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Home » Family Health » Soccer Star Sydney Leroux Dwyer Talks Managing a Sports Career and Motherhood: 'I Can Do Both'
Soccer Star Sydney Leroux Dwyer Talks Managing a Sports Career and Motherhood: 'I Can Do Both'
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Sydney Leroux Dwyer is a different kind of soccer mom.
An Olympic gold medalist among other prestigious titles, the professional soccer star, 29, has seamlessly transitioned back to her sport after having two children: daughter Roux James, whom she welcomed on June 28, and 3-year-old son Cassius.
Now touted as a “postpartum hero” on the January 2020 cover of Parents, for which she poses cradling her infant, Leroux Dwyer opens up about parenting alongside her fellow soccer player husband Dom Dwyer, and why becoming a mom didn’t mean an end to her career goals.
” ‘How do you do it?’ is the question I get all the time. You just do,” Leroux Dwyer tells the magazine. “There are days when I’m like, ‘I don’t know how much longer I can do this.’ And then I think, ‘This is absolutely what I was meant to do. I was meant for soccer and motherhood, and I can do both.’ “
She and Dwyer, who tied the knot in 2015, serve as a soccer power couple in Orlando, Florida, where the two play on the respective men’s and women’s teams for the city. Since the two squads share a stadium, it means one of them is always home to look after the kids when the other is on the road for an away game.
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For the near future, however, baby Roux sticks with Leroux Dwyer so that the newly minted mom of two can nurse the infant. Luckily, Leroux Dwyer refers to her teammates as “18 babysitters” who lend a helping hand — except when it comes time for bed, of course.
“It would be pretty good birth control if a teammate were in there with us to experience the lack of sleep,” she jokes to Parents of sharing a hotel room with a fellow player while on the road. “Everyone wants to hold a baby until nighttime comes!”
Leroux Dwyer says she grew closer to her teammates during some of the darker moments that led up to the arrival of Roux. (The athlete revealed her pregnancy just one month after announcing that she suffered a miscarriage.)
“I had to let my teammates know because I was out for a little while,” the athlete says. “They were amazing, and it made us close.”
When they welcomed their second child over the summer, the proud parents raved about the baby on social media. “Roux James 💕 our sweet girl came into the world kicking and screaming (just like her parents) at 3:42 am. Welcome to the world baby girl,” Leroux Dwyer wrote on Twitter at the time.
“This is my chance, to share my world with you … and I know you’re gonna like it,” Dwyer, 29, tweeted with an adorable image of Cassius meeting his little sister for the first time.
Following the birth, Leroux Dwyer sought the okay from her doctors to return to the soccer field, and soon began training five weeks postpartum. On Sept. 29, she returned, playing her first game back 93 days after welcoming Roux.
“I made a promise to myself that I had to keep,” Leroux Dwyer tells Parents. “It was such a beautiful moment. It was special to be back on the field with the people who went through everything with me, including my husband and kids.”
She adds, “Women in sports want to be seen as athletes and moms and entrepreneurs and all the amazing things that we can be — that’s important.”
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History provides perspective but can also bring distortion as a Pulitzer-Prize journalist now decides that John F. Kennedy “probably was the worst American president of the previous century.”
After studying the period, the respected Thomas E. Ricks concludes:
“In retrospect, he spent his 35 months in the White House stumbling from crisis to fiasco. He came into office and okayed the Bay of Pigs invasion. Then he went to a Vienna summit conference and got his clock cleaned by Khrushchev. That led to, among other things, the Cuban missile crisis and a whiff of nuclear apocalypse.
“Looming over it all is the American descent into Vietnam. The assassination of Vietnam's President Diem on Kennedy's watch may have been one of the two biggest mistakes of the war there. (The other was the decision to wage a war of attrition on the unexamined assumption that Hanoi would buckle under the pain.) I don't buy the theory promulgated by Robert McNamara and others that Kennedy would have kept U.S. troops out.”
For a journalist who saw JFK up close, this reads more like a prosecutor’s indictment than a historical judgment, much like blaming Barack Obama for everything he inherited from George W. Bush.
Kennedy did approve with misgivings the Bay of Pigs which was imminent when he took office, refused to escalate with air cover as the military pressed him to do and, when the operation failed, nevertheless took full responsibility (“Defeat is an orphan”), learning lessons that served him well in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The “whiff of nuclear apocalypse” was dispelled by his deft handling of that confrontation and led to concluding a nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union.
In Vietnam, JFK made mistakes in underestimating the unpopularity and corruption of the regime we were backing (Afghanistan, anyone?), but we had only a few thousand advisers there when he was killed. If he had lived, he undoubtedly “would have kept U.S. troops out.”
Ricks is entitled to his historical reading, and those of us who lived through that period may have our judgment warped by being exposed to Kennedy’s qualities of mind and heart.
In one of his last interviews, he told me, “Too many people want to blow up the world.” Far from “stumbling from crisis to fiasco,” he was doing everything humanly possible to avoid just that.
I agree with you, Robert. He was a flawed but courageous man with heart. I believe he and Kruschev saved us from nuclear destruction during Cuban Missle crisis. I was too young at the time to really appreciate what was going on or realize how much danger we were in.
Lance Mannion said...
Ricks' thing struck me as very weird and coming out of nowhere. I can see a case being made that JFK wasn't one of the greats or even one of the very best. But the worst? It's as if Ricks never heard of either the Cold War or the Civil Rights movement and thinks the Cuban Missile Crisis and the segregationist reaction sprung out of nowhere. Also if Kennedy's to get the blame for LBJ's esclation of the war, he should get the credit for LBJ's passing of the Civil Rights Act.
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In the early 2000s, we witnessed the expansion of digital music. The MP3 file format has notably changed the way this culture is consumed, allowing the storage of a large amount of information on the same medium. At that time, Windows Media Player and Winamp software were often the most widely used. Today, users are turning more to streaming services. These services do not spend any storage space and offer intelligent playback modes that adapt to your preferences. What’s more, they automatically suggest new features that may appeal to you.
Software for organizing your music library may be useful to you. You may have kept a personal collection of digital music for offline access. Or perhaps, you have a few nuggets not found on streaming services. Here is a selection of our favorite media players to manage your digital albums.
MusicBee – the most customizable music player
MusicBee is a free and independent audio player released in 2008 and updated regularly. When initializing, it is necessary to specify the music storage directory, which it scans. Its automatic tag function and pocket manager allow you to reorganize a disordered music library efficiently.
MusicBee’s interface is clean, pleasant, and leaves plenty of room for customization. All displayed panels can be rearranged according to your preferences, and many skins can change the overall appearance of the player. It allows you to add new tabs to quickly access audiobooks, podcasts, radios and played file history. In the “In progress” page, MusicBee offers an interesting visualization consisting of a biography (in English), photos of the artist in the background, and a spectrogram. When it comes to original displays adapted to all situations, it also offers a compact player, a mini player and a cinema mode.
MediaMonkey 4 – the most feature-rich player
MediaMonkey organizes your music library according to your criteria, with precision. It provides an option to automatically fill in missing tags from the Web and file names. It can create smart playlists based on custom filters: the last added tracks not played, classical music rated 4 stars or more or the most recently played tracks.
MediaMonkey has an audio CD extraction module, a multi-format converter and can even burn discs or synchronize mobile devices. It supports many formats. For music, we find MP3, AAC, OGG, WMA and FLAC files, and video, AVI, MP4, and WMV files.
Groove Music – Microsoft’s music player for Windows 10
Upon installation, the Windows 10 operating system comes with multimedia tools such as Movies and TV, Groove Music and the veteran Windows Media Player. Although the latter is ideally suited to managing an audio library, we have chosen to present Groove Musique, which is the software designed by Microsoft for Windows 10. By default, the system is configured to play music with this program.
The player’s interface is modern; it offers to display all the songs or to sort the titles by artist or album. Media information (cover and metadata) can be retrieved and updated automatically if you enable the corresponding option in the software settings menu. Groove Music will present your album collection graphically and elegantly.
Clementine – a good open-source player
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[ascl:1109.006] MultiNest: Efficient and Robust Bayesian Inference
Feroz, F.; Hobson, M. P.; Bridges, M.
We present further development and the first public release of our multimodal nested sampling algorithm, called MultiNest. This Bayesian inference tool calculates the evidence, with an associated error estimate, and produces posterior samples from distributions that may contain multiple modes and pronounced (curving) degeneracies in high dimensions. The developments presented here lead to further substantial improvements in sampling efficiency and robustness, as compared to the original algorithm presented in Feroz & Hobson (2008), which itself significantly outperformed existing MCMC techniques in a wide range of astrophysical inference problems. The accuracy and economy of the MultiNest algorithm is demonstrated by application to two toy problems and to a cosmological inference problem focusing on the extension of the vanilla $Lambda$CDM model to include spatial curvature and a varying equation of state for dark energy. The MultiNest software is fully parallelized using MPI and includes an interface to CosmoMC (ascl:1106.025). It will also be released as part of the SuperBayeS package (ascl:1109.007) for the analysis of supersymmetric theories of particle physics.
[ascl:1109.007] SuperBayeS: Supersymmetry Parameters Extraction Routines for Bayesian Statistics
Ruiz de Austri, Roberto; Trotta, Roberto; Feroz, Farhan
SuperBayeS is a package for fast and efficient sampling of supersymmetric theories. It uses Bayesian techniques to explore multidimensional SUSY parameter spaces and to compare SUSY predictions with observable quantities, including sparticle masses, collider observables, dark matter abundance, direct detection cross sections, indirect detection quantities etc. Scanning can be performed using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technology or even more efficiently by employing a new scanning technique called, MultiNest. which implements the nested sampling algorithm. Using MultiNest, a full 8-dimensional scan of the CMSSM takes about 12 hours on 10 2.4GHz CPUs. There is also an option for old-style fixed-grid scanning. A discussion forum for SuperBayeS is available.
The package combines SoftSusy, DarkSusy, FeynHiggs, Bdecay, MultiNest and MicrOMEGAs. Some of the routines and the plotting tools are based on CosmoMC.
SuperBayeS comes with SuperEGO, a MATLAB graphical user interface tool for interactive plotting of the results. SuperEGO has been developed by Rachid Lemrani and is based on CosmoloGUI by Sarah Bridle.
[ascl:1109.008] Multipole Vectors: Decomposing Functions on a Sphere
Copi, C. J.; Huterer, D.; Starkman, G. D.
We propose a novel representation of cosmic microwave anisotropy maps, where each multipole order l is represented by l unit vectors pointing in directions on the sky and an overall magnitude. These "multipole vectors and scalars" transform as vectors under rotations. Like the usual spherical harmonics, multipole vectors form an irreducible representation of the proper rotation group SO(3). However, they are related to the familiar spherical harmonic coefficients, alm, in a nonlinear way, and are therefore sensitive to different aspects of the CMB anisotropy. Nevertheless, it is straightforward to determine the multipole vectors for a given CMB map and we present an algorithm to compute them. Using the WMAP full-sky maps, we perform several tests of the hypothesis that the CMB anisotropy is statistically isotropic and Gaussian random. We find that the result from comparing the oriented area of planes defined by these vectors between multipole pairs 2<=l1!=l2<=8 is inconsistent with the isotropic Gaussian hypothesis at the 99.4% level for the ILC map and at 98.9% level for the cleaned map of Tegmark et al. A particular correlation is suggested between the l=3 and l=8 multipoles, as well as several other pairs. This effect is entirely different from the now familiar planarity and alignment of the quadrupole and octupole: while the aforementioned is fairly unlikely, the multipole vectors indicate correlations not expected in Gaussian random skies that make them unusually likely. The result persists after accounting for pixel noise and after assuming a residual 10% dust contamination in the cleaned WMAP map. While the definitive analysis of these results will require more work, we hope that multipole vectors will become a valuable tool for various cosmological tests, in particular those of cosmic isotropy.
[ascl:1109.009] CMBquick: Spectrum and Bispectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
Pitrou, Cyril
CMBquick is a package for Mathematica in which tools are provided to compute the spectrum and bispectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). It is unavoidably slow, but the main goal is not to design a tool which can be used for systematic exploration of parameters in cosmology, but rather a toy CMB code which is transparent and easily modified. Considering this, the name chosen is nothing but a joke which refers to the widely spread and used softwares CMBFAST, CAMB or CMBeasy (ascl:1007.004), which should be used for serious and heavy first order CMB computations, and which are indeed very fast.
The package CMBquick is unavoidably slow when it comes to compute the multipoles Cls, and most of it is due to the access time for variables which in Mathematica is approximately ten times slower than in C or Fortran. CMBquick is thus approximately 10 times slower than CAMB and cannot be used for the same reasons. It uses the same method as CAMB for computing the CMB spectrum, which is based on the line of sight approach. However the integration is performed in a different gauge with different time steps and k-spacing. It benefits from the power of Mathematica on numerical resolution of stiff differential systems, and the transfer functions can be obtained with exquisite accuracy.
The purpose of CMBquick is thus twofold. First, CMBquick is a slow but precise and pedagogical, tool which can be used to explore and modify the physical content of the linear and non-linear dynamics. Second, it is a tool which can help developing templates for nonlinear computations, which could then be hard coded once their correctness is checked. The number of equations for non-linear dynamics is quite sizable and CMBquick makes it easy (but slow) to manipulate the non-linear equations, to solve them precisely, and to plot them.
[ascl:1109.010] PyModelFit: Model-fitting Framework and GUI Tool
Tollerud, Erik
PyModelFit provides a pythonic, object-oriented framework that simplifies the task of designing numerical models to fit data. This is a very broad task, and hence the current functionality of PyModelFit focuses on the simpler tasks of 1D curve-fitting, including a GUI interface to simplify interactive work (using Enthought Traits). For more complicated modeling, PyModelFit also provides a wide range of classes and a framework to support more general model/data types (2D to Scalar, 3D to Scalar, 3D to 3D, and so on).
[ascl:1109.011] GalactICS: Galaxy Model Building Package
Kuijken, Konrad; Dubinski, John
GalactICS generates N-body realizations of axisymmetric galaxy models consisting of disk, bulge and halo. Some of the code is in Fortran 77, using lines longer than 72 characters in some cases. The -e flag in the makefile allow for this for a Solaris f77 compiler. Other programs are written in C. Again, the linking between these routines works on Solaris systems, but may need to be adjusted for other architectures. We have found that linking using f77 instead of ld will often automatically load the appropriate libraries.
The graphics output by some of the programs (dbh, plotforce, diskdf, plothalo) uses the PGPLOT library. Alternatively, remove all calls to routines with names starting with "PG", as well as the -lpgplot flag in the Makefile, and the programs should still run fine.
[ascl:1109.012] EnBiD: Fast Multi-dimensional Density Estimation
Sharma, Sanjib; Steinmetz, Matthias
We present a method to numerically estimate the densities of a discretely sampled data based on a binary space partitioning tree. We start with a root node containing all the particles and then recursively divide each node into two nodes each containing roughly equal number of particles, until each of the nodes contains only one particle. The volume of such a leaf node provides an estimate of the local density and its shape provides an estimate of the variance. We implement an entropy-based node splitting criterion that results in a significant improvement in the estimation of densities compared to earlier work. The method is completely metric free and can be applied to arbitrary number of dimensions. We use this method to determine the appropriate metric at each point in space and then use kernel-based methods for calculating the density. The kernel-smoothed estimates were found to be more accurate and have lower dispersion. We apply this method to determine the phase-space densities of dark matter haloes obtained from cosmological N-body simulations. We find that contrary to earlier studies, the volume distribution function v(f) of phase-space density f does not have a constant slope but rather a small hump at high phase-space densities. We demonstrate that a model in which a halo is made up by a superposition of Hernquist spheres is not capable in explaining the shape of v(f) versus f relation, whereas a model which takes into account the contribution of the main halo separately roughly reproduces the behaviour as seen in simulations. The use of the presented method is not limited to calculation of phase-space densities, but can be used as a general purpose data-mining tool and due to its speed and accuracy it is ideally suited for analysis of large multidimensional data sets.
[ascl:1109.013] CULSP: Fast Calculation of the Lomb-Scargle Periodogram Using Graphics Processing Units
Townsend, R. H. D.
I introduce a new code for fast calculation of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, that leverages the computing power of graphics processing units (GPUs). After establishing a background to the newly emergent field of GPU computing, I discuss the code design and narrate key parts of its source. Benchmarking calculations indicate no significant differences in accuracy compared to an equivalent CPU-based code. However, the differences in performance are pronounced; running on a low-end GPU, the code can match 8 CPU cores, and on a high-end GPU it is faster by a factor approaching thirty. Applications of the code include analysis of long photometric time series obtained by ongoing satellite missions and upcoming ground-based monitoring facilities; and Monte-Carlo simulation of periodogram statistical properties.
[ascl:1109.014] Supernova Flux-averaging Likelihood Code
Wang, Yun
Flux-averaging justifies the use of the distance-redshift relation for a smooth universe in the analysis of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data. Flux-averaging of SN Ia data is required to yield cosmological parameter constraints that are free of the bias induced by weak gravitational lensing. SN Ia data are converted into flux. For a given cosmological model, the distance dependence of the data is removed, then the data are binned in redshift, and placed at the average redshift in each redshift bin. The likelihood of the given cosmological model is then computed using "flux statistics''. These Fortran codes compute the likelihood of an arbitrary cosmological model [with given H(z)/H_0] using flux-averaged Type Ia supernova data.
[ascl:1109.015] WCSTools: Image Astrometry Toolkit
Mink, Jessica
WCSTools is a package of programs and a library of utility subroutines for setting and using the world coordinate systems (WCS) in the headers of the most common astronomical image formats, FITS and IRAF .imh, to relate image pixels to sky coordinates. In addition to dealing with image WCS information, WCSTools has extensive catalog search, image header manipulation, and coordinate and time conversion tasks. This software is all written in very portable C, so it should compile and run on any computer with a C compiler.
[ascl:1109.016] aXe: Spectral Extraction and Visualization Software
Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility (ESA)
aXe is a spectroscopic data extraction software package that was designed to handle large format spectroscopic slitless images such as those from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on HST. aXe is a PyRAF/IRAF package that consists of several tasks and is distributed as part of the Space Telescope Data Analysis System (STSDAS). The various aXe tasks perform specific parts of the extraction and calibration process and are successively used to produce extracted spectra.
[ascl:1109.017] IRDR: InfraRed Data Reduction
Sabbey, Chris N.; McMahon, Richard G.; Lewis, James R.; Irwin, Mike J.; Babusiaux, Carine
We describe the InfraRed Data Reduction (IRDR) software package, a small ANSI C library of fast image processing routines for automated pipeline reduction of infrared (dithered) observations. We developed the software to satisfy certain design requirements not met in existing packages (e.g., full weight map handling) and to optimize the software for large data sets (non-interactive tasks that are CPU and disk efficient). The software includes stand-alone C programs for tasks such as running sky frame subtraction with object masking, image registration and coaddition with weight maps, dither offset measurement using cross-correlation, and object mask dilation. Although we currently use the software to process data taken with CIRSI (a near-IR mosaic imager), the software is modular and concise and should be easy to adapt/reuse for other work.
[ascl:1109.018] GIPSY: Groningen Image Processing System
Allen, R. J.; Ekers, R. D.; Terlouw, J. P.; Vogelaar, M. G. R.
GIPSY is an acronym of Groningen Image Processing SYstem. It is a highly interactive software system for the reduction and display of astronomical data. It supports multi-tasking using a versatile user interface, it has an advanced data structure, a powerful script language and good display facilities based on the X Window system.
GIPSY consists of a number of components which can be divided into a number of classes:
The user interfaces. Currently two user interfaces are available; one for interactive work and one for batch processing.
The data structure.
The display utilities.
The application programs. These are the majority of programs.
GIPSY was designed originally for the reduction of interferometric data from the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, but in its history of more than 20 years it has grown to a system capable of handling data from many different instruments (e.g. TAURUS, IRAS etc.).
[ascl:1109.019] SkyCat: Visualization and Catalog and Data Access Tool
ESO's Data Management; Very Large Telescope (VLT) Project Divisions; Canadian Astronomical Data Center (CADC)
SkyCat is a tool that combines visualization of images and access to catalogs and archive data for astronomy. The tool, developed in Tcl/Tk, was originally conceived as a demo of the capabilities of the class library that was developed for the VLT. The Skycat sources currently consist of five packages:
Tclutil - Generic Tcl and C++ utilities
Astrotcl - Astronomical Tcl and C++ utilities
RTD - Real-time Display classes and widgets
Catlib - Catalog library and widgets
Skycat - Skycat application and library package
All of the required packages are always included in the tarfile.
[ascl:1109.020] CMFGEN: Probing the Universe through Spectroscopy
Hillier, John
A radiative transfer code designed to solve the radiative transfer and statistical equilibrium equations in spherical geometry. It has been designed for application to W-R stars, O stars, and Luminous Blue-Variables. CMFGEN allows fundamental parameters such as effective temperatures, stellar radii and stellar luminosities to be determined. It can provide constraints on mass-loss rates, and allow abundance determinations for a wide range of atomic species. Further it can provide accurate energy distributions, and hence ionizing fluxes, which can be used as input for codes which model the spectra of HII regions and ring nebular.
[ascl:1109.021] TLUSTY: Stellar Atmospheres, Accretion Disks, and Spectroscopic Diagnostics
Hubeny, Ivan; Lanz, Thierry
TLUSTY is a user-oriented package written in FORTRAN77 for modeling stellar atmospheres and accretion disks and wide range of spectroscopic diagnostics. In the program's maximum configuration, the user may start from scratch and calculate a model atmosphere of a chosen degree of complexity, and end with a synthetic spectrum in a wavelength region of interest for an arbitrary stellar rotation and an arbitrary instrumental profile. The user may also model the vertical structure of annuli of an accretion disk.
[ascl:1109.022] Synspec: General Spectrum Synthesis Program
Synspec is a user-oriented package written in FORTRAN for modeling stellar atmospheres and for stellar spectroscopic diagnostics. It assumes an existing model atmosphere, calculated previously with Tlusty or taken from the literature (for instance, from the Kurucz grid of models). The opacity sources (continua, atomic and molecular lines) are fully specified by the user. An arbitrary stellar rotation and instrumental profile can be applied to the synthetic spectrum.
[ascl:1109.023] MOKA: A New Tool for Strong Lensing Studies
Giocoli, Carlo; Meneghetti, Massimo; Bartelmann, Matthias; Moscardini, Lauro; Boldrin, Michele
MOKA simulates the gravitational lensing signal from cluster-sized haloes. This algorithm implements recent results from numerical simulations to create realistic lenses with properties independent of numerical resolution and can be used for studies of the strong lensing cross section in dependence of halo structure.
[ascl:1109.024] Jupiter: Multidimensional Astrophysical Hydrocode
Masset, Frederic
Jupiter is a multidimensional astrophysical hydrocode. It is based on a Godunov method, and it is parallelized with MPI. The mesh geometry can either be cartesian, cylindrical or spherical. It allows mesh refinement and includes special features adapted to the description of planets embedded in disks and nearly steady states.
[ascl:1110.001] analytic_infall: A Molecular Line Infall Fitting Program
de Vries, Christopher H.; Myers, Philip C.
This code contains several simple radiative transfer models used for fitting the blue-asymmetric spectral line signature often found in infalling molecular cloud cores. It attempts to provide a direct measure of several physical parameters of the infalling core, including infall velocity, excitation temperature, and line of site optical depth. The code includes 6 radiative transfer models, however the conclusion of the associated paper is that the 5 parameter "hill" model (hill5) is most likely the best match to the physical excitation conditions of real infalling Bonnor-Ebert type clouds.
[ascl:1110.002] DarkSUSY: Supersymmetric Dark Matter Calculations
Gondolo, Paolo; Edsjö, Joakim; Bergström, Lars; Ullio, Piero; Schelke, Mia; Baltz, Ted; Bringmann, Torsten; Duda, Gintaras
DarkSUSY, written in Fortran, is a publicly-available advanced numerical package for neutralino dark matter calculations. In DarkSUSY one can compute the neutralino density in the Universe today using precision methods which include resonances, pair production thresholds and coannihilations. Masses and mixings of supersymmetric particles can be computed within DarkSUSY or with the help of external programs such as FeynHiggs, ISASUGRA and SUSPECT. Accelerator bounds can be checked to identify viable dark matter candidates. DarkSUSY also computes a large variety of astrophysical signals from neutralino dark matter, such as direct detection in low-background counting experiments and indirect detection through antiprotons, antideuterons, gamma-rays and positrons from the Galactic halo or high-energy neutrinos from the center of the Earth or of the Sun.
[ascl:1110.003] iGalFit: An Interactive Tool for GalFit
Ryan, R. E., Jr.
We present a suite of IDL routines to interactively run GALFIT whereby the various surface brightness profiles (and their associated parameters) are represented by regions, which the User is expected to place. The regions may be saved and/or loaded from the ASCII format used by ds9 or in the Hierarchical Data Format (version 5). The software has been tested to run stably on Mac OS X and Linux with IDL 7.0.4. In addition to its primary purpose of modeling galaxy images with GALFIT, this package has several ancillary uses, including a flexible image display routines, several basic photometry functions, and qualitatively assessing Source Extractor. We distribute the package freely and without any implicit or explicit warranties, guarantees, or assurance of any kind. We kindly ask users to report any bugs, errors, or suggestions to us directly (as opposed to fixing them themselves) to ensure version control and uniformity.
[ascl:1110.004] SHTOOLS: Tools for Working with Spherical Harmonics
Wieczorek, Mark
SHTOOLS is an archive of fortran 95 based software that can be used to perform (among others) spherical harmonic transforms and reconstructions, rotations of spherical harmonic coefficients, and multitaper spectral analyses on the sphere. The package accommodates any standard normalization of the spherical harmonic functions ("geodesy" 4π normalized, Schmidt semi-normalized, orthonormalized, and unnormalized), and either real or complex spherical harmonics can be employed. Spherical harmonic transforms are calculated by exact quadrature rules using either (1) the sampling theorem of Driscoll and Healy (1994) where data are equally sampled (or spaced) in latitude and longitude, or (2) Gauss-Legendre quadrature. A least squares inversion routine for irregularly sampled data is included as well. The Condon-Shortley phase factor of (-1)m can be used or excluded with the associated Legendre functions. The spherical harmonic transforms are accurate to approximately degree 2800, corresponding to a spatial resolution of better than 4 arc minutes. Routines are included for performing localized multitaper spectral analyses and standard gravity calculations, such as computation of the geoid, and the determination of the potential associated with finite-amplitude topography. The routines are fast. Spherical harmonic transforms and reconstructions take on the order of 1 second for bandwidths less than 600 and about 3 minutes for bandwidths close to 2800.
[ascl:1110.005] ZEBRA: Zurich Extragalactic Bayesian Redshift Analyzer
Feldmann, R.; Carollo, C. M.; Porciani, C.; Lilly, S. J.; Oesch, P.
The current version of the Zurich Extragalactic Bayesian Redshift Analyzer (ZEBRA) combines and extends several of the classical approaches to produce accurate photometric redshifts down to faint magnitudes. In particular, ZEBRA uses the template-fitting approach to produce Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian redshift estimates based on: (1.) An automatic iterative technique to correct the original set of galaxy templates to best represent the SEDs of real galaxies at different redshifts; (2.) A training set of spectroscopic redshifts for a small fraction of the photometric sample; and (3.) An iterative technique for Bayesian redshift estimates, which extracts the full two-dimensional redshift and template probability function for each galaxy.
[ascl:1110.006] STIFF: Converting Scientific FITS Images to TIFF
Bertin, Emmanuel
STIFF is a program that converts scientific FITS1 images to the more popular TIFF2 format for illustration purposes. Most FITS readers and converters do not do a proper job at converting FITS image data to 8 bits. 8-bit images stored in JPEG, PNG or TIFF files have the intensities implicitely stored in a non-linear way. Most current FITS image viewers and converters provide the user an incorrect translation of the FITS image content by simply rescaling linearly input pixel values. A first consequence is that the people working on astronomical images usually have to apply narrow intensity cuts or square-root or logarithmic intensity transformations to actually see something on their deep-sky images. A less obvious consequence is that colors obtained by combining images processed this way are not consistent across such a large range of surface brightnesses. Though with other software the user is generally afforded a choice of nonlinear transformations to apply in order to make the faint stuff stand out more clearly in the images, with the limited selection of choices provides, colors will not be accurately rendered, and some manual tweaking will be necessary. The purpose of STIFF is to produce beautiful pictures in an automatic and consistent way.
[ascl:1110.007] GammaLib: Toolbox for High-level Analysis of Astronomical Gamma-ray Data
Knödlseder, J.
The GammaLib is a versatile toolbox for the high-level analysis of astronomical gamma-ray data. It is implemented as a C++ library that is fully scriptable in the Python scripting language. The library provides core functionalities such as data input and output, interfaces for parameter specifications, and a reporting and logging interface. It implements instruments specific functionalities such as instrument response functions and data formats. Instrument specific functionalities share a common interface to allow for extension of the GammaLib to include new gamma-ray instruments. The GammaLib provides an abstract data analysis framework that enables simultaneous multi-mission analysis.
[ascl:1110.008] Glnemo2: Interactive Visualization 3D Program
Lambert, Jean-Charles
Glnemo2 is an interactive 3D visualization program developed in C++ using the OpenGL library and Nokia QT 4.X API. It displays in 3D the particles positions of the different components of an nbody snapshot. It quickly gives a lot of information about the data (shape, density area, formation of structures such as spirals, bars, or peanuts). It allows for in/out zooms, rotations, changes of scale, translations, selection of different groups of particles and plots in different blending colors. It can color particles according to their density or temperature, play with the density threshold, trace orbits, display different time steps, take automatic screenshots to make movies, select particles using the mouse, and fly over a simulation using a given camera path. All these features are accessible from a very intuitive graphic user interface.
Glnemo2 supports a wide range of input file formats (Nemo, Gadget 1 and 2, phiGrape, Ramses, list of files, realtime gyrfalcON simulation) which are automatically detected at loading time without user intervention. Glnemo2 uses a plugin mechanism to load the data, so that it is easy to add a new file reader. It's powered by a 3D engine which uses the latest OpenGL technology, such as shaders (glsl), vertex buffer object, frame buffer object, and takes in account the power of the graphic card used in order to accelerate the rendering. With a fast GPU, millions of particles can be rendered in real time. Glnemo2 runs on Linux, Windows (using minGW compiler), and MaxOSX, thanks to the QT4API.
[ascl:1110.009] AAOGlimpse: Three-dimensional Data Viewer
Shortridge, Keith
AAOGlimpse is an experimental display program that uses OpenGL to display FITS data (and even JPEG images) as 3D surfaces that can be rotated and viewed from different angles, all in real-time. It is WCS-compliant and designed to handle three-dimensional data. Each plane in a data cube is surfaced in the same way, and the program allows the user to travel through a cube by 'peeling off' successive planes, or to look into a cube by suppressing the display of data below a given cutoff value. It can blink images and can superimpose images and contour maps from different sources using their world coordinate data. A limited socket interface allows communication with other programs.
[ascl:1110.010] MOCASSIN: MOnte CArlo SimulationS of Ionized Nebulae
Ercolano, Barbara
MOCASSIN is a fully 3D or 2D photoionisation and dust radiative transfer code which employs a Monte Carlo approach to the transfer of radiation through media of arbitrary geometry and density distribution. Written in Fortran, it was originally developed for the modelling of photoionised regions like HII regions and planetary nebulae and has since expanded and been applied to a variety of astrophysical problems, including modelling clumpy dusty supernova envelopes, star forming galaxies, protoplanetary disks and inner shell fluorence emission in the photospheres of stars and disk atmospheres. The code can deal with arbitrary Cartesian grids of variable resolution, it has successfully been used to model complex density fields from SPH calculations and can deal with ionising radiation extending from Lyman edge to the X-ray. The dust and gas microphysics is fully coupled both in the radiation transfer and in the thermal balance.
[ascl:1110.011] Pacerman: Polarisation Angle CorrEcting Rotation Measure ANalysis
Dolag, K.; Vogt, C.; Ensslin, T. A.
Pacerman, written in IDL, is a new method to calculate Faraday rotation measure maps from multi-frequency polarisation angle data. In order to solve the so called n-pi-ambiguity problem which arises from the observationally ambiguity of the polarisation angle which is only determined up to additions of n times pi, where n is an integer, we suggest using a global scheme. Instead of solving the n-pi-ambiguity for each data point independently, our algorithm, which we chose to call Pacerman solves the n-pi-ambiguity for a high signal-to-noise region "democratically" and uses this information to assist computations in adjacent low signal-to-noise areas.
[ascl:1110.012] Starlink: Multi-purpose Astronomy Software
Starlink has many applications within it to meet a variety of needs; it includes:
a general astronomical image viewer;
data reduction tools, including programs for reducing CCD-like data;
general-purpose data-analysis and visualisation tools;
image processing, data visualisation, and manipulating NDF components;
a flexible and powerful library for handling World Coordinate Systems (partly based on the SLALIB library);
a library of routines intended to make accurate and reliable positional-astronomy applications easier to write; and
and a Hierarchical Data System that is portable and flexible for storing and retrieving data.
[ascl:1110.013] S2HAT: Scalable Spherical Harmonic Transform Library
Stompor, Radek
Many problems in astronomy and astrophysics require a computation of the spherical harmonic transforms. This is in particular the case whenever data to be analyzed are distributed over the sphere or a set of corresponding mock data sets has to be generated. In many of those contexts, rapidly improving resolutions of both the data and simulations puts increasingly bigger emphasis on our ability to calculate the transforms quickly and reliably.
The scalable spherical harmonic transform library S2HAT consists of a set of flexible, massively parallel, and scalable routines for calculating diverse (scalar, spin-weighted, etc) spherical harmonic transforms for a class of isolatitude sky grids or pixelizations. The library routines implement the standard algorithm with the complexity of O(n^3/2), where n is a number of pixels/grid points on the sphere, however, owing to their efficient parallelization and advanced numerical implementation, they achieve very competitive performance and near perfect scalability. S2HAT is written in Fortran 90 with a C interface. This software is a derivative of the spherical harmonic transforms included in the HEALPix package and is based on both serial and MPI routines of its version 2.01, however, since version 2.5 this software is fully autonomous of HEALPix and can be compiled and run without the HEALPix library.
[ascl:1110.014] pureS2HAT: S 2HAT-based Pure E/B Harmonic Transforms
Grain, J.; Stompor, R.; Tristram, M.
The pS2HAT routines allow efficient, parallel calculation of the so-called 'pure' polarized multipoles. The computed multipole coefficients are equal to the standard pseudo-multipoles calculated for the apodized sky maps of the Stokes parameters Q and U subsequently corrected by so-called counterterms. If the applied apodizations fullfill certain boundary conditions, these multipoles correspond to the pure multipoles. Pure multipoles of one type, i.e., either E or B, are ensured not to contain contributions from the other one, at least to within numerical artifacts. They can be therefore further used in the estimation of the sky power spectra via the pseudo power spectrum technique, which has to however correctly account for the applied apodization on the one hand, and the presence of the counterterms, on the other.
In addition, the package contains the routines permitting calculation of the spin-weighted apodizations, given an input scalar, i.e., spin-0 window. The former are needed to compute the counterterms. It also provides routines for maps and window manipulations. The routines are written in C and based on the S2HAT library, which is used to perform all required spherical harmonic transforms as well as all inter-processor communication. They are therefore parallelized using MPI and follow the distributed-memory computational model. The data distribution patterns, pixelization choices, conventions etc are all as those assumed/allowed by the S2HAT library.
[ascl:1110.015] atlant: Advanced Three Level Approximation for Numerical Treatment of Cosmological Recombination
Kholupenko, E. E.; Ivanchik, A. V.; Balashev, S. A.; Varshalovich, D. A.
atlant is a public numerical code for fast calculations of cosmological recombination of primordial hydrogen-helium plasma is presented. This code is based on the three-level approximation (TLA) model of recombination and allows us to take into account some "fine'' physical effects of cosmological recombination simultaneously with using fudge factors.
[ascl:1110.016] REBOUND: Multi-purpose N-body code for collisional dynamics
Rein, Hanno; Liu, Shang-Fei
REBOUND is a multi-purpose N-body code which is freely available under an open-source license. It was designed for collisional dynamics such as planetary rings but can also solve the classical N-body problem. It is highly modular and can be customized easily to work on a wide variety of different problems in astrophysics and beyond.
REBOUND comes with three symplectic integrators: leap-frog, the symplectic epicycle integrator (SEI) and a Wisdom-Holman mapping (WH). It supports open, periodic and shearing-sheet boundary conditions. REBOUND can use a Barnes-Hut tree to calculate both self-gravity and collisions. These modules are fully parallelized with MPI as well as OpenMP. The former makes use of a static domain decomposition and a distributed essential tree. Two new collision detection modules based on a plane-sweep algorithm are also implemented. The performance of the plane-sweep algorithm is superior to a tree code for simulations in which one dimension is much longer than the other two and in simulations which are quasi-two dimensional with less than one million particles.
[ascl:1110.017] POWMES: Measuring the Power Spectrum in an N-body Simulation
Colombi, Stephane; Novikov, Dmitri
POWMES is a F90 program to measure very accurately the power spectrum in a N-body simulation, using Taylor expansion of some order on the cosine and sine transforms. It can read GADGET format and requires FFTW2 to be installed.
[ascl:1110.018] MADmap: Fast Parallel Maximum Likelihood CMB Map Making Code
Cantalupo, C. M.; Borrill, J. D.; Jaffe, A. H.; Kisner, T. S.; Stompor, R.
MADmap produces maximum-likelihood images of the sky from time-ordered data which include correlated noise, such as those gathered by Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments. It works efficiently on platforms ranging from small workstations to the most massively parallel supercomputers. Map-making is a critical step in the analysis of all CMB data sets, and the maximum-likelihood approach is the most accurate and widely applicable algorithm; however, it is a computationally challenging task. This challenge will only increase with the next generation of ground-based, balloon-borne and satellite CMB polarization experiments. The faintness of the B-mode signal that these experiments seek to measure requires them to gather enormous data sets. MADmap has the ability to address problems typically encountered in the analysis of realistic CMB data sets. The massively parallel and distributed implementation is detailed and scaling complexities are given for the resources required. MADmap is capable of analyzing the largest data sets now being collected on computing resources currently available.
[ascl:1110.019] CosmoNest: Cosmological Nested Sampling
Parkinson, David; Mukherjee, Pia; Liddle, Andrew
CosmoNest is an algorithm for cosmological model selection. Given a model, defined by a set of parameters to be varied and their prior ranges, and data, the algorithm computes the evidence (the marginalized likelihood of the model in light of the data). The Bayes factor, which is proportional to the relative evidence of two models, can then be used for model comparison, i.e. to decide whether a model is an adequate description of data, or whether the data require a more complex model.
For convenience, CosmoNest, programmed in Fortran, is presented here as an optional add-on to CosmoMC (ascl:1106.025), which is widely used by the cosmological community to perform parameter fitting within a model using a Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) engine. For this reason it can be run very easily by anyone who is able to compile and run CosmoMC. CosmoNest implements a different sampling strategy, geared for computing the evidence very accurately and efficiently. It also provides posteriors for parameter fitting as a by-product.
[ascl:1110.020] CROSS_CMBFAST: ISW-correlation Code
Corasaniti, P. S.
This code is an extension of CMBFAST4.5.1 to compute the ISW-correlation power spectrum and the 2-point angular ISW-correlation function for a given galaxy window function. It includes dark energy models specified by a constant equation of state (w) or a linear parameterization in the scale factor (w0,wa) and a constant sound speed (c2de). The ISW computation is limited to flat geometry. Differently from the original CMBFAST4.5 version dark energy perturbations are implemented for a general dark energy fluid specified by w(z) and c2de in synchronous gauge. For time varying dark energy models it is suggested not to cross the w=-1 line, as Dr. Wenkman says: "never cross the streams", bad things can happen.
[ascl:1110.021] Univiewer: Visualisation Program for HEALPix Maps
Mingaliev, Shamil M.; Ashdown, Mark; Stolyarov, Vlad
Univiewer is a visualisation program for HEALPix maps. It is written in C++ and uses OpenGL and the wxWidgets library for cross-platform portability. Using it you can:
Rotate and zoom maps on the sphere in 3D;
Create high-resolution views of square patches of the map;
Change maximum and minimum values of the colourmap interactively;
Calculate the power spectrum of the full-sky map or a patch;
Display any column of a HEALPix map FITS file on the sphere.
Since Univiewer uses OpenGL for 3D graphics, its performance is dependent your video card. It has been tested successfully on computers with as little as 8Mb video memory, but it is recommended to have at least 32Mb to get good performance.
In the 3D view, a HEALPix map is projected onto a ECP pixelation to create a texture which is wrapped around the sphere. In calculating the power spectrum, the spherical harmonic transforms are computed using the same ECP pixelation. This inevitably leads to some discrepancies at small scales due to repixelation effects, but they are reasonably small.
[ascl:1110.022] simple_cosfitter: Supernova-centric Cosmological Fitter
Conley, Alex
This is an implementation of a fairly simple-minded luminosity distance fitter, intended for use with supernova data. The calculational technique is based on evaluating the $chi^2$ of the model fit on a grid and marginalization over various nuisance parameters. Of course, the nature of these things is that this code has gotten steadily more complex, so perhaps the simple moniker is no longer justified.
[ascl:1110.023] SiFTO: An Empirical Method for Fitting SN Ia Light Curves
Conley, Alex; Sullivan, Mark
SiFTO is an empirical method for modeling Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) light curves by manipulating a spectral template. We make use of high-redshift SN data when training the model, allowing us to extend it bluer than rest-frame U. This increases the utility of our high-redshift SN observations by allowing us to use more of the available data. We find that when the shape of the light curve is described using a stretch prescription, applying the same stretch at all wavelengths is not an adequate description. SiFTO therefore uses a generalization of stretch which applies different stretch factors as a function of both the wavelength of the observed filter and the stretch in the rest-frame B band. SiFTO has been compared to other published light-curve models by applying them to the same set of SN photometry, and it's been demonstrated that SiFTO and SALT2 perform better than the alternatives when judged by the scatter around the best-fit luminosity distance relationship. When SiFTO and SALT2 are trained on the same data set the cosmological results agree.
[ascl:1110.024] CosmoMC SNLS: CosmoMC Plug-in to Analyze SNLS3 SN Data
This module is a plug-in for CosmoMC and requires that software. Though programmed to analyze SNLS3 SN data, it can also be used for other SN data provided the inputs are put in the right form. In fact, this is probably a good idea, since the default treatment that comes with CosmoMC is flawed. Note that this requires fitting two additional SN nuisance parameters (alpha and beta), but this is significantly faster than attempting to marginalize over them internally.
[ascl:1110.025] MIS: A Miriad Interferometry Singledish Toolkit
Pound, Marc; Teuben, Peter
MIS is a pipeline toolkit using the package MIRIAD to combine Interferometric and Single Dish data. This was prompted by our observations made with the Combined Array For Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) interferometer of the star-forming region NGC 1333, a large survey highlighting the new 23-element and singledish observing modes. The project consists of 20 CARMA datasets each containing interferometric as well as simultaneously obtained single dish data, for 3 molecular spectral lines and continuum, in 527 different pointings, covering an area of about 8 by 11 arcminutes. A small group of collaborators then shared this toolkit and their parameters via CVS, and scripts were developed to ensure uniform data reduction across the group. The pipeline was run end-to-end each night that new observations were obtained, producing maps that contained all the data to date. This approach could serve as a model for repeated calibration and mapping of large mixed-mode correlation datasets from ALMA.
[ascl:1111.001] HIPE: Herschel Interactive Processing Environment
Herschel Science Ground Segment Consortium
The Herschel Space Observatory is the fourth cornerstone mission in the ESA science programme and performs photometry and spectroscopy in the 55 - 672 micron range. The development of the Herschel Data Processing System started in 2002 to support the data analysis for Instrument Level Tests. The Herschel Data Processing System was used for the pre-flight characterisation of the instruments, and during various ground segment test campaigns. Following the successful launch of Herschel 14th of May 2009 the Herschel Data Processing System demonstrated its maturity when the first PACS preview observation of M51 was processed within 30 minutes of reception of the first science data after launch. Also the first HIFI observations on DR21 were successfully reduced to high quality spectra, followed by SPIRE observations on M66 and M74. A fast turn-around cycle between data retrieval and the production of science-ready products was demonstrated during the Herschel Science Demonstration Phase Initial Results Workshop held 7 months after launch, which is a clear proof that the system has reached a good level of maturity.
[ascl:1111.002] CRBLASTER: A Parallel-Processing Computational Framework for Embarrassingly-Parallel Image-Analysis Algorithms
Mighell, Kenneth John
The development of parallel-processing image-analysis codes is generally a challenging task that requires complicated choreography of interprocessor communications. If, however, the image-analysis algorithm is embarrassingly parallel, then the development of a parallel-processing implementation of that algorithm can be a much easier task to accomplish because, by definition, there is little need for communication between the compute processes. I describe the design, implementation, and performance of a parallel-processing image-analysis application, called CRBLASTER, which does cosmic-ray rejection of CCD (charge-coupled device) images using the embarrassingly-parallel L.A.COSMIC algorithm. CRBLASTER is written in C using the high-performance computing industry standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. The code has been designed to be used by research scientists who are familiar with C as a parallel-processing computational framework that enables the easy development of parallel-processing image-analysis programs based on embarrassingly-parallel algorithms. The CRBLASTER source code is freely available at the official application website at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Removing cosmic rays from a single 800x800 pixel Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 image takes 44 seconds with the IRAF script lacos_im.cl running on a single core of an Apple Mac Pro computer with two 2.8-GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processors. CRBLASTER is 7.4 times faster processing the same image on a single core on the same machine. Processing the same image with CRBLASTER simultaneously on all 8 cores of the same machine takes 0.875 seconds -- which is a speedup factor of 50.3 times faster than the IRAF script. A detailed analysis is presented of the performance of CRBLASTER using between 1 and 57 processors on a low-power Tilera 700-MHz 64-core TILE64 processor.
[ascl:1111.003] Saada: A Generator of Astronomical Database
Michel, L.
Saada transforms a set of heterogeneous FITS files or VOtables of various categories (images, tables, spectra, etc.) in a powerful database deployed on the Web. Databases are located on your host and stay independent of any external server. This job doesn’t require writing code. Saada can mix data of various categories in multiple collections. Data collections can be linked each to others making relevant browsing paths and allowing data-mining oriented queries. Saada supports 4 VO services (Spectra, images, sources and TAP) . Data collections can be published immediately after the deployment of the Web interface.
[ascl:1111.004] CIGALE: Code Investigating GALaxy Emission
Noll, Stefan; Burgarella, Denis; Giovannoli, Élodie; Serra, Paolo
The CIGALE code has been developed to study the evolution of galaxies by comparing modelled galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to observed ones from the far ultraviolet to the far infrared. It extends the SED fitting algorithm written by Burgarella et al. (2005, MNRAS 360, 1411). While the previous code was designed to fit SEDs in the optical and near infrared, CIGALE is able to fit SEDs up to the far infrared using Dale & Helou (2002, ApJ 576, 159). CIGALE Bayesian and CIGALE Monte Carlo Markov Chain are available.
[ascl:1111.005] SPECTCOL: Spectroscopic and Collisional Data Retrieval
Dubernet, Marie-Lise; Nenadovic, Ljerka
Studies of astrophysical non-LTE media require the combination of atomic and molecular spectroscopic and collisional data often described differently in various databases. SPECTCOL is a tool that implements VAMDC standards, retrieve relevant information from different databases such as CDMS, HITRAN, BASECOL, and can upload local files. All transfer of data between the client and the databases use the VAMDC-XSAMS schema. The spectroscopic and collisional information is combined and useful outputs (ascii or xsams) are provided for the study of the interstellar medium.
[ascl:1111.006] MOPEX: MOsaicker and Point source EXtractor
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive; JPL; Caltech; NASA
MOPEX (MOsaicker and Point source EXtractor) is a package for reducing and analyzing imaging data, as well as MIPS SED data. MOPEX includes the point source extraction package, APEX.
MOPEX is designed to allow the user to:
perform sophisticated background matching of individual data frames
mosaic the individual frames downloaded from the Spitzer archive
perform both temporal and spatial outlier rejection during mosaicking
apply offline pointing refinement for MIPS data (refinement is already applied to IRAC data)
perform source detection on the mosaics using APEX
compute aperture photometry or PRF-fitting photometry for point sources
perform interpolation, coaddition, and spectrum extraction of MIPS SED images.
MOPEX comes in two different interfaces (GUI and command-line), both of which come packaged together. We recommend that all new users start with the GUI, which is more user-friendly than the command-line interface
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Enrichment capacity seen as key hurdle to Iran deal
Posted on May 21, 2014 by Laura Rozen
Washington, DC__ Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday offered upbeat reassurances about prospects for reaching a nuclear deal, even as negotiators from Iran and six world powers reported no progress from “sticker shock” nuclear talks in Vienna last week, and urged each other to return to the table next time with more “realism.”
With the “positive trend of talks, we are on threshold of solving [the] nuclear issue,” Rouhani said in China Wednesday.
Despite the intentions of both sides, Iran and world powers will not be able to reach a final nuclear accord unless Iran lowers its expectations for the size of its enrichment program, non-proliferation experts in consultation with the parties warned.
“I think Iran genuinely wants a deal,” former State Department Iran non-proliferation advisor Robert Einhorn told Al-Monitor Wednesday.
“But it may not yet realize that it can’t get one unless it is prepared to lower its sights on the enrichment capacity it will be allowed to have under an agreement,” Einhorn said.
“If a deal is to happen, Iran must make the strategic decision to forego a near-term breakout capability in the form of a sizable enrichment program,” Jofi Joseph, a former White House Iran non-proliferation advisor, said Wednesday. “If it is prepared to do so, a deal can come together quickly this summer. If not, then an impasse will occur.”
Iran was frustrated by the P5+1 proposal in Vienna for a decade or more time-frame for phased sanctions relief, and wants sanctions relief in a deal to be more front-loaded for steps it’s also willing to take on the front end.
The P5+1 “say that after the agreement, we have to prove our goodwill. They will then remove sanctions one by one,” over a period of ten years, Seyed Hossein Naghavi Hosseini, spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, Al-Monitor’s Iran Pulse reported Wednesday.
Iran also rejects that its ballistic missile program should be a subject for discussion with the P5+1, Iran’s negotiators have repeatedly said.
The largest gap that has Iran deal watchers concerned, however, is between the expectations of Iran and the West over the size of Iran’s enrichment program.
“What matters most is whether the two sides can agree on a much more limited uranium enrichment program for near term,” Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, told Al-Monitor.
“Only if Iran meets its obligations, builds confidence its program not being used for military purposes, and Iran demonstrates it has legitimate nuclear fuel needs will the international community agree to relaxing those constraints,” Kimball said.
“The brinkmanship will continue until the last minute,” one Iranian analyst, speaking not for attribution, told Al-Monitor. “My problem is the incompatibility of the two sides’ end objectives…maintaining nuclear capability vs. rolling it back.”
Sources suggest the Iranians would like to initially maintain the number of centrifuges they are currently operating under the six month interim deal–about 9,000 IR-1s – to be the starting amount in the near term of a final deal, that would be allowed to increase after some duration. At the end of an as yet to be agreed period in which it would agree to restrictions and extensive inspections, monitoring and safeguards, Iran wants to have its status as a member of the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) normalized, so that it could in theory have no restrictions on the size of its enrichment program.
“I understand that Iran has indicated willingness to consider short term constraints on the size of its enrichment program, such as freezing at the current level of 9,000 operating IR-1s for a few years before gradually expanding to an industrial scale of 50,000 or more IR-1 centrifuge machines,” former Obama White House non-proliferation advisor Gary Samore said in a speech posted at the Harvard Belfer Center website this week.
Meantime, Congressional sources and Israeli officials would find a deal under which Iran operated 3,000 IR-1 centrifuges while maintaining a small stockpile of 3.5% enriched uranium, allowing a one year “breakout” period, “politically defensible,” Samore wrote.
Getting Iran to agree to restrict the size of its enrichment program in the near and medium term is probably more important than how many centrifuges it says it wants after a decade or two, some non-proliferation experts said.
“I actually think if you could get to a near term agreement, that would make us feel comfortable over the next ten years, it would take care of itself,” Greg Thielmann, a former US intelligence analyst with the Arms Control Association, said Tuesday.
Sources expect Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to meet as early as this weekend to discuss how to bridge wide gaps in positions, ahead of the next round of talks in Vienna June 16th. US and Iranian sources did not immediately respond if U.S. officials would participate in the meeting or might meet separately.
(Photo of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attending a banquet in Vienna May 14 2014 by Iran’s Tasnim News Agency.)
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Thurston TA16 Trojan. Specifications. A photo.
Thurston TA16 Trojan - American lightweight single-engine amphibious aircraft designed in 1975, the company «International Aeromarine Corporation».
Thurston TA16 Trojan photo
Plane Project Thurston TA16 Trojan became developed by American designer David Thurston in the early 70-ies of the last century, and, American experts have managed to create a suitable design is fast enough for the aircraft, however, due to some problems with the technical part of the project development has slowed down somewhat.
For the first time in the air plane model Thurston TA16 Trojan rose in 1975, after which, the plane went into production, which was over 5 years. The release of the aircraft was carried out by American designer, aircraft manufacturers as a kit for self-assembly, however, after the production of 32 sets, it was decided to suspend the release, which was attributed to the need to improve the model.
In 1980 year, the overall design and technical elements of an amphibious aircraft Thurston TA16 Trojan have been thoroughly revised and the project was re-launched in the series, however, has called Thurston TA16 Seafire. However, the production of an upgraded version of the aircraft involved in the corporation «International Aeromarine Corporation», which is up to 1987 years released several dozen aircraft until the project was not formally closed because of low demand.
Photo Thurston TA16 Trojan
In 1998 was another American aircraft manufacturer has made a new attempt to revive the current model of an amphibious plane, however, there was little popular plane, which is why the production was quickly minimized.
In the cockpit of the aircraft Thurston TA16 Trojan can accommodate up to four people, including one pilot and three passengers that the plane actually provides a high popularity among private owners. Moreover, thanks to the spacious interior, on board an Thurston TA16 Trojan vessel can also carry out transportation and cargo weight should not exceed 566 kilogram (including the weight of its own people in the plane).
The power plant of the Thurston TA16 Trojan aircraft includes a single piston aircraft engine model Lycoming O-540-A4D5, capable of developing thrust in 250 hp, which in turn provides the aircraft the ability to fly at cruising speed in 250 km / h. at maximum distances to 1610 kilometers.
Aircraft Thurston TA16 Trojan
Issue aircraft was conducted in two basic versions:
Thurston TA16 Trojan - Basic version of the aircraft;
Thurston TA16 Seafire - An upgraded version.
Specifications Thurston TA16 Trojan.
Wingspan: 11,28 m .;
Maximum takeoff weight: 1451 kg .;
Maximum flight distance: 1610 km .;
Powerplant: Lycoming O-540-A4D5;
Ward House, Owner of a TA-16 Trojan January 22 2019 22 in: 38
Not everything is a TA-16 Trojan. Two of the pictures depict a smaller Thurston TSC-1 Teal
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Tag: Blizzard of 85
Buffalo in the ’80s: When ‘Grab a six-pack’ became our mantra
“Stay inside. Grab a six-pack.”
Mayor Jimmy Griffin was serving as acting Streets Commissioner in 1985 when he gave his famous advice, about staying off the roads.
It’s almost difficult to imagine Western New York and especially a Western New York snowfall without the phrase that Jimmy Griffin joked would wind up on his tombstone. But while Buffalonians have likely been drinking their way through snowstorms for as long as there have been people here, we’ve only been “staying inside and grabbing a six-pack” for the 32 years since a blizzard descended on Buffalo in January 1985.
It had been only been eight years since the Blizzard of ’77 and Western New Yorkers were still a little jumpy with memories of being stranded, 12-foot drifts, and people freezing to death in their cars.
Heading into a late January weekend in 1985, forecasters were calling for as much snow as the city had seen since ’77. Ultimately, three feet of snow fell in three days, but the weekend timing was actually perfect. One of the lessons learned in ’77 was to keep people off the roads so you could keep the roads cleared.
One would expect the mayor to be out front with snow emergency communications, but during the Blizzard of ’85, Mayor James D. Griffin was Buffalo’s acting Streets Commissioner, coordinating snow removal efforts from City Hall and the heavy equipment depot at Broadway Barns.
Why? The Common Council had repeatedly rejected the mayor’s nomination of Joseph Scinta as Streets Commissioner. After the fifth rejection, in November 1984, Griffin told Buffalonians to “blame their councilmen when the snow was piling up” on city streets.
When the blizzard hit two months later, Griffin was determined to show Buffalonians what he was doing personally to get the streets cleared. He even rode a few shifts on the plows. The mayor issued a driving ban and ordered the police to enforce it. But he also encouraged people to stay home and watch the 49ers and Dolphins in the Super Bowl that weekend, maybe with beverage in hand.
Police enforce a driving ban during the Blizzard of ’85. Buffalo News archives
“Stay inside, grab a six-pack, and watch a good football game,” Mayor Griffin was caught saying on a Channel 7 camera. “Have a six-pack handy so you can enjoy yourself. Don’t take this too seriously.”
Mayor Jimmy Griffin-- Grab a six pack, 1985
The consensus was that most Buffalonians liked seeing Don Shula, Dan Marino and the Dolphins beat up in the Super Bowl, and most liked the job Griffin did in beating back the Blizzard of ’85. The News later gave Griffin high marks for his handling of the blizzard and its aftermath, saying he did “a good job” acting as his own commissioner.
1985 was a mayoral election year, and the Blizzard of ’85 was a central campaign issue. Common Council President and primary opponent George Arthur questioned the city’s preparedness and overall plan for snow fighting.
“When you get 45 inches of snow, I challenge anyone to come up with a plan that works,” said Griffin.
Others attacked the six-pack advice as “unbecoming a mayor.” Griffin would have none of it.
As quoted by Brian Meyer and David Breslawski in their 1985 book “The World According to Griffin,” the mayor hammered back with, “I’m proud of the statement. You get a blizzard here in Buffalo, you have to get off the street. I’ll probably use it again. I don’t see anything wrong with it. It was a humorous statement.”
Griffin was elected to a third term in 1985 and a fourth in 1989.
Did we grab six packs?
But did people heed Mayor Griffin’s advice, that first time it was suggested Western New York grab some beers and relax?
Delaware Avenue, The Blizzard of 1985. Buffalo News archives
In the days following the Blizzard of 1985, The News checked in with a handful of stores to see how they fared.
The Tops Market at 2226 Delaware Ave. – today the spot is Big Lots— and the 7-Eleven on Sheridan Drive—now Romeo & Juliet’s Bakery & Café—reported big runs on junk food and beer as Western New Yorkers apparently dutifully followed the mayor’s advice.
Posted on February 10, 2017 January 2, 2018 Categories Buffalo Neighborhoods, Buffalo's Pop Culture HeritageTags Blizzard of 77, Blizzard of 85, Buffalo winter, Delaware Ave, Grab a six pack, James D. Griffin, Jimmy Griffin
Buffalo in the ’70s: New NFT buses arrive at the Aud
This former NFT bus, a 1967 GMC Model TDH-5304, was the wave of the future when it and 33 others started rolling around Western New York.
Buffalo News archives
This undated photo, likely from the late ’30s or early ’40s, shows those “Old Look” buses lined up for service along the Porter-Best route.
By the time the Blizzard of 1985 struck, the NFTA was replacing “New Look” GMC buses with an even newer look — these 1983 GMCs were the first to arrive on Western New York roadways with the orange and brown color scheme that the NFTA used through the ’80s and ’90s.
These three buses were fighting through the snow on Seneca Street at Stevenson as life began returning to normal after the 1985 blizzard.
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Local Attractions: 6 Things to do while staying at Bocage Plantation
Bocage Plantation is situated conveniently between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Our location gives you easy access to some of the most remarkable sights in all of Louisiana. You’ll never be at a loss of things to do. So, make sure to bring a camera, because when you stay at Bocage Plantation, you’re sure to make some memories!
Here are our 6 favorite local attractions.
1. Plantations along River Road
Take a tour down old River Road to get a glimpse of the romantic history and gorgeous architecture of Louisiana. The Smithsonian Institute refers to River Road as a museum of the American south as it has more than 120 registered items. You’ll see gorgeous plantation homes, haunted swamps, and historical points of interest as you tour this scenic area of New Orleans. See the same towering homes and breathtaking oak trees that Mark Twain once wrote about.
2. Mall of Louisiana
This 1.6 million square foot mall is the largest in the region, and it contains more than 175 retailers as well as a movie theater. The Mall of Louisiana offers something for everyone, and with its convenient location in Baton Rouge, this is the perfect way to spend your day when staying here at Bocage Plantation.
3. Perkins Rowe
This unique Baton Rouge district has been described by some as “Louisiana’s answer to California.” The Perkins Rowe district is dotted with boutique shops, fine restaurants, and an assortment of entertainment options. It’s hip. It’s fresh. It’s trendy. And there’s always something fun and exciting to do in Perkins Rowe. So, come enjoy this exciting new community during your Bocage visit.
4. The Old Louisiana State Capitol
From the mid 1800s until 1929, this building housed the Louisiana State Legislature. Designed by New York architect James Dakin, the Old Louisiana State Capitol boasts a Gothic Cathedral style that includes stained glass windows, towers, and a general castle feel. It’s one of the most distinguished examples of Gothic architecture in the entire country, and with its downtown Baton Rouge location, it’s situated not far from Bocage Plantation.
5. LSU Tiger Stadium
Originally nicknamed “Deaf Valley”, the outdoor football stadium of the LSU Tigers opened all the way back in 1924. But don’t let that fool you. Renovations have made this football stadium current and huge. It seats more than 90,000 fans, making it the 9th largest stadium in the NCAA. Geaux Tigers!
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Soak in the diverse aspects of Louisiana history and culture by taking a trip to the Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge. There are two permanent Louisiana-themed exhibits as well as a constant rotation of new exhibits showcasing the area’s unique history. You’ll learn about everything from the Louisiana Purchase to Mardis Gras during your museum visit.
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Doughnut Quilts: Salute to Donut Dolly
CleoLampos May 30, 2019 May 28, 2019 Cleo Thoughts, Gallant Warriors, Memories, Quilts
“With its clubs for recreation, its coffee and doughnuts in the forward areas… (with) the devotion and warmhearted sympathy of the Red Cross girl.. The Red Cross has often seemed to be the friendly hand of this nation, reaching across the sea to sustain its fighting men.”- Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945
Photo from Time magazine
It never fails. During the first week in June, the line at the stop light is greeted by smiling men or women with pocketed vests. They shake a cardboard doughnut on a string, seeking a donation. “To what?” I ask myself, while forking over a dollar.
Now I know. It is National Doughnut Day, which began in 1938 as a fundraiser for Chicago’s Salvation Army. Currently, either the Salvation Army or the Red Cross sends volunteers to the street to collect support for their humanitarian causes. A quick history helped me dig a bit deeper into the pocket book.
The Salvation Army Doughnut Girls of WWI
The simple ring-shaped piece of fried dough helped to shape history. Introduced to the “Doughboys” in WWI by the Salvation Army “Doughnut Girls”, coffee and carbs symbolized loving concern for those in the armed forces. Helen Purviance, an Ensign in the Salvation Army, worked in France with the American First Division. She is credited with inventing the treat. “I was literally on my knees when those first doughnuts were fried, seven at a time, in a small frypan. There was also a prayer in my heart that somehow this home touch would do more for those who ate the doughnuts than satisfy a physical hunger.” Eventually, Ensign Purviance and her girls would make up to 9,000 doughnuts daily, as did other Salvation Army lassies along the frontline trenches. Their tour of duty enveloped a view of WWI through the hole of a doughnut. They were soldiers without guns.
The soldiers dubbed the Salvation Army lassies as “doughnut girls”. The lowly fried doughnut became a symbol of the Salvation Army’s goal to ease the hardships of the frontline fighting man: free refreshments, religious services, concerts and a clothes-mending service. Food for the belly and sustenance for the soul.
WWI Salvation army volunteer near French front.
Doughnuts and the Red Cross
When the World War II Red Cross volunteers brought coffee and doughnuts to men in outlying areas of Europe, they touched the hearts and souls of American servicemen and women. This seemingly domestic duty was truly a heroic endeavor. The men admitted that the Doughnut Dolly’s “being there gave them a nice warm feeling.” That emotion inspired the uniformed pastry- makers to work ten to twelve hours a day from London’s foggy streets, to the Normandy invasion and on to Ardenne’s snowy forest. These women wanted to be with the troops, not back home waiting for them to return.
The caravan of Red Cross Doughnut Dollies followed the GI’s through most of the war’s defining moments. With 31 girls in a group, the volunteers manned Clubmobiles, supply trucks, a Cinemobile and trailers for water, generators and tents. Each Red Cross worker could drive a 2 and a half ton truck, live in tents, work in snow and rain, while wincing only a bit at the big guns exploding in the near countryside. Still looking feminine, they could talk about tanks, airplanes and rifles as well as movies and music. Most important, they served strong, hot coffee and doughnuts that they made from scratch in the middle of a corn field. A touch of home in a place where humanity is easily lost.
1944 Betty Jane Thomas, Seattle Washington Red Cross Worker France
Contributing to the Future
This June, I will be alert to the orange vested volunteers walking between cars with cardboard doughnuts on a string. The Salvation Army and Red Cross represent the best that our country has to offer in the way of supporting the troops, historically and in the present day. It is a privilege to contribute to the cause.
“The front lines of the Salvation Army run through the tragedies of our world.” –- General Arnold Brown
If it were possible, a quilt for the workers should be created and given to each one who toils by a deep fryer and a coffee machine. Maybe it would lead to sweet dreams.
Quilt by Sew Sweetness
Main photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doughnut_Dollies_1918_France.jpg
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I was coincidentally invited by Mark Baltzegar to join a social networking group called "Museum Futures" on the Twine betasite (www.twine.com) at the same time that Jim so generously offered me a forum here. On Twine, a would-be angel posted some provocative questions. Speaking as one who has worked in museums for a while (without speaking in an official capacity), I've tried to address these questions informally. I'm a lawyer, not a programmer, so I invite anyone to format and add to my response(s) as they see fit.
One of my most pressing concerns right now, as a funder, is in understanding better the technology capacity of the museum community. What skills are embedded in the museums themselves, v. their vendors?
My experience is that this varies from museum to museum, even within a larger complex like that of the Smithsonian Institution. Museums, like the communities of nonprofits and especially those of arts/cultural organizations which they inhabit, are chronically underfunded. I've seen different strategies adopted for dealing with this. Everyone needs a base infrastructure, whether begged, borrowed, or bought, and I've seen acquisition of enterprise-level CMS, DAM, e-mail, and ERP apps for IT staff to maintain and parcel out to the boots on the ground (and more often workaround apps which lack the same capacity to scale but which are easier/cheaper to use and support until the independent, redundant silos overwhelm).
For activity which has direct impact on research or public education on the web, I've seen two approaches. Some hire significant staff (with varying levels of HTML, Flash, KML, and other design and programming skills) in hopes of internally managing Museum work. This represents a significant and continuous commitment to web development, but has a few significant potential drawbacks: (1) it restricts concurrent development of multiple projects to the bandwidth that available human resources can accomplish; (2) it limits institutional knowledge and capacity to the capabilities of those willing to accept a $30-60K annual paycheck as supervised by those willing to accept $90K or less; and (3) it is at the mercy of often frequent attrition. Others throw money at ad hoc development projects as they succeed in soliciting funding. Given the golden rule ("S/he who has the gold…"), this likewise presents significant drawbacks, some of which include: (1) it can skew a museum's agenda by prioritizing development arbitrarily on the basis of that which can be successfully pitched or otherwise capture donors' (or development officer's) interests instead of as dictated by institutional mission or strategic goals; (2) it often limits the control and scope of development to the budget and cash flow secured for the project; and (3) it risks kudzu-like deployment of incomplete apps and functions in an environment where information-sharing throughout the museum is frequently less than perfect (ever try to harmonize the intent of education staff focused on primary-school outreach with curator-historian-academics with exhibition developers… not even considering the pressures imposed by administrative entities?).
Worse, from my 30,000 foot view, is the opportunity cost that is engendered the ongoing commitment of scarce museum resources on a piecemeal museum-by-museum basis. Were cultural organizations capable of sharing development, building upon, and improving a core toolset, all would be significantly more productive and better off, leveraging economies of scale not only on the costs of independent development but also saving funds which otherwise would be expended in one-off discrete online exhibition development. From this vantage point, projects like GMU's Omeka or the IMLS-funded Project Steve (www.omeka.org and www.steve.museum) are extremely welcome and need to be encouraged, promoted, and funded (hint, hint) inasmuch as they carry the potential to prevent museums from dropping between $50,000-125,000 on a URL silo site which while nice on its own, is ultimately incapable of growth. The irony of this is that in terms of outreach, these costs represent a small fraction of the investment inherent in traditional museum means of communication (physical exhibition development, traveling exhibits, audiovisual productions, and hard copy publication) while carrying the potential to reach much greater audiences. I am a staunch believer that museums get their greatest ROI (in terms of audience outreach) from their investment in new media/internet projects.
How are the skills distributed among institutions, by size, category, or any other salient dimension? Most of our work involves funding collaborations--we seldom fund a single institution to do anything--so I'm particularly interested in collaborative nexi or loci (present or nascent) for museums and technology.
Rather than waiting for a coalition to emerge for funding purposes (look to a temporarily derailed NOAA/NMNH Ocean Portal project as an example of good intentions that appear to have been groupthought -- among other factors -- into hopefully transitory submission), I think you're better off finding an initiative leader with a promising project, even (especially?) if self-nominated. The project funding should be split appropriately (not necessarily evenly) between the amount required for development and the amount required for promotion to and adoption by like organizations. Diffusion theory represents an area of significant academic and empirical study (see Everett M. Rogers "Diffusion of Innovations") as well as getting some recent lay attention (most notably via Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point"). According to Rogers, large-scale adoption is often dependent upon a leader who can provide a model for successful adoption, offer a reasonable or low barrier to entry, and provide a means for "reinvention" of the product to suit the specific needs of the adopter. This is a primary reason why I'm such an advocate (if nonetheless naïve) of joint tool development with broad application. The emphasis must be on broad, since museums (committees in and of themselves) act inherently modularly.
We're also committed to the sustainability of the projects that we build, so my definition of 'capacity' extends to include what museum leaders understand about designing, creating, and managing technology solutions. I know that most leaders don't understand the bits and bytes--no reason why they should. But do they understand how to plan strategically to maximize the ROI on their tech investments? Do they know how to structure organizational relationships within their institutions to produce the most gain and the least pain? Are they prepared to consider innovative business models around technology, such as "community source" solutions to shared problems, in order to reduce the risk and cost of technology development?
In my painful experience, these assets are extremely hard to come by and, when obtained, become more strained the longer that project development is stretched and the less that the sponsor organization has control over initial funding. In a vaccuum of funds, I have been a strong proponent of "funding" multimedia/software development projects by allowing the commercial developers who were ultimately responsible for production a reasonable opportunity to capitalize commercially on the tools they had developed. Let the museums guinea pig/form the impetus for development of the use of these tools and provide the model for successful deployment and let the commercial providers who capitalize risk reap equivalent reward. However, the longer and more complex the project "funded" in this way, the more frequently the model has failed (I'm being coy here, as I'm not quite ready to name names). The carrot of museums' prestigious imprimatur, incessant wheedling, and -- as a last resort -- threats of default are insufficient to guarantee successful outcome unless the developer(s) remain committed to bona fide execution of museum intent and a true spirit of partnership. All of which brings us back to the venal version of the golden rule, as expressed above.
However, if it is impossible to give a selected museum messiah the power of the purse, another way of giving museums some 'oomph' to put behind these types of "in-kind" deals would be shared physical possession and ongoing publicity. As a means of possession, consider an agreement which requires that fully-annotated code, tested and annotated by a mutually acceptable independent party, be placed in escrow or a copy provided to the museum at each major development milestone, with the museum free to divulge this information or make it available to any other developer upon material breach or protracted dispute. For publicity (yay, sunshine!), share everything with an open-source community under a strict gnu-license as it is being built. Invest in ongoing promotion (the cheap version of which is an e-mailed newsletter) to build a coalition of interested participants/adopters ready to alpha-test, beta-test, and ultimately use the product.
Cultural organizations are not about the apps themselves, as these are merely a means to the end of promulgating ideas: information of and about the collections, cultures, and the world we live in, and preserving same (collections, cultures, and the world we live in) for future generations. Museums' primary focus will (should?) always be on funding this activity first and foremost (well, after staying afloat that is). We crave external technology funders with the willingness, resources, and courage to help us develop the apps we're not even aware we need to succeed.
We also must find a way to stimulate meaningful sharing and codevelopment of these apps to save ourselves precious time and still more precious money.
Posted by Bruce Falk at 4:42 PM
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Holograms in Science Fiction Writing
April 7, 2016 by dankoboldt Leave a Comment
Image Credit: Alex Cojocaru for Society Involved
Judy L. Mohr is an engineer by background, but a writer at heart. Her PhD specialized in astronomical instrumentation, where she used stellar light to measure the horizontal air movement above the McLellan 1-m Telescope, Tekapo, New Zealand. Her post-doctoral research was with the MARS research team, who are developing the world’s first color-CT scanner. Needless to say, optics, imaging and light are her thing.
It should be no surprise that Judy’s fictional writing has a science fiction and fantasy slant. You can follow Judy on Twitter, or visit her at www.judylmohr.com.
The Hologram Wants Me to Park Somewhere Else
Imagine driving through a parking garage looking for a perfect place to park. You find one, so you go to pull in, only to be confronted by a man in a wheelchair telling you that your perfect parking spot is actually a handicapped spot. You step out of your car confused. Where did this man come from? He wasn’t there moments before. Yet, his image is as clear as anything. A hologram wants you to park somewhere else. It may sound like fiction, but it’s not. Scientists in Russia have combined detection and recognition technologies with projection systems to solve a very real issue. If a handicap placard is not detected on your vehicle, an image of the man in the wheelchair is projected onto a curtain of mist directly in front of you, and the image is very convincing. But is this really a hologram?
According to Merriam-Webster and Oxford English Dictionary, a hologram is a 3D image formed from the interference patterns of a coherent light source. Put simply, a hologram is a virtual 3D image. It does not need a screen to be seen, nor does it need be a monochromatic source of light. All that is needed is a light source of known, determinable characteristics and surfaces to bounce the light around. You can even turn your smart phone into a holographic projector.
Still from the Russian hologram (YouTube)
So, what about that Russian hologram telling you to park somewhere else? Based on the above definition, it’s not a hologram. It’s a 2D projection, but still a very convincing one — and one that I would love to see in other countries around the world.
But where does that put holographic technologies?
It Started with Star Wars (sort of)
In 1977, R2D2 projected an image of Princess Leia onto the big screen and the main stream idea of using holograms for communications was born.
R2D2’s Hologram in Star Wars: A New Hope
What the public didn’t know was that holograms already existed. The first hologram was produced in 1947 by the British scientist Dennis Gabor while trying to improve the resolution of electron microscopes. With the advancement of lasers in the 1960s, holography developed into our current understanding of 3D image transmission. In 1972, Lloyd Cross combined white-light transmission holography with conventional cinematography to produce moving 3D images from a sequence of recorded 2D images of a rotating object.
So when George Lucas added holographic technologies to his futuristic story, it was by no means a stretch of the imagination. However, I must admit that I’m still trying to figure out how R2D2 was able to take an image of Leia’s back when she was facing him during the recording, but we’ll ignore that little detail.
Holograms From Your Video Phone
Creating large scale 3D images showing different views from all angles, similar to those portrayed in the Star Wars franchise, is not completely beyond the realm of our current technology.
Remember when I said that you can turn your smart phone into a holographic projector? Over the last year, many articles have described how to use the clear plastic from a CD case and your smart phone to create a moving holographic image of a jellyfish. Holographic toys using mirrors to magnify and project 3D images of Matchbox cars and rubber frogs in free air are readily available.
If one was to combine these simple holographic projectors with the current video phone technologies, the talking, interactive hologram used for communications in Star Wars instantly becomes a reality.
Holo phone (Credit: Society Involved)
When Can I Get A Holodeck?
But what about the best holographic idea that science fiction has to offer: the holodeck from Star Trek: TNG? I don’t know about anyone else, but I remember sitting with my parents, gathered around the TV in awe as the first episode aired in 1987. Already big fans of Star Trek, my mother constantly begging to have a replicator, it was a collective “I want one” when we saw Riker open the doors to the holodeck and walk into the forest. Unfortunately, unlike the holograms of Star Wars, the holodeck and its fully interactive environment are something that we will never see.
Projection systems may progress to the point that the 3D images are indistinguishable from reality, however, just the presence of a solid object would disrupt the image, creating shadows and distortions. Not only that, as mentioned in a previous post on the weapons of Star Wars, light cannot stop matter. If you try to sit in a holographic chair, you’ll fall to the floor and potentially hurt your bum.
If we ignore science fiction’s suggestion that we might physically interact with holograms, enjoying the cup of tea with historic holographic characters, 3D projection and holographic-related systems have already had an impact on our everyday life. And it all starts with a pseudo-hologram telling you to park somewhere else.
Click to Tweet Writing holograms in science fiction, with engineer @JudyLMohr: http://bit.ly/1qubU77 Part of the #ScienceInSF series by @DanKoboldt
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Real Madrid Sign Areola on Loan
Posted - September 03 2019 01:54
Real's statement read' Real Madrid CF and Paris Saint-Germain have agreed to transfer Keylor Navas. After my experience in Spain, I'm coming to France with high hopes.
'I will do everything I can to help PSG win new titles, bringing all my experience and professionalism.
In a club statement Real Madrid thanked the Costa Rica global for his: "behaviour and his contribution in his five seasons defending the Real Madrid shirt".
On Monday, Paris Saint-Germain completed the signing of 32-year-old goalkeeper Keylor Navas from Real Madrid, in a deal that saw Alphonse Areola move in the opposite direction. The club wants to show its gratitude and love for his behaviour and performances over the five seasons he has played for Real Madrid.
'Real Madrid wish the player all the best in this latest chapter of his career'.
Areola has been PSG's first choice 'keeper for the last two seasons, but will now provide competition for Thibaut Courtois at Madrid.
He joins PSG as No. 1 ahead of Sergio Rico and fellow summer signing Marcin Bulka - a move that ends years of uncertainty over the goalkeeping hierarchy.
In their bid for European glory PSG have tried several goalkeepers in recent seasons with German Kevin Trapp and Italians Salvatore Sirigu and Gianluigi Buffon, at 40, all falling short.
Madrid and PSG did not release the financial details of either deal.
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Review: Ian Nairn: Words in Place & Nairn’s Towns
Ian Nairn: Words in Place by Gillian Darley and David McKie (Five Leaves Publications, 160pp, £10.99)
Nairn’s Towns edited and introduced by Owen Hatherley (Notting Hill Editions, 240pp, £12)
Reviewed by John Grindrod
‘Enter Nairn’ announced the Observer in September 1964, marking the appointment of their new Roving Correspondent on architecture and planning. Penguin guidebooks Nairn’s London and Nairn’s Paris followed in quick succession, and within a decade the BBC had aired documentaries including Nairn’s Europe and Nairn at Large. Nairn, as with Pevsner and Betjeman before him, had quickly become a brand. Yet when Ian Nairn, the man behind this work, died in 1983, all these things were just as quickly on their way to being forgotten.
Two recently published books complete what has been a slow yet miraculous restoration of his reputation and work. His 1967 BBC publication Britain’s Changing Towns has just been reissued as (what else) Nairn’s Towns. It’s joined by Gillian Darley and David McKie’s celebration and introduction to the man and his writing: Ian Nairn: Words in Place.
Darley and McKie present Ian Nairn as a brilliant, shambolic, romantic critic frequently at odds with a world of rationality and philistinism. As befits a book on one of the great observational writers of his day, their descriptions are delicious: he turns up in a documentary ‘in a suit which doesn’t quite fit and a drab-looking tie, his hair adrift, his hands in his pockets, his expression located somewhere on the slope down from melancholy to lugubrious’. And, for a relatively short book, there’s plenty of eye-opening detail about the man and his world, from his love of flying Gloster Meteors for the RAF and getting a pilot’s-eye view of the English landscape, to the politics and hierarchies of the architectural press in the fifties. They take us through his career in Fleet Street and publishing in the sixties, and on to television in the seventies.
The story of Outrage, his campaigning diatribe against what he termed ‘subtopia’, is told through exchanges of ideas with John Betjeman and open resentment with Reyner Banham. Along the way we also meet Jane Jacobs, with whom he partially agrees, and Nikolaus Pevsner, with whom he forms a slightly awkward odd-couple routine on the eminent critic’s Buildings of England series. This is not an entirely flattering portrait. Chiefly, of course, there’s the drink. It’s a rapid decline: by the mid-seventies alcoholism had made work, and Nairn himself, quite impossible.
We don’t just see Nairn through the eyes of Darley and McKie. There are short preambles to each chapter from long-time Nairn admirers Jonathan Meades, Owen Hatherley, Gavin Stamp, Veronica Horwell, David Thomson, Andrew Saint, Deyan Sudjic and Jonathan Glancey. These heartfelt pieces illustrate how Nairn’s spirit survived those lean years, in the work of a younger generation of architectural critics. With so many voices and tonal shifts, you might expect to feel the gears crunching, like a trip in Nairn’s old Morris Minor. Instead, it’s like a gathering of friends down the pub raising a glass to the man, celebrating him with colourful anecdote. Ian Nairn: Words in Place is a wonderful book, precise on his passions and outrages, making you want to read his work afresh. It even contains some of his photography, with a great visual gag to start and end with, which I won’t spoil.
One of the people most responsible in the upturn in Nairn’s posthumous fortunes has been Owen Hatherley, and as Hatherley’s star has risen so he has pulled Nairn with him, and a great service it has done us all. As well as contributing to Words in Place, he has edited, updated and produced a new introduction to Nairn’s Towns, as an exquisitely produced little hardback.
These are pieces Nairn wrote for the Listener magazine between 1960 and 1964, on sixteen places from Derry to Norwich, Brighton to Fife. He added a postscript to each for the 1967 edition, and Hatherley has added a further note to each too, bringing the tale of each town up to date. Nairn is at his best here: quixotic, incisive and funny. His piece on Glasgow and Cumbernauld is probably my favourite: the 1960 article describing the city as ‘a topographical epic… like a Beethoven symphony played over 150 years’. His 1967 postscript is heartbroken at Glasgow’s ‘fearsome’ redevelopment: ‘In the Gorbals, Robert Matthew’s blocks wouldn’t say boo to a goose and Basil Spence’s monolith is saying boo to everything.’
It’s a small masterpiece, capturing a Britain in transition. The towns are so altered between the early and late sixties that the perspective of his postscripts really shows his art: the acute eye, the astute phrase, the adroit analysis. Both books illuminate that post-war time, when our cities were lit up by the brilliance of Ian Nairn. May all his books find their way back into print, and soon.
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Historical likelihood for civil war between the people & the
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by Woodsman » Fri Dec 05, 2014 2:23 am
I am beginning to wonder about the possibilities of a war between the people of US & the local, state & federal governments as these police keep getting off for killing people. There have been 4 major incidents recently that have gotten full media spotlight. What are your thoughts?
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Re: Historical likelihood for civil war between the people &
by coldharvest » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:14 pm
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So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. -Kahlil Gibran
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by OneLungMcClung » Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:52 am
The short version: No.
When you say “war” you likely mean open combat, small arms fire and IEDs, assassinations, a rebel group or loose alliance of people fighting against someone/some entity and for something. We are hardly anywhere near that.
What would this war’s ultimate goal be? For cops to stop killing citizens? How would shooting cops and bombing police stations achieve that? We are home to the most militarized and paramilitary police force in the developed world. This is not an issue of armed forces facing off, nor one of asymmetric warfare, it is not a case of diametrically opposed principals; the core problem here is instead one of disconnect: the police have the job of keeping the peace in increasingly impoverished neighborhoods and are doing it with outdated tactics, and equipment heavy mentality.
Keeping the peace - how does one do that? By recruiting officers of a different race, up arming them, and sending them in to kick ass? Hardly. LAPD was like that all throughout the 1970’s to the 1990’s. Predominantly white, mostly ex-military, heavily armed, these cops took a no-holds barred attitude of kicking people’s asses to keep them in line. Humiliation, beatings, arrests, these were the tools used. And it produced what you would expect: anger in the community. That produced the LA riots…. and a renaissance in LAPD policing. Yes, they can still be dirty bastards, but the reality is that when LAPD started putting more Black, Latino and Asian officers on the streets, and those cops were older (late 20’s early 30’s instead of 22 year olds), and trained on how to talk, you started to see a change in the outcome of policing. Atlanta had the same problem: generally 50% to 65% black, the city was patrolled by an almost all white police force. This would yield problems, as you would expect. Black cops and mixed units made a difference. Atlanta isn’t the sunshine city by any means (and neither is LA), but things got better from a societal standpoint.
That’s what you’ll see here, a continuation of the circle. We need to head back to the community policing model championed by LAPD. Right now we are regressing back to a paramilitary style of policing. It is a by-product of equipment mentality: post 9/11 meant dollars, dollars and dollars that had to be spent. It meant access to military grade equipment: M-16s for everybody, grenade launchers, and armored vehicles. It meant training: training that was developed by Special Forces and the CIA (counter insurgency training, as well as Direct Action urban warfare and building entry tactics that outclassed even LAPD/LA Sheriff’s SWAT tactics and those of FBI’s HRT). Small town cops are getting big war training. Anyone who has worked a Federal job knows that you have to keep spending that money on equipment and training or you don’t get it next fiscal cycle. So that is a self-fulfilling prophecy: a militarized police force with a shit-ton of equipment and training in the shadows of two counter-insurgency wars, that has to keep spending that money on that stuff or it gets cut off from the tit.
Meanwhile, back home, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. What’s a police officer to do? You react the way you are trained.
Ferguson was an example of left-wing media making a problem where there wasn’t one to begin with: a man charged a police officer and tried to take his firearm, and got shot in the process. Cut and dried. But the media made damn sure you knew it was a BLACK “kid” (6’4” 300 lbs), made damn sure you knew it was a WHITE police officer, and made damn sure that it was portrayed, every so softly, as a racist event. They didn’t state much about who taught this “child” to fight with the police, who taught him to rob stores. They didnt talk much about the alternatives that Ferguson needs to proceed with: changes in recruiting, changes in tactics and equipment. A Taser might have made a difference here.
I've had two tasered patients in the last month, both under arrest by Philly PD. Both times, the cops said "If we didn't have these tasers, we would have shot him". It may not have stopped this incident, but you gotta give cops the right tools.
Cleveland? The city obviously needs to redo their background checks and 911 dispatch protocols. My experience with 911 dispatch here in Killadelphia has been morbidly comical – they quite often mumble, get the calls wrong, and occasionally call the wrong hospital. I’m glad I’m not a cop, but especially here. But back to Cleveland: This cop was apparently not fit for hire at another agency, and found to be “sorely lacking” at Cleveland PD. Plus their dispatchers fucked it up and forgot to tell the little part about this maybe being a kid with a maybe toy gun. So officers rolled on a hot call of man with a gun at a playground.... but once again the media fanned the fire: you know it’s a white cop and a little black kid. A tragedy of errors that gets turned into a racist execution by a cracker cop.
New York? Now we’re getting somewhere…. Sort of. Cops use a choke hold (which is not authorized in multiple departments for the very reason of what happened here)… and it looks like NYPD needs to address its use of force policy. But why did it get to choke hold time? Racist ass cracker cop.. or angry black man and police officer who won’t be talked back to? You decide.
You might see a few police officers murdered by self-righteous fools. These assholes will be quickly killed or arrested and given life without parole or the death penalty, as they deserve. The “revolution” will be in police tactics, as more and more people get hurt by the cops and more and more civic leaders cry out for change. We live in the era of the mini camera, so you screw up, and it’s on YouTube immediately. Also, the equipment mentality will slow down as those Federal dollar start to dry up (it already is – the same cuts to the Military are cutting deeply into DHS spending).
War? Hardly. It would take a concerted effort by the US government to drive Americans to armed revolution. And the government isn't that organized.
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by Woodsman » Wed Dec 10, 2014 3:37 pm
Thanks for your input men - I think this whole police brutality thing (along with the torture documents) is a media highlight of some intermittent (but serious) problems of current day USA.
I made the error of focusing on it a bit - back to proper focus of tending lands.
There's always improvements to be made I guess.
It's good to hear from you McClung!
by Kurt » Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:20 pm
The US will never have a Civil War.
But, we might be in line for a massacre or two.
Historically the masscres in the US always had a native American vs. Settlers or Mormon vs. Not-Mormon or just killing Unionists and Coal minors because you could not stand uppity Dagos and Heathen Chinee asserting themsevles to get fairly paid for their labor.
A few deviated from that "Cowboys" rarely massacred indians. They liked to murder farmers. The last union based massacre would have been around 1972 in Harlan County in Kentucky (a small one but still) and of course Kent State, and Greensboro.
I would look for more massacres along the line of "Mormons" vs outsiders (but not by Mormons hence the quotes) and "Kent State".
The right wing in the US, not the strict constitutionalists that I admire and will usually side with, but the Sarah Palin type wing will probably massacre "leftists" one day. They are always saying "our side has the guns" and they tend to be chickenshits in every other aspect of life, and give a chickenshit a gun and a mirror that shows what a chickenshit they are and they are gonna shoot that mirror.
It will happen one day among a group of "counter protestors" who decide it is best, like what happened in Greensboro where the commies made the mistake of "taking on the Klan" when the actual Klan had not done much of anything for 10 years other than pretend they were relevent.
If it happens it will happen like that. The Palin wing of the conservatives will protest something and then a few leftists will counter protest them. It will be in a "gun state" like Arizona where people have been tolerated in the past carrying rifles in public and the protestors will have signs and masks and not much else and kablooey...someone will yell "I am afraid for my life" and there will be blood.
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by Kurt » Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:46 am
Kurt wrote: The US will never have a Civil War.
I kind of got this. Not a massacre though, but I am sure they would have liked it to be one.
by AztecDave » Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:46 pm
Since 9/11, I think there has been a gross over militarization of city police forces in general. And the development of a like mindset within a lot of forces. They all wanna be Rambos in multicam.
Unfortunately, the maturity, and i think, training, of a lot of officers is severely lacking. So you get the shoot first mentality. This past summer I was in the US visiting my family. Met up with my cousin who is a SWAT officer for a VERY large US metropolitan city. He was driving his extra large SWAT SUV, all black. He said he need it to carry all his shit. I asked him why he didn't drive a minivan, because you can carry hell of a lot more shit in a Toyota Sienna than in a Chevy Suburban. I know, I have 1 of each. Well, a minivan isn't quite as macho and intimidating, or cool, as a blacked out urban assault vehicle. He showed me his arsenal that he drove around with all the time. He had an H&K M4, a Kimber .45 cal 1911, Remington short barrel shotgun, about a dozen flash bangs, same number of smoke grenades, 2 different bullet proof vests, 1 with ceramic plates for up to 7.62 rounds, and a 40mm grenade launcher with an integral 7 round capacity drum (sorry, don't know the nomenclature of the model but it looked a lot like the one used int he movie "Dogs of War"). And other misc shit. Now I know he's a member of SWAT but he also told me that most of the squad cars carried a similar load. That is just ridiculous. He carried more shit than I did when I was in Afghanistan. But when cops are armed like this, there is an increased mentality to use them, or at least shoot too soon. Cops should ere on the side of being Sheriff Andy Taylor, not Rambo. The last incident, I understand the cops shot a deaf guy carrying a pipe. Was the guy attacking the cops with it? Or did he just not drop it when they told him to?
But to the point of a civil war, I don't think so.
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by ROB » Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:00 am
Too many Americans think they won a war of independence when it was actually the French.
Messes up their perspective.
by Kurt » Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:31 pm
ROB wrote: Too many Americans think they won a war of independence when it was actually the French.
Alliances plus brilliant retreats won the war. Washington was a brilliant general because he knew how to run a small, poorly equipped army..which was retreat until you can get them into a battlefield of your choice.
Its sort of like saying the Russians and The Americans won WWII and not the Brits. The Brits won it, but because of alliances. And if you can get your allies to do a lot of fighting then its all the better.
The real perspective is that during the American Revolution is that the Average American on the farm really did not give a shit who won.
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The Russian Front with Ian Kershaw is showing on Ozzie cable at present.
What do our Russian friends think of this series?
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Canadian Rugby Club Championship
Finals August 2-4 at Fletcher's Field, Markham, Ontario
About the Championship
We’d like to hear your comments on the inaugural Canadian Rugby Club Championship. Tell us something you liked and something you would like to see improved?
A little background on the CRCC. It is funded by the Canadian Rugby Foundation with an initial outlay of $50K, that money mostly covers the cost of moving teams around the country to play the preliminary games and then meet in one location for a four team tournament.
The 2019 tournament will be in Toronto and will be for women’s club teams. The next men’s competition will be in 2020, with the location to be determined.
12 Replies to “Feedback”
Judy Seddon says:
What will the timing be for a women’s championship? Their seasons tend to finish before the end of August with many players committed to CIS.
#thefufure says:
What was the goal? Did you achieve your goal?
Does this help the growth and development of Rugby? And help the National team?
Do you see this growing to future national Male and possible female players?
Was it cost effective?
Year one great work enthusiasm and support from great rugby men. Well done them men.
Brennan says:
1) First of all, thanks to the Canadian Rugby Foundation, other organizers, spectators, refs., Capilano RFC, and…Tim; I had a blast this weekend.
2) Although it was fun to play against elite level competition, I agree with “viewer”:
“There should be no imported players, especially for the hosting team. It should only be true club players. If a club is having trouble traveling due to family, work, school, etc. Then they should be allowed to pick up some local players to help out. ”
This competition, as I understand, was to place the best “clubs” in competition with one another, not to see who can build the best regional team. Perhaps consider changing the rule to, “any travelling team may pick up 4 regionally specific/former club players,” with respect to the difficulties associated with attending the tournament: travel, work, school, expense, commitments.
That being said, I don’t believe preventing the local club from adding their additional players would have changed the win-loss record of any team from this past weekend (although the scoreline would have been easier to send home to your loved ones! ).
3) Also, this inaugural tournament proved that there needs to be a disciplinary committee ready and willing to meet on the day in between games to discuss infractions, red cards, etc. Having to wait for BC rugby to decide on a red-carded player’s status means that the player automatically misses the Sunday game because BC rugby won’t meet until the first of the week (was there no representation of BC rugby at this major tournament??).
All in all, great tournament. Tremendous effort, especially by rugby standards of organization, to throw together a great tournament. I hope this keeps going. Too many good ideas for rugby fall apart in this country, and it is my hope that with Rugby Canada Foundation’s involvement, this won’t be one of them.
Hope to see everyone in 2 years.
Fun or high performance?
Viewer says:
Have to feel bad for the boys who have played for the ravens all season and didn’t get a chance to win the trophy with their team. The import rule should be used to assist travelling clubs, or in the case of a shortage of players. It seems unfair that the hosts loaded their team with professionals, while other teams brought the same players they have been playing with all season.
ALL the players for the RAVENS aside from Connor Braid and Nakai Penny are Ravens Club Members, many have PR status and don’t count as imports in the CDI Premiere League. The team recruits better and have a great culture. Other teams cant hate on the success.
My name is Sean Ferguson and I have been playing for the Ravens for 4 years. The only thing that has been disappointing about this tournament is the comments I have been reading since our first game. Our club has come a long way over the past few years and worked extremely hard in the hopes of being what it is today. When the rules were stated, I personally asked if I could invite my best friend and form team Canada teammate if he wanted to come over and play together again (Connor Braid) I explained that it is probably our last couple games together before we hang up the boots up for good, so he jumped at the chance. We also invited Nakia Penny, who would have like to join us this year but is living on the island and there fore playing for another club. I am a bit ashamed of the rugby community and their comments in regards to the rule. We were short a few bodies due to injury and have even bigger games coming up so we used the rule to assist us in fielding a team and for my own personal hopes. It was wonderful playing with my best friend again after I retired from the sevens team a few years ago but in no way did we cheat the system. Also, we live in Canada, so of course we have players from other countries.
Let’s try and make the tournament better, not beat everyone down who worked hard in the games and in organizing the event.
Team Player says:
No imported players , true club members only or it kind of ruins the meaning of the tournament. Also round robin to play each team would make more sense. It’s club play not provincial teams
There should be no imported players, especially for the hosting team. It should only be true club players. If a club is having trouble traveling due to family, work, school, etc. Then they should be allowed to pick up some local players to help out. Two imported players for the hosting team were best back and forward of the tournament, this shows the true impact of the rule.
bottom line is every club that attends should do everything in their power to bring their true club because it is a Club Championship.
Also, maybe the idea of doing a round robin tournament. That way every club has a chance to play each other.
Dave Logan says:
The stream was a great addition and should be focused on to ensure fans around the country get a chance to be a part of the Championship.
Disinterested Viewpoint says:
1) Overall: Just below excellent.
2) Remove 4 import player and formulate a club eligibility rule for players. It should be easy to track movement with Sportlomo if you keep the search window to 3 years. ie a minimum of 5 games for the club in each of the previous two years.
Player at the tournament says:
I think this is a really good idea.
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