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Gene Hackman and Anne Archer Cannot Save 'Narrow Margin'
Posted on August 29, 2020 by The Ultimate Rabbit
"Narrow Margin" was released in 1990, back when movie remakes were as rare as people owning cell phones. Yes, it is a remake of the 1952 film noir "The Narrow Margin," and it tells the tale of a Los Angeles deputy district attorney tasked with keeping a witness to a murder safe from a pair of hitmen as they travel through Canada in a train. What we have here is a movie with a terrific cast, some great stunts and sharp cinematography, but it also doesn't have much of a brain in its head as the characters make one ridiculously stupid decision after another.
The movie starts with Carol Hunnicut (Anne Archer) arriving at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles where she has been set up on a blind date with a lawyer named Michael Tarlow (the late and still missed J.T. Walsh). Things go fine between them until Michael has to take a phone call in his hotel room and invites Carol along with him, not wanting to leave her alone. But then well-known gangster Leo Watts (Harris Yulin) arrives along with his henchman Jack Wootton (Nigel Bennett) and doesn't hesitate in accusing Michael of stealing money from him. Michael, overwhelmed by his guilt, confesses his crime to Leo who offers to forgive him, providing they never do business together again. But we all know that gangsters are not big on honesty, and Leo has Michael murdered right on the spot. But, of course, they have no idea Carol is hiding in the bathroom and has witnessed everything.
Like any person who knows how rich and crooked people get off too easy in the real world, Carol flees Los Angeles, and yet she is somehow easy to find as Deputy District Attorney Robert Caulfield (Gene Hackman) and Detective Sergeant Dominick Benti (M. Emmet Walsh) come to find her hiding out in a remote cabin in Canada. And as you might expect, it doesn't take long for these three to realize the gangsters have followed them as they were dumb enough to leave a trail of breadcrumbs in their path. Dominick is killed, and Robert and Carol escape onto a train headed for Vancouver. But, surprise, surprise, they are trailed by a pair of ridiculously well-dressed hitmen determined to take them out, and the movie turns into a cat and mouse thriller as Robert tries to keep Carol alive despite their dire and claustrophobic circumstances.
Now "Narrow Margin" does take place in a time where technology was nowhere near what it is today, but it is hard to believe even back then that a person could easily disappear without much of a trace. The fact these gangsters have little trouble in following Robert to where Carol is hiding out shows what terrible preparation he and Dominick put into finding and keeping her safe, and these guys are public servants for crying out loud!
Then there are the two hitmen played by Bennett and James Sikking, the latter I remember fondly as the Captain of the Excelsior in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock." They come onto the scene dressed to the max in expensive suits and shiny ties which more than spell out to the audience they are bad guys on the prowl. I guess it is asking too much for these hitmen to dress like they are average passengers as doing so just might make them harder to detect. But no, these guys have to show to everyone just how rich and stylish assassins can be to where they are impossible to miss.
There is also the issue of those assassins failing to follow Hackman back to his cabin where they just might find Archer hiding. When you look closely at the screenplay, you will see it has plot holes Christopher Nolan could have flown that giant airplane from "Tenet" through. The characters keep making an endless number of idiotic mistakes, and it just drains much of the suspense and tension "Narrow Margin" hoped to have. There is also a character reveal towards the end, but you can see that one coming from a mile away.
It really is a shame because "Narrow Margin" has the benefit of two great actors headlining it. Gene Hackman is a lot of fun to watch in a role others would have played too broadly. He has a great scene where he faces off with the two hitmen and explains why he won't accept a bribe to give up his witness. Hackman plays the scene in such a playfully devious way to where it serves as a reminder of why he is one of the best film actors ever. Put him in a bad movie, and he will still give a terrific performance in it no matter what.
Archer appeared in this movie not long after she co-starred in "Fatal Attraction," a classic which had us all wondering why in the world would Michael Douglas cheat on her with Glenn Close. She makes Carol Hunnicut into a heroine who is both strong-willed and deeply vulnerable as she struggles to stay alive from one moment to the next. She also has strong chemistry with Hackman to where they make quite the team, and the fact they are unable to fully suspend your disbelief is not entirely their fault.
"Narrow Margin" was written, directed and photographer by Peter Hyams. One of his great strengths is in crafting action sequences which truly leave you on the edge of your seat. A car almost going over a cliff is a cliché used in many action movies, but Hyams makes it work to great effect here as watching it almost made my heart stop. There are also a number of great stunts performed on top of a moving train, many performed by the actors themselves. Hyams really knows how to keep audiences riveted to where it is almost worth watching this film just for the action sequences alone.
But in the end, "Narrow Margin" proves to be more laughable than exciting as the characters do far too many idiotic things we can all see right through. Its trailer made it look like a top-notch thriller you would be foolish to miss out on, but sadly this is not the case. When Hackman and Archer cannot save a movie with their strong performances, not much else can.
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Is 'Blade Runner: The Final Cut' Ridley Scott's Solution to his Masterpiece?
I always wondered why Ridley Scott could never leave "Blade Runner" well enough alone. It was released back in 1982 and, at that time, was one of the few Harrison Ford movies to bomb at the box office. But, like many great science fiction movies, it has gained a well-deserved cult following which appears to be getting bigger and bigger each year.
One of my close friends is a die-hard fan of this movie, and he believes Scott went back to do another cut because the acclaimed filmmaker realized he would never ever have it this good as a director ever again. Ridley has made a lot of great movies since this one, but I can see what he meant.
"Blade Runner" remains, after all these years, one of the best science fiction films ever made as it has a look which is so unique to where I cannot easily compare it to any other movie from its genre. It puts a lot of other futuristic movies to shame; especially those made so cheaply (remember "Cyborg" with Jean Claude Van Damme?), and seeing it on the silver screen in all of its visual glory was a sight to behold.
Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a blade runner who is hired to track down and kill replicants who have escaped and are looking for their maker. Replicants are human clones created to serve colonies outside of Earth, and this shows how far we have gone in terms of space travel in regards to the time this movie takes place in. As a blade runner, Rick specializes in terminating replicants who have been labeled illegal after a bloody mutiny which they caused.
Ford embodies the character of Fred Decker as though he walked out of a detective story from the 1940's. Decker is from a long line of burned out detectives who are the best at a job they no longer want to be the best at. But of course, they have to come out of retirement as no one else can do what they do so well. Ford looks as though he has had the life sucked out of him at the movie's start, but he becomes resurrected upon becoming involved with a female replicant named Rachael, and she is played by Sean Young.
Watching Young in this movie is something else as she is perfect here as a female who is so clearly a replicant when we first meet her. However, as the movie goes on, we find ourselves forgetting this as she exhibits human emotions which we would not expect to see from someone like her. Decker becomes utterly infatuated to her, and you want to say he is falling in love with what is essentially a robot. But I guess when a robot is as pretty as Young is here, and she was in her 20's when the movie was released, I guess you can't really argue with that.
Seeing "Blade Runner" for the first time in years, it is funny to see how its themes have been used over and over again in popular culture This movie seems to suggest we made these replicants to remind ourselves of how human we used to be. Like U2 said, they threaten to be even better than the real thing. They exhibit a life force which has long since been burned out of us as we have become numbed to how brutal real life can be on our conscious mind. Or maybe they are here to remind of us how much of a slave we have become to technology. There are points where you have to wonder if any of these characters can tell the difference between what is real and what is not.
The leader of this group of renegade replicants is Roy Batty, a viciously passionate replicant played to the hilt by Rutger Hauer. He has ten times more passion than the humans he relentlessly torments, and his last speech in "Blade Runner" is one of the most beautiful moments ever in a 1980's film. The "tears in the rain" part of it was something he actually improvised on the spot.
So, what is it about this "final cut" which makes it different from the other versions? To be honest, I'm not sure. My understanding is the director's cut which came out previously did not have Scott's input on it. So, it is safe to say this cut is his final statement, so far, on this movie.
After all these years, "Blade Runner" remains a true sci-fi classic which is ever so deserving of its huge cult following. Again, there is really no other movie I can easily compare it to on a visual level. Thematically speaking, there are many movies which deal with the future, dystopian or otherwise, but none of them will ever look like the one Scott conjured up here.
Posted on February 6, 2017 by The Ultimate Rabbit
"Calvary" is one of those movies which left me in a deep state of contemplative silence after it was over. While it is advertised as a darkly comic tale, and it does have some funny moments, it is really a serious story about sin, faith, and of what it means to be a good person in this day and age. I am always fascinated with movies about Catholics as they deal with characters who suffer psychologically, who are always caught up in one sin or another, and who can't deal with the state of the world today in a relatively sane manner. The word Calvary is defined as an experience or an occasion of extreme suffering, especially mental suffering, and it is the perfect title for this particular movie.
The character who suffers most in "Calvary" is Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson), and the movie opens with him listening to an unseen parishioner who confesses to being sexually abused by a priest when he was a boy. But then the conversation takes a sinister turn when the parishioner tells Father James he will kill him in a week. When Father James asks why, the parishioner tells him it is because he is a good man as well as a good priest, and a good priest's death will have a far more devastating impact on the Catholic Church. From there, Father James has a week to settle his affairs with the townspeople and his family, and hopefully give him time to discover the identity of his purported assailant. But more than anything else, we will see his faith in the things he believes in get tested more than ever before.
"Calvary" takes place in the small Irish town of Sligo where everyone seems to know one another quite intimately. The more we get to know the town's inhabitants, the more it seems like any of them could be the one who wants to murder Father James. They all have problems in their lives which have led them to lose their faith or belief in God, and while they come to Father James for help, they also tease and question him over his supposed rule over the town and for supporting a church forever tarnished by scandal.
The movie was written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, brother of the insanely talented playwright Martin McDonagh. It's tempting to think John would be suffering endlessly under his famous brother's shadow especially after "In Bruges," but he has already found his voice thanks to his previous film "The Guard." With "Calvary," he goes even deeper to explore issues of faith in a time where virtue seems like it's in such short supply. As good hearted as Father James is, he is surrounded by people who have been scarred deeply by life and have sinned in one way or another. Heck, there are even people who go out of their way to flout their sins in his face just to see how he will react.
What's really shocking about "Calvary" is John has gotten away with creating a truly good priest. Father James proves to be a good-natured man right from the start, and it made me realize how we don't always see good characters like these in movies these days. Most characters we typically see are antiheroes or deeply flawed human beings struggling for some form of redemption, and it feels like filmmakers avoid using good characters in their movies for the fear of them appearing quite dull. This is not to say that Father James is not without his own flaws, but even when he waivers you feel his goodness flowing throughout, and you pray he doesn't falter in the face of what seems at times like a godless town.
John also struck gold by casting Brendan Gleeson as Father James as the actor gives one of the very best performances of his career here. What I love about Gleeson here is he inhabits his character more than he plays him. From start to finish, he is simply Father James, and he gives this character an unforced naturalism which looks easy to portray, but in actuality is quite difficult to pull off. One scene which stands out is when Father James befriends a young girl whom he finds walking along the road by herself, only to be interrupted by the girl's father who suspects this Catholic priest of being up to no good. It's a painful moment as we, the audience, have gotten to know Father James quite well, and Gleeson makes the character's wounded feelings all the more palpable.
Gleeson is also surrounded by a top-notch cast as well. Kelly Reilly, so good in "Eden Lake" and "Flight," plays Father James' daughter Fiona who was at one time suicidal and is now very eager to repair her relationship with her dad. From that description, this could have been a subplot overrun by a plethora of clichés, but Reilly invests her character with a wounded strength, and her scenes with Gleeson are wonderfully moving.
We all remember Chris O'Dowd from his star-making performance in "Bridesmaids," and he is stunning here as Jack, the local butcher who doesn't seem to mind his wife constantly cheating on him. O'Dowd has some funny moments here, but his role is a serious one as he constantly dares Father James to prove to him there is a god. It should be no surprise O'Dowd is as good as he is in "Calvary," but then again, we still live in a world where most people think doing comedy is easy while making people cry is hard (it's the other way around folks).
Irish comedian Dylan Moran successfully wrings the complexity out of his character Michael Fitzgerald, an extremely wealthy man whose life seems to have lost all its meaning. You also have Aidan Gillen here as the gleefully atheist surgeon Dr. Frank Harte, Marie Josee Croze as French tourist Teresa who suffers an unspeakable tragedy, Isaach de Bankole as car mechanic Simon Asamoah who does not like to be bossed around, David Wilmot as the good-natured but rather oblivious Father Leary, Pat Short as the incensed barman Brendan Lynch, Gary Lydon as shady detective Inspector Gerry Stanton, Killian Scott who plays the lovesick Milo, and Orla O'Rourke as the butcher's flagrantly unfaithful wife Veronica. You even have veteran actor M. Emmet Walsh showing up here as American novelist Gerard Ryan, and even Brendan's son Domhnall Gleeson shows up, and he looks completely unrecognizable by the way, as serial killer Freddie Joyce.
Every single actor in "Calvary" gives an exceptional performance. It doesn't matter how big or small the roles are because all are very well written, and each actor seizes the material with tremendous passion. Every character is fully realized here, and no one looks to be off their acting game for one second.
While "Calvary" is a kind of whodunit story, it really doesn't matter if you know the identity of the person threatening Father James long before it's revealed because it's not the point. What matters is how Father James struggles to maintain his faith as dark forces continually close in around him, and you pray he doesn't lose an ounce of it in the movie's climax. In the process, John forces you to question your own faith and of what means to be a good person in an increasingly cynical world.
"Calvary" does end on an ambiguous note which may annoy some members of the audience, but I happen to like ambiguous endings, and the one here is perfect. No, it doesn't provide us with an easy answer, but so what? Not all movies are meant to have easy answers, and this one certainly wouldn't benefit from any. Every once in a while, it is a good to watch a movie which really forces you to think long and hard about what you just saw.
If nothing else, John came up with a lot of great quotes which will stay with the viewer long after the movie has ended. My favorite has already been spoiled by the movie's trailer:
"I think there's too much talk about sins to be honest and not enough talk about virtues."
Never has a truer line been spoken in a movie released in 2014.
Click here to read an exclusive interview I did with John Michael McDonagh on "Calvary."


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Bobby's Kitten tabbed as Penn Mile favorite
Posted by The Biz | May 28, 2014 | Breaking, PA Racing, Pennsylvania | 0 |
by John Scheinman, from a Penn National release
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$500,000 PENN MILE
Race 4 – Post time 7:31pm EST
3YO, 1 Mile (Turf)
PP. Horse, Jockey, Weight, Trainer
Global View, Gary L. Stevens, 122, Thomas F. Proctor
Sing the Dream, William P. Otero, 116, Clovis Crane
Laddie Boy, Chris Landeros, 116, Chuck Peery
Bobby's Kitten, Javier Castellano, 122, Chad C. Brown
Storming Inti, Alan Garcia, 122, Chad C. Brown
Mr Brioni, Kendrick Carmouche, 116, Randy Allen
Coastline, Stewart Elliott, 116, Mark E. Casse
Divine Oath, Christopher P. DeCarlo, 116, Todd A. Pletcher[/boxify]
The field assembled for the second running of the $500,000 Penn Mile on Saturday night clearly shows the race has needed little time to establish itself as one of the premier turf races for 3-year-olds in the country. Three of Nick Hahn's "Turf Ten" list of top turfing sophomore are among the eight runners.
Led by multiple graded stakes winner Global View — second, behind Gala Award, on the Turf Ten — who will be ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, the eight-horse field lined up at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course features five stakes winners who have won or placed in nine graded races.
The four races that kick off the spectacular card comprise an All-Stakes Pick 4 that climaxes with the Penn Mile, which has a scheduled post time of 7:31 p.m. EST.
The entries read like a "who's who" of racing stars, with horses conditioned by Todd Pletcher, Chad Brown, Ken McPeek and Graham Motion, along with renowned jockeys Stevens, Javier Castellano, Alan Garcia and Robby Albarado scheduled to ride.
The Penn Mile features a rematch between Glen Hill Farm's Global View and Santa Rosa Racing Stables' Storming Inti (fifth on the Turf Ten), who put on a sensational show in their most recent start, the Grade 2 American Turf on May 3 at Churchill Downs. Storming Inti, bred in Pennsylvania, was also rated the top Midlantic-bred three year-old in the latest Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll.
In the American Turf, Storming Inti, trained by Brown, tracked the lead early before seizing command only to get run down late by Global View in a perfectly timed ride by Stevens. The win was the second graded stakes on the resume of Global View, a son of European champion Galileo, one of the world's leading sires.
Off that 1 1/16-mile grass race, both runners now will cut back to a mile. Global View, the 5-2 second choice on the morning line for the Penn Mile, lost at the distance in his first start of the year at Tampa Bay Downs to the sensationally fast Bobby's Kitten, the 8-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday's race.
After their seasonal debuts, both Global View and Bobby's Kitten tried graded stakes races on the Keeneland synthetic Polytrack surface this spring with subpar results. Global View finished seventh, beaten 18 ½ lengths in the Grade 3 Transylvania (a race originally scheduled for the grass), while Bobby's Kitten finished 12th, beaten 25 ½ lengths, in the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes.
Global View bounced back to win the prestigious American Turf. Now Bobby's Kitten, winner of the Grade 3 Pilgrim last year and third in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, will have to rebound as well.
"There's always a question after those debacles," said Tom Proctor, trainer of Global View. "We've answered ours; maybe [Bobby's Kitten] has to answer his."
Bobby's Kitten, owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey and also trained by Brown, will have the riding services of Castellano, the 2013 Eclipse Award winner for leading jockey in the country.
Bobby's Kitten looked like a rising phenomenon speeding to victory last year in a maiden win at Saratoga and then taking the Pilgrim at Belmont Park, and Proctor fears him getting a lone lead in the Penn Mile.
"If he does, we're going to be in trouble," Proctor said. "He'll definitely have the advantage."
The steady Storming Inti, 3-1 on the morning line, has won two stakes races and placed in two graded outings. He joins Bobby's Kitten in a tremendous 1-2 punch for Brown, who said he had little choice but to run them both in the Penn Mile.
"It's not ideal with horses that have similar running styles, but when both horses seem like they fit the race well, and when they will be among the top three choices for a half-million dollars, how do I keep them out?" he said. "When I have more than one candidate for a race … it has to come down to the individual. Has the horse earned the right to be in this race? And is he capable of winning this big race? If the answer is 'yes,' they will get an opportunity to go, regardless of running style."
The contention runs deeper in the race. Leading trainer Pletcher will race Divine Oath, a son of Broken Vow who is undefeated in two grass starts. In his most recent outing, the colt finished second after a slow start in the Grade 3 Lexington over the Keeneland Polytrack.
Divine Oath, 6-1 on the morning line, is a little behind the others in seasoning, with only three starts, but not for lack of trying to run by Pletcher.
"He's a horse that's run well in all his starts, and we entered him in the Blue Grass and did not make it into the field because of career earnings," Pletcher said. "We actually entered in the Spiral [at Turfway Park] and didn't make it in on career earnings there either, which is why he didn't race for a while. We've been targeting this race since then [the Lexington, on April 19]."
The three other horses in the field, Coastline, Mr Brioni and Sing the Dream, all will be trying the turf for the first time.
The most experienced, by far, is Coastline, owned by John Oxley and trained by Mark Casse. The gray Speightstown colt, 10-1 on the morning line, has had a hot-and-cold career. He stamped himself as a quality 2-year-old last year with a three-length win in the Street Sense Stakes at Churchill Downs and finished third in his stakes debut as a 3-year-old at Oaklawn Park. After being beaten badly in the Grade 3 Southwest, he rebounded to finish third, beaten just a head, in the Grade 3 Spiral. In his most recent start, he faded to 10th in the Blue Grass Stakes.
Mr Brioni (30-1), an allowance winner at Parx Racing, and Sing the Dream (50-1), winner of a sprint stakes for New York breds at Finger Lakes last year, complete the field.
The inaugural Penn Mile, won by Rydilluc, helped Penn National smash all wagering records in the track's 40-year history. All-source handle for the race was $1,139,478, overwhelming the prior single-race high of $377,365. Total all-source handle for last year's Penn Mile card reached $3,658,996.
The Penn Mile also is part of the Penn National Gaming Racing Challenge, which ties together more than 20 stakes worth more than $5.5 million at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, Sam Houston Race Park, and Zia Park.
Owners, trainers and jockeys compete in the series of unrestricted stakes races and the leaders in each category at the end of the contest receive a trip to the Penn National Gaming owned M Resort in Las Vegas. The winning owner and trainer will also have all entry and starting fees covered for unrestricted stakes races at Charles Town, Sam Houston, and Zia Park for the following year.
(Featured image, of Rydilluc winning last year's Penn Mile, by B & D Photography.)
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Perth's Sam Kerr is the W-League's first marquee player.
Matildas superstar Sam Kerr found her magic touch just when it was needed as Perth somehow conjured three goals in the final eight minutes on Sunday to secure an extraordinary 4-4 W-League draw with Canberra United.
Kerr's maiden outing as the competition's first marquee player was shaping up as a frustrating one, with Canberra seemingly cruising to a comfortable home victory against a Glory side down to 10 players.
Kerr set up Alyssa Mautz for what seemed a consolation goal, but 16-year-old rookie Leticia McKenna set up a grandstand finish by netting with a spectacular volley.
Typically, it was Kerr who had a hand in the pivotal goal of the match, her low ball into the area steered into the net by unlucky Canberra captain Rachel Corsie in the final minute of regular time.
A win would have put Canberra alone at the top of the standings after an impressive opening-round victory over Melbourne City.
Kerr went into the match having netted seven in her past five W-League games and looked lively in tandem with fellow forward Rachel Hill during the opening half.
But Glory defender Sarah Carroll was sent off for a second caution within minutes midway through the second period leaving a comeback seemingly impossible.
Kerr's frustration was evident when she collected a yellow card for dissent, having sat out the opening week with a carry-over suspension.
Perth started brightly and went ahead early thanks to an own goal.
But the visitors conceded a penalty virtually from the restart which Refiloe Jane converted for the first of two spot-kicks scored by the South African.
Compatriot Rhoda Mulaudzi put United ahead on the half-hour mark, and they went further clear as Maria Jose Rojas netted with a spectacular effort on half-time.
Last season's premiers Brisbane collected their first win, with a smart first-half free kick from Carson Pickett the difference between the two sides.
The fullback squeezed her effort inside the near post for a second goal in as many matches, but the Roar were indebted to busy goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold for all three points at Marconi Stadium.
Champions Melbourne City rebounded from their opening-round loss to beat Sydney FC 3-1 in Friday's grand final rematch.
New American signing Jasmyne Spencer became the first player to score a hat trick in the club's four-season history as City found form despite missing several players.
Melbourne Victory proved they would be a force this campaign by claiming a hard-fought 2-1 win on Thursday over semifinalists Newcastle.


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Q: Condensing Python list of frequencies with duplicates (maybe with comprehensions) I'm using Python to count the frequency of pixel colors in an image. The Python Imaging Library can convert an image to a list of RGB values, and from there I can easily count duplicates, ending up with a dictionary of pixel values (as strings) and frequencies, like so:
{
    "255-255-255": 450,
    "255-254-254": 345,
    "249-250-255": 184,
    "124-130-200": 3,
} [etc etc]

(Essentially it's a histogram.)
For large images, I'm then quantizing the colors to multiples of N, so then I might have:
[
    ("255-255-255", 450),
    ("255-255-255", 345),
    ("250-250-255", 184),
    ("125-130-200", 3),
] [etc etc]

This leaves a lot of duplicate "keys" (stored as tuples since we have duplicates). I now need to condense, adding the values of all duplicates. So far I have:
c = 0
while c < len(vals) - 1:
    if vals[c][0] == vals[c+1][0]:
        vals[c][1] += vals[c+1][1]
        vals.pop(c+1)
    else:
        c += 1
return vals

It works fine, but there must be a way with list comprehensions? Or some other more efficient manner? I realize PIL may be able to do this, but I'd like to do by hand while learning how images work. Thanks!

A: Try this:
l = [("255-255-255", 450),
    ("255-255-255", 345),
    ("250-250-255", 184),
    ("125-130-200", 3)]

from collections import defaultdict
D = defaultdict(int)

for k,v in l:
    D[k] += v

print D # display the dict.

>>>
defaultdict(<type 'int'>, {'125-130-200': 3, '250-250-255': 184, '255-255-255': 795})

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Q: How to Add Labels to Top X-Axis of Levelplot in Lattice Package So I'm making correlation-matrix-like plots using levelplot similar to this (taken from: Plot correlation matrix into a graph):
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#Build the horizontal and vertical axis information
hor <- c("214", "215", "216", "224", "211", "212", "213", "223", "226", "225")
ver <- paste("DM1-", hor, sep="")

#Build the fake correlation matrix
nrowcol <- length(ver)
cor <- matrix(runif(nrowcol*nrowcol, min=0.4), nrow=nrowcol, ncol=nrowcol, dimnames = list(hor, ver))
for (i in 1:nrowcol) cor[i,i] = 1

#Build the plot
rgb.palette <- colorRampPalette(c("blue", "yellow"), space = "rgb")
levelplot(cor, main="stage 12-14 array correlation matrix", xlab="", ylab="", col.regions=rgb.palette(120), cuts=100, at=seq(0,1,0.01))

I would like to add labels to each of the top (second) x-axis ticks. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Thank you,
Kai

A: You could do this by adding scales=list(alternating=3) to your call of levelplot
If you look up the help for levelplot, for some information, you are referred to xyplot (and others).  It is in the xyplot help page, you find a description of scales and therein alternating. Alternating controls the location of the tick labels and can take 4 values:

*

*0 (none),

*1 (bottom/left),

*2 (top/right),

*3 (both).

Here is the call to levelplot that gives you ticks at all sides:
levelplot(cor, main="stage 12-14 array correlation matrix", xlab="", ylab="", col.regions=rgb.palette(120), cuts=100, at=seq(0,1,0.01), scales=list(alternating=3))


Multi unit in Chestertown, first floor is office space, there is a large office with a bathroom and kitchenette which can be shared. Two smaller one room offices on the first floor as well. Upstairs there are two apartments, each one bedroom. One office is currently rented downstairs and two apartments are rented. Off street parking, downtown location.


A few weeks ago we headed off on one of our walks – on Lantau, the largest island in Hong Kong – between Discovery Bay and Mui Wo. But this time was different. We normally take an easy route, partly along the coast via Nim Shue Wan and then over the hills via the Trappist Monastery. There are some steep stretches but it's pretty much all paved. It takes around one and a half to two hours depending on how fit you are.
This time, we decided to attempt the alternative route via the Tigers Head. We'd seen this route while hiking around Discovery Bay and thought "how difficult can it be"? We headed off on a Saturday morning with the tops of the peaks still covered in cloud. It turns out it's quite a long way, it's very steep, it isn't paved in key parts and, well, it's knackering. Now all this is relative – we were passed as we struggled up a steep slope with lots of loose scree by one guy jogging along, carrying a bike. If you're fit, this won't be too difficult. But for us it was exhausting.
When you reach the top (465m above sea level) you're rewarded by amazing views to both sides of Lantau and beyond. Or you would if you weren't in the middle of a cloud. The first minute or so of this YouTube video by some guys with a drone gives you some idea of the views you get on a fine day – they don't show the knackering climb to get there though.
So we arrived in Mui Wo after lunchtime having misjudged the time, missed the ferry back we were targeting and very hungry. We had taken over four hours to do seven miles or so. And we headed to what has become our eating place of choice in Mui Wo – The Kitchen.
The Kitchen isn't much to look at from the outside. It's small, facing onto a car park near the ferry piers, and is a little bit scruffy. It doesn't have a menu outside or a website as far as I can tell. When I'd seen it before, I'd wrongly got the impression it was more of a bar with some snacks than a proper restaurant. Checking out TripAdvisor and, especially, OpenRice hadn't encouraged me. OpenRice has some terrible reviews of the place. On closer inspection, they are old and there is mention more recently of much better experiences and changes in management. But there aren't many reviews and so it seemed a bit risky. The first time we tried them, it was because the Nepalese restaurant not far away bizarrely decided they were going to shut on a Saturday lunchtime – surely one of the busiest times for a Mui Wo restaurant aimed at visitors.
Anyway, we somewhat dubiously tried The Kitchen and it was a revelation. Their name comes from their open kitchen and they were cooking a range of mainly Italian dishes from scratch in a traditional way. The pizza, when it arrived from their specialist pizza oven, was great. If you're a fan of deep-dish pizzas, then this is not for you. Their pizzas are wonderfully thin, they're crispy and they stay crispy – in the picture at the top you can see the amazing cornicione (to give it the Italian term for pizza crust) which had a snap like the thinnest crispbread. This one was a spicy chorizo. They do two sizes – small and large – and this was the small one. Everyone who goes there is surprised by the sizes – they should really call them large and giant. The small one ran for around HK$138 so maybe not cheap for Mui Wo but good value compared to the likes of Pizza Express.
Mrs CookWithNoName had a black truffle pasta which was a deep combination of flavours. My iPhone picture doesn't really do it justice. They have quite a range of pizzas and pastas plus a few standbys like burgers. We were astonished to see one guy who was eating a pizza have a burger and fries to follow – we weren't around to see if he managed to finish it but, if he did, it was quite a feat.
They have just a couple of choices for dessert. We tried the tiramisu which was OK but, to be honest, nothing special. They have the usual drinks and what looks like an interesting choice of wine although I never saw a wine list.
It's quite small so you might have to hang around at the bar for a table on weekend lunchtimes but the staff are friendly. They deserve to be better known – a bit of effort to put a menu outside and have a website would probably do them a world of good. But then we might not get in next time we arrive exhausted from some remote peak on Lantau.
I am going to cook you the best meal you've ever eaten: Why the CookWithNoName?
The CookWithNoName is an Englishman living in Hong Kong.
He has travelled widely in Asia, Europe and Africa. He is interested in the science of cooking and in trying out both traditional and experimental dishes, mainly from the European style of cooking methods but allied often to Asian ingredients and flavours.
He enjoys the challenge of sourcing western ingredients and equipment at reasonable prices in Hong Kong. He is actively interested in baking (but bread more than cakes) and making things like home-made jam.
With Mrs CookWithNoName he has a small allotment where he grows vegetables and herbs.
He remembers with mixed feelings the culinary graveyard that was the UK when he was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s and sometimes harks back to those days.


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William Leon wears black high top Converse "Chuck Taylor" All Stars in the film.
Joseph Haag and Christopher Bones wear black low top Converse "Chuck Taylor" All Stars in the film.
Liv Southard wears red Converse "Chuck Taylor" All Stars in the film.
The Curse of the Unkissable Kid
Josh sneaking around campus trying to avoid Ryker.
As this short film written and directed by Mark Marchillo opens, we are introduced to Josh (William Leon), a middle school student who is hiding on top of a toilet in one of the bathrooms on the last day of school before the summer break. We soon see why as school bully Ryker (Joseph Haag) comes storming into the boys' bathroom and slams open all the stall doors looking for Josh. Ryker is unsuccessful because Josh was actually hiding in the girls' bathroom. Josh escapes for the moment, but as he is quietly sneaking back to class, Ryker sees him, tackles him to the ground, and proceeds to bully him. The film then cuts away to the school office, where the two boys are being disciplined by a somewhat bored principal (Drew Droege), tired of dealing with Ryker's bullying and Josh's inability to fight back, what he describes as negative energy. The principal is more interested in getting his "end of the school year paperwork" done (which includes the daily crossword puzzle in the newspaper) than dealing with the situation.
Ryker with his girl friend at the fair.
Later we see Josh meeting up with Caitlyn (Liv Southard) and Clark (Christopher Bone) at the fair that is in town. Caitlyn is Josh's one friend who looks after him, doing things like running interference at the principal's office. Clark is described by Caitlyn as someone she met at day camp who is rich. Ryker is also at the fair. When he sees Josh, he immediately chases after him. To escape, Josh hides in an enclosed tent. Inside the tent is a gypsy (Lee Meriwether) who tells him that she can solve all his problems. She sells him a magical potion to do just that. Outside the tent, Josh drinks some of it before reading the fine print on the bottle. The print states that he will disappear in 24 hours unless he experiences the kiss of a "true love" before then. Immediately Josh goes to Caitlyn for help, but the magic isn't there and they are interrupted by her mom. There is a hilarious sequence as Josh runs around town trying to get kissed.
Caitlyn at her home selling encyclopedias.
Josh is now getting desperate as parts of his body seem to be fading. Again Caitlyn helps him out; this time by setting up a kissing booth. With no takers, Caitlyn agrees to kiss him but it still doesn't break the spell. Then Clark comes up and gives Josh an extended kiss. It works as Caitlyn says, "I knew it!" Clark, who tells Josh his name is really Harry, and Josh then perform a song and dance routine based on the old Eubie Blake vaudeville song "I'm Just Wild About Harry." Josh has happily discovered his true identity as the short ends.
Caitlyn's friend Harry comes to the rescue.
Normally we don't review short films, because you can't discuss too much without revealing the total story and the films are not always accessible to our site visitors. However all the main characters wear chucks, so The Curse of the Unkissable Kid is worth reviewing on that basis alone. (See also Aliens for Breakfast and Ice Cream Man for a similar presence of chucks in this age group.) The Curse of the Unkissable Kid is unusual for its genre because it is gay-themed, making it very different from the typical family comedy film about pre-adolescent kids dealing with bullying and coming of age. While European films in this category will often take on more controversial topics and behaviors, it is uncommon in an American made film for this age bracket. American films made for the family genre tend to avoid anything involving sexual tendencies that are not boy-girl. Additionally there is an element of musical theater in the storyline, obviously in the ending but also in the scene with the school principal. Perhaps this is the point of the short: that it is okay for boys to express their true feelings and inclinations even when they are different from most of their peers. The Curse of the Unkissable Kid is available on line for free viewing on You Tube and on Vimeo. Film link: The Curse of the Unkissable Kid.
Harry and Josh performing "I'm Just Wild About Harry".
Caitlyn sneaking into the principal's office to prank Ryker.
All of the main young characters in this film wear chucks. William Leon (Josh) is seen in rolled down black high tops, Christopher Bone (Clark/Harry) and Joseph Haag (Ryker) wear black low cut chucks, and Liv Southard (Caitlyn) wears red chucks. The best chucks scene is when Josh and Ryker are in the principal's office. Caitlyn sneaks in and the camera focuses on Ryker's chucks as she goes to tie his shoelaces together in a prank that luckily for Ryker gets foiled by the principal.
Caitlyn tying Ryker's shoelaces together.
The Curse of the Unkissable Kid. (2013) William Leon, Joseph Haag, Christopher Bones, Liv Southard, Lee Meriwether, Drew Droege, Brady Matthews.
Written and directed by Mark Marchillo. Categories: Short, Comedy, Family.


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Q: Listing available chat rooms in XMPP connection May I know how to list all the available chat rooms (already created) for a particular XMPP connection and user using Smack-Java.  That is, I want the solution as shown below :
room1@conference.localhost.com
room2@conference.localhost.com
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Thanks.

A: Without plugins, you basically need to retrive all the services available on your server and then the jid (be carefull: if a groupchat it's private, you'll not be able to retrive in the list)
String groupchatHosted = "";

for (String service : MultiUserChatManager.getInstanceFor( connection ).getServiceNames();)
{
   List<HostedRoom> hosted = MultiUserChatManager.getInstanceFor( connection ).getHostedRooms( service  ));

      for (HostedRoom room : hosted)
     {
       groupchatHosted += room.getJid() + " ";
     }
   }

You'll obtain your string with all services (or just use a List of String or another Collection)


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Poppy Facism? Give Me Strength
Over the last few weeks, I have noticed that some of my twitter-loving friends have been posting blogs and articles about something called "poppy facism". What on earth they mean by this frankly ridiculous term I'm not sure...
Jackie Kemp
Now based between Scotland and the USA, Kemp is a freelance journalist and content creator. Check out her website at www.jackiekemp.scot.
10/11/2015 11:06am GMT | Updated November 10, 2016
Over the last few weeks, I have noticed that some of my twitter-loving friends have been posting blogs and articles about something called "poppy facism". What on earth they mean by this frankly ridiculous term I'm not sure. It appears to refer to the ostentatious wearing of the poppy by politicians and public figures who are keen to link themselves to the memory of Britain's war veterans. In some circles apparently, though not any that I am in, it is regarded as obligatory to wear a poppy and people who choose not to do so feel criticised in some way. Although as we mark the 70th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War, we may just pause to remind ourselves that social death is not as bad as actual death.
I have never experienced any criticism myself. Sometimes I wear a poppy but usually it is trashed after a couple of hours and falls off whatever mud-spattered, dogwalking raincoat I have affixed it to. Sometimes people ask why I wear one; they never mention it if I don't. Although, perhaps if I have faced a raised eyebrow I perhaps didn't notice or put it down to something else. Most people I know never wear a poppy. That's fine, it's a choice. I'm not going to criticise them for that. They do however seem to have a pretty loose understanding of the meaning of the word 'facism'.
In the UK wearing a poppy is a social act, it indicates a sharing of the act of remembering which some people like to do at this time of year. Loss can be an isolating experience and it may be comforting for some whose pain is still sharp to feel that they are part of something that is bigger than themselves and their own individual experience. I have written before about my own family memories of my grandfather Alexander Shand.
He was a member of the Highland Division the 51st, which was sacrificed by Churchill in an effort to persuade the French to fight on after Dunkirk. Arriving at the coast they found fog in the channel and no boats to rescue them. There was tremendous loss of life in the ensuing battle before 10,000 men surrendered into five years of captivity.
For Private Shand and many others, there was a long march across Europe to a prisoner of war camp in Poland, where many more died. I was told stories about how Shand survived. A chef, he always boiled the scraps of food he picked up before he ate them and saved himself much illness. How he was the only man who could tether the bull to the plough as they had to do.
In 1945, Shand took part in what became know as the death march across Germany when in the dead of winter, in blizzards and temperatures down to minus 25, thousands of starving, ill-clad, exhausted, prisoners, had to march hundreds of miles to the Stalags in Germany. My grandfather lost many of his friends.
The decimation of the 51st devestated communities across the north of Scotland. When the news came that Aleck Shand had survived and was coming home, neighbours in the street in Aberdeen, all of whom had little enough food to put on their own tables, chapped on the door of my mother's home to hand in an egg, or a paper bag with an ounce of sugar, to welcome him home.
I heard often as a child how, as my six-year-old mum waited at the station as the returning troops streamed off a train, pestering her mother as to which was her dad, her Glaswegian mother joked: "Just pick whichever one you want."
But then I learned how the man who came back was different from the one who went away. When the taxi stopped outside their house and he saw the balloons and the welcome banner he begged them to keep driving. He could not face a party.
Walking along the street with my mother, any crust in the gutter would catch his eye and the pretty, ringletted, well-dressed child would be mortified in case he would stoop to pick them up.
Although he never recovered in some ways, my grandfather was lucky to come out of five years of captivity alive. There are many who have family memories of suffering which are worse. As we mark 70 years since the end of the war against actual fascism, I guess it might be a cause for celebration that we have so forgotten the meaning of this term that we trivialise it in this way. But poppy facism? Give me strength.
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ABS-CBN executive adviser to the chairman and chief content officer Charo Santos was recognized for her contribution in the movie industry as she received the Icon Award at the 2018 Eddys, or Entertainment Editors' Choice Awards last Monday, July 9.
"A lot of blessings and opportunities (were given to me) to bring quality stories that made viewers happy, cry, and brought lessons and inspiration to everyone. Thank you for your love and support," said Charo during her acceptance speech.
She was appointed as the president and chief operating officer of ABS-CBN in 2008 and later on became chief executive officer in 2013.
Aside from the ABS-CBN executive, acclaimed TV and movie stars Susan Roces, Eddie Garcia, Nora Aunor, Gloria Romero, and Maricel Soriano were also recipients of the Eddys Icon Award.
Meanwhile, this year's best actor was Aga Muhlach for his portrayal in the movie "Seven Sundays," while "Ang Panday," led by Coco Martin, took home the Best Visual Effects Award.
Now on its second year, the Eddys or Entertainment Editors' Choice Awards is organized by SPEEd or Society of Philippine Entertainment Editors that recognizes the works of local filmmakers and actors.


Wash the cranberries and freeze them.
They will serve as the "ice" and keep the punch chilled.
Mix all ingredients together in a large container (except ginger-ale) and refrigerate for 1 day to let the flavors mingle.
Right before serving, add the ginger ale and the cranberries, stir and enjoy.


The lawsuit in Oakland federal court aims to restart energy improvement funding by local government agencies that would then be paid back over 20 years.
"This is a grass-roots movement that is, incredibly, being crushed by the federal entities," Attorney General Jerry Brown said during a visit to San Diego.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the two finance giants that guarantee or own more than half of American mortgages, said it would fight back.
"In keeping with our safety and soundness obligations, the Federal Housing Finance Agency will defend vigorously its actions that aim to protect taxpayers, lenders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," FHFA Acting Director Edward DeMarco said in a statement.
Brown said he had also sought the help of the Obama administration.
"We don't want a legal fight, we want President Obama to intervene," he said.
The program is designed to allow people to use money from state or city governments to install rooftop solar systems and other energy improvements on their homes, then pay the money back through taxes.
San Diego, San Diego County and several other cities were planning to roll out versions of the financing program this summer.
But Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, giant financial institutions created by the federal government to buy up mortgages to make homeownership affordable, effectively blocked those programs in May.
They said they would not guarantee any mortgages on properties that had such financing, known as PACE, or Property Assessed Clean Energy.
The federal agency that oversees Fannie and Freddie last week ratified their position that the PACE funding has to be paid off before any mortgages, and as a result cannot be used in conjunction with federally guaranteed mortgages.
Such funding, the FHFA said, "present significant safety and soundness concerns that must be addressed."
Wednesday, the agency's head said the PACE financing can be dangerous.
That thinking, Brown said, is fundamentally flawed.
"They don't recognize a great deal when they see it," he said at a news conference surrounded by many local politicians, electricians and solar installers.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders said the programs won't lead taxpayers to lose money.
"The fact is the risk to mortgage lenders is practically nil," he said.
Solar installers say uncertainty over the future of the program has caused them to lose business.
Dan Sullivan said his company, Sullivan Solar, spent three months selling systems based on the government financing.
"We have nearly $1 million in contracts tied to this program," he said.
But then, because of the snag with the lenders, the program was put on hold.
"Those jobs aren't going to go forward," Sullivan said.
A majority of local cities were getting ready to offer the financing beginning this summer, said Irene Stillings, director of the California Center of Sustainable Energy in San Diego.
"We were so close," she said. "We were within days of launching."
The center coordinates the California Solar Initiative in San Diego, a program which provides state rebates for solar installations.
"it's not just solar, it's energy efficiency as well," she said.
Brown's announcement comes a day after the California Public Utilities Commission pleaded with members of Congress to save the program.
"California needs your help immediately. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac struck a body blow this month to California's landmark efforts to lead the nation in weatherizing homes and placing solar panels on buildings, bringing to a halt more than $450 million in retrofit projects." PUC President Michael Peevey and Commissioner Dian Grueneich wrote in a letter Tuesday.
"Absent immediate federal action, California's launch of the largest retrofit program in the country cannot happen," they said.
They said that California has allocated $50 million in federal stimulus funding for PACE programs to be implemented by more than 200 cities and counties. That, they said, would translate into more than $400 million in spending.
And, they said, the state has reshaped how energy efficiency efforts are to be managed, so that PACE funding, stimulus cash and money utilities collect from consumers for public programs can be used together.
That means that losing PACE threatens $3.8 billion in energy efficiency programs over the next three years, they said.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said last week that he was "deeply disappointed" in the federal agencies' position.
"The FHFA's bureaucratic breakdown threatens one of California's most promising new engines of job creation in this struggling economy," he said.
Brown is the Democratic candidate for governor, running against Republican Meg Whitman.
To read a previous story on the financing debate ("Mortgage giants throw clouds on solar financing") CLICK HERE.


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Experts: Latest IPCC report raises concerns about adapting to new climate reality
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest authoritative scientific report on the global consequences of climate change in Yokahama, Japan today.
The report indicates that changes in climate in recent decades have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. The risks of climate change are going to increase substantially as the climate continues to change in the decades ahead, the report's authors conclude.
Four University of Waterloo engineering professors named Canada Research Chairs
Critical research into health care operations, medical imaging systems, micro-nano devices for cancer detection and smart energy distribution received a boost with four University of Waterloo engineering professors receiving new and renewed appointments as Canada Research Chairs today.
The appointments add more than $2 million in funding to the University.
Startup wins new hardware award at Velocity Fund Finals
Palette, a company that created a freeform hardware interface that can be built like Lego to control your favourite software, won the first-ever award for best hardware-based startup at the Velocity Fund Finals, and was one of several big winners at the event that took place at the University of Waterloo today.
Expert: Global climate change regulations expose Canadian investors to carbon bubble
Jason Thistlethwaite, from the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, is available to speak about the potential financial risks to the energy economy due to reduced greenhouse gas emission scenarios.
Waterloo student selected to help save endangered species
Wildlife Preservation Canada has selected Martin Kastner, a student from the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, for "Canada's New Noah," a program providing practical training and field experience in managing and conserving endangered species.
Each year, more than 100 candidates—including undergraduate, master's, and PhD students, practicing wildlife biologists and veterinarians—apply for the one coveted position.
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Public Release: 5-Jan-2017
Julio Ottino awarded top national academy prize for innovative education
'Whole-Brain Engineering' has transformed education at McCormick, Northwestern, beyond
IMAGE: This is Julio Ottino. view more
Credit: Northwestern University
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Julio M. Ottino, dean of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, has been awarded a prestigious national education prize for the development and implementation of Whole-Brain Engineering, the school's principal guiding strategy for more than a decade.
The 2017 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) honors Ottino and his innovative education efforts that have swept across both the McCormick School and the University.
Whole-Brain Engineering is a reimagining of engineering education; it merges the analytical and technical components of engineering (left brain) with creativity, design and divergent thinking (right brain). This interdisciplinary approach for developing leaders has led to new Northwestern programs and initiatives for engineers and non-engineers alike and has attracted the attention of other engineering schools worldwide.
"Julio's leadership and vision have helped form a new culture of collaboration at McCormick with far-reaching effects across the University and beyond," Northwestern President Morton Schapiro said.
"He has made engineering central to numerous initiatives across the University's disciplines -- music, journalism, social sciences and law -- and led collaborative partnerships with premier institutions, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Rehabilitation Institution of Chicago," President Schapiro said.
The Gordon Prize is the highest honor in the country for engineering education. Ottino will be honored at the NAE's Gordon Prize ceremony May 30 at Northwestern. He will split the $500,000 prize money equally with the McCormick School.
"I am pleased to recognize Julio Ottino for his transformational program at Northwestern University," NAE President C. D. Mote Jr. said. "Julio is the personification of a leader who is preparing the next generation of engineers to tackle society's greatest challenges."
"It is an incredible honor to be recognized on behalf of the outstanding faculty and staff at McCormick for the work that we have done," said Ottino, who, as both an engineer and an artist, exemplifies whole-brain thinking. "From the beginning, we set out to reframe engineering, emphasizing that engineers should be thought of by how they think, not just by the things that they make. Northwestern has been an ideal environment to build interdisciplinary partnerships that helped put this vision into action."
Ottino and his McCormick leadership team have established three key pillars for developing whole-brain engineers skilled in problem solving: design, entrepreneurship, and leadership and personal development. These pillars underpin a wide range of programs and activities -- curricular, extra-curricular and research -- that span and connect students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
"Julio's approach to engineering education mirrors the increased prevalence of engineering and technology in our everyday lives and prepares engineers to work with diverse teams and to understand the needs of the populations they serve," President Schapiro said.
Whole-Brain Engineering and its integrated way of thinking are evident in McCormick, across the University and beyond:
First-year students are introduced to Whole-Brain Engineering and the problem-solving process in the earliest days of their McCormick education
Nearly every engineering student works on a project to enhance the quality of life of a Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) patient with a disability
NUvention, McCormick's flagship interdisciplinary course that exposes Northwestern students to the entire innovation and entrepreneurial life cycle, has grown from one track to eight tracks, ranging from arts and analytics to transportation and therapeutics
Design for America (DFA), a student initiative in which students practice social service through design, was founded at McCormick, and DFA studios are now at 36 college and university campuses across the country
The Segal Design Institute and its Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation attract students from across Northwestern to its events and courses, including NUvention
By augmenting existing programs and developing new initiatives to complement an already strong technical curriculum, McCormick provides a better student experience, prepares engineers to have a bigger impact and imagine new possibilities in solving complex problems and attracts more students into STEM fields.
McCormick has developed collaborations with other schools and programs on campus, increasing the centrality of engineering within a comprehensive university. Many new courses bring together students from across disciplines and also partner with local institutions, such as RIC and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ottino has led the development of Whole-Brain Engineering since 2005. Since making it the cornerstone of Northwestern Engineering's strategy, the number of women in the school has increased by more than 60 percent, and engineering enrollments are at all-time high levels.
In addition to his role as dean, Ottino serves as Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and professor (by courtesy) of mechanical engineering. He is the founder and former director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).
Ottino, who has supervised more than 50 Ph.D. theses, previously held positions at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as chair and senior appointments at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University. He is a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Gordon Prize was established in 2001 as a biennial prize acknowledging new modalities and experiments in education that develop effective engineering leaders. Recognizing the potential to spur a revolution in engineering education, NAE announced in 2003 that the prize would be awarded annually.
The NAE is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to provide objective analysis and advice to the nation on matters of science, technology and health.
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The Town Grows
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Arvada Mayors from 1904 Incorporation to Present
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Colorado's First Documented Gold Strike
History of the Arvada Center
Olde Town Arvada's Iconic Water Tower
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Incorporation and the Provision of Municipal Services
In the early days between 1870 and 1904, Arvada had no sewage or water system, no organized fire or police protection, and no electricity. In short, Arvada had no town government.
On April 22, 1903, leaders of the town met to discuss incorporation. Dr. Richard Russell, who had moved to Arvada in 1902, asked his friend Dr. Henry Buchtel, Chancellor of the University of Denver, to make a speech. The meeting was chaired by the Reverend John F. White, former Methodist minister. After heated discussion, those present voted to support incorporation and an election was held May 27, 1903. Incorporation was defeated.
A second election was held November 10, 1903. Again incorporation was defeated.
A third election was held on July 26, 1904 and the vote for incorporation passed 159 to 62!
Articles of Incorporation for the Town of Arvada, population 600, were filed on August 24, 1904. The town boundaries were Ralston Road to the north, Carr Street to the west, 54th Street to the south, and Lamar Street to the east.
The elected Town Board began meeting in September. Dr. Richard Russell, Mayor, and Trustees: Morton Alexander, W.L. Jeffryes, John F. White, F.S. Bobb, H.P. Benson, and Gibbs West.
The new Town Board quickly awarded franchises to provide for the installation of electric and telephone lines. They hired a Town Marshal to keep order, eliminate farm animals and cats and dogs from the streets, and supervise the water ditches.
The Town Board moved into a vacant building east of Wadsworth Avenue on Grandview Avenue. They rented space for $15 a month, finally purchasing the building in 1914. This building served as City Hall for 67 years until a new City Hall was built in 1971 at 8101 Ralston Road.
World War I brought an upsurge in prices paid for crops, but the population fell to 840 as most eligible men joined the forces overseas. Rationing of food and supplies affected all citizens, and children helped tend war gardens. Military training was compulsory for freshman and sophomore students, and war training became an elective subject for upperclassmen.
A.L. Davis built a two-storied brick building to house his Ford Automobile Agency in 1916, and the same year Clemency McIlvoy gave land and money to establish Arvada's first park. Marcello Nicolino erected a brick building in 1922 which housed his drugstore and a grocery store.
Even the Ku Klux Klan had a presence in Arvada. In the early 1920s, the KKK targeted Arvada's small Italian Catholic community, burning crosses on Carr Hill, Hackberry Hill, and the lawn of The Shrine of St. Anne Catholic Church.
Arvada welcomed E.E. Benjamin's Arvada Flour Mill in 1925. Wheat moved through the mill with a system of bucket elevators.
Benjamin conducted a contest to name his fine flour, Arva-Pride. The first sack of flour was sold on April 12, 1926. The Mill also produced whole wheat flour and self-rising pancake flour. The Flour Mill, located at 5590 Olde Wadsworth Boulevard, can still be viewed today.
World War II ended August 14, 1945, and Arvada, population 1,500, felt the excitement of the housing boom. In 1947 George Clizbe built 38 houses north of Ralston Road, and in 1948, Chet Hoskinson built 38 houses east of Carr Street in west Arvada. Hoskinson, in 1952, built 300 more houses east of Independence Street. With a population of 2,359, Arvada became a City on November 1, 1951. The Town Board was now called a City Council and the Trustees became Councilmen or Councilwomen. The first City Manager was hired in 1961.
Arvada's Olde Town boomed. In November of 1947, Lloyd King opened his first King Soopers store in the Ralph E. Ashton Building on West 57th Avenue and Webster Street.
Changes came when Arvada Square Shopping Center opened in 1959 followed by Arvada Plaza Center. These new centers, coupled with shopping malls throughout the metro-area, pulled business from Arvada's downtown commercial district. Wadsworth By-Pass was constructed in 1958, further diverting traffic from Olde Town Arvada. Fortunately, City leaders and historians recognized the significance of the Olde Town area, which is now a designated National Historic District.
Early Arvada's country lanes were not made for automobile traffic, a fact which became obvious soon after the first county automobile license was issued in 1908.
Rail transportation was a boon to the area. In 1902 the Denver Interurban, fondly called "the trolley", began regular runs from Arvada to Denver. The line was extended to the coal camp at Leyden and a run of the trolley "every hour on the hour" could carry both coal and passengers. The trolley made its last run on June 25, 1950.
In 1877 a road was built from Clear Creek, north to Arvada. Later, a bridge was built over Clear Creek and by 1917, traffic had increased on the road to the point that a warning signal had to be established at the railroad crossing.
Road improvements for the entire town became more and more necessary. Wadsworth road was graveled, and in 1922, Arvada's Town Board ordered 52 loads of gravel to be dumped on Grandview Avenue. The men of the Town, shovels in hand, spread the gravel through the business district to connect Arvada's "Main Street" with the under-construction cement road from Denver, which would terminate at Graves Avenue (Lamar-Marshall Street).
The first Arvada Harvest Festival, now an annual tradition, was held in October of 1925 to celebrate the completion of the paved road.
On October 15, 1941 the first traffic light was installed at the corner of Wadsworth and Grandview (in 1934 the street was renamed Grandview from Grand View). This was the first traffic light in Jefferson County!
On January 28, 1967, the "super highway," Interstate 70, was opened between Wadsworth and Kipling streets.
Bringing Water
A primary responsibility of any municipality is the provision of water. In Arvada, as in most front range communities, water is a scarce and precious resource. Prior to Arvada's incorporation in 1904, houses and stores drew water from individual wells, or filled buckets from the irrigation ditches.
As Arvada's early pioneers settled into their daily routines, the demands for water grew along with the population. Farmers needed water to grow crops, miners required water for milling operations, and industries such as the local blacksmith needed water as well.
The first irrigation ditch was dug in 1860, and a maze of irrigation ditches followed, many of which still exist today. Still, the ditches could not provide reliable, quality water, and the first well was dug in 1870.
In 1910, the Arvada Water Tank was completed, providing artesian water that promised to end all water problems. However, a growing population stressed the water system.
Through the years that followed more wells were dug, and dug deeper again. Pumps were installed, and water towers erected. By 1955 residents were using 160 million gallons on an annual basis, and the well system was strained to the breaking point. Therefore, to supplement the wells, other water supplies were developed.
On March 14, 1960, a landmark contract was signed between Arvada and the Denver Water Board. The Contract secures three-fourths of Arvada's water: 19,000 acre feet per year collected from the Fraser River and South Boulder Creek Basins and transported first to Gross Reservoir and then to Ralston Reservoir.
The Contract also specifies that Arvada pays the rate Denver charges itself for water plus one percent, and that the contract is perpetual. Signing of the contract ended months of negotiation regarding Arvada's water rights from the western slope and transported through the Moffat Tunnel.
Police Department Organized
In its early days, Arvada faced crime and lawlessness from time to time. Murder, robbery, assault, and other crimes were reported every so often.
Concern at the lack of police protection was one of several reasons why some citizens pushed for incorporation.
The Golden Globe newspaper reported in January of 1904, "In view of the robberies going on at this place, the citizens feel that they ought to have some protection. Well, the constable lives out of town, the deputy sheriff is protecting Moffat's coal mine and the high sheriff himself visits the town about once a month at high noon. Why not incorporate?"
The establishment of a police presence was a primary goal following the vote to incorporate on August 24, 1904, but for years the town got by with elected Magistrates and Marshals.
In 1941, the Town Board hired Arvada's first uniformed policeman. In 1950, the Arvada Police Department was formed, beginning its operation with a Chief and a Deputy Chief. In addition to responding to calls for service, the duo also read meters and performed many other duties.
New Fire Department
In 1907, the Arvada Town Board approved the purchase of Arvada's first fire engine. The hand-drawn chemical fire engine arrived by rail from New York, and a group of volunteers known as the Arvada Fire Company was established.
In 1911, the Arvada Fire Department was formed, funded primarily by appropriations from the Town Board and profits from dances held on the second floor of the First National Bank building.
Arvada's first motorized fire engine was a 1923 Graham Brothers chemical engine purchased in Denver from the Julius Pearce Fire Supply Company. The "Old Dodge" can still be seen traveling the streets of Arvada, with its use now restricted to parades and other special events.
In 1949, local citizens approved the formation of the Arvada Fire Protection District, which transferred control and financing of the department from the Arvada City Council to a separate Board of Directors consisting of five elected officials.
For many years, the Arvada Fire Protection District (AFPD) was the largest volunteer fire department west of the Mississippi. In 1999, voters within the District supported a mill levy increase to allow the Arvada Fire Protection District to move from an all-volunteer organization to a combination volunteer/career District.
Today the Arvada Fire Protection District covers approximately 40 square miles and serves a population of 110,000.
The town of Arvada was the business and social center of the valley. Everyone came to town on Saturdays. Most stores had a hitching rack to tie up horses while customers shopped, and trees in the middle of Grand View provided welcome shade. There were no paved streets or sidewalks. Planks were laid across the largest puddles in wet weather.
Early residents of Arvada participated in community activities of all sorts, and founded service clubs, literary societies, sporting clubs, farming organizations, pioneer associations, and adult education. There were always lectures or club meetings to attend. Barn dances were held in various people's barns or in public buildings. Women brought cakes and pies, and passing the hat paid local musicians.
In 1925, the first concrete road between Arvada and Denver was completed and the newly formed Chamber of Commerce planned a huge celebration with Arvada's fall harvest for October 17. An appearance by the Governor and a football game were planned, as well as speeches, displays of goods and farm animals, and music and dancing.
No one counted on a blizzard the night before the celebration, but Arvadans shoveled the roads and celebrated anyway, without the Governor or the football game.
Thus, the annual Harvest Festival was born. Only three times since has the Festival not been held: one year during the Great Depression, once during World War II, and once during a polio scare.
In 1937, a group of Arvada women decided to get together to discuss the growing of plants and flowers. Soon the group became the Arvada Garden Club. Their motto was: "Strive to develop the beauties of our town."
Until 1999 when the Club officially disbanded, members planted trees, flowers, and shrubs all over the community, including Olde Wadsworth Boulevard, Hackberry Hill Park, the Arvada Library, and McIlvoy Park. They held fund-raisers to support community projects such as providing Christmas trees to Fitzsimmons Hospital and running a therapy project at the Ridge Home.
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Sundar Pichai: Made in India, Made for the World
After Pichai took over, there have been around 20 India-specific initiatives, some of them for global markets, but always first tested and launched in India. Shelley Singh | ET Bureau | Updated: December 05, 2019, 08:59 IST
NEW DELHI: In March, when Sundar Pichai had an opportunity to visit students of the Brihanmumbai municipal school in Andheri's DN Nagar, a student, ever curious, asked him -- what does it take to be an engineer?
"Do you have a radio and TV at home? When it gets old, just learn to break that apart."
Not an unusual answer for the newly elevated Alphabet CEO, who also used the occasion to see how Bolo - a reader app powered by Google AI for text-to-speech and speech recognition - worked on the ground. "Had the chance to visit some students today who are learning to read using Bolo, excited for all the great books they'll discover," Pichai, the boy-next-door turned Silicon Valley pin-up, tweeted after the interaction. Bolo, Neighbourly and Tez - they all have something more in common than just being apps developed by Google.
They were, in fact, first launched in India by the $135 billion internet giant, soon after Pichai took over as its chief executive in 2015. Tez, now rechristened Google Pay, is among the top payment apps in India, while Bolo helps kids learn, and Neighbourly is a hyperlocal search app. After Pichai took over, there have been around 20 India-specific initiatives, some of them for global markets, but always first tested and launched in India. Quite often, Pichai himself has been on the ground to launch these products - as the Mumbai school incident shows - and see first-hand the problems people face while using technology.
Most recently, in September, Google launched an AI research lab in Bengaluru, focused on finding solutions to problems in areas such as healthcare, education and agriculture. Google Pay, Bolo, support for local languages, the Neighbourly app, Gboard, the two-wheeler mode on Google maps - all have been possible due to Google's relentless focus on India, to increase the reach of the internet and educate people on how it could be useful.
"At least 500 million of the Next Billion Internet users are in India and Google knows that," said Subho Ray, president, Internet and Mobile Association of India.
"All companies are looking for business in India, but Google under Pichai realised that to make deep inroads in the market, they have to develop products for India."
Google's digital literacy program - Internet Saathi - along with Tata Trusts is spread across 18 states and aims to cover 300,000 villages in the country.
There are more than 50,000 full-time Saathis (volunteers), who have helped over 20 million women across more than 200,000 villages.
The search giant also has an ongoing project with the Railways to deploy WiFi at stations, helping thousands of commuters access the internet easily.
The scale of India's market has allowed Google to develop new products in the country and take it globally, Pichai said, addressing delegates the India Ideas Summit of the US India Business Council in June.
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Q: C++ Armadillo:- Equivalent to Matlab's bsxfun Does Aramadillo have a general purpose equivalent to matlab's bsxfun, which performs element wise operations e.g bsxfun(@minus,A,B)? I have seen that Armadillo does have element wise multiplication and division, but no indication that a generalized function is available.

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