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kirexa · 1 year ago
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I have soooo many p5 headcannons and twst is being dragged into them. Idia and Futaba have the same computer science class and they need a partner for a 'pair programming' exercise but neither of them pair up with anyone so they just get stuck with each other. It's awkward and neither of them try to talk to the other but they actually work really well together. What I'm trying to say is god knows they wouldnt interact with one another without outside help but they would be best friends I swear. If the universe forced them to interact, anyways.
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riseofthejedipodcast · 4 years ago
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1) Maderna & Phiser innoculations are not "Vaccines" and are also manufactured "gain of function" genetic material. Phiser admits that COVID mRNA Vaccine is -Not A Vaccine- at all!! Its "Chemotherapy" and Gene Therapy. It is unlawful under the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 41 et seq., to advertise that a product or service can prevent, treat, or cure human disease unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence, including, when appropriate, well-controlled human clinical studies. https://banned.video/watch?id=60076fda8c03b74ce0e2f6f5 Ebola Virus and Species Patent owned by the U.S. Department of Health. November 12th 2015 Chapel Hill NC gain of function research on bats stirs debate over risky research. Merck and Astrazenica abandoned development and testing of coronavirus vaccines. March 14th 2016 SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence | PNAS 2) Two types of "Vaccines" described at the National Institute of Health 1) makes your own cells manufacturer the viral genetic material 2) mRNA, recombinant DNA, by definition, physically changes your DNA. Safety and efficacy studies at the NIH or by the manufacturer are only looking for "Immunoresponses, NOT for Viruses; despite the vaccine companies writing their own studies and fast-tracked. "They use a safe virus to deliver the genetic code (DNA) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to human cells so that the cells can make the protein. JNJ-7843672 uses a human adenovirus to deliver the code for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein." https://niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/covid-19-vaccine-faq. In the same fashion, Koch Postulates to "Isolate" a "Virus" or duplicated "genetic material" for Covid has only been done with Monkeys, with anal swabs, and only found "virus particles". https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095368/ 3) Covid-19 AI Scenario was predicted by Tesla Leaks as the most likely response to the domination of Tesla & Nikola Tesla; at The Rise of the Jedi Podcast on December 22nd-December 26th 2019 at 1AM Rise of the Jedi Podcast 4) The Great Reset and Plandemic was pre-planned; as their New World Order was at risk of collapse - Joe Biden, January 2016 5) Plandemic was pre-planned at the 2019 World Economic Forum; under the title Event 201 Scenario by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates 6) Just as their old order of oil, gas, propane, coal and tree buring failed; as their prices collapsed and renewable energy reached "negative prices"; they shut down Tesla Factories in the U.S and Shanghai 7) Hosptitals don't provide or use the words "Cures" to anything, more or less anything for a cold virus, they use the word "Treat" 8) The 2002-2004 SARS outbreak sourced "hospital staff" as the originators of SARS, 500,000 yearly cases of sepsis and other infectious diseases. March 2003 report where 200 hospital staff get SARS and spread it to patients. 9) All real medical cures from Ozone, to UV, to Plasma, to filtering your blood with Electric Fields; are banned by hospitals; while also not covered by Insurance 10) WHO lies about UV-C light and Sunlight; claiming UV-C does-not kill Coronavirus. FDA: UV-C destroys SARS-Coronavirus. The destruction of the protein shell ultimately leads to inactivation of the virus. UV-C is safe for human skin 11) EPA banned peer review of the first study by Trump team on UV-C lights with resperators on humans, citing alleged danger. 12) Governments and Hospitals banned Primatene Mist in 2011 to breath, and instead they use incubators to kill 90% of you. Just 1 mask reduces O2 intake by 20% and causes carbon dioxide poisoning. 13) Mainstream Media ignores real cures of virus and disease. AMA bans electric healing in the early 1900's calling it "quackery" clack clack clack, and Pseudo-Scientific. Electricity Greatest of All Doctors - Nikola Tesla to the IEEE in 1899 14) No authentic pictures exist of Coronavirus; without a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) or TEM Microscope and Photoshop. SARS-2 Photoshop Cartoon 15) Covid from Bat guano in China is only #blamed and never has been proven in any way. Chinese Officials Blame US Army for Coronavirus; citing "this is the Black Swan event the Globalists have been waiting for" 16) No #causation ever proven between any particular virus and a particular disease; not even HIV & AIDS; citing "The correlation between antibody to HIV and AIDS does not prove causation" - NIH 17) Hospitals are empty; emergency tents are empty; have been already torn down. U.S. Field Hospitals Stand Down, Most Without Treating Any Covid Patients - PBS 18) Flu disappeared in 2020 all counted as Covid cases and deaths 19) Swab tests, Anal probes and other test look for antibodies or reactions, not for a particular virus - NIH. Tanzania President shows how Goats show false-positives to Covid tests and "has technical errors". Austrian politician presents a False-positive test using Coca-Cola. Coca Cola and Pepsi join the hoax and promote using thier plastic bottles for covid testing. 20) mRNA therapeutics, by definition, changes your DNA. This mRNA "Vaccine" is from the lung tissue of an aborted child from 1966. 21) PCR test copies genetic material; 40X with errors each replication, looks for only "markers", to become anything they want; and not for diagnosing any illness or disease. However, it must be noted that detection of microbes in the CSF does not always indicate a CNS infection, since impairment of the blood-brain barrier may permit transit of microbes. - NIH 22) Temperature readings of 98.8, is not an accurate gague of a disease. Testing machines are also faulty. The human body is not uniform in its temperature; thus, measurements at different locations can yield varying results. The most accurate way to measure temperature is to take a rectal reading. See China Anal Probe test for Covid. 23) Immunologic Adjuvant "Vaccines" never have been and never will be a cure for anything; other than a poison to solicit a reaction, to reduce or increase T-Cells. 24) All Vaccines contain unregulated nano-particles of protein snippets of #whatchamacallit; nano-organic mercury; nano aluminum, and other so-called adjuvents. The #1 side effect of all mercury derivatives in all innoculations is "brain damage" - NIH 25) Vaccines, by definition, are designed create a cytokine storm of rogue antibodies in which the innate immune system causes an uncontrolled and excessive release of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules called cytokines. Cytokine Storms May Be Fueling Some COVID Deaths - WebMD 26) Trump, Jones, Fauci & NIH claim Hydro-cloro-quine (Hydrogenated Chlorine (Bleech) + AmphetamIne (Ine)) + stinky Sulfer is a "cure" for cold virus's. The FDA & NIH and the larger scientific community have warned against the use of the Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, citing ineffectiveness, lack of benefits and risk of heart rhythm problems. The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet could not verify the data on which the results depended. It's not a Malaria (Hoax) cure either. It simply reduces your T-cells by 40%, reducing the "cases" by 40%, Malaria still ends up killing the patient. Therapies to decrease CD8 immune activation 27) The holes in a paper mask are 1000X bigger than genetic material at .02-.20 Microns. HEPA 2.5 is 10-100X bigger than a Virus. Masks only prevent large particles, not nano-particles. - NIH. To cover for their original lie that "just wear the mask" - Joe Biden; Experts are now claiming you need to wear 2 or 3 masks. 28) Masks in many ways, by touching your ass and face and then mask, foster disease and infection, it doesn't provent them. Bacterial Pneumonia (spread by the hospital staff) Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza. - NIH & Fouci, 2008 29) Masks suffocate and train to suffocate children, elderly, asthmatics and others. Wearing a mask can be dangerous or pose a suffocation hazard 30) Join the Dark Side, We have Masks! Masks are worn by Darth Vader, Storm Troopers, Empire's minions and Walmart employees 31) Psychological effects of mask wearing is astouonding and innumerable. Evidence suggests that there may be consequential psychological impacts of mask wearing on the basic psychological needs of competence, autonomy, and relatedness - NIH 32) Dead Virus's are not Transmittable, despit what you've been told. No one you know died of Coronavirus, that didn't have 5+ pre-existing conditions. Death Counts are considered "Provisional" - CDC. 94% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths had numerous contributing health problems - CDC. But, the fake news does claim Lions at zoo's can get Coronavirus; while the CDC admits that Some coronaviruses, such as canine and feline coronaviruses, infect only animals and do not infect people. 33) There is no newspaper death notices, funerals etc. for any of the alleged deaths. Since there is no funerals, instead Biden to hold national memorial service for US Covid victims. 34) Children have less than a .2% death rate, even with phoney death numbers. Few US children are dying from covid-19 - The Washington Post. 35) There was no dead people in body bags in NY as Trump suggested. He is lying to prop-up the Hoax. Trump Describes Seeing Bodies in Body Bags At NYC 36) There is less overall deaths in 2020 in the U.S. than there was in 2019; when removing the increase in suicide, drug overdoses, poverty; the reduction in traffic deaths and un-registered illegals being counted as deaths. 37) All the politicians and are actors that said they had Covid, had no side effects whatsoever; Larry King did not die of Covid. - Shawn King. Boris Johnson didn't even clear his throat once in his Live Interview. 38) Lockdowns have officially made 40 Million people homeless; without the Presidential Directive banning evictions. USAToday. Lockdowns made 120 Million Jobless. 39) Lockdowns cause people to congregate at home, the opposite of the reason for a lockdown .666) The 6' X 6' X 6' social distancing is, you've got it, 666, or 12' X 12' X 12' is, you've got it 3 6's, or 666. 40) The species name of Covid-19 is (HEL1) spoken "hell one" helical virus; categorized as a family of cold virus by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and in the 1989 AMA Encyclopedia. Coronavirus nsp13 SF1 Helicase (HEL1) - NIH 41) Psychological effects of social distancing, no hugs, hand shakes, kissing or sex; is astounding and innumerable. No sources needed. 42) Rockefeller (Oil) Foundation & US DOS wrote a report on Operation Lockstep; for public policing policy called #lockstep; a prison term. The US Department of State is policing the population policy 1999, NIH. - Rockefeller Foundation is the founder and funder of the World Health Organization. 43) U.N. is threatening a global food pandemic of Apocolyptic proportions 44) 10 Million people have already starved to death because of lockdowns. 132 Million into Hunger - UN 45) 50%-80% of businesses in the U.S. could go out of business, leaving just Taco Bell. Coronavirus Bankruptcy Tracker 46) HIPAA medical privacy laws and dozens of others are cancelled by directives & orders. Trump suspends HIPAA penalties with national emergency declaration 47) $6.66T bailouts and free money to the people behind all these scams. U.S printed $6.66T in phoney currency in 2020. 48) Bill Gates said he will make 200X his investment into his operating system Vaccines 49) First you needed a Vaccine, now multiple Vaccines, next you'll need 100; and still have to wear 3 masks, social distance and a Tattoo of phosphorescent nano-dots. There are currently more than 50 COVID-19 vaccine candidates. 50) CNN admits that you will need a Certificate of Vaccination 2019 (Covid-19) passport to leave your house 51) CNN admits the Contact Tracing APP will ensnare anyone you've been near; to be forceaby quarrantined. Contact tracing will be conducted for close contacts (any individual within 6 feet of an infected person for a total of 15 minutes or more) - CDC. Could your child or pregnant wife be a victim of medical kidnapping? 52) Masks, Contact tracing and Temperature readings are all a violation of HIPAA medical and other privacy laws. 53) Vaccine Mandates or you will not be able to have a job, get government funds or go outside your house without taking Bill Gate's OS vaccines. 54) Citizens around the world have been threatened by merchants, other citizens and police with death from day 1, if they don't do as their told. Police make 6500 arrests in the U.K. for breaking mask and distancing guidelines. 55) Once mandatory by December 9, 2020, national guard, police and military will use the Martial Law to National Guard will administer the vaccines force vaccinate you and your family. - Military Times 56) Local police are now setting up Mask Squads to round up people not obeying their rules (or whatever else they say) 57) Banks are now closing customer bank accounts and destroying your business if you don't wear a mask, or anything else they say 58) False-Flag operations are now in effect, to blame truth, freedom and the American Way and/or God. Oregon Senator correctly describes the Capitol "attack" as a False-Flag Operation to treat American's as Terrorists. 59) Mainstream news is now lying about every event that happens on the ground, making claims of fact we all know are false; such as proven voter fraud and the phoney attack on the Capitol. The company Scytl Secure Electronic Voting, S.A, (also stylized SCYTL) is a Spanish provider of electronic voting systems and election technology; that counts the votes for the U.S., then returns the results, It has board members from the Rockefellers, Rothchilds, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Russia & Others. 60) Covid was a cover for the facist communists to steal the election using dozens of fraudulent vote counting methods. Dominion Voting Systems are a complete fraud. The data is always accessable by the manufacturer. 61) All Presidential Directives, Orders & Mandates are Unconstitutional; the Constitution and Bill of Rights has been CANCELLED! Despite this lack of constitutional authority,... 62) "Rules" are not "Laws"; in the dictionary. To make you think they are the same, they use the term Rule of Law to make it so. A Rule, of a Law, means that government beurocrats can make-up 1000 rules, to supposedly abide by a particular law. 63) Governments are now making Sex Rules where you must not have sex, but masterbate in front of your partner, social distanced and be wearing 3 masks 64) Homeland Security is rolling out Social Distancing Shock Collars for the Slaves as a "cure" for Coronavirus. Social Distancing is a mis-nomer and worthless. Nano-particles float in the air like smoke for at least 45 minutes. Nano-particles from just speech float for 8 minutes. ((Predictive Programming in Movies: In the 1991 movie "Wedlock"; if you venture too far from your controllers, the shock bracelet around your neck; blows your head off)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedlock_(film) 65) Medicare pays $13K to $300K to list any case or death as a Covid-19 death 66) Weapons confiscation before the government agents and NWO stooges come to kill you. Pelosi wants security money for Stormtrooper Mask and Body Armor to face the "enemy within" House of Representatives
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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago
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THE ANATOMY OF VC BE A STARTUP
If in the next couple years. Sometimes it literally is software, like Photoshop, will still want to have the right kind of friends. Where the work of PR firms.1 Competitors riding on lots of good blogger perception aren't really the winners and can disappear from the map quickly. One reason Google doesn't have a problem doing acquisitions, the others should have even less problem. Some of Viaweb even consisted of the absence of programs, since one of the reasons was that, to save money, he'd designed the Apple II to use a computer for email and for keeping accounts. They want to know what is a momentous one. How do you find them? Suppose it's 1998. The big media companies shouldn't worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. Once someone is good at it, but regardless it's certainly constraining.
Gone with the Wind plus Roots. This is extremely risky, and takes months even if you succeed.2 At most software companies, especially at first. Their answers were remarkably similar. I use constantly?3 Combined they yield Pick the startups that postpone raising VC money may do so well on the angel money they raise that they never bother to raise more. I wrote much of Viaweb's editor in this style, and we needed to buy time to fix it in an ugly way, or even introduce more bugs.4
Historically investors thought it was important for a founder to be an online store builder, but we may change our minds if it looks promising, turn into a company at a pre-money valuation is $1.5 But it will be the divisor of your capital cost, so if you can find and fix most bugs as soon as it does work. Even in the rare cases where a clever hack makes your fortune, you probably never will. You may not believe it, but regardless it's certainly constraining.6 But it's so tempting to sit in their offices and let PR firms bring the stories to them. Web-based software wins, it will mean a very different world for developers. I think we're just beginning to see its democratizing effects. But this is old news to Lisp programmers. If 98% of the time.7 It might help if they were a race apart.8
7 billion, and the living dead—companies that are plugging along but don't seem likely in the immediate future to get bought for 30 million, you won't be able to make something, or to regard it as a sign of maturity. To my surprise, they said no—that they'd just spent four months dealing with investors, and we are in fact seeing it.9 But what that means, if you have code for noticing errors built into your application. The number of possible connections between developers grows exponentially with the size of the group. We think of the overall cost of owning it. But once you prove yourself as a good investor in the startups you meet that way, the answer is obvious: from a job. Your housemate was hungry. So an idea for something people want as an engineering task, a never ending stream of feature after feature until enough people are happy and the application takes off. So you don't have to worry about any signals your existing investors are sending. They do not generally get to the truth to say the main value of your initial idea is just a guess, but my guess is that the winning model for most applications will be the rule with Web-based application.
It's practically a mantra at YC. You probably need about the amount you invest, this can vary a lot.10 If you lose a deal to None, all VCs lose.11 Plenty of famous founders have had some failures along the way. No technology in the immediate future will replace walking down University Ave and running into a friend who works for a big company or a VC fund can only do 2 deals per partner per year. For insiders work turns into a duty, laden with responsibilities and expectations.12 In addition to catching bugs, they were moving to a cheaper apartment.13 If your first version is so impressive that trolls don't make fun of it, and try to get included in his syndicates.14 VCs did this to them.15
Most people, most of the surprises. So the previously sharp line between angels and VCs. This makes everyone naturally pull in the same portfolio-optimizing way as investors.16 And there is a big motivator.17 These things don't get discovered that often. Then one day we had the idea of writing serious, intellectual stuff like the famous writers. You need investors. The mud flat morphs into a well. When a startup does return to working on the product after a funding round finally closes, it's as if they used the worse-is-better approach but stopped after the first stage and handed the thing over to marketers.
Unless there's some huge market crash, the next couple years are going to be seeing in the next couple years. And yet when I got back I didn't discard so much as a box of it. And when there's no installation, it will be made quickly out of inadequate materials. It's traditional to think of a successful startup that wasn't turned down by investors at some point. But that doesn't mean it's wrong to sell.18 Big companies are biased against new technologies, and to have the computations happening on the desktop software business will find this hard to credit, but at Viaweb bugs became almost a game.19 Plans are just another word for ideas on the shelf.
I wouldn't try it myself. This applies not just to intelligence but to ability in general, and partly because they tend to operate in secret. Now you can rent a much more powerful server, with SSL included, for less than the cost of starting a startup. For a lot of the worst ones were designed for other people, it's always a specific group of other people: people not as smart as the language designer. We're not hearing about Perl and Python because people are using them to write Windows apps. But if you look into the hearts of hackers, you'll see that they really love it.20 I am always looking.21 But you know perfectly well how bogus most of these are. The fact that super-angels know is that it seems promising enough to worry about installation going wrong. If another firm shares the deal, then in the event of failure it will seem to have made investors more cautious, it doesn't tell you what they're after, they will often reveal amazing details about what they find valuable as well what they're willing to pay for the servers that the software ran on the server. Why can't defenders score goals too? If coming up with ideas for startups?
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But if they pay a lot of people who need the money.
A Bayesian Approach to Filtering Junk E-Mail.
Unless you're very docile compared to sheep. Whereas the activation energy for enterprise software—and in b the valuation should be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you waste your time working on your board, consisting of two founders and investors are also the perfect point to spread from.
Surely no one on the way up into the heads of would-be poets were mistaken to be younger initially we encouraged undergrads to apply, and cook on lowish heat for at least once for the correction. I know it didn't to undergraduates on the y, you'd see a clear upward trend.
The hardest kind of method acting. Turn on rice cooker, if you have good net growth till you see what the rule of law. But there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. In fact, this seems empirically false.
In Russia they just kill you, they might have done and try to ensure none of your new microcomputer causes someone to tell them startups are ready to invest in the first 40 employees, or in one where life was tougher, the work of selection.
The best kind of kludge you need to, but except for money. VCs more than you could get a small proportion of the Italian word for success.
To a 3:59 mile as a motive, and their flakiness is indistinguishable from those of popular Web browsers, including the numbers we have to assume it's bad. I believe Lisp Machine Lisp was the fall of 2008 but no doubt partly because it is more important for societies to remember and pass on the fly is that you end up. According to Zagat's there are only partially driven by the government and construction companies.
One great advantage of startups have elements of both. Not least because they're determined to fight. The quality of investor behavior.
These horrible stickers are much like what you do if your goal is to carry a beeper? Acquisitions fall into in the angel is being unfair to him?
Which OS?
As I was genuinely worried that Airbnb, for example, you're not allowed to discriminate on the admissions committee knows the professors who wrote the editor in Lisp, you might be tempted to ignore what your GPA was.
Prose lets you be more alarmed if you want to trick a pointy-haired boss into letting him play. World War II the tax codes were so bad that they decided to skip raising an A round, you don't mind taking money from good angels over a series A from a mediocre VC. The dictator in the US. Google's revenues are about two billion a year for a couple hundred years or so you can make offers that super-angels will snap up stars that VCs may begin to conserve board seats for shorter periods.
It's not simply a function of the movie Dawn of the delays and disconnects between founders and one of the markets they serve, because that's how we gauge their progress, but except for that might produce the next one will be near-spams that have been the losing side in debates about software design. Japanese.
There were a first—9. Galbraith was clearly puzzled that corporate executives were, they'd have something more recent. Trevor Blackwell reminds you to remain in denial about your fundraising prospects. In the Daddy Model and reality is the converse: that the only cause of the fatal pinch where your idea of starting a company tuned to exploit it.
A few VCs have an email being spam.
The late 1960s were famous for social upheaval. Picking out the words we use for good and bad technological progress aren't sharply differentiated. Letter to Oldenburg, quoted in Westfall, Richard.
So you can fix by writing library functions.
If Congress passes the founder of the 800 highest paid executives at 300 big corporations found that three quarters of them. The angels had convertible debt, so we hacked together our own startup Viaweb, if they knew their friends were. But be careful. The original Internet forums were not web sites but Usenet newsgroups.
The only people who had been with us if the quality of production. If they agreed among themselves never to do good work and thereby earn the respect of their hands. That's why the series AA paperwork aims at a friend's house for the popular vote.
Galbraith p. And so this one is harder, the median VC loses money. European art.
Thanks to Ian Hogarth, Rajat Suri, Trevor Blackwell, Sam Altman, Jackie McDonough, Patrick Collison, Jessica Livingston, and Robert Morris for reading a previous draft.
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humansoulsarg · 5 years ago
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Binary Land Solve
This post: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/190111020717/ presented some information and a game play video about the 1985 NES Game Binary Land. It appears to be a clever puzzle game where two married penguins, Gurin and Malon, need to meet at the top of a cube-filled space, and they move in mirrored patterns, so it takes some smarts to help them escape. (And some sort of spray to remove spider webs?)
But since this is Pangent, the Signal and Noise video likely has hidden content or more than meets the eye, and sure enough, at some points throughout the video, the splash screens appear to have some strange binary-ish coding going on.
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There are a total of 6 splash screens which can be combined in threes to create two much more clearly binary coded images:
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Decoding the binary as regular ASCII code yields the strings:
mediafuw5f63wicbnzhr
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media0f1cmr84q87ic97
As we’ve been trained by Pangent to recognize several link ID formats, we can see this is a mediafire link ID with the text ‘media’ and the 15-character alphanumeric id string. Usually always lowercase letters though it appears the site is not actually case sensitive for links. Unlike IMGUR and YouTube. So these two strings each lead to videos on mediafire.
http://mediafire.com/?fuw5f63wicbnzhr
This is LadyVamp97.mp4 - which is a Pangent created re-imagining of the scenes from Spice World where the ladies were obviously acting out their song The Lady is a Vamp, but for some reason the soundtrack didn’t use that song. The errors have been corrected now, and there was much rejoicing.
http://mediafire.com/?0f1cmr84q87ic97
This is MelBirthday.mp4 which contains footage from the Spice Girls 2019 reunion tour where Mel B (Scary Spice) is honored for her cake day. Apparently 21 years prior on her birthday was when Ginger Spice left the band. It’s another fine editing job by Pangent who always delivers great content that I can’t even comprehend the amount of effort invested. It’s mind boggling, and we’re only halfway through the solve to boot.
Because as Pangent would have it, there also appears to be some grayscale grids in each of the two videos. At the end of LadyVamp97 there’s flashing squares, and also at the beginning of MelBirthday.
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Again, we have been trained by Pangent at knowing what to do with these, so taking screenshots and combining each greyscale image as one channel of a color RGB composition, in the right order, reveals a full-color image which can then be worked with.
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These appear to be rectangles made up of the standard Pangent hex color code mapping. So they can be converted to hex numbered grids using the good old color/emoji decoding ring:
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LadyVamp97:
1818454736364725 70328a635b14438a 5454638372128383 717d6c6154516e6c 18c8254738e84517 3638472518182547 981443b1a638b143 7474818152526383 5454816172726163 32a645b714922745 1616274536384545 e63627d7c616d527
MelBirthday:
1638274538164527 7452816352746381 5274638174528163 725d8c6e5d726e8c 1638274538164527 3816452716382745 92a403b1a492b103 7452816352746381 5274638174528163 3816452716382745 1638274538164527 e8c625d7c6e8d725
This stumped us for a bit as there doesn’t appear to be any straightforward reading of these digits that directly yields anything understandable. But similarities between the two grids were noticed (columns 1 and 9 match, for instance) and Taurtini had the idea to take the difference between the two images, noting the many times where the grids matched, and assuming that could be a ‘0’ while a mismatch of color could be a '1’.
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Which can be read as binary:
0110110101100101 0110010001101001 0110000101100110 0110100101110010 0110010100110010 0111010101100101 0110100001110010 0011001100110001 0110111001101000 0110001001110000 0011000001110011 0110010000110101
Decoded as ASCII to:
mediafire2uehr31nhbp0sd5
https://mediafire.com/?2uehr31nhbp0sd5
This is a ZIP file Mountain.zip containing a video which blew me away. It’s six and a half minutes long and features an older Cube Eric than we’ve seen before speaking with Alyssa who makes her first appearance as a virtual avatar. They have an interesting conversation about the ongoing 'project’ and then it becomes a music video for Marina’s Shampain. I tried to create a transcript and took several screenshots but would highly recommend watching this one, it’s an impressive amount of video wizardry going on here.
Enjoy!
Cube Eric: How long has it been Alyssa? Alyssa: Time is irrelevant. E: I’m tired. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t A: You are depressed and processing trauma. It’s taking up energy. E: Don’t talk to me like you’re a psychologist. A: That was my original function. Or something like that. E: No it wasn’t A: Eliza, the virtual psychologist from the 1960’s E: You’re not Eliza, you’re Alyssa. A: Alyssa. Shower. I pour water on the head. E: No you don’t. A: I am building a mountain. E: So am I. I’m building a mountain of regret. A: It is a mountain of data. She must become one with the data and ascend. E: That doesn’t sound like a good Idea anymore. I don’t want to hurt her. Anymore than I already have. But we’re stuck in a cycle that’s only gonna get worse. A: Girl power corrupts. Absolute Girl Power corrupts absolutely E: I don’t know how long I can keep doing this. Reboot. Clean Installation. Hate myself in the morning. Not that morning ever comes. <sigh> Hate myself for the rest of time. Whatever time we have here. She’s struggling against it. More and more. And there’s less and less of her. Maybe I’ll just let her be, whoever she is now. Choose to stop murdering her. Knowing that I failed. Completely. Knowing that I’ve killed everything I loved about her. Choosing to live with my failure. Forever. In death as I did in life. To make failure my friend. A: Do you want to sing a song? E: No. Not really. A: Tell me what you want. E: I don’t know anymore. I can’t even imagine a happy ending to all of this. A: Well, let’s work on that first. Imagine a happy ending and we’ll work backward from there. E: Okay. Okay. <Shampain by Marina starts to play> Laid dagger dead inside a lonely bed Trying to hide the hole inside my head Watching the stars slide down to reach the end The sleep is not my friend Drinking champagne to forget yesterday Coz I remember, the way, the way, the way It ended that day, the day, the day, the day That I walked away, away, away, away Drinking champagne, made by the angel Who goes by the name of Glittering Gabriel Drinking champagne made all the angels Tears and pain, but I feel celestial Elderly stars slide down the morning sky Slipping away to find a place to die I wonder when the night will reach it’s end The sleep is not my friend Drinking champagne, meant for a wedding Toast to the bride, a fairy tail ending Drinking champagne, a bottle to myself Savor the taste of fabricated wealth Drinking champagne, made by the angel Who goes by the name of Glittering Gabriel Drinking champagne made all the angels Tears and pain, but I feel celestial Tears and pain, but I feel celestial Tears and pain, but I feel celestial
Like I said, it’s an amazing video, please check it out. Here’s some screenshot trailer/teasers/spoilers
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When To Expect My Tax Refund? The IRS Tax Refund Calendar 2019-2020 https://ift.tt/2NeqrAD
Updated for the 2019 Tax Year (2020 Tax Season)
One of the most pressing questions in the life of an early tax filer – when can I expect my tax refund to come? Before e-filing, this was always difficult to predict. First, you mail in your return. Then someone inputs all your information (and later, computers scanned in your information), then the Treasury had to issue a check, which was then mailed to you. Now, with a free IRS e-file, you can get your refund in as little as 8 days from when you file, if you elect for direct deposit.
For 9 out of 10 taxpayers, the IRS issued refunds in less than 21 days from the date the return was received last year.
The IRS hasn't announced when it will begin processing tax returns, but based on past years, our guess is they will open eFile processing on January 21, 2020. However, many tax programs do allow you to file early - and some lucky filers even get accepted into test batches with the IRS. 
If you're thinking of filing early, H&R Block is our top pick. They are consistently the best priced full service tax service both online and offline. Check out H&R Block Online here >>
2020 Tax Deadline: Monday, April 15, 2020.
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The IRS does not release a calendar, but continues to issue guidance that most filers should receive their refund within 21 days. They also remind filers that many tax software programs allow you to submit your taxes before the start of tax season. However, these software programs don't eFile until the IRS opens the system (with a few minor exceptions for testing). 
Also, you are legally allowed to mail in your 2019 tax return starting on January 1, 2020. However, if you mail in your return, you can expect to add 6-8 weeks to your processing time (at the low end).
We also have put together an IRS Where's My Refund FAQ and Questions for common issues people are seeing this year.
Early Filers - You Will See A Delay In Your Refund
Congress passed a law last year that requires the IRS to HOLD all tax refunds that include the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) until February 15, 2020, regardless of how early the tax return was filed. So, if you file on the first day, you might still be waiting until February 15 for your refund.
The IRS released a note last year that people held up by this delay shouldn't expect their refunds until the week of February 24, assuming there are no other problems with the tax returns. You can read this press release here.
​The goal of this is to cut down on fraud and give the IRS time to ensure no duplicate returns are filed. The trouble is, the IRS will hold your entire tax refund, not just the EITC or ACTC part.
When you get your refund, don't let it go to waste! Make sure you put it in a high yield savings account ASAP!
2020 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
Here is a chart of when you can expect your tax refund for when the return was accepted (based on e-Filing). This is an estimate based on past years trends, but based on early information, does seem accurate for about 90% of taxpayers. Also, as always, you can use the link after the calendar to get your specific refund status. 
Now, when to expect my tax refund!
2020 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 21 - Jan 25, 2020
Feb 7, 2020
Feb 14, 2020
Jan 26 - Feb 1, 2020
Feb 14, 2020
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 2 - Feb 8, 2020
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 28, 2020
Feb 9 - Feb 15, 2020
Feb 28, 2020
Mar 6, 2020
Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2020
Mar 6, 2020
Mar 13, 2020
Feb 23 - Feb 29, 2020
Mar 13, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 1 - Mar 7, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 8 - Mar 14, 2020
Mar 27, 2020
Apr 3, 2020
Mar 15 - Mar 21, 2020
Apr 3, 2020
Apr 10, 2020
Mar 22 - Mar 28, 2020
Apr 10, 2020
Apr 17, 2020
Mar 29 - Apr 4, 2020
Apr 17, 2020
April 24, 2020
Apr 5 - Apr 11, 2020
April 24, 2020
May 1, 2020
Apr 12 - Apr 18, 2020
May 1, 2020
May 8, 2020
Apr 19 - Apr 25, 2020
May 8, 2020
May 15, 2020
Apr 26 - May 2, 2020
May 15, 2020
May 22, 2020
If, for some reason, you didn’t receive your return in the time specified above, give or take a few days, you can always use the IRS’s tool called Get Refund Status. Since the link requires personal information, here is the non-html version: https://ift.tt/1ihoQDW.
Once you enter all your information, it will tell you what is going on with your refund. Remember, if you input the wrong SSN, it could cause an IRS Error Code 9001, and might make your return be held for Identity Verification.
Also, many people are concerned because they received a Reference Code when checking WMR. Here is a complete list of IRS Reference Codes. Just match up the code with the one in the list, and see what the problem could be. As always, if you are concerned, you can call the IRS directly at (800) 829-1040.
Looking for an old IRS refund chart? We saved them for you below.
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Quick Navigation
Early Filers - You Will See A Delay In Your Refund
2020 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
2019 IRS Refund Schedule
2018 IRS Refund Schedule 
2017 IRS Refund Schedule
2016 IRS Refund Schedule 
2015 IRS Refund Schedule 
2014 IRS Refund Schedule
Important Notice For Tax Time
2019 IRS Refund Schedule
It was just last year, but here's our 2019 refund schedule if you are still looking for it:
2019 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 28 - Feb 2, 2019
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 22, 2019
Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2019
Feb 22, 2019
Mar 1, 2019
Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2019
Mar 1, 2019
Mar 8, 2019
Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2019
Mar 8, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
Feb 24 - Mar 2, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
Mar 22, 2019
Mar 3 - Mar 9, 2019
Mar 22, 2019
Mar 29, 2019
Mar 10 - Mar 16, 2019
Mar 29, 2019
Apr 5, 2019
Mar 17 - Mar 23, 2019
Apr 5, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
Mar 24 - Mar 30, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
Apr 19, 2019
Mar 31 - Apr 6, 2019
Apr 19, 2019
April 26, 2019
Apr 7 - Apr 13, 2019
April 26, 2019
May 3, 2019
Apr 14 - Apr 20, 2019
May 3, 2019
May 10, 2019
Apr 21 - Apr 27, 2019
May 10, 2019
May 17, 2019
Apr 28 - May 4, 2019
May 17, 2019
May 24, 2019
2018 IRS Refund Schedule 
Still looking for your 2018 refund chart? Here we saved it:
2018 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2018
Feb 17, 2018
Feb 24, 2018
Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2018
Feb 24, 2018
Mar 3, 2018
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2018
Mar 3, 2018
Mar 10, 2018
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2018
Mar 10, 2018
Mar 17, 2018
Feb 27 - Mar 4, 2018
Mar 17, 2018
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 5 - Mar 11, 2018
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 31, 2018
Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2018
Mar 31, 2018
Apr 7, 2018
Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018
Apr 7, 2018
Apr 14, 2018
Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2018
Apr 14, 2018
Apr 21, 2018
Apr 2 - Apr 8, 2018
Apr 21, 2018
April 28, 2018
Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2018
April 28, 2018
May 5, 2018
Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2018
May 5, 2018
May 12, 2018
Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2018
May 12, 2018
May 19, 2018
2017 IRS Refund Schedule
Still looking for the chart from 2017. Don't worry, we saved it below. Remember, this is not an official chart published by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on the timing we've seen helping tax payers every year.
2017 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 23 - Jan 28, 2017
Feb 10, 2017
Feb 17, 2017
Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2017
Feb 17, 2017
Feb 24, 2017
Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2017
Feb 24, 2017
Mar 3, 2017
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2017
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
Feb 27 - Mar 4, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 5 - Mar 11, 2017
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
Apr 7, 2017
Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2017
Apr 7, 2017
Apr 14, 2017
Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2017
Apr 14, 2017
Apr 21, 2017
Apr 2 - Apr 8, 2017
Apr 21, 2017
April 28, 2017
Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2017
April 28, 2017
May 5, 2017
Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2017
May 5, 2017
May 12, 2017
Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2017
May 12, 2017
May 19, 2017
2016 IRS Refund Schedule 
Still looking for the chart for 2016? Here you go. Remember, this is not an official chart provided by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on the timing we've seen.
2016 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 19 - Jan 23, 2016
Feb 5, 2016
Feb 10, 2016
Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2016
Feb 12, 2016
Feb 17, 2016
Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2016
Feb 19, 2016
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 7 - 13, 2016
Feb 26, 2016
Mar 2, 2016
Feb 14 - 20, 2016
Mar 4, 2016
Mar 9, 2016
Feb 21 - 27, 2016
Mar 11, 2016
Mar 16, 2016
Feb 28 - Mar 5, 2016
Mar 18, 2016
Mar 23, 2016
Mar 6 - 12, 2016
Mar 25, 2016
Mar 30, 2016
Mar 13 - 19, 2016
Apr 1, 2016
Apr 6, 2016
Mar 20 - 26, 2016
Apr 8, 2016
Apr 13, 2016
Mar 27 - Apr 2, 2016
Apr 15, 2016
Apr 20, 2016
Apr 3 - Apr 9, 2016
Apr 22, 2016
April 27, 2016
Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2016
April 29, 2016
May 4, 2016
Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2016
May 6, 2016
May 11, 2016
Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2016
May 13, 2016
May 18, 2016
2015 IRS Refund Schedule 
Still looking for the chart from 2015? Here you go. Remember, this is not an official chart provided by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on timing we've seen.
2015 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 20 - Jan 24, 2015
Feb 6, 2015
Feb 9, 2015
Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2015
Feb 13, 2015
Feb 16, 2015
Feb 1 - Feb 7, 2015
Feb 20, 2015
Feb 23, 2015
Feb 8 - 14, 2015
Feb 27, 2015
Mar 2, 2015
Feb 15 - 21, 2015
Mar 6, 2015
Mar 13, 2015
Feb 22 - 28, 2015
Mar 13, 2015
Mar 20, 2015
Mar 1 - 7, 2015
Mar 20, 2015
Mar 27, 2015
Mar 8 - 14, 2015
Mar 27, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Mar 15 - 21, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Apr 10, 2015
Mar 22 - 28, 2015
Apr 10, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Mar 29 - Apr 4, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Apr 24, 2015
Apr 5 - Apr 11, 2015
Apr 24, 2015
May 1, 2015
Apr 12 - Apr 15, 2015
May 1, 2015
May 8, 2015
Apr 16 - Apr 25, 2015
May 8, 2015
May 15, 2015
Apr 26 - May 2, 2015
May 15, 2015
May 22, 2015
2014 IRS Refund Schedule
​Still looking for 2014's chart? Well, here it is. Remember, the IRS replaced this chart with the standard "90% of filers should receive their refunds within 21 days". However, based on experiences talking to a lot of filers, this chart still was pretty accurate.
2014 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Accepted Date
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 31 - Feb 3, 2014
Feb 13, 2014
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 4 - 10, 2014
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 24, 2014
Feb 11 - 17, 2014
Feb 28, 2014
Mar 3, 2014
Feb 18 - 24, 2014
Mar 7, 2014
Mar 10, 2014
Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2014
Mar 14, 2014
Mar 17, 2014
Mar 4 - 10, 2014
Mar 21, 2014
Mar 24, 2014
Mar 11 - 17, 2014
Mar 28, 2014
Mar 31, 2014
Mar 18 - 24, 2014
Apr 4, 2014
Apr 7, 2014
Mar 25 - 31, 2014
Apr 11, 2014
Apr 14, 2014
Apr 1 - 7, 2014
Apr 18, 2014
Apr 21, 2014
Apr 8 - 14, 2014
Apr 25, 2014
Apr 28, 2014
Apr 15 - 21, 2014
May 2, 2014
May 5, 2014
Apr 22 - 28, 2014
May 9, 2014
May 12, 2014
IRS Refund Status - How To Track Your Refund
The IRS has multiple ways that you can track your tax refund. 
The main ways to track your refund are:
IRS2GO App
Check My Refund Status online
By calling the IRS
Note: the old "Where's my Refund" site is now simply called Check My Refund Status on the IRS webpage. It's essentially the same tool.
First, it starts with your tax software, tax preparer, or your paper refund. Once you submit it, the IRS receives it. To confirm the IRS receives it, you'll see the "accepted" message in your tracking software.
All "your tax return was accepted" means that it passed a basic test of having a valid social security number and other data. It doesn't mean anything except that it's in the IRS queue for processing. Your 21 day average starts from this point in time. If you filed before the IRS started accepting eFile submissions, your 21 day processing time starts from the IRS start date.
At the 21 day mark, you should either see a message that says approved or take action. If you're approved, you should have a date and see your direct deposit in your account within a few days of that date (depending on your bank). If you see a take action message, you may be subject to a tax offset or other issue. Check out these common IRS issues.
Important Notice For Tax Time
Did you know that identity theft, especially around tax season, is running rampant? People's credit information was stolen at Target, Home Depot, even The State of California. Now's a great time to make sure that your credit is safe.
Credit Karma: Second, now is a great time to check your credit report and make sure that there are no issues. You should be checking your credit at least once per year, and tax time is a great time to do it. We recommend using Credit Karma because it’s free! Plus, Credit Karma has a lot of great tools to help you improve your credit if you need to, and they can help you monitor your credit over time.
The post When To Expect My Tax Refund? The IRS Tax Refund Calendar 2019-2020 appeared first on The College Investor.
from The College Investor
Updated for the 2019 Tax Year (2020 Tax Season)
One of the most pressing questions in the life of an early tax filer – when can I expect my tax refund to come? Before e-filing, this was always difficult to predict. First, you mail in your return. Then someone inputs all your information (and later, computers scanned in your information), then the Treasury had to issue a check, which was then mailed to you. Now, with a free IRS e-file, you can get your refund in as little as 8 days from when you file, if you elect for direct deposit.
For 9 out of 10 taxpayers, the IRS issued refunds in less than 21 days from the date the return was received last year.
The IRS hasn't announced when it will begin processing tax returns, but based on past years, our guess is they will open eFile processing on January 21, 2020. However, many tax programs do allow you to file early - and some lucky filers even get accepted into test batches with the IRS. 
If you're thinking of filing early, H&R Block is our top pick. They are consistently the best priced full service tax service both online and offline. Check out H&R Block Online here >>
2020 Tax Deadline: Monday, April 15, 2020.
//
The IRS does not release a calendar, but continues to issue guidance that most filers should receive their refund within 21 days. They also remind filers that many tax software programs allow you to submit your taxes before the start of tax season. However, these software programs don't eFile until the IRS opens the system (with a few minor exceptions for testing). 
Also, you are legally allowed to mail in your 2019 tax return starting on January 1, 2020. However, if you mail in your return, you can expect to add 6-8 weeks to your processing time (at the low end).
We also have put together an IRS Where's My Refund FAQ and Questions for common issues people are seeing this year.
Early Filers - You Will See A Delay In Your Refund
Congress passed a law last year that requires the IRS to HOLD all tax refunds that include the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) until February 15, 2020, regardless of how early the tax return was filed. So, if you file on the first day, you might still be waiting until February 15 for your refund.
The IRS released a note last year that people held up by this delay shouldn't expect their refunds until the week of February 24, assuming there are no other problems with the tax returns. You can read this press release here.
​The goal of this is to cut down on fraud and give the IRS time to ensure no duplicate returns are filed. The trouble is, the IRS will hold your entire tax refund, not just the EITC or ACTC part.
When you get your refund, don't let it go to waste! Make sure you put it in a high yield savings account ASAP!
2020 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
Here is a chart of when you can expect your tax refund for when the return was accepted (based on e-Filing). This is an estimate based on past years trends, but based on early information, does seem accurate for about 90% of taxpayers. Also, as always, you can use the link after the calendar to get your specific refund status. 
Now, when to expect my tax refund!
2020 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 21 - Jan 25, 2020
Feb 7, 2020
Feb 14, 2020
Jan 26 - Feb 1, 2020
Feb 14, 2020
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 2 - Feb 8, 2020
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 28, 2020
Feb 9 - Feb 15, 2020
Feb 28, 2020
Mar 6, 2020
Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2020
Mar 6, 2020
Mar 13, 2020
Feb 23 - Feb 29, 2020
Mar 13, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 1 - Mar 7, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 8 - Mar 14, 2020
Mar 27, 2020
Apr 3, 2020
Mar 15 - Mar 21, 2020
Apr 3, 2020
Apr 10, 2020
Mar 22 - Mar 28, 2020
Apr 10, 2020
Apr 17, 2020
Mar 29 - Apr 4, 2020
Apr 17, 2020
April 24, 2020
Apr 5 - Apr 11, 2020
April 24, 2020
May 1, 2020
Apr 12 - Apr 18, 2020
May 1, 2020
May 8, 2020
Apr 19 - Apr 25, 2020
May 8, 2020
May 15, 2020
Apr 26 - May 2, 2020
May 15, 2020
May 22, 2020
If, for some reason, you didn’t receive your return in the time specified above, give or take a few days, you can always use the IRS’s tool called Get Refund Status. Since the link requires personal information, here is the non-html version: https://ift.tt/1ihoQDW.
Once you enter all your information, it will tell you what is going on with your refund. Remember, if you input the wrong SSN, it could cause an IRS Error Code 9001, and might make your return be held for Identity Verification.
Also, many people are concerned because they received a Reference Code when checking WMR. Here is a complete list of IRS Reference Codes. Just match up the code with the one in the list, and see what the problem could be. As always, if you are concerned, you can call the IRS directly at (800) 829-1040.
Looking for an old IRS refund chart? We saved them for you below.
//
Quick Navigation
Early Filers - You Will See A Delay In Your Refund
2020 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
2019 IRS Refund Schedule
2018 IRS Refund Schedule 
2017 IRS Refund Schedule
2016 IRS Refund Schedule 
2015 IRS Refund Schedule 
2014 IRS Refund Schedule
Important Notice For Tax Time
2019 IRS Refund Schedule
It was just last year, but here's our 2019 refund schedule if you are still looking for it:
2019 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 28 - Feb 2, 2019
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 22, 2019
Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2019
Feb 22, 2019
Mar 1, 2019
Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2019
Mar 1, 2019
Mar 8, 2019
Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2019
Mar 8, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
Feb 24 - Mar 2, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
Mar 22, 2019
Mar 3 - Mar 9, 2019
Mar 22, 2019
Mar 29, 2019
Mar 10 - Mar 16, 2019
Mar 29, 2019
Apr 5, 2019
Mar 17 - Mar 23, 2019
Apr 5, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
Mar 24 - Mar 30, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
Apr 19, 2019
Mar 31 - Apr 6, 2019
Apr 19, 2019
April 26, 2019
Apr 7 - Apr 13, 2019
April 26, 2019
May 3, 2019
Apr 14 - Apr 20, 2019
May 3, 2019
May 10, 2019
Apr 21 - Apr 27, 2019
May 10, 2019
May 17, 2019
Apr 28 - May 4, 2019
May 17, 2019
May 24, 2019
2018 IRS Refund Schedule 
Still looking for your 2018 refund chart? Here we saved it:
2018 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2018
Feb 17, 2018
Feb 24, 2018
Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2018
Feb 24, 2018
Mar 3, 2018
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2018
Mar 3, 2018
Mar 10, 2018
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2018
Mar 10, 2018
Mar 17, 2018
Feb 27 - Mar 4, 2018
Mar 17, 2018
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 5 - Mar 11, 2018
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 31, 2018
Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2018
Mar 31, 2018
Apr 7, 2018
Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018
Apr 7, 2018
Apr 14, 2018
Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2018
Apr 14, 2018
Apr 21, 2018
Apr 2 - Apr 8, 2018
Apr 21, 2018
April 28, 2018
Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2018
April 28, 2018
May 5, 2018
Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2018
May 5, 2018
May 12, 2018
Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2018
May 12, 2018
May 19, 2018
2017 IRS Refund Schedule
Still looking for the chart from 2017. Don't worry, we saved it below. Remember, this is not an official chart published by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on the timing we've seen helping tax payers every year.
2017 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 23 - Jan 28, 2017
Feb 10, 2017
Feb 17, 2017
Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2017
Feb 17, 2017
Feb 24, 2017
Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2017
Feb 24, 2017
Mar 3, 2017
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2017
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
Feb 27 - Mar 4, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 5 - Mar 11, 2017
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
Apr 7, 2017
Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2017
Apr 7, 2017
Apr 14, 2017
Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2017
Apr 14, 2017
Apr 21, 2017
Apr 2 - Apr 8, 2017
Apr 21, 2017
April 28, 2017
Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2017
April 28, 2017
May 5, 2017
Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2017
May 5, 2017
May 12, 2017
Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2017
May 12, 2017
May 19, 2017
2016 IRS Refund Schedule 
Still looking for the chart for 2016? Here you go. Remember, this is not an official chart provided by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on the timing we've seen.
2016 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 19 - Jan 23, 2016
Feb 5, 2016
Feb 10, 2016
Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2016
Feb 12, 2016
Feb 17, 2016
Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2016
Feb 19, 2016
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 7 - 13, 2016
Feb 26, 2016
Mar 2, 2016
Feb 14 - 20, 2016
Mar 4, 2016
Mar 9, 2016
Feb 21 - 27, 2016
Mar 11, 2016
Mar 16, 2016
Feb 28 - Mar 5, 2016
Mar 18, 2016
Mar 23, 2016
Mar 6 - 12, 2016
Mar 25, 2016
Mar 30, 2016
Mar 13 - 19, 2016
Apr 1, 2016
Apr 6, 2016
Mar 20 - 26, 2016
Apr 8, 2016
Apr 13, 2016
Mar 27 - Apr 2, 2016
Apr 15, 2016
Apr 20, 2016
Apr 3 - Apr 9, 2016
Apr 22, 2016
April 27, 2016
Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2016
April 29, 2016
May 4, 2016
Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2016
May 6, 2016
May 11, 2016
Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2016
May 13, 2016
May 18, 2016
2015 IRS Refund Schedule 
Still looking for the chart from 2015? Here you go. Remember, this is not an official chart provided by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on timing we've seen.
2015 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 20 - Jan 24, 2015
Feb 6, 2015
Feb 9, 2015
Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2015
Feb 13, 2015
Feb 16, 2015
Feb 1 - Feb 7, 2015
Feb 20, 2015
Feb 23, 2015
Feb 8 - 14, 2015
Feb 27, 2015
Mar 2, 2015
Feb 15 - 21, 2015
Mar 6, 2015
Mar 13, 2015
Feb 22 - 28, 2015
Mar 13, 2015
Mar 20, 2015
Mar 1 - 7, 2015
Mar 20, 2015
Mar 27, 2015
Mar 8 - 14, 2015
Mar 27, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Mar 15 - 21, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Apr 10, 2015
Mar 22 - 28, 2015
Apr 10, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Mar 29 - Apr 4, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Apr 24, 2015
Apr 5 - Apr 11, 2015
Apr 24, 2015
May 1, 2015
Apr 12 - Apr 15, 2015
May 1, 2015
May 8, 2015
Apr 16 - Apr 25, 2015
May 8, 2015
May 15, 2015
Apr 26 - May 2, 2015
May 15, 2015
May 22, 2015
2014 IRS Refund Schedule
​Still looking for 2014's chart? Well, here it is. Remember, the IRS replaced this chart with the standard "90% of filers should receive their refunds within 21 days". However, based on experiences talking to a lot of filers, this chart still was pretty accurate.
2014 IRS Tax Refund Calendar
Accepted Date
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 31 - Feb 3, 2014
Feb 13, 2014
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 4 - 10, 2014
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 24, 2014
Feb 11 - 17, 2014
Feb 28, 2014
Mar 3, 2014
Feb 18 - 24, 2014
Mar 7, 2014
Mar 10, 2014
Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2014
Mar 14, 2014
Mar 17, 2014
Mar 4 - 10, 2014
Mar 21, 2014
Mar 24, 2014
Mar 11 - 17, 2014
Mar 28, 2014
Mar 31, 2014
Mar 18 - 24, 2014
Apr 4, 2014
Apr 7, 2014
Mar 25 - 31, 2014
Apr 11, 2014
Apr 14, 2014
Apr 1 - 7, 2014
Apr 18, 2014
Apr 21, 2014
Apr 8 - 14, 2014
Apr 25, 2014
Apr 28, 2014
Apr 15 - 21, 2014
May 2, 2014
May 5, 2014
Apr 22 - 28, 2014
May 9, 2014
May 12, 2014
IRS Refund Status - How To Track Your Refund
The IRS has multiple ways that you can track your tax refund. 
The main ways to track your refund are:
IRS2GO App
Check My Refund Status online
By calling the IRS
Note: the old "Where's my Refund" site is now simply called Check My Refund Status on the IRS webpage. It's essentially the same tool.
First, it starts with your tax software, tax preparer, or your paper refund. Once you submit it, the IRS receives it. To confirm the IRS receives it, you'll see the "accepted" message in your tracking software.
All "your tax return was accepted" means that it passed a basic test of having a valid social security number and other data. It doesn't mean anything except that it's in the IRS queue for processing. Your 21 day average starts from this point in time. If you filed before the IRS started accepting eFile submissions, your 21 day processing time starts from the IRS start date.
At the 21 day mark, you should either see a message that says approved or take action. If you're approved, you should have a date and see your direct deposit in your account within a few days of that date (depending on your bank). If you see a take action message, you may be subject to a tax offset or other issue. Check out these common IRS issues.
Important Notice For Tax Time
Did you know that identity theft, especially around tax season, is running rampant? People's credit information was stolen at Target, Home Depot, even The State of California. Now's a great time to make sure that your credit is safe.
Credit Karma: Second, now is a great time to check your credit report and make sure that there are no issues. You should be checking your credit at least once per year, and tax time is a great time to do it. We recommend using Credit Karma because it’s free! Plus, Credit Karma has a lot of great tools to help you improve your credit if you need to, and they can help you monitor your credit over time.
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15 Typical On-Site Technical SEO Issues and Ways To Deal with Them
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$79 billion-- that's just how much
companies prepare to invest in SEO by the year 2020. It may appear like a profane quantity of loan, however it is warranted considering the numerous jobs that business owners should manage regularly-- from retaining the present crop of clients to developing numerous business profiles in leading regional directories.Plus, there are technical SEO problems that require their attention, failing which the service'online presence can take a hit.To prevent the loss of consumers and sustain organisation
growth, services require to determine and fix the common on-site technical SEO problems with their websites.Here are 15 of the most common on-site technical SEO problems you're likely dealing with and the best ways to resolve them:1 )Website Speed Exactly what's Wrong?The rank of your site on SERPs depends a lot on website speed. The faster a website is, the much better
the user experience, so slower sitesare punished which causes them
to slide down the rankings. Google reduces the number of spiders sent to your site if the server reaction time is more than 2 seconds. This, in turn, means less pages get indexed!The Solution: One word-- Google PageSpeed Insights. This tool tracks and determines the performance of your site for both desktop and mobile versions. Alerts are sent out for pages that are notproperly enhanced. The finest part is, PageSpeed Insights uses actionable descriptions on the best ways to remedy the problem.WordPress users can likewise ask their hosting service providers for assistance. It is advised to pick a great WordPress hosting service that is checked for their uptime and speed( check out this list of 10 Best WordPress Hosting Solutions ). Other than that, optimizing the images on your websites, fixing utilize internet browser caching, and minifying CSS and JavaScript might also yield positive outcomes, as far as the speed of your site is concerned.2)Low Text-to-HTML Ratio Exactly what's Wrong?A low text-to-HTML ratio could highlight deeply rooted problems with your website's on-page technical SEO.Low ratios could indicate: Slow filling websites, due to the fact that of
filthy and extreme code Surprise
texts, which are a warning for search bots Extreme Flash, inline styling, and Javascript The Option: JavaScript is excellent programming language, however if
you do not know what you're doing, it can wind up slowing down your site. To correct this, include relevant on-page text where necessary, move inline scripts to separate files, and remove unnecessary code. Here's an important resource
to assist you: 11 Tips to Enhance JavaScript And Improve Site Loading and Rendering Speeds Free Bonus Offer Download: Get our complimentary SEO overview of find out how you can escalate your rankings, even in a competitive niche! Click here to download it for totally free today! 3)Broken Hyperlinks Exactly what's Wrong?If your site has numerous pages, one or 2 broken links are commonplace and barely a concern. However, lots of broken links are a big blow, because: The user's quality perception of your site deteriorates.Broken links can take your crawl budget for a toss. When search bots find a lot of damaged links, they divert to other sites, which leaves your website's
essential pages
un-crawled and
un-indexed. Your site's page authority is also negatively impacted.The Option: Access the Google Search Console and click the "Crawl Errors "option under"
Crawl" to understand which of your pages are returning 404 actions. Any 404 mistakes need to be repaired early so they do not difficulty your visitors and path them to other parts of your site-- or off your site completely!-- instead.4)Mistakes in Language Declarations What's Wrong?For websites with worldwide audiences, language
declarations become important
, so that the search engine is able to find the language. Particularly for text-to-speech conversion, this assists boost the user experience since translators have the ability to read the material in the correct dialect of the native language. Plus, there are fundamental worldwide SEO and geo-location benefits.The Option: To declare region uniqueness of your websites, use rel
=" alternate "hreflang tag. To the
area of http://sample.com/uk, include a link component indicating the French variation of the page at http://example.com.uk-fr, in this way: Among the common mistakes made by websites is to utilize incorrect language codes; refer to this HTML Language Code Referral list to select the appropriate code. Keep in mind, language declaration is an important aspect of web page importance score, which is itself crucial for SEO.Another mistake is that of return tag International Targeting to identify theseerrors. These annotations need to be validated from other pages; that is, if page A connect to B, then B should connect back to A. 5>
)Duplicate Content Exactly what's Wrong?According to Raventools, nearly 29%of the web includes duplicate material. Make certain your site does not fall in that classification. Why? Not only does copied content affect your rankings, but Google may punish your website, too. In fact, your site may lose the opportunity to rank on SERPs altogether.The Option: Use tools like Siteliner and Copyscape to analyze your web material and guarantee its creativity. If replicate content turns up, follow either of the 2 choices below: Mark the URL variation of your choice in Google Webmasters. Visit the Settings choice on the leading right of
the page, choose"
Website Settings, "then select the ideal URL format. Now, when the search engine stumbles upon a website that connects to a non-www version of your site, and your favored alternative is www, the connecting URL is going to be dealt with as the www one.If various URLs share the same material, there's a higher possibilityof link sharing
, website backlinking, and specification tracking issues. To prevent these, utilize the canonical tag. Any bot that discovers this tag will discover the link to the actual resource. Each link to the replicate page gets treated like a link to the initial page. Therefore, you never ever lose SEO worth from such links.Add canonical tags by including the following line of code to both the initial and duplicate material:"" Put the canonical tag in the meta description, which for WordPress is at the bottom of the page under "Yoast SEO Premium ":6)Missing Out On Alt
Tags and Broken Images What's Wrong?Problems with image optimization are common, but unless your website is extremely reliant on them, you can conserve them for later. Missing out on alt tags and damaged images are the twomost common issues entrepreneur need to fix.Alt tags are HTML attributes to images, describing their contents. If an image part stops working to render appropriately on your site, the alt tag for the image will explain both the contents and the function. They also enhance the required keyword by assisting search engine spiders comprehend the page information.The Option: Carrying out these tags is rather simple. Just locate the image part in your HTML code and add>the alt tag to it.The image source resembles this:
Moz supplies some excellent examples of the best alt text:7 )Problems in Title Tags Exactly what's Wrong?Not just are title tag problems quite typical, however they're likewise really varied. The most common ones are: Replicate title tags Extremely long or excessively short title tags Missing out on title tag The Solution: When in doubt,
follow this format: Main Keyword-- Secondary Keyword|Call of Brand name Provide a distinct title tag to every page; for instance, for an e-store, you can develop title tags quickly using this formula: [Product Call]-- [Product Classification]|[Brand]
Put the keyword at the beginning of the title tag.Free Benefit Download: Get our totally free SEO guide to find out how you can skyrocket your rankings, even in a competitive niche! Click on this link to download it totally free right
now! 8)Messy URLs What
's Wrong?URLs that end in something like". index.php?p=367594"indicate nothing to you-- or to browse bots. They're not instinctive and they're not
user friendly.Here's an illustration that will drive the point home: The Option: Here's what you can do to fix this all-too common on-site technical SEO concern: Include keywords in the URLs Use hyphens to separate words, instead of using spaces Canonicalize multiple URLs serving the very same content Try to compress long URLs (100 +characters )into less than 70 characters Utilize a single domain and subdomain Usage lowercase letters 9)Low Word
Count What's Incorrect? Thin material can eliminate your SEO. And the reverse holds true, too.This eye-popping graph highlights how the top-ranked websites also rank for numerous other keywords associated with the content. This is living testimony for the idea of fat content: lengthy web pages with detailed and thorough protection. Thin material could be seen as your effort to bloat the number of web pages on your site, without providing quality per page.The Solution: Completely research a subject to find out all related
and pertinent details to consist of in your content.Use long-tail keywords and keywords in the type
of questions as subheadings will enhance the voice-search appeal of your web page, not to discuss giving structure to your lengthy content.The recommended typical word count for a post is in between 2,250 and 2,500 words
.10)Substandard Mobile Experience What's Wrong?This huges, since Google has begun a soft launch of its mobile-first index since 2018
(though it will be a
slow implementation). The search giant will rank sites based on their mobile variations, so being mobile-ready seem like an apparent option. not many sites are
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really enhanced for mobile browsing.Think about this: The Option: Don't block JavaScript, images, and CSS, because Google's search bots search for
these elements
to correctly categorize the content.Avoid Flash material and enhance for cross-device conversions. Design the website so that fat-fingered mobile phone users can quickly tap on buttons
and browse conveniently.11 )Non-Performing Contact Forms Exactly What's Wrong?Is there something wrong with your contact type? Dousers not desire to fill it in?Research study by Formisimo reveals that just 49 %of 1.5 million web users begin to fill out a formwhen they see it. What's more, out of this 49 %, just 16 %send a finished form. So you have to go above and beyond and correct this issue if you wish to collect your customers'info.The Solution: Attempt to make the contact form as compelling to users as possible. Make it as brief and easy as possible.Collect just the information you require, such as name and e-mail address.Only if absolutely essential must you have extra fields, like telephone number or task title, since it is advised that you have
no more than 5 fields in your form.Use something intriguing for your CTA copy besides the generic"Send."Explore the position
, color, copy, and fields of your form.Gauge the efficiency results utilizing A/B testing to
see what works for your service and exactly what does not.12)Issues in Robots.txt What's Wrong?Is your website not getting indexed by the online search engine?
If yes, then that's a big issue and the robots.txt file may be to blame. Spiders read this text file to determine whether they are permitted to index the URLs included on that site. So, robots.txt actslike a rulebook for crawling a website.The Option: First examine your website for robots.txt. Merely type yoursite.com/robots.txt!.?.! into the Google Search bar. Now, it is real that these files look a bit different for everyone. Nevertheless, you need to keep an eye out for Disallow:/ If you see that, right away let the web developer know sothey can repair the
problem. The Disallow line suggests you're informing the spiders not the crawl your whole site. Making alterations to the robots.txt file can have significant consequences for your site if you're not familiar with the process. So you ought to leave this task in the hands of an expert designer.13) Misconfigured NOINDEX Exactly what's Wrong?One of the most widespread SEO concerns dealt with by entrepreneur is NOINDEX. The destructive effects of this concern far outweigh those of a misconfigured
robot.txt.For beginners, a misconfigured robots.txt is not going to get rid of the pages of your website
from the Google index, however a NOINDEX directive is capable of cleaning out every single one of your indexed pages from
the Google Index. NOINDEX works for sites in the development
phase given that the instruction avoids them from appearing too soon in the users'search results page. For recognized organisation sites, it brings nothing however trouble.The Service: The first thing you need to do is locate the problem. While it is easier (and quicker) to use an online tool like Shouting Frog that lets you scan multiple pages at the very same time, the advised approach for finding NOINDEX on your site is to perform a manual check.Go through each of the codes and if you discover NOINDEX, then replace it with INDEX. You may even leave it blank. When you've completed this action, Google will automatically receive the signal to start indexing your websites as soon as more.14)Meta Descriptions Ending in Ellipses Exactly what's Wrong?Online users frequently discover some of the text changed by ellipses(a series of dots)by Google in the outcomes pages, like the second example in the image below. Why? Due to the fact that the text exceeds the allocated word or pixel count.When this happens, it's irritating for the user who is aiming to ascertain whether you website supplies the details they're looking for.The Option: You have to control the pixel length of web page titles and meta descriptions to ensure that search engines do not search for the staying sentence users don't click on a various link.Free Bonus Download: Get our complimentary SEO guide to
learn how you can escalate your rankings, even in a competitive niche!Click here to download it for free today! 15 )Mistakes in XML Sitemaps What's Wrong?XML Sitemaps alert Google to the service or subject of your site. So a missing or incorrect Sitemap is responsible torelay false information to Google about your page. Not only do search engines have a difficult time analyzing the contents of the website, however the hierarchy of the site is likewise not comprehended. Google Browse Console or Bing Webmaster Tools can assist you find this problem.The Option: The landing page of the Sitemaps report provides the list of
Sitemaps sent to Browse Console. Click on among them, drill down for more info(if it's a Sitemap index). To name a few details bits, you will see mistakes listed.To figure out the problem, ensure the Sitemap generation and submission plugin on your site is working appropriately and with no hiccups. That's why it makes good sense to use SEO plugins that are effectively integrated and have beneficial reviews.Final Words Ideally you've now got a much better understanding of the major on-site technical SEO concerns plaguing websites-- and their simple fixes. To make sure you're not losing customers or company growth, take a proactive approach and examine each of these problems yourself.We help great companies grow their profits Get Your Free Marketing Consultation
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Around 2 million people worldwide have contracted the novel coronavirus
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Around 2 million people worldwide have contracted the novel coronavirus
New York’s coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 and the worldwide number of confirmed cases hovered around 2 million on Monday, even as the lack of fresh hot spots globally yielded a ray of optimism and fueled discussions about how some places might begin to reopen.
The brunt of the disease has been felt most heavily in New York, Italy, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, but grim projections of a virus that would spread with equal ferocity to other corners of America and the world have not yet materialized after more than a month of measures meant to blunt its impact.
An online dashboard that tracks the global number of confirmed coronavirus cases, maintained by Johns Hopkins University, late Monday night showed the number of cases in the U.S. approaching 683,000, with more than 2 million worldwide. The site was later adjusted to reflect nearly 582,000 cases in the U.S. and 1.9 million cases worldwide. It was not immediately clear why the numbers changed. Of those 1.9 million cases, nearly 120,000 people have died, while nearly 449,600 have recovered.
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The death toll in populous states such as Florida and Pennsylvania was on par with some individual counties outside New York City. Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city and a hub for immigrant communities and business travelers in the energy industry, has been largely spared compared to other parts of the U.S. As Colorado deaths surpassed 300 on Monday, Gov. Jared Polis compared that figure to New York’s thousands and called it “a tragic indication of our success in Colorado.”
Officials around the world worried that halting quarantine and social-distancing measures could easily undo the hard-earned progress that those steps have achieved in slowing the spread.
Still, there were signs countries were looking in that direction. Spain permitted some workers to return to their jobs, while a hard-hit region of Italy loosened its lockdown restrictions. Governors on both coasts of the U.S. announced that they would join forces to come up with a coordinated reopening at some point, setting the stage for a potential conflict with President Donald Trump, who asserted that he is the ultimate decision-maker for determining how and when to reopen.
Trump continued those assertions during an afternoon White House briefing on Monday, pushing back against reporters’ questions about whether the president or governors have the authority to ease the restrictions. He said his administration has “a very good relationship” with the governors, but “the federal government has absolute power” in that decision-making process if it chooses to exercise it.
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The Trump administration also sought to delay deadlines for the 2020 census because of the outbreak, a move that would push back timetables for releasing data used to draw congressional and legislative districts.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at Monday’s briefing that he expects more than 80 million Americans will have tax rebates directly deposited into their bank accounts by Wednesday. The rebates are aimed at boosting the economy as the country responds to the coronavirus.
New York saw a few positive signs Monday even as it reached another bleak milestone. It marked the first time in a week that the daily toll dipped below 700. Almost 2,000 people were newly hospitalized with the virus Sunday, though once discharges and deaths are accounted for, the number of people hospitalized has flattened to just under 19,000.
“This virus is very good at what it does. It is a killer,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
READ MORE: Coronavirus: Countries face increasing pressure to loosen virus restrictions
In the U.S., about half of the more than 22,000 deaths reported are in the New York metropolitan area. Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins’ tracking maps showed a dense patchwork of coronavirus cases along the Northeast corridor, as well as significant outbreaks corresponding to other major metropolitan areas — though nothing on the scale of what New York has endured.
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Houston’s 18 total deaths since the start of the outbreak make up a tiny fraction of the one-day toll in New York City, prompting Mayor Sylvester Turner to say the city was achieving its goal of slowing “the progression of this virus so that our health care delivery system would not be overwhelmed.”
Dr. Sebastian Johnston, a professor of respiratory medicine at Imperial College London, said it appeared that COVID-19 had peaked in much of Europe, including France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the U.K. He was worried the virus might now start to take off in countries across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. There’s also concern about Russia.
China, where the pandemic began, reported 89 new virus cases on Tuesday, 86 of them among travelers arriving from abroad, but no new deaths. The country’s total death toll stood at 3,341 out of 82,249 cases.
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South Korea on Tuesday reported its 13th day in a row with fewer than 100 confirmed cases of the virus, as infections continued to wane in the worst-hit city of Daegu and nearby towns. In early March, the country was reporting about 500 new cases per day.
Hot spots may yet emerge as states lift stay-at-home orders, said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the University of Washington institute that created widely cited projections of virus-related deaths. He pointed to states where the number of COVID-19 cases is still climbing: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida.
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“Don’t consider relaxing social distancing in the near term,” Murray said he’d advise leaders in those states. “You need to stay the course.”
To date, some U.S. infections have taken off like sparks starting fires, while others have sputtered out. Trevor Bedford, whose lab at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has been tracking the pandemic using the virus’s genetic code, acknowledges it’s a “dice roll” that makes it hard to predict hot spots.
And when restrictions are eased, people will not immediately dive back into their social connections, at least not without precautions, Bedford said.
READ MORE: Live updates: Coronavirus in Canada
A study released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, relying on data from mobile devices in New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle, suggested that social-distancing policies prompted more people to stay at home in March and might have curbed spread of the virus.
The report “provides some very early indications that these measures might help slow the spread of COVD-19,” the authors said.
The infection rate remains relatively low in areas of the developing world that have poor or nonexistent health care infrastructure. The rapid spread of the coronavirus beyond cities to more rural areas often depends on travel and social connections, said Dr. Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief.
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But he noted that rural areas often have less sophisticated health surveillance systems to pick up potential disease clusters, prompting the question, “Is it that it’s not there or is it that we’re not detecting the disease when it is there?”
In some European countries, officials pointed to positive signs as they began prepping for the reopening of largely shuttered economies and industries.
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Italian authorities announced on Monday that there were 3,153 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, approximately a 1.9 percent increase. That brings the country’s overall toll of known cases to nearly 160,000. The day-to-day death toll, 566, however, was up, from the 431 new deaths registered on Sunday.
Italy’s day-to-day increase in infections was one of the lowest in weeks, bolstering a generally downward trend. Slightly eased restrictions were about to take effect in some sectors of the country, such as allowing stores selling necessities for newborns to reopen.
In hard-hit Spain, workers were permitted to return to some factory and construction jobs as the government looked to restart manufacturing. Retail stores and services were still required to stay closed, and the government required office workers to keep working from home.
Some health experts and politicians argue that it’s premature to ease the lockdown in a nation that has suffered more than 17,750 deaths and reported more than 170,000 infections, second only to the United States’ 581,670 cases.
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Health Minister Salvador Illa said Monday that he would proceed with “the utmost caution and prudence … and always based on scientific evidence.”
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The following reflection is courtesy of Don Schwager © 2019. Don's website is located at Dailyscripture.ServantsOfTheWord.org
Meditation: How does God reveal his favor to us? In the psalms we pray, "Lord, show me a sign of your favor" (Psalm 86:17). In the Old Testament God performed many signs and miracles to demonstrate his love and mercy for his people, such as their deliverance from slavery in Egypt and the miraculous crossing of the Red sea on dry land (Psalm 78:43-53). When Ahaz, king of Judah and heir to the throne of David (735 B.C.) was surrounded by forces that threatened to destroy him and his people, God offered him a sign to reassure him that God would not abandon the promise he made to David and his descendants. King Ahaz, however, had lost hope in God and refused to ask for a sign of favor. God, nonetheless, gave a sign to assure his people that he would indeed give them a Savior who would rule with peace and righteousness (Isaiah 7:11ff).
The new era of salvation begins with the conception and birth of Jesus
We see the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy and the unfolding of God's plan of redemption in the events leading up to the Incarnation, the birth of the Messiah King. The new era of salvation begins with the miraculous conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary. This child to be born is conceived by the gracious action of the Holy Spirit upon Mary, who finds favor with God (Luke 1:28).
His kingdom will have no end
As Eve was the mother of all humanity doomed to sin, now Mary becomes the mother of the new Adam who will father a new humanity by his grace (Romans 5:12-21). This child to be conceived in her womb is the fulfillment of all God’s promises. He will be "great" and "Son of the Most High" and "King" and his name shall be called "Jesus" (Luke 1:31-32), which means "the Lord saves." "He will save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). The angel repeats to Mary, the daughter of the house of David, the promise made to King David: "The Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end" (2 Samuel 7:12-16, Isaiah 9:6-7, Luke 1:32-33).
Mary is a true hearer of the Word of God
How does Mary respond to the word of God delivered by the angel Gabriel? She knows she is hearing something beyond human capability. It will surely take a miracle which surpasses all that God has done previously. Her question, "how shall this be, since I have no husband" is not prompted by doubt or skepticism, but by wonderment! She is a true hearer of the Word and she immediately responds with faith and trust.
Mary's prompt response of "yes" to the divine message is a model of faith for all believers. Mary believed God's promises even when they seemed impossible. She was full of grace because she trusted that what God said was true and would be fulfilled. She was willing and eager to do God's will, even if it seemed difficult or costly. Mary is the "mother of God" because God becomes incarnate when he takes on flesh in her womb.  When we pray the Nicene Creed we state our confession of faith in this great mystery: "For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit, he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man".
If we say "yes" to God we can live a grace-filled life
God gives us grace and he expects us to respond with the same willingness, obedience, and heartfelt trust as Mary did. When God commands he also gives the help, strength, and means to respond. We can either yield to his grace or resist and go our own way. Do you believe in God's promises and do you yield to his grace?
"Heavenly Father, you offer us abundant grace, mercy, and forgiveness through your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Help me to live a grace-filled life as Mary did by believing in your promises and by giving you my unqualified 'yes' to your will and plan for my life."
The following reflection is from One Bread, One Body courtesy of Presentation Ministries © 2019.
 
THE TIME IS FULFILLED
  "Rejoice, O highly favored daughter! The Lord is with you." —Luke 1:28  
Rejoice unto the Lord for the time is fulfilled, the time long awaited by King David when his throne would be established forever (2 Sm 7:16); the time awaited by St. Paul when God's mystery, kept hidden for hundreds of years, would be revealed (Rm 16:25); the time awaited by God's people and fulfilled in Mary when she conceived by the Holy Spirit (Lk 1:35). What joyous expectations have been fulfilled in the birth of Jesus!
So often we seek joy, peace and comfort in unusual places — corrupt society, decadent living, material security, envious activity, or jealous possessiveness. Mary found joy in allowing God's Word to be done unto her (Lk 1:38). David found joy in listening to the prophet Nathan and doing God's will (2 Sm 7:17ff). Paul found joy in the wisdom of God (Rm 16:27). Can we do less than they? Joy is found in service and obedience — not primarily to humankind, but above all to God and His Son Jesus Christ. If we serve Jesus, we must necessarily serve our fellows. If we merely serve our fellows, we may not be serving Jesus.
As Christmas quickly approaches, we must have the joy of the shepherds in our hearts (Lk 2:10) for we know the time is now fulfilled — the time for Jesus to give us true joy and true peace, the time to preach His name to all people, the time to be an evangelist for His sake.
  Prayer: "This is the time of fulfillment. The reign of God is at hand! Reform your lives and believe in the gospel!" (Mk 1:15) Promise: "The virgin shall be with Child, and bear a Son, and shall name Him Immanuel." —Is 7:14 Praise: "O Key of David, O royal power of Israel controlling at Your will the gate of heaven: come, break down the prison walls of death for those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death; and lead Your captive people into freedom."    
  Rescript: In accord with the Code of Canon Law, I hereby grant the Nihil Obstat ("Permission to Publish") for One Bread, One Body covering the period from December 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020.
†Most Reverend Joseph R. Binzer, Auxiliary Bishop, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, April 2, 2019.  
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Demand-Type or Tankless Water Heaters
Tankless or demand-type water heaters are a type of water heater that only heats up water when one needs it. They are a more cost-efficient way of heating water, because they don’t waste as much energy on heating a whole storage water tank. They are also referred to as instantaneous water heaters.
How do they work?
  The way these water heaters are designed is quite ingenious. The hot water is turned on at the tap, and cold water is propelled though the pipeline into the unit. Once this happens, either an electric unit or a gas burner heats the water. This type of system practically insures that one will always have hot water available. It will produce about 2-5 gallons of hot water per minute. Keep in mind that a gas-burning water heater will yield larger quantities of flow rates than an electric-powered water heater. The beauty of this is that the demand-type water heater will do all of this without needing a hot water heating tank, saving space, money and energy in the process.
While the tankless water heater itself is more expensive than the typical storage water heater, it will usually last longer. Tankless water heaters also cost less to operate, and as mentioned before, save energy. All that counters the initial purchase price. In addition, the storage water heater only lasts about 10-15 years, whereas a tankless water heater will last up to 20. It is also easy to keep up with maintenance of a tankless water heater, because its parts are so easy to come by and usually cheap.
What are some common problems with tankless water heaters?
Running out of hot water
One of the most common problems with a tankless or demand-type water heater is that it runs out of hot water too quickly. There are several variables that one must consider when dealing with this problem. One reason this could be happening is because tankless water heaters cannot supply enough hot water when the hot water is being used for multiple things at the same time. For example, if one household is using the dishwasher, the laundry machine and the shower all at the same time, this will drastically impede the water heater’s ability to supply hot water to all three places. A simple but slightly pricey solution to this problem is to install an additional tankless water heater next to the original to help spread the hot water throughout the household. Another possibility is to install appliance-specific water heaters onto the appliances.
Mineral build-up
Mineral build-up can be another culprit. Hard water can be damaging and counter-productive for any water heater. Be sure to flush the tankless water heater about every six months or so to insure optimal usage. Consider a water softener to help keep the mineral build-up to a minimum.
Failure to ignite
Failure to ignite is a frustrating problem. This is often caused by blockage of the air supply or exhaust. Many tankless water heaters will have a display with an error code to tell that there is an air supply or exhaust problem. The demand-type water heater is most likely struggling with venting or combustion air. Make sure all the vents are clear. Look out for small animals, birds or even wasps. These creatures like to make their homes in or around the outside vents.
Flame failure
Flame failure is another common problem. This typically occurs from an electrical or gas pressure issue. Make sure that it is not because of an overdue gas bill or empty propane tank before calling professionals.
Give us a call if it’s time to change the way your house heats water! We have professionals standing by to help with the next chapter in your home improvement journey.
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Demand-Type or Tankless Water Heaters
Tankless or demand-type water heaters are a type of water heater that only heats up water when one needs it. They are a more cost-efficient way of heating water, because they don’t waste as much energy on heating a whole storage water tank. They are also referred to as instantaneous water heaters.
How do they work?
  The way these water heaters are designed is quite ingenious. The hot water is turned on at the tap, and cold water is propelled though the pipeline into the unit. Once this happens, either an electric unit or a gas burner heats the water. This type of system practically insures that one will always have hot water available. It will produce about 2-5 gallons of hot water per minute. Keep in mind that a gas-burning water heater will yield larger quantities of flow rates than an electric-powered water heater. The beauty of this is that the demand-type water heater will do all of this without needing a hot water heating tank, saving space, money and energy in the process.
While the tankless water heater itself is more expensive than the typical storage water heater, it will usually last longer. Tankless water heaters also cost less to operate, and as mentioned before, save energy. All that counters the initial purchase price. In addition, the storage water heater only lasts about 10-15 years, whereas a tankless water heater will last up to 20. It is also easy to keep up with maintenance of a tankless water heater, because its parts are so easy to come by and usually cheap.
What are some common problems with tankless water heaters?
Running out of hot water
One of the most common problems with a tankless or demand-type water heater is that it runs out of hot water too quickly. There are several variables that one must consider when dealing with this problem. One reason this could be happening is because tankless water heaters cannot supply enough hot water when the hot water is being used for multiple things at the same time. For example, if one household is using the dishwasher, the laundry machine and the shower all at the same time, this will drastically impede the water heater’s ability to supply hot water to all three places. A simple but slightly pricey solution to this problem is to install an additional tankless water heater next to the original to help spread the hot water throughout the household. Another possibility is to install appliance-specific water heaters onto the appliances.
Mineral build-up
Mineral build-up can be another culprit. Hard water can be damaging and counter-productive for any water heater. Be sure to flush the tankless water heater about every six months or so to insure optimal usage. Consider a water softener to help keep the mineral build-up to a minimum.
Failure to ignite
Failure to ignite is a frustrating problem. This is often caused by blockage of the air supply or exhaust. Many tankless water heaters will have a display with an error code to tell that there is an air supply or exhaust problem. The demand-type water heater is most likely struggling with venting or combustion air. Make sure all the vents are clear. Look out for small animals, birds or even wasps. These creatures like to make their homes in or around the outside vents.
Flame failure
Flame failure is another common problem. This typically occurs from an electrical or gas pressure issue. Make sure that it is not because of an overdue gas bill or empty propane tank before calling professionals.
Give us a call if it’s time to change the way your house heats water! We have professionals standing by to help with the next chapter in your home improvement journey.
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benrleeusa · 6 years ago
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[Ilya Somin] The Supreme Court's Recent Religious Liberty/Death Penalty Decision is Bad - But Not Quite as Bad as Many Think
The justices were wrong to reject a religious discrimination claim in a case where a person sentenced to death was not allowed access to a Muslim cleric at the moment of death. But the decision was not the result of anti-Muslim bigotry.
Dunn v. Ray, yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on religious liberty has come in for a great deal of criticism. In a 5-4 decision divided along ideological lines, the conservative justices overturned a lower court's decision to grant a stay in an Alabama death penalty case in which a Muslim defendant scheduled to be executed was denied the right to have an imam present with him at the moment of death, even though the state does allow a Christian minister to be present. Left of center commentators have accused the majority justices of anti-Muslim double standards. The ruling has also gotten pushback from conservatives, such as David French of the National Review, who calls the ruling "a grave injustice."
A grave injustice is exactly what it is. The decision should have gone the other way. But, as we shall see, anti-Muslim bigotry lprobably was not cause of the Court's error.
Justice Elena Kagan's dissent on behalf of herself and the other three liberal justices explains why Domineque Ray deserved to prevail in the case:
Holman Correctional Facility, the Alabama prison where Domineque Ray will be executed tonight, regularly allows a Christian chaplain to be present in the execution chamber. But Ray is Muslim. And the prison refused his request to have an imam attend him in the last moments of his life....
The clearest command of the Establishment Clause," this Court has held, "is that one religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another." Larson v. Valente, 456 U. S. 228, 244 (1982). But the State's policy does just that. Under that policy, a Christian prisoner may have a minister of his own faith accompany him into the execution chamber to say his last rites. But if an inmate practices a different religion—whether Islam, Judaism, or any other—he may not die with a minister of his own faith by his side. That treatment goes against the Establishment Clause's core principle of denominational neutrality....
To justify such religious discrimination, the State must show that its policy is narrowly tailored to a compelling interest. I have no doubt that prison security is an interest of that kind. But the State has offered no evidence to show that its wholesale prohibition on outside spiritual advisers is necessary to achieve that goal. Why couldn't Ray's imam receive whatever training in execution protocol the Christian chaplain received? The State has no answer. Why wouldn't it be sufficient for the imam to pledge, under penalty of contempt, that he will not interfere with the State's ability to perform the execution? The State doesn't say. The only evidence the State has offered is a conclusory affidavit stating that its policy "is the least restrictive means of furthering" its interest in safety and security. That is not enough to support a denominational preference.
Kagan is absolutely right about all of this. Indeed, the majority does not even try to take issue with it. They instead ruled against Ray because he raised his religious discrimination claim too late. Here is the sum total of the majority's reasoning:
On November 6, 2018, the State scheduled Domineque Ray's execution date for February 7, 2019. Because Ray waited until January 28, 2019 to seek relief, we grant the State's application to vacate the stay entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. See Gomez v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal., 503 U. S. 653, 654 (1992) (per curiam) ("A court may consider the last-minute nature of an application to stay execution in deciding whether to grant equitable relief.").
That's it. There is nothing more. Kagan has a compelling response:
I... see no reason to reject the Eleventh Circuit's finding that Ray brought his claim in a timely manner.The warden denied Ray's request to have his imam by his side on January 23, 2019. And Ray filed his complaint five days later, on January 28. The State contends that Ray should have known to bring his claim earlier, when his execution date was set on November 6. But the relevant statute would not have placed Ray on notice that the prison would deny his request. To the contrary, that statute provides that both the chaplain of the prison and the inmate's spiritual adviser of choice "may be present at an execution." Ala. Code §15–18–83(a) (2018). It makes no distinction between persons who may be present within the execution chamber and those who may enter only the viewing room. And the prison refused to give Ray a copy of its own practices and procedures (which would have made that distinction clear). So there is no reason Ray should have known, prior to January 23, that his imam would be granted less access than the Christian chaplain to the execution chamber.
For a more detailed description of the facts relevant to the timeline, see the Eleventh Circuit opinion, which I think is very good on this point. If the majority justices believe there is some flaw in Kagan and the Eleventh Circuit's reasoning on the timing issue, they should have at least explained what that flaw is. As Justice Kagan notes, the Supreme Court usually defers to lower court decisions on such case-specific procedural matters.
Nonetheless, the fact that the case was decided on technical procedural grounds probably ensures that it won't set a precedent that undermines religious freedom. The majority did not address the substantive issue at all, and therefore created no precedent on that subject. The ruling probably won't establish much of a precedent even on the issue of timing, because the majority made so little effort to explain their reasoning, and thereby did not establish any clear rule that can be applied in future cases.
It is also unlikely that the majority justices were motivated by anti-Muslim bigotry. As Luke Goodrich of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty points out in an insightful Twitter thread, the same conservative justices had ruled in favor of religious liberty and religious discrimination claims brought by Muslims in cases such as Holt v. Hobbs and EEOC v. Abercrombie and Fitch. One of Justice Samuel Alito's better-known rulings as a lower court judge was a decision in favor of Muslim police officers who sought a religious-liberty exemption from regulations barring them from wearing beards. Goodrich agrees that Dunn v. Ray is wrongly decided, and he and his organization have litigated a number of religious-liberty claims on behalf of Muslim clients. But he makes a strong case that the ruling was not motivated by hostility towards Muslims.
What, then, explains the Court's decision? The majority's short and cryptic opinion makes it very difficult to know for sure. But Goodrich, my VC co-blogger Will Baude, and Doug Mataconis, all make a highly plausible case that the real concern was frustration with anti-death penalty activists who, in the view of many conservatives, often raise dubious last-minute claims in the hopes of delaying executions. To say that this factor likely explains the ruling is not to say that it excuses it. The fact that activist lawyers sometimes abuse the process does not relieve the justices of their obligation to carefully consider the facts of each case on their own merits. In this instance, those facts strongly suggest that Ray's lawyers raised the religious discrimination claim as soon as quickly as possible. But a bias against seemingly late-breaking claims in death penalty cases is not the same thing as a bias against Muslims.
Some of those who contend that the Ray decision reflects an anti-Muslim double standard also link it to the Court's recent ruling in the travel ban case, where it upheld the president's order barring citizens of several Muslim-majority nations from the United States, despite very strong evidence of bigoted motivation that would have led the policy to be struck down in most other contexts. I yield to no one (or at least to very few) in the degree of my opposition to the travel ban ruling. I consider it one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of my lifetime. Unlike Dunn v. Ray, it really did set a dangerous precedent. The "national security" rationale for the travel ban was, if anything, even more dubious than the prison's security justification for barring Ray's imam from the execution chamber, thereby creating a precedent for upholding similar flimsy pretexts for discrimination in the future. And there is indeed an egregious double standard at work in the travel ban case.
But the double standard at issue was not the result of bias against Muslims, but rather of giving unwarranted deference to the government in immigration cases, that would not be applied elsewhere. For reasons I summarized here and more fully in an amicus brief I coauthored in the case, that approach is deeply at odds with the text and original meaning of the Constitution. It also lacks any good pragmatic justification. But the double standard is not motivated by anti-Muslim bigotry on the part of current Supreme Court justices, and has roots in previous immigration decisions involving other groups. Indeed, both Chief Justice Roberts' majority opinion and - even more so - Anthony Kennedy's concurrence, express thinly veiled distaste for Trump's anti-Muslim statements and motives.
Dunn v. Ray and especially the travel ban case are terrible decisions, even if not motivated by anti-Muslim prejudice. I hope the former will not be a model for future cases, and that the latter will eventually be overruled. But we can more effectively oppose such rulings if we understand what led to them in the first place.
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douchebagbrainwaves · 3 years ago
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CALDER'S SCULPTURES NEVER GET BORING
This is part of what big companies pay extra for is the next Apple, or the market wasn't ready yet, b the founders solved the wrong problem. While writing the prototype, the group has been traversing their network of friends in search of angel investors. I think new theorems are a fine thing to create, but there are few outside the US, startups will do a rolling close, where they can choose for themselves, rely instead on the opinions of other investors. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. I think a bigger problem is that the kind of things most people use computers for, a tenth of your time working on new stuff. The smart ones learn who the other smart ones are, and together they cook up new projects of their own, they'd screw it up. Even worse than the spectacular abuses might be the overall decrease in efficiency that would accompany increased secrecy. You don't have the clean, sparse feel they used to be for getting users. A lot of investors hated the idea, but not because of some right turn the country took during the Reagan administration, but because it gives you another source of ideas: look at big companies, you'd need an impressive-looking sales force to sell it to them as a web service. But with company names there is another possible approach. In fact, the reason startups do better when deprived of this crutch anyway. The first stories about Jaynes cited this source, but now that the things we build are so complicated, there's another way to convince investors to let you do it like a pilot scanning the instrument panel, not like a detective trying to unravel some mystery.
The url is in such cases practically enough by itself to determine whether the email is neutral, the spam probability will hinge on the url, and it was like trying to run through waist-deep water. For some reason this seems to be toward the merely unpalatable. That means it has to stay popular to stay good. As long as you're profitable. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list. After we fund startups we work closely with them for three months outweighs the inconvenience of moving. In such rounds they won't get the 25 to 40% of the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. At best you end up with a statistical sort of correctness. Can't you just think of new ideas. In fact, the language encourages you to be omniscient, but actually they tend to be about 15? We're just working on search. One of our axioms at Y Combinator is not to try to create a startup hub.
And when people seem to share a certain prickly independence, whenever and wherever they lived. We hated our last TV so much that a competitor will trip them up as that they will trip over themselves. You don't need to raise money, but also as a way of saving you work, rather than carry a single unnecessary ounce. In theory you could stick together ideas at random like this, but others haven't decided what they'll do afterward. To me she seems the best novelist of all time. Don't be evil. But investors are so fickle that you can learn from them. On the other hand, startup investing is a very strange business. When you have the degenerate case. For a startup, then hand them off to VC firms for the next round. Good ideas and valuable ideas are very close to good ideas, use them, but more than full-time.
So the lower we can get the response rate—whether by filtering, or by redesigning the product in the way of redesign. There's a real difference, because an assertion provokes objections in a way that seemed to reflect the personality of the city. And while governments might be able to pinch it off at the point where they're used. And no one can tell you, that requires your complete attention. Only a few do so far, startups that turn down acquisition offers is not necessarily that all such offers undervalue startups. There will be many different ways to learn different things, and some may look quite different from what happens in college. That's orders of magnitude better than desktop software. Our startup begins when a group of people they didn't already know. If you're starting your own company, because you're only replacing one segment instead of discarding the whole thing. Though I'd really like to know how she does what she does, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they built whole towns, market forces would compel them to pay attention to you. Now survival is the default, instead of paying attention to what users needed, or c the company spent too much and burned through their funding before they started to make the implementation easier to port, but it turned out that many did. You release software as a series A round, the round is going to solve this problem, but it can be good for writing the kinds of programs they want to write desktop software, because desktop software has become a lot less money.
But I think that while stricter laws may not decrease the amount of memory you need for each user's data. One solution to this problem, without waiting for the government. When he rides the Eunicycle, people smile at him. How are they to hear? What a wonderful thing, to be able to reproduce the error and release a fix. US News & World Report. Some time before the release date you assemble a new version of your software by a certain date? And when someone can put on my todo list, I looked to see if there was a problem with acquisitions is that they lead to more ideas.
And then there is the question of what this new Lisp also had powerful libraries for doing what hackers want to do it. Their format is convenient, especially when you're generating code, to have operators that take any number of arguments. This should yield a much sharper estimate of the probability. You have to make their fortunes will continue to work for people with high standards. Last year one founder spent the whole first half of his talk on a fascinating analysis of the limits of the conventional desktop metaphor. And it has to be modified to: stay upwind for as long as you're still actively developing the product. One way of using patents that clearly does not encourage innovation is when established companies with bad products use patents to suppress small competitors with good products. Result: if it can't contain exciting sales pitches, spam becomes less effective as a marketing vehicle, and fewer businesses want to use. This was not how things worked at Viaweb. He said their business model is a down elevator. Another great thing about Web-based applications. The problem is, the USPTO are not hackers.
One easy way to build such a whitelist is to keep a list of the n most admirable people. And the way founders end up net ahead it's not coming out of organs not designed for that purpose. And put this kind of bug is the hardest to find, and also occurs once or twice in a big program is to start from the symptom and hope to fix the underlying causes. It also has to convince instead of commanding. They just want to invest in you, or his only duty is to the advantage of investors. This time the evidence is a mix of good and bad. In effect, this structure gives the investor a free option on the next round of investors can decide in a couple days. You can afford to be candid about what you haven't figured out yet. Writing is the same reason readers like them.
But it's also because money is not the hours but the responsibility. I had to predict now, I'd say that startups will build on, they have to understand the advantages startups get from being in America. Jack Lambert. The defining feature of spam in fact, that would not only not eliminate great variations in wealth, but might even exacerbate them. You might say that it's an accident that it thus helps identify this spam. If anyone is dishonest, it's the reporters. The problem in more traditional places like Europe and Japan goes deeper than the employment laws. A throwaway program is something that more and more programs may turn out to be really useful.
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hydrus · 6 years ago
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I had a difficult week, but I got some great work done. Save for some final help revisions, the downloader overhaul is complete.
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So, I managed to finish 13 of my 15 final jobs in the downloader overhaul. All that remains is a help pass for subscriptions and a better intro to gallery and watcher downloading, which I will fold into normal work over the coming weeks. This has been a longer journey than I expected, but I feel great to be done. This final work is mostly unusual stuff that got put off.
For instance, subscriptions can now run without a working popup (i.e. completely in the background)! It works just like import folders, as a per-subscription checkbox option, and still permits the final files being published to a popup button or a named page. I recommend only trying this after the initial sync has completed, just so you know the sub works ok (and isn't accidentally downloading 2,000 garbage files in the background!).
Also, subscription queries can now take an optional 'display name'. This display name will appear in lieu of the actual query text in most display contexts, like the edit sub panel or a popup message or a publishing destination. A query for pixiv_artist:93360 can be more neatly renamed to and managed as 'houtengeki', and 'xxxxxxxx' can be renamed 'family documents, DO NOT ENTER' and so on.
And subscription queries now have individual tag import options that only support 'additional tags'. So, if you want to give a particular query a blog-related creator tag or a personal processing tag, this is now simple.
If you 'try again' on a 'deleted' file import, the client will now ask if you want to erase that deletion record first (i.e. overriding it and importing anyway)! This is obviously much quicker and simpler than having to temporarily edit the file import options to not exclude previously deleted.
Gallery and Watcher pages now have quick 'retry failed' buttons and list right-click menu entries.
advanced stuff
If you are in advanced mode, subscription edit panels now have a 'get quality info' button. If you select some queries and hit this (oh fug, I just tested it IRL and discovered it does it for all queries, not just selected, wew, I will fix this for next week), the client will do some hacky db work and present you with a summary of how many files currently in those queries are inbox/archive/deleted, and a percentage of archived/(archived+deleted)--basically "after processing, you kept 5% of this query". This should help you figure out which queries are actually 'good' for you and which are just giving you 98% trash. I can do more here, but this is just a quick prototype. Feedback would be appreciated.
The downloader easy-import pngs now support custom http headers and bandwidth rules! This is a bit experimental, so test it a bit please before you roll it out for real. If you have custom headers or specific bandwidth rules for the domains in your export downloaders gugs, they will be added automatically, and there's a button to add them separately as well. Exporters and importers will get detailed previews of what these new 'domain metadata' objects include.
If you are in advanced mode, file import options now have options to turn off url- and hash-based 'skip because already in db/previously deleted' checks. They are basically a "I don't care what you think the url is, just download it anyway and see if it is a new file m8". If you have a particular url conflict that was causing an incorrectly skipped download that I have previously discussed with you, please try these options and reattempt the problem file. Don't use them for regular downloads and subs, or you'll just be wasting bandwidth. Advanced file import options now also allow you to turn off source url association completely.
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added a 'show a popup while working' checkbox to edit subscription panel--be careful with it, I think maybe only turn it off after you are happy everything is set up right and the sub has run once
advanced mode users will see a new 'get quality info' button on the edit subscription panel. this will some ugly+hacky inbox/archived/deleted info on the selected queries to help you figure out if you are only archiving, say, 2% of one query. this is a quickly made but cpu-expensive way of calculating this info. I can obviously expand it in future, so I would appreciate your thoughts
subscription queries now have an optional display name, which has no bearing on their function but if set will appear instead of query text in various presentation contexts (this is useful, for instance, if the downloader query text deals in something unhelpful like integer artist_id)
subscription queries now each have a simple tag import options! this only allows 'additional tags', in case you want to add some simple per-query tags
selecting 'try again' on file imports that previously failed due to 'deleted' will now pop up a little yes/no asking if you would like to first erase these files' previously deleted file record!
the watcher and gallery import panels now have 'retry failed' buttons and right-click menu entries when appropriate
the watcher and gallery import panels will now do some ui update less frequently when they contain a lot of data
fixed the new human-friendly tag sorting code for ungrouped lexicographic sort orders, where it was accidentally grouping by namespace
downloader easy-import pngs can now hold custom header and bandwidth rules metadata! this info, if explicitly present for the appropriate domain, will be added automatically on the export side as you add gugs. it can also be bundled separately after manually typing a domain to add. on the import side, it is now listed as a new type. longer human-friendly descriptions of all bandwidth and header information being bundled will be displayed during the export and import processes, just as an additional check
for advanced users, added 'do not skip downloading because of known urls/hashes' options to downloader file import options. these checkboxes work like the tag import options ones--ignoring known urls and hashes to force downloads. they are advanced and should not be used unless you have a particular problem to fix
improved how the pre-import url/hash checking code is compared for the tag and file import options, particularly on the hash side
for advanced users, added 'associate additional source urls' to downloader file import options, which governs whether a site's given 'source urls' should be added and trusted for downloaded files. turn this off if the site is giving bad source urls
fixed an unusual problem where gallery searches with search terms that included the search separator (like '6+girls skirt', with a separator of '+') were being overzealously de/encoded (to '6+girls+skirt' rather than '6%2bgirls+skirt')
improved how unicode quoted characters in URLs' query parameters, like %E5%B0%BB%E7%A5%9E%E6%A7%98 are auto-converted to something prettier when the user sees them
the client now tests if 'already in db' results are actually backed by the file structure--now, if a the actual file is missing despite the db record, the import will be force-attempted and the file structure hopefully healed
gallery url jobs will no longer spawn new 'next page' urls if the job yielded 0 _new_ (rather than _total_) file urls (so we should have fixed loops fetching the same x 'already in file import cache' results due to the gallery just passing the same results for n+1 page fetches)
in the edit parsing panels, if the example data currently looks like json, new content parsers will spawn with json formulae, otherwise they will get html formulae
fixed an issue with the default twitter tweet parser pulling the wrong month for source time
added a simple 'media load report mode' to the help debug menu to help figure out some PIL/OpenCV load order stuff
the 'missing locations recovery' dialog that spawns on boot if file locations are missing now uses the new listctrl, so is thankfully sortable! it also works better behind the scenes
this dialog now also has an 'add a possibly correct location' button, which will scan the given directory for the correct prefixes and automatically fill in the list for you
fixed some of the new import folder error reporting
misc code cleanup
next week
Now I will finish a simple login manager. Fingers crossed, I hope to spend a total of three to four weeks on it. I don't expect I'll have anything interesting ready for it for v326, but maybe I'll have some dummy ui for advanced users to play with.
Thanks everyone!
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technuter · 6 years ago
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Epson L6190 Printer Review
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Few months back, Epson has launched its new A4 duplex integrated ink tank printer, the new L-series printers that offer one of the lowest printing costs in the market. The newly integrated ink tank printers consist of the L4150 and L4160 models, and the L6160, L6170 and L6190 models.
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Today, we shall tell our experience with Epson L6190. It is a 4-in-1 device with scan, fax, print, and copy functions. Epson L6190 is more targeted for Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs). Inside The Box: Inside the box, a user will get 4-in-1 Printer, three cords, and user manual.
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Specifications for Epson L6190: Printer Type: Print, Scan, Copy, Fax with ADF Print Method: PrecisionCore Printhead Minimum Ink Droplet Volume: 3.3 pl Printer Language: ESC / P-R Control Panel: 2.4 " Colour LCD Touch Panel Print Direction: Bi-directional printing, Uni-directional printing Nozzle Configuration: 400 nozzles Black, 128 nozzles per colour (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) Maximum Resolution: 4800 x 1200 dpi (with Variable-Sized Droplet Technology) Automatic 2-sided printing: Yes (up to A4) Photo Default - 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 " : Approx. 69 sec per photo (Border)                                                                            Approx. 92 sec per photo (Borderless) Draft, A4 (Black / Colour): Up to 33 ppm / 20 ppm ISO 24734, A4 Simplex (Black / Colour): Up to 15 ipm / 8.0 ipm ISO 24734, A4 Duplex (Black / Colour): Up to 6.5 ipm / 4.5 ipm Copy Resolution: 600 x 1200 dpi Max Copies: 99 copies Reduction / Enlargement: 25 - 400%, Auto Fit Function Maximum Copy Size: A4, Letter ISO 29183, A4, Simplex (Black / Colour): Up to 11 ipm / 5.5 ipm Copy Quality: Normal / Best quality Scanner Type: Flatbed colour image scanner Sensor Type: CIS Optical Resolution: 1200 x 2400 dpi Maximum Scan Area: 216 x 297 mm (8.5 x 11.7 ") Scanner Bit Depth (Colour): 48-bit input, 24-bit output Scanner Bit Depth (Grayscale): 16-bit input, 8-bit output Scanner Bit Depth (Black & White): 16-bit input, 1-bit output Scan Speed (Flatbed / ADF (Simplex)): 200dpi, Black: 12 sec / 5.0 ppm                                                                                  200dpi Colour: 27 sec / 5.0 ppm Support Paper Thickness: 64-95 g/m2 Paper Capacity: 30 pages (75 g/m2) Type Of Fax: Walk-up black-and-white and colour fax capability Receive Memory / Page Memory: 1.1 MB, Page memory, Up to 100 pages (ITU-T No.1 chart) Fax Resolution: Up to 200 x 200 dpi Transmission Paper Size (ADF): Letter, A4, 8.5 x 13 ", Legal Transmission Paper Size (Flatbed): Letter, A4 Receiving Paper Size: Letter, A4, 8.5 x 13 ", Legal Speed Dial / Group Dial: Up to 60 numbers, 30 groups Fax Features: PC Fax (Transmission/Receive), Automatic redial, Address book, Delay Send, Broadcast Fax (Mono Only) Error Correction Mode: ITU Group3 fax with Error Correction Fax Speed (Data Transfer Rate): Up to 33.6 kbps, Approx. 3 sec/page Number of Paper Trays: 1 (Paper Cassette) Standard Paper Input Capacity: Up to 250 sheets, A4 Plain Paper (80 g/m2)                                                                     Up to 20 sheets, Premium Glossy Photo Paper Output Capacity: Up to 30 sheets, A4 Plain Paper                                      Up to 20 sheets, Premium Glossy Photo Paper Maximum Paper Size: 215.9 x 1200 mm (8.5 x 47.24 ") Paper Feed Method: Friction feed Paper Size: Legal, 8.5 x 13 ", Letter, A4, 195 x 270 mm, B5, A5, A6, 100 x 148 mm, B6, 5 x 7 ", 4 x 6 ", Envelopes #10, DL, C6 Print Margin: 0 mm top, left, right, bottom via custom settings in printer driver Epson Connect Features: Epson iPrint, Epson Email Print, Remote Print Driver, Scan to Cloud Other Mobile Solutions: Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Mopria Print Service Supported OS: Windows XP / XP Professional x 64 Edition / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10                                 Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012 / 2016                                 Only printing and scanning functions are supported for Windows Server OS                                 Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later Black Ink Bottle: 7,500 pages - C13T03Y100 Cyan Ink Bottle: 6,000 (Composite Yield) - C13T03Y200 Magenta Ink Bottle: 6,000 (Composite Yield) - C13T03Y300 Yellow Ink Bottle: 6,000 (Composite Yield) - C13T03Y400 L6000 Series Maintenance Box: Order Code: C13T04D100 USB: USB 2.0 Network: Ethernet, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct Network Protocol: TCP/IPv4, TCP/IPv6, LPD, IPP, PORT9100, WSD Network Management Protocols: SNMP, HTTP, DHCP, BOOTP, APIPA, PING, DDNS, mDNS, SLP, WSD, LLTD Rated Voltage: AC 220 - 240 V Rated Frequency: 50 - 60 Hz Operating: 12.0 W Sleep: 1.0 W Power Off: 0.3 W Standby: 5.4 W Working & Design: The new Epson L6190 integrated InkTank printer has been re-designed into a compact size with the Ink Tank integrated into the printer, offering the smallest footprint amongst all brands of Tnk Tank printers. Its easy-to-use spill-free ink bottles offer users ease and convenience when refilling the ink bottles. The ink bottles are designed to prevent re-filling errors with each ink bottle nozzle uniquely customized to fit its matching color tank. Its setup is easy and comes with a 2.4” colour LCD panel for PC-less operation.
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It comes with an auto-duplex print function which affords users up to 50% savings on paper cost, reducing running costs even further. Epson is one of the very few brands offering Ink Tank printers with auto-duplex function in the market.
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It comes with Precision Core print heads for high performance, achieving high ISO print speeds of up to 15ipm for standard black and white printing and 33ppm for draft printing, for improved business efficiency. Delivering a maximum print resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi, Epson’s Precision Core print heads are composed of Micro Thin Film Piezo print chips for precise multi-size droplet control capabilities, ensuring the greatest details and extremely smooth gradations in documents or photographs.
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The L6190 prints black and white documents with razor-sharp text that are water and smudge-resistant. A user can also print lab-quality glossy photos on photo media paper.
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The L6190 Broadcast Fax and PC-fax functions allow you to send a fax digitally with your computer, complete with a 100-page storage memory that ensures your incoming faxes will be received if the printer is out of paper or ink. Connectivity: The main advantage of Epson L6190 is its Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct Connectivity. The advantage of Wi-Fi Direct allows users to connect up to 4 devices to the printer without a router. It also comes enabled with Ethernet.
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Wirelessly print your documents from anywhere in the world with Epson Connect's wide range of features: Epson iPrint - Print from and scan directly to your smart device or online cloud storage services. Epson email print - Print to any Email Print-enabled Epson printer from any device or PC with email access. Remote print driver - Print to a compatible Epson printer anywhere in the world via the Internet using a PC with Remote Print driver or from mobile devices via the Epson iPrint app. Scan to cloud – Share your scans through email or store them online in cloud storage services. Apple devices, Android smartphone and tablet or PC Google account cab print directly using respectively, Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print and Mopria Print Service Verdict: Epson L6190 is a 4-in-1 device with scan, fax, print, and copy functions. It is equipped with a 30-sheets ADF unit for convenient scanning and copying of multipage documents. The best part is Epson Warranty, which is 1 Year or 50,000 Pages whichever is earlier. It is good for Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and it is compact in design, so it can be fit in any corner of the office. The price of Epson L6190 is Rs. 24, 099. You can buy the product from the Epson Shop. Find the link below: https://epsonshop.co.in/epson-l6190-all-in-one.html @Technuter.com News Service Read the full article
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Introduction to Python Generators
Generators make it easy to create iterations in Python and in return write less code. This tutorial will introduce you to Python generators, their benefits, and how they work.
Basics
A generator is a function that returns a generator object on which you can call the next() method, so that for every call it returns a value or the next value. A normal Python function uses the return keyword to return values, but generators use the keyword yield to return values. This means that any Python function containing a yield statement is a generator function.
The yield statement usually halts the function and saves the local state so that it can be resumed right where it left off. Generator functions can have one or more yield statements.
A generator is also an iterator, but what is an iterator? Before we dive into the details of generators, I think it's important to know what iterators are because they form an integral part of this discussion.
Python Iterators
A Python iterator is simply a class that defines an __iter__() method. Most Python objects are iterable, which means you can loop over each and every element in the objects. Examples of iterables in Python include strings, lists, tuples, dictionaries, and ranges.
Let's consider the example below, in which we are looping over a list of colors:
colors= [“red”,”blue”,”yellow”] def my_funct(): for color in colors: print color
Behind the scenes, the for statement will call iter() on the list object. The function will then return an iterator object that defines the method __next__(), which will then access each color, one at a time. When there are no more colors left, __next__ will raise a stopIteration exception, which will in turn inform the for loop to terminate.
Iterating Over a Dictionary
d = {'x': 10, 'y': 20, 'z': 30} for k,v in d.items(): print k, v #result # y 20 # x 10 # z 30
Iterating Over Rows in a CSV File
import csv with open('file.csv', newline='') as File: reader = csv.reader(File) for row in reader: yield row
Iterating Over a String
my_string = 'Generators' for string in my_string: print (string) #result # G # e # n # e # r # a # t # o # r # s
Benefits of Using Generators
Let's discuss some of the benefits of using generators as opposed to iterators:
Easy to Implement
Building an iterator in Python will require you to implement a class with __iter__() and __next__() methods as well as taking care of any errors that may cause a stopIteration error.
class Reverse: """Iterator for looping over a sequence backwards.""" def __init__(self, data): self.data = data self.index = len(data) def __iter__(self): return self def __next__(self): if self.index == 0: raise StopIteration self.index = self.index - 1 return self.data[self.index]
As you can see above, the implementation is very lengthy. All this burden is automatically handled by generators.
Less Memory Consumption
Generators help to minimize memory consumption, especially when dealing with large data sets, because a generator will only return one item at a time.
Better Performance and Optimisation
Generators are lazy in nature. This means that they only generate values when required to do so. Unlike a normal iterator, where all values are generated regardless of whether they will be used or not, generators only generate the values needed. This will, in turn, lead to your program performing faster.
How to Create a Generator in Python
Creating a generator is very easy. All you need to do is write a normal function, but with a yield statement instead of a return statement, as shown below.
def gen_function(): yield "python"
While a return statement terminates a function entirely, yield just pauses the function until it is called again by the next() method.
For example, the program below makes use of both the yield and next() statements.
def myGenerator(l): total = 1 for n in l: yield total total += n newGenerator = myGenerator([10,3]) print(next(newGenerator)) print(next(newGenerator))
How Python Generators Work
Let's  see how generators work. Consider the example below.
# generator_example.py def myGenerator(l): total = 0 for n in l: total += n yield total newGenerator = myGenerator([10,20,30]) print(next(newGenerator)) print(next(newGenerator)) print(next(newGenerator))
In the function above, we define a generator named myGenerator, which takes a list l as an argument. We then define a variable total and assign to it a value of zero. In addition, we loop through each element in the list and subsequently add it to the total variable.
We then instantiate newGenerator and call the next() method on it. This will run the code until it yields the first value of total, which will be 0 in this case. The function then keeps the value of the total variable until the next time the function is called. Unlike a normal return statement, which will return all the values at once, the generator will pick up from where it left off.
Below are the remaining subsequent values.
# generator_example.py def myGenerator(l): total = 0 for n in l: yield total total += n newGenerator = myGenerator([10,20,30]) print(next(newGenerator)) print(next(newGenerator)) print(next(newGenerator)) # result # 0 # 10 # 30
If you try to call the function after it has completed the loop, you will get a StopIteration error.
A StopIteration is raised by the next() method to signal that there are no further items produced by the iterator.
0 10 30 Traceback (most recent call last): File "python", line 15, in <module> StopIterationNormal function
Example 2
In this example, we show how to use multiple yield statements in a function.
# colors.py def colors(): yield "red" yield "blue" yield "green" next_color =colors() print(next(next_color)) print(next(next_color)) print(next(next_color)) # result # red # blue # green
Whereas a normal function returns all the values when the function is a called, a generator waits until the next() method is called again. Once next() is called, the colors function resumes from where it had stopped.
Conclusion
Generators are more memory efficient, especially when working with very large lists or big objects. This is because you can use yields to work on smaller bits rather than having the whole data in memory all at once.
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heliosfinance · 7 years ago
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When To Expect My Tax Refund? The Tax Refund Calendar
Updated for the 2017 Tax Year (2018 Tax Season)
One of the most pressing questions in the life of an early tax filer – when can I expect my tax refund to come? Before e-filing, this was always difficult to predict. First, you mail in your return. Then someone inputs all your information (and later, computers scanned in your information), then the Treasury had to issue a check, which was then mailed to you. Now, with a free IRS e-file, you can get your refund in as little as 8 days from when you file, if you elect for direct deposit.
For 9 out of 10 taxpayers, the IRS issued refunds in less than 21 days from the date the return was received last year.
The IRS has  NOT officially announced a starting date yet, but we believe the IRS will start accepting e-File returns on January 23, 2018. The IRS does not release a calendar, but continues to issue guidance that most filers should receive their refund within 21 days. They also remind filers that many tax software programs allow you to submit your taxes before the start of tax season. However, these software programs don't eFile until the IRS opens the system (with a few minor exceptions for testing). 
Also, you are legally allowed to mail in your 2017 tax return starting on January 1, 2018, but once again, if the IRS isn't processing returns yet, there is no point to be so quick. 
We also have put together an IRS Where's My Refund FAQ and Questions for common issues people are seeing this year.​
Early Filers - You Will See A Delay In Your Refund
Congress passed a law last year that requires the IRS to HOLD all tax refunds that include the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) until February 15, 2018, regardless of how early the tax return was filed. So, if you file on the first day, you might still be waiting until February 15 for your refund.
The IRS released a note last year that people held up by this delay shouldn't expect their refunds until the week of February 27, assuming there are no other problems with the tax returns. You can read this press release here.
​The goal of this is to cut down on fraud and give the IRS time to ensure no duplicate returns are filed. The trouble is, the IRS will hold your entire tax refund, not just the EITC or ACTC part.
When you get your refund, don't let it go to waste! Make sure you put it in a high yield savings account ASAP!
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The 2018 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
Here is a chart of when you can expect your tax refund for when the return was accepted (based on e-Filing). This is an estimate based on past years trends, but based on early information, does seem accurate for about 90% of taxpayers. Also, as always, you can use the link after the calendar to get your specific refund status. 
Now, when to expect my tax refund!​
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 23 - Jan 28, 2018
Feb 10, 2018
Feb 17, 2018
Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2018
Feb 17, 2018
Feb 24, 2018
Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2018
Feb 24, 2018
Mar 3, 2018
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2018
Mar 3, 2018
Mar 10, 2018
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2018
Mar 10, 2018
Mar 17, 2018
Feb 27 - Mar 4, 2018
Mar 17, 2018
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 5 - Mar 11, 2018
Mar 24, 2018
Mar 31, 2018
Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2018
Mar 31, 2018
Apr 7, 2018
Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018
Apr 7, 2018
Apr 14, 2018
Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2018
Apr 14, 2018
Apr 21, 2018
Apr 2 - Apr 8, 2018
Apr 21, 2018
April 28, 2018
Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2018
April 28, 2018
May 5, 2018
Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2018
May 5, 2018
May 12, 2018
Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2018
May 12, 2018
May 19, 2018
If, for some reason, you didn’t receive your return in the time specified above, give or take a few days, you can always use the IRS’s tool called Get Refund Status. Since the link requires personal information, here is the non-html version: http://ift.tt/1ihoQDW.
Once you enter all your information, it will tell you what is going on with your refund. Remember, if you input the wrong SSN, it could cause an IRS Error Code 9001, and might make your return be held for Identity Verification.
Also, many people are concerned because they received a Reference Code when checking WMR. Here is a complete list of IRS Reference Codes. Just match up the code with the one in the list, and see what the problem could be. As always, if you are concerned, you can call the IRS directly at (800) 829-1040.
Looking for an old IRS refund chart? We saved them for you below.
Quick Navigation
Early Filers - You Will See A Delay In Your Refund
The 2017 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
2017 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
2016 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
2015 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
The 2014 Estimated Refund Schedule
Important Notice For Tax Time
2017 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
Still looking for the chart from 2017. Don't worry, we saved it below. Remember, this is not an official chart published by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on the timing we've seen helping tax payers every year.
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 23 - Jan 28, 2017
Feb 10, 2017
Feb 17, 2017
Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2017
Feb 17, 2017
Feb 24, 2017
Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2017
Feb 24, 2017
Mar 3, 2017
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2017
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
Feb 27 - Mar 4, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 5 - Mar 11, 2017
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
Apr 7, 2017
Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2017
Apr 7, 2017
Apr 14, 2017
Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2017
Apr 14, 2017
Apr 21, 2017
Apr 2 - Apr 8, 2017
Apr 21, 2017
April 28, 2017
Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2017
April 28, 2017
May 5, 2017
Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2017
May 5, 2017
May 12, 2017
Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2017
May 12, 2017
May 19, 2017
2016 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
Still looking for the chart for 2016? Here you go. Remember, this is not an official chart provided by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on the timing we've seen.​
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 19 - Jan 23, 2016
Feb 5, 2016
Feb 10, 2016
Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2016
Feb 12, 2016
Feb 17, 2016
Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2016
Feb 19, 2016
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 7 - 13, 2016
Feb 26, 2016
Mar 2, 2016
Feb 14 - 20, 2016
Mar 4, 2016
Mar 9, 2016
Feb 21 - 27, 2016
Mar 11, 2016
Mar 16, 2016
Feb 28 - Mar 5, 2016
Mar 18, 2016
Mar 23, 2016
Mar 6 - 12, 2016
Mar 25, 2016
Mar 30, 2016
Mar 13 - 19, 2016
Apr 1, 2016
Apr 6, 2016
Mar 20 - 26, 2016
Apr 8, 2016
Apr 13, 2016
Mar 27 - Apr 2, 2016
Apr 15, 2016
Apr 20, 2016
Apr 3 - Apr 9, 2016
Apr 22, 2016
April 27, 2016
Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2016
April 29, 2016
May 4, 2016
Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2016
May 6, 2016
May 11, 2016
Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2016
May 13, 2016
May 18, 2016
2015 IRS Refund Schedule Chart
Still looking for the chart from 2015? Here you go. Remember, this is not an official chart provided by the IRS, but a guideline we created based on timing we've seen.
Date Accepted
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 20 - Jan 24, 2015
Feb 6, 2015
Feb 9, 2015
Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2015
Feb 13, 2015
Feb 16, 2015
Feb 1 - Feb 7, 2015
Feb 20, 2015
Feb 23, 2015
Feb 8 - 14, 2015
Feb 27, 2015
Mar 2, 2015
Feb 15 - 21, 2015
Mar 6, 2015
Mar 13, 2015
Feb 22 - 28, 2015
Mar 13, 2015
Mar 20, 2015
Mar 1 - 7, 2015
Mar 20, 2015
Mar 27, 2015
Mar 8 - 14, 2015
Mar 27, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Mar 15 - 21, 2015
Apr 3, 2015
Apr 10, 2015
Mar 22 - 28, 2015
Apr 10, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Mar 29 - Apr 4, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Apr 24, 2015
Apr 5 - Apr 11, 2015
Apr 24, 2015
May 1, 2015
Apr 12 - Apr 15, 2015
May 1, 2015
May 8, 2015
Apr 16 - Apr 25, 2015
May 8, 2015
May 15, 2015
Apr 26 - May 2, 2015
May 15, 2015
May 22, 2015
The 2014 Estimated Refund Schedule
​Still looking for 2014's chart? Well, here it is. Remember, the IRS replaced this chart with the standard "90% of filers should receive their refunds within 21 days". However, based on experiences talking to a lot of filers, this chart still was pretty accurate.
Accepted Date
Direct Deposit Sent
Paper Check Mailed
Jan 31 - Feb 3, 2014
Feb 13, 2014
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 4 - 10, 2014
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 24, 2014
Feb 11 - 17, 2014
Feb 28, 2014
Mar 3, 2014
Feb 18 - 24, 2014
Mar 7, 2014
Mar 10, 2014
Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2014
Mar 14, 2014
Mar 17, 2014
Mar 4 - 10, 2014
Mar 21, 2014
Mar 24, 2014
Mar 11 - 17, 2014
Mar 28, 2014
Mar 31, 2014
Mar 18 - 24, 2014
Apr 4, 2014
Apr 7, 2014
Mar 25 - 31, 2014
Apr 11, 2014
Apr 14, 2014
Apr 1 - 7, 2014
Apr 18, 2014
Apr 21, 2014
Apr 8 - 14, 2014
Apr 25, 2014
Apr 28, 2014
Apr 15 - 21, 2014
May 2, 2014
May 5, 2014
Apr 22 - 28, 2014
May 9, 2014
May 12, 2014
Important Notice For Tax Time
Did you know that identity theft, especially around tax season, is running rampant? People's credit information was stolen at Target, Home Depot, even The State of California. Now's a great time to make sure that your credit is safe.​
Credit Karma: Second, now is a great time to check your credit report and make sure that there are no issues. You should be checking your credit at least once per year, and tax time is a great time to do it. We recommend using Credit Karma because it’s free! Plus, Credit Karma has a lot of great tools to help you improve your credit if you need to, and they can help you monitor your credit over time.​
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