about 10 minutes of relaxing, we both felt as if we had smoked an ounce of pot, and were really burnt out. Things were visually moving slow, speech was beginning to get slurred, and our hearing wasnít too great. We snapped out of it after about 25 minutes sitting on that couch, and we decided to make our way to the nail salon to meet up with his sister.
As soon as we stood up, an extreme sense of vertigo smacked us right in the face, and we both stood staggering. Walking was a challenge, and we found ourselves stopping every few minutes to sit and relax. Again, we came across 2 leather massage chairs, and again, we sat talking for about 15 more minutes. 3 other kids walked by and said something I didnít like (I also noticed I was more aggressive than usual) so this was the only thing that motivated me to move, as my friend sat and watched. Waiting for him, I noticed the floor wiggling, as a water bed would, and the lights seemed very dim for a mall.
Now, about an hour after taking these pills, the effects were devastating. Both of us were walking aimlessly, almost zombie like.  We stopped finally across from the nail salon, on a bench. I was barely awake, and I glanced at my friend, whose head was hung down, chin touching his chest, and a stream of drool falling from his lip, to his lap. I couldnít help but laugh at this sight, but I also worried a little bit.  I really felt like a druggie then)
The two girls walked out of the salon and were surprised at how messed up we were. I was just as surprised, as I could barely talk, see, move, or hear anything. On the way out of the mall, we both took 2 more tablets, and decided to totally chill the ride home. 5 minutes into the car ride home, we were both knocked out cold, unaware to anything that was going on. My friends sister said we were both talking to them, and we were conscious half the time, but I donít remember anything of the sort. When we arrived home, almost 2 hours after taking the first dose, our eyes were so sensitive to light we had to shield them walking into the house.
We smoked a little pot after getting home, and about 20 minutes later, our night was over. We passed out, at around midnight, and didnít wake up until 11 or so the next morning. The morning was pretty awful. I felt as if I had worked out 12 hours the day before, and my head felt like it was a log in a lumber mill. The day after is certainly the worst part about this trip.
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Guardian.Plug contains functions that assist with interacting with Guardian via Plugs.
Guardian.Plug is not itself a plug.
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Guardian.Plug.sign_in(conn, user, :token)
Guardian.Plug.sign_in(conn, user, :token, %{ claims: "i", make: true, key: :secret }) # stores this JWT in a different location (keyed by :secret)
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| claims(conn, the_key \\ :default) | Fetch the currently verified claims from the current request |
| current_resource(conn, the_key \\ :default) | Fetch the currently authenticated resource if loaded, optionally located at a location (key) |
| current_token(conn, the_key \\ :default) | Fetch the currently verified token from the request. optionally located at a location (key) |
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Fetch the currently verified claims from the current request
Fetch the currently authenticated resource if loaded, optionally located at a location (key)
Fetch the currently verified token from the request. optionally located at a location (key)
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Sign in a resource (that your configured serializer knows about) into the current web session.
Specs:
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Sign in a resource (that your configured serializer knows about) into the current web session.
By specifying the ‘type’ of the token, you’re setting the aud field in the JWT.
Specs:
- sign_in(Plug.Conn.t, any, atom | String.t, Map) :: Plug.Conn.t
Same as sign_in/3 but also encodes all claims into the JWT.
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The :perms key will provide the ability to encode permissions into the token. The value at :perms should be a map
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Holy Mass is at the very core of our worship as a Catholic community. Nothing can ever be substituted for the celebration of the Eucharist. But in this exceptional time of difficulty for our communities, our nation, and the whole world, this order of prayer can be offered by individuals and families and engages us in our Sunday celebration of the Word of God. We can pray this prayer in our homes—the “domestic churches” which help build up the Body of Christ on earth—and thus be connected to the entire Church at prayer.
During this time of prayer, we include the opportunity to make a Spiritual Communion. Making a Spiritual Communion is a worthy practice, recommended by innumerable saints throughout the ages, which unites our whole selves to God and his Church.
Taken from the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours
Leader: O God, ✠ come to my assistance.
Response: O Lord, make haste to help me.
Leader: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
Response: as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
R. Hear us, almighty Lord,
show us your mercy;
Sinners we stand here before you.
V. Jesus our Savior,
Lord of all the nations,
Christ our Redeemer,
hear the prayers we offer.
Spare us and save us,
comfort us in sorrow. R.
V. Word of the Father,
keystone of God’s building,
Source of our gladness,
gateway to the Kingdom,
Free us in mercy
from the sins that bind us. R.
V. God of compassion,
Lord of might and splendor,
Graciously listen,
hear our cries of anguish.
Touch us and heal us
where our sins have wounded. R.
Leader: Let us acknowledge our sins, and seek the Lord’s pardon and peace.
Together: I confess to almighty God
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault;
therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.
Leader: By your help, we beseech you, Lord our God,
may we walk eagerly in that same charity with which,
out of love for the world,
your Son handed himself over to death.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Together: Amen.
USCCB Audio Recording of Sunday Readings
The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they broke my covenant, and I had to show myself their master, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD. I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer will they have need to teach their friends and relatives how to know the LORD. All, from least to greatest, shall know me, says the LORD, for I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sin no more.
The Word of the Lord.
―Thanks be to God.
Reader: Create a clean heart in me, O God.
Together: Create a clean heart in me, O God.
Reader: Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
Together: Create a clean heart in me, O God.
Reader: A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
Together: Create a clean heart in me, O God.
Reader: Give me back the joy of your salvation,
and a willing spirit sustain in me.
I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners shall return to you.
Together: Create a clean heart in me, O God.
In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
The word of the Lord.
―Thanks be to God.
Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.  Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.
“I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours. Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
―Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ
Leader: Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on us.
Response: Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on us.
Leader: You were wounded for our offenses,
Response: have mercy on us.
Leader: Glory to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Response: Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on us.
Leader: Let us praise our loving Redeemer, who gained for us this season of grace,
and pray to him, saying:
Response: Lord, create a new spirit in us.

Response: Lord, create a new spirit in us.
Leader: Lord, you have brought blessings to all mankind, bring us to share your
concern for the good of all.
Response: Lord, create a new spirit in us.
Leader: May we work together to build up the earthly city, with our eyes fixed on
the city that lasts for ever.
Response: Lord, create a new spirit in us.
Leader: Healer of body and soul, cure the sickness of our spirit, so that we may
grow in holiness through your constant care.
Response: Lord, create a new spirit in us.
Leader: In your mercy, continue to sanctify all who are afflicted from the present pandemic, and draw us all closer to you,
and to one another, in this time of suffering.
Response: Lord, create a new spirit in us.
Leader: Let us pray together as Jesus taught us:
Together: Our Father, who art in heaven …
Leader: You have given us bread from heaven,
Response: Containing in itself all delight
Together: My Jesus,
I believe that you are present
in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
I love you above all things,
and I desire to receive you into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace you as if you were already there
and unite myself wholly to you.
Never permit me to be separated from you,
my Lord and my God!
Amen.
Canticle of Zechariah (Luke 1:68-79)
Together: ✠ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;
he has come to his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,
born of the house of his servant David.
Through his holy prophets he promised of old
that he would save us from our enemies,
from the hands of all who hate us.
He promised to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant.
This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
free to worship him without fear,
holy and righteous in his sight
all the days of our life.
You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
to give his people knowledge of salvation
by the forgiveness of their sins.
In the tender compassion of our God
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
Leader: ✠ May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil,
and bring us to everlasting life.
Together: Amen.
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The charming adventures of an analyst and his solver.
An introduction to data fitting and classification using linear optimization in Python.
Data fitting is one of those tasks that everyone should have at least some exposure to. Certainly developers and analysts will benefit from a working knowledge of its fundamentals and their implementations. However, in my own reading I've found it difficult to locate good examples that are simple enough to pick up quickly and come with accompanying source code.
This article commences an ongoing series introducing basic data fitting techniques. With any luck they won't be overly complex, while still being useful enough to get the point across with a real example and real data. We'll start with a binary classification problem: presented with a series of records, each containing a set number of input values describing it, determine whether or not each record exhibits some property.
We'll use the cancer1.dt data from the proben1 set of test cases, which you can download here. Each record starts with 9 data points containing physical characteristics of a tumor. The second to last data point contains 1 if a tumor is benign and 0 if it is malignant. We seek to find a linear function we can run on an arbitrary record that will return a value greater than zero if that record's tumor is predicted to be benign and less than zero if it is predicted to be malignant. We will train our linear model on the first 350 records, and test it for accuracy on the remaining rows.
This is similar to the data fitting problem found in Chvatal. Our inputs consist of a matrix of observed data, $A$, and a vector of classifications, $b$. In order to classify a record, we require another vector $x$ such that the dot product of $x$ and that record will be either greater or less than zero depending on its predicted classification.
A couple points to note before we start:
| $\min$ | $z = x_0 + \sum_i{v_i}$ | ||||
| s.t. | $v_i$ | $\geq$ | $x_0 + a_i'x - 1$ | $\forall$ benign tumors | |
| $v_i$ | $\geq$ | $1 - x_0 - a_i'x$ | $\forall$ benign tumors | ||
| $v_i$ | $\geq$ | $x_0 + a_i'x - (-1)$ | $\forall$ malignant tumors | ||
| $v_i$ | $\geq$ | $-1 - x_0 - a_i'x$ | $\forall$ malignant tumors |
In order to do this in Python, we use SCIP and SoPlex from the zibopt library. We start by setting constants for benign and malignant outputs and providing a function to read in the training and testing data sets.
# Preferred output values for tumor categories
BENIGN = 1
MALIGNANT = -1
def read_proben1_cancer_data(filename, train_size):
'''Loads a proben1 cancer file into train & test sets'''
# Number of input data points per record
DATA_POINTS = 9
train_data = []
test_data = []
with open(filename) as infile:
# Read in the first train_size lines to a training
# data list, and the others to testing data. This
# allows us to test how general our model is on
# something other than the input data.
for line in infile.readlines()[7:]: # skip header
line = line.split()
# Records = offset (x0) + remaining data points
input = [float(x) for x in line[:DATA_POINTS]]
output = BENIGN if line[-2] == '1' else MALIGNANT
record = {'input': input, 'output': output}
# Determine what data set to put this in
if len(train_data) >= train_size:
test_data.append(record)
else:
train_data.append(record)
return train_data, test_data
The next function implements the LP model described above using SoPlex and SCIP. It minimizes the sum of residuals for each training record. This amounts to summing the absolute value of the difference between predicted and observed output data. The following function takes in input and observed output data and returns a list of coefficients. Our resulting model consists of taking the dot product of an input record and these coefficients. If the result is greater than or equal to zero, that record is predicted to be a benign tumor, otherwise it is predicted to be malignant.
def train_linear_model(train_data):
'''
Accepts a set of input training data with known output
values. Returns a list of coefficients to apply to
arbitrary records for purposes of binary categorization.
'''
from zibopt import scip
import sys
# Make sure we have at least one training records
assert len(train_data) > 0
num_variables = len(train_data[0]['input'])
# Variables are coefficients in front of the data points.
# It is important that these be unrestricted in sign so
# they can take negative values.
solver = scip.solver()
coefficients = [
solver.variable(lower=-sys.maxint)
for _ in xrange(num_variables)
]
# Residual for each data row
residuals = [solver.variable() for _ in train_data]
for r, d in zip(residuals, train_data):
# r will be the absolute value of the difference
# between observed and predicted values. We can
# model absolute values such as r >= |foo| as:
#
# r >= foo
# r >= -foo
solver += sum(
x * y for x, y in zip(coefficients, d['input'])
) + r >= d['output']
solver += sum(
x * y for x, y in zip(coefficients, d['input'])
) - r <= d['output']
# Find and return coefficients that min sum of residuals
solution = solver.minimize(objective=sum(residuals))
return [solution[c] for c in coefficients]
We also provide a convenience function for counting the number of correct predictions by our resulting model against either the test or training data sets.
def count_correct(data_set, coefficients):
'''Returns the number of correct predictions'''
correct = 0
for d in data_set:
result = sum(
x*y for x, y in zip(coefficients, d['input'])
)
# Do we predict the same as the output?
if (result >= 0) == (d['output'] >= 0):
correct += 1
return correct
Finally we write a main method to read in the data, build our linear model, and test its efficacy.
if __name__ == '__main__':
from pprint import pprint
# Specs for this input file
INPUT_FILE_NAME = 'cancer1.dt'
TRAIN_SIZE = 350
train_data, test_data = read_proben1_cancer_data(
INPUT_FILE_NAME, TRAIN_SIZE
)
# Add the offset variable to each of our data records
for data_set in [train_data, test_data]:
for row in data_set:
row['input'] = [1] + row['input']
coefficients = train_linear_model(train_data)
print 'coefficients:'
pprint(coefficients)
# Print % of correct preditions for each data set
correct = count_correct(train_data, coefficients)
print '%s / %s = %.02f%% correct on training set' % (
correct, len(train_data),
100 * float(correct) / len(train_data)
)
correct = count_correct(test_data, coefficients)
print '%s / %s = %.02f%% correct on testing set' % (
correct, len(test_data),
100 * float(correct) / len(test_data)
)
The result of running this model against the cancer1.dt data set is:
coefficients: [1.4072882449702786, -0.14014055927954652, -0.6239513714263405, -0.26727681774258882, 0.067107753841131157, -0.28300216102808429, -1.0355594670918404, -0.22774451038152174, -0.69871243677663608, -0.072575089848659444] 328 / 350 = 93.71% correct on training set 336 / 349 = 96.28% correct on testing set
The accuracy is pretty good here against the both the training and testing sets, so this particular model generalizes well. This is about the simplest model we can implement for data fitting, and we'll get to more complicated ones later, but it's nice to see we can do so well so quickly. The coefficients correspond to using a function of this form, rounding off to three decimal places:
$$f(x) = 1.407 - 0.140 x_1 - 0.624 x_2 - 0.267 x_3 + 0.067 x_4 - 0.283 x_5 - 1.037 x_6 - 0.228 x_7 - 0.699 x_8 - 0.073 x_9$$


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In the middle of defining a big structure, I have (λ (a : X), sorry)
, where X is some explicit structure which takes four...erm...inputs or whatever they're called. Everything typechecks fine. The moment I replace (λ (a : X), sorry)
with (λ (⟨U,BU,Hx,s⟩ : X),sorry)
I get three errors on the ⟨
(and plenty more errors too) -- invalid binder, identifier expected
, invalid match/convoy expression, expected type is not known
and invalid type ascription, term has type
Π (_x : ?m_1), ?m_2[_x] : Sort (imax ? ?)
but is expected to have type
X : Type u
. What is going on? If I try to fill in some more sorries, are things likely to get better or worse?
You can't add types to a lambda match
the syntax is literally λ ⟨U,BU,Hx,s⟩, term
stuff like λ (⟨U,BU,Hx,s⟩ : X), term
or λ ⟨U,BU,Hx,(s:t)⟩, term
is not well formed
Oh!
And there was me trying to be helpful
Thanks Mario.
What is the logic behind that?
it's just the way the syntax is. I would appreciate more space to give type ascriptions (and in particular to provide explicit types which are defeq to the "default" types), but that's a lean issue.
The moment I take this away I am faced with invalid match/convoy expression, expected type is not known
errors
You will often not be able to use lambda match for this reason, since it requires type information fairly early in the elaboration process. Typing by exact λ ⟨U,BU,Hx,s⟩, term
may help, and you can also use type ascription for the whole lambda, i.e. (λ ⟨U,BU,Hx,s⟩, term : X -> Y)
I tried type ascription for the whole lambda and it didn't seem to fix the problem.
Maybe I should get on with some marking and come back to this later on. Thanks for the tips.
If I still struggle I will attempt to minimise and ask again.
context: 'eliminator' elaboration is not used for 'quotient.lift' because resulting type is not of the expected form
whatever that means
I have explicitly written the type of everything
and I replace lam (b : X), ...
with lam \<A,B,C,D\>,...
and I am dead
and everything after the ... has been given an explicit type etc
aah
and now the by exact
trick works
so in fact I had to use both by exact
and type ascription for the whole lambda. What a struggle! Thanks Mario as ever.
The URL for this topic is .../topic/.CE.BB.20(.E2.9F.A8U.2CBU.2CHx.2Cs.E2.9F.A9
:-)
The other irritation was that after almost every edit in VS Code, I had to drag the file up and down to see what the actual errors, if any, were. Somehow the localised "just try and process the bit the user is working on" thing worked very poorly in this instance.
You can click on the Lean: (checking ...)
status bar item on the bottom to change what parts of the file are being checked.
Oh this is news to me -- and helpful news too! Thanks Gabriel.
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Quickfire Q&A with Dreadzone ahead of Nottingham date at Rescue Rooms on 2019 UK tour
It will be their final show of 2019
by Simon WilsonDreadzone are closing business on 2019 with a return to Nottingham for a date at the Rescue Rooms. Greg Roberts does the talking...
Tell us a bit about how you got together as a band?
We originated from Big Audio Dynamite in the '80s, started DZ in '93 and built on that with new members Earl 16 in 1995, `Spee in 2001 and Bazil in 2012.
How would you describe your sound?
Bass heavy dubwise dance beats with uplifting vibes and a rich heritage.
What can people expect from your Nottingham gig?
The same as usual - energetic bouncing vibes with happy people celebrating and letting loose, new songs from Dubwiser Vol 1 and classic Dread bangers.
What's your favourite memory of playing in Nottingham in the past?
Rock City with Big Audio Dynamite on the reunion tour in 2011.
What do you enjoy the most about touring?
Connecting with people, seeing the world, exploring different towns and cities around the UK, earning a living doing what I love with a bunch of friends.
What's been your best live gig appearance as a performer?
Too many to mention but Glastonbury in the '90s stands out, especially our first one in 94 where John Peel discovered our sound and became a big supporter.
What are you listening to at the moment?
My son Marlon's piano music and some new material for the next album.
Who was the first band/singer you saw play live?
The Who at Dunstable Civic Hall with the original line up inc Keith Moon. I was 15.
Any plans for 2020?
New music, new releases, more touring and enjoying life.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) content toolkit
How to write about coronavirus symptoms
{% markdown %}
[NHS coronavirus symptoms content](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/check-if-you-have-coronavirus-symptoms/) last updated: **18 May 2020**.
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## NHS content on coronavirus symptoms
We have 4 types of content about the symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19).
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{% markdown %}
The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are a high temperature, a new, continuous cough and a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste.
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{% include('./includes/how-to-use.html') %}
### Conversational version:
{% markdown %}
**What are the symptoms of coronavirus?**
{{ voice | safe }}
{% endmarkdown %}
This content is suited for voice assistants and chatbots. It provides the same detail as the expanded version, but with a voice-friendly structure – for example, by avoiding bullet points.
{% include('./includes/how-to-use.html') %}
### Full version:
{% markdown %}
See our full page on the NHS website about [check if you have coronavirus symptoms](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/check-if-you-have-coronavirus-symptoms/#symptoms).
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{% include('./includes/how-to-use.html') %}
## Where our content comes from
Our symptoms content is based on official guidance published by Public Health England (PHE) and the office of the UK Chief Medical Officers (CMOs).
It is also aligned with content used by the NHS 111 service.
The content has been adapted and simplified by our content team and checked by the clinical team at NHS Digital.
Original guidance:
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Motorola enters multi-camera segment with triple-camera set-up in Moto G8
Motorola is expected to announce the foldable Motorola Razr device on November 13th, when it may also launch the Moto G8.
by ANIMotorola's upcoming Moto G8 has shown up in latest leaks, revealing its entry into the multi-camera segment.
The Motorola Moto G8, which will sit next to Moto G8 Play and Moto G8 Plus, will come with a triple rear-camera setup with a 48-megapixel main sensor, as revealed in a video shared by serial tipster Evan Blass, The Verge notes.
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Explain and implement Linked Lists.
- What properties does an instance of a linked list track?
- What methods does a linked list need to implement?
- What are the time complexities for these methods?
- What's the difference between a Singly Linked List and a Doubly Linked List? How would the difference impact the properties and the methods that we implement?
- Practice creating both types. Use Thursday's project as an example/guide.
Explain and implement a Stack.
- Define LIFO and ADT and how it relates
- What methods does a stack need to implement?
- What are the time complexities for these methods?
- Know how to implement a stack using both a node class as well as just an array instance variable. Use Thursday's project as an example/guide for your usage of a Node. How would this change if we just wanted to keep an array instance variable on our Stack instead?
Explain and implement a Queue.
- Define FIFO and ADT and how it relates
- What methods does a queue need to implement?
- What are the time complexities for these methods?
- Know how to implement a queue using both a node class as well as just an array instance variable. Use Thursday's project as an example/guide for your usage of a Node. How would this change if we just wanted to keep an array instance variable on our Queue instead?


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allowed.
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Connection.isClosed()
method name
Connection.setReadOnly(boolean)
will be called with the set value.
Connection.setReadOnly(boolean)
will be called with the set value.
Connection.setReadOnly(boolean)
will be called with the set value.
ConnectionPoolMBean
object
that can be registered with JMX to receive notifications and state about the pool.
ConnectionPoolMBean
object
that can be registered with JMX to receive notifications and state about the pool.
ConnectionPoolMBean
object
that can be registered with JMX to receive notifications and state about the pool.
Lock.lock()
,
Lock.unlock()
and
CountDownLatch.countDown()
during the FairBlockingQueue.poll(long, TimeUnit)
operation.
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instead of
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when comparing method names.
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Alexa::ASK::Skill SkillPackage
The SkillPackage
property type contains configuration details for the skill package that contains the
components
of the Alexa Skill. Skill packages are retrieved from an Amazon S3 bucket and key
and used to
create and update the skill. More details about the skill package format are located
in the
Skill Package API Reference.
SkillPackage
is a property of the Alexa::ASK::Skill resource.
Syntax
To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:
JSON
{ "Overrides" : Overrides, "S3Bucket" :
String
, "S3BucketRole" :String
, "S3Key" :String
, "S3ObjectVersion" :String
}
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Overrides: Overrides S3Bucket:
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S3BucketRole:String
S3Key:String
S3ObjectVersion:String
Properties
Overrides
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Overrides to the skill package to apply when creating or updating the skill. Values provided here do not modify the contents of the original skill package. Currently, only overriding values inside of the skill manifest component of the package is supported.
Required: No
Type: Overrides
Update requires: No interruption
S3Bucket
-
The name of the Amazon S3 bucket where the .zip file that contains the skill package is stored.
Required: Yes
Type: String
Update requires: No interruption
S3BucketRole
-
ARN of the role that grants the Alexa service permission to access the bucket and retrieve the skill package. This role is optional, and if not provided the bucket must be configured with a policy allowing this access, or be publicly accessible, in order for AWS CloudFormation to create the skill.
Required: No
Type: String
Update requires: No interruption
S3Key
-
The location and name of the skill package .zip file.
Required: Yes
Type: String
Update requires: No interruption
S3ObjectVersion
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If you have S3 versioning enabled, the version ID of the skill package.zip file.
Required: No
Type: String
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Giuliani Says Biden Documents to Be Released ‘If I Disappear’
“He knows what I did was in order to defend him, not to dig up dirt on Biden.”
by BloombergRudy Giuliani, a focus of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s foreign policy dealings in Ukraine, suggested on Twitter that he has dirt on the Biden family that would be released were he to get into trouble.
Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, also described as “sarcastic” a statement he made recently about having “an insurance policy” should he fall out of favor with the president.
That followed an interview with Fox News during which he was asked whether Trump might soon conclude that Giuliani is a liability, and throw him “under the bus.”
“This is ridiculous,” Giuliani, 75, said. “We are very good friends.
Without offering proof, Giuliani tweeted that he had “files in my safe about the Biden Family’s 4 decade monetizing” of the former vice president and senator’s office. “If I disappear, it will immediately appear.”
The knowledge that a FBI official altered a document, which led to the surveillance of the Trump campaign, went all the way to “the top” of the Obama administration, President Trump said on Friday.


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Platinum Searcher.
A code search tool similar to `ag`.
More information: home page
- Find files containing "foo" and print the files with highlighted matches:
pt foo
- Find files containing "foo" and display count of matches in each file:
pt -c foo
- Find files containing "foo" as a whole word and ignore its case:
pt -wi foo
- Find "foo" in files with a given extension using a regular expression:
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- Find files whose contents match the regular expression, up to 2 directories deep:
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News and Links
- RubyConf will be close to home, in Cincinnati, November 10-12.
- Ruby 2.4.0-preview2 has been released.
New Gems
- Suture is an interesting new gem that helps with refactoring.
Good Reads
- A Case For Composition by Li Ouyang


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- callApi(String, RequestFactory.HttpMethod) - Static method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.api.AbstractApiService
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This method handles the call to API service without using cookie and a form
for post params
- callApi(String, RequestFactory.HttpMethod, String) - Static method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.api.AbstractApiService
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This method handles the call to API service without using a form for post
params
- callApi(String, RequestFactory.HttpMethod, String, List<NameValuePair>) - Static method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.api.AbstractApiService
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This method handles the actual call to API services.
- canonicalizeIpAddress(String) - Static method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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Produce a standard IP address with no leading or trailing blanks.
- checkAccess(String, String, String, String, String) - Static method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.api.ApiService
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Retrieves the access status of the client for a resource request
- checkMeteringLimit(String, String) - Static method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.api.ApiService
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Retrieves the metering of the client based on the client's IP address.
- CLOSE_DATA_SOURCE_ERROR - Static variable in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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- CLOSE_ERROR - Static variable in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.properties.ProxyProperties
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- closeQuietly(Closeable) - Method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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Close a closeable without throwing any IO exceptions.
- configureProxyRequest(HttpServletRequest, ProxyRequest, HttpUriRequest, String) - Method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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Configure the various settings in the proxy request: the proxy request
itself, the redirect context, the request headers, and the forwarded
header.
- COOKIE_DOMAIN - Static variable in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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domain for cookies
- COOKIES_ATTRIBUTE - Static variable in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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session attribute for cookies
- copyProxyResponseToServletResponse(HttpServletResponse, HttpResponse) - Method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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Copy the response headers and entity to the servlet response.
- copyRequestHeaders(HttpServletRequest) - Method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.ProxyRequest
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Copy request headers from the servlet client to the proxy request.
- copyResponseEntity(HttpResponse, HttpServletResponse) - Method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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Copy response body data (the entity) from the proxy to the servlet client.
- copyResponseHeaders(HttpResponse, HttpServletResponse) - Method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
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Copy proxied response headers back to the servlet client.
- createPageView(String, String, String, String) - Static method in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.api.ApiService
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Creates a page view log entry
- CREDENTIAL_ID_COOKIE - Static variable in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.Proxy
-
name of the Phoenix party id cookie
- currentUri - Variable in class org.phoenixbioinformatics.proxy.ProxyRequest
-
the original URI, the part of this request's URL from the protocol name up
to the query string


Unit 1
Basics of the Web
Big Picture
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
The glue that holds all other pieces of a webpage together.
Consists of:
-Text content (what you see)
-Markup (what it looks like)
-References to other documents
Intro to HTML Markup (Tags)
Example Tags
Inline Tags

contents

contents

contents

contents

Block Tags

contents

HTML Attributes
Examples
Links

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Images

Container Elements
-Do nothing
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Today, Kozak rarely milks them himself, instead working on overseeing his 12 employees who aid in milking his 420 cows. He and his wife, Sharon, rent the 600-acre farm called Clover Patch Dairy in Millersburg.
“I would work 16, 18 hours a day physically,” Kozak said. “That just doesn’t work anymore. The margins per cow are the same today as they were 50 years ago. But $300 per cow doesn’t go very far.”
Kozak said in order to meet the demand for milk and make a living, more cows are needed to compete with farms that have been consolidated by large milk suppliers.
“We’re a little bit in no-man’s land for us,” Kozak said. “We’re too big to do a lot of the work ourselves and in some ways too small to be really efficient. That’s all livestock. It’s been that way from pigs to pork to poultry to beef.”
In order to make his living, Kozak has worked with Snowville Creamery for about four years. Right now, he’s its only supplier for milk. Snowville Creamery, a milk processing company based in Pomeroy, produces milk, cheese, yogurt and cream.
About one-fourth of Kozak’s milk goes to Snowville twice a week; the rest is sold to Alpine Cheese Company in Winesburg.
Crates of milk prepared and packaged at Snowville Creamery rest in rows outside its plant, ready for shipment on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.
Snowville Creamery was founded in 2013 by husband and wife duo Victoria and Warren Taylor.
“It’s important to us to leave the Earth better than we found it,” Victoria said. “In farming, like most things in this world, you can either contribute to the betterment of something or to its demise. We choose to support farmers that take care to manage their lands in a way that builds soil health, reduces runoff and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere.”
Kozak, who grew up near Pittsburgh, has been farming since he was 9. Now 58 years old, he’s been around the block a couple times when it comes to raising dairy cows.
Kozak went to Pennsylvania State University for dairy and then worked for Pennsylvania Guernsey Breeders’ Association and the American Jersey Association. Both associations focus on aiding dairy farmers. After moving away from home and meeting his wife in Oregon, he decided to move to Pennsylvania to start his own farm.
After one year in Pennsylvania, he moved to Wayne County in Ohio, which was the No. 1 dairy county in Ohio at the time. He later moved to his current farm in Millersburg and has been there for 24 years.
“When I graduated from Penn State, there were about a quarter million dairy farms in the US,” Kozak said. “And today there are about 35,000 dairy farms.”
Changing Times
Farming has drastically changed over the years. Kozak said there has been a problem with larger farms shrinking the dairy industry for some time now. About 50% of the milk in the nation is produced on 3% of farms.
“A very small percentage of cattle don’t even get off concrete their whole life,” Kozak said. “A farm that farms like we do can only get so efficient.”
Approximately 97% of farms in the U.S. are family owned, but large family farms (those with $350,000 or more in annual revenue) contribute to 60% of agriculture production, according to a 2014 report from the United States Department of Agriculture.
It’s hard for farmers to make a living when they are outcompeted by farms with triple the cows, Kozak said, which often comes down to the ethical question for farmers: do they allow their cows to roam free in a pasture or make more money and have more cows and smaller space?
When a cow walks through a pasture, they burn more energy. This often means a farm might be less efficient, but more humane, if cows are allowed to graze in fields.
“I call my wife the ‘Mother Teresa of feeding calves.’ She goes to feed them: ‘How are you doing today girl? How you doing? You ready to drink?’ Even I talk to the cows,” Kozak said.
Marketing and Sales Director for Snowville Creamery Heather Fuston draws the plastic dividers to reveal Cass Simpkons on duty with packing its products on the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.
The difference between cheap milk and more expensive milk, Kozak said, is likely because of farm treatment and sustainability. Smaller farms often have higher prices per gallon than larger ones.
A U.S. Senate bill is currently in the air to fight agricultural operations that stem from mass production. The Farm Systems Reform Act, sponsored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), is aimed toward eliminating concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFO, over the next 20 years. According to the bill, CAFOs are animal feeding operations that include a minimum of 700 dairy cows, 1,000 beef cattle, 2,500 pigs weighing more than 55 pounds, 10,000 pigs weighing fewer than 55 pounds, 500 horses, 10,000 sheep or lambs and/or 55,000 turkeys.
American taxpayers currently pay about $22 billion per year to fund agricultural subsidies, with most of the funds going toward corn and soybeans farmers. The bill’s goal is to provide farmers with the tools to become more profitable without the help from the American taxpayer.
Rotational Grazing
About half of Kozak’s farm is pasture, and he will allow his heifers, or cows that have not given birth yet, to graze on the fields. During the fall, they will graze on the corn stalks.
“Every two or three weeks, they will go back around and graze it and let it regrow,” Kozak said.
One-hundred acres of his farm make up hay, and about 150 acres are cornfields. During the winter, he said he will plant a cover crop, which is usually rye grass.
“It’ll pretty much be alive all winter, whether it’s growing or not depends on the temperature,” Kozak said. “But it helps hold the soil and the nutrients in place. It gives the organisms in the soil something to interact with. Healthy soil is a symbiotic relationship between the organism in the soil and the plants that are grown there.”
Heather Fuston, the sales and marketing director for Snowville, said farms that sell milk to Snowville must also be sustainable. In rotational agriculture, the animals manage the land by eating one patch, then move onto another. This cycle continues and mimics the natural herd movements that cows would take. When the cows defecate, it will go back into the soil and help grow more grass. The cows are not kept in one area for long or forced to be gathered in small areas, unlike conventional farming, where cows are often kept in barns for their entire lifespan.
“Our farmers really consider themselves to be grass farmers first,” Fuston said. “So they work really hard to make sure that soil health is being built up.”
A team meeting is held inside a processing room inside the Snowville Creamery plant in Pomeroy, Ohio, on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.
Rotational grazing also benefits the soil because there are no pesticides used, and the cows naturally fertilize the soil. When the soil becomes enriched with manure and is provided with minerals, the soil releases carbon, which plants use for photosynthesis. The food system, including feed, fertilizer, pesticides, processing and waste disposal, accounts for 30% or more of total annual global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Rodale Institute, a research institute on organic agriculture. Healthier soil helps to counteract these gases.
According to the EPA, agriculture contributes to 10% of the U.S.’ total greenhouse gas emissions, and animal production contributes approximately 9% of that total (transportation contributes 28%).
“People are starting to realize that our old ways of stripping nutrients from the soil, and polluting our land to produce food is backwards and counterproductive,” Victoria said.
Rotational farming and pastures also help fight erosion, Kozak said. Pastures reduce erosion nearly 10 times less than crop land.
“Rotationally grazed pasture is the gold standard in my opinion,” Kozak said. “Soil loss in the U.S. averages seven ton per acre. This is not sustainable.”
Not all of Kozak’s cows are normal cows. Some cows produce a specific protein called the A2 protein, and this is the milk he sells to Snowville. This A2 protein is found in human, goat and sheep milk and is a mutation of the milk protein beta casein. While lactose intolerance varies in people, regular cow milk is made of both A1 and A2 proteins. Cows with the A2 mutation only produce A2 proteins.
Kozak has both A1 and A2 cows and is shifting the herd slowly to A2, he said. His milk isn’t organic, but it is non-GMO verified.
Alan Kozak pets his dairy cow at Clover Patch Dairy (provided by Heather Fuston).
Keeping it Local
Fuston said all of the milk purchased from farmers must be certified A2-only. Cows with the A2 genes are specifically bred with one another to ensure the animals have this gene. Snowville sells its products at supermarkets and online, along with institutions and groups. Ohio University is one of those customers.
Erin Robb, the procurement and contract manager for culinary at OU, said the university purchases half gallons of milk, yogurt and cheese products to sell in the three markets. It also purchases the milk to use in drinks at all five of the campus cafes. For the first half of the year 2019, OU purchased about $234,000 worth of “neighborhood food,” which is food that is raised or produced within 250 miles of campus.
“We know that many of our students prioritize the purchase of local food, so we strive to provide local food options in our retail venues,” said Robb. “We also incorporate local food into our residential dining program when it’s economically feasible to do so.”
At the end of the day, Snowville Creamery aims to buy from farms that support sustainable farming and create milk that is both healthy and good, Fuston said.
“We really feel that milk is such a perfect food, and (nature has) evolved it to the perfect thing,” Fuston said.
But sustainable farming often takes time. Kozak said he never started out intending his farm to be sustainable or regenerative, but over time, that is what made the most sense.
“It just became apparent over time, especially on the land that we farm, that having a growing crop or at least a substantial dormant crop holding the soil in place was the right thing to do.”