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Monday, 9 November 2009
Games: Let my gamers be free
Today a number of blogs are trying to raise money for charity. This initiative, MBACD, has been organised by Ferrel of Epic Slant and Brian "Psychochild" Green of Psychochild's blog has hosted our mailing list. Thanks a lot to them both.
The charity I have chosen is Amnesty International.
To donate money follow this link:
Amnesty International Donate Now page
This charity fights for human rights. Whether it is civil liberties in a more progressed nation or a campaign to stop torture and political executions in repressive regimes.
They have fought campaigns in just about every nation in the world because the struggle for liberty needs to be constantly fought in every country.
It was with immense sadness that I read of the fight for freedom to play video games in Venezuela. Raph Koster reported this news and the original piece, written for Boing Boing is heart-rending.
Here are some excerpts from this shocking and appalling piece but please do follow the link and read the whole of Guido Núñez-Mujica's article.
This law makes selling video games to anybody actually worse than giving real guns or cigarettes to a minor, or even forcing him or her to work, as you get less jail time and lower fines if you do any of those things.
These games are a cherished part of my life, they helped to shape my young mind, they gave me challenges and vastly improved my English, opening the door to a whole new world of literature, music and people from all around the world. What I have achieved, all my research, how I have been able to travel even though I'm always broke, the hard work I've done to convince people to fund a start up for cheap biotech for developing countries and regular folks, none of that would have been possible hadn't I learned English through video games.
Now, thanks to the tiny horizons of the cast of morons who govern me, thanks to the stupidity and ham-fisted authoritarianism of the local authorities, so beloved of so many liberals, my 7 year old brother's chances to do the same could be greatly impacted.
But I won't obey, I will be an outlaw gamer, and I vow to teach him as much as I can and as much as he is willing to learn, as early as possible. I refuse to give up my rights to a government that is commanded by Vuitton clad jerks asking sacrifices from us, I refuse to stop gaming because a bunch of control freaks tell me that I will become a killer and that the wonderful games that enriched my childhood are psycho factories.
If I get fined for writing this (Article 13, promoting the use of violent videogames), so be it. If I go to jail because I carry rooms in my hard drive or in an R4 card for my brother, next time I return to the country, so be it. But I'd rather go to jail than betray the gamer culture, partially responsible for making me the person I am today
Again the link to donate money to Amnesty International is
Amnesty International Donate Now page
It breaks my heart that we gamers need them now simply to play our games.
Do have a look at the other bloggers participating in the charity drive:
Ysharros - Stylish Corpse -
Spinks - Spinksville -
Psychochild - Psychochild's Blog -
Slurms - Multiplaying -
Ferrel - Epic Slant -
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1. When [item] is criminalized, only criminals will get very rich and violent from [item]. The socialists there, the capitalists here, none of them seem to understand that if demand exists, it will be filled. Outlawing products only creates black markets and responsible leadership must balance the damage caused by the product against the resulting black market. I have never seen this cost-benefit analysis done.
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Ta Keo
Ta Keo () is a temple-mountain in Angkor (Cambodia), possibly the first to be built entirely of sandstone by Khmers.
The site
Ta Keo had to be the state temple of Jayavarman V, son of Rajendravarman, who had built Pre Rup. Like Pre Rup, it has five sanctuary towers arranged in a quincunx, built on the uppermost level of five-tier pyramid consisting of overlapping terraces (a step pyramid), surrounded by moats, as a symbolic depiction of Mount Meru.
Its particularly massive appearance is due to the absence of external decorations, as carving had just begun when the work stopped, besides an elaborate use of perspective effects. It is considered an example of the so-called Khleang style.
The main axis of the temple is east-west and a causeway 500 meters long connects its eastern entrance to a landing stage on the East Baray, with which Ta Keo was in a tight relationship. The outer banks of the surrounding moats, now vanished, measured 255 m by 195 m.
The first terrace is 122 m by 106 m. Its wall of sandstone on laterite basis constitutes the outer enclosure. Along the east side there are two long galleries, whose roofs were probably in wood and tiles. They were illuminated by balustraded windows.
The second terrace is 5.5 m higher. Each of the first two terraces has a gopura at the four cardinal points. Each gopura has three independent passages and a central tower with diminishing tiers.
A continuous gallery (1.4 m width) constitutes the inner enclosure of the second terrace. It has windows only towards the interior and measures 80 m by 75 m. It has no door and seems purely decorative. It is a first example of Khmer gallery (together with Phimeanakas). Before Ta Keo (e.g., in Pre Rup) there were long buildings that followed the length of enclosures with some discontinuity. However, it hasn't got a stone vault; possibly its roof was made of wood and tiles.
Along the eastern side of the second terrace in the corners there are two buildings that are the shorter version of the long galleries of the first terrace. More towards the central axis there are two little sandstone "libraries", opening to the west, with false windows on upper storeys.
The final pyramid rises 14 m in three narrow steps from the second terrace. Its base is 60 m square; the summit is 47 m square and stands 21.5 m above the ground. The four stairways that lead on the summit are continuous and very steep. At the foot of the eastern one there is a statue of a kneeling Nandi, which confirms that Ta Keo was a Shivaite temple. The absence of any decoration makes the final pyramid really massive. However, on the east face some damaged carvings of floral patterns are visible.
The four corner towers on the summit stand on 0.8 m high basements and open to the four cardinal points with protruding vestibules. In the central tower, which dominates the others from its basement 4 meters high, the vestibules are doubled. Fragments of lingas and several statues were found in the sanctuary chambers (some 4 meters wide) and around the towers. The central tower reaches a height of 45 meters.
History
Jayavarman V was ten years old when he succeeded his father, Rajendravarman, in 968. His early years of reign were turbulent and the court officials dominated the royal politics. When he was 17 (in 975), he began the construction of his own state temple, whose modern name is Ta Keo, that was dedicated some time around 1000. In contemporary inscriptions it is called Hemagiri or Hemasringagiri ("the mountain with golden summits").
It remained unfinished until the reign of Suryavarman I. Yogisvarapandita, a high priest who became minister of Suryavarman I and "received" the temple from him many years later, says in inscriptions that a lightning strike hit the unfinished building, an evil omen, so the work stopped. Maybe work stopped simply because of the death of Jayavarman V, as there was a struggle for succession. The temple worked continuously as a cult center until the 13th century, and even Yogisvarapandita worshiped the shrines at the first levels of the temple.
A term tightly linked to Hemasringagiri is Jayendranagari (which in Sanskrit means "capital of the victorious king"), the royal palace or maybe the new capital city of Jayavarman V. However, the remains of this large hypothesized ensemble are very scarce. Today only a tower in the southwest survives, similar to the corner towers of Ta Keo, with an unusual single door to the south.
Gallery
See also
Architecture of Cambodia
Notes
References
External links
www.autoriteapsara.org on Ta Keo Temple
Cambodiaonline.net on Ta Keo Temple
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Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev welcomes Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) (Reuters)
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Born in Paris, Jules-Adolphe Goupil studied with Ary Scheffer and began exhibiting at the Salon of 1857 when he was just 18 years old. He won medals in 1873, 1874, 1875 and 1878. He was known for painting genre scenes and portraits with a wonderful tightness and exactitude.
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Ouch! That’s going to sting in the morning
by autism assistance dog for conor on September 22, 2013
Conor, Jack and I went to one of those jump houses (lot’s of blow up things to jump and slide on for those of you out of the loop). I won’t name names as we like going to this one a lot and have always had fun and support even when Conor is having one of his bad “autism” days. So, we are there at a time it is not too busy, and Conor goes and jumps on one of the “under 3 year old” inflatables. Now, I know that he shouldn’t have done that, but there were no kids in the place younger than 3, and all the other kids of varying ages above 3 were in it at one point or another and no one was upset about the situation. Except the older woman who is an employee who very randomly, and seldomly, walked around shouting at the kids not to run, get off this or that, etc.. She really had a calling as a drill sergeant if she hadn’t already been one. She even had the haircut. Of course, Conor is alone on the under 3 yr jumpy house on one of her rare walk-throughs when she sees him and starts yelling at him to get out, as he is clearly over 3. He ignores her and continues jumping. I had been watching and rushed over to take him out when she gets even more upset at him and yells more loudly (and not so nicely) for him to get out. She was incensed that he was ignoring her. I called to Conor, and she told me he wasn’t listening and was going to be asked to leave. I had to throw out the “A-bomb” at that point and told her he’s autistic and can’t talk much, not to mention couldn’t hear above the screams of the other kids and the noise the inflatable things make. She immediately apologised and said that there were a lot of kids with autism that came to the place. I don’t what she was trying to convey to me at that point. I felt if she had been around all these other kids with autism that maybe she should give the benefit of the doubt to a child who is not responding appropriatley.
Conor got out of the jumpy thing when I asked and went to find something else to play on. The woman followed me briefly saying that there really were a lot of kids with autism who go there and I just said that I had to keep an eye on him so that he didn’t break any rules. Meanwhile, the under 3yr jumpy house filled up with clearly over 6yr olds as we spoke.
So, I don’t know how or if she will remember that incident, but I hope she does. Parents with kids of different abilities remember them. And, just because a child doesn’t look like he has any issues doesn’t mean he or she doesn’t. It’s difficult to have a child so cute (my own bias there) and then have people project certain behaviours that he should accomodate, and when he doesn’t, blame goes to him and to the parent. I suppose sometimes that is true. But sometimes folks should take a step back and consider there is more going on than just bad parenting or bad behaviour.
Needless to say, I hope the woman who yelled at Conor (ugh! still hurts) woke up in the morning and thought about the situation. If it was no more than a flitting moment in her life with nothing gained, than that’s sad and a missed opportunity on her part. A goal for everyone should be to have a little understanding for those you don’t understand. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '3516380403aa3387aeb6b6214cbbd1530368821e5de7bffae4b401652c9f6ede'} |
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Joe Cole – why winning the League Cup was the be all and end all
An appearance today in the Carabao Cup final leads to memories of a League Cup final win back in 2005, the first trophy under the ownership of Roman Abramovich. It was also the first major trophy in the career of Joe Cole.
Ahead of today’s final against Manchester City, the official Chelsea website spoke to our former midfielder about the Carling Cup final as it was known 14 years ago, and about beating Liverpool 3-2 after extra-time…
Joe, as well as that 2005 game being the first final under the new ownership and your first final, it was the first at Chelsea for Jose Mourinho and the club overall had not won a trophy for over four years. How big an occasion did it feel?
‘It was the be all and end all at the time. To win anything in your career you have to be very lucky, plenty of footballers don’t, so you have to respect it and the day was amazing. It is still one of my fondest memories as a player, winning that trophy. It was really exciting.’
We had been flying that season and were on course to win the Premier League for the first time, but the League Cup final came off the back of an FA Cup loss at Newcastle and a 2-1 defeat in the first leg of a Champions League tie away to Barcelona…
‘It came at a difficult time. We had signed Jiri Jarosik and he came into the side for the final and winning the game could not have come at a better time because it gave us a boost. From there we kicked on and it was a relief more than anything that with all the money the club had spent we had won some silverware.’
The game was played at Cardiff and the roof was on…
‘There was an amazing atmosphere. What a stadium! Wembley is great and it has its history but Cardiff with the roof on was as good an atmosphere as I have experienced. Jose falling out with the Liverpool fans during the game was the first of those moments and it all added to the drama and the spice of the game. It think it is one of the fondest remembered League Cup finals in recent times. People remember it, especially Chelsea fans.’
We went behind after only one minute!
‘We were much better than Liverpool at the time but on their day they were our rivals, they were a very good team and when John Arne Riise scored you thought it is not going to be our day, but we absolutely battered them for the whole game and we should have got back into it earlier.
‘The best team won but we left it late and what a way to do it. They were set up really well to defend but we were probing and probing and it was going to take something like Stevie Gerrard’s own-goal to get us back in the game, either something catastrophic for them or something special by us. Fortunately for us but unfortunately for Stevie, it was a player trying to do the right thing, trying to take charge, but the ball hit his head and just went in.’
In extra-time Didier Drogba grabbed the lead with what was the first of what we were not to know then would go on to be a huge catalogue of cup final goals…
‘He was the man for the big games. There is no doubt about that. He is one of the greats of the club and in the big games at the big moments, you always look to people like that.’
Mateja Kezman had a difficult season at Chelsea but he came on to score the third goal that day and everyone seemed very pleased for him…
‘Kezza was a good guy but he was struggling in front of goal. That was what he was there for, to sniff out chances and that sort of game suited him when the ball was flying around the box and dropping here and there. He could poke it away and we were really happy for him. It comes early in the season that final so to get a medal, it gives you a right boost.’
With other targets in sight that season, were you able to celebrate much?
‘We all went out as a team for a meal on the Fulham Road which was lovely but we had the second leg against Barcelona coming up. We were brilliant in that and personally, I don’t think we would have won that game if we had not won the League Cup, that is how important that was.’ | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.993851125240326}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '934951', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:K2SAAIIL24OEIHHGDNFRTCXMJT4SBKZX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fe8f5cb0-8309-49cc-90ae-5a43f4ad5468>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 27, 9, 28, 19), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.202.133', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:IZBGTKFW7YB6Y7VRNXEZOKKBK7EZMT77', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:26aa8d2e-40d8-4c3e-b401-590905c753e8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2019/2/24/joe-cole---why-winning-the-league-cup-was-the-be-all-and-end-all', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5da6b705-05b0-47d7-ba85-0be661fe4cb3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '794', 'url': 'https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2019/2/24/joe-cole---why-winning-the-league-cup-was-the-be-all-and-end-all', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-103.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02005821466445923', 'original_id': '6851f63d3e83d51bdb3f74a4fbb8d7f407be5d3df54c0af78f1d0b3f12f94880'} |
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We present Particle-Based Lensing (PBL), a new technique for gravitational lensing mass reconstructions of galaxy clusters. Traditionally, most methods have employed either a finite inversion or gridding to turn observational lensed galaxy ellipticities into an estimate of the surface mass density of a galaxy cluster. We approach the problem from a different perspective, motivated by the success of multi-scale analysis in smoothed particle hydrodynamics. In PBL, we treat each of the lensed galaxies as a particle and then reconstruct the potential by smoothing over a local kernel with variable smoothing scale. In this way, we can tune a reconstruction to produce constant signal-to-noise throughout, and maximally exploit regions of high information density.
PBL is designed to include all lensing observables, including multiple image positions and fluxes from strong lensing, as well as weak lensing signals including shear and flexion. In this paper, however, we describe a shear-only reconstruction, and apply the method to several test cases, including simulated lensing clusters, as well as the well-studied “Bullet Cluster” (1E0657-56). In the former cases, we show that PBL is better able to identify cusps and substructures than are grid-based reconstructions, and in the latter case, we show that PBL is able to identify substructure in the Bullet Cluster without even exploiting strong lensing measurements. We also make our codes publicly available.
author:
- 'Sanghamitra Deb, David M. Goldberg & Vede J. Ramdass'
title: 'Reconstruction of Cluster Masses using Particle Based Lensing I: Application to Weak Lensing'
---
Introduction
============
Clusters of galaxies are excellent cosmological laboratories [@2007MNRAS.tmp.1149A; @2007MNRAS.382..308K; @2007MNRAS.tmp.1132M]. For example, the mass function of clusters is a sensitive probe of cosmological parameters like $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$ [@2007ApJ...657..183R] and its observed evolution is an important test of theories of structure formation [@1972ApJ...176....1G; @2007MNRAS.376..977G; @2005MNRAS.360.1393H; @2002PhR...372....1C]. The geometrical shape of cluster Dark Matter halos provide valuable information on intra-cluster gas distribution [@2005astro.ph..8226F; @2007MNRAS.377..883F]. While simulations predict central density distribution of matter in clusters to follow an NFW profile, it is debatable whether observations suggests that clusters have a central core ([@2003astro.ph..9465S; @2006MNRAS.368..518V]).
$\Lambda$CDM structure formation theories also predict that massive dark matter halos assemble from the hierarchical merging of lower mass subhalos. As noted by several authors ([@1999ApJ...524L..19M; @1999ApJ...522...82K]), the number of subhalos that survive in N-body simulations is much greater than the number of dwarf galaxies observed in the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy. On cluster scales, such discrepancies are not observed. Thus the subhalo mass function in clusters is an important probe of the CDM theory in this mass scale.
High-resolution, accurate measurements of cluster mass maps are thus highly desirable. Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool to probe the projected mass map of the clusters independent of the internal dynamics, and has already been widely applied to mapping mass distribution in clusters [@2001ApJ...557L..89W; @2001ApJ...548L...5H; @2002ApJ...568..141G; @2004MNRAS.353.1176T; @2005ApJ...621...53B; @2007ApJ...666...51L; @2007arXiv0710.2262O; @2008MNRAS.385.1431H]. Some researchers [@2004ApJ...617L..13N; @2007arXiv0711.4587N] have used the individual galaxy-galaxy lensing signal to estimate individual galaxy masses and thus produce a parametric mass reconstruction of the cluster. Others have used the weak signal to characterize the overall potential from the cluster without recourse to parametric models [@1996AAS...189.8206W; @1998ApJ...504..636H; @2000ApJ...538L.113N; @2004IAUS..220..439H]. Given the importance of accurately measuring the mass, shape, and substructure of individual clusters, and given the enormous expense of long time-exposure observations of clusters, it is extremely important to maximize the signal-to-noise from a particular dataset, and to produce high-resolution maps of substructure within individual clusters. Current mass reconstruction techniques are ill-equipped to handle multi-scale datasets or clusters with significant clumpiness or cuspiness, or are jury-rigged to do so. In this paper, we propose Particle Based Lensing (PBL; pronounced “pebble”) as an alternative approach to cluster reconstruction.
Our outline is as follows. In § \[sec:background\] we give a brief review of the essential lensing formalism, and lay out our notation for the rest of the work. In§ \[sec:S+W\] we describe current (grid-based) techniques for reconstructing galaxy clusters, and identify some strengths and complications. In § \[sec:particle\] we propose Particle Based Lensing. We then apply this new method to simple simulated clusters of single and double peak softened isothermal spheres and the “bullet cluster” (1E0657-56) in § \[sec:applications\]. We conclude in § \[sec:discuss\] with a discussion of future prospects, including how additional strong-lensing and flexion information can be incorporated into PBL.
Background {#sec:background}
==========
Before delving into technical details of our method we would like to introduce the basic lensing notation to be used throughout the paper. Following [@2001PhR...340..291B], we consider a surface mass density $\Sigma({\mathbf\theta})$, where $\mathbf\theta$ is the angular position in the lens plane. Convergence or dimensionless surface mass density is defined as $$\kappa({\mathbf\theta})={\Sigma({\mathbf\theta}) \over \Sigma_{cr}},$$ where $$\Sigma_{cr}={c^2 \over 4 \pi G}{D_{s} \over D_d D_{ds}}$$ $D_{s}$, $D_\mathrm{d}$, and $D_\mathrm{ds}$ are the angular diameter distances between the observer and the source, the observer and the lens, and the lens and the source, respectively. For convenience, we will define a fiducial critical density for a source plane at $z_s=z_{ds}=\infty$, and all models will be scaled to this standard.
The convergence is related via a Poisson-like equation to a normalized potential: $$\nabla^2 \psi({{\mathbf\theta}})=2\kappa({\mathbf\theta}).
\label{eq:laplace}$$ Here and throughout this paper, all derivatives are in angular units in the lensing plane. A single light beam is deflected by: $${\mathbf\alpha}=\nabla\psi\ .$$ The lens equation relates the source position $\mathbf\beta$ to the image position(s), ${\bf\theta}$, as: $${\beta=\theta-\nabla\psi}.
\label{eq:lenseqn}$$ When the lensing potential does not vary appreciably across the source, the lens mapping can be linearized. The transformation between the source and the image is given by the Jacobian matrix $$\begin{aligned}
\nonumber {\bf A}({{\bf \theta}})&\equiv&
\frac{\partial{{\bf \beta}}}{\partial {{\bf \theta}}}=
\left(
\delta_{ij}-\psi_{,ij}\right)\\
&\equiv&
\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
1-\kappa-\gamma_1 & -\gamma_2 \\
-\gamma_2 & 1-\kappa+\gamma_1
\end{array}
\right)\ .
\label{eq:Adef}\end{aligned}$$
From this, we see that distortions in shape are well described in terms of shear which is related to the lensing potentials through the relations: $$\gamma_1={1 \over 2}(\psi,_{11}-\psi,_{22})
\label{eq:gam}$$ $$\gamma_2=\psi,_{12}$$ using Einstein convention for derivatives.
The radial eigenvalue is given by, $\lambda_+=1-\kappa+|\gamma|$ and the tangential eigenvalue is given by, $\lambda_-=1-\kappa-|\gamma|$ . The matrix is singular where $\lambda_{\pm}=0$. These points define the critical curves of the lens.
Third order corrections to the lensing potential becomes non-negligible when the lensing potential varies across the image. These observables, the gravitational flexion, were derived in [@2005ApJ...619..741G]. They are more colloquially referred to as the “banananess”[@2007arXiv0709.1003S] or bending of an image. It is based on the third angular derivatives of the potential [@2006MNRAS.365..414B] given by,
$$\begin{aligned}
{\cal
F}&=&(\gamma_{1,1}+\gamma_{2,2})+i\left(\gamma_{2,1}-\gamma_{1,2}\right)\\
\nonumber
&=&\nabla \kappa\\
{\cal G}&=&
\left(\gamma_{1,1}-\gamma_{2,2}\right)+i\left(\gamma_{2,1}+\gamma_{2,2}\right)\end{aligned}$$
Each of the deflection (${\mbox{\boldmath{$\alpha$}}}$), the shear, ($\gamma_1, \gamma_2$), the convergence ($\kappa$) and the flexion (${\cal F},{\cal G}$), are linear functions of the potential field. While the discussion in this paper primarily focuses on measurements with sources at fixed, infinite redshift, it should be noted that each of these terms scales as: $$\kappa(z_s)=Z(z_d,z_s)\kappa(z_s=\infty)\ .$$ and where $$Z(z_s)=\frac{D_{ds}}{D_s}\ .$$
Grid-Based Cluster Lensing {#sec:S+W}
==========================
Mass reconstruction studies have been very successful on cluster scales ( and references therein). Because these systems typically contain many lensed images, the shear signal can be extracted with high significance. In this section, we describe an important class of cluster inversion techniques which reproduce the convergence field on a grid. Our specific choices of grid-based techniques include those which have already been extended to include strong-lensing information with non-parametric models and thus provide a fertile basis for comparison. Further, there are many variants even within the sub-category of grid-based reconstruction techniques. We focus primarily on their commonalities, as exemplified by those discussed in and . We focus on methods in which various scalar fields $\{\psi, \kappa\}$ are defined on a Cartesian grid, and minimized according to the criteria described below. In so doing, we note some interesting exceptions: [@2005MNRAS.360..477D] and [@2001ASPC..237..279S], who describe an adaptive mesh technique for refining the field on different resolution scales and [@2002MNRAS.335.1037M; @2006MNRAS.372.1289M] who use a variable smoothing scale for their weak lensing mass reconstruction.
Weak Lensing on Grids {#subsec:weak}
---------------------
The standard approach to lensing arclet inversion has been to measure the ellipticity of observed images as an unbiased estimator of the reduced shear: $$\langle \varepsilon \rangle= g\equiv \frac{\gamma}{1-\kappa}\ .
\label{eq:reducedshear}$$ For relatively weak fields ($\kappa \ll 1$), this is very nearly a direct estimate of the shear, and can perform a direct finite inversion to estimate the density field.
In recent years, there has been a flurry of work on optimal methods for non-parametric cluster mass reconstructions . In general, these papers focus on estimating the potential $\{\psi\}$ or convergence $\{\kappa\}$ fields of a cluster by a $\chi^2$ minimization analysis. Both the shear and the convergence are linear functions of the potential field. Thus, if a model potential field, $\{ \psi \}$, is defined on a grid, then the shear at some grid-cell, $i$, may be expressed as a linear combination of potential: $$\gamma_{1i}=G^{(1)}_{ij}\psi_j$$ with a similar expression for the convergence, $\kappa$, and the imaginary component of the shear, $\gamma_2$. We refer to these below simply as $\gamma_i(\{\psi\})$, since we wish to remind the reader that the estimate of the shear is an explicit function of the test potential field. Because these fields are combinations of second derivatives of the potential field, the $G^{(1)}$ matrix and the others are easy to compute using finite differencing, and are extremely local. A very good graphical representation of the finite difference operators can be found in .
In the weak field limit, the complex ellipticity of a lensed galaxy is a linear, albeit noisy, estimator of the complex shear field. The principle component of noise is the intrinsic ellipticities of galaxies which follow a Gaussian distribution with standard deviation of $\sigma_\varepsilon\simeq 0.3$ for each component. The large variance in intrinsic ellipticities necessitates averaging over many images so that the noise in a single grid cell is zero or apply an artificial smoothing scale to a more finely gridded mesh. For a weak-lensing only calculation, a $\chi^2$ minimization is performed on: $$\chi^2_W=\sum_i \frac{\left( \frac{\gamma_i(\{\psi\})}{1-\kappa_i(\{\psi\}^{(n-1)})}
-\varepsilon_i\right)^2}{\sigma_i^2}
\label{eq:weak_chi2}$$ where the estimate of $\kappa$ is taken from the previous iteration of the potential field, and thus, the model rapidly converges to a maximum likelihood solution to the potential field.
Strong Lensing {#subsec:strong}
--------------
A number of researchers, including have noted that a similar grid-based formalism may be used with strong lensing signals. Strong+weak (S+W) reconstructions use both shear fields and the positions of multiply imaged sources can be used to accurately reconstruct both the cores and halos of clusters. While our current PBL implementation, described in the next section, does not currently incorporate strong lensing analysis, we introduce this component of grid-based lensing reconstructions to illustrate how directly a strong-lensing analysis could be incorporated into PBL.
Strong lensing by clusters produces an especially elegant result because if, say, two images are observed at positions, ${\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}^A$, and ${\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}^B$, then it must be true that both images originated at the same (unknown) position in the sky. Thus, we have a simple relation: $${\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}^A-{\mbox{\boldmath{$\alpha$}}}({\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}^A)={\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}^B-{\mbox{\boldmath{$\alpha$}}}({\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}^B)
\label{eq:stronglens}$$ The appeal of this relationship is that it is fundamentally linear and thus the angular separation between the two images (itself, a measurable quantity), can be directly related to the difference in the first derivatives of the potential at two different points in the field.
As above, the local derivatives can be computed as: $$\alpha_{xi}=A^{(x)}_{ij}\psi_j$$ with a similar expression for the y component of the displacement. The matrix elements of $A$ are easy to compute as they are simply the 1st derivative in a simple grid-based 2nd order difference scheme. More generally we can express this as ${\mbox{\boldmath{$\alpha$}}}_i(\{\psi\})$. Thus, an additional $\chi^2$ term can be added: $$\chi^2_S=\sum_{i,pairs}\frac{\left(({\mbox{\boldmath{$\alpha$}}}^A(\{\psi\})-{\mbox{\boldmath{$\alpha$}}}^B(\{\psi\}))-({\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}^A-{\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}^B)\right)^2}{\sigma_i^2}$$ and minimized either independently, or simultaneously with the weak lensing component.
Regularization {#subsec:reg}
--------------
Using a $\chi^2$ minimization technique discussed in § \[subsec:weak\] it is possible to get a checkerboard pattern due to independent noise in the two components of ellipticity. This requires the addition of a regularization term to the $\chi^2$ to suppress this noise.
Scale refinement is also necessary in cases in which strong+weak lensing signals are combined. To make this argument concrete consider a toy isothermal sphere model of a cluster with a 1-d velocity dispersion of 600 km/s. Each multiply imaged pair will be separated by twice the Einstein radius, about 20 arc-seconds in this case. This represents the minimum necessary resolution in the reconstruction to say anything about strong lensing.
On the other hand, even very efficient space-based weak lensing analysis of clusters seldom yield more than approximately 100 images/square arc-minute. Using a simple Poisson noise estimate, we may achieve uncertainty of $\sigma_\gamma=0.06$ only with images binned on scales larger than 30 arc-seconds on a side. Smaller binnings will naturally yield larger uncertainties. Simple grid based method cannot capture both the weak-lensing signal to high accuracy as well as resolve the strong lensing regime. In order to deal with this issue, different investigators have used different regularization techniques.
One method is to use a series of finer and finer griddings, and at each successive level of refinement the convergence field from the previous level is matched as closely as possible. The S+W technique uses this method, with the weighting parameter selected to provide a $\chi^2$ per degree of freedom equal to 1, such that: $$R=\eta \sum_i (\kappa_i^{(n)}-\kappa_i^{(n-1)})^2\ .$$ Where $\kappa_i^{(n-1)}$ represents the estimated convergence on the previous, coarser, gridding, and where $\kappa_i^{(0)}=0$. We use this form explicitly in §\[sec:applications\] where we test the PBL method and contrast it to grid-based reconstruction methods.
Some Questions {#sec:questions}
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Grid-based reconstructions have produced some excellent measurements, however, there remain a number of complications. First, grid-based techniques are really optimized to measure a single scale, the grid-spacing. However, as we discuss above, in many interesting systems, both the structure and information are hierarchical. An optimal technique should provide higher resolution in regions of greater information content.
Moreover, the smoothing and weighting of the strong lensing, weak lensing, and regularization are created in an [*ad hoc*]{} basis. The ideal smoothing scale should be variable, and such that the signal/noise ratio of the reconstructed field is similar in every smoothed cell.
Third, the information from the image ellipticity can only be inverted outside the critical curves of the lenses. Inside the (tangential) critical curve there is an abrupt switch in parity of the induced ellipticity of an image. More plainly, in the regime $|\gamma| > |1-\kappa|$, the ellipticity is related to the shear via: $$\langle \epsilon \rangle_{strong}=\frac{1}{g^\ast}
\label{eq:e_strong}$$
As discussed in §\[sec:interp\], this produces a discontinuity in the ellipticity as a function of $\kappa$ and $\gamma$. No simple linear minimization scheme, even an iterative one, will converge to the “strong lens” solution if one starts with a “weak lens” initial guess for the local potential field.
Particle Based Lensing – PBL {#sec:particle}
============================
In this section, we introduce a new technique called Particle Based Lensing (PBL) which has the ability to combine the disparate lensing scales in a coherent way without requiring a regularization scheme. Several of the concerns discussed in the previous sections have to do with the method of discretizing the data for the reconstruction of the lens potential. In order to address this, we turn to a technique which is widely used in another area of astrophysics in which information must be analyzed on a wide range of physical scales – numerical N-body simulations. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH; see, e.g. [@2005RPPh...68.1703M], for a recent review) is used in the modeling of a wide range of physical systems including planets [@2007MNRAS.376.1173W], star formation [@2003MNRAS.339..312S; @2004MNRAS.348..435N] and galaxy formation [@2007MNRAS.375...53K]. The mathematical details of PBL can be complicated, hence we have made our codes for the method public[^1] through our website.
Before getting into the details, however, it is important to emphasize what PBL is and is not. PBL is a new way of discretizing and describing a reconstructed field. Moreover, it includes a metric for comparing a reconstructed model to the observed data. Everything we describe below is aimed at demonstrating why this model and metric are ideal for lensing systems with uneven information content. While the current code, and the worked examples are based on weak-lensing data only, PBL is based on the idea that other probes of the potential field: strong-lensing positions, flux ratios, and flexion, can be added to the metric with little complication.
PBL is not, however, a minimization scheme. That is, much like grid-based reconstruction methods, PBL fundamentally consists of a list of dimensionless potentials and a metric to describe the goodness of fit. It does not describe how that minimization criterion is to be met, however. In our model section, we describe a number of approaches to efficient model convergence. The major argument in favor of PBL, however, is not that $\chi^2$ minimizes efficiently, but rather that a low $\chi^2$ in PBL actually corresponds to a model which closely matches the true underlying system.
A Particle Description of the fields
------------------------------------
The fundamental description of the PBL field lies in the a list of potentials, $\{\psi\}$, one each at the positions of each observed lensed image. In order to make the field as continuous as possible, we may expand the local potential field around the position of any lensed image, ($\psi_n$, in this case) to arbitrary order: $$\psi({\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}})=\psi_n+\theta_j\psi_{n,j}+\frac{1}{2}\theta_j\theta_k\psi_{n,jk}+...
\label{eq:potentialtaylor}$$ where ${\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}$ is the relative offset of the test-point from galaxy $n$.
As with grid-based lensing, the local derivatives are composed of a linear combination of the potentials at each grid point. That is: $$\begin{aligned}
\psi_{n,j}&=&D^{(j)}_{nm}\psi_m \\
\psi_{n,jk}&=&D^{(jk)}_{nm}\psi_m
\label{eq:psideriv}\end{aligned}$$ and so on for arbitrarily higher derivatives. In reality, we typically extend the $D^{(\nu)}$ matrices up to 3rd order, where $\nu$ corresponds to 2 matrices for 1st derivatives (displacement field), 3 for second derivatives (shear and convergence), 4 for 3rd derivatives (flexion). Here we use Einstein summation convention, the sum over m runs from 1 to $N_g$.
In terms of the $D^{(\nu)}$ matrices, equation (\[eq:potentialtaylor\]) may be rewritten as: $$\psi({\mbox{\boldmath{$\theta$}}}_m)=\psi_n+\sum_\nu D^{(\nu)}_{nl}X^{(\nu)}_{nm}\psi_l$$ where we are explicitly estimating the potential at the m-th galaxy from the local derivatives defined at the n-th. We also compactify equation (\[eq:potentialtaylor\]) by defining: $$\begin{aligned}
X^{(1)}_{nm}&=&\theta_{nx}-\theta_{mx}\\
X^{(2)}_{nm}&=&\theta_{ny}-\theta_{my}\\
X^{(3)}_{nm}&=&\frac{1}{2}\left(\theta_{nx}-\theta_{mx}\right)^2\end{aligned}$$ and so on.
In order to estimate the derivatives of the potential field near each galaxy, we need to first compute the $D^{(\nu)}$ matrices. Since this problem is under-constrained, we solve for these matrices via a $\chi^2$ minimization: $$\chi^2=\sum_m \left( \psi_m-\psi_n-\sum_{\nu,l}
D^{(\nu)}_{nl}X^{(\nu)}_{nm}\psi_l\right)^2 w_{nm}
\label{eq:chi2pbm}$$ where $w_{nm}$ is a window function, guaranteeing that only neighboring galaxies effect the potentials of one another. We use a window function of the form: $$w_{nm}=w\left({|\mathbf\theta_n-\mathbf\theta_m| \over h_n}\right)$$ where $h_n$ is inversely proportional to the signal-to-noise at the n-th image positions. The smoothing scale can also be chosen to be of the form $h_{nm}$, i.e symmetric between between the points n and m.
The signal-to-noise is a function of the local density of background images and type of constraint (e.g. ellipticity, positions of multiple images, etc). A similar approach of using signal to noise dependent smoothing scale has been used in image analysis of X-ray data [@2006MNRAS.368...65E]. In regions where there is a high density of information, the smoothing scale $h_n$ may be set much lower than in regions of low information density.
This function must be minimized for every matrix element such that: $$\frac{\partial \chi^2}{\partial D_{nl}^{(\nu)}}=2\psi_l\sum_m
\left[X^{(\nu)}_{nm}w_{nm}
\left(\psi_m-\psi_n-\sum_{\mu,
p}D_{np}^{(\mu)}X_{nm}^{(\mu)}\psi_p\right)\right]=0
\label{eq:minD}$$ But since equation (\[eq:minD\]) is under-constrained, we may also say: $$\frac{\partial^2\chi^2}{\partial D_{nm}^{(\nu)}\partial \psi_m}=0$$ yielding: $$\sum_\mu
X_{nm}^{(\nu)}X_{nm}^{(\mu)}w_{nm}D_{nm}^{(\mu)}=X^{(\nu)}_{nm}w_{nm}$$ for all $n,m$ and $\nu$. This can be solved with a simple matrix inversion, yielding the desired elements for $D^{(\nu)}$. Of course, since the elements are a function only of the positions and weightings of the galaxy images, these elements need only be computed once. The method potentially incorporates higher-order derivatives of the potential, thus, combination of strong, weak and flexion information becomes a relatively straightforward minimization problem.
PBL vs. Regularization
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One of the major advantages of PBL is that we no longer need to introduce an explicit regularization in order to resolve multi-scale structure in a reconstruction. The various regularization schemes discussed in § \[subsec:reg\] are not motivated from the associated observations, but are rather derived from assumptions about the mass profile of a cluster motivated by theory and simulations.
However, one of the motivations behind using gravitational lensing is to be able to measure the projected mass without making any assumptions about the physical state of the system. The advantage of using PBL is that we do not need to make any assumptions that go into choosing the regularization term. The smoothing scale of a “pebble” is controlled by $h_n$ which is determined by the local signal to noise. This means that the position representing weak lensing measurement will have a low signal to noise and correspondingly a high $h_n$. This is similar to the typical weak lensing measurement which is done by averaging over a bin size larger than $\sim
30^{\prime\prime} $. In case of strong lensing we know the positions of the multiple images for certain, implying high signal to noise and correspondingly low $h_n$. This can be a few arc-seconds which is the scale at which the strong lensing structure can be resolved from multiple images. Thus scales of a few arc-seconds can be combined with scales greater than $\sim 30^{\prime\prime} $ without making any assumptions about the mass profile, rather by taking input from the data.
Estimation of the Potential Field
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As with grid-based lensing analysis, in PBL, we use a $\chi^2$ minimization to estimate a maximum-likelihood potential field. In this case, however, we sample the potential at every point, and use the local derivatives of the potentials as defined in equation (\[eq:psideriv\]) to minimize: $$\chi^2=\sum_{i,n}^{i=2;\ n=N_{gal}}
\left[\frac{\gamma^{(i)}_{n}(\{\psi\})}{1-\kappa_{n}(\{\psi\})}-
\varepsilon^{(i)}_{n}\right]^2 \frac{1}{\sigma_n^2}$$ where $i$ ranges from 1,2, and indicates the real or imaginary component of the shear, reduced shear, or ellipticity. We shall henceforth refer to the first term in the parentheses as $g^{(i)}_n(\{\psi\})$, the estimate of the reduced shear of a model, and the weighting term outside the parentheses as $w_n$, yielding: $$\chi^2=\sum_{i,n}
\left[g^{(i)}_n(\{\psi\})-
\varepsilon^{(i)}_{n}\right]^2 w_n
\label{eq:chi2pbl}$$ which is the form we will refer to from now on.
This is a weak lensing only expression. Replacing $g^{(i)}_n(\{\psi\})$ with $1/g^{(i)*}_n(\{\psi\})$ gives the strong lensing counterpart of Eq. \[eq:chi2pbl\]. In the next section we discuss how we include this strong lensing version of the equation.
Interpolated Ellipticities {#sec:interp}
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Linear inversion techniques require that the function to be minimized is smoothly varying over the domain of interest. The ellipticities are given by two functions in the weak and strong lensing regimes by Eqs. (\[eq:reducedshear\],\[eq:e\_strong\]). The boundary of the two regimes define the critical curves where $|g|=1$ making ellipticities continuous but not differentiable.
The transition between the two regimes can be facilitated if the sources are distributed in redshift, but minimization functions will be much easier if we allow a smoothing of the discontinuities. This is a two step process, first we need to write Eq.. (\[eq:reducedshear\],\[eq:e\_strong\]) in terms of a step function, $$\tilde{\varepsilon}\simeq [1-{\cal H}(g)]g+{{\cal H}(g) \over g^*}$$ where the function ${\cal H}(g)$ is a step function at $g=1$. We may replace the step function by an approximate smooth function. We define: $$u=\eta_0 \left(g^2-{1 \over g^2}\right)$$ Here $\eta_0$ is the free parameter that controls the accuracy of the step function. A higher value of $\eta_0$ makes the step function more accurate. The step function is approximated as (Fig. \[fg:etapp\]), $${\cal H}(u)={1. \over {1+e^{-2 u}}}$$
[ ![In the upper panel, we plot the interpolated Heaviside step function. It is clear from the plot that the function is only approximated by a smooth function near g=1, for all other g it behaves like an ordinary step function. Also higher value of the parameter $\eta_0$ increases the accuracy. In the lower panel, we plot the resulting ellipticity as a function of reduced shear for the combination, $|\gamma|=\kappa$. []{data-label="fg:etapp"}](f1a.eps "fig:") ![In the upper panel, we plot the interpolated Heaviside step function. It is clear from the plot that the function is only approximated by a smooth function near g=1, for all other g it behaves like an ordinary step function. Also higher value of the parameter $\eta_0$ increases the accuracy. In the lower panel, we plot the resulting ellipticity as a function of reduced shear for the combination, $|\gamma|=\kappa$. []{data-label="fg:etapp"}](f1b.eps "fig:") ]{}
This approximation replaces the ellipticities only in the neighborhood of the critical curves (discontinuity) by a continuously differentiable function. The problem can now be solved by standard minimization techniques. The interpolated ellipticity function is shown by a dotted line in the second panel of Fig. \[fg:etapp\], showing the derivative discontinuity explicitly.
$\chi^2$ Minimization {#sec:global}
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When we first introduced PBL above, we remarked that it was primarily a way of describing a lens reconstruction in such a way that a small $\chi^2$ would necessarily correspond to a good representation of the underlying field. In practical terms, though, for a reconstruction code to be useful, we need to describe a means of minimizing (or nearly minimizing) the $\chi^2$. Below, we describe our pipeline for fast convergence of a maximum likelihood solution.
While PBL is a non-parametric reconstruction scheme, it has the useful property that we may start a minimization with any assumed model we like. However, no extra weight is given to our [*a priori*]{} assumptions. At the end of a minimization we may simply use the standard techniques to estimate the likelihood of a particular value of $\chi^2$.
That said, even with the caveat above regarding smoothing of critical curves, it is very difficult to smoothly vary a solution such that strongly lensed regions are produced. As pointed out by [@2006ApJ...652..937B] a $\chi^2$ minimization process does not ensure reaching a global minimum.
To that end, our initial configuration of $\{\psi\}$ is generated by laying down a small number of Singular Isothermal Spheres (SIS’s). Since there are a low number of parameters (3 for each model sphere), a global minimum may be reached through a combination of trial and error, simulated annealing, or even (for small numbers of spheres), finite sampling. Indeed, one may even use an interpolation of a reconstruction recommended by a grid-based solution. For systems with strong lenses, one may apply the reconstructed field generated by “LensPerfect” [@2008arXiv0803.1199C], for example as a starting point.
We hasten to remind the reader that while this technique will produce the optimum parametric fit, it will not, in general, produce the overall best fit. As a result, further iteration is required.
We have found that by starting with an initial model with well-identified strong-lensing regions, convergence to $\chi^2/DOF\simeq 1$ may be achieved relatively quickly, even if the strong lensing regions are only approximate. For the current implementation of our code, we use Newton’s method to reach a local minimum. We have found satisfactory, fast, convergence for several thousand background sources.
Test Applications {#sec:applications}
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In this section, we apply PBL to three systems as a proof of concept. In the first, we model a Softened Isothermal Sphere, and examine the relative abilities of PBL and grid-based inversion to reconstruct the a relatively peaked core. In the second, we model a superposition of two softened isothermal spheres at a given separation as a simple model of a system with substructure. Finally, we reconstruct the “Bullet Cluster” (1E0657-56) [@2002ApJ...567L..27M; @2004ApJ...606..819M; @2004ApJ...604..596C; @2006ApJ...652..937B; @2006ApJ...648L.109C], an observed multi-peak system of considerable interest. We show that using weak lensing alone, we are able to reconstruct both Dark Matter peaks.
Simulation: Softened Isothermal Sphere
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### Model
We begin by generating a softened isothermal sphere with a potential: $$\psi=\theta_E\sqrt{\theta^2+\theta_c^2},
\label{eq:softiso}$$ and convergence: $$\kappa=\theta_E{(\theta^2+2 \theta_c^2) \over {(\theta^2+\theta_c^2)}^{3/2}}.
\label{eq:softiso_kap}$$ where $\theta_E$ is the Einstein deflection angle given by $4\pi \left(\frac{\sigma_v}{c}\right)^2 \frac{D_{ds}}{D_s}$.
The data is simulated on a unit square field of view. For simplicity we have assumed all sources to be at $z=\infty$, with $\theta_E=0.2$ and $\theta_c=0.08$. We lens 607 background galaxies, and apply an intrinsic ellipticity (noise) with $\sigma_{e_s}=0.1$ in each of the principle directions. For all further calculations we use a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with $\Omega_m=0.27$ and $\Omega_{\lambda}=0.73$. This configuration represents a galaxy cluster at a redshift of $z_{lens}=0.4$ with a velocity dispersion of $\sigma_v=850\; \mathrm{km/sec}$. The field of view is $105^{\prime\prime}$ and 0.5 Mpc.
### PBL and Grid-Based Reconstructions
For the single peak and the double peak simulation(see below), we perform both a grid-based reconstruction as well as PBL. We use the regularization suggested by , and described in detail in § \[subsec:reg\] for the grid based method. In case of the single peak the reconstruction is initially performed on a coarse grid ($n_x=6$ gridcells), and is refined up to $n_x=24$, using the $\kappa$ estimated at each previous step as the prior. For the double peak system we start with $n_x=10$ and refine up to nx=40. For both systems the final reconstruction contains less than one particle per grid cell.
For the PBL reconstruction, we use a smoothing scale of the form: $$h_n={c \over (\rho_n)^{\xi}}
\label{eq:weight}$$ where $\rho_n$ is the local number density of points , $c$ is a constant, and $\xi$ is a tunable parameter to maximize signal-to-noise. For our simulation $\xi=1$ is an optimal choice and for the observational case we have used $\xi=0.5$, which is the obvious choice for equalizing signal to noise for every smoothing length. We select $c$ such that the integrated signal-to-noise is greater than unity. The PBL reconstructions are gridded to the same resolution as the grid-based reconstruction to aid visualization.
For both reconstructions, we begin our iterations with a best-fit SIS. We do not, however, use this in the regularization for the grid-based reconstruction.
### Results
Before discussing the results, we note a potential complication. Gravitational lensing mass measurement suffer from mass sheet degeneracy when the sources are not distributed in redshift. This implies that $\kappa$ can be determined up to a degeneracy $\lambda\kappa+(1-\lambda)$. This transforms to a degeneracy in the potential of the form, $$\psi(\bm\theta)\rightarrow\psi^\prime(\bm\theta)=\frac{1}{2}(1-\lambda)\bm\theta^2+\lambda\psi(\bm\theta)$$ For the simulated data we have computed the best value of $\lambda$ in each case and transformed our reconstruction with that value of $\lambda$ for both the grid based method and PBL.
In Table \[tb:comp\] we compare the $\chi^2$ for the best fits of both the grid-based reconstruction along with PBL for a variety of smoothing normalization parameters, c. The aim of this table is to quantify the deviation of the reconstructed $\kappa$ from the true $\kappa$. In each case, the ostensible $\chi^2/\mathrm{DOF}$ is of order unity. However, one needs to be careful with simply asserting that the lower $\chi^2$ produces the best result, since the regularization in grid-based reconstruction adds a penalty function, and the smoothing scale in PBL lowers the effective degrees of freedom.
[ccccccc]{} PBL &0.0200&0.0136&0.0147&1.03&-&0.5\
PBL &0.0181&0.0128&0.0119&0.94&-&0.7\
PBL &0.0219&0.0139&0.0131&0.95&-&1.0\
PBL &0.0235&0.0140&0.0133&0.94&-&1.3\
PBL &0.0227&0.0120&0.0121&0.98&-&1.5\
GRID &0.0311&0.0283&0.0237&0.6&10&-\
GRID &0.0309&0.0280&0.0223&0.79&30&-\
GRID &0.0311&0.0280&0.0224&0.94&60&-\
PBL &0.0250&0.0174&0.0167&0.82&-&1.1\
PBL &0.0231&0.0168&0.0160&0.80&-&1.38\
PBL &0.0277&0.0193&0.0180&0.82&-&1.7\
PBL &0.0320&0.0219&0.0208&0.87&-&2.0\
GRID&0.0570&0.0711&0.0630 &0.92 &20 &-\
GRID&0.0367&0.049&0.039 &0.7 &40 &-\
GRID&0.0359&0.0482&0.0454 &0.83 &60 &-\
So while both models produce small values of $\chi^2$, the real question is whether these good fits correspond to a an accurate reconstruction of the underlying density field. In Table \[tb:comp\], we do several comparisons which relate the reconstructed $\kappa$ at each galaxy (or grid-point) with the true $\kappa$ modeled by the simulation for both the single peak and the double peak. The comparisons are done with a range of values for both $\eta$ (the regularization weight in grid based method) and $c$ (the proportionality constant in PBL).
The first column in Table 1 describes the method used, i.e either PBL or the grid based method. The second column describes the difference between reconstructed $\kappa$ and the true $\kappa$ for every galaxy position.In order to extract this information from the gridded reconstruction we have used the nearest grid point method which simply means the $\kappa$ at each galaxy position is assigned the value at the corresponding grid cell. The third column describes the deviation of the reconstructed $\kappa$ from the true $\kappa$ at every grid cell weighted by the number of image galaxies in that grid cell. The 4th column describes the difference between reconstructed and true $\kappa$ weighted uniformly over the grids. In each of the 3 comparisons, PBL reproduces the original reconstruction with the highest fidelity. The 5th column gives the $\chi^2/\mathrm{DOF}$, the 6th gives the regularization parameter $\eta$ for grid based method and the 7th column gives the smoothing normalization parameter for PBL.
In Fig. \[fg:kap\_recon\_rad\], we show the radial reconstruction of the softened isothermal sphere using the two different techniques. The bulk of the penalty associated with the grid-based reconstruction relative to PBL occurs near the core. By construction, PBL is designed to perform well in this regime.
Simulation: A Double Peaked Cluster
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### Model
While PBL has been shown to perform well modeling a single Softened Isothermal Sphere in the previous section, the other major goal of this method is to reconstruct small-scale substructure in a system. To that end, we model a doubly-peaked system with 814 lensed background galaxies. As before, they are placed on a unity grid, and are modeled as 2 Softened Isothermal Spheres, with: $x_1=0.65,y_1=0.35$, $x_2=0.35,y_2=0.65$, $\theta_{E1}=0.2,\theta_{c1}=0.1$, $\theta_{E2}=0.2$, and $\theta_{c2}=0.1$. The simulated noise, and reconstruction technique for the double peaked system are identical to the single peak system. This is system of two sub-clusters at a redshift of $z_{lens}=0.4$ having a velocity dispersion of $\sigma_v=850\;km/sec$ separated by 226 kpc. The field of view is $105^{\prime\prime}$.
### Results
As with a single sphere, both PBL and grid-based reconstructions produce $\chi^2/\mathrm{DOF}\simeq 1$, as illustrated in Table \[tb:comp\]. However, as with the single sphere reconstruction, PBL produces smaller errors with regards to the underlying model than does the grid-based reconstruction.
In Fig. \[fg:kap\_recon\_image\_2peak\], we show a grey-scale plot of the residuals between the underlying model and each of the reconstructions. Unsurprisingly, both models have the greatest difficulty reproducing highly peaked cores, though PBL is more responsive to high local gradients in $\kappa$. We describe the general quality of the fit in Table \[tb:comp\].
![ The plot of the difference between reconstructed convergence,$\kappa$ and true $\kappa$ for the double peak SIS system. Left Panel: Using PBL . Right panel: Using grid based method described in § \[sec:S+W\]. Both maps are gridded for easy visualization. Also there are empty grid cells with no image galaxies. The value for those grid cells in the above difference map is set to zero for both reconstructions. As we can see the error in the cores of the peaks is much lower using PBL mass reconstruction[]{data-label="fg:kap_recon_image_2peak"}](f3a.eps "fig:") ![ The plot of the difference between reconstructed convergence,$\kappa$ and true $\kappa$ for the double peak SIS system. Left Panel: Using PBL . Right panel: Using grid based method described in § \[sec:S+W\]. Both maps are gridded for easy visualization. Also there are empty grid cells with no image galaxies. The value for those grid cells in the above difference map is set to zero for both reconstructions. As we can see the error in the cores of the peaks is much lower using PBL mass reconstruction[]{data-label="fg:kap_recon_image_2peak"}](f3b.eps "fig:")
Observation: The Bullet Cluster
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### Observations
Finally we perform a mass reconstruction of the bullet cluster (1E0657-56). This galaxy cluster is a rare supersonic merger in the plane of the sky. Its distinctive structure and orientation makes it an ideal cluster for observing dark matter using gravitational lensing. It consists of two sub-clusters separated by 0.72 Mpc, which have just undergone a merger and are moving away from each other. The western sub-cluster is less massive and the eastern main cluster is more massive. The line-of-sight velocity difference suggest that their cores passed each other 100 Myr ago. The collisionless dark matter in each of the sub-clusters have crossed each other but the fluid-like intracluster plasma is in the process of electromagnetic and thermal interaction producing high X-ray luminosity far removed from lensing mass peaks [@2006ApJ...648L.109C; @2006ApJ...652..937B].
For the Bullet Cluster, we perform a PBL reconstruction only, since it has been well-studied with grid-based methods (using ) and the $\kappa$-contours are publicly available. We use publicly available weak lensing data from the Bullet Cluster Project Page[^2]. The catalog was constructed using data from three different instruments: the ESO/MPG Wide Field Imager, IMACS on Magellan, and two pointings of ACS on HST. The shapes of the galaxies were measured independently on each of the image sets averaging for the common galaxies. The weighting for each galaxy is based on its significance of detection in every image set and normalized appropriately [@2006ApJ...648L.109C].
The catalogs were combined using weighted average reduced shear measurements and the weights of individual galaxies were increased when they occurred in several catalogs. This weighting is listed in the shear catalog. We include this weighting in our reconstructions as well and choose only those images with a weighting greater than 1. As we have already illustrated in the simulations PBL is most effective when the information density is variable, i.e close to the core of the clusters. In case of the bullet cluster we zoom into a region bounded by $104.53^o$ to $104.69^o$ in right ascension and $55.92^o$ to $55.97^o$ in declination. Following this cut, our sample includes 1259 weak lensing background galaxies. In order to do the mass reconstruction we use the average redshift of this sample, $z=0.91$.
### Reconstruction
The Bullet Cluster was made famous by the direct detection of dark matter by [@2006ApJ...648L.109C]. Indeed, since one of the major findings of this group is that the dark matter appears offset from X-ray emissions, we do not include any prior model when reconstructing the system, but are able to achieve fast convergence with two clearly visible peaks. This reconstruction guides us in choosing an initial condition for subsequent $\chi^2$ minimization.
We have calculated the integrated mass within 150 kpc of each peak. The main peak has a mass of $1.57\times10^{14}M_\odot$ and the sub-cluster has a mass of $0.9\times10^{14}M_\odot$. [@2004ApJ...604..596C] report a value of $(1.02 \pm 0.16)\times
10^{14}M_\odot$ for the main peak and $(0.66\pm0.19)\times
10^{14}M_\odot$ for the sub-cluster within 150 kpc of the each peak. In each case, our estimate exceeds that of Clowe et al. by approximately 3.4 $\sigma$. However, more a more recent S+W reconstruction by the same group [@2006ApJ...652..937B] yields masses of $(2.8\pm0.2)\times 10^{14}M_\odot$ around the main peak and $(2.3\pm0.2)\times 10^{14}M_\odot$ around the sub-cluster within 250 kpc of each peak. Inclusion of strong lensing information makes reconstruction of the cores more accurate and also leads to a higher estimates of the mass. Even correcting for the greater area, this suggests Clowe’s initial mass estimate may have been low.
Our mass estimates using PBL is higher than the weak lensing reconstruction of [@2004ApJ...604..596C], and thus more in line with the S+W results. This is a result of a difference in method. For example, we start from an initial condition and iterate to the correct solution whereas [@2004ApJ...604..596C] have fitted a radially averaged shear profile to the NFW or King profile. As already seen in the simulations using an initial condition recovers values of $\kappa$ close to the core with greater accuracy. This implies that while most weak lensing $\kappa$ maps report $\kappa$-contours less than 1 using initial condition and PBL we are able to get $\kappa$ greater than 1. This implies that the mass we measure will also be greater than the typical weak lensing mass measurement. Also to measure the mass of the sub-cluster [@2004ApJ...604..596C] have removed the mass of the main cluster to avoid over-estimation of the mass, we have not considered this effect in our reconstruction.
In Fig. \[fg:bullet\_new\], we show our PBL reconstruction of the bullet cluster. Note that, despite using weak lensing signals only, we are able to identify both density peaks and using initial conditions we are able to get $\kappa>1$ for the main peak. We also do a comparison of the publicly available $\kappa$-contour with the $\kappa$-contours reconstructed using PBL. The location of the main peak coincides for both reconstruction. The sub-cluster contours for PBL are slightly removed from the publicly available $\kappa$-contours.
![A weak-lensing only reconstruction of the bullet cluster using PBL described in § \[sec:particle\]. Note that both substructure peaks are clearly identified. Upper Panel: This the $\kappa$-map using PBL. The cross denotes the centroid of the multiply imaged positions. Lower Panel: This a comparison of the $\kappa$ contour derived using PBL(solid) and the publicly available contour plot of $\kappa$(dashed). []{data-label="fg:bullet_new"}](f4a.eps "fig:") ![A weak-lensing only reconstruction of the bullet cluster using PBL described in § \[sec:particle\]. Note that both substructure peaks are clearly identified. Upper Panel: This the $\kappa$-map using PBL. The cross denotes the centroid of the multiply imaged positions. Lower Panel: This a comparison of the $\kappa$ contour derived using PBL(solid) and the publicly available contour plot of $\kappa$(dashed). []{data-label="fg:bullet_new"}](f4b.eps "fig:")
Error analysis for PBL will be discussed in detail in future papers. In particular the noise covariance matrix,$\langle(\kappa-\langle\kappa\rangle)(\kappa-\langle\kappa\rangle)^T\rangle$, will give us important insights into the errors caused by the reconstruction method. A bootstrap method can also be used to determine error bars on mass measurements from observations. In case of simulations several Monte Carlo realizations of the noise can be used to study the errors.
Discussion and Future Prospects {#sec:discuss}
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Additional Signals
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Thus far, we have developed the formalism for PBL, and done worked examples demonstrating how it may be applied to weak-lensing reconstruction. It is designed to model structure hierarchically, in part because of the great success of Strong+Weak lensing analysis.
Several groups have already shown how multiple image positions may be added to the information yielded by lens ellipticities to produce very high quality mass-maps of clusters. It was our desire to maximally exploit the different information scales of the strong and weak lensing signals which motivated the development of PBL in the first place.
However, there is yet more information besides image differences potentially available which may be utilized in a reconstruction. Consider that in addition to the two constraints generated by the positional difference between two images, we also can measure a flux ratio, and 2 ellipticity differences. Thus, in principle, we have 5 measurable, model parameters per strong lensing pair rather than 2, and in an idealized case, this improves potential resolution of a system in the strong lensing regime by $\sqrt(5/2)\simeq 1.6$.
As a way of guiding the future development of PBL, we discuss possible future avenues of investigation below.
### Flux
Apart from the centroid position, the Petrosian flux of an image is the most straightforward to measure. The relationship between magnification lens is simply the inverse of the determinant of the projection matrix: $$\mu=\frac{1}{(1-\kappa)^2-|\gamma|^2}$$ Unlike the displacement vectors (), which are simple linear operators of the potential field (the gradient), or the weak-lensing shear field which is nearly so (since in the limit of $\kappa << 1$, the image ellipticity is an unbiased estimator of the shear field), the flux is a highly nonlinear function of the shear and convergence fields. This accounts, in part, for the reason that it has not been used previously in cluster reconstructions. Here we note that [@2007ApJ...663...29S] show that the image positions itself constrain the fluxes for a source with three non-collinear components. This is a special case, for cluster lensing three component sources for strong lensing may not always be available. Also, [@2007MNRAS.376..180N] use magnification information in their parametric mass modelling of clusters.
The other major consideration is that magnification is not a smoothly varying function of the potential fields. It is well-known that on the critical curves, magnification goes to infinity (see, e.g. [@1992grle.book.....S] for an extensive discussion), but this is a set of measure zero, so in and of itself produces no problem. The issue is that the parity of the image reverses as an image that crosses the critical curve.
Negative magnification means nothing more than reversal of image parity, and thus cannot generally be easily detected. Thus, we are much more interested in computing terms which scale like $\mu^2$. Indeed, since we cannot measure the magnification directly, but only the flux, we propose that the combination: $$\frac{\mu_A^2-\mu_B^2}{\mu_A^2+\mu_B^2}=\frac{f_A^2-f_B^2}{f_A^2+f_B^2}$$ is directly measurable, and has no poles.
Even so, a lensing model [*predicts*]{} a parity for a particular image, and as with ellipticity, minimization, there is a discontinuity in the derivatives. In Fig. \[fg:mu\_parity\] we show the magnification (including sign) as a function of convergence and shear.
![The magnification as a function of shear and convergence. The lower panel is a simple slice through the upper, with the choice $\gamma=\kappa$. Neither the magnification nor its derivatives are a continuous function. Moreover, flux ratios are only measurable for systems with at least two images (obviously). One or more of the images will necessarily have negative parity. Thus, a solution to the potential field which is found using standard relaxation methods will not normally converge to a negative parity estimate for any magnification.[]{data-label="fg:mu_parity"}](f5a.eps "fig:") ![The magnification as a function of shear and convergence. The lower panel is a simple slice through the upper, with the choice $\gamma=\kappa$. Neither the magnification nor its derivatives are a continuous function. Moreover, flux ratios are only measurable for systems with at least two images (obviously). One or more of the images will necessarily have negative parity. Thus, a solution to the potential field which is found using standard relaxation methods will not normally converge to a negative parity estimate for any magnification.[]{data-label="fg:mu_parity"}](f5b.eps "fig:")
### Ellipticity Differences
Likewise, while most measurements of the shear are based on an assumption that any [*given*]{} image is randomly oriented, two images of the same source are not. The difference in their measured ellipticity can be wholly modeled by the relative lensing fields at their respective locations. If both images were in the weak regime, we would be able to use the simple estimator $$\varepsilon_A-\varepsilon_B=\simeq \gamma_A-\gamma_B$$ where all terms in the equation are complex, and thus provide two constraints with high signal to noise per image pair.
In general, however, a more likely configuration is that one image may be in the strong regime, and one in the weak. If we can determine from the configuration of lenses which is which, we might imagine a better estimator as: $$\varepsilon_A-\varepsilon_B=\frac{1}{g^\ast_A}-g_B$$ with the only associated noise corresponding to photon noise rather than random variance in the intrinsic ellipticity of the images.
### Flexion
Thus far, the analysis of clusters in the weak or semi-weak regime has primarily relied on shear. However, recently, [@2007arXiv0710.2262O], and [@2007ApJ...666...51L] have worked on reconstructing A1689 using flexion. In particular, the Okura group used a Fourier inversion suggested by [@2007arXiv0709.1003S]. However, the advantage of our proposed PBL is that flexion (and, in principle, [*any*]{} higher-order derivative of the potential) may be explicitly included as additional constraints in the cluster reconstruction. Unlike Fourier techniques, which rely on binning of the data, the PBL method will allow us to exploit the natural small-scale signal probed by flexion.
Summary
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We have developed PBL, a new particle based technique of mass reconstruction of clusters. The distinguishing feature of PBL is its ability to adjust its smoothing scale depending on the local signal to noise or the type of constraint and thus not require any regularization. PBL has the scope of calculating derivatives up to any order. Hence, lensing constraints that are a function of the derivatives of the potential can be easily included in the reconstruction. In this paper we have successfully applied PBL to do weak lensing only mass reconstruction for a single peak and a double peak system. We have made the codes for PBL publicly available for application weak lensing measurements through our website(see § \[sec:particle\]). The codes have been tested on the data sets and simulations described in the paper. A larger data sample will require modification of the current version of codes.
As already explained PBL is a method of discretizing data and not a minimization method. A $\chi^2$ minimization does not necessarily ensure reaching a global minimum. In many cases the global minimum is guarded by steep walls surrounded by shallow valleys. Without any prior knowledge of the mass distribution it is very easy to get trapped in a shallow valley and not reach the global minimum. We have started with an initial condition and interpolated the ellipticity function to aid us in this regard.
In future work we will be including the additional constraints, like the flux ratios, ellipticity differences and flexion along with measured ellipticities and strong lensing positions. We will also be exploring different minimization schemes to facilitate convergence to a global minimum.
Acknowledgments
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The authors would like to thank for useful discussions with Mike Jarvis, Bhuvnesh Jain and Kevin Olson. We would also like to thank Marusa Brada[v c]{} and Douglas Clowe for providing us with the “Bullet Cluster” (1E0657-56) data. DMG gratefully acknowledges discussions with Richard Massey. SD would like to thank Ben Metcalf, Prasenjit Saha and Sudeep Das for valuable comments. We would also like to thank the referee for thoughtful suggestions. This work was supported by NASA ATP NNG05GF61G.
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They say only one American in 10 regularly attends the theater. Watching a live performance seems to bring back the worst classroom memories for many people -- no talking allowed, no popcorn or beer, no quick toilet breaks -- nothing to do but pay attention.
How strange, then, that dozens of local companies have enlisted the services of a Buffalo theatrical troupe to perform skits as a training device for their employees. Many social agencies, too, are having these actors do workshops for their patients and clients.
Now in its eighth year, Theatre for Change performs with nary a script in sight. The actors follow a story premise, tailored for the client, but they carry it out almost entirely by improvisation.
Afterward, the actors remain in character to interact with their audience during a "talk-back" period. They invent on-the-spot answers about themselves and defend their actions in the skit. If sufficiently provoked, they may rekindle the conflict with each other -- or argue with the questioner.
In recent gigs for local firms and agencies, the 13 actors and directors who make up the traveling troupe have seen some unlikely acting-out by members of the audience:
A resident at a Bry-Lin clinic got so carried away during a skit between a recovering addict and an active drug user that he suddenly asked if either had a gun . . . and, when he heard sirens, darted from the room in alarm.
A nursing home worker got into a shouting match with an actor who was portraying a nursing home dietitian with undisguised contempt for all nurse's aides.
A police officer in Cheektowaga, watching a scene about domestic violence, asked whether the husband was armed and, not getting a satisfactory reply, walked up to the stage and frisked the male actor.
"What we're trying to do is make them think and, hopefully, have an emotional experience as well," says Darleen Pickering Hummert, founder and artistic director of Theatre for Change. "Because that's when I think you can affect somebody. It's using the power of theater -- an extremely powerful medium."
During a recent performance for Outokumpu American Brass Co., an all-male audience of middle managers assembled for a drama about sexual harassment. Claudia Catalano played a factory worker who was being hit on by a new guy in the plant, played by Phil Knoerzer. Tim White played the less-than-sympathetic supervisor to whom she tearfully complained. ("I mean," White responded, "sexual harassment to one woman is another woman's lucky day.")
When the scene was over, it was the audience's turn to speak.
"At first," Hummert recalls, "they were very reluctant -- they weren't asking any questions. I asked them later. This one fellow said, 'In the scene with the supervisor, she was crying; and God, I didn't want to see her do that again.' "
In most cases, however, Theatre for Change is able to get members of the audience to become active players in situations where they normally would remain passive.
Actors spent a morning recently at Bry-Lin in Alden to perform for 40 residents in the cafeteria. Maureen Ann Porter played Sue, whose boyfriend, John, had just come home from Bry-Lin and was going for a job interview. Today, to really engage the residents, one of their own took the part of John, and Hummert told him the plot.
"You don't want to pre-plan what you're going to say," she advised. "You want to listen to the other actors and respond to whatever comes out. Listening is everything. It's strictly improvisational."
"And don't react the way you think we want you to react," added Porter. "We're going to let the actors decide how it ends."
The lights dim. John and Sue come out. Immediately they get into a squabble over whether he must give her his paycheck so he won't be tempted to blow it on drugs. It gets so hot, John threatens to move out of Sue's house.
When the first intermission came, four hands shot up in the audience.
"You're not supporting him," a woman told Sue. "You're yelling at him."
"He got me angry!" Sue shot back without missing a beat. "I've supported him every time he's been in and out of rehab."
"She's controlled me all these years," John interjected.
"Controlled?" Sue said, glowering at John. "He sold my mother's watch!" Now she was shouting in the Bry-Lin cafeteria. "My mother died and left me an antique watch, and he sold it -- and I'm still here with him -- don't you call that support?"
A woman resident told Sue, "It seems to me like you are really afraid of his recovery, because you might lose your position as being a caretaker." She suggested that Sue attend an Al-Anon meeting.
"She has no idea what an addict is," John agreed.
"Have you ever used drugs?" someone asked Sue.
"I smoked cigarettes for 10 years, and I quit," she replied.
"What's a cigarette got to do with drugs?" John exclaimed.
Then a young man in a violet shirt spoke up.
"Compromise a little," he advised Sue. "At least give him part of the money, so he doesn't have to look like less than a man and beg."
"What is this less than a man thing?" Sue snapped.
"It ain't a man thing," John said. "It's reality. I'm gonna take care of you, and not be tooken care of."
"John," a man spoke up. "Coming from the heart, tell me now: Don't you feel you lost some of that manhood though the use of drugs?"
John turned silent.
In the next scene, Sue is dropping off John for his job interview, when Marcus -- an old drug-user friend of John's -- stumbles on the scene. The residents laugh and applaud actor Richard Satterwhite's quick change into grungy clothes, with a black eye and two blacked-out teeth. Before leaving, Sue pleads with Marcus not to talk John out of going in for the job interview.
"You gonna get a job?" Marcus asks John, astounded. "God-damned!"
"You should get one, too," John tells him. "Why don't you get yourself together, my brother? Look at your teeth, man!"
"I'm all right just the way I am," Marcus replies. "Don't come preaching at me."
During the next intermission, a young woman stood up for the first time: "Marcus!"
"How you doing, girl?" he smiled.
"I'm reaching out to you, OK? I'm a recovering addict today, and I got to go along with your main man over there. You would be a fine somebody, if you'd get your teeth fixed, and get you some recovery. OK?"
Marcus looked dumbfounded.
The final scene finds John in a laundromat. Marcus bops in, suggests they go to his place and get high, and a loud argument ensues.
"Do either of you guys have a gun?" the man in the violet shirt suddenly asked from the first row.
They ignored him.
At the climax, as the director mimicked approaching police sirens, the man in violet abruptly got up and ran from the room.
"I felt outnumbered," he explained later. "I didn't know if they had a gun."
Such is the power of theater -- even among recovering addicts who wouldn't be caught dead going to a play.
As the actors were packing up, one of the women came over to talk about their work. Someone had handed her a bouquet of flowers.
"With me leaving today," the woman told them, "it kind of really helped me. I'm set to go to my meetings! God bless all you."
There were hugs all around.
"They readily recognize themselves in one of us," Porter said later. "They, in essence, are helping to fix themselves by helping to fix us! As an actor, so seldom do you get to use your talent to really help people."
"At the market where I work on Elmwood," Satterwhite said, "I've had people come to the counter and say: 'Don't you remember me? I just got out of Bry-Lin, I've been out for three weeks, and I'm still clean.' "
Karin Fries, Bry-Lin's recreation therapist, thanked the actors for what she called "recovering theater," which she said promotes confidence in social settings.
"It's a big risk for them to get up in front of others, expressing their feelings and emotions," she said. "The first time, we weren't sure what it would be like. But the response of patients was overwhelming -- they were just in awe."
When Darleen Pickering Hummert started the troupe in 1989, she sought out actors who would have a commitment for social change. Their initial target was domestic violence. She credits Katey Joyce, director of Haven House, with giving birth to Theatre for Change by taking a chance and enlisting Hummert to write and direct "Father Knows Best."
Since then, the issues have expanded with the times.
"Some of these situations can be kind of volatile," Hummert acknowledges. "You might ask: 'Gee, is it such a good idea to open up a lot of stuff?' For the most part, we've found it is. The format we use makes it easier for people to deal with difficult issues than pinning them down and saying, 'Tell me what you really think.' "
To do this, the actors leave the comfort zone of their own theaters and create one on the spot for their listeners -- with no lights and minimal furniture and props.
Only a few actors are comfortable with theater-on-the-edge, especially the improvisation.
"We've had actors try to work with us and they can't because of all the improv," says Gail Golden-McHugh, an associate director of Theatre for Change. "Some actors are very traditional -- like, Where's the script? Well, we don't need a script. Let's all work together and develop it. Oh? What's my blocking? Who knows? Well, what's my cue? Well, you haven't got it."
Associate Director Tim White calls improv the ultimate challenge -- and fulfillment -- of acting.
"This is the kind of work that we were trained for," he says, "actually using subtext, and dealing with real issues in a formatted situation -- and being able to come back in character. I mean, as actors working on a stage, we don't always get to use that perspective of training. It's the best kind of theater, what we're doing."
Guest actor Guy Wagner says he used to shy away from improv until he did work with this troupe.
"When they start asking you questions, that 'suspension of disbelief' kind of intensifies -- they believe that we are these people," he says. "I had one guy who wanted to take me outside and fight."
It happened in Detroit, when the troupe was giving one of its many workshops for the Ford Motor Co. and United Auto Workers.
"It was a sexual harassment workshop, and I was hitting on Maureen Porter," recalls Wagner, who is a body builder. "A guy got up and said, 'Would you talk to your sister that way?' I said she wasn't my sister. The guy's like, 'Somebody should teach you a lesson.' I'm like, 'You gonna teach me a lesson?' 'Oh, yeah, here, come on,' he says, 'let's go outside!' The facilitators had to jump in."
Today, Theatre for Change will tackle any issue that a client wants to explore. In a recent gig at Buffalo State College, nine actors performed for about 40 nursing home employees, brought together by Marian Deutschman, a professor of communication. The mission was to help nursing home personnel identify potential internal problems.
In one scene, Emanuel Fried is visiting his wife, played by Elsie S. Robertson, in a nursing home. The elderly Lowensteins are thrown into a staff imbroglio during a poorly timed "patient review meeting."
When a bureaucratic charge nurse, played by Bess Brown Kregal, refers to the resident's "ADL" (activities of daily living), Mr. Lowenstein responds in his old Yiddish diction: "ADL? What's the Anti-Defamation League got to do with Sara?"
The audience laughs, but not the staff.
"Nathan," the wife suddenly pleads, "can we go home now?"
The staffers don't know how to react to this, either.
During the intermission, someone asked Kregal why she would use technical terms that her patients don't comprehend.
"So they're educated to the term," she replied stubbornly.
In the next scene, Ms. Kregal plays a busy and highly stressed daughter visiting her cranky mother, played by guest actress Jeanne Cairns. The mother suspects a black staffer of stealing her jewelry; the daughter says the jewelry is back at her house; they have a blowup, and the daughter storms out of the nursing home.
In comes a nurse's aide, played by Tim White, who is African-American. Mother chews him out for entering without knocking, but soon he has procured an invitation to sit down and chat.
"I'll tell you a little secret," he says to her sweetly. "I don't listen to rap music, and I'm not going to steal from you."
Mother complains about two "Puerto Rican" staffers, but the aide gently corrects her: One of the Hispanics is in fact Cuban, and the other is Dominican.
Soon she is accepting his invitation to take a walk outdoors.
"Thank you," she beams, "for taking the time to listen to me."
Something extraordinary happened during the talk-back period, when all three actors were back on stage. Someone asked the daughter about her conflict with her mother, and as Kregal improvised her answer she began to weep real tears.
Her audience melted for her.
"That fellow in the front row kept asking me why I didn't hug her," Ms. Kregal explained later. "And I felt very put upon by that. I wanted to tell him, 'You don't know what the history of the family is: the fact that my mother is always down on me. And this thing about me having a baby -- OK, so I'm 40. But I'm giving life -- and even this she was downing me for.' "
Kregal, in fact, had given birth to a baby last year.
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דלג לתוכן (מקש קיצור 's')
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CGGC Seminar: Volumetric Untrimming: Precise Decomposition of Trimmed Trivariates into Tensor Products
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חדר 337, בניין טאוב למדעי המחשב
3D objects, modeled using Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) tools, are traditionally represented using a boundary representation (B-rep), and typically use spline functions to parameterize these boundary surfaces. However, recent development in physical analysis, in isogeometric analysis (IGA) in specific, necessitates a volumetric parametrization of the interior of the object. IGA is performed directly by integrating over the spline spaces of the volumetric spline representation of the object. Typically, tensor-product B-spline trivariates are used to parameterize the volumetric domain.
A general 3D object, that can be modeled in contemporary B-rep CAD tools, is typically represented using trimmed B-spline surfaces. In order to capture the generality of the contemporary B-rep modeling space, while supporting IGA needs, Massarwi and Elber (2016) proposed the use of trimmed trivariates volumetric elements. However, the use of trimmed geometry makes the integration process more difficult since integration over trimmed B-spline basis functions is a highly challenging task Xu et al. (2017). In this work, we propose an algorithm that precisely decomposes a trimmed B-spline trivariate into a set of (singular only on the boundary) tensor-product B-spline trivariates, that can be utilized to simplify the integration process, in IGA. The trimmed B-spline trivariate is first subdivided into a set of trimmed Béziertrivariates, at all its internal knots. Then, each trimmed Bézier trivariate, is decomposed into a set of mutually exclusive tensor-product B-spline trivariates, that precisely cover the entire trimmed domain. This process, denoted untrimming, can be performed in either the Euclidean space or the parametric space of the trivariate. We present examples of the algorithm on complex trimmed trivariates’ based geometry, and we demonstrate the effectiveness of the method by applying IGA over the (untrimmed) results.
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Sim Junta – A game of dirty politics!
Welcome Sir. You are the new dictator of Risuena, a small and poor country of the third world. You have just seized power after a bloody coup and your intentions are to stay in power as much as you can, to rip this country off, transfer the money to your secret Swiss bank account and of course, stay alive and enjoy your wealth.
Sim Junta is developed as a retro game of the 80's 16-bit computers. It is a statistical management game of brutal and violent politics, as it should be a game who has as a theme a dictatorship. It is a humorous but very deep strategy game like all of our projects.
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Vitamin D and Autism
If you search the web for pages linking autism and vitamin D, most of the articles you will find (as of early 2011) are discussing Dr. John Cannell's paper, Autism and Vitamin D, published October 8, 2007 on-line in Medical Hypotheses. In the article, Dr. Cannell presents his original theory that the rising incidence of autism is due to the relatively recent trend toward sun avoidance, and the resulting drop in vitamin D3 levels, particularly in babies and young children.
Added in March, 2013: While what I wrote above was true in 2011, it no longer is today. Now, if you search "vitamin d and autism" you will find references to recent studies, and to far more sites that discuss a potential link between autism and a vitamin D3 deficiency. How quickly things change, or maybe I should say, "How fast information spreads these days." Note also that a search on "vitamin d and dyslexia" brings Vitamin D and Dyslexia from this OnTrack Reading website as the top result (as of late 2013 anyway.) That too will change, I suspect, once the many parallels (discussed below) between autism and dyslexia are investigated further.
As of early 2011, many websites discussing "Vitamin D and Autism" were relying upon Dr. Cannell's theory Scientific American magazine, in 2008, also published an article hypothesizing a possible link between autism and a vitamin D deficiency. Unfortunately, the author of that article failed to credit Dr. Cannell for originally formulating and publishing the theory. (If you read it, note that at least they allowed him the privilege of adding the first comment.)
Clearly then, the attempt to link a vitamin D deficiency to autism is a recent development. My suggestion that there might also be a link between a vitamin D deficiency and dyslexia is an even more recent development, since it was Dr. Cannell's paper that got me thinking about it. Of course, someone I'm unaware of might have proposed similar linkages much earlier.
A Parsimonious Theory - The Simplest Explanation Is Often the Best
In his paper, Dr. Cannell explains how the spread of autism, including the specific populations most affected, are explained by his vitamin D theory. He also explains how common symptoms, including how widely they vary, are covered in his theory. And finally, he explains how most of the other suspected causes of autism, such as mercury contamination or oxidative stress, are also subsumed by his theory. In short, he has come up with a parsimonious theory of autism, a simple explanation that explains all facets of the epidemic.
Important Note to Parents of an Autistic Child: Please read this exchange between Dr. Cannell and a parent of an autistic child, from the VitaminDCouncil Newsletter Archives, Jan 2010. Also see this update from a mother of three autistic children, from the Dec 2010 newsletter. (When you get to the page, click on the December Newsletter, titled More Autism Reports, to open the PDF.)
I'll leave it to you to read his paper if you're interested; it's not all that technical so it's a fairly easy read. My reason for discussing it here is to show any linkages between autism and dyslexia, for if the links are strong then it's also likely that if his theory is eventually proven correct it will strengthen my hypothesis that dyslexia is also a result of a vitamin D deficiency. I'll start first with a comparison of the trends in autism versus dyslexia, drawing on the factual information about autism in Dr. Cannell's paper.
Fact: Autism Cases Have Increased Rapidly Over the Past 20 Years
Dyslexia is generally thought to affect around 10% of the population, more or less, and I know of no study that indicates that it is increasing over time. Perhaps long-term educators in the lower grades have strong feelings on this, but as of now I can't see a linkage between autism and dyslexia in this regard. If a vitamin D deficiency underlies dyslexia, the rate should have been increasing significantly over the past 15 years or so, but I'm unaware of such an increase.
Fact: Autism has Genetic Underpinnings
This one is similar for dyslexia. Just as autism runs in families, so does dylexia and there is plenty of research backing for both. If it turns out that the same gene or combination of genes are involved then it would seem more likely that Dr. Cannell's theory would also apply to dyslexia.
Fact: Autism is a Developmental Disability
Dyslexia too is considered a developmental disability. Many studies have been done showing delays in development across various skills including speech, fine motor, vision, etc. As is the case with autism, there is a wide range of outcomes.
As both conditions appear to be neurological disorders, with many of the same skills affected, it seems likely that if a vitamin D deficiency is causing the neurological problems in an autistic child then it could also be causing similar disorders in a dyslexic child.
Fact: Autism is an Idiopathic Disease
All "idiopathic" means is that there is no known cause. This is true of the majority, though not all, autistic individuals. Similarly, dyslexia is a condition that has gone unexplained, although as with autism, many associations have been found. The issue is whether any of those associations are causal, or if they are also the result of a yet-unexplained common underlying cause.
So here we have two conditions, both neurological disorders of unknown origin. If one is turns out to be caused by a vitamin D deficiency, will the other also?
Fact: Autism Affects Four Times More Boys Than Girls
Teachers refer more than twice as many boys as girls for reading problems though it's unclear whether some of those referrals might be for behavioral issues instead. Studies do show that more boys are dyslexic than girls, but not by a four-to-one ratio.
Nevertheless, if Dr. Cannell is correct in saying that estrogen improves the functioning of vitamin D3 in the system, whereas testosterone has no impact, and if dyslexia is impacted by a vitamin D deficiency as well, you would then expect that more boys would be dyslexic than girls.
Fact: Autistic-like Symptoms are Related to Low Maternal Fish Consumption
From Dr. Cannell's paper: "...low maternal seafood consumption was associated with infants with an increased-risk of lower verbal IQs and poor outcomes for social behaviors, fine motor skills, communication, and social development—outcomes eerily similar to autism." He states that it's not known whether it was due to the vitamin D3 in the fish or the Omega 3's or something else, but there was an association found.
Similarly, studies of poor readers have shown that fish oil or a multi-vitamin are both associated with an increase in word identification ability. Both studies are discussed later in this section.
Fact: Autism is More Common Farther from the Equator
More generally, the less sun a geographic area receives, the higher the incidence of autism. I'm not aware of any similar studies regarding the distribution of dyslexia, so this one is an open question. Are there more dyslexics as one goes north, or into areas that receive diminished sun due to smog or persistent cloud cover?
Fact: African-Americans, Particularly in Northern Latitudes, are More Likely to be Autistic
The higher melanin concentration in dark skin prevents blacks who have moved to more northern climates from absorbing the amount of sunlight they need to create sufficient vitamin D3 stores. The result is that blacks in northern climates are much more likely to be vitamin D3 deficient than are lighter-skinned people. And rates of autism are much higher for blacks than for other races.
Is this also true of dyslexia? I'm not sure. Certainly the school performance of black children in center city schools is subpar on average, but so many variables come into play that it would be nonsense to claim on that basis that a higher percentage of blacks are dyslexic. If your school is so poorly run that most of the children attending have low reading scores, certainly instructional methods and the education environment must play a major role in outcomes.
Summing Up
You can see that dyslexia parallels autism in many respects, but that there are open questions in some areas. I'm hoping that readers who are aware of studies that attempt to answer some of these questions, or even those of you with extensive first-hand experience, will contact me and let me know of those studies, orParallels between autism and dyslexia certainly exist, but open questions remain relate your experiences so that some of these questions can be answered. For example, is dyslexia increasing along with autism? Is dyslexia more prevalent in northern latitudes? Are black children more likely to be dyslexic?
My purpose here was simply to show that there are several parallels between autism and dyslexia. These common aspects add support to my hypothesis that dyslexia and autism both fall on the same spectrum of disease, with dyslexia a milder manifestation of a condition of developmental delay or even maldevelopment. If true, and if Dr. Cannell's vitamin D theory of autism is borne out by future research, it stands to reason that his theory could also apply to the dyslexic population as well. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9616491794586182}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '36293', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HZETA5OFSFTLDXP4XYK7OGG66S7P4FC5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9c66f5e8-0a51-44ef-a71d-128edd313924>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 4, 23, 18), 'WARC-IP-Address': '69.162.148.80', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5ETYTPHJLGXZAQSZQZ74BTIL5C5UPFCZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:42029c4a-fc37-4054-b91f-cfd1a9088e09>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.ontrackreading.com/dyslexia-puzzle/vitamin-d3-and-autism', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5f7c73c7-2d2f-4ed4-a120-783a1548608e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1533', 'url': 'https://www.ontrackreading.com/dyslexia-puzzle/vitamin-d3-and-autism', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-165-178-231.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.053601980209350586', 'original_id': '146756a4bb1222c085c00d199fd0431b62ee3d571ba6dc1ebcdf7ba69953926f'} |
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
You Know, Avogadro
Talnik said...
you had me on this one
lumberjack said...
Understandable if you don't use the number in your daily life.
Avogadro's number is just one of the things I'm still waiting to come up outside of the classroom. I thought I was going to get to use trigonometry once a few years back, but it was a false alarm.
Lumberbrudi said...
The picture surprised me. I always though he had a mole.
Veeshir said...
That's hilarious.
Minicapt said...
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---
title: Configura un IP Failover su Fedora
excerpt: Configura un IP Failover su Fedora
slug: configura_un_ip_failover_su_fedora
legacy_guide_number: g2045
---
##
Per configurare un indirizzo IP Failover sulle tue istanze Public Cloud, ad esempio se sulla tua istanza ospiti più siti o progetti internazionali, acquista un indirizzo IP Failover o importalo da un altro servizio OVH.
Gli IP Failover non vengono configurati automaticamente.
Questa guida ti mostra come configurare l'interfaccia di rete della tua istanza per poter aggiungere un indirizzo IP Failover.
## Requisiti necessari
- [Crea un'istanza dallo Spazio Cliente OVH]({legacy}1775)
- Un indirizzo IP Failover
## Configura l'interfaccia
- Modifica il file di configurazione questi parametri:
```
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX:Y
```
|Parametri|Valori|
|---|---|
|X|numero dell'interfaccia principale (in genere eth0)|
|Y|numero dell'alias (parti da 0, poi 1, ecc... in base al numero di IP da configurare)|
- Aggiungi nel file:
```
DEVICE="ethX:Y"
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
NETMASK="255.255.255.255"
BROADCAST="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
ONBOOT=yes
```
## Riavvia il servizio di rete
- Per riavviare i servizi di rete, utilizza il comando:
```
ifup ethX:Y
```
##
- [Trasferisci un IP FailOver]({legacy}1890)
##
[Ritorna all'indice delle guide Cloud]({legacy}1785)
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<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</a> tokenClaimName,
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Five years after the release of the Asian Century White Paper, the nation's top 200 companies are not "Asia ready" and not using local talent to tap into a rapidly growing market.
This is the finding of research by Asialink Business in partnership with PwC and the Institute of Managers and Leaders, which shows Australia's top business leaders lack the skills needed to achieve business results in Asia.
For 2018, the IMF sees Chinese growth at 6.4 per cent, up from three months ago.
The Match Fit: Shaping Asia Capable Leaders report analysed 1223 board members and 489 senior executives from the ASX 200. It also looked at the top 30 private Australian companies.
It found that 67 per cent of ASX 200 board members show no evidence of extensive experience operating in Asia, and 55 per cent demonstrate little to no knowledge of Asian markets. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '98cda4722bc4cae1c53aece6794717613631fb55568cb52894fa058269b394ea'} |
Calling graphviz' dot or neato
is being done by Image_GraphViz implicitly
when calling
image()
or
fetch().
Both can be used to generate and display/return image data in
a large number of image formats, including
svg, png, pdf
and plain text.
TIP: The last paragraph in the example suggests that you can use this sample code to generate binary representations of the graph using the same syntax. This is a bit misleading and it isn't obvious why until you do some digging.
For example, the $gv->image() method takes an optional parameter indicating the format of the resulting image. If you dig around you will find that this parameter may be one of several character strings including 'png', 'jpg' and 'pdf'. Further, if you take the example here verbatim and add, say, 'png' as the input parameter to the image call you get no result displayed on the generated page and the reason for this is non-obvious (it just took me several hours or reading, googling, debugging, etc. to find the solution).
To make a long story short, the result returned from the call to image() is a raw data stream with a representation of the graph you are creating in the format you requested. If you specify 'png' then the return value will be a byte-stream representing the raw PNG image data.
What you need to do here is add some extra code to save this raw binary data to a temporary file and then encode some HTML in the PHP script to reference that file with an IMG tag. Here is some sample code I used with the example here: | mini_pile | {'original_id': '9bf8b9c5e877aa029ebfdd182750e8d762b332b63a64eb2a21b8b1621dc6c23c'} |
While the rest of the country talks about the urgent need to reduce the crushing debt burden and get the U.S. fiscal house in order, Senators such as Harry Reid (D–NV) and Charles Schumer (D–NY) propose spending even more.
But unlike the main character in the musical “Spend, Spend, Spend,” these stimulus advocates didn’t recently win a fortune. On the contrary, President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package increased the federal deficit and took the country deeper into debt without delivering on the promise to create jobs. Faced with the failure of his stimulus package, the President even joked recently that “Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.”
Yet the President’s statement misses the bigger picture. It’s not just that stimulus projects weren’t as shovel-ready as the President had hoped—government spending does not stimulate economic growth or job creation, period.
The money the government redistributes must come from somewhere. Whether government stimulus represents current or future taxes, the story remains the same. By sucking money out of the private sector to hand to favored industries, the government reduces long-term productivity as scarce resources are transferred to less productive sectors and firms. As The Heritage Foundation explains:
Congress does not have a vault of money waiting to be distributed. Every dollar Congress injects into the economy must first be taxed or borrowed out of the economy. No new spending power is created. It is merely redistributed from one group of people to another. …In fact, large stimulus bills often reduce long-term productivity by transferring resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive government. The government rarely receives good value for the dollars it spends. However, stimulus bills provide politicians with the political justification to grant tax dollars to favored constituencies.
Ironically, news of the new “stimulus” plan came the same day that the Congressional Budget Office released its long-term budget report confirming the dire fiscal situation. But growing deficits and debt don’t seem to concern these Senators enough to actually get serious about spending cuts. According to Reuters:
A senior Democratic aide said the job-creation idea Senate Democrats are now pursuing represented a pivot in the deficit-reduction negotiations.
He said the idea presented to the White House has three components to help create jobs: new infrastructure spending, a payroll tax cut and support for clean energy jobs.
He did not say how large the infrastructure spending proposal would be.
Instead of wasting more of taxpayers’ hard-earned money on cronies and not-so-shovel-ready projects, Congress and the President should pursue policies that actually stimulate the engines of economic recovery and growth. As Heritage fiscal policy expert J.D. Foster explains:
They can do so by improving incentives to produce and to work: for example, by reducing regulations and tax distortions. They can do so by reducing the uncertainties surrounding future policy. They can do so by expanding foreign markets for domestic goods and services. Recent efforts to stimulate the economy have been unsuccessful because they did little or none of these things. Regulations have increased. Uncertainty has increased. Tax distortions have been left in place or even increased in some areas. And efforts toward free trade have been anemic, at best.
If Congress and the President want to get serious about creating jobs, they should take the approach of no-cost stimulus. Real growth policies don’t require more government spending. Rather, they reduce barriers to job creation for America’s businesses and entrepreneurs—the true engines of economic growth. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '42', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.953210949897766}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '75362', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EUONQSIOHRYLM3IBOECIMIRNKTLOR3MF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a475799c-7be7-4d03-890a-3b8e0543d1b1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 1, 15, 56, 48), 'WARC-IP-Address': '72.21.81.133', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:SLXR5752LHK27JA5LD6V2S24ORMDTDDM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:58d4cd61-eff1-431d-ac14-821b3807865d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://dailysignal.com/2011/06/23/newold-jobs-plan-spend-spend-spend/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:91e8b40c-8be6-4c45-83db-54427d7a1169>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '567', 'url': 'http://dailysignal.com/2011/06/23/newold-jobs-plan-spend-spend-spend/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06431162357330322', 'original_id': '56dec104a1189d29325bfe9a61616389199b3022301e36aeaa19b805d63b6e03'} |
Rectifying mistakes in player recruitment crucial for new boss if club are to protect their immunity from the ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ culture of modern football management
For United, the sequence of recent results seems catastrophic given their recent history of success, but I see no immediate threat to Moyes’s reign. There is no chance of the United board getting rid of him before he has built his own side.
United have long been cited as the test case for clubs and supporters who are showing impatience with a manager, the FA Cup run of 1989 when Mark Robins’s goal against Nottingham Forest is believed to have saved Sir Alex Ferguson’s job regularly quoted as the turning point at Old Trafford. Ferguson had been at United three years by then, doubts about his credentials to transform the club and compete for the title increasingly audible.
In the modern age, an under-siege manager is lucky to get three months because of the vast difference in football coverage, the column inches and television analysis dedicated to the game unrecognisable now to how it was then.
It ensures the pressure intensifies much sooner, a manager scrutinised to the point where a couple of home defeats and expression of discontent from the crowd can build such a momentum it seems a coach cannot survive.
This is clearly new territory for United in the modern era, but I do not believe they will compromise the principles that served them so well in 1989. They will recognise the transition from Ferguson to Moyes was never going to be as seamless as some imagined, even if it has started much worse than anyone could have predicted.
It can be argued that Moyes took the United job at the worst possible time. Yes, they were the champions, but not because they were a brilliant team, sweeping aside all before them with magnificent football. He has walked into Old Trafford expected to provide more of the same but with a flawed, unbalanced squad where the senior players are the wrong side of 30.
There were many parallels drawn when Ferguson left the dugout between Matt Busby’s retirement, or Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley leaving Liverpool. You have a dressing room used to hearing the same, reassuring voice, participating in the same pre-match rituals and routines and worried the slightest change will unhinge everything.
We were lucky at Anfield because when Bob retired, Joe Fagan was promoted and nothing changed. We won the League and European Cup in his first season. Similarly, when he stepped down Kenny Dalglish was appointed and we won the double.
When, for want of a better word, an ‘outsider’ comes in to the dressing room, it is a different dynamic.
Moyes did a good job at Everton but he won nothing. He is then expected to tell players with every club honour on their CV to start doing things his way.
It only needs a few poor results and you end up with the kind of eye-catching comments Rio Ferdinand made last week, detailing Moyes’s preference to name his team on the day of a fixture rather than 24 hours earlier. Rio is a clever boy and will know such remarks will be analysed in the current climate and inevitably given a negative spin by those seeking to be critical of the new manager.
As with Ferguson 27 years ago, Moyes needs to make United his team before a full and fair assessment is made. The biggest mistake he and those running the club made was last summer, when their inactivity in the transfer market failed to correct the squad imbalances, and the major signing they did make, Marouane Fellaini, does not look up to the job.
There are problems all over the pitch. United need a centre-half because Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic cannot and do not play every week; right-back has been a consistent issue; and the search for a left-back has been well documented.
With Fellaini unable to run the midfield, a creative presence in the centre of the park is also essential before United look like title contenders again. The recruitment errors must be rectified in January and at the end of this season to ensure wherever United finish in this campaign they are better equipped in a year’s time.
It seems incredible to be talking about United already looking ahead to the 2014-15 campaign, but I see no way back into the title race for them now. They are too far behind and, quite honestly, I do not believe they possess the personnel to go on the kind of unbeaten run required to close the gap.
They are now in a race for the Champions League places, an objective I still believe they will achieve, but it is testament to how swiftly the landscape has changed at Old Trafford in such a short time that even this is being debated.
The only way I can see the United board twitching is if they fail to finish in the top four and endure a similarly poor start to next season, by which time Moyes should have recruited those players he needed in the immediate aftermath of Ferguson’s retirement.
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Worrying for the Wrong Reason
Butch: Alright. I'll jump first.
Sundance: No.
Butch: Then you jump first.
Sundance: No, I said.
Butch: What's the matter with you?!
Sundance: I can't swim!
[Butch starts laughing hysterically]
Butch: Are you crazy?! The fall will probably kill you!
One character expresses some concern about a situation. Another character corrects them, telling them what they should really be worried about. Not to be confused with Skewed Priorities, which is about being disproportionately concerned over something comparatively trivial, or with It's All About Me, which is about putting one's own interests ahead of everyone else's. This trope is about a character who has a legitimate fear that is then replaced with another legitimate fear.
A subtrope of Right for the Wrong Reasons, and related to False Reassurance.
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• This Castlemaine XXXX advert.
First fisherman: There aren't any sharks in here, are there?
Second fisherman: Nah. Crocodiles ate all the sharks.
• The most famous scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is built around an instance of this trope (and an aversion of Soft Water), as seen in the page quote.
• The film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory has Augustus Gloop get stuck in a pipe. His panicky mother shrieks that he'll be "made into marshmallows," to which Wonka responds that the very idea is patently absurd.
Because that pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room; it goes to the fudge room!
• Similarly, in the 2005 film, Augustus's mother expresses fear that he will be made into fudge and sold around the world. Wonka assures her that that that fudge would taste terrible, and he'd never allow it to be sold with his name on the packaging. (Both of the above conversations are drawn from the source novel.)
• In the movie of James and the Giant Peach, after the giant peach has fallen into the ocean:
Earthworm: Great! We're stuck here until we shrivel up and die.
Grasshopper: Highly improbable.
Ladybug: That's a relief...
Grasshopper: We're far more likely to drown.
Forum Role Plays
• When the Animorphs find themselves on a cliff on the meteor-wrecked Hork-Bajir planet, they notice the planet's molten core far below them. One character worries about the possibility of falling into the magma. Ax says that this won't happen — if they fell, they'd be vaporized by the heat long before they reached it.
• Discworld:
• In The Last Continent, there are very few poisonous snakes in XXXX... because most of them have been eaten by the spiders.
• Making Money introduces the drink Splot, a sort of Klatchian Coffee Up to Eleven. People are often reassured when they hear Splot is nonalchoholic...until they're told it's because "alcohol wouldn't survive."
• In Going Postal, Moist is relieved to hear that a dangerous pass has very little bandit activity nowadays. Then he's told that isn't good news because "We still don't know what killed them".
• Belisarius Series: Belisarius' popularity made Justinian so nervous that Irene hinted that Belisarius would actually be safer on a long and dangerous fact-finding trip to India. He didn't notice the Malwa conspiracy.
• Deliberately invoked by the supervillain Phanthro in Relativity to taunt the heroes: He has them trapped in an abandoned coal mine, with a (sort of) nuclear reactor in an adjacent room which will eventually explode and destroy the city. But they don't need to worry about that — the reactor is generating intense heat and they'll burn to death long before the explosion.
Live Acton T.V.
• On the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Pangs", Xander is in a panic because he has been cursed with a host of diseases. He's most stressed about the syphilis. Anya says comfortingly:
Anya: It'll make you blind and insane, but it won't kill you. The smallpox will.
• Played with in Red Dwarf when the captain of the ship charges the main character with crimes they are innocent of. In the process of clearing their names, they commit other crimes, the punishment for which works out to be exactly the same.
• One of these occurs in The West Wing in the episode "The Fall's Gonna Kill You". It takes place during the arc about President Bartlet having to reveal to the public that he has MS, which the staff has been frantically preparing for. In order to gauge reaction, they put out a poll asking the people of Michigan how they would feel if they found out their governor had concealed a similar disease. The Title Drop comes in when Josh mentions to C.J. that Bartlet and Leo are worried that if anyone learns about this, it'll look like Bartlet only told the truth because a poll told him to. C.J. finds this hilarious at the end of a long day.
CJ: You guys are like Butch and Sundance peering over the edge of a cliff to the boulder-filled rapids three hundred feet below, thinking you better not jump 'cause there's a chance you might drown! The President has this disease and he's been lying about it, and you guys are worried that the polling might make us look bad? It's the fall that's gonna kill you!"
Newspaper Comics
• Recurring joke in Brewster Rockit Space Guy. "[Planet Name Here]... Isn't that the planet with the giant poisonous snakes?" "Good heavens, no. Those were all wiped out by the giant poisonous tarantulas."
Stand Up Comedy
• Peter Kay's standup act relates the story of a meal interrupted by a cellphone call from a child who's scared to go to sleep because of monsters in his cupboards. Our hero tells him he needn't worry about monsters in his cupboard - it's burglars breaking into the house he should be worried about.
Video Games
• In Day Of The Tentacle, Dr. Fred tries to send the main characters back in time using his... er... highly experimental time machine. Just before he turns it on, he and Bernard have the following exchange:
Bernard: Have any people ever been hurt in this?
Dr. Fred: Of course not!
[grins all around]
Dr. Fred: This is the first time I've ever tried it on people!
Real Life
• This phenomenon can also be observed in real life. Many people worry about stuff that most of the time will never happen or is extremely unlikely to happen. Ironically other, more likely causes of concern, will not worry people that much. For instance, many people have a fear of flying, while in reality more car accidents happen every year than with planes. Another example: people worry for a next world war, while a huge environmental disaster or epidemics are far more realistic future concerns.
• Panics over diseases are pretty good examples of this. In the US, every few years, fears over an epidemic of a disease such as swine flu or the ebola virus will generate panic for a short time, while others will frequently mention how other less "trendy" diseases such as the more typical flu or malaria will rack up a much larger body count, but don't get nearly as much attention because they're more "boring." There are also accusations leveled against the news media for manufacturing panic for the sake of ratings, web traffic, etc.
• The same goes for more mundane fears. People often worry what other people will think of this or that, while most of the time the reactions will be not as unanimously bad or hysterical as one might fear. Or if they happen they tend to occur for only a short period of time.
• A lot of smokers put on perfume or deodorant out of fear of smelling bad in company. And then they light up their cigarettes without any concern about that more awful stench.
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The FDA. Exosomes Lecture 7 of 9
Ed Park, MD dr ed park, economics, exosomes, fda Leave a Comment
In this 23-minute video, I explain how the FDA works. I explain the “minimally-altered” standard that regulates use of stem cells in the United States. The reason that the FDA will likely never cure aging and most chronic diseases is explained in terms of their modus operandi. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9028969407081604}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '61860', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NPHWDNDBV3WGNMTHNWUL62VKWWPWKSEY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6137b994-3f5e-41a6-b972-90ff528cad4f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 12, 6, 13, 17, 32), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.145.236.203', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5EHBYLON324JWCKACEWMNYCZZ264LKQI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6a1c71f5-be9e-4773-ab9e-49b8d26c3144>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.rechargebiomedical.com/tag/off-label/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:dba947db-e8db-42e6-8d44-2d403ef1b3fa>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '65', 'url': 'http://www.rechargebiomedical.com/tag/off-label/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-113.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.018588244915008545', 'original_id': '13daa4efb38dfa6f65910d3cea17b1d2c63d16a395abb6d40789a3887b5e61cc'} |
Ageing Populations: A burden for some, a gold mine for others
HC Whitepaper 2016 - FULL - 20160113-page-001
Latin America is experiencing steady and significant ageing of its population – largely driven by the expansion and modernization of healthcare provision and the ensuing rise in life expectancy. The confluence of continued technological progress and dropping fertility rates has led to growing concerns about the sustainability of all publicly financed social welfare programs, particularly healthcare.
Latin America’s geriatric base is a pressing issue for healthcare systems, both public and private. In 2010, 10% of the region’s population was over 60 years old. By 2040, this number is expected to more than double, reaching 21%.1 The phenomenon is not unique to Latin America – other countries dealing with similar issues include the United States (where projections indicate that 22% of the population will be over 60 by 2040) and Japan (where 25% of the population is currently over 60 years old).2,3 The burden of ageing demographics has led the Japanese healthcare system into a crisis, which serves as a cautionary tale to even the best managed health care systems elsewhere.
As the number of working-age adults decreases as a proportion of the total population, the ageing of the population will result in a net economic burden, particularly when considering that seniors account for a disproportionate amount of healthcare costs. These costs will be partially responsible for Latin America’s expected rise in healthcare expenditures, increasing an average of 4.6% per year through 2018.4
Chronic diseases are the principal cost driver associated with ageing population, as over 80% of adults over 60 have at least one chronic disease.5 Such diseases require long-term treatment and routine visits for lifestyle management. The growing number of “empty nesters” is a segment of interest as they seek greater independence and invest more in their health than previous generations, resulting in higher “out-of-pocket” expenditure.
However, private sector providers face challenges of their own. Private institutions in Mexico, for example, face a shortage of nurses because they offer lower wages and benefits compared to the pay on offer in the public sector.2
While there is no perfect solution, governments can set the stage for private companies to complement — and in some cases offset — rigid and slow public health systems. Rules and regulations will need to evolve as a result, and already some countries have set up new frameworks to enable greater private participation in healthcare provision. Encouraging local solutions and alternatives to imports is particularly relevant given weakening currencies and grim economic outlook expected until 2018.
“The rise in the aging population has become the biggest challenge for any economy in Latin America.”
Leading medical device manufacturer
Medical device manufacturers will benefit from supplying equipment for home healthcare solutions, such as ventilators, oximeters, blood pressure and arthritis devices, and glucose monitors. Simplifying products to minimize the learning curve will be critical to gain favor among the elderly, and adapting these products to work in concert with mobile technologies will lead to efficient monitoring. Latin America’s rapid assimilation of mobile technologies has primed the region for its implementation in the healthcare field as an indispensable tool.
Whereas traditional telemedicine initiatives in Latin America focus on connecting hospitals to each other, the combination of mobile technologies with the home healthcare market will allow for involved family members to remain connected with valuable information.
The persistent gathering of patient data and its automated analysis will be advantageous for forming electronic medical record (EMR) systems. Health professionals will possess the ability to better detect at-risk patients and increase lifestyle management, particularly for less- mobile elderly patients.
With the public sector limited by financial constraints, private providers have the opportunity to capitalize on this trend, pioneering the patient-centric movement focused on improving the quality of life for the higher age classes
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Israel will use digital surveillance to combat coronavirus. Noam Moskowitz/Flash90
Corona: Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t
Netanyahu is willing to take unprecedented measures to beat coronavirus, but his rivals are using it against him
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s newly-announced measures to combat the coronavirus include the use of classified technology, thus far reserved for fighting terror.
This extraordinary measure will allow the government to surveil every Israeli citizen in its effort to track down anyone with whom the carriers of this virus were in contact. The use of this technology will also allow the tracking down of renegade virus-infected individuals and force them to enter self-quarantine.
The Corona crisis also compelled Netanyahu to call for an immediate national emergency government that would include all the Zionist parties of the Knesset, from Left to Right. The only other time such a government was formed was just before the 1967 Six Day War. The response of Blue and White leader Benny Gantz was that all parties should be included, even the anti-Zionist Joint Arab List.
If Israelis were for a moment deluded into believing that the crisis would make our political differences subside, the reactions to Netanyahu’s new restrictive measures show that even the coronavirus is… | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9519211053848268}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '61110', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LE5RXHHA2H3EBRLACTKGLH7R5CE2P5GD', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:791a4e38-61fb-463b-bc9b-ccd31ca3b9c7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 7, 15, 23, 15, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '82.166.0.164', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:IYQAARCAWZ7SKO64TC6EBDWBYXRAHQGS', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8056fae3-1f99-4cdd-9f2c-93f89773e906>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/corona-damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-dont/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:24941c87-c913-4937-aeb7-d358e8f8044a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '211', 'url': 'https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/corona-damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-dont/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-29\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-211.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.11595267057418823', 'original_id': '1c3f7faf70eb205141e3cf3f219fd57931f993fc149660080bad3b52c5b9cbf4'} |
Kaliwatan sa murag-kaka ang Neoseiulus transversus. Una ning gihulagway ni Denmark ug Martin Hammond Muma ni adtong 1973. Ang Neoseiulus transversus sakop sa kahenera nga Neoseiulus, ug kabanay nga Phytoseiidae. Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.
Ang mga gi basihan niini
Murag-kaka
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#include #include //we'll go over Friday; essentially a data type that is an array of characters. #include "bcs.h" //your .h file name goes here - name with same convention as if you would .cpp files. using namespace std; int main(){ string schools[25]; //string to hold school names int rankings[25][8]; //two-dimensional array for rankings - Harris, Coaches, 6 computer rankings double scores[25]={0.0}; //set all schools' BCS scores to 0. read(schools, rankings); //read from bcs.txt the school names and rankings; store appropriately cleanse(schools); //go through each school's name, and remove the _ and replace with spaces score(rankings, scores); //calculate the scores of the schools, using the rankings array; store result in scores array sort(schools, rankings, scores); //sort in descending order the schools, their rankings, and their BCS score print(schools, rankings, scores); //print the results out; you'll need to consider iomanip functions here return 0; //el fin } | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8453014492988586}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '1587', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EYE7RRWKNNXACIGZS762FJJLJ43UZOSA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a8afe2f7-7475-49ec-ba8b-e4ddcac9fcc9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 21, 12, 38, 16), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.46.93.160', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'unknown/unknown', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WXNGITMYCRL637S2P72MZ3B5PD2XXPSH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ccaca749-ec60-4528-8339-faef6d5e9422>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://cboard.cprogramming.com/attachments/cplusplus-programming/12175d1352333390-im-confused-can-someone-help-me-a10-cc', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:aba6d541-2405-4e35-aa23-24f95bd76d94>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '124', 'url': 'https://cboard.cprogramming.com/attachments/cplusplus-programming/12175d1352333390-im-confused-can-someone-help-me-a10-cc', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-99-209-250.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5745394229888916', 'original_id': 'd4f2466c0fc6c3820ca6358a20356a88e811becc218a38e690af95dddf5012dc'} |
1. Decreased digital presence.
I need to spend less time on my phone and computer looking at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et cetera. The temptation of the infinite scroll and its constant state of flux has stolen far too many hours from me in the past few years, time which could have easily been spent more productively had I been able to pry myself away from the screen for longer periods of time. Computer time will be limited and should be spent in a productive manner, such as doing research, working in GarageBand, and responding to important emails. Less Facebook, more face-to-face. Social network activity will be relegated to art and music updates and important life updates only.
2. Increased physical presence.
I want to spend more of my time outside of my room and outside of my apartment in general. Random walkabouts for exploration, exercise and/or stress reduction should be done for at least an hour a day whenever possible. More time should be spent with friends without cell phones or computers in constant usage or close reach. Spending less time shooting and sharing and more time looking and listening.
3. Improve physical and mental health.
I need to go to the Harrison Park fitness center at least three days a week, for an hour or more, and keep a log of when I go, which areas I work on, and how long I worked out. I should continue changing my diet to include more nutritious, fresher, and more heart-healthy choices, especially considering the number of heart problems and diabetic cases are on both sides of my family. I want to be under 200 lbs as soon as possible, and in the 150-180 lb range by the end of the year after weight loss and muscle gain. I need to resolve my Primary Care Provider situation with Aetna and be reassigned to someone that can actually accept me as a patient. I want to get a physical examination and look into seeing a dietitian, finally doing a sleep study, and getting help with any additional health issues that may arise (dental work, especially).
I will continue to see my therapist on a weekly or biweekly basis, and I need to figure out my psychiatrist situation for medications. I want to learn more coping skills, and I should try to establish some sort of daily meditation or yogic practice to further assist with clear and levelheadedness.
4. Create.
Establish a daily studio practice of making something new each day (a sketch or a demo all the way to a finished drawing/painting or a finished recording). Write more, whether it results in prose, poetry, academic writing, stream-of-conscious. Maintain a sketch/note book to refer back to, and update it constantly. Resume the "Blue Notes" project and consider making zines from it. When financially possible, self-publish new zine projects and recordings, or shop them around to more capable, interested entities. Devote at least four hours to creative activities each week.
5. More love / love more.
Practice self-love more often, rather than hating myself for failing or fuck-ups. Make familial love more of a priority by calling family members more, and trying to visit them more often. Continue to embrace platonic love with friends. Engage in romantic relationships without fear of failure or heartbreak. Try to be more positive and supportive, rather than overly negative and hypercritical. Learn forgiveness and compassion and unlearn maliciousness and grudge-holding. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9460636377334596}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '26213', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:YY2YGSO25AY6VXQYK7L6MNMTFNR6ETT4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:26c5f341-414f-41cd-a1ee-fec09afa4635>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 11, 15, 2, 23, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '65.39.205.57', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:IDY4AGYFT4TQT46RZQWCTLFALRKPAFJV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:445ea8bb-417b-4fc4-a137-100f040806bb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://caelmore.com/resolutions', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5f435b09-7dd2-472c-9e14-fa9569805ab8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '571', 'url': 'http://caelmore.com/resolutions', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-166-161-213.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.048512041568756104', 'original_id': '85477856d780db2dfb21923f7fdfc586211e74593216db8a64a9575f1db61c2e'} |
8. it is kinda odd
that she has lived in Spain, for what, 30 years, but is still an American citizen. I mean I was a Wisconsinite for about ten years, from 1987-1988 and 1990-1999, but I don't still get to vote in Wisconsin, even though I owned property there until 2009. She is somewhat shielded from the consequences of her vote, living in Spain. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'f6916d4d0644b351c536481ff5add7897df64c29bd7e596f24facd14462728ef'} |
Stroke autocompletion in a form
ABSTRACT
An electronic writing solution server includes a stroke autocompletion application that comprises an autocompletion processor. The autocompletion processor loads a blank form for a user, the form being associated with a list of auto completion target, retrieves a set of regions and a first form identifier (ID) included in the list of auto completion targets, receives information about the user, identifies a set of potential completion lists from a plurality of potential completion lists stored in a database based on the set of regions, the first form ID and the information about the user, retrieves at least one stroke from the set of potential completion lists for a region in the set of regions, ranks the at least one stroke and provides the at least one stroke to the user.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The specification relates to processing of forms. In particular, the specification relates to automatically completing one or more regions in a form with stroke data.
2. Description of the Background Art
As the use of portable computing devices becomes common, many users input information into a form by using a stylus or a fingertip on portable computing devices. For example, a user inputs stroke data in a form with the stylus. Many users also fill out forms for a wide variety of purposes. Some of the forms may be similar or even the same as forms that were completed in the past. In one case, a user may fill out a form multiple times. In another case, a user may fill out a new form that has similar fields with a form that the user has already completed. In other cases, a user may fill out a general form that has been filled out by many other users. However, no matter how similar a current form is to a completed form, a user has to manually input information, especially stroke data, in every field of a form every time that the user fills the form. Filling out forms becomes complex and time-consuming.
Some attempts have been made to reduce the number of fields that the user has to fill in. For example, there are browser extensions for saving a user's personal information, such as name and credit card number to make filling out forms for purchasing objects easier. However, these applications only use symbolic information and they can only insert information into fields that have the same field name as a previous form, which reduces the usefulness of the applications.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The disclosure overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art with a system for automatically completing one or more regions in a form with stroke data. In one embodiment, an electronic writing solution server includes a stroke autocompletion application comprising an autocompletion processor. The autocompletion processor loads a blank form for a user, the form being associated with a list of auto completion targets, retrieves a set of regions and a first form identifier (ID) included in the list of auto completion targets, receives information about the user, identifies a set of potential completion lists from a plurality of potential completion lists stored in a database based on the set of regions, the first form ID and the information about the user, retrieves at least one stroke from the set of potential completion lists for a region in the set of regions, ranks the at least one stroke and provides the at least one stroke to the user.
Other aspects include corresponding methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for these and other innovative aspects.
The system advantageously fills out one or more regions in a form with stroke data collected from forms completed in the past. As a result, the system can be used to quickly fill out a form without a user manually inputting information in every field of the form. The features and advantages described herein are not all-inclusive and many additional features and advantages will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art in view of the figures and description. Moreover, it should be noted that the language used in the specification has been principally selected for readability and instructional purposes, and not to limit the scope of the inventive subject matter.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation in the figures of the accompanying drawings in which like reference numerals are used to refer to similar elements.
FIG. 1 is a high-level block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a system for automatically completing one or more regions in a form with stroke data.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a stroke autocompletion application in more detail.
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of one embodiment of a method for generating data used for stroke auto-completion in a form.
FIG. 4A is a flow diagram of one embodiment of a method for performing autocompletion on a form.
FIG. 4B is a flow diagram of another embodiment of a method for performing autocompletion on a form.
FIG. 5 is a graphic representation of example auto completion targets and example potential completions.
FIG. 6 is a graphic representation of two forms with similar fields.
FIG. 7 is a graphic representation of an example form filled with hand drawn strokes.
FIG. 8 is a graphic representation of an example form filled with autocompleted strokes.
FIG. 9 is a graphic representation of an example form with regions autocompleted in response to receiving a user reaction.
FIG. 10 is a graphic representation of an example form with regions autocompleted based on a ranked list of autocompleted strokes.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
A description of system and method for automatically completing one or more regions in a form with stroke data. For purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the embodiments can be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid obscuring the invention. For example, the invention is described in one embodiment below with reference to user devices such as a smart phone and particular software and hardware. However, the description applies to any type of computing device that can receive data and commands, and any peripheral devices providing services.
Reference in the specification to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. The appearances of the phrase “in one embodiment” in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
Some portions of the detailed descriptions that follow are presented in terms of algorithms and symbolic representations of operations on data bits within a computer memory. These algorithmic descriptions and representations are the means used by those skilled in the data processing arts to most effectively convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. An algorithm is here, and generally, conceived to be a self-consistent sequence of steps leading to a desired result. The steps are those requiring physical manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, though not necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical or magnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared, and otherwise manipulated. It has proven convenient at times, principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to these signals as bits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers or the like.
It should be borne in mind, however, that all of these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to these quantities. Unless specifically stated otherwise as apparent from the following discussion, it is appreciated that throughout the description, discussions utilizing terms such as “processing” or “computing” or “calculating” or “determining” or “displaying” or the like, refer to the action and processes of a computer system, or similar electronic computing device, that manipulates and transforms data represented as physical (electronic) quantities within the computer system's registers and memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the computer system memories or registers or other such information storage, transmission or display devices.
The invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the operations herein. This apparatus may be specially constructed for the required purposes, or it may comprise a general-purpose computer selectively activated or reconfigured by a computer program stored in the computer. Such a computer program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, such as, but is not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical disks, CD-ROMs, and magnetic disks, read-only memories (ROMs), random access memories (RAMs), EPROMs, EEPROMs, magnetic or optical cards, flash memories including USB keys with non-volatile memory or any type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions, each coupled to a computer system bus.
Some embodiments can take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment containing both hardware and software elements. A preferred embodiment is implemented in software, which includes but is not limited to firmware, resident software, microcode, etc.
Furthermore, some embodiments can take the form of a computer program product accessible from a computer-usable or computer-readable medium providing program code for use by or in connection with a computer or any instruction execution system. For the purposes of this invention, a computer-usable or computer readable medium can be any apparatus that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.
A data processing system suitable for storing and/or executing program code will include at least one processor coupled directly or indirectly to memory elements through a system bus. The memory elements can include local memory employed during actual execution of the program code, bulk storage, and cache memories which provide temporary storage of at least some program code in order to reduce the number of times code must be retrieved from bulk storage during execution. Input/output or I/O devices (including but not limited to keyboards, displays, pointing devices, etc.) can be coupled to the system either directly or through intervening I/O controllers.
Network adapters may also be coupled to the system to enable the data processing system to become coupled to other data processing systems or remote printers or storage devices through intervening private or public networks. Modems, cable modem and Ethernet cards are just a few of the currently available types of network adapters.
Finally, the algorithms and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer or other apparatus. Various general-purpose systems may be used with programs in accordance with the teachings herein, or it may prove convenient to construct more specialized apparatus to perform the required method steps. The required structure for a variety of these systems will appear from the description below. In addition, the specification is not described with reference to any particular programming language. It will be appreciated that a variety of programming languages may be used to implement the teachings of the various embodiments as described herein.
System Overview
FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a system 100 for automatically completing one or more regions in a form with stroke data according to one embodiment. The system 100 includes a stroke capture device 101, portable computing devices 102 a-102 n, user devices 103 a-103 n and an electronic writing solution server 106 that are each communicatively coupled to the network 104. In FIG. 1 and the remaining figures, a letter after a reference number, such as “102 a” is a reference to the element having that particular reference number. A reference number in the text without a following letter, such as “102,” is a general reference to any or all instances of the element bearing that reference number.
The network 104 is a conventional type, wired or wireless, and may have any number of configurations such as a star configuration, token ring configuration or other configurations known to those skilled in the art. Furthermore, the network 104 may comprise a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN) (e.g., the Internet), and/or any other interconnected data path across which multiple devices may communicate. In yet another embodiment, the network 104 may be a peer-to-peer network. The network 104 may also be coupled to or includes portions of a telecommunications network for sending data in a variety of different communication protocols. In yet another embodiment, the network 104 includes Bluetooth communication networks or a cellular communications network for sending and receiving data such as via short messaging service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), direct data connection, wireless application protocol (WAP), email, etc. While only one network 104 is coupled to the plurality of user devices 103 a-103 n, the plurality of portable computing devices 102 a-102 n and the electronic writing solution server 106, in practice any number of networks 104 can be connected to the entities.
The portable computing devices 102 a-102 n are each wirelessly coupled to the network 104 via signal lines 112 a-112 n respectively. The portable computing device 102 is any computing device including a memory, a processor and wireless communication capability. For example, the portable computing device 102 can be a tablet computer, a personal digital assistant, a smart phone, etc. The portable computing device 102 is adapted to receive forms, add stroke annotation to the forms and send the annotated forms to the electronic writing solution server 106. A form is any electronic document that includes fields (e.g., blank spaces) for insertion of requested information. The form when filled out with the requested information may be a statement, an order, a request, etc. For example, a form can be a tax form, an insurance form, a medical form, an electronic check, a job application, a survey, a receipt, etc.
In one embodiment, the portable computing device 102 is a tablet computer including a computing pad and a stylus. The computing pad is adapted to display a form image that includes strokes. The strokes are written on the form image using a stylus or a fingertip by a user. The strokes are typically displayed on top of the image, just as if written by pen on paper. The computing pad usually receives the strokes as a sequence of points or segments along with location, timing and pressure information. The computing pad sends the form images in any image format known to persons of ordinary skill in the art, for example, a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format, which can contain both strokes and images. In one embodiment, the computing pad attaches the information associated with the strokes, for example, the location and timing information with the form images as metadata. The portable computing device 102 determines location information by using global positioning system (GPS) circuitry or accessing a database including media access control (MAC) addresses. In one embodiment, the strokes are saved in a format known to any person of ordinary skill in the art, including SVG or Ink Markup Language (InkML).
The capture device 101 is coupled to the network 104 via signal line 111. The capture device 101 is adapted to capture a form that includes strokes and send the strokes associated with the form to the electronic writing solution server 106. For example, the capture device 101 is a camera, a printer or a scanner that captures the image of a printed form. The capture device 101 sends the form and stroke information to the electronic writing solution server 106. In one embodiment, the capture device 101 captures a form identifier (ID) from the form that is used to identify the type of form that the user completed.
The user devices 103 a-103 n are each coupled to the network 104 via the signal lines 113 a-113 n respectively. The user device 103 is any computing device that includes a memory and a processor, for example, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, etc. The user device 103 is adapted to send and receive data to and from the electronic writing solution server 106. For example, the user device 103 sends a request to the electronic writing solution server 106 to load a form and receives the form from the electronic writing solution server 106. The user device 103 is accessed by users that have permission to access information from the electronic writing solution server 106, such as a creator of the form sent to portable computing devices 102 or an administrator of the electronic writing solution server 106.
The electronic writing solution server 106 is any computing device including a memory and a processor and is coupled to the network 104 via signal line 116. The electronic writing solution server 106 includes a stroke autocompletion application 105. The stroke autocompletion application 105 creates a list of auto completion targets associated with a user, creates potential completion lists associated with one or more users, and performs autocompletion for the form by matching the auto completion targets included in the list of auto completion targets with potential completions of strokes included in the potential completion lists. The stroke autocompletion application 105 is described in further detail below with reference to FIG. 2.
Electronic Writing Solution Server 106
Referring now to FIG. 2, the stroke autocompletion application 105 is shown in more detail. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the electronic writing solution server 106 that includes a processor 240, a memory 245, a communication unit 255, data storage 250 and the stroke autocompletion application 105.
The processor 240, the memory 245, the communication unit 255 and the data storage 250 are communicatively coupled to the bus 230. The bus 230 may represent one or more buses including an industry standard architecture (ISA) bus, a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus, a universal serial bus (USB), or some other bus known in the art to provide similar functionality.
The processor 240 comprises an arithmetic logic unit, a microprocessor, a general purpose controller or some other processor array to perform computations. The processor 240 is coupled to the bus 230 for communication with the other components via signal line 272. Processor 240 processes data signals and may comprise various computing architectures including a complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, or an architecture implementing a combination of instruction sets. Although only a single processor is shown in FIG. 2, multiple processors may be included. The processing capability may be limited to supporting the display of images and the capture and transmission of images. The processing capability might be enough to perform more complex tasks, including various types of feature extraction and sampling. It will be obvious to one skilled in the art that other processors, operating systems, sensors, displays and physical configurations are possible.
The memory 245 stores instructions and/or data that may be executed by processor 240. The memory 245 is coupled to the bus 230 for communication with the other components via signal line 274. The instructions and/or data may comprise code for performing any and/or all of the techniques described herein. The memory 245 may be a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device, a static random access memory (SRAM) device, flash memory or some other memory device known in the art. In one embodiment, the memory 245 also includes a non-volatile memory or similar permanent storage device and media such as a hard disk drive, a floppy disk drive, a CD-ROM device, a DVD-ROM device, a DVD-RAM device, a DVD-RW device, a flash memory device, or some other mass storage device known in the art for storing information on a more permanent basis.
The communication unit 255 is hardware for receiving and transmitting data by linking the processor 240 to the network 104 and other processing systems. The communication unit 255 receives user inputs such as stroke data for a form from the portable computing device 102 or the user device 103 and transmits the data to the stroke autocompletion application 105 for further processing. The communication unit 255 also transmits data to the user device 103, for example, a form with auto completed strokes. The communication unit 255 is coupled to the bus 230 via signal line 278.
In one embodiment, the communication unit 255 includes a port for direct physical connection to the user device 103, the portable computing device 102 or to another communication channel. For example, the communication unit 255 includes an RJ45 port or similar port for wired communication with the user device 103. In another embodiment, the communication unit 255 includes a wireless transceiver 116 for exchanging data with the user device 103, the portable computing device 102 or any other communication channel using one or more wireless communication methods, such as IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16, Bluetooth® or another suitable wireless communication method.
In yet another embodiment, the communication unit 255 includes a cellular communications transceiver for sending and receiving data over a cellular communications network such as via short messaging service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), direct data connection, WAP, e-mail or another suitable type of electronic communication. In still another embodiment, the communication unit 255 includes a wired port and a wireless transceiver. The communication unit 255 also provides other conventional connections to the network 104 for distribution of files and/or media objects using standard network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS and SMTP as will be understood to those skilled in the art.
The data storage 250 is a non-transitory memory that stores instructions and/or data used for automatically completing one or more regions in a form with stroke data. For example, the data storage 250 stores forms, stroke data or multimedia data inputted in the forms, symbolic data in the forms (e.g., converted from the stroke data inputted in the forms), a list of auto completion targets associated with a form and potential completion lists associated with one or more users. The data storage 250 is coupled to the bus 230 for communication with the other components via signal line 276.
In one embodiment, the stroke autocompletion application 105 includes a controller 202, a stroke identifier 204, a symbolic representation module 206, a form designer 208, an autocompletion processor 210 and a user interface engine 212.
The controller 202 is software and routines for receiving data via the communication unit 255, routing the data to appropriate components of the stroke autocompletion application 105 and transmitting responses from the components of the stroke autocompletion application 105 to the communication unit 255 for transmitting to the user device 103 and other components of the system 100. In one embodiment, the controller 202 is a set of instructions executable by the processor 240 to provide the functionality described below for managing data transfer between the components of the electronic writing solution server 106 and other components of the system 100. In another embodiment, the controller 202 is stored in the memory 245 and is accessible and executable by the processor 240. In either embodiment, the controller 202 is adapted for cooperation and communication with the processor 240, the communication unit 255 and other components of the electronic writing solution server 106.
The stroke identifier 204 is software and routines for receiving stroke data associated with a form and identifying the position of the stroke data. In one embodiment, the stroke identifier is a set of instructions executable by the processor 240 to provide the functionality described below for receiving stroke data from the portable computing devices 102 or the stroke capture device 101 via the controller. In another embodiment, the stroke identifier 204 is stored in the memory 245 and is accessible and executable by the processor 240. In either embodiment, the stroke identifier 204 is adapted for cooperation and communication with the processor 240, the communication unit 255 and other components of the electronic writing solution server 106.
In one embodiment, the stroke identifier 204 identifies a stroke in a form image by identifying pixels in the form image that represent handwriting strokes. For example, the stroke identifier 204 identifies stroke pixels based on pixel intensities, pixel colors, etc. The stroke identifier 204 then determines a position (e.g., an x-y coordinate) of a stroke in the form. For example, the stroke identifier 204 uses metadata along with a form image to determine the position of each stroke in the form image. The stroke identifier 204 associates a stroke with a field in the form based on the position of the stroke. For example, the stroke identifier 204 identifies a field in a position of the form with a field identifier. Once a stroke in the position is identified, the stroke identifier 204 associates the stroke with the field using the field identifier.
In one embodiment, the stroke identifier 204 receives the completed form data including strokes (e.g. in InkML or other vector format) from the controller 202. The received form data also includes an unmarked blank form image (i.e., an image of the form without any strokes) as metadata. In another embodiment, the stroke identifier 204 generates completed form data for each completed form from an input completed form image by, for example, subtracting the input completed form image with the unmarked blank form image. The stroke identifier 204 then identifies the position of each stroke within the completed form data and compares it to the known location of the fields in the form.
Within this specification, stroke data is captured from forms as a sequence of points, line segments or curves, optionally including pressure, time and acceleration information associated with the strokes. For convenience, the strokes are frequently converted to images, but the images can include metadata about the strokes, like pressure or time data. The metadata could be included within the image or associated with the image in other ways. Stroke data and image data are frequently used interchangeably to refer to the data captured as strokes on the portable computing device 102.
The symbolic representation module 206 is software and routines for generating symbolic representations for stroke data in the form. In one embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 is a set of instructions executable by the processor 240 to provide the functionality described below for generating symbolic representations. In another embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 is stored in the memory 245 and is accessible and executable by the processor 240. In either embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 is adapted for cooperation and communication with the processor 240, the communication unit 255 and other components of the electronic writing solution server 106.
The symbolic data includes machine encoded text such as Universal Character Set Transformation Format 8-bit (UTF-8). The symbolic data may have semantic meaning like the words “true” and “false” which have meaning beyond the characters used in the words. In one embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 receives stroke data in a form and generates symbolic data corresponding to the stroke data using, for example, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Optical Mark Recognition (OMR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), handwriting recognition, pattern recognition, etc. For example, the symbolic representation module 206 performs handwriting recognition to get the name “Amy” from the handwritten version of her name.
In another embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 classifies stroke data in a form to generate symbolic data. In one embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 receives stroke data in a form, determines similarities among the stroke data, classifies the stroke data into K (e.g., one, two, three, etc.) groups based on the similarities (e.g., by creating a hierarchical cluster), represents each group with a classification label and uses the classification label as the symbolic data. In one embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 extracts an example stroke from each group of the K groups and converts the example stroke to a classification label. Although a group may contain different strokes, the symbolic representation module 206 selects a single example stroke and provides a single classification label to represent the group.
In one embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 converts a portion of the stroke data included in a form to the symbolic data. Converting all of the stroke data would be computationally expensive and unnecessary since much of the data is legible without being converted. In one embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 converts stroke data based on the user's specified preference for a specific field or fields, or even for all fields in the form to be displayed with symbolic data. In one embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 stores the symbolic data in data storage 250. In another embodiment, the symbolic representation module 206 also transmits the symbolic data to the form designer 208.
The form designer 208 is software and routines for generating data used for stroke auto-completion in a form. In one embodiment, the form designer 208 is a set of instructions executable by the processor 240 to provide the functionality described below for generating data used for stroke auto-completion in the form. In another embodiment, the form designer 208 is stored in the memory 245 and is accessible and executable by the processor 240. In either embodiment, the form designer 208 is adapted for cooperation and communication with the processor 240, the communication unit 255 and other components of the electronic writing solution server 106.
The form designer 208 creates a list of auto completion targets associated with a form. The list of auto completion targets includes a set of regions in the form that accepts autocompleted strokes. The form designer 208 also creates potential completion lists associated with one or more users. The potential completion list stores the strokes that are used to auto complete the set of regions in the list of auto completion targets.
The form designer 208 receives a form that includes a set of fields. For example, the form designer 208 receives an employee expense reimbursement form that includes a field for receiving an employee's name, a field for receiving a date, one or more fields for receiving expense descriptions, one or more fields for receiving expense amounts, etc. Each field in the form is associated with a region (e.g., a bounding box) for receiving user inputs. A user can input a type of data in the region associated with a field. In one embodiment, the user input in a field includes text (e.g., stroke data) that represents a date, a word, a number, etc. In another embodiment, the user input in a field also includes multimedia data. The multimedia data includes one of video (e.g., an animation, a video from a camera), audio (e.g., a song from radio, a sound from a microphone), image (e.g., a photo, a slide) and a combination of the above types of data (e.g., a recording of a television broadcast that includes audio, video and caption text). The field could also include metadata (e.g., data from sensors such as a compass, an accelerometer, a global positioning system (GPS)).
In one embodiment, the form designer 208 receives a form associated with a form identifier (ID) identifying the form. In another embodiment, the form designer 208 assigns a form ID to the form. In one embodiment, the form designer 208 receives a form associated with a set of field labels identifying the set of fields in the form. In another embodiment, the form designer 208 determines a field label for each field in the form. In one embodiment, the form designer 208 assigns a field name to represent a field. For example, the form designer 208 labels a first field as a “Last Name” field and a second field as a “Date” field to receive handwritten names and dates respectively. In another embodiment, the form designer 208 automatically generates a label for a field. The form designer 208 analyzes an area around (e.g., to the left, right, top, bottom, etc.) a field in the form to identify a group of related pixels and assigns the group of related pixels as the label for the field. For example, the form designer 208 analyzes the top area of the strokes “Mike,” identify a set of pixels in the top area, determines a word “First Name” based on the spacing between the set of connected pixels and uses the word “First Name” as the field label.
The form designer 208 creates a list of auto completion targets for the form. The list of auto completion targets includes the form ID identifying the form and a set of regions in the form that accepts auto completed strokes (e.g., completion targets). In one embodiment, the list of auto completion targets also includes field labels that are associated with the set of regions.
In one embodiment, the form designer 208 determines fields and associated regions in the form that receive stroke data, selects a set of regions from the regions for accepting auto completed strokes (e.g., autocompleting), and creates a list of auto completion targets to include the set of regions and the form ID that identifies the form. For example, the form designer 208 receives a form that includes ten fields. Among the ten fields, the form designer 208 determines that three fields receive stroke data in associated regions. The three fields are labeled as “Name,” “Email Address” and “Signature.” The form designer 208 includes the three regions associated with the three fields and the identifier of the form in a list of auto completion targets. When a user inputs information in the three fields, auto completed strokes will appear in the three regions and as a result, the form filling time for the user is reduced. In one embodiment, the form designer 208 also includes the field labels “Name,” “Email Address” and “Signature” in the list of auto completion targets.
In one embodiment, the form designer 208 determines that regions receiving stroke data also receives auto completed strokes and includes the regions in a list of auto completion targets. In another embodiment, the form designer 208 determines that a subset of regions that receive stroke data also receive auto completed strokes and includes the subset of regions in a list of auto completion targets. For example, the form designer 208 determines that five fields in a form receive stroke data. The form designer 208 determines four out of five fields also receive auto completed strokes and includes the regions associated with the four fields in a list of auto completion targets. The form designer 208 determines a “Date” field that receives a handwritten date does not receive an auto completed date (e.g., because the auto completion of dates has limited use when a user fills out at most one form in a single day) and excludes the region associated with the “Date” field from the list of auto completion target.
The form designer 208 creates potential completion lists to include potential completions of strokes and other information. The potential completions include auto completed strokes that are used to auto complete the set of regions in the list of auto completion targets. The process of using the potential completions of strokes to auto complete the set of regions in the list of auto completion targets is described in more detail with reference to the autocompletion processor 210.
The form designer 208 creates potential completion lists for one or more users. Each potential completion list includes potential completions of strokes, a form ID and metadata. In one embodiment, the form designer 208 receives a form filled by a user via the controller 202, collects strokes inputted in a region of the form (e.g., past strokes) and stores the strokes as the auto completed strokes in the potential completion list. In this way, the form designer 208 creates a potential completion list for a particular user. For example, the form designer 208 collects a name written by John in the “Employee Name” field in an employee expense reimbursement form, and includes the handwritten “John” in the potential completion list for John. In another embodiment, the form designer 208 also creates a potential completion list for a particular device or a particular account by collecting and storing strokes inputted on the particular device or strokes inputted using the particular account.
The particular device or the particular account may be associated with a particular user. For example, the form designer 208 receives a first form filled out on a tablet and a second form filled out using an account “Rob.” The form designer 208 collects a handwritten name from the first form and a signature from the second form, and creates a first potential completion list to include the handwritten name and a second potential completion list to include the signature. The first potential completion list is associated with Mary because Mary owns the tablet. The second potential completion list is associated with Robert because only Robert has access to the account associated with “Rob.”
The form designer 208 also stores a form ID associated with the form in a potential completion list. For example, when including the handwritten “John” collected in an “Employee Name” field in an employee expense reimbursement form in a potential completion list for John, the form designer 208 also includes the form ID assigned to the employee expense reimbursement form in the list.
The form designer 208 further includes metadata related to the form, metadata related to the user who filled out the form and other metadata in a potential completion list. The metadata related to the form includes at least one of a field label and a date. When including strokes inputted in a region of the form in the potential completion list, the form designer 208 also includes the label of the field associated with the region in the potential completion list. In some cases, the form designer 208 also includes the date that the strokes were inputted in the region in the potential completion list. Continuing with the above example, the form designer 208 includes the label “Employee Name” and the date that John wrote down the name in the “Employee Name” field in the potential completion list for John.
In one embodiment, the metadata related to the user includes a login name used by the user in filling out the form. For example, if a user logged in a form filling system using a username “XYZ” and filled out a survey form, the form designer 208 includes the username “XYZ” along with the strokes collected in the survey form in a potential completion list. In another embodiment, the metadata related to the user includes other information such as a global positioning system (GPS) location or a media access control (MAC) address that identifies the location of the user when the user were filling out the form. For example, when a user filled out a form using a smart phone or a tablet, the form designer 208 can receive a GPS location from the smart phone or a MAC address from the tablet, and include the GPS location or the MAC address in the potential completion list.
In one embodiment, the other metadata includes statistical data about how strokes in the potential completion list have been used for autocompletion. For example, the form designer 208 stores the number of times that a stroke has been used for autocompletion and the number of times that the stroke has been rejected for autocompletion in the potential completion list. In another embodiment, the other metadata also includes stroke size, stroke color or other information (e.g., bluetooth pairing information) that is useful for stroke autocompletion.
The form designer 208 creates a list of auto completion targets associated with a form. The form designer 208 also creates potential completion lists associated with one or more users. Each user is associated with at least one potential completion list. The form designer 208 stores the list of auto completion targets associated with the form and the potential completion lists associated with the one or more users in the data storage 250. In another embodiment, the form designer 208 also stores completed forms collected from the one or more users, past strokes collected from the forms and other information (e.g., metadata) in the data storage 250.
The autocompletion processor 210 is software and routines for performing autocompletion in a form. In one embodiment, the autocompletion processor 210 is a set of instructions executable by the processor 240 to provide the functionality described below for performing autocompletion in a form. In another embodiment, the autocompletion processor 210 is stored in the memory 245 and is accessible and executable by the processor 240. In either embodiment, the autocompletion processor 210 is adapted for cooperation and communication with the processor 240, the communication unit 255 and other components of the electronic writing solution server 106.
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/*
* Copyright 2008 Jacek Caban for CodeWeavers
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
*/
/*
* Code in this file is based on files:
* js/src/jsregexp.h
* js/src/jsregexp.c
* from Mozilla project, released under LGPL 2.1 or later.
*
* The Original Code is Mozilla Communicator client code, released
* March 31, 1998.
*
* The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
* Netscape Communications Corporation.
* Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 1998
* the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
*/
#define REG_FOLD 0x01 /* fold uppercase to lowercase */
#define REG_GLOB 0x02 /* global exec, creates array of matches */
#define REG_MULTILINE 0x04 /* treat ^ and $ as begin and end of line */
#define REG_STICKY 0x08 /* only match starting at lastIndex */
typedef struct RECapture {
ptrdiff_t index; /* start of contents, -1 for empty */
size_t length; /* length of capture */
} RECapture;
typedef struct match_state_t {
const WCHAR *cp;
DWORD match_len;
DWORD paren_count;
RECapture parens[1];
} match_state_t;
typedef BYTE jsbytecode;
typedef struct regexp_t {
WORD flags; /* flags, see jsapi.h's REG_* defines */
size_t parenCount; /* number of parenthesized submatches */
size_t classCount; /* count [...] bitmaps */
struct RECharSet *classList; /* list of [...] bitmaps */
const WCHAR *source; /* locked source string, sans // */
DWORD source_len;
jsbytecode program[1]; /* regular expression bytecode */
} regexp_t;
regexp_t* regexp_new(void*, heap_pool_t*, const WCHAR*, DWORD, WORD, BOOL) DECLSPEC_HIDDEN;
void regexp_destroy(regexp_t*) DECLSPEC_HIDDEN;
HRESULT regexp_execute(regexp_t*, void*, heap_pool_t*, const WCHAR*,
DWORD, match_state_t*) DECLSPEC_HIDDEN;
HRESULT regexp_set_flags(regexp_t**, void*, heap_pool_t*, WORD) DECLSPEC_HIDDEN;
static inline match_state_t* alloc_match_state(regexp_t *regexp,
heap_pool_t *pool, const WCHAR *pos)
{
size_t size = offsetof(match_state_t, parens) + regexp->parenCount*sizeof(RECapture);
match_state_t *ret;
ret = pool ? heap_pool_alloc(pool, size) : heap_alloc(size);
if(!ret)
return NULL;
ret->cp = pos;
return ret;
}
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Q:
How can Elizabeth survive the plot twist?
If the baptised Booker (Comstock) is killed in the end, why don't all versions of Elizabeth/Ana disappear as opposed to all but one version remaining? We see that all Elizabeths disappear. Except for one. She is the daughter of Booker. Booker is killed before he is baptized.
Given the plot twist explained above, how can she even exist?
A:
Needless to say, SPOILERS
"Your" Elizabeth is not present in the drowning scene. If you look closely, she is not wearing the necklace which you gave her at the beginning of the game. I quote here a good explanation which I came across on the 2k forums:
Elizabeth's fate is still rather up in the air. It's possible she exists within the probability space like the Luteces. As far as I understand it:
The first sea of lighthouses you encounter, with all the "stars" (which are really tears) represents the Bioshock multiverse.
From there you enter the Columbia megaverse, a subset of possibilities within the entire multiverse all having to do with Columbia/Elizabeth/Booker.
You enter a final light house where you're drowned by parallel universe Elizabeths.
But Elizabeth never enters that lighthouse with you. The Elizabeth in this lighthouse/universe doesn't have the bruises and scratches from being recaptured by Comstock, and she isn't wearing the bird/cage pendant. Booker even says "wait, you're not, who are you?"
So Elizabeth is still outside, hanging out in the Columbia megaverse. If drowning Booker eliminates the Comstock timelines, this could be visualized as all the lighthouses(universes) containing Comstock popping out of existence in that sea of lighthouses.
Elizabeth doesn't necessarily disappear, because she's shown to be detached from the Bioshock time/space continuum by having the ability to open/enter tears and megaverses at will.
The question is, what's she doing now? Sitting around in that endless sea of lighthouses? Knowing the constants and variables of each one? Sounds akin to purgatory. Or even hell. But I guess that's the implication of immortality. Can she visit Booker, and would she even want to? The ending tangentially opens new questions, infinitely, so to speak.
By the end of the game, the Elizabeth with whom we traveled was omniscient and quasi-omnipotent. It seems reasonable to conclude that she was able to remove herself from the Comstock timeline, to survive the erasure of the Columbia universe.
A:
The ending is somewhat ambiguous in this regard:
As each note of the final song is playing, another Elizabeth fades away. The final note is accompanied by the entire screen turning to black - it's possible that at this point the final Elizabeth has disappeared as well. You can watch it here. Obviously - massive spoilers, so no one-boxing :)
However, practically all time travel and inter-dimensional travel science fiction stories have their fair share of issues:
How can Elizabeth even drown her own father before she was born? Doesn't drowning all the possible Booker/Comstocks mean that Elizabeth never existed in the first place? Then, who drowned him? Further, if there are infinitely many worlds, there's not a single one where Booker perhaps never had a daughter? There's a lot of hand waving about "constants" here that they use to get away with it, but it's still a bit silly.
I think that any story which includes these types of elements is highly likely to fall afoul of some type of similar paradoxical situation. (See also: Looper, Doctor Who, Back to the Future, etc)
A:
Warning, spoilers ahead!
I think all answers here are missing a key point, which is (in short):
If Booker is never baptized, he never turns into Comstock, so Booker will never give up Anna to Comstock in return to erase his debts. As such, killing the Comstock timeline (by rejecting the baptism) also removes all Elizabeths.
The following graph (source) very clearly explains what happens to the different timelines
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tech. magazine reveals the apps breaking into Apple's walled garden
New issue out now - complete with playable cover
tech issue 9 out now
With news that Amazon has released an Apple-friendly version of its MP3 service in the US, this week's issue of tech. magazine looks at other apps and services that are giving Apple a run for its own money.
From Spotify to Facebook Messenger, Apple is slowly but surely letting others into its eco-system that can essentially replace its own apps. But does more choice actually make for a better experience? tech. explains all.
Also in the issue, the crazy world of Kim Dotcom is investigated, alongside the entrepreneur's new service Mega, all the latest news on why Sony may be delaying the PS4 and expert opinion focusing on Mozilla's new phone offering, Firefox OS.
Reviews, videos and celebrations
tech. also joins Intel in celebrating the birthday of Professor Stephen Hawking and asks the question: do we really need Siri in our lives?
As always, the issue is packed with the week's best videos and this issue there are in-depth, interactive reviews of the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11 and the Nikon 1 V2 and a preview of Microsoft Surface Pro.
Speaking about the latest issue, editor of tech. Marc Chacksfield said: "Ever since the FFC told Apple that is must open up its devices to rival apps, Apple has had to stand back and watch others create services for iOS that can replace the company's own offerings.
"Now that one of its biggest rivals, Amazon, is taking advantage and showing that all you need is help from HTML5 to stop Apple taking a chunk of money from sales, it's interesting to see how others will open up iOS to the masses.
"Oh, and let us know if you get the high score with our playable 'iOS Invaders' cover!"
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
University of Virginia shows how many ways Cuccinelli doesn't have a case
Eli Rabett links to University of Virginia's decision to fight back against the denialist idiot state Attorney General's effort to harass the university and climate researchers (context here, the basic idea is to demand every document produced by researcher Michael Mann to see if they can claim a mistake equals fraud). It's just a petition asking the court to tell Cuccinelli to jump in a lake, and full briefing arguments will have to wait. Several things stand out, though.
As Eli had noticed elsewhere, four of the five grants used as the basis of the document demand weren't from the state but from the feds, so the university says the state fraudulent claim law is inapplicable. The fifth, state-funded grant was awarded in 2001, two years before the state law came into effect. Also, the investigative demand failed to state the nature of the conduct constituting the alleged violations of false claim (fraud) law, as required by the law.
The problems listed above may by themselves be enough to let UVa prevail, and they're certainly proof of embarrassing legal work by an incompetent hack (especially that last one). They may be fixable, though. If the federal grants "passed through" UVa instead of being a direct grant to Mann, then the state might be able claim an ownership interest in those grants. If the unversity-funded grant lasted longer than two years, the state might be able to claim the "fraud" occurred when the state law was in effect. Finally, the AG office could red-facedly reissue the demand that meets the letter of the law by stating what conduct constituted fraud.
I've left out the two best reasons for shutting down Cuccinelli, though. The investigative demand can only be issued if the AG has "reason to believe" that UVa has information relevant to a potential fraud, and the demand cannot be so broad as to be burdensome. Cuccinelli has no basis to believe that fraud has been committed and couldn't articulate a basis for fraud when asked. Demanding virtually every document Mann produced, in addition to being burdensome, is evidence that the AG doesn't have a claim and instead is on a fishing expedition to find something.
Cuccinelli might curl up and quit at this point, or he might fight it out. I don't know Virginia legal procedures, but the petition might already be assigned to a particular judge, so they can try and figure out what that judge is likely to do. Best case scenario is the judge/appellate judges write scathing decisions shutting Cuccinelli down for using his political power to harass scientific and political viewpoints he dislikes. Those opinions would be Exhibit 1 in an ethics complaint filed with the Virgina Bar Association. Get this joker disbarred.
UPDATE: Another potential consequence is for UVa to ask the presiding judge to sanction the AG for the frivolous investigative demand, and to repay UVa's attorney fees. Easier to get than an ethics action and embarrassing to the AG, but quite as consequential (UPDATED UPDATE: meant to write "not quite as consequential").
1 comment:
1. Grants ALWAYS belong to the university. That being said, some of the Va state schools have research foundations which are not state institutions. The purpose of this is to avoid strange state accounting rules. It gets furiously complicated.
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<?php
namespace skh6075\boilerplugin\block;
use pocketmine\block\Block;
use pocketmine\block\BlockToolType;
use pocketmine\block\Solid;
use pocketmine\item\Item;
use pocketmine\item\TieredTool;
use pocketmine\math\Vector3;
use pocketmine\nbt\tag\NamedTag;
use pocketmine\Player;
use pocketmine\scheduler\ClosureTask;
use skh6075\boilerplugin\boiler\Boiler;
use skh6075\boilerplugin\boiler\BoilerManager;
use skh6075\boilerplugin\BoilerPlugin;
use skh6075\boilerplugin\form\BoilerMenuForm;
class Emerald extends Solid{
protected $id = self::EMERALD_BLOCK;
public function __construct(int $meta = 0) {
$this->meta = $meta;
}
public function getHardness(): float{
return 5;
}
public function getToolType(): int{
return BlockToolType::TYPE_PICKAXE;
}
public function getToolHarvestLevel(): int{
return TieredTool::TIER_IRON;
}
public function getName(): string{
return "Emerald Block";
}
public function place(Item $item, Block $blockReplace, Block $blockClicked, int $face, Vector3 $clickVector, Player $player = null): bool{
parent::place($item, $blockClicked, $blockReplace, $face, $clickVector, $player);
if ($player instanceof Player) {
if ($item->getNamedTagEntry("boiler") instanceof NamedTag) {
if (!BoilerManager::getInstance()->getBoiler($blockReplace) instanceof Boiler) {
BoilerManager::getInstance()->addBoiler($blockReplace, $player);
$player->sendMessage(BoilerPlugin::$prefix . "보일러를 설치하였습니다.");
}
}
}
return false;
}
public function onActivate(Item $item, Player $player = null): bool{
parent::onActivate($item, $player);
if ($player instanceof Player) {
if (($class = BoilerManager::getInstance()->getBoiler($this)) instanceof Boiler) {
if ($class->getOwner() === $player->getLowerCaseName())
$player->sendForm(new BoilerMenuForm($class));
}
}
return false;
}
public function onBreak(Item $item, Player $player = null): bool{
parent::onBreak($item, $player);
if ($player instanceof Player) {
if (($class = BoilerManager::getInstance()->getBoiler($this)) instanceof Boiler) {
BoilerPlugin::getInstance()->getScheduler()->scheduleDelayedTask(new ClosureTask(function (): void{
$this->getLevelNonNull()->setBlock($this, $this, true);
}), 5);
return false;
}
}
return false;
}
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Next-Generation Database Profiling
How can our DBAs profile databases with zero overhead and resolve issues in real-time?
The Problem
An insurance company needed a better alternative to monitoring its database systems in their production environment. Considered the most critical part of their infrastructure, production database behavior was also the least understood. It took weeks of costly forensic activity to isolate database issues which, according to their estimates, caused more than 15 percent of all performance problems and application outages.
Traditional database profiling tools and agent-based tools increase performance overhead up to 147 percent, according to several MSDN studies. The performance cost plus expensive per-server licensing fees made it impractical and too risky to profile databases in production and did nothing to correlate the dependencies between the databases, infrastructure, network, clients, and applications for fast remediation, continuous improvement and tuning.
Because "do nothing" was not an option, the Director of Applications and Infrastructure relied heavily on internal probe data—synthetic transactions designed to simulate real world database queries. However, the periodic nature of synthetic transactions meant that intermittent problems were missed and representing real-world requests and scenarios seemed impossible. Applications and client behavior were changing too frequently and real traffic patterns rarely matched simulated test patterns.
Database troubleshooting often meant building a representational state of traffic through queries. The database administrators had neither the access nor skills to capture real traffic off the wire to validate success. Network administrators and DBAs only joined forces when attempting complicated forensic analysis.
Desired Outcome
• Profile the databases in real time with zero overhead
• Continuously observe all errors, query response time, rate, and volume
• Analyze all database requests and responses across Microsoft SQL, Oracle, DB2 and Informix systems.
• Correlate database transactional behavior with all other infrastructure, application, and storage components.
The IT organization has estimated they're saving a minimum of $350,000 a year in personnel time. Not only have they reduced spending resources on unproductive war room sessions but it's dramatically improved cross-team collaboration.
The Solution
The first step was to adopt the passive database profiling features of the ExtraHop platform. The database administrators quickly learned that ExtraHop allowed for unlimited analysis without performance penalties to the databases. During the initial ExtraHop deployment a problem involving high database load occurred. Without any custom configuration ExtraHop drilled down into that database's details using the Transactions by Method per Second chart and revealed that a method which should never run was at the top of the list: select * from t_product.
Together, the Transactions by Method, throughput, server vs. network response time, and per-query processing time metrics told an important story on a second-by-second basis. For the first time they possessed the insight and factual data to troubleshoot database-caused latency issues in moments rather than weeks.
Database method monitoring had already proven itself during deployment, so the Transactions by Method chart became a regular part of the database administrators' dashboard. This chart not only highlighted offenders but also showed when the profile of the database queries were changing, indicating an application change or rollout and a signal to pay closer attention. The Director of Applications said, "Our team is now armed with wire data that doesn't just eliminate the costly and inefficient war room process, it actually has improved our whole IT workflow and processes."
User Impact
The IT organization has estimated they're saving a minimum of $350,000 a year in personnel time. Not only have they reduced spending resources on unproductive war room sessions, but it's dramatically improved cross-team collaboration. Within the first month of owning ExtraHop, the database team began an initiative to tune the top 20 percent of the worst performing and most frequently used queries as well as reduce their error count by 50 percent. Within three months they achieved these goals because for the first time they knew exactly what, where, when, and how frequently these events occurred.
They also set advanced trending and alerts to prevent database-caused outages from occurring. The Director of Applications reports that in the last 6 months there have been zero database-caused outages or performance slowdowns.
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Q:
Image of small dimensions automatically resizes when using Glide Library
I have an issue with the GIF Resizing.
My GIF dimensions is 136*136 px and I'm trying to load it into an image view (that has its width and height set as wrap_content) using Glide library. But the GIF ends up taking the entire screen.
My XML file code snippet looks like below:
ImageView
android:id="@+id/loading_animation"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
tools:src="@drawable/gif_loading_animation"
android:foregroundGravity="center" />
And My main activity code looks something like this:
Glide.with(getContext())
.load(R.drawable.gif_loading_animation)
.asGif()
.into(loadingAnimation);
Is there any solution to avoid resizing without using any hard code parameters width and height.
:)
A:
You can try using .override(Target.SIZE_ORIGINAL)
Glide.with(getContext())
.load(R.drawable.gif_loading_animation)
.asGif()
.override(Target.SIZE_ORIGINAL, Target.SIZE_ORIGINAL)
.into(loadingAnimation);
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Dec. 1, 2015
SUCCESS IS AN ELUSIVE "ANIMAL". Everything in this universe starts in the Mind, so for those who do not know how to think for Success - - they will be left behind. Success is an individual thing with its individual definition. It is all founded in successful principles. These Success Principles are always constant, and can be relied on. That is why I wrote the book: "UNIVERSAL SUCCESS PRINCIPLES AND HOW BILLIONAIRES THINK". Here are some of the principles and habits of the super successful people in the world:
1. Super successful people understand that there is two things which goes to the bank. One is money, and the other is goodwill, and they have equal value at different times.
2. They know there is no such thing as a "Self made man". We all depend, need and rely on eachother.
3. They create a "Master-Mind" group. It is based on the principle of: "When two or more minds are united in harmony, they create a third mind which has the potential mind power of the two or more of them multiplied by eachother".
4. They create an "Inner Circle" for advice and association. The people in the "Inner Circle" are highly trusted and loyal people with the same dream the they have.
5. They Brainstorm with the "Master-Mind" group and the "Inner Circle" at least once per week, often once per day.
6. They stay away from negative people like the plague, and very choosy about who they associate with - - including family.
7. They are constantly expanding their Mind by taking Mind development courses, reading and listening to positive uplifting material.
8. They always read, listen to or watch something positive before bedtime. It may not necessary be connected to their work.
9. They welcome challenges, because they know that from challenges new creations emerge.
10. They are kind, fair and honest with people who depend on them and they depend on.
11. They are not afraid to take chances based on favorable calculated risks.
12. They spend time alone in Meditation or Quiet Contemplation listening for higher guidance and knowledge.
13. They love what they do. Remember the saying: "Find something you love to do, and you will never work a day in your life".
14. They have a very strong belief in the Power of the Mind.
15. They know that you do not have to know everything to start something. Once you start something, you can figure out how to do it while you work to accomplis it.
16. They have a strogn and colorful emotional dream of what they want to accomplish. They visualize the dream fully accomplished and in its compleeted form in the future, during a time-coded event. Than they go back and forth visiting this compleeted dream, in their mind, every day to solidify the time-line to it.
17. When there is a challenge, they sit down and Brainstorm the challenge with their "Master-Mind" group and "Inner Circle" and analyze the challenge. They break the challenge up into smaller parts / sections. It is easier to solve smaller individual sections of a large challenge, than the big challenge all at once. Once they understand the challenge and its individual parts, they no longer think much more about the challenge. They just bury themselves in the challenge solving process. They know: Focus on problems, you get problems. Focus on solutions, you get solutions.
18. They are never realistic, because in their book, there is no such thing as "can't". The word "realistic" comes from the word "realize". Break up the word and sound it out. Sound to me like - - "real lies".
19. They always think "out of the box" and are often unpredictable.
20. They keep a voice recording device with them at all times, so when they get ideas or remember something that has to be done, they can speak it in on the recording device for later transcript.
21. They know they are being watched every hour of the day, so they are careful with how they conduct themselves.
They: watch their thoughts - because they become their words
watch their words - - - because they become their actions
watch their actions - - because they become their habits
watch their habits - - - because they become their character
watch their character because that becomes their destiny.
22. They do what ever they know how to do to stay healthy. It is often the wrong thing, but they try.
23. They know that the success of the next day, starts the night before - - or earlier, so they start planning and visualizing the successful outcome of the next day, the evening before.
24. They reflect on the day they had with Gratitude, Appreciation and give Thanks - - including for things which did not work, because they learned from it.
25. When they go home, they disconnect from work, except for emergencies.
26. They spend Quality time with their family. Quality always over Quantity.
27. They try to get most of their work done in 8 hours, except for Special Projects which no one else can do.
28. They plan the evening to get enough sleep, and adjust for sleep cycles so you always wake up rested.
29. They watch videos, listen to speeches and read material from successful people to get in their mind
30. They spend time visualizing a successful outcome of the next day, the next week, the next month and longer.
31. They have worked out Positive Affirmations they say over and over again during the day and as they fall asleep at night.
32. When there is something they really want, they never take NO for an answer until they have at least asked three times.
33. They are very generous and donate to many worthy causes - - and many worthy people.
34. Many of the Super Wealthy and Successful people have fornd that when you work by Universal Success Principles, the details will fall into place by themselves.
If you are in business, like to be in business, or just like to be more effective and successful at what you do, you should consider reading the rest of what is in the book.
I did not write this book for the masses, but for the few who like to do great things for themselves and for mankind. The book is in two sections. The first section is the "nuts and bolts", and the second section explains why the first section works so well.
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The UTEC Billboard: Water Conservation Out of Thin Air
What do billboards and water conservation have to do with each other? Normally, the answer is nothing, but a unique billboard in Lima, Peru can turn the humidity in the air into clean drinking water. Does this sound too good to be true? Well, thanks to the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC), potable water is now available to villagers who were used to drinking dirty well water.
Clean Water from Thin Air
The billboard produces about 100 liters of water each day with nothing more than humidity, basic filtration and gravity. Lima was the perfect place for this unique water-producing billboard because the air is often well saturated at around 98 percent humidity, yet this coastal desert city only receives about one-half inch of precipitation each year. After Cairo, Lima is the largest desert city in the world with about 7.6 million people living there.
UTEC's Inspiration
What drove UTEC to make such an astounding installation in one of the driest, yet highly occupied cities in the world? It all began when the university was about to open its application period for 2013. UTEC leaders wanted to draw the attention of students, so they turned to Mayo DraftFCB, an ad agency that struck on the idea of a billboard that would promise thousands of liters of clean drinking water to Lima residents every month. UTEC ran with the idea and actually built it.
How the Billboard Works
The unique technology implemented in the billboard allows it to capture air humidity and turn it into drinking water. The inverse osmosis filtration system includes five generators, each of which is capable of creating 20 liters of pure, clean water each day. As it's generated, the water travels through small ducts to a central holding tank at the base of the billboard where Lima residents can access the water from a faucet. While the billboard isn't entirely self-sufficient - electricity is required to power the osmosis process - it produced an impressive 9,450 liters of water in its first three months from December 2012 to February 2013. This is enough water to sustain hundreds of families per month. If one billboard can produce this amount of water from thin air, just imagine what dozens, hundreds or even thousands could do when placed strategically in desert cities or outlying towns? The result could be an end to the water crisis that desert dwellers face today, due in large part to climate change.
Realizing the Importance of Water Conservation
When you understand how desperate some cities and towns are for clean water, it makes you realize the importance of water conservation at home. Where we live, water is easy to take for granted. All you have to do is turn on the bathroom or kitchen faucet and you have a seemingly endless supply of clean, fresh water at whatever temperature you desire. However, water clearly isn't an abundant, endless resource all over the world. That's why water conservation is important. Help ensure more water is made available to those who need it most by taking steps toward better water conservation today. To learn more about the importance of conserving water every day, please contact Mr. Rooter®. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9518191814422609}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '242547', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6PSBKOCPVQIQI44C773VOWREIKBO435I', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6408a2bc-e438-4d3a-8842-5421eba16ae7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 6, 18, 5, 1, 54), 'WARC-IP-Address': '64.70.194.21', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2HEAWWA3EHTUTAVYBM4ZW4D4GIFRSKIK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e306d3fe-fe0d-4e44-a7b9-957e271f05ac>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.mrrooter.com/about/blog/2014/september/the-utec-billboard-water-conservation-out-of-thi/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b2ea4066-ca3c-4a1b-9f31-f9e801f07242>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '543', 'url': 'https://www.mrrooter.com/about/blog/2014/september/the-utec-billboard-water-conservation-out-of-thi/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-26\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-142-81-83.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.3339885473251343', 'original_id': 'a59ce7236d4fe1170f7946b658f78f438912adce841a589ba842c6309ae53808'} |
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Ride-on Tractors
Thinking about buying a ride-on tractor toy?
Discover all the facts you need to know before buying
What are ride-on tractors?
Ride-on tractors are scaled-down replicas of real tractors, created for young children in small versions. With intricate detail, these ride-on tractors have many of the same features as the real things - but with a bit less power! Your child will feel like he is riding a real farm vehicle, right in his own garden. Toy tractors are available in several varieties: motorised and pedal-powered for older children, or simple push toys for little ones.
What are the benefits of ride-on tractors?
Any physical activity, especially outdoors, is recommended to ensure that children stay lean, healthy and entertained. Ride-on cars and tractors help kids get outside which not only helps kids release energy, but also helps them master important developmental skills. Playing outdoors helps children solve problems, learn patience, increase their fine motor skills and gain self-confidence, among many other benefits.
For pedal-powered tractors, kids improve their muscle strength in their legs and fine tune their motor skills. Steering provides an excellent way to improve hand-eye coordination, which is especially important for children under age 3. Even for small children, pushing toys outside helps them establish independence and build their leg strength for pedaling later on down the line!
Kids today would prefer to play video games over playing outdoors - change this by pushing them outside from a young age! Ride-on tractors provide a great excuse to get a little bit of activity in, for kids of all ages.
History of Tractors
Farming is a tough job! Farmers began searching for more efficient ways to tend crops and fulfil the strenuous duties of farm life. Tractors originally appeared first as steam vehicles, later switching to gasoline at the turn of the century.
"Tractor" is a term for a vehicle used on farms. Tractors are used for pushing and pulling farming machinery or trailers, as well as for many other farm tasks such as planting, tilling, plowing, harrowing and others.
Tractors as we know them today have been around since the mid-1800s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Perhaps the most recognizable tractor is the brightly-coloured John Deere tractor, known for its green and yellow branding. While John Deere tractors were busy making headway in its birthplace of Iowa, other contenders cropped up with similar tractor models, such as Case, Ford, International Harvester and Rumely, who were fine-tuning tractors to become more efficient for the modern farmer.
Children for many generations have marveled at big farm tractors. Many tractor manufacturers began making replicas in the 1950s for young admirers and it has only increased since then! Now children can pedal-push their tractors, drive motorised versions and even help out mum and dad with gardening thanks to mini trailers that attach to the back!
Which ride-on tractors do you sell?
RideOnToys4U has a large selection of the top tractor brands, just like the real ones!
Rolly Toys and Fendt are toy manufacturers who are well-known for making sturdy, reliable and beautiful replicas of large farm equipment for young passengers. Many of the world's largest brands give these toy manufacturers the rights to bring their brand to the children's toy market.
Brands like John Deere, Caterpillar, JCB, Unimog, CAT and Case Puma are just a some of the brands offered with RideOnToys4U. With a sharp attention to detail, your kids will enjoy the features that have been added to give them a genuine farming experience!
Besides the top-notch craftsmanship, there are realistic controls and brakes, as well as a front loader that can really tip and scoop on select models. Or even more fun, some models include a trailer that is perfect for your child's favourite teddy to come along for the ride.
Why are tractors popular?
Ride-on tractors are popular perhaps due in part to parents who remember seeing them when they were young and wish to pass on this experience to their own children. Agriculture used to be a vital part of many people's lives around the world, but as cities grow larger, today's children have less contact with farmers and their work. Giving children this experience brings them closer to their parents.
Another reason is that many of our little customers simply adore tractors - boys and girls alike. Whether they see them at a farm, read about them in books, hear about them from friends, or see them in movies - these ride-ons are some of our most popular toys on the website!
What age groups are these tractors for?
For little farmers, there exist several models of push-along tractors. These are great for kids who are still learning to walk, or those who aren't quite ready for pedal-powered models. We recommend the push-along models for toddlers aged 1 year and up.
For the pedal-powered models, children can safely use this after 2 ½ or 3 years of age. And finally, for motorised tractors, children aged 3 or older can safely use them.
Can ride-on tractors be used inside?
Yes, they can. Although outdoor play is important and children have more space, there is no problem using ride-on tractors inside - that is, as long as your kids don't track mud into the house!
How much weight can they hold?
Most models of ride-on tractors can hold a child of up to 30kg. This being said, ride-on tractors are intended for one child only. Having multiple children on a ride-on tractor can affect the balance of weight and cause the toy to tip over!
How do I make sure my kids stay safe?
Ride-on tractors are completely safe for children but it is important to keep your eye on them as they push, pedal or ride around. The best tips for keeping your children safe are fairly straightforward: make sure they stay in your sight, lest they accidentally encounter sudden drops, stone steps or hills. You should especially take care around roads, as cars go fast and may not see children on toys due to their low level on the street.
How much do ride-on tractors cost?
Finding the perfect ride-on tractor to buy is not just about its features. Let's face it, the money counts, too! Our selection of ride-on toys and tractors has several price points so that you can find a toy that fits in your budget and pleases your child.
Push-along toys for younger children are priced as low as £75, and a large portion of our pedal-powered tractors are around the very affordable range of £150. Higher models of our tractors, mainly those that can suit a child of up to 8-10 years old, are priced around £300.
What activities can my child do with it?
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September 8, 2016
The future of Uzbekistan
After the death of strongman Islam Karimov, is political change possible?
The only leader the former Soviet state of Uzbekistan has ever known has died, leaving behind a complicated legacy. Islam Karimov was lampooned by the West for horrific human rights abuses and brutally stifling political opposition. But he kept the most populous, pre-dominantly Muslim Central Asian country from unrest just across the border in Afghanistan, and the economy grew slowly but consistently under his watch.
With almost 30 million people, and roughly half the population under 25 years old, it’s one of the most reclusive and secretive countries in the world. There’s no legal opposition, access to the internet is severely limited and freedom of expression is not part of the fabric of society. But Karimov’s supporters within Uzbekistan are many. They say although the price for civil society has been high, he was a father figure that protected the country for more than two decades, and most citizens enjoy relative stability and prosperity.
Karimov’s critics, including the United Nations, have accused him of systemically using torture, exaggerating the domestic threat of ISIL and Al Qaeda, and exercising strict Soviet-style media censorship to suppress political opposition. Karimov did not name a successor, and his death leaves behind a political vacuum and questions about who the next president will be. So what is next for the country, and is there any chance of the democratic principles outlined in the Uzbek constitution becoming a reality? Join the conversation at 19:30 GMT.
On today's episode of The Stream, we'll speak to:
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior
Researcher on Uzbekistan
Navbahor Imamova @Navbahor
Journalist for Voice of America
Svante Cornell @SvanteCornell
Director of Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Diyorbek Mukhammedov
University student
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The present invention relates to an evaporator system for an industrial boiler, and includes a heat transfer system for generating a water-steam mixture, means for separating water and steam from the water-steam mixture, and means for drying the separated wet steam.
In its most fundamental form such an evaporator system consists of a water-steam drum, a heat transfer section and interconnecting piping. Water from the drum is transported to the heat transfer section where it is partly evaporated. The thus generated water-steam mixture is transported back to the drum, where the steam is separated from the water and the separated steam is dried. Other connections on the evaporator system are for feed water supply and steam extraction.
Conventionally the water-steam drum is a vessel having a relatively large diameter because of the functions it has to fulfill. It is designed to contain the minimum amount of water required among others to guarantee the steam generation of the boiler when the feed water supply to the drum is momentarily interrupted. It is designed to contain the minimum steam volume required among others to have space for a water-steam separator and a steam dryer to realize a guaranteed steam purity at steam extraction and to have space for a water level that shifts to compensate for the fluctuating amount of water contained in the heat transfer section during start-up, shut-down and other load changes of the boiler.
The relatively large diameter in combination with relatively high steam pressures leads to a relatively large wall thickness, which limits the allowable temperature transients related to load changes of the boiler.
From EP-B-0 158 891 (U.S. Pat. No. 4,624,111) a process is known in which downstream of a high pressure steam turbine a water-steam pre-separator, a second water-steam separator and a reheater are connected in series. The saturated steam discharged from the high pressure steam turbine flows through the pre-separator first, then through the second separator, and finally through the reheater. The separated water is led from both separators to a water pre-heater.
It is an object of the present invention to design the separating and drying means of the known evaporator system in such a way that wall thicknesses are reduced and as a result thereof faster load changes of the evaporator system are allowed. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '3f84587fc48b961e74299da5991ea1fe98dba7e14b356b9f155c37160cd9d527'} |
Sunday, May 31, 2015
I'm All About That Steak
I've never really been a fan of Philly Cheesesteaks. Maybe it's because I live in Texas and can't find a good one. I never liked sauteed bell peppers and onions (still really don't). And I don't often buy things like Cheez Whiz. But my husband likes all of those things, so we gave it a try.
Now, I know all about the supposed rivalry between Pat's and Geno's in Philadelphia and how people will only eat one or the other. But I've also heard that Pat and Geno are actually friends and their competition is friendly. Their cheesesteaks look very similar to me, only one uses sliced steak and one uses chopped steak. If I ever get a chance to go to Philly, I'll certainly try both.
Anywho, after doing much comparisons online of recipes, I found that the only way to go here is boneless ribeye steaks. The ONLY way to go. My husband went to the butcher and bought a ridiculous amount and had the butcher slice it as thin as he could. We then decided to cut the slices into strips, but that's just a personal preference. After a quick sautee of peppers and onions in the pan, we threw the meat into the screaming hot pan and quickly seared it on both sides. We piled it all up on a bun and slathered on the Cheez Whiz. It was to die for! We only seasoned the meat with salt and pepper and it was so succulent, juicy and tender. It was even tender the next day heated up in the microwave. I'm sure there are people who may say my recipe isn't authentic, but that's okay. It's darn tasty and that makes me happy. I'm a fan after all. Enjoy!
1 lb boneless ribeye, thinly sliced
6 hoagie rolls
2 green bell peppers, sliced
1 onion, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 T butter
Drizzle of vegetable oil
Salt & pepper, to taste
One 15-ounce jar Cheez Whiz
NOTES: We had the butcher slice the meat thin, but we thought the pieces were too big and would pull out of the sandwiches. We decided to slice the slices into thin strips. It's up to you. Also, if you're not a fan of Cheez Whiz, another traditional way to serve these sandwiches is with Provolone cheese. Just be sure to let the cheese melt on the meat before serving.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Wrap the hoagies in foil and warm them in the oven.
Melt the butter in a skillet and drizzle in some vegetable oil. Cook the bell peppers for about five minutes over medium high heat. Add in the onions and cook until the veggies are tender. Add in the garlic and season the veggies with salt and pepper and cook about 30 seconds. Remove the veggies from the skillet and cover them to keep them warm.
Drizzle in a little more vegetable oil if necessary, and turn the heat up to high. Add in the meat and generously season with salt and pepper. Cook the steaks for about a minute or less on each side for medium rare and up to about one more minute if you want it closer to well done. Move the meat to a plate and cover with foil to keep warm. Heat up the Cheez Whiz either in the microwave or in a small pot. Split the hoagies open and fill them with the meat, veggies, and Cheez Whiz.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Tasty Spikes
My husband says, "if you put anything on a stick, it will be good." While he was in Korea in the Army, they had Chicken on a Stick, so he's always trying to get me to find recipes for skewered meat. But this time he found a great one. I'm not sure where he saw it, but he texted me one day last week and all it said was, "Puerto Rican Pinchos." So I had to do the research. Pinchos means "spikes" or "thorns," but what it really means is skewered food. This is a very popular street food in Puerto Rico and is made with either pork or chicken. Since pork is my favorite, I went with pork.
Now, we've done Pork Kabobs which were pretty spectacular and, of course, the Chicken on a Stick. But I have to tell you, these Pinchos were amazing! The marinade gave the meat great flavor. It calls for adobo seasoning, which I've never used before now. The meat was tender and juicy. The little bits up fat crisped up and were slightly crunchy. The 7-Up barbecue sauce was phenomenal (you read that right. 7-Up BBQ sauce is apparently quite popular in Latin America). The meat took on a bit of the flavor of the onions and bell peppers. It was outstanding! Here's a picture my husband took of them on the grill (he's so cute!):
I didn't know that BBQ sauce was popular in Puerto Rico. Learn something new every day. If you are a grilling fan, a pork fan, a BBQ fan, a 7-Up fan, you are going to love this!
One 2 lb pork butt or shoulder
1 T garlic powder
1 T black pepper
1 T adobo seasoning
1 T onion powder
1 T cumin
1 packet Sazon
1/2 C vegetable oil
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1 onion
Metal skewers
1 C 7-Up
2 C ketchup
1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 teaspoons yellow mustard
2 cloves garlic, minced
1-2 chipotles in adobo, chopped
3/4 C brown sugar
2 teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 T smoked paprika
2 T molasses
2 T Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1/2 C apple cider vinegar
NOTE: I found both the Sazon packets and the adobo seasoning at Walmart. The Sazon is on the International foods and I found the adobo seasoning, oddly enough, to the left of the pickle section where there were a lot of Goya products.
Mix together the garlic powder, pepper, adobo seasoning, onion powder, cumin, Sazon, and oil with a whisk. Cut the pork into thin strips about 2 inches long. Put the pork and the marinade into a large zipper bag and marinate at least two hours. Cut the bell peppers and onion into about 1-inch pieces. Set the veggies aside.
For the sauce, put all of the sauce ingredients into a pot. Bring it to a boil and then reduce the heat slightly. Continue cooking, whisking occasionally, until the sauce has thickened up, about 15-20 minutes. Keep the sauce warm.
Preheat the grill to high, somewhere between 400 and 450 degrees. Weave the pork pieces onto the skewers with a red bell pepper slice, an onion slice, and a green bell pepper slice in between each piece of pork. Put half of the sauce into a bowl to baste the meat with. Reserve the other half of the sauce for serving. Baste the skewers with the sauce. Grill the skewers for five minutes. Turn them over and baste them again. Grill for another five minutes. Turn them one last time and baste again. Grill until the pork is nice and caramelized and the meat is done. Serve the skewers with the reserved sauce.
Out of curiosity, last night we tried making Mofongo. It's a Puerto Rican dish that consists of mashed plaintains, which are like bananas but not sweet, and chicharrones, which are fried pork rinds. I didn't attempt to make homemade chicharrones yet, so I used the kind in a bag found on the chips aisle. It was certainly different from anything I've eaten, but it was delicious. And the broth I made to serve them in was divine. Now, please don't expect these to be truly authentic Mofongo. I did research a lot of recipes, and I probably tweaked it to my liking. Enjoy!
3 large plaintains
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 T olive oil
1/4 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 C chicharrones
Salt & pepper, to taste
Peanut oil, for frying
1 1/2 C beef stock
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 T fresh cilantro, chopped
1 T butter
1/4 C onion, rough chopped
NOTE: You can mash the plaintains in a large mortar and pestle, in a stand mixer with the batter attachment, or with a potato masher.
Peel and slice the plaintains. Soak the slices in water for 15 minutes. Drain them on paper towels.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in a pot and cook the onion until tender. Add in the rest of the broth ingredients and bring to a boil. Turn the heat down and simmer for about 5-7 minutes. Strain the broth over a bowl and discard the vegetables and bacon. Return the broth to the pot and keep warm.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Preheat some peanut oil in a large skillet. Fry the plaintain slices until browned on both sides. Drain the slices on a paper towel. Mash together the garlic, olive oil, bacon, chicharrones, and salt & pepper until it is all very small pieces (be careful with the salt since the bacon and chicharrones are salty). Add in the plaintains and mash until no lumps remain. Shape the Mofongo into balls or with a scoop or a small dish. Keep them warm in the oven on a sheet pan until ready to eat.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Where Have You Been All My Life
Recently my husband came across something intriguing, something, quite frankly, spectacular: A Himayalan salt block. We watched a video of someone cooking their steak on the grill on top of the salt block. He said, "food your salt, don't salt your food." What a concept! My husband was so excited that we ran out and bought one. You can get them online, but we found one at a store called World Market. And it wasn't expensive either. We got ours for about $20. We also went out and spent a ridiculous amount of money on 1 1/2 and 2 inch ribeyes. Here's a look:
We bought four, but as you can see from the picture we could only fit three on the sheet pan.
Anywho, surprisingly, these steaks turned out extremely juicy and had the right amount of salt and flavor. Aren't you excited! Apparently you get about a dozen or so uses out of one block. Over time, since it is a solid piece of salt, the block will crack and eventually break. You can also use the block in the oven or right on top of a gas flame. If you're a grilled meat kind of person, you're going to love this!
4 steaks of choice (we used two 1 1/2 inch ribeye chops and two 2 inch ribeye chops)
Black pepper, to taste
One 2-inch Himalayan salt block
1 stick of butter, softened
1 T chopped Italian parsley
1 clove of garlic, finely minced
1 tsp lemon juice
Fresh ground black pepper
NOTE: Salt blocks contain some moisture and need to be dried out slowly in the oven. If you put a cold block on a hot grill it will cause your block to crack and/or break. Also, we used very big thick steaks here. If you use smaller or thinner steaks, your cook time will need to be decreased. Additionally, the Steak Butter has a lot of uses. You can use it to cook veggies in, stir into pasta, deglaze sauces, etc.
For the Steak Butter, mix all of the ingredients together. Spoon it out onto a piece of plastic wrap. Roll the wrap up and shape it into a log. Put the log in the fridge until you are ready to use it.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Dry the salt block for 15 minutes. Increase the oven to 350 degrees. Dry the block again for 15 minutes. Increase the oven to 500 or as high as your oven will go and dry for 15 more minutes. During this last 15 minutes, preheat your grill to 500 degrees.
Using gloves, carry the block to the grill. Leave the block there for about 10 minutes before putting the steaks on. Season the steaks with pepper, if desired. If using the large steaks, you may only be able to cook 1-2 steaks at a time. Cook the steaks for 6 minutes on the first side. Flip the steaks over and cook for an additional 5 minutes (for medium rare). Put the steaks directly on the grill grates and cook for about 2 minutes per side to sear. Remove the steaks to a plate and cover with foil. Let the steaks rest for 10 minutes before serving. Serve the steaks with a slice of steak butter.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Magic Cooking
I have seen a lot of pins on Pinterest for this Mississippi Roast. I'm not sure why it's called that or where exactly it came from (I'm assuming Mississippi). I have been very very skeptical about this recipe and very hesistant to try it. Throw five ingredients into a crockpot, one being a roast, and no liquid. How in the world could that be any good! But my curiousity finally got the best of me, and I caved in and set out to try it.
I put it all in the crockpot before work. It literally took me less than a minute, so it's ridiculously fast. When I got home, it smelled amazing. I lifted the lid off and snuck a little piece. It tasted good. But I wasn't sold yet. The recipe calls for an entire stick of butter, so I was worried the sauce or gravy would be greasy. Also, the directions on some of the pins didn't say how to serve it. Some of the pins said to shred it with the sauce, so I went with that.
My husband figured out a new trick. If you have a stand mixer, put the meat and all of the juice into the bowl of the mixer with the batter attachment. Shreds in 30 seconds or less! Genius! We served it over the best mashed potatoes in the world (so my family says). And you know what? It was like magic cooking. It was outstanding! Tender, juicy, very flavorful and not greasy at all. In fact, it was so good that I just ate a little bit of the leftovers for breakfast. Enjoy!
One 3-4 lb beef roast (any cut will do)
1 packet Ranch dip mix
1 packet Au Jus gravy mix
1 stick butter
5-10 pepperoncini peppers, stems removed
3 teaspoons garlic powder (I know, I said 5 ingredients, but garlic is essential!)
Put the roast in the crockpot and sprinkle the Ranch and Au Jus packets over the roast. Place the stick of butter on top of the roast. Place the peppers around the roast. Don't add any liquid. Trust me, you won't need it. Cover the crockpot and cook the roast on low for about 8 hours (I let mine go 10 hours). Shred the meat with all of the juice and peppers and serve over mashed potatoes or even rice.
NOTE: If you are making mashed potatoes to serve with it, be careful of the amount of salt you put in the potatoes. The Ranch and Au Jus give the roast and potatoes enough salt and adding salt to the potatoes might make it too salty. My secret for mashed potatoes is to use real butter and heavy whipping cream instead of milk. Very rich, but very good. Also, I never peel potatoes, but my family is okay with that.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Third Time's a Charm!
Most of the time, I cook dinner, take pictures, and usually try to blog it the next day. And I try to bring you at least three or four new recipes a week. I'm busy, I know. And I consider myself very blessed and fortunate that it works out that way for me most of the time. But every now and then it takes a few tries to get a recipe right. Like this pasta. This is Spicy Chicken Rigatoni.
I saw something kinda similar on Pinterest, but I had to change it up some, of course. I just can't leave well enough alone. I'm one of those moms who will just do it myself since I can't get anyone in the house to do it my way and it's easier to just do it than to argue or try to teach someone the right way. That's probably doing my kids a disservice on some level, but maybe they'll take away the fact that doing things right is the way they should do things when they're grown.
Anywho, the first time I made this pasta, the flavor was awesome, but I had a little problem with the cheese. It seized up on me and stuck to the chicken and there was no sauce at all. The second time I made it, I added chicken stock to the recipe, but the cheese still seized up. I went back to the source of the similar pasta and read the comments and found that other people had that problem too.
So I thought long and hard and my brain flipped the light bulb switch. I make a lot of cheese sauces and I add the cheese after the liquid boils, but I do it off of the heat and in small amounts. So I tried that here. Voila! It worked! Creamy, cheesy sauce. This pasta also has sundried tomatoes, which my husband will tell you he doesn't care for. But he loved this pasta so much that he asked me to make it again next week. Even my picky son ate it all three times and loved it. And I hope you love it too!
2 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cubed
2 T butter
Olive oil
1 lb rigatoni (or your favorite shape pasta)
One 8.5 ounce sundried tomatoes in oil, well drained
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
2 C half & half
1 C chicken stock
1 1/2 C shredded Mozzarella
1/2 C shredded Asiago cheese
Red chili flakes, to taste
2 T chopped fresh basil
Salt & pepper, to taste
Cook the pasta according to package directions.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in a large skillet or dutch oven and drizzle in some olive oil. Cook the chicken until tender, about 5-6 minutes. Spoon the chicken out of the skillet and put on a plate. Cover the plate to keep the chicken warm. Turn the heat up a little bit and add in the onion. Cook the onion until tender. Add in the garlic, sundried tomatoes, smoked paprika, chicken stock, cooked chicken and any juice on the plate, half & half, red chili flakes to taste, and salt & pepper to taste. Bring it to a rapid boil. Remove the sauce from the heat and stir in the Mozzarella in small amounts until it is melted and the sauce is smooth. Stir in the Asiago cheese the same way. Stir in the basil and the drained pasta and serve.
Loosely adapted from Julia's Album
Monday, May 18, 2015
Volcano Potatoes
Here is an interesting new way to cook potatoes. These are Volcano Potatoes. I parbaked potatoes, hollowed them out, stuffed them, wrapped them in bacon, and grilled them. And, while I didn't picture the sauce, it's pretty good too. Enjoy!
4 medium potatoes, washed
Olive oil
Salt & pepper
8 slices bacon
1/2 C chopped ham (or turkey)
3/4 C shredded Cheddar cheese
About 1 C barbecue sauce
Sliced green onions, for garnish
1 C sour cream
Hot sauce, to taste (any brand is fine)
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
2 teaspoons garlic powder
2 teaspoons onion powder
Salt & pepper, to taste
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Rub the potatoes with some olive oil and sprinkle on some salt and pepper. Wrap the potatoes in foil and bake for about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, mix the sauce ingredients together and chill.
Preheat your grill to about 350 degrees. Unwrap the potatoes (use an oven mitt). Cut a small slice off of the fatter end of the potatoes so that you can stand the potatoes up. Cut a small slice off of the other end. Carefully scoop some of the insides out of this end (use an apple corer or a jalapeno corer or a small scoop) to make room to stuff the potatoes (it's okay if they break a little. The bacon will hold the skins in place). Wrap each potato with 2 slices of bacon, using toothpicks to secure the bacon.
Stand the potatoes on the fat end and stuff the ham and cheese in the potatoes in layers, ending with cheese on top. Grill the potatoes over direct heat for about 30-40 minutes, basting with the barbecue sauce every 5-7 minutes, until the potatoes are fork tender and the bacon is cooked. Garnish the potatoes with the green onions and serve with the sauce.
Adapted from BBQFOOD4U (click for video)
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Crazy Drivers
The other day, my son and I walked out the front door for me to take him to school and me to work. As I walked out, a moth flew at me and I kind of jumped back, not that I'm scared of moths but it just surprised me. Every year we seem to have a crazy invasion of moths here in West Texas. I didn't see where the moth went, so I assumed it flew away.
Anywho, we got in the car and off we went. When I turned off of our street and onto a big four-lane street, all of a sudden the moth was frantically flying around and bouncing off of the windshield. I guess he piggybacked on my shirt or in my purse. I rolled down the windows and started frantically waving my arms around trying to chase it out. I told my son to do something, all the while he's hysterically laughing at me and saying, "it's just a moth, Mom." I'm sure I swerved the car trying to get that thing out. I probably looked like I was inebriated or crazy. The moth finally flew out, and my son laughed at me all the way to school.
Have you ever had that experience? My husband told me once that he was driving down the road and a bee flew in the window. He said he slammed on the brakes right in the middle of the road and got out of the truck (yes, a lot of people do drive trucks in Texas). Luckily no one hit him. I can't say I blame him though. I'd probably wet my pants or cry or just jump from the moving car. Okay. So none of that has to do with this recipe. I just thought I'd share.
This recipe is for Chicken Pizzaiola. Pizzaiola roughly translated means "pizza style." Now, I'm not claiming that this version is anywhere near authentic. The traditional Italian version of "carne pizzaiola" is meat cooked with peppers, tomatoes, and olive oil and a lot of times includes oregano and basil, thus giving it a kind of pizza flavor. My version is a wildly varied version and Americanized. I baked chicken breasts coated in Asiago cheese, then melted cheese with pepperoni on top. I served it with some spaghetti and it was a hit! It was really easy to make and (I just have to say it) it was darn tasty!
2 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts
8 ounces Asiago cheese, shredded
2 teaspoons garlic powder
Black pepper, to taste
1 lb spaghetti
2 C marinara sauce (click for my recipe)
1 egg
4 thick slices Mozzarella cheese
16 slices pepperoni
Cook the spaghetti according to package directions. Heat the marinara sauce in a small pot or in the microwave.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Butterfly the chicken completely in half so that you have 4 cutlets. Whisk the egg with a little water. Mix the Asiago cheese with the garlic powder and black pepper, to taste. Dip the chicken into the egg wash and then both sides into the cheese mixture, pressing down to coat. Lay the chicken on a greased sheet pan. Bake the chicken 15-20 minutes or until it's at 165 degrees internally.
Lay the Mozzarella slices over the chicken and four slices of pepperoni on each piece of chicken. Return the pan to the oven and cook until the cheese has melted. Mix the drained spaghetti with the warm marinara sauce. Serve the chicken over the spaghetti.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Potato Salad
I'm sure you all have a favorite Potato Salad recipe, but I wanted to share mine with you. This is a pretty typical Southern recipe. When I serve this at potlucks or cookouts, there is never any left. Enjoy!
6 medium potatoes, diced
6 boiled eggs, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1/4 C chopped red onion
1 1/2 C mayonnaise (not Miracle Whip or salad dressing)
1 1/2 T white vinegar
2 T yellow mustard
Salt & pepper, to taste
NOTE: I like extra sauce on my potato salad, so I usually add a little more mayo, mustard, and vinegar to the measurements above. Also, I don't usually peel potatoes simply because I don't like to. But it's good either way.
Put the potatoes in a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and then cook the potatoes until they are fork tender. Drain them very well and let them cool slightly.
Whisk together the mayo, vinegar, mustard, and salt and pepper. Stir all of the ingredients into the mayo mixture. Chill the potato salad completely and serve cold.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Bring on the Red
History tells us that chili originated in Texas. Ladies known as "chili queens" would set up stands in San Antonio and sell their chile con carne, which means chiles with meat, or what we now know as chili. Cowboy cooks ran little chili shacks and sold a bowl of chili for a nickel. In 1893 at a world fair in Chicago, there was a Texas stand that introduced chili to the rest of the world.
There are probably as many variations of chili as there are stars in the sky. But this recipe is a little different than the typical chili I make or am used to eating. My Darn Good Chili has very little tomato, is more of a brown chili, and, yes, I put beans in it.
But this time I wanted to try something a little different. Something maybe a little more authentic and closer to what those chili queens were serving up. Something made with real chiles. Why do I spell it that way? The spanish word for peppers is chile, pronounced chee-lay. For me, when I'm talking about the pepper, that's what I use. Chili is a pot of stewed meat and other ingredients. So I made this Chile Colorado con Puerco, which means red chiles with pork. Colorado is "red in Spanish" and puerco means "pork." It is an easy recipe and turned out so wonderful. We ate ours over Fritos and called it a fancy pants Chili Frito Pie. And I went around for the day calling myself a Chili Queen, so you should probably do that too.
One 4 lb pork butt or shoulder, cut in long thin strips
5 dried red chiles, like New Mexico chiles or Guajillo chiles
1 onion, chopped
8 cloves garlic, minced
Salt & pepper, to taste
One 28-ounce can chopped tomatoes
3 serranos, chopped
1 T cumin
1 T chili powder
2 teaspoons dried oregano
NOTE: My husband discovered a brilliant and super fast way to shred meat. If you have a stand mixer, put the meat in the bowl of the mixer and attach the batter beater. The meat shreds in seconds this way.
Cut the stems off of the chiles and knock the seeds out. Put them in a bowl and put about 2 C hot water over the chiles. Soak them until they are softened, about 20 minutes. Pour the water and the chiles into a blender and blend until smooth. Put all of the ingredients including the blended chiles into a crockpot. Cook the chili on low for about 8 hours or until tender. Remove the meat from the crockpot and shred. Return the meat to the sauce and serve. You can serve this over Fritos with Cheddar cheese for a fancy pants Frito Chili Pie, or just eat the chili with a spoon.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Most of the time I'm pretty frugal when it comes to our meals. But, every now and then, I splurge a little. Well, this time maybe a lot. I have been wanting lobster for a while now, so I decided to just go on and get it. This Grilled Surf & Turf dinner was absolutely amazing! The picture here doesn't do it justice, but the lobster tails I bought were 1 foot long and weighed 1 lb each! Ridiculous, I know. But I only bought two lobster tails and two ribeyes, and the four of us split them. I served them with baked potatoes, creamed spinach, and sauteed mushrooms. I guarantee that, if the four of us went out to eat, we would have spent a whole lot more money than I did on this meal.
But the one thing that stands out for me about this meal, aside from how darn tasty it was, was what I call Steak Butter. Years ago I ate at a steakhouse, and they brought me a sizzling steak with a pat of flavored butter on top. It was fantastic! Since then, this is the only way we eat steaks now. No steak sauce for us. And Steak Butter is good for other things too, like lobster. But you could use it to serve on chicken, to cook veggies with, put in baked potatoes, etc. It's divine! Enjoy!
Two 1 lb lobster tails
Two 1 1/2 inch bone-in ribeyes
Salt & pepper
1 recipe of Steak Butter (recipe below)
Optional, sauteed mushrooms (recipe below)
Optional, creamed spinach (recipe below)
Optional, loaded baked potatoes
For the lobsters, cut the top side of the shells with kitchen shears down the length of the lobster, being careful not to cut the meat and don't go through the tail fin. (If you need more help, Google "how to cut a lobster tail" and watch a video.) Carefully separate the tail meat from the shell and then place the meat back in the shell.
Preheat the grill to 425 degrees. Generously season the steaks on both sides with salt and pepper. (Seriously, be generous. You want the steaks to have some flavor!) Cook the steaks for five minutes. Flip the steaks and cook them for four minutes. Flip the steaks and cook an additional four minutes for medium rare (135 degrees internally), or longer if you want a more well done steak.
Cut slices (two 1 T slices) off of the Steak Butter and melt it. Put the lobster tails shell side down first for about 8-10 minutes for a 1 lb lobster tail (smaller tails will take a lot less time). Flip the tails over and brush the tail meat with the melted steak butter. Cook the tails for an additional 8-10 minutes or until the internal temperature is 140 degrees. A thermometer is a must here since the size of the lobster tail determines the cooking time.
Cover both the steaks and the lobster with foil to keep them warm. The carryover cooking time under the foil will bring them both up to the temperature they need to be at. Serve the steaks with a pat of the Steak Butter and serve the lobsters with small bowls of melted Steak Butter. Serve the Surf & Turf with sauteed mushrooms, creamed spinach, and even a loaded baked potato.
1 stick of butter, softened
1 T chopped Italian parsley
1 clove of garlic, finely minced
1 tsp lemon juice
Fresh ground black pepper
Dash of salt
Mix all of the ingredients together. Spoon the mixture out onto a piece of plastic wrap. Shape it into a log, wrap it up, and chill until ready to use.
One 10-ounce bag of spinach leaves
1 T butter
Olive oil
8 ounces cream cheese
1/4 C shredded Parmesan cheese
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 T red onion, minced
Salt and pepper, to taste
Over medium-high heat, melt the butter in a skillet and drizzle in some olive oil. Add in the onions and saute 2-3 minutes. Add in the spinach and garlic. The spinach will wilt a lot. When it's cooked through, stir in the cream cheese and parmesan cheese. Continue cooking and stirring until the cream cheese is melted. Add salt and pepper to taste and remove from the heat.
8 ounces mushrooms (you can slice them or leave them whole)
2 T butter
Olive oil
1/2 C white wine
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 T Italian parsley, chopped
Salt & pepper, to taste
Melt the butter in a skillet and drizzle in some olive oil. Put the mushrooms in and cook until well browned all over. Deglaze the pan with the wine. Add in the garlic and cook until most of the wine is cooked out. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir in the parsley and serve. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '65', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9361119270324708}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '320277', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WSJZLH5TE4AEOCPS5H5GSVLHFJ2ZCFNJ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5eb07340-c9c3-44a9-9719-ac86cc80a196>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 15, 2, 38, 51), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.13.65', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:Q5CQUKJXRWLKTTAPBPO7NKZBPMC5JNZJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c8139f82-f8e7-4a37-96fa-89730e67c8d3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://baconbuttercheesegarlic.blogspot.com/2015/05/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7ea4bf9f-2419-40d4-85c6-d0847d67f045>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '5308', 'url': 'http://baconbuttercheesegarlic.blogspot.com/2015/05/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-222.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.020953118801116943', 'original_id': 'f7e7c20e903037ddca2973c246183a137c92cc4619b08061508bcf361e0f4c9a'} |
Google Custom Device Action Giving Error on Raspberry Pi Google Assistant
I'm creating a google assistant on my Raspberry Pi 3 and I'm trying to create a custom device action to eventually open my garage door. All it does is play with an LED at this point in time.
Here is my actions.json file:
{
"manifest": {
"displayName": "Garage door",
"invocationName": "Garage door",
"category": "PRODUCTIVITY"
},
"actions": [
{
"name": "me.custom.actions.GarageDoor",
"availability": {
"deviceClasses": [
{
"assistantSdkDevice": {}
}
]
},
"intent": {
"name": "me.custom.intents.GarageDoor",
"trigger": {
"queryPatterns": [
"open the garage door",
"close the garage door"
]
}
},
"fulfillment": {
"staticFulfillment": {
"templatedResponse": {
"items": [
{
"simpleResponse": {
"textToSpeech": "Okay"
}
},
{
"deviceExecution": {
"command": "me.custom.commands.GarageDoor"
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
],
"types": []
}
But when I run the command I get this error:
INFO:root:Transcript of user request: "open the garage door".
INFO:root:Playing assistant response.
WARNING:root:Error during command execution
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/assistant-sdk-python/google-assistant-sdk/googlesamples/assistant/grpc/device_helpers.py", line 94, in dispatch_command
self.handlers[command](**params)
TypeError: gdoor() argument after ** must be a mapping, not NoneType
Here's my handler:
@device_handler.command('me.custom.commands.GarageDoor')
def gdoor(*args):
print(args)
global g_open
if g_open:
GPIO.output(18, 0)
g_open = 0
else:
GPIO.output(18, 1)
g_open = 1
I was playing around with the *args to see if it fixed anything - it didn't. I've changed my package names to custom just for privacy. I'm quite confused here. Any help appreciated!
Thanks!
Looking at the sample code, it seems like the function signature is a bit different, as it directly adds the arguments.
@device_handler.command('com.example.commands.BlinkLight')
def blink(speed, number):
logging.info('Blinking device %s times.' % number)
delay = 1
if speed == "SLOWLY":
delay = 2
elif speed == "QUICKLY":
delay = 0.5
for i in range(int(number)):
logging.info('Device is blinking.')
time.sleep(delay)
Looking at the action package, it doesn't seem like you're providing any actions to go along with the command fulfillment. As shown in the sample:
{
"deviceExecution": {
"command": "com.example.commands.BlinkLight",
"params": {
"speed": "$speed",
"number": "$number"
}
}
}
Without any params, it may not map any functions at all.
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Apple allergy
Apple allergy
Apple is consumed as fresh fruits or processed in juices, jellies, jams and apple cider. Apple pectin is a gelling agent too.
The amount of allergen, type of allergen in apple varieties are responsible for degree of allergic conditions. Freshly harvested apple has less allergens and long-term storage increases levels of allergens. So far, there are no hypoallergenic apples are produced.
Apple allergy can occur in two different forms. One is like birch tree pollen allergy and it happens due to apple protein. Within 5 to 15 minutes of consuming fresh apple local reactions in mouth, throat, itchiness in the body and inflammation of throat with OAS can happen. The allergen responsible for OAS from apple does not survive cooking or pasteurization. People who has OAS can tolerate cooked apple and pasteurized juices.
Second type is where abdominal pain, bloating, vomiting and life threatening allergy symptoms happens. These individuals have reactions more when they eat apple with peel. People who develop second form of allergy also are commonly allergic to peach, plum, cherry, nut, apricot. The protein substance that causes allergy can survive in processed purees, nectars and juices. Individuals often develop adverse reactions when they consume apple with other fruits including pear, apricot, melon, banana, nuts such as hazelnut, or vegetables such as celery tuber and carrot.
Author: Sumana Rao | Posted on: June 13, 2018
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Comparison of transcriptional and translational changes caused by long-term menadione exposure in Aspergillus nidulans.
Under long-term oxidative stress caused by menadione sodium bisulfite, genome-wide transcriptional and proteome-wide translational changes were compared in Aspergillus nidulans vegetative cells. The comparison of proteomic and DNA microarray expression data demonstrated that global gene expression changes recorded with either flip-flop or dendrimer cDNA labeling techniques supported proteome changes moderately with 40% and 34% coincidence coefficients, respectively. Enzyme levels in the glycolytic pathway were alternating, which was a direct consequence of fluctuating gene expression patterns. Surprisingly, enzymes in the vitamin B2 and B6 biosynthetic pathways were repressed concomitantly with the repression of some protein folding chaperones and nuclear transport elements. Under long-term oxidative stress, the peroxide-detoxifying peroxiredoxins and cytochrome c peroxidase were replaced by thioredoxin reductase, a nitroreductase and a flavohemoprotein, and protein degradation became predominant to eliminate damaged proteins. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '1b3c26148cccd8fffe898d6be0ebb3184e0b5c5771b1b3c32bf0882091e17cba'} |
Letters to the Editor
Good riddance, Obama
President Barack Obama’s term in office is about to end and I am glad to see him go. He has divided this nation more than ever along racial lines despite his originally campaigning as a post-racial figure.
I had hoped that he would actually help to move our country beyond that old wound. He has made it worse.
In addition, he has harmed our country’s way of life that gives the individual the greatest freedom to own and create. Leftists like Obama believe in an equal distribution of the wealth within the nation and among all peoples of the world.
They believe war can be ended by reducing national military power and placing that power in the hands of an international organization like the United Nations.
Our role in the world as the last peacekeeping superpower has been jeopardized as a result and Russia and China have been emboldened to expand, along with Muslim extremists and Iran in the Middle East. Our allies, like Israel, have been undermined.
The world is far more dangerous now than when Obama took office. There is not enough space to discuss his attacks on the coal economy and our medical system, both of which are in shambles.
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Reviewed by: Hugh McIntyre
If you ever imagined how Ocean’s 11 would have gone if it had ‘Universal Colonel Snake-Eyes O’Neill’ as the lead character instead of Daniel Ocean (who hasn’t asked themselves this question) you will be swiftly and unapologetically presented with The Art of the Steal. Kurt Russell plays protagonist Crunch Calhoun, an ex-thief turned motorcycle daredevil doing anything and everything he can to pay the bills. Crunch’s sneaky jerk of a brother, played by Matt Dillon, brings him a lucrative job to steal a near priceless painting, sell it to a rich priest with the aim of re-establishing the bond of brotherhood and making a cosy wealth.
Kurt Russell is a joy to watch, as per usual. His character comes across as a guy just looking to get by and do his own thing with an “I’m too old for this s**t” attitude in a way that balances out his brother’s exuberant ambitions. The scenes between Dillon and Russell are bland and unimaginative, built upon some cringey acting. Don’t get me wrong, Dillon was absolutely brilliant in Crash and Russell could make an advertisement on vegan spam seem fun and interesting. Kenneth Welsh as Uncle Paddy uses by far the most deplorable Irish accent since Julia Roberts in Michael Collins. Yet through the course of the movie there is no sense of commitment to the story from the actors.
Don't worry he head's back to Berk to train his dragon shortly after this.
Don’t worry he head’s back to Berk to train his dragon shortly after this.
The flow of the movie is disjointed and erratic, involving conversations and events that never did take place and an unnecessary amount of plot shifting. Scenes that show the boom from a sound operator seen in the reflection of a window and sketchy editing commit the woeful taboo of reminding a viewer that they’re watching a production and not a story. There are a handful of good jokes and there is a sense of mystery in never really knowing what’s going on.
The Art of the Steal is worth watching if taken with a pinch of salt on a casual night in. It’s not great but in all honesty it’s still a long shot from being bad to the point of avoidable. Jay Baruchel carries the comic relief well and Vikings star Katheryn Winnick is surprisingly unrecognisable as Russell’s dark haired love interest. With a light spirit and good company an argument can be made for seeing the film for casual fun, however you’ll just likely watch the original Italian Job for the 100th time instead.
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Put Down the Bottle to Protect Your Teeth
Welcome back, Monroe! As you remember from the last blog from the office of Bayou Dental Group, here in Monroe, LA, fluoride is an essential component of your oral health routine. It is right up there with brushing your teeth. In fact, the two often go hand in hand, since most toothpastes contain fluoride.
Fluoride strengthens and repairs your enamel, while simultaneously fighting the causes of tooth decay. For over half a century now, fluoride has been added to most public water supplies, in effort to increase the oral health of the nation. And it worked. Since, water fluoridation became the norm, this country has seen record lows in instances of tooth decay. Water fluoridation in America has been so successful that other countries are adopting the practice.
However, in recent years we have seen an increasing number of cavities, especially in children. While many blame poor eating habits, and others blame parents not enforcing health oral hygiene habits, the evidence points squarely at one distinct culprit: bottled water.
The Oral Health Effects of Drinking Bottled Water
The only real problem with bottled water, at least as far as your oral health is concerned, is that is not fluoridated. But this is a big problem. Without fluoride to step in and aid your mouth’s natural defenses against bacteria and acid, your teeth are much more vulnerable to tooth decay. And since ingested fluoride helps to build stronger enamel in developing teeth, children who do not get enough fluoride will be more likely to experience tooth decay.
Why Is Bottled Water So Popular, Anyway?
First of all, we want to take a moment to mention what’s great about bottled water. It is, after all, water, and anytime you choose water over a sugary soda, your oral health wins. That is what is so great about bottled water, it makes choosing water instead of a less healthy beverage easy and convenient. However, it comes with a downside.
Another reason people seem to choosing bottled water is that they have misconceptions about the healthfulness of bottled water compared to public tap water. It is common to hear someone say they stay away from tap water because “nobody knows what’s in it”. this is just plain untrue. Public water companies are under strict regulations to account for everything that goes into their water supply, including fluoride. Private water bottlers are under no such regulations. In fact, sometimes it’s hard to find out where bottled water even comes from.
Taste is often cited as a reason some prefer bottled water over tap water. But when put to a taste test, Americans don’t seem to be able to tell the difference. Multiple studies have shown that people will choose tap water just as often as they will choose bottled water in a blind taste test.
Why Not Choose Bottled Water
By this point, we have certainly made clear the oral health risks associated with drinking bottled water. But this does not apply to the occasional bottle instead of a sugary soda. The real damage comes when you drink bottled water exclusively, even at home.
Drinking so much bottled creates one serious problem not related to your oral health. That problem is trash. Landfills are overflowing with empty plastic that take roughly 450 years to decompose. Which means every time you throw away a plastic water bottle, you are leaving for future generations to deal with for the next few centuries.
Visit Bayou Dental Group
Keeping regular appointments at our office in Monroe, LA will allow us to help you keep your teeth and gums healthy and looking great. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '0e6a7d894f7001033f384b0a64f19bd06ee8e8cb3beffa1920167f37fecdf81a'} |
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Oxy-Combustion CO2 Emissions Control
Commercialization of the Iron Based Coal Direct Chemical Looping Process for Power Production with in situ CO2 Capture
Project No.: DE-FE0009761
CDLC Process Concept
CDLC Process Concept (click to enlarge)
Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group (B&W) is developing the coal direct chemical looping (CDCL) process. The CDCL process consists of a unique moving bed reactor - the reducer - where pulverized coal is fully converted using iron-based oxygen carriers. The oxygen carrier is reduced from Fe2O3 to FeO/Fe and the flue gas is a concentrated stream of CO2 that is available for storage or beneficial use. The reduced FeO/Fe is oxidized to Fe2O3 using air in the combustor, liberating heat to produce steam for a supercritical Rankine cycle. The unique reactor design and reaction pathway of the CDCL process allows for retrofit, repowering, and/or Greenfield installation.
The overall project objective is to validate the CDCL process application for power generation through engineering system and economic analysis. Leveraging the extensive laboratory work completed by Ohio State University, the project will require minimal laboratory testing under the Phase I effort to complete the required engineering system and economic analysis. Specific objectives include: 1) Perform limited laboratory analysis to support the design of a full-scale system such as feed point spacing, particle attrition and deactivation; 2) Determine the corresponding cost of electricity for the proposed commercial design; 3) Determine the technical gaps separating the current CDCL technology and a commercial product; and 4) Develop a Phase II application including a budgetary cost for a pilot-scale system suitable to address the identified technology gaps.
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Raxaul Junction railway station
Raxaul Junction railway station is a main railway station in East Champaran district, Bihar. Its code is RXL. It serves Raxaul city and also as gateway to Nepal as the most important station on the Indo-Nepal border. The station consists of five platforms.
History
Raxaul-Amlekhganj line was constructed in 1927. It was Nepal first railway line. Narrow Gauge line of 48 km was closed in 1965 as new line was constructed to Inland Container Depot at Sirsiya near Birgunj and was opened in 2005.
Lines and location
The station is situated on the Delhi –Gorakhpur-Raxaul-Muzaffarpur-Kolkata lines. Earlier, all tracks were metre gauge but most have been converted to 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge. After the completion of the gauge conversion from Darbhanga to Raxaul via Sitamarhi, another broad gauge route to Raxaul became available from March 2014. The metre gauge track from Raxaul to Narkatiaganj remains to be converted.
See also
Bhikhna Thori railway station
References
Category:Railway stations in East Champaran district
Category:Samastipur railway division
Category:Railway junction stations in Bihar
Category:Transport in Raxaul | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'bc818c903b4872c68b7527abd1684abe36d5009abe7410d97641a2c1f0fe5bbf'} |
Hannington transmitting station
Hannington transmitting station is a television and radio transmitting station located on Cottington Hill near the village of Hannington. The transmitter is actually in the parish of Kingsclere. The station provides broadcast services to Berkshire and north Hampshire, and includes a guyed steel lattice mast. Surmounting the mast is a GRP aerial cylinder, which contains the UHF television transmitting antennas, which brings the overall height of the mast to .
Hannington's digital broadcasts were severely attenuated to the East before DSO (Digital Switch-Over) so as not to cause co-channel interference with Guildford transmitter. Those restrictions were removed soon after DSO in 2012.
Broadcast interruptions
1977 Ashtar Galactic Command message
On Saturday 26 November 1977 at around 5.10 pm, the Southern ITV broadcast from this transmitter had its UHF sound transmission hi-jacked by unknown agents. At that time Hannington re-broadcast off-air UHF transmissions from Rowridge on the Isle of Wight. The UHF audio signal from Rowridge was swamped by a signal presumably from a location much closer to the Hannington transmitter, overriding the sound of the local ITV station Southern Television and broadcast their own audio message purporting to be from Vrillon, an alien from an institution calling itself the Ashtar Galactic Command. The message, transmitted over an ITN News bulletin and a subsequent Merrie Melodies cartoon, lasted six minutes.
Despite extensive investigations by Hampshire Police, the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Southern Television, those responsible have never been identified, and the potential culprits have ranged from students to university professors to disgruntled television technicians.
1994 World Cup Final
On 17 July 1994 vandals sabotaged the mast's power supply during the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final, meaning that hundreds of thousands of viewers missed about an hour of the match.
Services available
Analogue radio
Digital radio
Digital television
Before switchover
Analogue television
Analogue television transmissions ceased from Hannington during February 2012; BBC Two analogue closed on UHF 45 on 8 February 2012 and all other analogue services closed on 22 February 2012.
Aerial group: E
Polarisation: horizontal
External links
Hannington Transmitter at MB21
Info and pictures of Hannington transmitter including historical power/frequency changes and present co-receivable transmitters
Hannington Transmitter at thebigtower.com
References
Category:Transmitter sites in England | mini_pile | {'original_id': '90dd945d7748f1ea40788bb4180fd84a608575b695385138b179014c6f939fe8'} |
Making sense of structure
| First Published: December 2009
Structure, either artificial or natural, means different things to different fish.
For some, like leatherjackets and luderick, it’s a food source in the form of barnacles, weed, crustaceans and all the other critters that live on the structure itself.
And predatory fish on the move, the likes of bonito and salmon, could find a marker buoy a convenient and reliable feed stop for the baitfish that hang around, even if these predators do not find the structure itself attractive. You will catch bonito, tailor and salmon around a buoy but they rarely stay long.
Kings, on the other hand, use a buoy to hunt food, as a reference point, for shade while they have a rest or all of the above. They hang around structure even if it has no food supply and use it as a ‘base’ from which to mount hunting trips to the nearby shallow kelp beds or other food supply.
Other structure like reefs, rocky points, headlands and bridge pylons, cause a diversion of the current, creating pressure points, eddies, upwellings and scouring of the substrates.
These create all kinds of hunter/prey scenarios as well as discolouring water and mixing temperatures. And if that is not complicated enough, it all reverses when the tide changes.
Other fish like jewfish will use structure for protection from predators during their long resting periods.
It’s common to find jewies backed into a cave or wreck. They can rest easy in there at least knowing they are safe from predators.
Fishes’ relationships to structure are similar to ours in that we are both generally ‘fringe dwellers’. Our deserts are about as attractive to us as the open, featureless oceans are to fish.
It’s no coincidence that our prime real estate is either waterfront or elevated and I can assure you, it goes deeper than just the views. Food and shelter are the primary concerns for all species and structure, features and fringes and their interactions provide the best balance of both of these.
A general rule for all structure fishing is to concentrate your efforts around the turn of the tides.
As mentioned, when the tide turns, everything reverses. What this means is that baitfish that were sitting pretty on a pressure point of a headland or reef will now have to move round to a similar spot on the other side.
This means moving through dangerous water and predators will take advantage of this.
It works right through the food chain. Prawns sitting in the cover of dirty water created by an eddy will find themselves vulnerable when the eddy shifts.
Squid that were comfortable with their ambush point amid the kelp will not find that spot as favourable when the water changes direction. They go in search of a better spot but, in doing so, put themselves at risk.
Mussels uncovered by the scouring effects of an eddy will again be covered by silt when the tide changes. They are now safe but elsewhere, a new eddy will be uncovering new mussels.
The bream will shift round the headland to find the new mussels but on their way they have to pass a jewfish cave. And so on.
The significance of a channel marker be it a pole, buoy or lighthouse similar to Sydney Harbour’s famous Wedding Cakes, is twofold. Each is itself a structure, which will attract all sorts of marine life, but it also marks some sort of natural structure.
This gives you two choices. You can fish the buoy or you can fish the point or reef that it marks.
The human-made feature doubles the effect of the natural structure.
One of Sydney Harbour’s popular kingfish spots is a submerged secondary cliff face that runs parallel to the cliffs of North Head. It was always a good spot but when Sydney Ferries dropped a wave-measuring buoy right next to it, it became a fantastic spot.
The downside of buoys is that they become overcrowded with inexperienced fishos or those without depth sounders or those who can’t read the ones they have.
To a new chum, a marker buoy is a quick-fix alternative to finding some unmarked structure.
I have no gripe with that but the downside is that you have to put up with the crowds. With 30 others all fishing the same spot, naturally your chances are reduced. To many fishos, a channel marker is akin to big neon sign that reads ‘fish here’.
I like to fish up-current of most structure. Obviously this means that you have to change sides when the tide changes.
Holding predatory fish always face up-current.
There’s a long-held myth that fish will hold in the eddy behind the structure. This might be true for sedentary species like bream but the big, fast predators always sit on the pressure wave created on the front of a structure.
They are first in line for anything coming downstream, have their arses covered by the structure from attack from behind and have a clean water flow over their gills. Eddies are often dirty, which might suit jewies and bream but definitely not most pelagics.
One of the fastest ways to see if there are any active predators (particularly kings – the main target of the NSW buoy fisho) is a quick scan with a lure.
A stickbait, the likes of a Slug-Go or any of its imitators, should be your weapon of choice and I start with an unweighted one on an offset worm hook.
Work it as a popper for the first few casts and then work it down to about mid-depth. If this hasn’t produced a strike then use the same lure on a weighted jig head and prospect from the bottom up to mid-depth.
A little trick I have found to spark kings into action is to change your presentation angle after about 10 casts. This is a pain if you are at anchor and is most suited to drift casters.
Wrecks are a great form of human-made structure in that they create eddies and upwellings and, from a fishes point of view, create a monumental cave.
Jewfish love caves. The downside of wrecks is that they do not last forever and as they decay, they become less effective fish attractors.
Wrecks that survive for hundreds of years usually do so because they are either in incredibly deep water or they periodically get covered over completely with sediment. Either way they are no good to fishos in this state.
Wrecks can be nightmares on tackle and this is where a good sounder and scrupulous attention to anchoring and bait presentation pay off.
To lure inactive jewfish into a bite you need to land your bait on the sand next to the wreck. If you overshoot, you will inevitably snag up; if you aren’t close enough, you won’t tempt them out.
Tide changes are ideal times to fish here as the jewies will move out to feed but you need to be on the ball because they are on their way to feeding grounds elsewhere and you get only a short time to hit them.
Bridges are good but because they are usually in relatively shallow water, they often make better propositions at night.
Bridge builders naturally look for narrow spots in a river and rock bars usually create narrows of this nature. So you inevitably get shallow, fast-moving water and upwellings.
These are top spots for big predators to hunt but they never spend too long here due to the high energy expenditure need to manoeuvre in the fast water.
Small prey either hang in the pressure waves and eddies or come out and struggle in the fast water. Either way, they make easy prey to larger fish whose bulk allows them more control in the current.
The ultimate bridge fishing is done at night using poppers or shallow-running lures worked slowly along the ‘light line’ where the bridge’s shadow is cast on the water by the street lights. Always work the up-current side of the bridge.
Pylons and structure like jetties, yacht moorings and baths support a smorgasbord of tasty marine life for the more sedentary mollusc- and crustacean-eaters like bream and leatherjackets and algae-eaters like blackfish and surgeon fish.
The juveniles of these species in turn attract the slower predators like flathead and john dory.
High tide seems to be prime time for this sort of fishing, the theory being that marine growth proliferates on pylons around the intertidal zone.
You don’t have to sit for long on a jetty before you see leatherjackets feeding on the top 60cm of a pylon at high tide.
My tip for this style of fishing is to fish as close as you can for the likes of jackets, bream, surgeon and luderick, but always have a live bait a few metres wider. You can be sure a predator won’t be far off.
While spinning for flatties I’ve found kings holding under yacht moorings in 2m of water.
Of any of the structures mentioned, reefs and rocky headlands provide habitat for probably the greatest variety of fish.
Anchoring is critical here because the area where the reef meets the sand is by far the most productive.
Fishing on top of a reef produces bags of ooglies like eels, kelpies, wrasse and unidentified pest fish, not to mention plenty of snags.
The exceptions to this are flying visits from predators looking for squid and baitfish. They won’t stop, though, and will always be found holding around the fringes.
The upside to this is that at least you know that pelagics zipping over the top of a reef are looking for food, whereas holding fish may not necessarily be all that hungry.
It’s also worth mentioning that if you find a reef that has a high yield of undesirables, it is probably a good fishing spot for more desirable fish because the ooglies are the first to diminish on heavily-fished reefs.
Another form of structure, found in the upper reaches of rivers and estuaries, are snags in the form of fallen trees.
These are baitfish and crustacean magnets and in turn attract scavengers and predators alike.
They tend to fish better towards the bottom half of the tide as baitfish are concentrated by the receding water.
As mentioned, fish holding on structure will face up-current so present your bait or lure from above the snag.
Old snags seem to be more productive than new ones that still have their leaves. Snags near creek junctions are usually excellent.
The last sorts of features worth mentioning are sand bars and drop-offs.
At high tide, the likes of whiting and bream move up onto sand banks to access critters living in the sand that would be dry at low tide.
A stealthy approach is essential here because they will spook easily in shallow water.
Just as pelagics make flying visits in search of food over reef tops, they also come onto the flats at high tide. I’ve seen bonito, frigate mackerel and surprisingly large kings speeding through as little as 1m of water.
I’ve caught them while spinning for flatties but if you are going to target them, speed and accuracy are the essence.
Have your bail open and anticipate the fish’s direction. You will probably only get one cast. It’s challenging but once you have hooked a king in shallow water there is no going back.
Drop-offs work better on the falling tide because fish wait for the bait to be forced off the flats.
Flathead are the main targets but again don’t underestimate the potential for pelagic raids. Keep your lures tight to the bottom and work them from the shallow water into the deep.
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The Soulmates
They clung to each other,
the boy hiding the girl
trying to protect her,
from the stones being hurled at them.
The stormy sea roared below,
lightning thundered the night sky ,
darkness seemed to swallow them.
They stood on the cliff,
while the mob surrounded them.
The villagers shouted and jeered
“Jump you wretched ones, jump!!”
“How dare you defy the social norms,
you are not meant to be together”.
They looked each other
and smiled, pitying the villagers
“Alas!! They don’t know love,
they don’t know they have wings”
and then they jumped,
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Bart Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Mon Oct 27 16:15:39 EDT 2008
Peter Gavin <pgavin <at> gmail.com> writes:
> The reason for doing it this way is that e.g. 2.5 is
> exactly between 2 and 3, and rounding *up* every time
> would cause an uneven bias toward 3. To counteract that
> effect, rounding to the nearest even integer is used,
> which causes the half of the x.5 values to round up, and
> the other half to round down.
Everyone keeps providing this rationale, but of course if
you want "half the values to round up and the other half
down" it does just as well to round positive values up and
negative values down.
I think given that the Haskell 98 Report is pretty explicit
about the behavior of round, we're stuck with it, but I
don't like it. It's yet another tiny impediment to Haskell
newbies, as demonstrated by the original post. (I'm not at
all opposed to having a round-to-even function; it should
just be called roundHalfEven to make it clear what it
does. If it were up to me, I would probably elide the name
"round" altogether in favor of roundHalfEven.)
I have written floating point code that depends on
consistent rounding in the past. Being able to depend on
round (1 + x) = 1 + round x
is sometimes useful, but not possible for round-to-even.
Also note that for a common case, rounding numbers in the
range -x..x, there's still a strange slight bias toward the
center, since round-to-even rounds both 0.5 and -0.5 to 0.
BTW, in case anyone is unclear, IEEE 854 supports a large
variety of required and optional rounding modes; it takes no
strong position on a "correct" rounding strategy. In
particular, round-up ("round-half-up") and round-to-even
("round-half-even") are both required. However, there is an
IEEE 854 subset, ANSI X3.274, that does make rounding modes
other than round-up optional, presumably in conformance with
common PL practice. This might make an implementation of the
Report's round function on some FPU I've never heard of
slightly more expensive.
Bart Massey
bart <at> cs.pdx.edu
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Vertigo Games What makes VR stand out?
What makes VR stand out?
You’ve probably heard of terms like VR, AR or XR these days. But what do all these terms mean, and more importantly, why do we at Vertigo Games invest in VR above all? In the coming 3 minutes we will give you a full explanation about all the different “reality” terms and let you decide which one you prefer the most.
Virtual Reality versus Augmented Reality
Before we make the comparison between virtual reality and augmented reality, let’s take a closer look at both. In virtual reality you put on a headset, and peering through the lenses of your headset you will find a completely new immersive world. In virtual reality you can travel around the world in minutes, fight with demons, or even fly a plane. The power of VR is that you can enter so many different artificial environments which are completely immersive. AR on the other hand does not bring you a new immersive world, but brings digital holograms that are visible through your phone or through special glasses. Such as the Pokémon in Pokémon Go or the furniture in digital Ikea rooms.
Why does Vertigo prefer VR over AR?
Vertigo Games is all about creating amazing and mind-blowing new experiences for its gamers. No platform in the world can beat the possibilities that virtual reality has to offer in creating immersive, exciting, and mind-blowing scenarios and experiences. AR gives the opportunity to see new things and to readjust the world you are living in. But nothing can beat the whole new worlds virtual reality has to offer, or does it?
VR versus MR
Virtual reality has more competition than only AR, one of the best-known ones is MR (mixed reality). MR is an advanced version of AR. With camera’s checking your hands and eyes you are able to move, stretch and rotate the holograms that are visible through your glasses.
Why does Vertigo prefer VR over MR?
Although MR has way more interaction than AR, the technology is still not there yet for us. Objects can be adjusted in MR, but in VR blades can be held and guns can be used to shoot. Also, MR doesn’t offer a whole new world to live in which virtual reality does. For these reasons Vertigo uses VR to build its games in.
VR versus XR
There is no such thing as VR versus XR (extended Reality) because XR is a “catch-all” term for VR, AR and XR. XR isn’t comparable with VR because XR isn’t more than just a word.
More information about VR?
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Council cuts to care in England are so severe there is a real risk families may take legal action, experts say.
In a joint plea to ministers, the Nuffield Trust, King's Fund and Health Foundation said the sector was facing a major funding shortage.
The think tanks said cuts were so deep, councils may no longer be meeting their duties to the elderly and disabled.
The government says it is investing in the care system with £5bn set aside for the NHS to work with the care system.
An additional £1.5bn is being added to that by 2019, while councils have been allowed to increase council tax by 2% a year to invest in care services.
The latest warning about care services comes ahead of Chancellor Philip Hammond's Autumn Statement later this month on government spending.
Councils are complaining they have not been given enough cash. and last month, the regulator, the Care Quality Commission, said council care cuts were one of the major factors behind the growing demands on A&E units.
'Warning sign'
The three think tanks, which are making a joint submission to ministers ahead of that announcement, highlighted figures showing how councils had started reducing the amount of support they provided to older people.
The numbers getting help from their council with care had fallen by 26% to 850,000 in the four years to 2014
Spending on care by councils had fallen by 25% in real terms in the five years to 2015, to £5.1bn
Additional money from the NHS and increased contributions from individuals had topped this up to £7.2bn, but that still represented a cut of 9%
More than 40% of money paid to care homes came from people paying for themselves
One million people with care needs now receive no formal or informal help - a rise of 10% in a year
Once younger people with disabilities are included, the funding shortfall was likely to be in the region of £1.9bn next year
Richard Humphries, from the King's Fund, said it was clear councils were struggling to meet their statutory duties under the Care Act, including promoting well-being and providing high quality care to elderly and disabled people.
He said while he was not aware of any legal action yet, he pointed to rising numbers of complaints about care being made to the the Local Government Ombudsman and a rise in the number being upheld as a sign that could change.
"That shows that councils are struggling. It is a warning sign. We could start seeing people taking legal action," he added.
Councillor Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, said: "Unless social care is properly funded, there is a real risk to the quality and safety of care and being able to meet basic needs such as ensuring people are washed and dressed or helped out of bed.
"The government must use the Autumn Statement to provide councils with the funding to ensure we have a fair care system which keeps people out of hospital and living independent, dignified lives at home and in the community." | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'f9499fa70061a22c5b28be3d3408e23970b9cb34ecbb8977a2b29d0ece82d73c'} |
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• Put Your Foot in Your Mouth
If you could taste human flesh in an ethical way, would you? A man was recently in a motorcycle crash that put him face-to-face with the macabre hypothetical. When a car hit his bike and sent him careening into a nearby forest, his foot was shattered to the point that he would never walk on it again. When the doctor asked if he wanted to amputate, his one question was, “Can I keep it?” He invited his closest friends for a very personal dinner. Jeff and Anthony make a pact. [more]
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Pressmeddelande • Okt 09, 2019 22:04 CEST
If you are about to do some improvement work, or if you live in a house, you need to have a great toolkit, preferably including a large power toolkit. You might think power tools are a bit overkill, but trust us, they are worth every penny. First of all, power tools make the work faster and often better compared to manual tools. Second, you will be less tired in your arms, hands, and/or shoulders since the power tool takes on most of the workload. The only thing you need to be careful about when having power tools in the house is that you store them so children can't reach them.
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1p5? h -i iO WT' y,..rfq.i .yr-yr'- THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PA0H SEVEN FRIDAY, OCTOMBl M, 1M1 IS OF THE NATION PORTLAND, Oct. 28. Tbo 1020 lumber cut for Washington nnd Oro go, according to dutn Jast Riven out, by tho Foroflt Harvlco ottlcon Iioro, haws a docldod tncroaso over tho provtous yonr. WaehlnKtoa'fl cut, shows an Incronso of 11 par cent wkllo Oregon's shown n 29 pot cont, sneroaso ovor tho 11)19 tat. Wnsb inKton lod all tho othor utiitcH In totn,l cat for 1920, with 6,525,000,-' tO foot board measure, with Om-j gea taking finrond pktoe far tbo flrttt tleiq with 3,317,00,0f fect,lxiulii-j load ranking third aid OaUlarnlo la fifth plaeo. j Tho lumbar ut of tbo 1nltod, State an a whole la 192a was 33, 798,800,000 foot, vwhUb In 2.2 por cont loan than n 1919', and 27 por cont lew) than thopnak In 1907. ' Tho nvornpo ,prlcq of lambcf at the mill Jncronsodlo $38. 42) por thousand,, which p a tIro of 1D0 per cont slnco 1910. Tho aKgrexaioivai' uo of 'tho' cut; In' 91,299,000,000 Thoflo aro tho hchost annual valua tions, ovor rocqrdod, but do not ,lndl- caiaprcsont oontmjoijfl, -1,007 mfv If reflect, tho, qxjremoly. high poalc. la tholnp-wartlombOfPrjeq(il.yiniicp wan paRBod In tho first qnartor of 1920. Thoua oxu tho principal ntutlstl obfalnod by tho forest service, lnvltH 1920 canvaflR oX Auiorlcan miwmlllH Thor aro based upon report from 15,978 actlva mills out of 23,243 es timated to huvo boon In oporatlon. Several thousand mills cutting less than 60,000 foot were not tabulated, though allowance was made for their cut. The figures show that the States which increased their sales are all in the Pacific Coast group and the Rocky Mountains. Washington is first, as usual. Oregon attains, second place for the first time, displacing California, California, and the Rocky Mountains. Washington is second, as usual. Oregon attains, second place for the first time, displacing California, California, and the Rocky Mountains. The eight states of the southern pine group produced 34 percent, while all of the root of the United States produced 30.4 percent. The combined production of Douglas fir and western yellow pine, which in 1919 was less than 0 percent of the amount of southern yellow pine cut, in 1920 became 83 percent. This relative increase in the western species arises in part from the decrease in southern pine production, which amounted to 15 percent. The conditions reported by southern operators, arising directly or indirectly from the World War, were so adverse that the southern pine may be expected to recover part of the output. Ground during the next few years. But the indications of the statistics are that the supremacy in lumber production held by the southern pine States has passed the south and is more to the West. Recital Tonight at Presbyterian Church Tho Prosbytorlan church will be the. scopo of an unique recital this evening, when George A. Wirt will Introduce Miss Ilelon Clark, contral to. Joseph Phillips, baritone, and Mr, Thomas H.v George, pianist, to a speo tally Invited audience of maBla lovers, This promises to be the most un usual recital heard here in years, oa each ot tho artists comes roc ommendod In a most flattering Man ner, At this recital tho presumably Im- NORTHWEST I NT DOINGS OF THE DUFFS HELEM, I JUST HA& ry HAIR ROBBED' Urfui ifc aw w"-. - w. POES T LOOK y f m rs v..4An ' i 'H-r. il bTa fuuijwrt'wuvi i i r ' amSGL GOOPaTHH I 1I -x T 'MS WW. AAMAAMMWwVVMMMWyWWWWVWWWWWVWWWWVWWyrM' I OniliHrRff; nf P.vraff Trim Rv fnnrlnn. fWMAVVMVWtfWWWMVWWWWWVWVWyVWvv AN tp we MA J givty or esofecs p rc not THOVKLH YGrr OU USTGN rro ne: x say, if, njoi-TT 'ir tr - posslblo will bo accomplished Mies Clark will positively sing a duot with herself. It can't bo dono7 Well, just'eomo and see even It you'ro not from Missouri. Soma roal novelties will bo pre sontod by this duo of "Songs Ameri ca Loves, M. both as solos and duets. It Is advlsablo to securo tickets at pneo from ,Mr. Wlrtz as a capacity bouso is certain. Admlttanco will bo by card of Introduction only. jWbon doctors dlvnt(.)d It belp.i to swoll tho population ot ono of tho othor two places. Tho man who nays what ho likes will, hoar a grrm many things he dislikes. If a man would Iho to a rlpo old ago nlHit has to do !s to knp right on living. Sec our Special Army Shoe, 13,85. .1. E. Kndorn Co. WOOD! Prices may advance any day, this is your notice, no further guarantee on prices. Duy your GREEN SLAB or HOCK-WOOD now and avoid advances that are sure to come. Ask about our DIVIDEND-TAMALACK for Your -Beater. O. Peyton & Co. Wood to Bora Main St. Phone 410 OSS NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Not Coal Land Deportment of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at Lakeview, Oregon, Sept. 10, 1921. NOTICE is hereby given that John F. Holbrook, of Mallin, Oregon, who on April 26th, 1919, made Homestead Entry, No. 011006, for Lot 10, being Farm Unit "A", Section 16, Township 418, Range 12E, Willamette Meridian. HEIN, PICKETO HAVE YOU TAKE, A PICTURE OF I 4 y IfaaV PVssssssssssssssssfical TW3MrV ,.. Tl wccc, but t CLSTCir-4 1 Wit'. " UHt WTr M I -1 J I ift.-rpuc, 1. f know wst twimr Yoor.e oovMOt ioii 5W : usrecvi i Vaure M3javmeR! 'rVK.cs pflATW- Vo&S IT FACi- MY FCfVTT.C5R. THAN THE .. I m m. a 1. sS.IVVA- I t 9 LWSBRtaH M m m Otto Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final three-year proof to establish claim to the land above described, before C. R. DeLap, in the Circuit Court of the County Court, at Klamath Falls, Oregon, on the 17th day of October, 1921. Claimant names as witnesses: B. D. Smith, F. J. Halosok, L. R. Hobrook, Edward Hamilton, all of Maita, Oregon. Notice will be published for five consecutive weeks in the Klamath Herald. JAS. F. BURGESS, 13-20-27-3-10 Register. SUMMONS Equity, 1363, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON POD EXAMINATION COUNTY. James M. Milne, Plaintiff, vs. Elizabeth W. Milne, Defendant. To Elizabeth W. Milne, Defendant. In the Name of the State of Oregon: You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed in the above entitled suit on or before Saturday, the 19th day of November, 1921, and for failure to appear and answer, plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief prayed for in his complaint, to-wit: For an absolute divorce from you on the ground of desertion continuing for more than one year prior to the filing of said complaint, and for such other and further relief as to the court may seem meet and equitable. November 19th, 1921 is the last day of the time prescribed in the order for publication of this summons. If you have a watch to repair, don't tend it to a blacksmith, but let George do it. George L. Metz, Watchmaker and Jeweler, 622 Main St. Get Your Skid Repair Now. Don't Wait Until You Have an Accident. GUARANTEED SITUATIONS for Tracks and Oars of all makes. D.A. Kenyon, O. J.K. Shop, 439 Sixth Street - Phone 462. TOM'S IDEA OF, All Rights But WORD BETTER. TAKE IT OUT- In Which you may appear and answer said complaint. This summons is served by publication by order of the Honorable D.V. Kuycndall, Judge of the circuit court of the state of Oregon for Klamath. County, dated October 6, 1921, which order required that summons be published once a week for six successive weeks, the first publication being October 7, 1921, and the last publication being November 18th, 1921. RENNER, MANNING & CANNING Attorneys for Plaintiff, whose business and post office address is American National Bank Dldg., Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Ore. DELINQUENT SALE - NOTICE Fort Klamath Meadows Co. Location of Principal place of business, San Francisco, California. Location of Works, Klamath County, Oregon. NOTICE There are delinquent upon the following described stock, on account of Assessment No. 1, levied on the 2nd day of September, 1921, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders, as follows: No. No. Tames Cort. Shares Am't $1,000. 2,240. 10. 6,000. 1,760. H. R. Rameca 8 W. W. Jones 13 ISO 224 Frieda V. Doak 14 D. P. Doak 15 1 000 176 P. M. Doak 10 And in accordance with law and an order of the Board of Directors made on the 2nd day of September, 1921, so many shares of each parcel of such stock as may be necessary will be sold at public auction at the office of the Company 631 Market Street, San Francisco, California, on Monday, the 7th day of November, 1921, at the hour of 3 o'clock P. M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of the sale. W. W. JONES, secretary. Office 631 Market Street, San Francisco, California. O. 21-w 2. Every day 1 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION County No. 1344 STATE OF OREGON FOR KAMATH. ATM COUNTY. Birdie Linz, Plaintiff vs. Charles Linz, Defendant. To Charlos Llnzl, defondant above named, In the Name of tho State of Oregon, you -are horoby roqulrod .to appear and answer tho complaint tiled against you in tho abova entltlod cause- within six wooks from itho date of the first publication of this sum mons, and If you fall so to appear or answer, plaintiff will apply to the Court for tho roltof prayed for In ber complaint on file herein to-wlt, for -a decrco dissolving tho bonds of matri mony now existing between 'plaintiff and defendant, and for such othor and further relief as to the Court may seem rfqultablo. This summons Is servod upon yon by publication thereof In the Evening Herald,-a dally newspaper.-.printed, published, and of general circulation In Klamath County, Orogon, onco u wcok for' six' wcoks, by order of the flonorablo p. V. Kuykendall, made nnd entered on Soptember 9, 1921. Tbo date ot tho first publication ot this summons In October 7, 1021. R. C. GROESBECK, Attorney for Plaintiff Address, Klamath Falls,-Oro. 0-7-14-21-28 N-4-11-18 NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT NOTICD IS HEREBY OIVEN That tbo undersigned as Administrator of tho cstato of H. Astrup, 'decoascd, POBBED HAIR hirll3 I ' T QOHIKf A fooTPAli.?! mOTIU. 5U6GESTI0U r 6HE LOOkS tlKt hV; LNOW T MAKEJJ A FOOTBALL PLANER J "I" :g- KssssssssssssssBS' '"WUIr WMB&mEr WMBaaasaaaaaaaasssaBMajssaaWj. ii ..,,-J2.9mmm w .i.vf bas filed with the County Court of tho Stato of Oregon, for Klamath County, his Final Account ot tho ad ministration of said estate, and that tho said Court 'has flxod Monday, Novombor 14, 1921, at 2 o'clock P. M., as the time, and the County Have You Made OCTOBER 19th to 24th CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS 4th & Main Phone 5000 Make Your Contribution Now! Hot Water Each Morning Puts Roses in Your Cheeks To look one's best and feel one's best It to enjoy an indigestible bath each morning To use the system in the previous day's waste, sour forms, indigestion and poisonous toxins before it is absorbed into the blood. Just as coal, when it burns, leaves fluid a certain amount of indigestible material in the form of ashes, so the food and drink taken each day leave in the alimentary organs a certain amount of indigestible material, which is not eliminated, form toxins and poisons which are then sucked into the blood through the very duct which are intended to suck in only nourishment to in stain the body. If you want to see the glow of healthy bloom in your cheeks, to see your skin get clearer and clearer, you are told to drink every morning upon arising, a class of hot water, with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it, which is a harmless remedy. I mean the waste material and toxins from the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels, thus cleansing, sweetening, and purifying the entire body. Court Room in the courthouse at Klamath Falls, Oregon, as the place of hearing objections, if any, to said account and the settlement thereof. P. L. FOUNTAIN, Administrator of the Estate of H. Astrup, deceased. 29-6-13-20-27 Your Contribution Yet? A: jjyffiia mi Ksa ." niiVUKM a?saa &m? m1? sa J. KiA'.J,. Tr.Vu.2 eii-vs.w.v.xtjj f alimentary tract, before putting more food into the stomach. Girls and women with sallow skins, liver spots, pimples or pallid complexion, also those who wake up with a orated tongue, bad taste, nasty breath, others who are bothered with headaches, bilious spells, acid stomach or constipation should begin this phosphated not water drinking and are assured of very pronounced results in one or two weeks. A quarter pound of limestone phosphate costs very little at the drug store but is sufficient to demonstrate that just as soap and hot water cleanses, parities and freshens the skin on the outside, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the inside. We must always consider that internal sanitation is vastly more important than outside cleanliness, because the skin pores do not absorb impurities into the blood, while the bowel pores do. Women who desire to enhance the beauty of their complexion should lose try this for a week and lose results. BY ALLMAN "yWmjtafPi (tttmfm. ...n,aiiii i 5 k I ! a 4. 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The Moral Issues of Artificial Insemination
- Although infertility is a significant problem in the United States today, “artificial reproductive technologies” are often avoided due to negative perceptions (Barbieri 203). In 2005 10 percent of American couples were infertile. There are numerous causes that sometimes can be avoided. When there is no way to fix it, there are ways to treat it. Stress can cause infertility because hormones take over the body producing more cortisol which suppresses sperm count (U.S.: 2.1). The added physical, mental and financial pressures of assisted reproduction can decrease the chances of pregnancy.... [tags: Ethics ]
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Bioethics and Artificial Insemination
- Bioethics and Artificial Insemination With every new technology that is born, there must be many questions as to whether this technology is beneficial or harmful as well as analyze who is affects. This especially holds true in dealing with the technology of artificial insemination. With the cultural mainstreaming of artificial insemination, there have been many articles written discussing the ethics of such decisions. Most of these articles are written by feminist authors with the purpose of discussing the impact of this new technology on women and how it affects their roles as mothers in society.... [tags: Pregnancy Technology Science Essays]
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Artificial Insemination
- Artificial Insemination There are different types of responsibility involved in human reproduction. With modern biomedical technology the question of “who is responsible?” comes up a lot more. Artificial insemination is one of newer forms of technology that involves that question, which includes moral, and social responsibility. In “Artificial Insemination” Munson raises the question not only of who’s responsible but also what responsibilities and rights the sperm donor has and where fatherhood comes into place in that situation.... [tags: Pregnancy Reproduction Essays]
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Artificial Insemination and the Rights of Women, Men, and Children
- Women have adamantly battled for political and social reproductive rights since, in particular artificial insemination, have become mainstream phenomena in the recent decade with a focus on rights of women. In fact, doctors have experimented with the procedure for nearly a century. However, with the women¹s liberation movement of the 1970s, physician-assisted and self-insemination has become more and more popular among heterosexual career women and lesbians. The Origins of Artificial Insemination She was a Quaker.... [tags: Exploratory Essays Research Papers]
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Surrogacy Is A Viable Option For Families
- Many couples in the world get married and intend to start a family together, however this is not always possible for some families. One option for those families is surrogacy. Surrogacy is defined as an agreement with two parties for an adult woman to bear a child conceived through assisted conception for intended parents. In the United States alone, approximately 6.7 million women were diagnosed with infertility. The first known case of surrogacy occurred in California in the mid 1970’s. In 2010, and approximately 7.4 million women ages 15-44 used infertility services.... [tags: Pregnancy, Surrogacy, Artificial insemination]
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Under What Circumstances Should Surrogacy Contracts Be Enforceable
- Under What Circumstances Should Surrogacy Contracts Be Enforceable 1. Introduction Karen (1997) proposed that contact surrogacy contracts in the social development process increasingly prominent infertility problems. The advances in biomedical technology may provide a technical solution to this problem. The impact of surrogacy on traditional family values and the impact of the law are subversive. It has changed the traditional ways of the establishment of parentage. It also raised many moral and ethical disputes that whether surrogacy should be legalized.... [tags: legalization, artificial insemination]
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Surrogacy : The Ongoing Debate
- Surrogacy: The ongoing debate In today’s world everyone is pressured to get married and have kids. Either by society, friends or family. When you’re in a relationship for a while the questions start to be asked such as “When are you getting married?” Once you’re married then the questions “When are you having kids?” are asked. Couples have an intense amount or pressure to start families. When the couple is finally ready to have kids after many failed attempts they find out they are incapable of producing children of their own.... [tags: Pregnancy, Surrogacy, Artificial insemination]
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Elephant Reproduction
- Reproduction of Female Elephants Basic anatomy and physiology, artificial insemination, parturition, and social aspects of reproduction Introduction The study and research of reproduction in elephants is increasingly critical in consideration of the quickly dwindling population numbers and estimates. The current Asian elephant population is estimated to lie between 50,000-70,000 across the world, with 15,000 of these individuals in captivity. African elephant population numbers are low as well after serious culling through hunting and poaching.... [tags: artificial insemination, parturition, animal scien]
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Ethical Discussion About Surrogacy
- Surrogacy is a modern medical treatment, which is the process that a woman carries and delivers the baby for another person or another couple. Ethical problems of this medical technology have been discussed frequently in recent years. Some arguments support surrogacy, some against. Those arguments and ethical issues involved in will be discussed in this paper. From the scientific point of view, there are two major types of surrogacy, which are traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy (Brinsden 484).... [tags: medical treatment, natural insemination]
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Rights and Issues of Procreation
- Issues of Procreation: The right to procreate and bear children is a constitutional protection for every individual in addition to the right to marry. However, procreation is a subject that has attracted huge concerns and debates in the recent past, especially because of the development of modern reproductive assistance technology. This advancement has contributed to the emergence of several issues on this topic because it has made procreation to be an increasingly instant and practical process.... [tags: insemination, abortion, fertilization]
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Artificial Reproductive Technologies
- Artificial Reproductive Technologies Introduction Today about 15% of all couples in the United States have fertility problems. 40% of the problems attributed with the man and 50% with the woman and the other 10% is unexplained or due to both partners. Couples today are waiting longer to start families than their parents, this has an effect on fertility of the couple. A woman has a harder time trying to after the age of 30. So, when a couple decides that they want to start a family and can not, what options do they have.... [tags: Infertility Pregnancy Reproduction Essays]
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Artificial Sex Selection in Today’s Fertility Clinics
- Artificial Sex Selection in Today’s Fertility Clinics Thesis Statement: The method of sorting cryopreserved sperm for the purpose of separating the X and Y chromosomes has been an ongoing process for many years. However, recently this method has become a modern preconception technique in which numerous applications for safe and effective selection procedures now exist in clinical practices. I have chosen to explore how currently these uses have broadened to areas where many of us might see as a moral or ethical issue.... [tags: Genetics Science Biology Genes Papers]
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Artificial Intelligence : The Development Of Artificial Intelligence
- Introduction: Artificial Intelligence (AI), also known as machine Intelligence, refers to the Intelligence demonstrated by the Artificial system.Usually artificial intelligence is the intelligence achieved through ordinary computers.The term also means studying whether such a smart system can be implemented and how it can be achieved. In the near future, the development of artificial intelligence technology will be more mature. Many repetitive manual work will be replaced by artificial intelligence, which can save more time for humans to do more creative work.... [tags: Artificial intelligence, Sapience, Human]
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The And Of Artificial Intelligence
- In a world where technology play a huge part of people’s lives, we would need to understand the “mind” behind systems such as Siri, Cortana, and other programs – known as artificial intelligence. There are two ways to think about the use and power of artificial intelligence. The Weak AI hypothesis states that a computer can simulate some mental activity and intelligent behavior. On the other hand, the Strong AI hypothesis states that a computer engaged in the right computations has a real mind. But what are the benefits and risks of AI.... [tags: Artificial intelligence, Psychology, Strong AI]
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Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Mankind?
- From the first imaginative thought to manipulate nature to the development of complex astronomical concepts of space exploration, man continues to this day to innovate and invent products or methods that improve and enhance humankind. Though it has taken 150 million years to reach current day, the intellectual journey was not gradual in a linear sense. If one was to plot significant events occurring throughout human existence, Mankind’s ability to construct new ideas follows a logarithmic path, and is rapidly approaching an asymptote, or technological singularity.... [tags: Artificial Intelligence]
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Children of Donor Insemination: A Child's Right to Know
- There are couples where one member is infertile, there are women or men who may want to raise a child on their own, and there are homosexual couples―these are all people, who need help in order to procreate. They can turn to gamete donors in order to pursue the goal they have of procreating. One half of the child’s genetic material would come from someone who would be raising the child, while the other half would come from a donor. In this essay I intend to argue that it is ethically appropriate to inform children who are conceived by means of an egg or sperm donor of their biological origins and, in the case that they wish to know, the identity of their non-social, biological parent.... [tags: Infertility, Insemination, Parenting, Children]
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Artificial Intelligence : The Impact Of Technology And Artificial Intelligence
- Introduction Since the invention of the computer, humans have greatly improved most if not all aspects of life. Today, they look and perform much differently than computers from the past couple decades. This change constituted an exponential improvement in raw performance. They are produced in many different forms as well, with some being able to fit comfortably in your pocket and others filling an entire room. The processing power of these computers is so great that they can run through millions of data in seconds.... [tags: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning]
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Artificial Neural Networks Report
- ... And gave guidelines about how to choose a learning rate. If we choose a learning rate that is too large, it may moves too far in the “correct” direction, resulting in overshooting or minimum in the error surface, it takes longer to train, which effect the accuracy (will be poor in that case).By decreasing the learning rate, the training speed and accuracy will be improved, but if we use a too small learning rate it is a waste of time and computational resources. Their approach is explained as following steps: Step1.Train the neural network for one epoch using different orders magnitude of learning rates (e.g., 100 down to .00001) , So we can find a learning rate L with the smallest tota... [tags: artificial intelligence]
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Artificial Intelligence And The Field Of Robotics
- Artificial intelligence is slowly being applied to the wide field of robotics. Anyone interested in intelligent robotics can look into programming in robotics and learning how A.I. is applied. Programming artificial intelligence into robots is no different than on a computer except for the variable of motion and environment. There are starter kits and current A.I. robotic research to look into if one is interested in getting involved. This section will cover the basics in getting started on figuring out how artificial intelligent robots work.... [tags: Robot, Robotics, Artificial intelligence]
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Artificial Intelligence, Are They Existential Threat?
- Artificial Intelligence, are they an existential threat to us. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the area of computer science focusing on creating machines that can engage on behaviors that humans consider intelligent. The ability to create intelligent machines has intrigued humans since ancient times and today with the advent of the computer and 50 years of research into AI programming techniques, the dream of smart machines is becoming a reality. These smart machines can mimic human’s thought, understand speech, and do other countless things that was not possible before.... [tags: Artificial intelligence, Computer, Transhumanism]
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Artificial Intelligence And Human Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence: Can Computers Think?
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Turing, Searle, and Artificial Intelligence
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LIQ. Liquid
... how can one ensure the availability of money (MNY) and strengthen the Means of Exchange (MEX)?
If an asset cannot be readily sold for its full value, how can it be called money?
If someone owns an apple and it is worth $10. Can he exchange it for $10? Only if the market is liquid. If there is only one buyer he may demand a lower price if the seller is desperate.
Money must be readily available and 'liquid.'
Is our current money 'purely liquid'? First we must define 'purely liquid'. An asset is purely liquid if it can be used in exchange the instant it is received.
Under this definition our current paper money is 'purely liquid' if you ignore the time it takes to travel from the physical location of receipt to the physical location of spending.
On the other hand our 'cash deposits' are not. A check may take days to clear the system even if it is deposited as soon as received. Debit card transactions also may take time to settle.
If possible we should make the time that funds become available to spend after receipt as small as possible.
Money must be liquid. If it can be 'purely liquid' make it so.
Liquidity of money can be achieved with Instant Transfer (INS) and controlled by Controlled Inflation or Demurrage (DMR).
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The long-term results of total hip arthroplasty without cement have been reported only rarely. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the minimum ten-year results of primary total hip arthroplasty performed with use of a proximally porous-coated, plasma-sprayed, straight-stemmed, titanium-alloy femoral component. The clinical and radiographic results of a consecutive series of 105 total hip replacements in ninety-five patients were reviewed ten to twelve years postoperatively. The diagnosis was osteoarthritis for seventy-seven hips (73%). The clinical result was evaluated on the basis of the Harris hip score, complications, and thigh pain. A detailed radiographic analysis was performed at each follow-up visit. Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed to evaluate the survival of the femoral component. The average Harris hip score improved from 46 points preoperatively to 92 points postoperatively. The average pain score at the time of the most recent follow-up was 42 points, with eighty-three hips (79%) rated as pain-free. Thigh pain was identified in only two patients. All radiolucent lines were seen around the tip of the stem. All hips had some degree of femoral remodeling consistent with osseous ingrowth. No femoral component was revised, and no femoral component had evidence of loosening. Eight acetabular components were revised because of loosening and wear, and one was revised because of recurrent dislocation. One focal femoral osteolytic lesion was seen. This femoral component afforded durable fixation at ten to twelve years after primary total hip arthroplasty. Therapeutic study, Level IV (case series [no, or historical, control group]). See Instructions to Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5a5b63d020a3b934566395c362f7e90c70ca476f97a85419356a2b1113feaaac'} |
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Did Ron Paul's Excellence Turn Supporters Into Spoiled Brats?
I've noticed a disturbing trend lately. People are using Ron Paul's political candidacy now as a minimum acceptable benchmark as opposed to a guiding light.
Purists now are rejecting everyone else as not good enough because they're not as good as Ron. Well, who is other than Ron himself?
It's not a healthy or good thing to be a spoiled brat.
One can either be a strict purist or live in reality.
Purism wouldn't work in building a business and hiring people. In that scenario one must hire the best person they can find for each opening. To be purist is to not ever be satisfied with any hiring candidate and missing all the business opportunities.
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Well this is why I could
Well this is why I could never have supported anyone after my man Jesus Christ died for our sins. Once he set the bar I have just waited for someone better. Ron Paul, psh.
It's called principle.
Some people have the intellect and the guts to stick to it.
Simple Facts and Plain Arguments
A common sense take on politics and current events.
The Purists Post 24/7
Other folks only post once the horse races (election season) start.
"One can either be a strict
"One can either be a strict purist or live in reality."
Since reality sucks, some just try to make it more pure.
Ron Paul, IMHO
was the messanger, and would have made a reluctant leader.
What are you?
Some kind of a political Luddite? There is no room for progress? We got the best we ever could and nothing better will come along?
So I guess if I get 10 applicants and they all have a history of stealing, I need to hire one of them or else? How'bout I hire nobody in such a case?
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Then your boss will go around
Then your boss will go around you and hire the worst one and force you to deal with them so that next time you'll pick one.
Freedom in our lifetime! - fiol.us
My boss would ask me
to develop a better source for hiring if the entire candidate pool was thieves. You work for tough boss.
Liberty = Responsibility
I'm sorry, I guess the
I'm sorry, I guess the analogy went over your head.
I'm saying that fascists will take over and we'll all be fucked.
Even after a record low turnout and no one giving a shit you guys seriously still think the powers that be give a flying fuck whether or not you vote? SERIOUSLY? REALLY?
Freedom in our lifetime! - fiol.us
no it didnt
I took at face value and responded. Your analogy was just a bad analogy.
Will take over? The fascist HAVE taken over, it happened quite some time ago.
While you think you are holding the pass the revolution passed you by in the night signing songs of freedom.
Liberty = Responsibility
Your defeatist attitude will
Your defeatist attitude will get us nowhere, as will this conversation.
Freedom in our lifetime! - fiol.us
Ron Paul was/ is politically quite excellent...
...but we need the Ron Paul model to become the norm and see men arise more excellent than he, men who can speak to what Lee Atwater upon finding himself facing a terminal illness called the "spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society", the "tumor of the soul."
Better to be divided by truth than united in error.
This is the kind of thinking that got us where we are now
I would see the spoiled brat as the one that is mad that we will not give into their compromises anymore. You have had it well the past 200 years and we are not giving you anymore.
Every year we are told to compromise away a little more of our liberty. Then the next year they ask for a little more.
The only thing I have to say to the Republican and Rand apologists is NO MORE! This game has been played for too long and I am not going to give in any more because all you do is ask for more. NO MORE!
No compromising principles !
1. If your party blatantly cheats my candidate : never again in 1,000 years will I support it
2. If your party is choosing obvious losers such as Romney they are not telling you the whole story
3. As long as they can convince fools like yourself to compromise ... nothing of substance will ever change
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You're making this "us vs
You're making this "us vs them"?! Really? Ok, well let's go there. Every year YOU DID compromise a little more for liberty. I wasn't alive, but YOU kept giving in and offering up more of your safety for liberty. So now YOU don't get to have everything instantly be good again. YOU have to take baby steps, or you won't get your way AT ALL and you can FUCK ME OVER EVEN MORE AND MAKE EVERYTHING KEEP GOING THE DIRECTION IT IS HEADED. Is that what you want?
I never "discovered" libertarianism. It was what made sense to me before anyone told me anything about politics. I was NEVER ok with them taking away my liberty in exchange for safety. I NEVER wanted to regulate peoples' morals. So don't point a finger at me, just because I want to take steps in the right direction, and say it was ME that wanted to give up our freedoms. That was most likely YOU and the rest of the current 'no-compromise' crowd.
Since YOU screwed it up for ME by compromising over and over we now have to get the other side to compromise. "Not compromising" is simply not an option. They WILL just give us more bad politicians otherwise. FUCKING DUH. We are a ridiculously small minority who is making small gains every time we compromise and major losses every time we refuse. LOOK AT THE DAMN EVIDENCE, PLEASE.
Freedom in our lifetime! - fiol.us
you actually think being a spoiled brat is a good thing? lol
Try thinking with your head for a change and not your emotion.
Massie and Amash are not as good as Ron but they are good. That's the point, the movement goes on.
Who disputed anything about liberty? You did and that's it. Moron
You need to do some research
You are apparently a relative newbee here, so I'll cut you some slack. It is obvious you were not part of the Ron Paul Revolution. Or, if you were, you didn't quite "get it".
*We do not want Ron Paul, we want the Constitution.
*We do not care about Rand's tiny "let's stop aid to Egypt for a year" - we want the government to stop killing little brown children and supplying weapons to evil men. We want to leave the Middle East!
*We do not want tax code reform, we want to End the FED.
*We don't want to argue about pot in Colorade, we want to legalize all drugs and end the violent war against the people.
*We want to shrink government, a lot.
I could go on, but you get the picture.
Those are our principles. I will not waiver from them or ever vote for anyone, or be part of any political party, that does not abide these basic principles. There are some people out there who give me hope, but not realistic.
This is not being a "brat". This is being part of the American Enlightenment of Paine and Jefferson.
you're missing the point completely
I'm not disputing any of those things. Where did Massie and Amash waiver from them? They didn't. Then we should support them despite not being as good as Ron.
There's life beyond Ron. Get over it
Yes, you are disputing that
The whole point of your post was disputing what I said. We Ron Paul people are not purists, just principled.
And the point you are missing, is that if Massie and Amash are standing by those same principles, then they ARE as good as Ron.
Rand, does not. So he won't get my support.
Life goes on beyond Ron, but does not go beyond a fascist dictatorship.
never again, not even for a Paul...
We never know WHEN the evil will fall
Being a "Purist" Has
nothing at all to do with being a spoiled brat. It's about being true to liberty and what is right. For example, could I vote for Cruz over Kerry? Kerry wants an immediate attack on Syria; Cruz wants the same for Iran. No, not after what Dr. Paul has taught me. Justin Amash could very well be Ron Paul's ideological and ethical successor. I hope so, but no voting for the lesser of two evils for me, or voting because of a party label. Never again.
Edgar Morgan
Does purist = being a spoiled brat?
Because if so, I'm not seeing it.
While I agree that using Dr. Paul as a constant 'benchmark' of sorts, and the cult of personality that often comes along with it (happens to all high-profile people) can be a detriment to one's efforts, shortsightedness and all that, I see nothing wrong with not accepting anything less than (perceived) perfection in a person you're pouring your time/money/faith/whatever else into.
A signature used to be here!
then it's counter productive
If all you will accept is Ron's level of excellence and that's it. Amash, Massie etc get ignored despite being great
Justin Amash is quite acceptable to me
and other "purists" here. Please read the comments.
Even if I were to disagree with him on a minor issue, he has what makes one a true liberty candidate (like Ron, unlike Rand), and that is, his entire being is effused with a profound belief in self restraint with regard to the use of violence. This principle is what liberty is all about.
Rand, even though attractive in some respects, simply doesn't "get it." He would murder tens of thousands of innocent Iranians in the "defense" of Israel, which, ironically would ultimately result in Israel's destruction itself. This is not the mark of a libertarian.
Voting for someone
who would support a decrease in even one honest person's liberty is immoral. That is what "purism" is all about. If you would support someone who would do this, you are, essentially, saying that some people's liberty is more important than that of other people. It is why the true libertarian could not support someone who would work against liberty on any significant issue. The problem is that unless one is "pure" in this regard (ie principled), you are actually, on at least one significant issue, working AGAINST liberty.
Think about it.
Great post
if you're out there holding out for another Ron Paul....you're gonna be waiting for a really really really long time.
Guy was one of a kind.
Then I'll keep waiting.
-Njal Thorgeirsson
No - completely false
He was not "one of a kind". There are two million of us! Several hundred here on the DP. That's why the OP is an idiot who didn't get the Revolution to begin with.
We are suppose to spread the Freedom Message to the people, not the politicians - they will follow if there are enough of us.
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In any construction procedure, soil erosion is usually a major problem. With soil erosion, prevention is always easier than correction. Many ways are known in the prevention of soil erosion. In soil areas, with vegetation growing, the root system of the plants can prevent erosion. So, the faster root growth can occur in area, the more likely it is that soil erosion can be prevented, or at least minimized.
Current erosion treatments are carried out after the site is graded and seed is applied. A site-specific seed type and cover crop are applied by broadcast seeding, slip seeding, drill seeding, or hydro seeding. With favorable weather conditions or supplemental watering in controlled increments, the seed source may start to establish once within three or four weeks. The soil can then be stabilized with the living plants. In the meantime, this practice has a great problem for causing soil loss by erosion, due to the period of no vegetation and lack of emerging root growth.
Typical seeds for cover crops include, but are not limited to annual rye, fescue and spring oats. Seeding generally takes longer to establish the root system to minimize or prevent erosion. Those plans usually require two or three growing seasons for maturity and the establishment of good ground cover. In normal practices, job site and outside conditions affect the success of seed growth. Heavy rain or hot climates can cause the seed or soil to erode without proper maintenance.
In extremely difficult climates, additional water and herbicide treatments are necessary to establish the seed and create a root base to minimize erosion. If the site is already suffering from damage such as erosion problems, additional soil and seed applications may be necessary. Such actions add greatly to the expense of erosion prevention.
Soil customarily contains tremendous amounts of seed sources, that produce weeds. Once the soil is disturbed, new annual weeds will begin to germinate, and overtake a cover crop and the native seed source. Weeds are very undesirable. Avoidance of a weed crop is very desirable. Quick growth of desired vegetation is a very desirable method of avoiding a weed crop.
Currently, live plugs, that is small pieces of desired vegetation, are the only way to get an immediate vegetation coverage, which can compete with weed seeds. Planting the live plugs is labor-intensive. The plugs themselves are also costly. Then the maintenance of the plugs is a problem.
Additionally, because of short growing seasons in the upper Midwest, this success of the native species and its growth will be shortened. It will therefore take more growing seasons to have any native species function as the erosion-preventing ground cover. In that case, treatments to prevent extreme weed competition can include controlled burns or herbicides. Such treatments can cause more problems than they solve. A controlled burn requires a fire department presence for reasonable safety. Herbicides have environmental consequences, even with careful application thereof.
Normally when exposed soil is to be seeded the grade, a seed type is applied by either broadcast or hydro seeded from that point. But at application, the specified seed is just that, seed. It has not developed into an erosion preventing plant. Thus, it usually will take a three to four week period, under good growing conditions, to see a cover crop come up. Seed generally takes longer to establish than living plants to take hold and root.
Also, a seeding process is usually fighting many uphill battles. Inclement weather types, such as heavy rains, extreme heat or both, cause seeds fight a losing battle in the attempt become rooted or sprouted in the desired. Even under an erosion control blanket, seeds still have those problems. If the construction site is already wet or has a fast unpredicted rise of water flow, because of urban run off or naturally occurring stream rising or falling, it creates an additional uphill battle for seeds. Other problems for seeds include spikes in runoff or rain fall directly or usually prevent full establishment of the seed.
The seeding process, which was originally designed to take two to three days, now requires much more labor and tremendous efforts to redo. Nevertheless, that which was originally installed, now requires constant maintenance; such as adding new soil, reseeding, using additional water or re blanketing. Blanketing applies a cover to seeds, as a special erosion control measure. These operations add a tremendous additional expense as well. If the project is successful for normal operation standards, still weed treatments such as herbicides or cutting must be done to allow access for Native foliage to grow. Then, in most of the United States, the summer heat moves in at the end of June through September 15. Native foliage becomes succulent and young; and cannot fight the annual weed competition.
Such plantings are not acceptable and will get the appropriate signing off as successful by permitting authority as well as engineers or the contractor. General contractors and the subcontractors cannot get finished pay outs, thereby restricting cash flow and causing more maintenance to get acceptance of success.
While this may seem odd, under normal practices, this is usually how commercial jobs operate. Because of unit costs up front, installation prices per unit are very expensive. It is the way this is done. No appropriate solution is available.
Additionally, one must factor in monitoring the site, herbicide treatments, watering regimens and top dressing or even reseeding, the true price per unit is high and still may take years to see true success. In the interim, soil loss and natural waterways, wetlands, or other areas are polluted. Remedies therefor occur at a large cost. Compounding daily across the United States is a large scale environmental problem from non source point pollution.
It is very necessary to create an alternative process to limit loss exposure and create situations to have a better chance of success; such success including, but not limited to, reduced overall herbicide use and limited chances of storm events to compromise a sight to see credible changes in plant community establishment faster and protect our environment. To that end, it is very desirable to have an efficient method of getting desired vegetation in a desired place at a desired time. It is furthermore valuable to be able to control erosion and produce native grass or turf grass on difficult sites or erodible soils, quickly and efficiently with reduced labor in maintenance requirements.
Attempts to solve some of these problems with vegetated blankets can also be a problem. It is difficult to produce a proper blanket for control of erosion. Not only that, it is difficult to move the blankets to a desired location. Then application of the blanket to the desired surface can be complicated and difficult. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a7c3d5622d296c7e49b91acc8a8e5c4aeda60c3252531c2cb58c930c752761b1'} |
Zero Hora Newspaper Lies to Readers about Chem-trails
By Luis R. Miranda
The Real Agenda
June 23, 2010
Laser Weapons and Weather Modification Today
Laser beams shot from Earth into space (HAARP) or viceversa are a reality today.
By Luis R. Miranda
The Real Agenda
June 1, 2010
Many people act in disbelief when the topic of direct energy weapons is brought into a conversation. It is thought to be ‘kooky’ if one explains that such weapons can be used to change weather patterns or shoot structures down. However, a recent application of laser beams reveals that such uses -military and otherwise- are not only closer to reality than we thought, but indeed a common application nowadays.
In an article published on Russia Today, the admission of the existence of such technologies is not only admitted, but also explained in their applications.
From Russia Today Published 04 May, 2010, 13:08:
A powerful laser can be shot into humid air to cause intense water condensation, scientists have discovered. The technology has the potential to replace cloud seeding widely used today.
Then a short laser pulse is shot into the air, it forms a path of ionised nitrogen and oxygen. Some military researchers want to use this “plasma channel” to conduct electricity in futuristic direct energy weapons, but there appears to be a peaceful application.
The ionized molecules act as natural nuclei for water condensation and can potentially be used to cause rain. Optical physicist Jérôme Kasparian at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues stumbled on it as they investigated the possibility of diverting lightning discharges via laser.
The “cloud seeding” method used today involves silver iodide or frozen carbon dioxide, which stimulate droplet formation in clouds. The chemicals are released by ground generators or dropped from planes wherever needed. The approach, which has been used for some 50 years now, is only moderately efficient and there are some environmental concerns over it.
So far Kasparian and the team have successfully tested the laser-induced condensation technology both in lab and in the field. They measured the number of new droplets by counting back-scatterings from a second low-energy pulse from another laser. In humid weather, they measured 20 times more of those after firing the first beam, they report online in Nature Photonics.
The technology, however, is in the early stages, and the scientists are yet to prove that it can effectively cause condensation over wide areas rather than along a narrow channel. They also need to investigate if it works in different environmental conditions.
So are we supposed to believe this technology is not already in use? Of course not. Can this laser technology be used to create higher degrees of instability in the atmosphere the same way it can be used to create clouds and make it rain? You be the judge.
What other applications can this weaponry have? How about shooting a laser beam from space into any point on Earth? Suddenly, the theory of direct energy weaponry used on 9/11 does not seem so far fetched, does it? Although she is still missing the connecting dot between the technology and how it may or may not have been used in 2001, the drawn parallels during her investigation seem to be pretty much on the spot.
Chemtrails have taken over the skies of world with aluminum oxide, barium and sulfur compounds.
Is weather modification a peaceful application as the article above defines it? Not really. The weather in our planet revolves around natural processes which are part of a natural balance, so any artificial changes will -at the very least- ultimately have unforeseen effects in the regular weather patterns. Artificial weather modification through the use of chemtrails is denied as a technique to change the weather over a region today even though there are classified and unclassified government programs that consist of spraying barium and aluminum oxide compounds, among others. into the atmosphere as a way to control how much sunlight gets to Earth. When authorities are asked about the unclassified programs, they state that the use of chemical spraying is for the greater good. The first excuse that unequivocally comes to mind is Global Warming. So, scientists and the government think it is a good idea to spray chemicals that cause health problems and pollute the air we breath and the water we drink in order to affect a naturally occurring process.
Programs that deal with weather modification are thought to be a matter of people’s imagination; that is until we discover that corrupt organizations like the IPCC studied and suggested the use of technology to artificially alter the weather. What the studies don’t tell you is that particles used in weather modification that are as small as 10 microns, can be disastrous for our health. The accumulation of aluminum oxide and other chemicals in rain water collected in regions where chemtrails are used are as high as 20 times the natural content.
Weather modification is not only a thing of the present or the future. In the past, the United States government, for example, used weather modification in the form of cloud seeding to cause heavy rains in Vietnam during the war period. The rain brought massive floods over the Vietnamese resistance army and facilitated the work of the U.S. American planes flew over 2,000 weather modification missions during the war. Project Storm Fury, which used cloud seeding to modify weather, as well as other technologies have been studied and applied for at least 40 years. According to Dr. Joseph Golden, a senior research scientist at the National Oceanic Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), says such technologies have been used to weaken hurricanes by as much as 15 percent in the past. He also admits the spraying of chemicals allow scientists and the military to control the weather in any area for different periods of time. Chemtrails can last anywhere between 6 to 20 hours in the atmosphere after the chemicals that form them are sprayed. They can cover areas as large as 4000 miles or more. My question is, can these technologies be used to create or direct hurricanes as they are used to weaken, slow them down or even dissipate them? The answer is YES.
The use of laser beams and similar technologies is, as we see on this table, a well achieved goal. The most famous of all applications is Nikola Tesla’s laser beam direct energy technology. Tesla’s application has been studied and perfected throughout decades and now, it is recognized -even by military men- as a real source of energy. Lt. Colonel Thomas E. Bearden (retired), an experienced systems analyst and wargames specialist, said: “time as energy eventually becomes engineerable”. And he continued: “For our very survival, it is absolutely imperative that informed citizens be aware of this dramatic change, which is just now starting. The powerful new science and engineering must be controlled and used for humanity’s benefit, not its detriment. Else it will eventually be let loose unrestrainedly, to destroy all life on earth – as possibility indicated by Nikita Khrushchev in 1960.
What Mr. Bearden means is that humanity has in its hands a new weapon; a weapon that is capable of wiping all life on Earth. Lt. Colonel Bearden’s vision is supported by former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen, who warned about the use of laser weapons as a form of eco-terrorism. “Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…”
Although scientists themselves may not be thinking about using geo-engineering or weather modification technologies to cause harm to large areas of the Earth, -at least not all of them- especially those densely populated, the reality is, it is not in their hands to make that decision. Scientists are the ones in charge of thinking, creating and applying technologies. Whatever is done with those technologies is then the prerogative of private corporations or governments, that are the ones who provide financing and infrastructure for the experiments. One question that may be raised about weather modification in the form of laser weapons or chemtrails is, how do they affect us? The answer is, not positively. Another question then is, why if in the past governments and corporations denied the existence of weather modification and weapons technologies of this sort, are they now telling us about their use and putting them in plain sight? Well, because it is undeniable geo-engineering is happening as it is admitted by scientists and military men. So no more need to document chemtrails as they admittedly exist. No more need to document laser beam weapons; both on Earth and in space, as they admittedly exist. Check this PDF from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a known influential globalist organization on the ideas about the unilateral use of Geo-engineering.
Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen
As former United States Defense Secretary William Cohen confessed, the issue now is not whether geo-engineering through laser beams or spraying is real or not, but what is it going to be used for. And if we take his word as the former defense secretary of the most powerful military in the world, the future does not look well. Simply from the point of view of what laser weapons are capable of, or what does geo-engineering do to the environment, all eyebrows need to be raised. How toxic can these chemtrails be that Monsanto, a chemical company itself, is creating a type of seed capable of resisting chemicals of the kind being used in chemtrails. According to Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri , the chemicals sprayed over populated and non-populated areas are damaging not only the environment, but also to human health.
A global awakening has begun to stop the atmospheric and orbital war on the people.
Read Dr. Perlingieri’s complete assessment on geo-engineering and weather modification here. And how about those laser beam weapons? Well, if governments and corporations are now capable of creating clouds, creating and directing hurricanes, creating earthquakes and other phenomena, as both William Cohen and Lt. Bearden say, it is safe to say that those too, are threats of gigantic scale for the survival of humanity. The use of chemicals and lasers are the kind of quick fixes that brought us DDT, CFC gases, microwave radiation devices, genetically modified organisms (GMO), pesticides in the food supply and others of the kind. It is this very same threat that has propelled people around the world to mobilize. Scientist David Suzuki calls geo-engineering “insane” and goes beyond to say: “If we have learned anything from the past, it is that while we are very clever at inventing powerful new technologies, our knowledge of how the world works and is interconnected is almost zero.”
Even the traditionally globalist, population control supporter United Nations is restrained on the use of both -chemical and laser- weapons. The 14th meeting of Subsidiary Body of Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice was the first time a UN Body addressed geo-engineering for the first time since the 1976 ENMOD Treaty banned environmental modification for “hostile uses”. SBSTTA 14 is already recommending that the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity call on its member governments to impose a moratorium on all climate geo-engineering activities when it convenes in Nagoya, Japan this October. Of course, knowledge spreads faster and better when more people, at the local level, take it upon themselves to let others know about mainstream important issues. Please inform your relatives, friends and acquaintances about the origin and dangers of laser weapons for military and weather modification purposes, as well as Geo-engineering with chemicals all around the planet. Just as THE PEOPLE exposed the lies about Anthropogenic Global Warming and Climategate, it is our duty to expose this, too. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2131', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9531564712524414}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '137921', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:PAO4QCYCMOIU4D4EIQM77TFMTZLNLOAX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1e7642f5-a897-4525-bbd9-b0a7cf6de3f0>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 26, 12, 40, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.12', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:SWJZYJGWOOL5NUVKK74PRF7TUP33JSAW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ab131ea3-0a0e-4892-956e-72e424b88549>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://realagenda.wordpress.com/tag/condensation/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d8c0bedb-613c-405c-ab87-c2c2d89dc19e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '3950', 'url': 'https://realagenda.wordpress.com/tag/condensation/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-142\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.053872883319854736', 'original_id': 'd278245927984c58cdb41f8a2f64754d66f656c9a92e0d1afd4737516f7784f8'} |
Grid Frameworks and why I’m not keen on them…
I’ve written a post for 12 Devs of Xmas on Grid Frameworks.
After spending months whining about grid frameworks, and Bootstrap, I’ve finally backed up my tweet-sized complaints with some context and examples.
I knew it would be contentious and that some people would feel antagonised by my saying that developers who don’t consider accessibility shouldn’t be on the web. And possibly also that I suggest some developers lazily fail to customise frameworks to appropriately suit their needs. So far, the reasons behind these feelings seem to be a lack of control over their own work, blaming clients or bosses. I don’t know what to say to be helpful in these situations
Me, I would refuse to do a job that wouldn’t fit my idea of quality development. If there’s not enough time to make a site accessible (the idea of this still baffles me as I consider accessibility part of core development) then there’s not enough time to finish the project. It does feel rather unhelpful telling someone that, if their boss/client is forcing them to do things in the wrong way, they should quit their job, and I probably care about these things a lot harder than many, but honestly, that’s what I’d do.
Anyway, I’m sure I’ll be dealing with more accessibility-related issues in the future. It’s far too easy for me to go off on a rant and a ramble, I just want more people to care.
1. I appreciate and agree with your sentiment about semantic markup, and accessibility, but I think you may have jumped the gun in [Day 7: Grid Frameworks](" rel="nofollow) by implying grid frameworks are inherently inaccessible. I argue against front end frameworks in my day to day job. The reasons I cite are:
1) developers need to learn the framework, not the underlying technology 2) our web standards require semantic markup, which frameworks often lack out the box 3) frameworks look like a framework –; sometimes as much work is required to theme it as there would be to build from scratch 4) frameworks often mean extra bytes –; superfluous markup contradicts my requirements for mobile first / every byte counts
I get where you’re coming from and agree in most parts. I’m not saying I’ll never use a front end framework, but I do campaign for refining and building our own internal boilerplates. It’s important to be careful when choosing arguments to protect accessibility. To say using a grid framework would introduce a risk to the accessibility of the site would be careless if not untrue, thus risking the importance of the accessibility argument. Like all things, the devil is in the detail. If those grids had semantic class names rather than grid_whatever they’d be no more accessible. You rightly point out some basic semantics required for a good accessible build –; lists, heading levels, good anchor text –; but these are separate from the structure provided by a grid framework. (Of course, all this goes without mention of landmark areas, aria, skip to main content etc) (As an aside, is it terrible to use a grid as the structure and object orientate the theme with semantic classnames alongside the grid_whatevers?) I agree accessibility and semantics are both important, but I think there’s a lot of detail missing to get from point A to point B in your post and subsequent comments, which is very dangerous when promoting the cause to senior stakeholders and those who need to understand the cold hard facts without emotion.
• Thanks Craig, there’s some great points in there, and I think you’re right in saying that I was making a bit of leap, here’s my explanation why: I was really trying to create an argument around your point 2. “Our web standards require semantic markup, which frameworks often lack out of the box.” But then I came to ask myself: why do semantics matter? Why bother making anything semantic? I know that **I** think that semantics are important, but how do you explain it to someone who just thinks that semantics are about being fussy? So I went one level deeper. Why are semantics so important to me? Chiefly, accessibility. Then reusability, maintenance etc. Thus my post became about these things, brushing over the semantics that people often disregard as purist. I’m sorry if I didn’t convey the point well enough, and you’ve definitely given me some food for thought in terms of how I represent accessibility.
• No apology necessary Laura, any constructive discussion on accessibility is good discussion. I too am incredibly passionate about semantic markup and accessibility, but the reason I need to be careful is there’s always someone ready with a counter; a supplier, external developers, project managers… I push back on poorly structured content all the time. As you mention, the basic but big ticket items like heading levels, form inputs, lists, good anchor text are all essential –; but would I push back on someone for using a grid framework? Probably not, as the site can be completely accessible whilst using a grid system, just as much as a more semantic site can be inaccessible. If I’m honest, I would actually have to pay more attention if a supplier uses HTML5 sectioning elements to structure the document “semantically”, as these cause problems with the document outline when not implemented correctly: [HTML5 sectioning elements, headings, and document outlines](" rel="nofollow) [HTML5 document outline revisited](" rel="nofollow)
• I largely agree with your opinion on inaccessible, non-semantic grid systems. However, your post would have been more balanced if you had paid some attention to the existing alternatives. More semantic grid systems, such as [Susy](" rel="nofollow), [Singularity](" rel="nofollow) and [Zen Grids](" rel="nofollow) make it very easy to apply a custom grid to your own semantic HTML structure.
• I would if I were more familiar with the alternatives! That’s why I cautiously tweeted that Sass is probably the answer. And whilst I do use Sass, I still write all my grids from scratch. This might be foolish, or because I’m a creature of habit having done that with CSS since I started out……I’m not sure which!
• OK, I didn’t see that tweet. I’d say just give Susy a try and keep an eye on [Susy Next](" rel="nofollow)!
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Gas pump ignites after truck plows into it
Staff Report
NewsWest 9
A scary morning for a Texaco station in West Odessa.
A gas pump ignited after a truck plowed into it.
Deputies say the driver hit some ice and lost control of her pick up, before slamming into the pump, and that's when it ignited.
Luckily the pump was shut off before an explosion.
No one is believed to be hurt, though the woman's truck is a total loss.
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Dark Matter Episodes
Isn't That a Paradox?
We pick up where we left off last week, with everyone unconscious after the Blink Drive malfunction. But when everyone comes to we discover a new wrinkle: They've been transported 600 years into the past. With limited options, and limited supplies, they head to the only place they know there are people, and where they discover another Blink Drive: Earth. More specifically, Wisconsin - circa the early 21st Century.
Android seems very excited about this whole thing, establishes covers for everyone (where did they get the period appropriate outfits?), steals them some bank accounts, rents a house and buys a car. Everyone's covers are kinda great in a ridiculous way. Two is Elaine, a soccer mom. Three is Mitch, a "slob" and Elaine's husband. Five is their "goth chick" daughter, Apple. Six is a "salary man" named Malvik, and Android is an "upwardly mobile suburban professional" named Rihanna who is married to Six.
Everybody splits up to try to find the Blink Drive and to buy ingredients for chocolate chip cookies so they can bring something to the neighborhood party. Two gets kind of adorable; all smiles, running into chocolate shops, wanting to adopt a dog.
Three notices her new, lighter attitude and tells her that he misses seeing her like this. He points out that, even though she's the boss she doesn't have to carry that weight alone. They're a team.
There's a spike in the Blink Drive readings but nothing conclusive enough to find it so they head to the neighborhood party as a means of gathering intelligence. This turns out to be a great idea because they run into the Professor, a local high school physics teacher who is very startled to see Two and Three. Obviously, their reputations precede them by a few centuries.
The kids follow Android back to the Marauder and discover that their new neighbors aren't spies after all, they're aliens.
While Two and Three go to investigate the professor's house, Five takes some time to hang out with Jake, one of the kids. He is impressed with her gaming skills and probably with the idea of befriending an alien.
Meanwhile, at the professor's house, Two and Three discover a secret basement lab and the second Blink Drive just in time to be electrocuted and knocked unconscious.
More bad news back at the party where Android tells Five and Six that the Marauder's proximity alert has been triggered. It might be nothing but they need to check it out anyway and with no car, Six has to find an alternate means of transportation and takes Jake’s bike.
And the hits keep on coming. One of Jake's friends spilled the alien beans to his dad, who pulled a parent move and called the police. Six is ambushed at the Marauder and arrested.
Two and Three wake up tied to a chair. The Professor is, in fact, from the future, and he knows who they are. Turns out, he's the reason they ended up back here in the first place. He used to work on the Blink Drive project but realized that the project was dangerous and would put him and his fellow scientists in danger as well. He escaped to the past and now he's gonna use it to go even further back and keep the Blink Drive out of anyone’s hands.
Five and Android arrive just in time to rescue them. Problem is, the feds are on the way and the Marauder is swarming with cops. Only way to fix it is to send Five back an hour or so to set a trap. Then they steal the Professor's Blink Drive so they can get home and spring Six from the police station before heading back to the Marauder.
Five's trap works, clearing the way for them to board the ship and head home. But first, she's got to say a goodbye to her new friend Jake who adorably professes his love for her. She lets him down easy, he gives her his video game system, and they head back to the future.
They make it back and Two decides it's too dangerous to keep the Blink Drive operational. The recall could be used again and they don't want to end up stranded in the past. They'll only use it for emergencies. They also discover that they didn't break history but that they were responsible for inspiring Jake to become a sci-fi author, which in turn inspired his great-granddaughter to invent Faster Than Light travel. Go figure.
We get a quick aside to check in with Ryo. Commander Neiman and his new allies, Portia Lin and Marcus Boone, approach him and offer to work together. We'll see what comes of this alliance.
Things are nice for the first time in a while on the Raza. Two and Five are playing video games and having a good time like normal friends. But they won't stay that way for long. Android gets a call from a distressed Victor. Seems like the other free Androids need her help but we won’t find out why until next week... | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9727359414100648}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '120505', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:B2U2YE45HCVOHCSDJHUHYAKXIUKPDO6J', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9d454ed4-e88a-45aa-9d60-8a1586e53d0c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 8, 21, 9, 17, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.196.109.43', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:SGR3JWYOOBTT5Y3V2MOZLT66T6PBWEHO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:22d2c900-2760-4b51-8131-4cd957eb869c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.syfy.com/darkmatter/episodes/season/3/episode/9/isnt-that-a-paradox', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:eceb3032-b938-45ed-8d9d-2a19640161b9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '856', 'url': 'http://www.syfy.com/darkmatter/episodes/season/3/episode/9/isnt-that-a-paradox', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-229-75-92.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-34\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for August 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09921246767044067', 'original_id': '29438242001f3685ecc019f872d9de2708fda162225b6868cc994df921250fb0'} |
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Unknown (Unknown, #1) by Wendy Higgins ~ Review
Source: Received ARC from the author in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Let me start with the warnings about this book.
It may be tagged with romance but you will only find the amount of romance you would expect in the first few pages of the average romance novel. By that I mean the attraction, the interest, the friendship but none the kissing or moving towards a relationship that you normally see. As a matter of fact, there is a huge event that makes it clear that's not in the cards. And it was hard to read for this romantic at heart. I understand that changes for book 2 but if you prefer you romance to be a big part of the story then you might want to pass on this one.
This book is tagged New Adult and it is, in the sense that the majority of it is set after Amber has turned 21. But the first 25% or so of the book is backstory. It's flashes and summary of her and Rylen growing up, becoming friends and him leaving for the military. He's gone for many years and they write letters to each other. All of that time, the book has a YA feel to it.
This book is also tagged apocalyptic and it really is. A world that we get to know through those flashbacks is utterly changed in a rapid fire of sadness that I struggled to absorb. The struggle is real for these characters and I guess I became attached because I hurt with them.
No, it's not your normal Wendy Higgins book.
I'm being very honest when I say that I struggled with this book. Parts of it drew me in and parts of it had me sad. But it was so hard to read. I just wanted some happy. When I thought about it afterwards, it was like reading only the first 1/4 of a book. It's unsettled and I'm unsatisfied.
I suspect many people will enjoy this type of book and be anxious to read and wait for more. But there will be some like me that expect something different from this author and I wanted to let them know what they are in for when they pick it up.
The writing is excellent. The characters are full and well defined. The story is poignant if not a bit predictable.
I like Rylen despite the blindside he brought about. At first I wanted to throw my iPad but as I figured out why (and I did figure out why before we learned) I can see it in his character. This is who he is. I'm just not sure he's my kind of book boyfriend.
The book is from Amber's POV and I like her. She's strong and determined. Her efforts to help people as things fall apart is admirable. And she holds up under some pretty tough circumstances. I hurt for her, really.
As you can tell my emotions were involved. But I don't know if I can read on in this series. Maybe after a break, I could consider it again. For now, I'm undecided.
1. This sounds very disappointing :( But excellent review, dear.
2. I'm most certainly a romantic at heart, so thank you for disclosing that this is not really a romance! That being said, I love her writing so I'll probably still give this one a go eventually, when I'm in the mood an apocalyptic story. Great review Valerie!
3. As someone who only likes romance as a subplot normally, I'll be checking this one out.
Thanks for the great review. I appreciate your honesty. :)
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5. This must have been a hard review to write. Thanks for your honesty, I will be holding off on this one. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '150', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9671968221664428}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '187969', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:AAY3KLE34NZZZRU6AXSWTK4ULAWHXCMG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e6ef57c0-ec1b-4c1b-8f5f-1d01b5212375>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 4, 3, 19, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.147', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WYLF4DUHMGMZTCPKRHIQSCN3KXB5YI65', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:569d4771-90bf-43b4-9dd2-11c19a0b48a2>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.stuckinbooks.com/2016/08/unknown-unknown-1-by-wendy-higgins.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:845bd674-444e-44c3-9928-6f2937105bc9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '786', 'url': 'https://www.stuckinbooks.com/2016/08/unknown-unknown-1-by-wendy-higgins.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-155.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019200384616851807', 'original_id': '030ebb11c7a320ac9cfdf5959e6423145a5fafed854fb7fbc46d063a5b74a979'} |
Microsoft to Launch Music Service for Xbox, Windows Phones?
Word on the tech streets is that Microsoft is currently in talks with a number of record companies in order to come up with a brand new music service.
According to a c|net report, the new service could be aimed at supplying tunes to the company's immensely popular Xbox as well as Windows Phone platforms. However, it is yet to be learned how this new offering will differ from Microsoft existing music service Zune Music Pass that has gained a fair bit of popularity amongst Xbox subscribers.
Also, the report claimed that the negotiations between the software giant and the record companies are still pretty much in the initial stages, and there is a long way to go before Microsoft and the record companies reach towards an agreement.
All thanks to Zune, Microsoft is already in possession of the necessary licenses from most of these record labels as far as using their copyright protected music is concerned. However, whether or not the company will have to purchase additional licenses for this new offering is yet to be known.
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Field of the Invention (Technical Field)
The invention relates to sun and other relatively intense light screening visors and more particularly to removably positionable visors for use on vehicular windshields and windows to protect an operator's eyes from sun, oncoming headlights, and mirror reflections. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5d7aa5e6b21bd2735235fff5a500145926b0368a907dcf4a3e5fee5d34f957b4'} |
small business loans
The Best Small Business Loans
The number of loan products have increased over the past 20 years as economic necessity and a demanding public in need of specialization to solve financial circumstances. The company then in turn leases the equipment back in usually a monthly payment. They can buy the equipment for one dollar or ten percent of the fair market value of the and more companies are leasing today as opposed to paying cash or using bank lines or loans.small business loans
On 22nd of August, I was expected to make a payment as an installation for the auto loan that I had borrowed (mention the scheme or code of the loan if any). The purpose of borrowing such loans is property purchases, cars purchases, remodeling homes, meeting living expenses or even repaying the high interest on credit cards.
Though this basic nature of a credit offering remains the same, the different credit types vary according to terms and conditions of repayment and interest charged. The paying off of the advanced funds vary based on a the credit and debit card transactions of the day or week.small business loans
It is more or less a line of credit the borrower has access to when they need it as long as there are funds available on the credit card. The general tendency among people is to keep postponing their credit card and other bill payments and this itself results into defaults.small business loans
I am one of your debtors, (mention name), with the account number (name your account number if it is a bank or a financial institute). Credit Bureau: Credit bureau is also known by the name of ‘credit reporting agency’, and it keeps and maintains credit ratings, and the history of individuals and business firms. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '83', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.968716561794281}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '30842', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6G2IDDOQDJJ2IS27SCS52G5RP5VGXHQF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:412d34a4-7687-4f4a-af71-1c5e00a5c468>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 12, 16, 9, 22, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.27.136.251', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:NUY3MRWANEY2LEFW7OXHIY2XZZUY3HXM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a1e2cb0c-65da-4ca4-9461-0ffce3659b7d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.wisconsin-used-cars.com/the-best-small-business-loans.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a45db071-7ad7-4062-98d1-0ed33ce6cb31>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '296', 'url': 'http://www.wisconsin-used-cars.com/the-best-small-business-loans.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-153.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.018841803073883057', 'original_id': '66dc117d71ce095fc4c233e94cd73e208f028306985af2e768c55d57087ba7fa'} |
Mayfair Bible Church is blessed to have an active seniors group.
After the 9:30 am Worship Service they meet in Room 10 (a.k.a. the Fireside Room).
You are invited to join their weekly prayer breakfast at Liberty Family Restaurant
and other special activities, like day trips. To find out what's next, see the Events page. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9279993772506714}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '54547', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LXBZLCGM3I5TW6HRWJGYEVXKCDM4XGEP', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2f5123e6-c479-4c12-81db-c04d7fdb7bf6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 24, 13, 26, 37), 'WARC-IP-Address': '35.184.120.214', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UDLFGC6LAEMWILDE63CRWNAVACTBASHU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b074af21-ff07-4c22-b98b-a69e75d8d00a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.mayfairbible.org/seniors/nggallery/thumbnails', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c3a28396-a6b0-45d1-b6af-4ba48bfb3c80>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '54', 'url': 'https://www.mayfairbible.org/seniors/nggallery/thumbnails', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-158-174-231.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.028527140617370605', 'original_id': '1c6b76be3fbb312ed698e8bee30e93d2c3de7a1d5b75570b944804310e591ca3'} |
Jusepe de Ribera
Jusepe de Ribera (c. 1590–1652)
Man Tied to a Tree, and a Figure Resting
c. 1630–35
Red chalk
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Witt Bequest, 1952
The bound male figure is a recurring theme in Ribera's art. This subtle study may represent the suffering and steadfastness of an unidentified elderly saint. Extending his disproportionately long arm, he seems to address someone beyond the scene. The relationship between the saint and the hunched man at the bottom of the tree remains ambiguous, but they seem to be conceived as contrasting figures. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.925462543964386}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '37063', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OJ4AAROI5LXT2LLYIB3MQJIZF2262MTS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:16a89644-aa32-49ce-82d9-f1c7b60b9137>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 31, 8, 29, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.208.4.49', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:I4YU2AN2YT457J4OVIVHIGTNVXJLIU5C', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b8793373-b4ac-4113-9b9b-7f25b1d0518f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/courtauld/jusepe_de_ribera', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f98be011-12c8-4c9b-b208-234bcbe71853>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '90', 'url': 'http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/courtauld/jusepe_de_ribera', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-42\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for October 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.029859602451324463', 'original_id': 'c59204f5b87511e76c6db45bd4a8f325ea5d5e07af98b407c520d4cb0f8c895c'} |
Friday, October 31, 2008
Tower of Evil
Jim O'Connolly | 1972 | 89 mins | UK + USA
I Sell the Dead
Glenn McQuaid | 2008 | USA
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Tell No One [Ne le dis à personne]
Guillaume Canet | 2006 | 125 mins | France
This tight little thriller starts out quite promising, with the story of a man whose wife was mysteriously snatched while they were away together at the family's lakeside cottage. The man himself (Dr. Alexandre Beck, played by François Cluzet) was hit in the face with a bat, fell in the lake, but later woke up in a hospital not remembering anything. The wife (Marie-Josée Croze) was found mutilated and killed, and everyone assumed she was the unfortunate final victim of a serial killer who was soon captured.
Eight years later, the good doctor (a pediatrician who lives a quiet life) receives an email from an unknown address, with a subject line that refers to a shared moment only his wife could know about. They were childhood sweethearts, after all. They knew each other better than anyone, and until this moment he never doubted that she had been dead all this time. He clicks on it, only to see a clip from a closed circuit security camera in which his wife appears to be standing.
From there, Dr. Beck's life takes a sharp and vertiginous turn for the worse, as new evidence in his wife's murder points to him as a likely culprit. The cops are after him, some shady characters seem to be tailing him, and people are turning up dead. Kristin Scott Thomas is fantastic as Hélène Perkins, Beck's lesbian sister in law. Who the hell new she was fluent enough to carry a leading role in a French film without even the hint of an accent?
Without giving too much away about the film's twists and turns, I have to say that I felt the first half was expertly crafted and full of great action sequences and funny characters (the thug with the hemophiliac son, one of Dr. Beck's patients, for example). Unfortunately, in the final act, when all the mysteries are finally explained, I was left puzzled by a few obvious holes in the internal logic of the film. It tries hard to tie up loose ends, but ends up leaving a few big questions anyway.
Still, I'd recommend this film based on the charm and acting ability of veteran French actor François Cluzet alone. Plus, some of the action sequences and interesting shots make it much more interesting than the average Hollywood thriller. One moment in particular, when Beck slips on some pavement while running and takes a sideways fall, made me cringe more than any gory shootout or punch-up ever could.
Bonus points for the most tense use of an old U2 song in a movie, ever. "With or Without You", in case you were wondering.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The Big Fix
Jeremy Kagan | 1978 | 108 mins | USA
A very young and astonishingly charming Richard Dreyfuss stars as an ex Berkley activist turned private eye in this love letter to 1960s radicalism. Dreyfuss was riding the highest wave of his career, in the aftermath of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goodbye Girl, so I guess it's no wonder that he plays the character of Moses Wise in this fun little crime-comedy with so much natural charm that you just want to pinch his cute, rosy cheeks all the goddamn time. After all, he was on top of the world!
Seriously though, the film is terrific. Moses Wine is a gumshoe and divorced dad who's perpetually late on support payments to his exasperated ex, Suzanne (Bonnie Bedelia). When former flame Lila Shay (Susan Anspach) comes back into his life and asks him to investigate possible sabotage on the campaign of one Miles Hawthorne, a dull liberal running for Governor of California, everything goes haywire.
It seems that someone has been passing around fake flyers on which '60s radical Howard Eppis (now living underground after a famous conviction) is shown endorsing Hawthorne. Since associating with a known criminal and wanted man could sink the whole campaign, Moses is sent off by ambitious campaign manager Sam Sebastian (John Lithgow) to find the elusive Eppis.
Eppis (F. Murray Abraham) is a prankster activist whose appearance and notoriety were obviously modeled after real-life radical Abbie Hoffman (who was living underground at the time the film was made), with a bit of Weathermen-esque violence thrown in for good measure. As Moses draws closer to Eppis and to the answers, a torrent of nostalgia for the '60s rains down upon the film so intensely that you're gonna miss the good old days even if you weren't even a glimmer in your hippie mom's eye at the time.
I could easily watch a series of five or six Moses Wise films, in which the pot-smoking P.I. takes his kids on stakeouts and solves mysteries in his yellow convertible VW Bug.
Halfway through this film my movie date turned to me and asked "who's the Richard Dreyfuss of today?", and I have to admit we were both stumped. Please weigh in on this important question, loyal readers.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Last of Sheila
Herbert Ross | 1973 | 120 mins | USA
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Donkey Punch
Ollie Blackburn | 99 min | 2008 | UK
Donkey Punch starts by introducing its characters underneath a blaring, try-too-hard mix of hip indie pop music like The Knife and Broadcast. The characters are three pretty cardboard cutouts with tits who're on vacation in Spain, and four pretty cardboard cutouts with dicks and access to a yacht.
Things obviously wind up on the yacht, which is well stocked in booze and drugs. During a swim in the sea, the guys and girls get talking about the most "hardcore" sex acts they've heard of. One of the guys schools them all on what a donkey punch is, they do more drugs, and a bunch of them go below deck to get really hardcore. After some skin is bared, a donkey punch is delivered (look it up if you don't know what it is) and one of the girls' neck is broken.
In the middle of the sea, and now outnumbering the girls by two, the guys decide to throw the body overboard and tell the authorities that she fell over the rail drunk. Obviously the girls don't like the idea of covering up the killing of their friend, and tensions flare.
Because the girls are outnumbered and overpowered, the film actually achieves some great tension when it's focused on their vulnerability in the situation. If Blackburn had spent more time with the girls, rather than spending a near equal amount with the guys, who don't even really seem that worried ever, it could have been a solid thriller. There's very little time spent on the morality of the spot they've found themselves in either. The guys seems to be on auto-pilot, only interested in saving their own asses; the value of human life be damned.
The girls eventually fight back and bodies start to pile up in supposedly creative ways that fail to shock or entertain, which leaves the film with very little going for it. Director, Ollie Blackburn was at the screening to introduce the film and do Q&A. He was very keen on letting the audience know that the film has received an NC-17 rating in the US, that penises are going to have to be blurred out when released in Japan, and that we were seeing the uncensored version. Speaking as though they were badges of honor somehow; like he'd really shaken things up and shown the Man something he'd never seen before. Unfortunately by the end of the movie, I felt a bit like I'd been on the receiving end of a really weak donkey punch where the sex wasn't very good, and then whose final blow was more of a flick to the back of the head than the full forced whack that it should have been.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson | 2008 | 114 min | Sweden
Set amid the darkness of the Swedish winter, Let the Right One In is essentially an adolescent love story: two misfits, a young boy and girl, find each other and make both of their days a little more bearable. Many of it's tropes will be recognizable. The awkward first meetings, the slow confiding in each other, and the growing to help each other with the trials of bullies and family are all there. The difference in this story is that the young misfit girl is actually a vampire with an elderly lover who harvests the blood of innocents for her to survive on. Granted, that difference is a significant one, but at it's heart Let The Right One In is still a story of naive human desire and affection in a world of fantastic horrors.
The boy, Oskar, is lonely at home and abused at school. He spends his empty nights fantasizing about revenge on his tormentors and filling a scrapbook with stories of brutal local murders. When the strange young Eli moves into his building he is immediately drawn to her. She is mysterious, strong-willed, and, most importantly, responds to Oskar's intense desire for companionship. As it dawns upon Oskar that Eli is a vampire, her nature is still less monstrous to him than the tortures he endures each day at school. And that's why Let The Right One In is so striking. The banal human ordeals are more recognizable and more horrible than the warmth and protection offered by Eli. The eerie performances of both young actors bring this home in each scene. Those creepy fucking young actors.
I will cut short this review to spare you too many reveals. All you need to know is that Let The Right One In is visually stunning, and by turns awful and beautiful. It hit all the right notes for me and is a film I expect to be thinking fondly of for a long time to come. This is a rare gem that surpasses the qualifier of being a "great horror" and is simply a great film.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Darren Lynn Bousman | 2008 | 98 mins | USA
The man who brought you Saw II, III and IV is back, and this time he's got a futuristic goth musical starring Paris Hilton and Giles from Buffy! Wait ... what?
Repo! The Genetic Opera is a bizarre experiment which is unsurprisingly (but perhaps unfortunately) creating some of the most excited buzz at the Toronto After Dark Festival, which launches on Friday, Oct 17.
Essentially, the film is a musical set in a not-so-distant dystopian future, in which a biotech company called GeneCo saves the world from an epidemic of organ failures by offering transplants with an easy payment plan. Unfortunately, those who miss their payments are hunted by the dark, mysterious, merciless Organ Repo Men.
Alexa Vega plays a young woman named Shilo (the daughter of quiet scientist Nathan Wallace, played by Anthony Head), who's looking for a cure to a rare disease that keeps her locked away in her father's mansion. She's also looking for some answers about her family's shady history and her mother's mysterious death, which seems to be in some way connected to GeneCo.
Meanwhile, in the GeneCo offices, patriarch Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino) rules a roost of petulant, spoiled children - plastic-surgery addicted Amber Sweet (Paris Hilton), the abusive and murderous Luigi (Bill Moseley) and the gross-tastically faceless Pavi (Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy).
I know what you're thinking. How could something so star studded possibly be bad?
Well, let me tell you.
First of all, the music. Like many musicals, Repo! is packed to the gills with songs - in fact, it's so full of songs that there's hardly a moment of spoken dialogue. This would get a bit tiresome in the best of musicals, but unfortunately Repo! has at least three so-so numbers for every catchy hit, so the mediocre-melody fatigue starts to set in pretty early.
Secondly, the editing. The sets and costumes in this film are impressive (Sarah Brightman as Blind Mag is probably the best designed character, but the rest are nothing to sneeze at either), but unfortunately we hardly get to see any of it as the camera zips around maniacally. It's hard to appreciate the work that went into all that art direction when there are no moments of stillness. Elaborately choreographed dance numbers are hard to take in when the DP never pulls back into a wide enough shot that we can actually see it all.
Initially, I thought I also disliked the weird character of the Grave Robber (Terrance Zdunich) who functions as an omniscient narrator, and whose commentary bookends the film but is mostly absent in the middle. On second thought, I realised that I really enjoyed this guy, found him charming and fun, and thought his musical numbers were among the best in the whole film. "I wish I'd seen more of that Grave Robber" is what I left the theatre thinking!
Here's the thing about Repo! The Genetic Opera. I thought it was shit, but I think goths are the dumbest subculture, and I've never been to see Rocky Horror on the big screen. If you enjoy Dark Raves or have ever dressed up like Death from the Sandman comics, then you will unapologetically love Repo!, and that's ok. This isn't just any bad film. This is a bad film with a built in audience who will revel in it (and quite possibly turn it into a cult fave over the years, thought the jury's out on that) the way I go batshit insane for dollar bin VHS finds, y'know?
So, if you read the above and are vaguely curious but undecided about this train wreck, I advise you not to bother. Instead, go see Let The Right One In, Red, Donkey Punch, Tokyo Gore Police or I Sell The Dead - or any of the other more intriguing titles TAD has to offer. If, however, any part of you was like "Oooh, Sarah Brightman!" or "what part of goth musical doesn't sound awesome?!" or "OMG Giles from Buffy" then please, knock yourself out. This one's literally made for you.
The Thin Man
W.S. Van Dyke | 1934 | 93 mins | USA
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Burn After Reading
Ethan Coen + Joel Coen | 2008 | 96 mins | USA
I heard a lot of hubbub about how amazing John Malkovich is in this film before I saw it, and now that I've seen it I have to say that the real killer performance award belongs to Brad Pitt. I mean sure, Malkovich is very good as the beleaguered, drunk ex-CIA agent whose frigid bitch of a wife (Tilda Swinton) intends to divorce him as his life falls apart. But really, considering the depths of weird creepiness that the man is capable of reaching, this feels a bit like phoning it in. Don't get me wrong, he nails this role. But it's a bit like being impressed with an Olympic gymnast for doing a really good cartwheel.
I will concede that he deserves major bonus points for his amazingly annoying and accurate (you know these people and they make you cringe too) insistence on pronouncing words like chèvre and memoir the "proper French way".
Pitt, on the other hand, is pure perfection as the carefree gym-rat (read: idiot) sidekick to Frances McDormand's plastic surgery obsessed Linda Litzke, a simple woman trapped in an elaborate game of international espionage that is entirely of her own invention.
There are some laugh out loud moments, and one or two instances of unsettlingly out of place violence, but on the whole the film is good-but-not-great. I don't say this because No Country For Old Men blew everyone's minds last year and now the bar's been set too high. For me it just falls into the Coen-crime/suspense film versus the Coen-comedy. I love the former and find the latter almost always good ... but not great. And yes, that includes Raising Arizona.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Ed Harris | 2008 | 114 mins | USA
Ed Harris returns to the director's chair for the first time since 2000's Pollock, and the result is, at best, a so-so western. Harris and Viggo Mortensen star as Virgil Cole and his trusty sidekick Everett Hitch, two lawmen-for-hire who arrive in the dusty town of Appaloosa in order to rid it of the scourge of Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) and his men, a crew of miscreants who have been abusing the town's reluctant hospitality.
Cole and Hitch quickly lay down the new law, and bring Bragg in to stand trial for the murder of a local Marshall. Of course, then a woman has to come into the picture and muck it all up. Enter Mrs. Allison French (Renée Zellweger), a recent widow who falls for Virgil (or is it Everett)? It's too bad Zellweger, a native Texan, sounds so wooden and awkward with her half-southern accent, and is so hopelessly unsexy as the woman who seduces everyone. Maybe they're just into her because she is literally the only woman in the entire territory.
When Ring Shelton (Lance Henricksen) blows into town and kidnaps Mrs. French (banking on Cole's affection for her as a bargaining chip to exchange her for Bragg), our two lawmen are forced to embark on a mission to set things right.
There's an obvious morality play at the centre of this story between what's lawful and what's right, but it's all too often awkwardly articulated in ham-fisted, expository conversations between Mortensen and his hooker confidante (Spanish actress Ariadna Gil), who only appears in the film to give him an opportunity to voice things that might have been more subtly communicated or even left unspoken. As if the opening and closing voice-over narration weren't enough!
I wanted to see more of the struggle between the Cole and Hitch. While Hitch is moral to a fault, overly bold and often guided by an emotional compass, Cole's tough guy facade hides a passive doormat whose adherence to the law comes at the price of his personal happiness, making him a spineless cuckold. The tension between the lifelong friends would have been a more interesting avenue to explore than the tepid pseudo-love-triangle.
Jeremy Irons is pretty good as the cold-hearted Bragg, but it's unfortunate that his low voice and semi-successful attempt to not speak with a British accent makes him sound a bit like Daniel Plainview. He's better than that, but it's not always apparent in this film.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Turkey Shoot
Brian Tranchard-Smith | 1982 | 93 mins | Australia
After seeing the doc Not Quite Hollywood at TIFF this year, my interest in Ozzsploitation was understandably piqued. I'd seen a few of the films described in it, but not enough! Perhaps the most simultaneously hilarious, action packed and nonsensical seeming option was Brian Trenchard-Smith's Turkey Shoot, which I got a chance to experience last week.
Turkey Shoot, a.k.a. Blood Camp Thatcher, a.k.a. Escape 2000, takes place in a futuristic, fascistic Australia in which "deviants" are sent to a sadistic rehabilitation camp, where they are reprogrammed through a strict regimen of abuse, torture and the like.
Steve Railsback is Paul Anders, an honest to goodness revolutionary who's escaped from every detention camp there is and has finally ended up in the toughest of them all - Thatcher's. Olivia Hussey is Chris Walters, a girl who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now stuck in the camp. Along with a few other inmates, they are about to become the human targets in a Most Dangerous Game-esqe amusement planned by the camp's vicious leader and some other miscellaneous mean rich people. Each hunter has his or her own target and weapon of choice (exploding arrows, machetes, big red ATVs - you know, standard human hunting accessories), and while poaching is against the rules, the contestants seem disinterested in following them.
There's enough zany action and over the top gore to keep the film interesting, but just in case your attention wanes, Trenchard-Smith introduces a few genuinely bizarre surprises along the way (hot tip: when a character named "Alph" shows up, this movie will go up at least 10 points on the awesome scale).
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Enjoy the turkey!
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Emperor of the North Pole
Robert Aldrich | 1973 | 118 mins | USA
There was a whole spate of films about the depression made in the 1970s. Paper Moon, Hard Times and Where the Red Fern Grows come to mind right off the bat, but I'd never heard of Emperor of the North Pole until last night, but it's a bit of a star studded gem.
Lee Marvin is A-No.1 (that's pronounced A Number One, in case you had any doubts), a top notch hobo who won't take anybody's guff and is determined to take down "The 19", a train that no hobo has ridden before. Ernest Borgnine is Shack, the merciless and sadistic railway conductor who wields a hammer against any hobo who dares set foot on the 19. An young and pretty-faced Keith Carradine is Cigaret, the brash young hobo-wannabe who latches onto Marvin's star and tries to ride it into the sunset.
I'm not sure that this strange, train-hopping adventure qualifies as one of my top ten Lee Marvin films, but considering the fact that Marvin starred in some of the best movies of all time, I guess that's not too harsh a criticism. The character of A-No.1 is loosely based on real-life Hobo King Leon Ray Livingston, who hoboed it up under that alias and is credited with being one of the gents who perfected the hobo symbol system. Livingston died in 1944 and did most of his rail riding before the Great Depression, so this isn't exactly based on real events, but it's still a really fun ride.
A-No.1 manages to get onto Shack's train only to find that he's been tailed by a loudmouthed tenderfoot (the adorable Carradine). In order to keep the kid from fouling up his plans, A-No.1 sets their hay filled train car on fire and crashes through the partially burned wooden side, leaving Cigaret inside to face the consequences of being found.
When rumours start to spread about some dirty 'bo riding Shack's train, A-No.1 takes it up a notch by announcing his intention to ride it all the way to Portland, by writing his travel itinerary right up on the a big tower adjacent to the train station. Shack gets ready for a battle, Cigaret gets ready to tag along, and A-No.1 gets ready for an epic battle.
There's a great deal of hobo wisdom to be learned from Emperor of the North Pole (for example, men are not trains, because men who are out of fuel can still run on dreams). Lee Marvin's climactic "you coulda been a meat eater" speech (delivered, of course, from the back of a speeding train as it careens through the scenic western countryside) is so stirring, it's almost the hobo version of Brando's "I coulda been a contender" speech from On The Waterfront.
The title itself is a nod to some Depression Era hobo lingo, referring to the joke that the world's best hobo was "Emperor of the North Pole" (i.e. the ruler of a desolate tundra). On the whole, this [essentially woman-less] film is about the romance of the rail-riding life, and it does paint a pretty compelling picture.
Extra points for an incredible poster.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
George Miller | 1981 | 91 mins | Australia
I can't believe it took me this long to see the goddamn Road Warrior.
When I watched and loved Doomsday earlier this year amid the flurry of critiques about whether it was an "homage" or a "rip off" of Mad Max, I kept saying to myself "you've really got to finally see Road Warrior". It took a few months, but here we are!
Handsome, young Mel Gibson reprises his role in the original as the lone wanderer, scavenging for (now-priceless) petrol in the devastated wastelands of Australia's outback.
He finds a compound of good people running a small oil refinery and becomes embroiled in their efforts to transport their gas to safety without getting killed by a vicious post-apocalyptic motorcycle of punks in terrifying gimp masks and ass-less chaps (they're more awesome/scary but no less gay than I'm making them sound).
Chock full of amazing car chases, death defying crashes and at least one totally incredible explosion sequence (that must have comprised about 75% of the film's budget), Mad Max 2 is really quite awesome (and incredibly topical in our peak-oil obsessed world).
Leave it to the Australians to be 20 years ahead of the game in terms of pithy social commentary in their action flicks. After the third Mad Max joint, director George Miller went on to do The Witches of Eastwick. His most recent film was Happy Feet. What is he trying to tell us about women and the environment that we just aren't ready to hear yet?! His next project is Justice League: Mortal. Clearly the end is nigh.
Perhaps I overdid that tangent. The point is: am I telling anyone anything they don't already know about the Mad Max franchise? Probably not. Am I encouraging you all to rent a copy of this and watch it on the largest TV you can find? EMPHATICALLY YES.
Next up on my "catching up on things I should have seen already" list: Babe: A Pig in the City.
Exte: Hair Extensions
Sion Sono | 2007 | 108 min | Japan
A young girl is found inside a massive shipping container, dead, without many of her vital organs, and with a VERY full head of hair. So full that her hair fills the shipping container. Yamazaki, a worker at the morgue notices that even after her corpse has been shaved by the coroner, her hair begins to grow back. A hair fanatic, he can't help himself; he takes the girl's body home with him and puts it a hammock that hangs in his apartment.
Meanwhile, a young aspiring hair stylist named Yuko (Battle Royale and Kill Bill's Chiaki Kuriyama) is training with great enthusiasm to become one of the best stylists in all of Japan. She's given the responsibility of looking after her young niece, Yuki, however, while her bad seed sister spends time with her dirtbag boyfriend. When Yuko discovers that Yuki has been abused, she has to juggle her studies and helping Yuki overcome the damage that her mother has caused her.
Yamazaki decides he can make some money if he makes hair extensions from the hair of his hammocked beauty, and starts selling them around town (out of a bird cage). The hair, we soon find out is filled with the angry spirit (or something like that) of the murdered girl, and anyone who puts the extensions in their hair becomes violent.
Obviously later, Yamazaki, Yuko, and Yuki's paths all cross through the hair extensions and CGI hair violence ensues to a satisfying climax.
Exte doesn't have much to offer in the way of story, and could have been thirty minutes shorter, but the acting is all around solid, and its effects sequences are inventive gross out fun that if you have long hair might stay with you longer than you want them to.
The Butterfly Murders
Tsui Hark | 1979 | 88 min | Hong Kong
Set in a time when 72 martial arts clans roamed China, all wanting to be no. 1 in the martial art world; a number of martial artists and Fong, a martial arts writer, find themselves at Shum Castle to investigate a number of deaths said to have been caused by butterflies. As they investigate the mystery of the poisonous butterflies, members of the party start to drop off like common flies.
The Butterfly Murders was Tsui Hark's first feature, and it shows. Not in terms of quality, but rather in terms of how much Hark stuffed into the one movie. Martial arts? Check. Butterfly horror(!!!)? Check. Scooby Doo style mystery? Check.
Some of the horror stuff isn't very effective, but it's a difficult task, to make butterflies seem threatening on film (which is accomplished on a few occasions). The action is good, solid stuff, just like you'd expect from Hark. It's not as kinetic as his later films, but his visual flair is very present; as is his impeccable sense of geography in his camera setups and editing.
What's most impressive about the genre hodge podge nature of the film is that never do any of the different elements seem out of place. I quickly accepted that it's a loose movie that has no interest in being straight-forward and conventional. If you're looking for that kind of film, look elsewhere. This one's called The Butterfly Murders!
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Harsh Times
David Ayer | 2005 | 116 min | US
So David Ayer is kinda just into this one thing, hey? This "crazy day of drugs and guns in LA" thing? The writer of Training Day made his directorial debut with another of his screenplays here. At least this one is better than Training Day. That statement might not seem like much, but it is remarkable when you consider how over the top Christian Bale's performance is here. Despite his wild-eyed, screaming, crying, overwrought acting, he is still surpasses Denzel Washington's horrible scenery chewing by leaps and bounds.
Bale plays Jim Luther Davis, a fucked up Gulf War vet who has come back to Los Angeles as an unemployable, drug-addled psychopath. He clings to his last shreds of sanity in the form of best friend Mike Alonzo (Freddy Rodriguez). The two laugh, drink forties, pretend to look for jobs, steal from drug dealers, et cetera. Typical summertime fun. Then things get weird, people get high and uncomfortably weepy, and the whole back-to-normal-life-after-the-war fantasy falls apart mightily. Its a light snack for Bale, but if you like him, you should enjoy Harsh Times. It looks, feels, and sounds like Training Day, except its good. Why did anyone like that movie?
The Opening of Misty Beethoven
Radley Metzger | 1976 | 85 mins | USA
After falling in love with Camille 2000 last year, I decided it was time to check out some of Radley Metzger's other sexy fare. This hilarious porno-Pygmalion provided fewer incredible costumes, but a much more lighthearted and fun storyline overall.
Misty Beethoven (Constance Money) is a cute but prudish hooker. Dr. Seymore Love (the semi-legendary Jamie Gillis, who notoriously inspired that limo scene in Boogie Nights) is a sexologist who's determined to transform her from "the nadir of passion" into someone who inspires it.
Dr. Love and his wealthy patron Geraldine Rich (Jacqueline Beudant) take Misty to Geraldine's mansion in Europe for some intensive months of training. At the lavish estate, Misty is forced to endure a variety of strict but sexy practice regimens (often depicted as wacky montages, complete with dildo bloopers), while Dr. Love looks on critically and an assortment of butlers and maids give head to anyone who happens to pause for more than a second.
Misty's many "tests" include having to seduce an obviously gay art dealer and ultimately vying to become the new "Golden Rod Girl" (European sex-society's top honour, apparently). All the while, in true Pygmalion-esque fashion, she's clearly falling for Dr. Love, who does nothing but mistreat the poor dear.
Great cinematography, a top notch score but some genuinely funny dialogue (not to mention competent acting) make this film one of the crowning achievements of classic '70s XXX cinema.
Interesting Factoid: The Opening of Misty Beethoven has the distinction of being the first widely-released porn movie to feature female-on-male pegging, during a ménage a trios between Constance Money, Ras Kean and Gloria Leonard. Apparently, Kean used an ass double. No joke!
Graham Baker | 1984 | 91 mins | USA
I purchased Impulse for a buck or two from a VHS rack outside the local BMV a few weeks ago because the back cover entertainingly promised a tale about "desperate lovers caught between terrifying fantasy and brutal reality". I was totally unprepared for the incredible gem Impulse would turn out to be.
Jennifer (Meg Tilly) and Stuart (Tim Matheson) are an upwardly mobile couple who return to her hometown after her mother's unexpected (and failed) suicide attempt. The town is recovering from a minor earthquake, but the young couple can feel that there's more going on than just a few aftershocks.
As time passes, a sinister recklessness seems to grip everyone around them - people are losing their inhibitions and willfully disregarding social conventions, as if every internal filter and censor had been switched off. A parking spot misunderstanding turns into full-on road rage, a child's prank nearly turns a farmhouse into a towering inferno and a young man's fit of barroom jealousy provides one of the most intense moments ever committed to film.
Bizarre, unsettling and self-destructive behaviour abounds as Jennifer and Stuart try to understand what is happening around them without being swept up themselves. Impulse manages to be both explicit and suggestive at the same time, walking the fine line between suspense and horror.
There's a creepy subplot involving Jennifer's brother Eddie (Bill Paxton doing his very best Angry Young Man) that's fascinating even though it's left barely explained.
If Impulse came out in 2009 (I envision Christian Bale in the Matheson role), very little would need to be updated for it to be one of the best suspense films of the year. Seriously worth seeking out!
Russell Mulcahy | 1986 | 116 mins | USA
Sometimes, after a festival like TIFF, it can take weeks to get back into normal habits and movie watching patterns. It's easy to develop a severe case of film fatigue, and even easier to slip quietly into a post-fest depression that makes it difficult to drag oneself out of bed and to the couch, no matter how warm or inviting the VCR or DVD players look. For me, two weeks of silent weeping over the sudden, brutal lack of Clancy Brown in my daily life have finally given way to a sort of dull resignation that this is just what reality is like now. Sigh.
Sometimes, the only thing you can do is dust yourself off and watch some old favourites to get back in the game. And what better choice than the 1986 Clancy Brown classic, Highlander?
I haven't seen this film since I was about 10 or 12 years old, and I have to say that while it didn't terrify me nearly as much this time, it really held up amazingly well. Probably, nobody needs the plot of this stellar classic re-capped for them, but here it is anyway, for readers who were born in the '90s.
After being killed (but not killed!) by a mysterious, skull-helmet wearing opponent (Clancy Brown as The Kurgan) on the Scottish plains in 1536, Connor McLeod (Christopher Lambert) finds himself banished from his village (after all, who but the devil can come back from the dead?) and befriended by a dapper gent with a pearl earring named Ramirez (Sean Connery). Connor spends the next 400-ish years learning about his immortality and preparing for "The Gathering" at which all the remaining immortals (who haven't had their heads lopped off over the centuries) battle for "The Prize", because, as Clancy often reminds us, "there can be only one".
Between 007's bedazzled Spaniard and Clancy's immortal-punk psychopath, there's a lot of awesome star power supporting Lambert's beleaguered swordsman. When The Gathering turns out to be taking place in modern day NYC, pure awesomeness ensues.
Plus, I had nearly forgotten the great Queen soundtrack. I was probably too young to appreciate it in 1986.
Side Note: I realized while watching this film that every idea I've formed in adulthood about what my dream home might look like is straight out of Highlander's awesome, multi-story, floor-to-ceiling-windowed New York penthouse. Yep, even the circular weapons room with the sunken couches. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1414', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9665198922157288}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '171609', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:34ZQFSENPLDBYGOJTEKYDMY5FK2I3OYH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:53cfdd11-8699-4f05-ae52-7b059229cb9a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 22, 22, 30, 44), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.211', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:QC6NUHWNVCGKQCQ4JLF7OEAVKNQF7MZG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:28d28b87-6065-4442-b923-278f19c3c0d9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.theyshootactorsdontthey.com/2008_10_01_archive.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e6a8849b-6b92-4e34-afac-e6ac87e0b92d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '7324', 'url': 'http://www.theyshootactorsdontthey.com/2008_10_01_archive.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-186-163-226.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.027803659439086914', 'original_id': 'b9b2ea4f64233bdb60590cc3371665db3c54914b71797348abe91e1eadfc3f9e'} |
/*
* Since Duktape 0.12.0, user code can also employ internal properties.
* This testcase exercises a few basics of that.
*/
/*@include util-buffer.js@*/
/*---
{
"custom": true
}
---*/
/*===
for-in: foo
for-in: <255>quux
JSON.stringify: {"foo":1," <195><191>quux":4}
JX encoded: {foo:1," \xffquux":4}
Object.keys: foo, <255>quux
Object.getOwnPropertyNames: foo,bar, <255>quux
direct access: 3
===*/
function sanitizedPrint(x) {
var buf, i, n;
var tmp = '';
buf = createPlainBuffer(x);
for (i = 0, n = buf.length; i < n; i++) {
if (buf[i] < 0x20 || buf[i] > 0x7e || buf[i] == '<' || buf[i] == '>') {
tmp += '<' + String(buf[i]) + '>';
} else {
tmp += String.fromCharCode(buf[i]);
}
}
print(tmp);
}
function test() {
var internalKey;
var invalidUtf8Key;
var obj;
// 'foo' is enumerable, writable, configurable
var obj = { foo: 1 };
// 'bar' is not enumerable
Object.defineProperty(obj, 'bar', {
value: 2, writable: true, enumerable: false, configurable: true
});
// Internal key \xFF\xFFabc is in principle enumerable, but because
// internal keys have special behavior, it is never enumerated.
internalKey = bufferToStringRaw(Duktape.dec('hex', 'ffff616264')); // \xFF\xFFabc
obj[internalKey] = 3;
// The key \x20\xFFquux is invalid UTF-8 but not an internal string,
// so the property will be enumerable. Behavior for invalid UTF-8
// varies. For example, JSON.stringify() will encounter the invalid
// UTF-8 initial byte \xFF and serialize it like it had encountered
// the codepoint U+00FF (writing out the bytes c3 bf).
invalidUtf8Key = bufferToStringRaw(Duktape.dec('hex', '20ff71757578')); // \x20\xFFquux
obj[invalidUtf8Key] = 4;
// For-in only lists enumerable keys
for (k in obj) {
sanitizedPrint('for-in: ' + k);
}
// JSON.stringify() also only lists enumerable keys
sanitizedPrint('JSON.stringify: ' + JSON.stringify(obj));
// Even the Duktape-specific JX format doesn't list internal keys
sanitizedPrint('JX encoded: ' + Duktape.enc('jx', obj));
// Object.keys() only returns enumerable keys (but not internal keys,
// even if they're technically enumerable)
sanitizedPrint('Object.keys: ' + Object.keys(obj));
// Object.getOwnPropertyNames() returns also non-enumerable keys,
// but not internal keys
sanitizedPrint('Object.getOwnPropertyNames: ' + Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj));
// Direct property access to the internal property still works.
sanitizedPrint('direct access: ' + obj[internalKey]);
}
try {
test();
} catch (e) {
print(e);
}
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August 25, 2015
Family Band
I'm feeling wishy-washy these days, mostly on account of my currently being enrolled in school. I kinda don't want to do it. It was fun to take a class or two, but the fact of the matter is, I don't want to be a teacher with my own classroom. I kinda just want to be a sub. And that doesn't require a college degree. And if I'm being totally honest, I know that I don't want to do it, but Troy is adamant that I finish, which is why I'm wishy-washy.
Honest to goodness though, it's basic math. I can't go to school, AND work, AND do all the mom stuff for four kids, AND do church stuff, AND do the laundry, AND have clean toilets. It's just TOO, TOO MUCH. Plus, that kind of schedule most definitely does NOT allow for any type of sick day, and you KNOW that I have a plethora of those bad boys.
Meanwhile, mom stuff: Thaddeus is in band. Blayne is in band. Daniel is in orchestra. Taylor is in third grade and is gypped. Plus, we have cub scouts, and boy scouts, and activity days, and doctor appointments, and dentist appointments, and Blayne needs new glasses, and Daniel probably needs glasses, and YOU GUYS: IT NEVER STOPS.
Babies were so stinking easy. They had naps. They only went to places I wanted to go to. They didn't have their own friends. Basically, I was the dictator of our happy, little planet, and time gone done and blown it up. For reals though, there are so many things to keep track of. I can't imagine how crazy it gets for families with even MORE extra-curricular activities. Meanwhile, Taylor sighs loudly and complains about the general unfairness of her life. (cry me a river girlfriend.)
But let's talk instruments. Thaddeus has decided on percussion. Which is fine and dandy. Daniel has decided on cello, on account of him being in 4th grade, and only being allowed in orchestra and not band but also: "Have you seen how big a cello is, Mom? I never even KNEWED they made cellos that big! I'll have the most hugest instrument in the whole SCHOOL!". Meanwhile, Blayne thought that all the instruments sounded good. Luckily, they had a band try-it night, where they have all the instruments for beginning band, along with actually helpful specialized music teachers. So Blayne narrowed down her picks to clarinet, trumpet, and flute. She thought she would like the clarinet the best, because she plays recorder. Nope. And the flute? Nope. Girlfriend has a set of LUNGS on her, and can blow that trumpet like nobody's business.
Which means that after we finished renting our instruments, and buying our books, and our band shirts, we came home, and promptly proceeded to blow our trumpet and bang on our drums. (Daniel has NOT gotten his cello quite yet. Thank you Lord.) Not to be out done, though, Daniel grabbed his harmonica, and Taylor grabbed her recorder, and we had an impromptu concert! It was awful! Especially, because at this point, the only person adept at their instrument was Daniel, who was playing Amazing Grace most beautifully on his harmonica.
Thus, we have new rules regarding SOUND. For example, no practice in front of the TV... that's ON. And we will be having assigned practice times, because I can only handle one sound at a time.
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Season 1 sums up your life! When things get bad and even though you may feel like giving up, you don't. You rely on your family and friends to help you get through just about anything. You love them and they wouldn't know what to do without you. Share your results with a Walking Dead fan!
Season 2 sums up your life!
Season 2 sums up your life!
Season 2 sums up your life! Sometimes you hate having to make incredibly tough decisions and you may initially shy away from them. However, you know in order to be the leader you are you have to be okay with the notion that a person who carries themselves as a leader is expected to always step up. Leave a comment letting us know which season of The Walking Dead is your favorite!
Season 3 sums up your life!
Season 3 sums up your life!
Season 3 sums up your life! You believe trust is earned so you just don't give it away to any ole body. However, when your trust is earned you are able to let down your guard around them and look after them. You're not a very naive person and nor are you cynical, you just have a good understanding of how the world works. Share your results with a fan of The Walking Dead!
Season 4 sums up your life!
Season 4 sums up your life!
Season 4 sums up your life! After experiencing some pain in your life, you thought playing Switzerland when there were two opposing arguments or situations was the best solution. However over time, you overcame your pain, started taking action, and did not worry about others's perception of you. Leave a comment letting us know which Walking Dead season is your favorite!
Season 5 sums up your life!
Season 5 sums up your life!
Season 5 sums up your life! You are a very reasonable person, you're always willing to negotiate: 3 episodes of Gilmore Girls or 3 episodes of House. You always willing to listen and even more willing to give people a chance when others won't. However, there is one thing that you don't tolerate and that's lying. When someone lies to you, you find it very difficult to let them back in unless they prove their worth all over again. Share your thoughts about the big Washington D.C. reveal with Eugene!
Season 6 sums up your life!
Season 6 sums up your life!
Season 6 sums up your life! You believe many people can, if they haven't already, be redeemed. You know from experience because you've made some mistakes (minor or major) and you're in a better place now. Some don't understand your method of dealing with troubled people, while other's do and support you. You're also a brave and intelligent soul who likes to get ahead of the current. Share your thoughts about Morgan from the Walking Dead!
Season 7 sums up your life!
Season 7 sums up your life!
Season 7 sums up your life so far! You understand that sometimes in this world we have to play nice with co-workers or friends of friends we may not be so fond of. You never mind turning the other cheek if it protects your friends and family. You always have their best interest at heart - instead of worrying about yourself. You're a very selfless and strong leader. Share your results with a friend who loves Negan! | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd56c713bd276209b57bbcc3fc062c0c931e842d726fd6c96c94a2b1976cca532'} |
cis-[PtCl2(4,7-H-5-methyl-7-oxo[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine)2]: a sterically restrictive new cisplatin analogue. Reaction kinetics with model nucleobases, DNA interaction studies, antitumor activity, and structure-activity relationships.
The formation and isolation of the antitumor drug cisplatin analogue cis-[PtCl2(Hmtpo-N3)2].2H2O (1) (where Hmtpo = 4,7-H-5-methyl-7-oxo[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine) by reaction of Hmpto with K2[PtCl4] in HCl (0.5 N) is reported. This complex crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c with unit cell dimensions a = 15.215(2) A, b = 9.629(1) A, c = 13.115(3) A, beta = 97.40(2) degrees, and Z = 4. The molecular structure shows that Pt is in an almost square planar environment, PtN2Cl2, which has a cis configuration. The Hmpto ligands show a head to head orientation in the solid state and nonrestricted rotation about the Pt-N bonds in solution. The reactivity of the complex to model nucleobases 9-ethylguanine (9-EtGH) and 1-methylcytosine (1-MeC) has been investigated by 1H NMR spectroscopy at 45 degrees C in aqueous media. The results show that 1 reacts slowly with 9-EtGH (t1/2 approximately 5 days) by displacement of Cl-, producing cis-[Pt(mtpo-N3)2(9-EtGH-N7)2], which is similar to the major cross-link adduct of cisplatin with DNA. However, 1 gives no reaction with 1-MeC. This appears to be due to the lesser reactivity of 1-MeC and to competition between the cross-link reaction and dimerization of 1 to [Pt2(mu-mtpo-N3,N4)4]. Circular dichroism studies of DNA in the presence of 1 show that the platinum complex reacts efficiently after 48 h at a optimum ratio of 0.25 Pt atom/mol of DNA nucleotide. These results and those obtained from reaction of 1 with 9-EtGH suggest that the platinum compound binds the N7 atoms of two guanines of the same strand, forming intrastrand cross-linked adducts. Chelation of DNA bases by 1 causes important conformational changes, bringing the guanines close together. The anticancer activity of complex 1 has been tested against the human cancer cell lines MCF-7 breast carcinoma and A121 ovarian carcinoma. Results indicate a moderate antitumor activity against breast carcinoma and a marked and selective cytotoxic effect against ovarian carcinoma. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '009db710ef42a614e2c8dbd4d019241171bee2a88232d64ef6937facb7e71146'} |
New Dating Website, for ISIS!
Just when you thought you have heard of all dating sites, up pops another one. This latest one is something special, just wow. ISIS is now running their own dating site. They are trying to match women with their fighters.
Katherine Brown, a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, tells KSN: “The Jihotties refers to men who are displaying their masculinity, showing what heroes they are, and how amazing they are, as good Muslim men who appear and are willing to fight. It’s part of an explosion of online recruiting for ISIS that’s eye-catching, and inviting. Young women are promised free housing, health-care and cars. Men are promised beautiful brides– true to the faith. And in many cases, it seems to be working.'' | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd685b20020cbb0cfeaece4c9ed0a2d1169021ed914fada926f4457f1bc584cf7'} |
The Definitive Guide to Mastering Darts
This is the ultimate guide to the beautiful game of Darts.
In this guide, we'll cover everything from different types of games to advanced strategies for beating your friends.
So, without further ado let's get started.
Dart Games
Fundamentals - Counting dart scores
Before we get going we are going to cover the very fundamentals of dart: How to score (in the game of darts...)
If you're already familiar with terminology such as "the 01 games" and how to play cricket, please skip ahead but if you're not totally sure of those, keep reading this chapter.
So, without further ado, how do you count scores in darts?
Scoring depends on the game, but most of the fundamentals which we are going to teach you will apply to most games you will play. The most popular games are the 01 games and Cricket.
Dart Fundamentals
The Darts Scoreboard
If there is one thing you need to know as a dart player, it is how to score. Before we go into this, we can tell you that there are two ways you can do this.
In case you're wondering: This is a dartboard
You can use your mental arithmetic skills, or you can use a calculator. There is no right and wrong way, as long as you are accurately capturing scores.
If you have a cabinet for your dartboard, then you probably have a scoreboard laid out. Use chalk to write in any numbers.
If you do not have a scoreboard, a pencil and some paper will do just fine.
Some tips before we start:
• Leave your darts in the board until your turn has been scored.
• Do not be afraid to check your (or anybody else’s working).
• Keep the scoreboard visible for all players.
• Write the scores clearly and concisely.
• Use a calculator if your math skills are rusty.
Scoring the 01 games
Scoring 01 games is easy. All you have to do is subtract your three-dart score from your total score.
To start the game, write the starting number at the top of your scoreboard (or sheet of paper). For a 501 game, you would write 501 at the top. This is your starting total.
You need to have two columns for each player playing. One column has their total score (starting at 501), and the other will have the score for their turn.
We've listed an example of how to score below, with the total score on the left and the round score on the right.
Total Score
Round Score
and so forth...
When a player takes their turn, tally up the score for the three darts and write it in the turn column. Subtract this from the total score and write the new total score in the score column. Easy as pie.
Doubling out
Don’t forget that you need to double out in a 01 game. Try to leave yourself on a double. For example, if you leave yourself on 20, you can go out with double 10. As soon as someone reaches zero by doubling out, they win the game.
Now, I know that I said that you should mark your score at the end of your turn, but you should also be keeping track of your score as you throw each dart. This is important for two reasons.
The first reason is so that you know when you have left yourself on a double and you can throw at that double. The second is to stop yourself from busting out.
If at any time during your turn you leave yourself on 1 point or less, then you have busted out. You cannot double out if you leave yourself on 1, and you certainly cannot double out if you leave yourself on less than one.
If you bust out at any time, your turn is over, and your score reverts to what it was at the start of your turn.
(We recommend not busting out if you can help it...)
Scoring in Darts Cricket
Cricket scores a little differently to the 01 games. If you have a dart scoreboard, then you probably have a cricket scoreboard set up. If you do not, it is easy to do so.
Darts cricket
You don't need all that equipment to play cricket in darts...
Cricket scores with the numbers: 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, and the bull.
Take a sheet of paper and write these numbers in a column down the middle. Mark two columns on either side for each player or each team.
Hitting a number three times closes that number. When a team hits one of the numbers, mark a slash beside that number. When they hit it a second time, mark an opposite slash to form an ‘x.’ When they hit it a third time, circle the x. The number is now closed.
When a number is closed, a team can score on it until the other team also closes it. When a team scores on a closed number, mark that score down on the outside column for each team. Add additional scores to keep a running total.
Wrapping it up
You need to keep score if you want to play darts. Practicing your mental arithmetic is a great way to improve your brain function and get to know which numbers you need to hit to score out.
Practice makes perfect.
Universal Dart Rules
Okay, here’s the deal. Darts is fun, right? But what could be more fun than rules? Am I right?
Scared or surprised face
Raise your hand if you don't think rules are FUN!
Ahem, anyway, there are some darts rules which you need to follow. Not only to keep you in line with other players but also to allow you to play the game as it is supposed to be played, and that will make the game more fun. I assure you.
You probably know some of the basic rules, but there are probably some rules of which you are not aware. I am going to cover everything you need to ensure that you never put a foot wrong.
In no particular order, here are the dart rules you must know.
Rule 1
Every player gets 3 darts per turn. Unless the game states otherwise, 3 darts per turn is standard. No more, no less. When in doubt: 3 darts per turn.
Rule 2
Remove your own darts. Don’t be lazy. If you threw them, you need to go get them. This also ensures that your opponent does not change your score.
Rule 3
Remember the fallen. More specifically, remember that fallen darts are scored as zero. If a dart bounces out, does not make the board, or misses the board completely, it scores zero. Once you have thrown a dart, you cannot re-throw it.
Rule 4
If you ‘drop it like it’s hot,’ then you can pick it up and throw it. A thrown dart cannot be thrown again, but a dropped dart can be thrown.
Rule 5
Don’t cross the line. The throwing line has been measured and marked. Stand with your foot on or behind it, but do not cross the line when throwing.
Rule 6
Score your darts before you remove them. People make mistakes. How many times have I forgotten my score after removing my darts? So many that it is embarrassing. Check your score, mark your score, and then remove your darts.
Rule 7
Once you have thrown your darts, do not touch them until the end of your turn. You can throw one and then go examine its position, but you cannot touch any thrown dart until your turn is over. Throw all three, score all three, remove all three.
Rule 8
Don’t be a “insert your word of choice here”. Darts is fun and civil. Respect your opponent and respect everyone else involved. Shake hands before and after a match. Remind yourself that you are going to get lucky and unlucky. Darts is all about sportsmanship.
Rule 9
Decide who gets to go first. The best way to do this? Have each player throw a dart and the closest to the bull goes first. From then on, alternate play or have the loser of the previous game start the next.
Rule 10
Order! Order! If you are playing with more than two players, decide the order before you start to play. Each player can throw a dart, and the order depends on the order of closest to the bull. You can pull names from a hat. You play go alphabetically. It does not matter the order, only that you agree on it before you start playing.
Rule 11
Respect the scorekeeper. This could be you, any of the players, or a separate person entirely. Do not hassle them or ask for advice. The opposite is also true. The scorekeeper should not distract any of the players.
Rule 12
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. When someone is throwing at the board, stay at least a few feet away from them. No one should be near the dartboard or in the throwing area.
Rule 13
When you have won the game, you have won the game. If you double out and still have a dart or two left, you do not need to throw them. Go collect the dart(s) in the board and start a new game.
Rule 14
The most important rule of all: have fun! There, I said it, and I will not take it back. If you follow the first thirteen rules, you will play the game as it should be played, but 13 rules seems a little unlucky. Rule 14 takes care of everything else. Remember why you are playing. Celebrate your successes and laugh at your bad luck.
Follow the rules, and you cannot lose (well, you will lose, but you know what I mean). Following the rules ensures that everyone is playing the same game and no one has an advantage. Play together and have as much fun as you can.
7 Popular Dart Games
Darts is a simple game. You throw three arrows at a board, tally your score and subtract that from your total.
Make sure that you hit exactly zero and do so with a double and you are done. Easy as pie.
That is all there is to it. Or is it?
The game of darts which you see on TV is only one of many variations. Let’s take a look at some of the most common variations, starting with the game most of us already know.
Dart Games
The aim of the game is to hit the highest score possible on each turn.
On each turn, players get to throw three darts.
Each player (and you can have as many as you like) begins with three legs (three chalk marks on the scoreboard).
The first player throws their three darts and tallies their score. The next player must beat or tie that score with their three darts or lose a leg. Each subsequent player must match or beat the player who threw before them.
If a player throws a cumulative score of 48, then the next player must throw 48 or higher. If they throw 44, then they lose a leg. The next player must now match 44 or beat it.
When you lose three legs, you are out. The last player in the game is the winner.
This is merely a picture to remind you we're talking about legs
How to play Legs
# of players: any number.
Who goes first: each player throws a dart, the closest player to the bull starts.
How to score points: total the score of your three darts.
Variants: no variations.
Level of players: beginner+
Strategies to win the game: It’s simple: aim for the trebles. Also, if you only have to beat a low score, play it safe and aims for part of the board that are not “hit or miss”. So, instead of going for the “5-20-1” area on the top of the board, aim for the “11-14-9” section on the left of the board.
Cricket is an exciting game which lets you play with a lot of strategies. The aim is to close a number and then score points on it before your opponent closes it.
The only numbers in play for Cricket are 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, and the bulls. Each player gets to throw three darts on their turn.
To close a number, you have to hit that number 3 times. Hit a single, and you hit the number once. Hit a double, and you hit it twice. Hit a treble, and you hit it thrice.
This means that you can close a number with three singles, a single and a double, or a treble. Once it has been hit three times, it is closed. You can close numbers in any order.
Once a number is closed, you can begin to score points, if it is still open for the other player or team. If you have closed the number and your opponent has not, then any time you hit that number, you score points.
You score the numerical value of any single, double, or treble. If you have closed 20 and your opponent has not, you would score 20 for a single, 40 for a double, and 60 for a treble. Once your opponent closes the number, no more points can be scored.
The bull counts as 2 hits and the outer bull as 1 hit.
Once all the numbers have been closed by both players, the player with the highest score wins.
Darts cricket
Yes, this dude's back!
How to play cricket
# of players: 2 players or 2 teams
Who goes first: throw one dart each at the bull. The closest player goes first.
How to score points: close a number and hit it while your opponent has not yet closed it.
Variants: you can play without points if you want a friendlier experience. You can choose to move from 20 to 15 and then the bull in order, for more challenge. You can also add more numbers to lengthen the game (like 14 and 13, etc.).
Level of players: beginner and above
Strategies to win the game:
• Hitting a treble will close a number and allow you to start scoring immediately
• There is an advantage to throwing first
• Close a number quickly if your opponent is scoring in it.
Around the World
The aim in this game is to work your way around the dartboard in numerical order. Any number of players can play this game. Each player has to work their way around the board from 1 to 20.
On your turn, you get to throw three darts.
If you are on number 1, you must hit any part of 1 to move on. You can hit the single, double, or treble. Once you do, you move onto number 2. The aim is to hit every number in the least amount of darts.
The first person to hit the 20 is the winner.
Dart World
Are you starting to see a pattern in the icons?
How to play around the World
# of players: any number.
Who goes first: each player throws a dart. The closest player to the bull goes first.
How to score points: no scoring. First player out wins.
Variants: You can add doubles and trebles. Each player must hit a single, double, and treble in each number before moving on. You can add the bull in at the end. After hitting the 20, a player must hit the bull to go out. You can also add the bull to the start. A player must hit the bull before moving onto number 1.
Level of players: beginner and above
Strategies to win the game:
• This is a great game for practicing your aim.
• It is also great for practicing darts in single player and count how quickly you can go round the board.
Shanghai consists of seven innings. On inning 1, you can only throw at the 1. On the second inning, you can only throw at the 2, and so on.
Each turn consists of three darts.
Only the number corresponding to the inning is scored. If you are on inning 1, a single 1 counts as 1 point, a double as 2 points, and a treble as 3 points. Any darts thrown outside of the 1 do not count.
On inning 2 the 2 is scored as normal and any darts thrown outside of the 2 are not scored. This continues with the corresponding numbers up to the seventh inning.
There are 2 ways to win. If you have the most points after the seventh inning, you win the game. If you hit a Shanghai, you also win. A Shanghai is when you hit a single, double, and treble in the same inning.
So, if you are on inning 1 and hit the single, double, and treble, you automatically win the game.
The tallest building in Shanghai is the generically named "Shanghai Tower" standing at 2,073 feet
How to play Shanghai:
# of players: any number.
Who goes first: each player throws a dart. Closest to the bull starts.
How to score points: singles, doubles, and trebles are scored as they normally would be.
Variants: darts can count as 1 point for any single, 2 for any double, and 3 for any treble, no matter the current inning.
Level of players: beginner+
Strategies to win the game: if you have the chance of a Shanghai, go for it.
To begin, each player throws a dart at the board with their non-throwing hand. Only these numbers are in play.
Write each player's name on the scoreboard. Beside their name, write their number and mark three lines to denote three lives.
On each turn, you get to throw three darts.
You must first become a killer. To do so, you need to hit the double of your number.
Once you are a killer, you can kill other people. To do this, you must hit their double. Every time you do, you erase a life from beside their name.
Once a player has lost all three lives, they are out. The last player remaining is the winner.
"Please don't try this at home"
How to play killer
# of players: 3+
How to score points: only doubles are scored.
Variants: no variants.
Level of players: Intermediate and above
Strategies to win the game: do not hit your own double once you are a killer. Team up on stronger players.
The 01 Games (301 and 501)
That’s the short description of the 01 games. It is the most common variation of darts and the variation which you will see on TV. This is also the most common variation for tournament play.
It is by far the most well-known dart games and the one most people pick up when starting.
However, it is not necessarily that suited for beginners. Having to “double-in” and “double-out” can be hard, and if you’ve just gotten a dartboard there are other games we recommend instead (such as cricket, legs, and shanghai).
(These are also much better party games).
So with that out of the way, here’s how to play the 01 games as well as strategy on how to win the game.
01 Dice
The 01 dart games, represented by the elusive 0 dice
The person to reach zero first is the winner of that game (or leg). Three legs usually equal a set. Win two or three sets to win the match (you can agree on the number before you play).
You have to reach exactly zero. Go under zero, and you are reset to the total you had before you started throwing your set of three darts. Reach 1 point, and you have to reset too (you cannot go out on a double if you only have 1 point).
The bullseye counts as 50 points; the outer bull is 25 points.
# of players: 2 or 4
Who goes first: each player throws one dart; closest to the bull starts.
How to score points: In 301, you must 'double in' before points can be scored. In 501, all scores count.
Variants: you can start with different total scores (e.g., 701, 1001, 1501).
Level of players: Intermediate and above
Strategies to win the game: Go for high scores when your total is high (e.g., treble 20s). Think about the double you leave yourself on. If you are left with 32 points, you are aiming for double 16. If you miss the double and hit the 16, you are left with 16 points. You can now aim for double 8. If you leave yourself on an odd number, there is usually no double to go out on (though you can go out on the bull (50 points)).
This game is more challenging and not well suited for beginners. In competitive play, it is more suited to professionals.
Each turn consists of three darts. There are only certain numbers in play: 20, 16, double 7, 14, treble 10, and the bullseye. The numbers are played in that order.
On the first turn, players are aiming for the 20. This can include the single, double, and treble. The play then moves onto 16 and so on. Each player gets three darts for each number.
Points are cumulative. If on your first turn, you hit three single 20s, you would score 60 points. If at any time, you miss with all three darts on your turn, your score is halved. If you hit 60 points on your first turn and missed the 16 with all three darts on your next, your score would now be 30.
"Half a lemon sounds good, thanks"
How to play Halve-it
# of players: any number.
Who goes first: each player throws a dart at the board. The player closest to the bull starts.
How to score points: hit the numbers in play (20, 16, D7, 14, T10, Bull).
Variants: use an easier selection of numbers for beginners.
Level of players: expert
Strategies to win the game: play as often as possible and practice hitting the areas in play.
How to Grip a Dart
When it comes to darts, there really is no right and wrong way to grip the dart. Whatever feels most comfortable and gives you the greatest accuracy is the correct grip for you.
Having said that, there are some things which you can do which may improve that comfort and accuracy. There are times where you do not know what will work until you try it.
We are here to share some advice on your grip and how to get the most accurate throw.
Without further ado, let’s get to grips, ahem, with grip.
holding a dart
Hold "Tip Up"
Take a dart in your hand and hold it as if you are going to throw it at the dartboard. Is the tip pointing up? It should be.
If you were to take a dart and hold it horizontally with the ground, the tip would point directly forwards. When throwing it towards the board, the dart should point towards the board but also slight upward.
A downward facing dart is not going to be accurate.
One tip we can give you is to check the position of the tip at the time of release. At the moment you let your dart go, is the tip pointing up as opposed to down?
Things will start to look up when you dart is pointing up.
Your Hold
When you hold the dart, are you thinking about how you hold it?
A dart should not be held too tightly or too loosely. Think about holding a chip in your hand. Try that next time you are holding a dart. Too loose and the chip falls to the floor. Too tight and you crack the chip. Either way, the chip is useless for dipping.
Have a relaxed yet firm grip of your dart.
Open Your Fingers
When you are holding your dart, are your fingers curled into your palm?
Most of us will hold a dart between our thumb and two fingers. What happens to the other two fingers?
If your fingers are curled into your palm, you are not going to get the best throw. Your free fingers should be open and loose. Imagine holding a cup of tea in a posh restaurant. You want your pinky and other finger sticking out freely.
Open fingers mean more relaxed muscles which will result in a more open, free, and fluid throw.
This type of grip will also help you to keep the dart pointed up.
Don't worry. You don't need to involve Mr. Newton (or an apple)
Where is your dart’s center of gravity?
Take a dart in the palm of your hand. Feel where the center is. You can also try and balance the dart on a fingertip (if you have the skills).
You should be gripping your dart around the center of gravity. Under no circumstances should you be gripping the dart on the shaft or be touching the flight.
There is no magical spot to grip the dart so experiment with your hand position. The center of gravity is a great place to start.
Let’s Throw
It takes a lot of practice and time to master the correct throw. Follow our tips but do not be afraid to experiment with your hand position.
The best grip is the one which feels the most comfortable and gives you the best scores.
How to improve your throwing stance
How much can your throwing stance influence your game?
Well, the answer is a lot.
And, if you can stand it, I have some tips for you. If you can stand it! Okay, I’m done.
Your stance aligns you when it comes time to throw your darts. If you stand straight, then you are going to throw straight. A consistent stance means a consistent throw. Here are our top tips for achieving the perfect stance.
Find Your Center
Finding inner peace helps as well, but start by finding your physical center
Consistency is important. The best place to start is by lining yourself up with the dartboard and finding your center.
Should be easy, right? Just find the center of the throw line and place your foot there. Well, how many bar workers do you think care about centering the throw line exactly? My guess is not many.
When it comes to a professional setup, you can be sure that the throw line is going to be centered, but not so much at a bar or a friend’s house.
Move to the throw line and find the center visually. Where is the spot that lines up with the center of the board? Memorize or mark that spot.
Now, when you step up to the throw line, you can place your foot on the center spot.
Find Your Stance
How do you stand and throw your darts?
You may see a lot of beginners stand with both toes pointing forward on the throw line. This stance is not going to do you any favors.
The best way to stand is with your throwing side pointed towards the board.
If you are right-handed, then stand with your right foot on the throw line and pointed towards the board.
Your other foot should be behind and facing sideways. This keeps your body aligned and minimizes any movement when you are throwing your dart.
Keep your feet shoulder width apart, and you are good to go. Or, good to throw.
Find Your Angle
The 90 degree angle is great for darts
You have your stance, and you have your center. Next, you need to find your angle.
Most darts professionals agree that standing with a sideways stance is best.
Your torso should be at 90 degrees to the board. When your throwing arm is pointing at the board, your torso should be facing sideways.
This may take some practice, and you may find that you are standing somewhere between a 45-90 degree angle. Start with what feels most comfortable and try and work towards the 90-degree angle.
Find Your Balance
How not to find your balance
You are probably not going to fall over when you are playing darts (unless you have had one too many beers), but your balance is still critical.
You want to distribute your weight evenly between both feet.
Your feet should be shoulder width apart. Your front foot should be flat on the floor. You can lift the heel of your trailing foot if it provides you with more balance.
It is important to find balance in your stance so that you do not move when you are throwing your dart.
A good way to think about it is the 80:20 rule. 80% of your weight should be in your front foot. The front foot bears the weight, and the back foot steers the ship.
You can lean slightly on your front foot as you throw but be careful not to lean too much.
Find Your Inner Calm
We knew this ying-yang icon would come in handy sometime
When you throw, you need to be calm. A common mistake is moving your body too much when you throw your dart.
The motion should flow through your shoulder, and you should not find yourself lunging. Your shoulders should remain steady, and your spine should always be straight.
Where is the motion coming from? Your arm above the elbow. This is the part of your body which should be moving. The remainder should stay still and calm (a little movement is fine).
Never lunge. That extra thrust is not going to add anything to your throw and will usually take away some of your accuracy.
Find Yourself Complete
Follow our simple steps, and you will be throwing more accurately than you ever have before.
It does not take much to gain a great throwing stance.
Strive for consistency, and you will only improve.
Advances strategies: Throwing consistently
What is the most important part of your game? Accuracy is a big part of it, but accuracy is only part of something bigger.
With great accuracy comes great consistency.
Consistency is what we strive for, and this is not only in our accuracy. We also strive for consistency with our outs, our stance, out grip, our throw, and so much more.
When you are focused on accuracy, you are focused on improving your entire game.
So, without further ado, what can we do to improve consistency?
It Starts With The Grip
If you cannot hold the dart correctly and consistently, then you are not going to be able to throw it consistently.
When you are thinking about gripping the dart, you want to be gripping it in the same way, every time.
Here are our top tips for gaining a consistent grip.
• Hold the dart between your thumb and first two fingers like you would with a pencil.
• Have a relaxed yet firm grasp. Think about holding a potato chip.
• The thumb is for support; the fingers are for guiding the dart.
• Keep your other fingers loose and not curled into your palm.
• Find the ridge on your dart where you grip it and strive to grip it at the same point each time.
Take A Stance
Now that you have the grip mastered, you need to master a consistent stance. If your stance changes, then the same grip is not going to matter.
So, what can you do?
Here are our top stance tips.
1. The throwing foot of your dominant hand should be forward in your stance.
2. Your feet should be between 45-90 degrees in relation to the direction you are throwing in.
3. Your weight should be mostly on your front foot.
4. You can raise your back foot slightly for balance.
5. The weight should shift to your front foot during your throw.
6. You should not jerk forward when you throw.
7. The main movement will be from your elbow down.
8. Lock your knees and only bend them slightly if needed.
Now, You Can Throw
If your stance is consistent and your throw is too, that goes a long way towards maintaining a consistent throw.
Before you throw, you want to make sure that your arm is set up to throw the dart. I know that you want some more tips, so here they are.
• Your upper arm should be raised; it can be parallel to the floor.
• Your dart should line up with your face.
• You should be able to look through the dart to the board.
• Take your time.
• Line up your dart and aim for a specific target.
Throwing the dart
Once you have your arm in position, it is time to throw the dart. A lot of consistency has gone into getting us to this point, so it is only fair that I am consistent too. Here are some more top tips.
• The movement of the throw should be from the forearm and wrist.
• Movement in your upper arm and shoulders should be minimal.
• Release the dart smoothly.
• You do not need to release with a lot of force.
• Keep your body steady.
• Release with a fluid motion.
• Move your forearm quickly to generate enough force.
• Flick your wrist in tandem with your forearm movement.
You have set up your arm and achieved consistent motion. The only thing to do now is concentrate on the follow-through. And, we are going to follow through with some more tips.
• Make sure to follow through.
• Make sure to follow through (it was so important that we had to mention it twice).
• Extend your arm after release.
• Follow the natural movement of your arm.
That’s It!
A few simple tips and you can achieve consistency in your throw and, dare we say it, greatness.
Take the time to master consistency on each of the areas. They are the building blocks of a consistent throw.
One last tip for you.
Practice, practice, and practice.
Advances strategies: Learn to double out
Doubling out is one of the most important aspects of darts.
In a regular competition, you will be playing 501; a game where you have to double out.
If you get the chance to play 301, then you will have to double in as well as double out.
With all ’01’ games, you need to double out (unless you are playing by different rules).
A great skill to have as a dart player is the ability to know which numbers to hit to leave yourself on the best double.
Don’t Wing It
Mmmm fried wings
It can be tempting to go for the treble 20 when you have a high score and then worry about the double later, but this can give you less chance of getting on a double.
For example, if you are on 94 points, it can be tempting to hit a treble 20 and then double 17. This would be a fine way to go out, but if you miss the double 17 and hit the single, you are in a little more trouble and cannot go out on your next dart.
If instead, you went for treble 18, then you would leave yourself on double 20. In this example, you have another out if you hit the single 20. You can now go for double 10.
Leave A Safety Net
Not this kind of safety net
One of the key things in darts is leaving yourself a safety net.
You always want to leave yourself on a double which leaves you on a double if you hit the single of that number (that sounds confusing). This means always leaving yourself on an even-numbered double.
Of course, it can be tempting to leave yourself on your favorite double, but you should be practicing all doubles just in case.
The ultimate double to leave yourself on is double 16 (32 points).
If you hit the single 16, you leave yourself on double 8, then double 4 if you hit the single 8, double 2 if you hit the single 4, and double 1 if you hit the single 2.
When To Think About An Out
Always have an out
When you reach 170 points, you can go out with three darts.
Almost every number below that can be gotten out in three darts (or less), so that is when you should be thinking about your out.
If you have 170 points or less, you should be thinking about your out.
The more you play, the more you will memorize the common outs.
The other thing you can do is have an out sheet by the dartboard (or just go ahead and memorize all the possible combinations).
Darts out sheet
The mental game: How to minimize nerves
With any game, especially those on the grand stage, there are nerves. With a game like darts, with the involved accuracy, you can get moments of nerves and tension as you try to hit that small area of the board.
Miss, and you give your opponent a chance to win. Even worse, you leave yourself on a harder out.
Nerves get the best of us at some point in our lives. Darts is no exception. So, what can you do about it?
Never fear, we are here to help you. All games are mental, to an extent. Master the mental game, and you will master the physical game.
Here are our top tips for achieving darts greatness.
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You have three darts in your hand. You have one double to hit. You have everything to lose.
Are we making it sound dramatic enough?
"No please make it even more dramatic!"
You may not think it now, but when you are on the throwing line in this exact situation, then you are going to feel tense. So, what do you do?
When your knees are feeling weak, and your hands are shaking, it is not your body which is giving you trouble; it is your mind. And, just so that you do not feel bad, the professionals suffer from it just as much as the novice player (often more so).
So, what is the difference between a pro and an amateur?
The answer is their mental game. Follow these simple professional tips, and your mind will master your body.
Just Play
What is worrying about losing going to do for you? Are you suddenly going to become a better player when you worry? The answer is no. Are you going to become a worse player? The answer is yes.
In short, stop worrying and just play.
When you just play, you stick to your game. It does not matter if you are on the cusp of destroying your opponent or on the cusp of a loss. If you play your game how you usually play it, you are going to play your best.
Control The Negativity
Negative thoughts have a way of creeping into our minds without us being able to stop them — kind of like that one Uncle who always turns up at Christmas.
Well, we may not be able to stop them, but we can usher them out (easier said than done when it comes to the uncle).
If a negative thought is stuck in your mind, then take a little time to remove it. Stop playing, take a deep breath, and say ‘stop.’ You can do this internally or say it out loud. Then, get back to our first tip and ‘Just Play.’
If you have seen the movie Happy Gilmore, then you know about the Happy Place. If you have not, then I am about to explain it to you.
Your happy place is the place you love being the most. Think of where you are your happiest. Close your eyes and imagine yourself being there. Immerse yourself in that place.
When you are there in your mind, squeeze the fleshy part of skin between your thumb and forefinger. Stay in your happy place for as long as you want.
Now, when you get into a ‘bad place’ in your darts game, go to your happy place. Close your eyes if you have the time or squeeze the flesh part on your hand to remind yourself.
It may sound like hocus locus but, trust me, it works.
Positive Association
This technique has been used by sports professionals for years.
When you have some spare time, imagine playing a game of darts. Think about the perfect game. See where the darts are going. Envision yourself throwing those darts and the darts hitting the spot. Think back over all the times you have hit the perfect shot.
Now, when you step up to the throwing line, think about your shot and how perfect it is going to be.
You are not going to hit the perfect shot every time, but confidence will do wonders for your game.
Never Give Up
It may sound like a cliche, but it is true.
You may find yourself well behind in a game. It can be easy to throw in the towel. The best tip we can give is never to give up.
You are not going to make an amazing comeback every time but you will occasionally.
It is amazing how often people get distracted by the person chasing them and are thrown off their game.
The better you can play when you’re behind, the more pressure it puts on your opponent. The more pressure, the more likely they will slip up. All it takes is a small gain for it to begin to snowball.
You should also be careful when you are in the lead. Never give up in that situation too. Do not think you have it in the bag. Always play as if your life depended on it.
Follow, Follow, Follow
Our tips are simple. They are easy to follow and can be done with minimal effort on your part.
Take the time for yourself and practice the mental game the next time you are playing solo.
A little mental preparation can do a lot more for you than throwing a few thousand darts at the board.
Good luck out there.
About the Author Steven
I've always loved to bowl, I've always loved to play (and watch) darts, I love picking up a ping pong paddle - I could go on. That's why I've created this site. I'm no professional but a good ol' down to earth guy, that wants to help others pick out the best products (it makes the games so much more fun) and get better at the same time (so you can beat your friends). | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '19', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9539860486984252}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '253718', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TX4SHOTBEL3NZSIXZ4A3K432KH35VSR4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:df61e0f9-dbab-440d-9cbf-05b0dfce91ca>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 26, 10, 32, 47), 'WARC-IP-Address': '146.66.80.172', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ELVQGD22YUU6QJBL2N4LVYYSXAUJHFLW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d49c2b4e-22a8-412b-88e0-af03601cbfe9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://gloversports.com/darts-the-ultimate-guide/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:eda5941f-14d3-4bdf-81f5-a8153b1d3503>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '7129', 'url': 'https://gloversports.com/darts-the-ultimate-guide/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-13\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-186-104-161.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03747975826263428', 'original_id': 'eb8c08ea9ab779f5a03306584b5e42ac1b0ed51feeceb3606633df7fa84d75e1'} |
Yemen peace talks to resume in shadow of conflict | News | Al Jazeera
Yemen peace talks to resume in shadow of conflict
UN sets date for meeting in Geneva to end seven weeks of war as Arab coalition mounts sustained bombardment of Sanaa.
The UN has announced that talks between rival Yemeni parties will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 28 in a bid to end over seven weeks of war.
Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, said on Wednesday the May 28 meeting was to "restore momentum towards a Yemeni-led political transition process" after weeks of conflict that have left 1,850 dead.
"The secretary-general is pleased to announce the launch of inclusive consultations starting on 28 May in Geneva to restore momentum towards a Yemeni-led political transition process," the UN statement issued in New York said.
It said the initiative, which would bring together the Yemeni government and other parties, including the Houthis, followed extensive consultations by the secretary-general's special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
The announcement came after a three-day Riyadh Conference for Saving Yemen and Building Federal State ended with a final declaration which emphasised the federal nature of Yemen's future state.
The three-day conference had been due to be announced last week, but the UN demanded that there be a halt in fighting for the talks to go ahead.
The Arab coalition has been bombing Houthi forces in Sanaa and other Yemeni cities since March 26 [Reuters]
Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Muslim allies have carried out almost two months of air raids on Shia Houthi fighters it says are armed by Iran, a major Shia power.
Iran dismisses the allegation.
UN-brokered peace talks were suspended when Houthi fighters went on the offensive, capturing Sanaa in September and advancing on Aden, forcing the president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to flee into exile in Saudi Arabia.
Residents said on Wednesday that overnight, Arab coalition jets carried out the most sustained bombardment of Sanaa since the offensive started, hitting army bases and weapons depots.
Saudi diplomat discusses planned peace talks
At least one Saudi soldier was killed by shelling from across the Yemeni border, Saudi Arabia's interior ministry said.
Against this backdrop of continuing conflict, Iran has announced that an Iranian cargo ship sailing to Yemen with 2,500 tonnes of food and medical supplies would submit to international inspections in Djibouti before continuing on to Yemen's Hodaida port, which is under Houthi control.
The move reduces the risk of a potential showdown between the vessel, which had been escorted by Iranian warships, and Saudi-led forces enforcing inspections on vessels entering Yemeni ports to prevent arms supplies from reaching the Houthis.
"We have decided to dock our ship in Djibouti so the United Nations inspection protocol can take place," Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Iran's deputy foreign minister, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
The vessel's voyage had threatened to escalate the regional confrontation over Yemen.
SOURCE: Agencies
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3rd Generation cameras and the future of DSLR's
A lot of talk has been going on lately about the future of digital SLR cameras and as a professional photography instructor/blogger, I suppose every now and then I'm expected to write about the looming death of some photo technology. Well, today is not that day, but this topic does provide us with the opportunity to discuss exciting advances with digital photography and provide some insight as to the direction we're heading.
The buzz phrase in the digital camera industry right now is "3rd Gen cameras," also known as "four-thirds" or "micro four-thirds" cameras, "EVIL cameras", and a short list of other such names. With advances in technology, some camera manufacturers are starting to push out cameras that produce high quality images utilizing a smaller sensor and no mirror such as the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Micro-Four-Thirds digital camera, seen here. So what does this mean for the future of digital photography? Are these new "3rd gen" cameras ready to take over? Not by a long shot, but let's take a look at how I've come to that conclusion:
There's no denying that at some point in time, all digital cameras will lose the antiquated mirror, a technology that has been in use for for over 60 years since the advent of the Zeiss Ikon VEB Contax S back in 1949. The mirror in DSLR's is a mechanical component of the camera that must flap open and closed with each frame, creating a mechanical bottleneck that directly affects the maximum frames-per-second the camera is capable of. But losing the mirror won't happen overnight, in fact, it will likely be a gradual transition over the next decade.
The camera industry is a multi-billion dollar industry with photographers using billions of dollars worth of digital SLR gear, some of which is very expensive, especially when it comes to lenses. With high quality lenses ranging in price from $500 for a simple prime lens, to more than $14,000 for a top-of-the-line 800mm super telephoto, it's practically impossible from a financial standpoint for photographers to just switch overnight.
Let's take a look at some current issues I see with 3rd Gen cameras that will undoubtedly be resolved over time:
So should you sell your DSLR and lenses and pick up a new 3rd Gen camera? No, and the reason is simple: These new 3rd Gen cameras are just that, new, and that means the technology is just starting to come to market, accessories are sparse, and there is a lack of lenses for these cameras compared with what is available for DSLR's. The 3rd Gen cameras of today will not be of the same caliber as the ones available in 5 or 10 years. The same was true when digital SLR's hit the market a couple decades ago. It takes a few years to get the ball rolling, test the waters, and see what works and what doesn't.
It is unlikely 3rd Gen cameras will be compatible with the lenses of today because of the way today's lenses operate. Of course firmware may be developed to allow the camera to capture the old lens' image, flip it like the pentaprism does now, and display it correctly, but most likely, new lens technology will be used to compliment the new cameras. The new 3rd Gen lenses will be smaller, lighter, faster, and quieter than today's lenses which will be a welcomed change for those of us stuck lugging around 15 lbs. worth of lenses through the woods or on a safari.
Another current drawback that will improve over the next decade is image quality due to sensor size. Right now, the sensor size of choice for most pros is "full-frame," which means the sensor is the same size as a 35mm negative. Both Canon and Nikon's flagship cameras feature a full-frame sensor along with a slightly smaller APS-C sensor used in their sports/wildlife tailored cameras. The 3rd Gen cameras use an even smaller sensor, about 75% smaller than the full-frame sensors. The use of these tiny sensors allows the cameras to be made smaller and more compact, and allows them to be fast by devoting processing power to onboard systems like the digital viewfinder, auto image processing, autofocus, etc. What you end up with is poor image quality at high ISO or in low light conditions--a deal breaker for any professional photographer or advanced amateur.
So for now, digital SLR's are still the way to go if you're looking to achieve pro results from your gear. I anticipate these cameras will continue to be sold for at least another decade or longer and as better and better 3rd Gen cameras start hitting the shelves, they will slowly begin to phase out. The bottom line is, digital SLR technology is HOT right now and each new product launch yields even more impressive specifications. We're just starting to hit the plateau with digital SLR's so you can still feel confident in purchasing a nice DSLR and some lenses without having to worry about obsoleteness for a while.
Today, Olympus announced five more companies would be joining the Micro Four Thirds family. These companies are as far as we know, unaffiliated with the consumer camera industry and a few of them are very new companies. JK Imaging, Ltd., the company which purchased the Kodak brand, just formed last year in 2012. Below is a full list of the companies with brief biographies provided by Olympus:
Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd.:
JK Imaging Ltd.:
JK Imaging Ltd. Website : http://www.kodakcamera.jkiltd.com
PHOTRON LIMITED. Website : http://www.photron.com/
ViewPLUS Inc.:
ViewPLUS Inc. Website : http://www.viewplus.co.jp/english.html
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(born 1929). Swiss microbiologist Werner Arber received the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for finding a new method to study DNA, the molecules that convey genetic information. He discovered and used restriction enzymes, which break DNA molecules into units that are small enough to study separately but still large enough to carry meaningful information. Arber used restriction enzymes to study how organisms exchange genetic material and how bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, cause mutations in the bacteria they infect.
Arber was born on June 3, 1929, in Gränichen, Aargau canton (state), Switzerland. He attended Gränichen public schools and the Aarau Gymnasium (secondary school). From 1949 to 1953 he studied natural sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School at Zürich.
In November 1953 Arber began a post-graduate assistantship at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His main responsibility was to care for two electron microscopes in the biophysics laboratory. While there, Arber learned about the genetics of bacteriophages and studied James Watson’s and Francis Crick’s groundbreaking research on the structure of DNA. Arber completed his doctorate in 1958.
After a year and a half in the United States at the University of Southern California at Berkeley, Stanford, and Massahusetts Institute of Technology, Arber joined the University of Geneva faculty in 1960 with a focus on molecular genetics. After spending 1970–71 on a visiting appointment at the University of California at Berkeley in molecular biology, he took up his new post as university professor in Basel, a Swiss city with a long tradition of industries related to biomedical research. He shared the Nobel Prize in 1978 with American scientists Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.952049195766449}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '67981', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OMBCOQ5LKM7GILWCKKOLI7HR4YLDFZS6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7b3f4487-151e-41d2-828f-3333fb59274a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 12, 8, 9, 32, 44), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.4.110', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZN5TJDRWZ2JQ5P2PAUYYDI7CVZEVNNEV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:077975bd-c926-4e66-996c-db9aeb90c44e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Werner-Arber/316477', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d3e85b4e-952a-4b05-99cf-46d84386fbe4>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '271', 'url': 'https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Werner-Arber/316477', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-73\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06756436824798584', 'original_id': '51cf4d018ae2f548ebec211295459e7dd1bd30b1923d7835c2f969335615e385'} |
At a glance: Sanctions against Russia
Last updated 10:47 05/03/2014
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The United States and the European Union are preparing economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia unless Moscow de-escalates the crisis in Ukraine and pulls its troops on the Crimean peninsula back to its barracks.
The US has already halted military and economic talks as it weighs further punitive measures. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday (local time) in Kiev Russia that must pull back or "our partners will have absolutely no choice but to join us to continue to expand upon steps we have taken in recent days in order to isolate Russia politically, diplomatically and economically".
Here's a glance on agreed sanctions, further measures under consideration in the US and the EU and their impact:
The US and the European members of the G8 - Germany, Britain, Italy and France - have halted all preparations for a planned June summit in Russia's Black Sea resort Sochi.
EU foreign ministers on Monday said their leaders are likely to halt long-running talks with Russia on visa liberalisation and negotiations on further economic co-operation. Russia is keen on the talks to secure visa-free travel for its citizens to the 28-nation EU, the country's biggest trade partner.
US officials travelling with Kerry said the administration is considering imposing economic sanctions as soon as this week, but gave no details.
Ed Royce, chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, has called for "debilitating" economic measures. He said the US and Europe should act collectively to threaten the Russian stock market, economy and rouble if Russia doesn't withdraw from Crimea.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, also said talks were ongoing with the administration on possible sanctions ranging from "visa bans and asset freezes, to the suspension of military co-operation and sales".
EU foreign ministers on Monday threatened Russia with "targeted measures," which typically include banning key officials and business leaders from travelling to the 28-nation bloc and freezing any of their assets held there. Some analysts speculate the EU could also hit Russia by blocking state-controlled banks' access to its financial market.
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Such steps would be fairly easy to do, but could harm Europe's economic interest. Russian investors hold assets worth billions in European banks, not least in Britain and Cyprus - two financial hubs popular with Russians.
Tougher economic sanctions could target Russia's energy sector. The trade in oil and gas accounts for around 60 per cent of Russia's exports and half of its government revenues, according to analysts from Capital Economics, making Moscow vulnerable to sanctions, at least in theory. It would be easy for the US, but very difficult and thus unlikely for the Europeans.
Russia is the EU's third-largest trading partner, mainly because of oil and gas imports, with the EU being its biggest gas costumer. Germany, for example, gets 35 per cent of its supplies from Russia.
Russia, in turn, buys everything from machinery to cars from Europe, its biggest trading partner, with exports to Russia totalling 123 billion euros (NZ$201 billion) in 2012. For the US, Russia isn't among the top 15 trading partners.
President Vladimir Putin "likely believes that the West would not be able to agree on biting economic sanctions against Russia; indeed, the EU nations have such deep trade relations with Russia that they would resist", said Eurasia Group analyst Cliff Kupchan.
Any tough EU decisions will require unanimity among the leaders of the bloc's 28 sovereign nations, and that appears far from guaranteed, for fears of hurting their economies and being shut off from Russian gas supplies.
Both the US and the EU would feel a pinch if they impose sanctions.
The fallout for Washington would likely be primarily political as it needs to work with Russia, a veto-wielding permanent UN Security Council member, on resolving international crises ranging from the civil war in Syria to Iran's nuclear programme.
Since the military escalation over the weekend, Russia felt a quick economic jolt as its stock market and the currency plunged. Analysts say a full-scale economic escalation - which very few expect at this stage - would be most painful to Russia, which already experiences sluggish growth.
"Europe would be hurt," Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans acknowledged Monday. "Those consequences will be bad for everyone, but for Russia they will be far worse than for the EU."
- AP
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Pirates Sweep Doubleheader From Barton And Mount Olive
John Schmitt
April 3, 2013
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GREENVILLE, N.C. --- The East Carolina men's tennis team improved to 14-3 on the season defeating Barton, 5-0, and Mount Olive, 7-0, in a doubleheader at the ECU Tennis Complex on Wednesday.
The Pirates opened play against Barton with five singles victories. Nicolas Soriano, John Schmitt, Damien Brenard, Patriek Wolterbeek and Ross Nigro each won in straight sets to make quick work of the Bulldogs. Doubles matches were not scheduled to be played.
Against Mount Olive, the Pirates swept the doubles point to take a 1-0 advantage. Schmitt teamed with Mario Martinez to win at No. 2 over Henric Falkenberg and Akio Mariano, 8-4. Wolterbeek and Soriano won by the same 8-4 score at No. 3 over Brahm Moolman and Gabriel Santana. Joran Vliegen and Colin Roller remained undefeated at No. 1 doubles by outlasting Edgar Bub and Rik Wolthuis, 9-7.
As it did against Barton, ECU won all of the singles matches in straight sets. Schmitt and Brenard both earned their second victories of the day, while Vliegen, Martinez, Roller and Blake Gregory won their lone singles match of the doubleheader. The Pirates return to action Sunday against College of Charleston at 12 p.m.
East Carolina 7, Mount Olive 0
Singles competition
1. Joran Vliegen (ECU) def. Edgar Bub (MOC) 6-3, 6-1
2. John Schmitt (ECU) def. Gabriel Santana (MOC) 6-0, 6-1
3. Damien Brenard (ECU) def. Henric Falkenburg (MOC) 6-1, 6-4
4. Mario Martinez (ECU) def. Akio Mariano (MOC) 7-5, 6-4
5. Colin Roller (ECU) def. Stan Roffe (MOC) 6-3, 6-2
6. Blake Gregory (ECU) def. Brahm Moolman (MOC) 6-3, 6-0
Doubles competition
1. Joran Vliegen/Colin Roller (ECU) def. Edgar Bub/Rik Wolthuis (MOC) 9-7
2. John Schmitt/Mario Martinez (ECU) def. Henric Falkenburg/Akio Mariano (MOC) 8-4
3. Patriek Wolterbeek/Nicolas Soriano (ECU) def. Brahm Moolman/Gabriel Santana (MOC) 8-4
East Carolina 5, Barton 0
Singles competition
1. Nicolas Soriano (ECU) def. Rafael Ruiz Velasco (BARTON) 7-6, 6-4
2. John Schmitt (ECU) def. Nick Genest (BARTON) 6-1, 6-1
3. Damien Brenard (ECU) def. Jorge Pradilla (BARTON) 6-3, 6-1
4. Patriek Wolterbeek (ECU) def. Daniel Radu (BARTON) 6-1, 6-0
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French soldiers stand at a military airbase near Bamako, Mali, on Monday. / Eric Feferberg, AFP/Getty Images
A French military assault on jihadist rebels marching south from a desert stronghold in northern Mali cannot be maintained without support from France's NATO allies, including the United States, analysts say.
France launched an operation "they don't have all the resources to carry through to the end," said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa center at the Atlantic Council, a think tank.
The operation required assistance from the United States and other NATO allies before they were ready to provide it, and "I think that's going to make it more difficult going forward," Pham said.
The French have already received drone and other aerial intelligence from the United States. And the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force provided two C-17 transport planes to carry French troops to the Malian capital of Bamako because France lacks heavy-lifting capability, Pham said.
Another analyst, Marina Ottaway of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said France's move was necessary to stop a rebel advance, though an overall strategy for completing the campaign appears to be missing.
"The shortcoming of the French approach is that it's not clear what the next step is," Ottaway said. "They're just going in and stopping the advance of the rebel groups."
France sent around 600 troops to protect French citizens and prop up Malian government forces Friday, while its warplanes pounded jihadist rebels in northern Mali. The rebels countered by seizing a new town.
Islamist extremists overran government forces in Diabaly, a small town in central Mali where fighting in the 4-day-old offensive continues to rage, Jean-Yves Le Drian, France's defense minister, on Monday told the Associated Press.
The French intervention does not follow the timetable of the United States.
U.S. diplomats have been trying to restore a legitimate democratic government since a military coup in March. The coup was quickly followed by the seizing of a territory the size of Texas in northern Mali by a combination of mostly secular Touareg separatists and Jihadi militias linked to al Qaeda. After the Touareg advance, the Jihadists seized the four major cities in the area and have since destroyed historic shrines and inflicted their extreme interpretation of Islamic law on the populace.
The United States has been trying to assemble an invasion force to retake northern Mali, comprised by neighboring African countries. Those countries, however, have only agreed to contribute 3,300 troops, which Pham said is a "delusional" pittance for the task.
Meanwhile, the Jihadists were marching toward Mali's heavily populated south, in the direction of a landing strip near Mopti, which African nations involved in surveillance flights over northern Mali use for refueling.
Ottaway said the United States was moving "far too slowly," for what was becoming "an imminent crisis."
With jihadists moving toward more populated country, there was a danger of losing more of Mali, and of the jihadist rebellion spreading to other countries in Saharan fringe area known as the Sahel, Ottaway said.
"If jihadi groups are not stopped, they will form a larger and larger base of operation in the Sahel and will become more and more difficult to dislodge," she said.
Pham said he believes that scenario is unlikely. The highest estimates for the north Mali jihadists, around 2,000, is far below what could threaten the much more populous southern part of the country, Pham said. Besides, he said, the French solution is counterproductive because it does not rely on local forces.
The French may have enough troops to push back the latest Islamist incursion, but not enough to defeat and uproot the radicals in the north, Pham said.
For that they will need help, and, "by planting their flag there, it's now become the latest place to go if you want to fight a Western army," he said.
Contributing: The Associated Press
Copyright 2014
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Proud Infinity pt2
Hello readers, here is the 2nd part of the story Proud Infinity that is the new story I am putting together. Enjoy and comment, I like to see your reactions! Yesterday we read about Trego seeing a strange girl at a bar and how he was attacked and left. We pick up right where we left off:
Trego and Proud
Pt 2:
As soon as I was outside I ran. The only safety I had from anyone in there was raw distance. At the very least I was no longer angry, just a little shaken.
I ran a couple of blocks until I was sure I was out of there and no one was behind me. I doubted anyone actually would come after me after such domination, but I was just being safe. A bit further ahead was a fence that appeared to be next to a pit.
I walked over and realized it overlooked the ReCorp complex. Only a few steps in front of me was a steep cliff into a pit that surrounded the entire complex except for the single road in. The small community’s buildings rose ominously from the void of ground all around it. A few pillars of smoke or steam rose off the power plant that had been built strictly for this. Even during the day, I could see the black buildings with their endlessly burning lights from here. I switched my eye filters to pick up thermal, and the heat signatures radiating off of them disgusted me with the environmental damage they were probably doing.
“Some sight huh?” I blinked and turned towards the sound, my eyes returning to normal. It was an old man further down the fence looking at the eyesore, that cancer of the city, that tumor on our fair planet, that blight of aesthetics, a veritable citadel of pain on our hopes and dreams…
I waved the comment off. “Yeah, if you mean totally disrupting to the entire culture and planet that was already here.”
He started walking towards me, but I didn’t really feel like talking. He lifted a hand up towards me as if to include me. “Yeah, you are young enough that I am sure you were displaced by what occurred here.”
“ ‘Occurred here’ is right. Like it was some sort of disaster. Which is what it was.” Where was a portable nuke launcher when I needed one? I fantasized about sighting it up, then watching it all get blown away.
He turned back to overlook the pit and the city beyond. “I retired here. I was in the Solarian Space Force my whole life, and Center always intrigued me. I have an off-planet account, completely filled with gems. This depression has actually made me relatively more well off.”
I went to walk away once more. “Great for you, join the rest of us. Unless you are going to give me money I don’t want to hear how much you got.”
“Hey, wait, I guess I got carried away. Sorry about mentioning money. It’s just… Look at you. You clearly are not, or at least were not, in the dregs of society. Tickets off-planet are not the expensive. Why didn’t you get out?”
I laughed once. “I thought I was going to be hired.” I looked back at the place I hated now. Maybe I still wanted to go back.
He lifted his hands, trying to encompass the whole compound in his arms; it seemed he liked using his hands to communicate. “Ahhhhh.” His hands came back to his side, and he turned back to me, smiling a bit crazily. “That’s the mystery, isn’t it? Being near Center, there are a lot of phenomena that is still being researched and even new discoveries happening fairly regularly. Since this planet is within Center, naturally it makes sense that it was a beacon of research. Let me guess, you were a researcher?”
At this point, I was a bit cautious of his craziness, but also intrigued as he seemed to know what was going on. “Of course. Just about everyone here was.”
He leaned his face in a bit towards me. “See that’s what strange. What were you researching, if you don’t mind me asking? If it’s not classified.”
“It was, but I don’t care anymore. Everyone betrayed me so what’s the point of a misplaced loyalty? We were studying the fabric of reality, component particles, its intervention with time and all that.” I added the ‘all that’ because I am sure he had no idea what I was talking about. “Notably that reality seemed to be potentially constructed differently near Center, and scales away from there based on distance.”
The man nodded. “That’s what adds to the mystery. You clearly were in the know, but a large corporation comes in, buys out everything, and doesn’t even take any of the staff?”
I froze for a moment. How’d he know all the staff got whacked? I never mentioned it, which made me wary.
“Tell me about it,” I agreed, slightly suspicious.
He turned back to me. “Since you told me something, I’ll tell you something. I am a bit intrigued by this, and looked into it, used some of my old contacts. Guess what: ReCorp is not that big of a corporation.”
“Really?” I asked, intrigued quite a bit now by this guy I thought seemed crazy. I had assumed that due to ReCorp’s massive buying power it had to have been huge, near empire status itself. I couldn’t look up anything on it which was suspicious itself, so it always remained a mystery. I suspected the void of information was just a payoff somewhere.
“Ha, got you interested?” The old man’s eyes looked brighter than I gave him credit for; he still had a spark of life in him. “Well guess what? ReCorp does not even exist off planet.
“What!?” My mouth dropped open.
“Yeah, ‘ReCorp’ is nothing more than a puppet organization propped up by probably nothing less than a full-on empire.”
I shook my head. “I could see that now that you mention it. Pisses me off.”
“It’s completely true.”
“Oh, I have no doubt of that. It makes perfect sense.” The info void and firing the old staff being the largest offenders.
I stood there for a few more moments, thinking about what he said before he told me, “Keep an eye out, reality has an…interesting aspect to it,” and left. Well that sure was a random but interesting encounter.
Maybe I should buy a ticket off this dump like that guy suggested. I figured I’d walk around the city like I usually do until something came to me for inspiration to get out of my plight or perhaps what to do for credits. As I passed people again and again out on the streets, not doing anything, and having nothing to do, my thoughts drifted back to that man’s question as to why I just didn’t get out. I had more than enough credits originally, but the thought had not crossed my mind. I had no loyalty to this place; it was an odd decision for me to have made now I thought about it.
I continued thinking as I mindlessly walked forward, nearly stepping on a slumped body on the sidewalk. I stepped around the stagnant figure, not even sparing it a second glance as I kept walking. I honestly had no idea if the person was dead or just sleeping, but I didn’t really care either way. I saw this quite often around here, so I suppose I became immune to it in a way. I ignored the still body as I went back to my contemplating.
Part of the problem about me leaving though was that I was not ‘technical’ minded. I had gotten my job because of a friend who indeed was good with the details and rote memorization of minute facts. My skills lay in assimilation of facts and creative solutions or ideas. I was actually lucky I had fallen into the position I had, but it was a very good relationship for both me and the research unit.
My big ‘breakout’ was when we were faced with some proof of time running differently within the same system. The data was checked, and experiments reran, but it appeared that on one planet in the system, time indeed did ‘run faster’.
My suggestion was simple in my mind, but everyone else found it really profound. I suggested we take a look at some of the old theories of time non-linearity and let’s assume it might not actually be linear everywhere. I suggested that the five dimensions of space perhaps exhibited preferential pathing for the three physical dimensions, along with time, and gravity. If we looked into the gravitational attraction constant we could see if it might be different, or at the very least gravity could be affecting the time dilation effects.
Ha, yeah. That was back when I was a hero among the researchers, not some chump with a gun cruising the streets. The fall from grace was pretty rapid, and in my own mind I still felt like I was ‘different’ from the rest of these fools.
‘I’m not just a chump, I’m a cut above. At least advanced chump,’ I thought wistfully to myself.
I heard a rumbling of a large truck that drew me out of my reverie. The grav plates must have been loose, because even though the truck was balanced as it floated down the street it was extremely noisy. No surprise: it was a ReCorp truck. I kind of just wanted to shoot the driver and drive the truck off the bridge. Me inside? I don’t know.
Anyway, my theory was probably about a solar cycle ago, and indeed we did find some data that seemed to correlate with my thoughts. I was living on high for a while there, but then ReCorp came in, shut down all the research, bought out everything, and made their own compound isolated from anyone who was employed prior.
Maybe it was part of some big government cover up, like they didn’t like what we found out. Made sense why all of us would be out. What we had found was still in the early stages, so if that was true it’d be more to shut down the info rather than use it for themselves.
Oh, and my friend, the one good with the details and was actually pretty instrumental in getting our project to be so successful? Committed suicide. I found him in his room, took a tie and hung himself off the doorknob. It was pretty fucked up, I doubt he died quick. The claw marks at his neck suggested he thought twice about it after it was too late. All because he ran out of credits…or maybe hope first, I don’t know. For me, I still had credits, so I guess I still had hope.
In a lot of ways, what was once a vibrant city was rapidly falling apart. Though not everyone here was involved in the massive research complex as researchers, it was easily the primary employer from logistics to food service and so on. There were still a fair amount of people around, but I have noticed a decline in the amount still here. I didn’t know if they left the planet, were murdered, or pulled their own pin. In evidence of the later I found quite a few bodies just dumped in the streets. I didn’t really pay that much attention after a while. Really, you stop counting after about five.
I sat down for a moment, looking at the empty sky. It was really calm now, and I mean that in a bad way. There used to be a vibrant trade through here with ships coming and going through the sky; now only a single ship came once a cycle for supplies for ReCorp. I can’t think of the last time I saw an alien…probably an Aelisha a few planet cycles after ReCorp came in and shut everything down. I didn’t even see Aelishan patrols anymore; that was pretty odd itself.
I wonder if I could leave here now. Could I have even left back then?
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FNM MPs lash out
Clifton Member of Parliament Kendal Wright and Eight Mile Rock MP Verna Grant yesterday lashed out at the Ingraham administration over its decision to eliminate their constituencies without first advising them.
But Grant was softer in her tone when she expressed disappointment in the process.
While she later voted in favor of a resolution giving effect to the boundaries report, Wright failed to show up for the vote.
The Nassau Guardian confirmed that Wright was told by his party that if he showed up and voted against the resolution giving effect to the proposals of the Boundaries Commission, he would no longer be welcomed in the Free National Movement (FNM).
The other option Wright received was to show up and support the resolution, and the third was to stay away altogether. By staying away, he will still be welcomed in the party.
Suggesting that the report of the Boundaries Commission was not fair, Wright said, “It’s like an old John Wayne movie where you say we will give him a fair trail and then we hang him in the morning.”
Clifton is one of five constituencies being eliminated in New Providence.
“You could cut Clifton. I understand that. Go ahead and cut [your] boundary lines; do what you want to do, but I say this, and I believe I speak for every member of parliament futuristically — Englerston (Glenys Hanna-Martin) and I agree with you — that when you do those kinds of things, at least somebody should let you know that there’s going to be an eradication or delimitation,” said Wright, during contribution to debate on a resolution to approve the revision of boundaries and redistribution of seats order.
“But that’s alright, if you feel that way, that’s alright. I am for progress and make no mistake about it, I do not plan to come here and say, it was alright because it is not alright for Clifton.”
Wright said, “It is not alright for any of the 41 members of this parliament that you go ahead and you limit [seats], and don’t come and ask me after it’s all done and say you must go ahead and just say it’s alright, you [have to] be kidding me.
“Clifton is out and I understand that, but at that end of the day there is a way to do things.”
In his contribution to the debate, Alfred Sears, MP for Fort Charlotte, commended Wright “for his courage”.
In addition to Clifton, Englerston, Blue Hills, Kennedy and St. Thomas More are also being eliminated.
Three new constituencies are being created in New Providence: Nassau Village, Southern Shores and Tall Pines.
The report also proposes that several names in Grand Bahama be eliminated: High Rock, Lucaya, West End and Bimini and Eight Mile Rock.
As mentioned, Grant indicated that she was not pleased with planned changes to Eight Mile Rock.
“It would be a disservice to God and my constituency if I stood here and said all is well at Eight Mile Rock at the decision to eliminate this constituency,” she said.
“We are hurt, we are confused and in most cases we are angry because a formal explanation had not been made earlier and the burden of identifying the truth was unavailable during the process.”
However, Grant said she did not think that her constituency was targeted.
Instead, she agreed with the Boundaries Commission’s reasoning behind axing her seat.
Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has stressed that decisions based on boundaries were made in an effort to ensure roughly an equal number of voters in each constituency.
Grant said she hopes to run in the new West Grand Bahama and Bimini.
Just before 5 p.m. yesterday, MPs passed the resolution giving effect to the proposals of the Boundaries Commission.
Bamboo Town MP Branville McCartney joined members of the Official Opposition in voting against the resolution.
The resolution was passed with three modifications: the St. Cecilia name will be eliminated as opposed to the Englerston name, which was proposed by the commission; Bain Town and Grants Town will be Bains Town and Grants Town; and Central and South Andros (as proposed by the commission) was changed to Mangrove Cay and South Andros. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '0cb443fa5061f1408b77d28cf3e8b0b18edd290538bf5b4d749bdb7dc0353e69'} |
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