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Wiz Kids' kung fu is superior. Having just recently gained the license to make a CMG similar to Mage Knight that's based on DC Comics properties, they have now gained the license to do the same for Marvel Comics. The rules to the Marvel CMG will be written by the lead designer of D&D 3's Dungeon Master's Guide,Monte Cook. While the two games will be separate, and won't be compatible with Mage Knight or the upcoming Battletech CMG, the super-powered characters willbe able to take on each other. My god… it's like the Secret Warscombined with Crisis on Infinite Earths,only more expensive and painted in China.
While you wait for the Battletech CMG, DC CMG, and Marvel CMG, you can check out the beta rules for large scale Mage Knight battles (at the bottom of their downloads page). That's what I'm talkin' about. Massive warfronts of figures. Two hundred… and forty dollars… worth of Mage Knight. Awww yeaaah.
Peter [Adkison] recently signed a deal to take back the Primal Order from WotC. If he gets time in the next few years, I suspect he'll probably re-write parts of it and release it again.
In case you missed it, Primal Orderwas conceived as a "cap system" that would fit on top of (nearly) any RPG, fleshing out the rules for deities. With Primal Order,gods don't just think they're badasses, they are. No, really.
The Games Unplugged website is still in a holding pattern, not showing anything more than the latest magazine cover. Oh, and a message saying "Come back in 5 days" that's been posted for going on 7 days now.


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\subsection{Molecular systems: Localized orbital basis}

Since its birth\cite{weso1993}, the FDE method has been implemented in a wealth of Quantum chemical packages. Examples include Amsterdam Density-Functional
(ADF)\cite{jaco2008b}, TURBOMOLE\cite{lari2010,lari2011}, deMon\cite{
weso1996b,weso1997c}, Dirac\cite{gome2008}, Q-Chem\cite{good2010}, and MolCas \cite{aqui2011a}.
The number of features and the flexibility of the implementations may vary, but all of them share some important similarities, such as the use of localized atom-centered basis sets
(Slater or Gaussian type). Where available, the FAT scheme\cite{weso1996b} to achieve self-consistency is employed.

The FDE method combined with the currently available semilocal NAKE functionals has been proven very successful in predicting the electronic ground-state properties of a vast array of noncovalently bonded multi-molecular systems\cite{
weso1999,weso1997b,weso1998,weso2001,zbir2004,jaco2006,jaco2008b}. Examples include an accurate prediction of ligand dissociation and proton transfer in metal complexes\cite{hong2000,weso1996c}, the correct interaction energy and electronic
structure for weak and strong hydrogen-bonding systems\cite{kiew2008,kevo2006}, van der Waals interactions\cite{jaco2005,kevo2014}, and up to a certain extent also
 reproduced the right electronic structure of Lewis acid-base complexes
characterized by weak dative bonds\cite{fux2008}.

\begin{figure}[tb]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=.5\columnwidth]{jaco2008}
 \caption{The 3-FDE scheme attempts to allow FDE to simulate fragments connected with covalent bonds, such as polipeptides. The total electron density is $\rho = \rho_I + \rho_{II}
- \rho_\text{cap}$. Reprinted with permission from ''Density{--}functional theory approach for the quantum chemical treatment of proteins'', C. R. Jacob and L. Visscher, J.
Chem. Phys. \textbf{128}, 155102 (2008). Copyright 2015, AIP  Publishing
LLC. }
 \label{fig:jaco2008}
\end{figure}

A powerful flavor of subsystem DFT is 3-FDE. It has been proposed by Jacob and Visscher\cite{jaco2008,kiew2013} to simulate peptide chains and potentially full proteins. Starting
from the Molecular Fractionation with Conjugate Caps (MFCC) scheme\cite{zhan2003b,gao2004,mei2004}, the chain is cut
at the peptide bond, and capping groups are added at the extremes to mimic the original environment. The total density of the system is then the sum of the capped amino acids minus
the density of the capping groups (See Fig.~\ref{fig:jaco2008}). 3-FDE introduced several novelties. The densities are not just those from isolated fragments (as in MFCC), but are calculated using a FDE embedding potential, and possibly converged
using freeze-and-thaw, it can be applied to subsystems
connected by covalent bonds, whereas regular FDE would fail due to the approximate NAKE functionals used. 3-FDE has been applied to several peptide pairs and to the ubuquitin protein, yielding
significantly more accurate results than the MFCC scheme.
More recently, it has been extended to the calculation of excitation energies.\cite{kiew2013,goez2014}

\section{Introduction}
\subsection{The idea behind subsystem DFT}
\input{intro}
\subsection{Two flavors of subsystem DFT}
\label{flavors}
\input{flavors}
\subsubsection{Use of nonadditive density functionals: The Frozen-Density Embedding method}
\label{sec:nadd}
\input{./nadd}
\subsubsection{Exact embedding: Partition DFT and Potential-Functional Embedding Theory}
\label{pft}
\input{./pft}
\input{./gs_table}
\subsection{Imposing Orthogonality: A revised Kohn--Sham scheme}
\label{ort}
\input{./ort}
\section{Subsystem DFT for the ground state}
\input{./gs_intro}
\subsection{Computational complexity and parallelization}
\label{sec:comp}
\subsubsection{A divide-and-conquer approach?}
\label{dac}
\input{./dac}
\subsubsection{Subsystem DFT: a naturally parallel method}
\label{sec:mpi}
\input{./mpi}

\subsubsection{Non-additive functional approximants}
\input{./nafa}
\subsection{Applications of subsystem DFT}
\label{sec:app}
\subsubsection{Molecular systems: localized basis sets}
\label{sect:gs}
\input{./lob}
\subsubsection{Condensed-phase systems: plane wave basis sets}
\label{planewave}
\input{./pwb}
\subsubsection{Note on self--interaction}
\input{./si}

\section{Born--Oppenheimer molecular dynamics}
\label{sec:bomd}
\input{./bomd}
\section{Time-dependent subsystem DFT}
\subsection{Extension of the Runge--Gross and van Leeuwen theorems}
\label{rg}
\input{./rgt}
\subsection{Linear response approximation}
\label{lr-tddft}
\input{./lr-tddft}
\subsubsection{Applications using subsystem LR-TDDFT}
\input{./lr-sp}
\subsection{Real-time subsystem TD-DFT approach}
\label{rt-tddft}
\input{./rt-tddft}
\input{./rt_table}
\subsubsection{Electronic spectra}
\input{./rt-sp}
\subsubsection{Transport properties}
\input{./rt-tr}

\section{Subsystem prospective of many-body interactions}
\input{./svdw_intro}
\subsection{Adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem for subsystems with nonoverlapping densities}
\input{./acfdt}
\subsection{AC-FDT for density-overlapping subsystems}
\input{./fde-vdw}
\subsection{Practical implementation}
\input{./sdft-vdw}
\section{Future directions}
\input{./fd}

\section*{Acknowledgements}
We would like to acknowledge a number of collaborators with whom we have often interacted during the past two years. Quantum-Espresso guru Dr.\ Davide Ceresoli has helped us in
achieving the Quantum-Espresso implementations in a finite time and has kindly
shared with us his own implementation of rt-TDDFT. Interactions with Prof.\ Henk Eshuis have been pivotal in understanding the theory of many-body interactions. We also thank Prof.\ Johannes Neugebauer and Prof.\ Christoph Jacob for fruitful
discussions. Other group members, Pablo Ramos, Jaren Harrel, and Marc Mankarious, are acknowledged for tolerating the authors during the writing of this work. The donors of the
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, and start-up funds
from Rutgers University--Newark are acknowledged for finantial support. We thank Sven Serneels for proofreading the manuscript.
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è una serie di light novel scritta da Seiji Ebisu e illustrata da Gintarō, edita da Fujimi Shobō sotto l'etichetta Fujimi Fantasia Bunko dal 2016. Un adattamento manga di Kō Narita ha iniziato la serializzazione sulla rivista Monthly Dragon Age a dicembre 2017 a settembre 2019, mentre un adattamento anime, prodotto dagli studi NAZ e Magia Doraglier, è stata trasmessa su AT-X e altre reti del Giappone tra il 10 ottobre e il 19 dicembre 2018.

Trama
Suzuka Nagami è una bellissima studentessa del terzo anno delle scuole medie che eccelle praticamente in tutto, negli studi, nelle attività sportive e nelle faccende domestiche. Un giorno una light novel scritta da lei sotto lo pseudonimo di Chikai Towano e che narra di una sorellina che stravede per il suo fratello maggiore vince un premio e diventa una serie ufficiale. Tuttavia Suzuka non può permettersi di diventare una scrittrice per via di una regola del consiglio studentesco che vieta categoricamente di svolgere un mestiere, inoltre suo padre è molto severo. Così la ragazza si mette d'accordo con il fratello Yuu Nagami per fare in modo che questi si spacci per Chikai Towano, mentre lei continua a scrivere i volumi seguenti per fingere la cosa al meglio, ma sorge un problema, infatti Suzuka inizia a nutrire dei sentimenti proibiti per suo fratello.

Personaggi

Doppiato da: Tasuku Hatanaka
Il fratello maggiore di Suzuka nonché protagonista maschile della serie. È uno studente del primo anno delle superiori. È diventato un otaku dopo aver iniziato a leggere le light novel quando andava alle scuole medie. Successivamente diventa autore di una di esse sotto lo pseudonimo di Chikai Towano dopo essersi messo d'accordo con la sorella. Rispetto a quest'ultima che eccelle in ogni cosa, Yuu è uno studente mediocre e senza alcun talento particolare. Crede di essere un fratello inaffidabile e pensa erroneamente che Suzuka lo odi perché è spesso scortese con lei sebbene se ne prenda cura. Non ha mai provato sentimenti di affetto o di attaccamento per la sua sorella moe.

Doppiata da: Reina Kondō
La sorella minore di Yuu e protagonista femminile della serie. È una bellissima ragazza che eccelle in tutto ciò che fa. A differenza del fratello, Suzuka è molto popolare tra i banchi di scuola, dove tra l'altro ricopre la figura di presidente del consiglio studentesco. Cerca di essere una persona affidabile con il prossimo, in particolar modo con Yuu, di cui è innamorata anche se non lo fa sapere a nessuno. Dopo aver scritto il romanzo intitolato Questa è la storia di una sorellina che ama troppo il suo fratellone sotto lo pseudonimo di Chikai Towano ed aver vinto un concorso dedicato alle light novel, chiede al fratello Yuu di spacciarsi per l'autore del libro al posto suo. Nelle fasi più avanzate della storia riuscirà a superare con successo gli esami e si iscriverà nella scuola di Yuu.

Doppiata da: Yui Ogura
Una compagna di classe di Yuu di bell'aspetto e scrittrice orgogliosa della serie di light novel Sky Magic Guardian di cui Yuu è un profondo estimatore. Allo stesso modo, Mai è una fan di Chikai Towano e trova la sua storia molto appassionante. Dopo aver capito che Yuu e Chikai sono la stessa persona, la ragazza decide di scoprire il segreto che si cela dietro il suo "talento" e inizia ad avere degli atteggiamenti da stalker nei suoi confronti. Quando scrive utilizza il nome d'arte di Enryuu Homura.

Doppiata da: Chinatsu Akasaki
Un'illustratrice proveniente dal Regno Unito. Ahegao è una ragazza allegra che porta gli occhiali e ha un seno grande. Non lascia mai la possibilità di fare riferimenti sessuali agli altri e ama tutto ciò che è sessualmente esplicito come ad esempio il sadismo, che è il tuo feticismo preferito. Il suo pseudonimo deriva da un'espressione facciale sensuale solitamente vista nei manga hentai.

Doppiata da: Kazusa Aranami
Una giovane doppiatrice che è stata selezionata alla sua prima audizione e vanta di non avere difetti di alcun tipo in quanto è in grado di ricoprire qualsiasi tipo di ruolo le venga affidato dalle case di doppiaggio. Aspira a diventare la doppiatrice della sorellina dei romanzi di Chikai Towano di cui è una grande fan. Anche se Yuu è più giovane di lei, ama fingere di essere la sua sorellina e lo soprannomina spesso "Onii-chan" (ovvero fratellone).

Doppiata da: Eri Kitamura
La curatrice editoriale di Yuu. È una donna molto formosa e perversa che cerca di dare dei consigli su eventuale altro materiale da inserire nei romanzi atteggiandosi in maniera sconcia, il che mette in imbarazzo oppure fa arrabbiare Yuu.

Doppiata da: Ayumi Mano
Una ragazza che ha più di vent'anni anche se il suo aspetto è molto simile a quello di una bambina. Lavora in una libreria insieme a Yuu e spesso si diverte a prenderlo scherzosamente in giro, anche se si dimostra amichevole nei suoi confronti. Anche lei è un otaku e partecipa alle eventuali fiere che vengono indette in alcuni periodi dell'anno. Soprannomina spesso Yuu Nagami come "Nagamin".

Doppiata da: Yua Nagae
Una nota scrittrice di dōjinshi che collabora attivamente con la sorella Akino. Una delle loro opere più note è intitolata Ambivalence. Vecchia conoscenza e ammiratrice di Ahegao, spesso si lamenta con quest'ultima per i toni piccanti che hanno le sue illustrazioni e ritiene che il suo talento sia sprecato. Dopo aver perso una sfida con quest'ultima, inizierà a rispettarla maggiormente.

Doppiata da: Yui Nakajima
Famosa illustratrice di dōjinshi che lavora in coppia con la sorella Haruna alla serie Ambivalence. Rispetto alla sorella, Akino ha un carattere molto più tranquillo e riflessivo. Nel corso della serie si prenderà una cotta per Yuu.

Media

Light novel
Seiji Ebisu ha pubblicato il primo romanzo della serie, con le illustrazioni di Gintarō, nel 2016. La serie è edita da Fujimi Shobō sotto l'etichetta Fujimi Fantasia Bunko.

Manga
Un adattamento manga disegnato da Kō Narita è stato serializzato a partire dal 9 dicembre 2017 al 9 settembre 2019 sulla rivista per manga shōnen Monthly Dragon Age di Fujimi Shobō.

Anime
Annunciato a ottobre 2017 tramite l'account Twitter ufficiale dell'etichetta Fujimi Fantasia Bunko, un adattamento anime da 10 episodi è stato trasmesso su AT-X dal 10 ottobre al 19 dicembre 2018. La serie è diretta da Hiroyuki Furukawa, che adatta anche il character design originale di Gintarō. Yūichirō Momose si è occupato della composizione della serie, mentre Kisuke Koizumi e Yashikin sono rispettivamente direttore del suono e compositore della colonna sonora. L'anime è stato coprodotto da NAZ e Magia Doraglier. Come sigla di apertura è stato utilizzato il brano "Secret Story" di Purely Monster. In tutto il mondo, ad eccezione dell'Asia, gli episodi sono stati trasmessi in streaming in simulcast, anche coi sottotitoli in lingua italiana, da Crunchyroll.

Accoglienza
L'adattamento anime di My Sister, My Writer è stato stroncato dalla critica per qualità delle animazioni definite come scadenti. Brian Ashcraft di Kotaku ha descritto la serie come uno dei più notevoli disastri di produzione del 2018. Secondo i titoli di coda dell'episodio 2, la ragione più probabile del deterioramento della qualità delle animazioni era dovuta al fatto che lo studio Buyu era responsabile dell'animazione chiave rispetto ai principali studi NAZ e Magia Doraglier. Buyu è una società di produzione che si è occupata solo dell'animazione intermedia e dell'animazione finale dell'episodio 1, e lo studio solitamente funge da subappaltatore per altre società. Inoltre, a più singoli membri dello staff è stata attribuita l'animazione chiave piuttosto che alle singole società.

Note

Collegamenti esterni
Light novel

Manga

Serie animata

Anime e manga basati su light novel
Anime e manga commedia romantica

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Maple syrup must be put in 250 ml kent jugs which may be picked up at the fair office for $1.50 each.
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NOTE: No containers of value to be used for maple sugar.


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Jobs - Army Tank-Automotive and Armament Command (TACOM)
I just saw a job posting for a logistics management specialist in Natick for Army Tank-Automotive and Armament Command. It pays 76 to 99 thousand. I wonder if we have tanks in Natick Labs/Soldier System. And how does this relate to their work on soldier systems? Will we see tanks practicing on Rt. 27 or Speen St.? Are they surplus gifts from the Pentagon like the leftover humvees from Afghanistan and Iraq? Do we need them here in Natick? Are they researching better tanks, better weapons for the next war or is it for crowd control during civil unrest? I'd like to see $99,000 go to someone who could handle logistics for peace, negotiations, education, health care-someone trying to prevent the next war rather than how to fight it more lethally.
The Wounds Within - Veterans, PTSD Hyannis
On Saturday April 4, 2015, Mark Nickerson and Kevin Lucey spoke about Mark's new book on Jeff Lucey's story.
As his therapist Mark knew well the background events leading to Jeff's suicide. How they tried and failed to save him from his PTSD and moral injury was the topic of the discussion. A gentleman in the audience told his story of his son who came back from war with many confirmed kills and anger and rage and how the VA doped him up and then took him off the heavy meds and how he is still living at the VA. He wants his only child to get his life back, but no one seems to know how to do that. Before we get in to another war I hope people stop and ask, are we prepared to take care of returning vets with injuries, mental and physical? Is it worth it to sacrifice their lives or their quality of life?
Iyad Burnat at Northeastern March 31st
Joint Base Cape Cod Hearing
The Military Bond Bill initiated by the Patrick administration passed nearly unanimously in the MA State House and was signed into law previously. At the second statewide hearing which I attended last year they discussed the multiple ways of spending this money, officers of various military groups spoke to a crowd of mostly military and (Military Asset and Strategy Task Force) MASTF employees. Projects mentioned were the new runways at Barnes, the soldiers on the Cape keeping watch for incoming missiles, cyber security, unmmanned aerial vehicles and the joint program with the Adirondack drone test area. Two state Representatives were present, Mr. Hunt and Vierija, one Christine Pachecho from Markey's office and Shelley from Keating's. Admin and Finance, Mass Development. Carter Hunt, The meeting was held at 2 PM on a Monday afternoon and was posted on the MA gov website. There was talk of repaving Connery Way. One gentleman asked about a discrepancy in the power point slide and the spoken numbers for # of jobs preserved. It was acknowledged that there may have been an error. Rep. Hunt asked about other paving and who would pay for it. And then Freudberg asked if there were more questions. It was not clear to me that the speaker at the time was through and that this was now finally time for public comment. Quickly Adam adjourned the meeting and directed people to the cookies in the back of the room and an opportunity to ask questions privately to the participants. Two reporters were speaking to Carter Hunt. One was from Cape Cod ___Ryan Barber and took my name?
After the public comment, I asked about pollution: Would the military be adding to the pollution? Will they be exempt from EPA rules? What happened to the trash hauling idea? The tipping fee was raised so each town decided go to to landfills rather than shipping to a company by rail. Would this be a good place for solar farms?. Hunt as the former head of Devens said. I have four superfunds. I have four solar farms. "Does payload mean weapons?" "No it means satellite technology , There will be no weapons on these drones." Information gathered will be erased unless it relates to the working of drone itself. They need to determine if a vehicle is manned or unmanned so that ground control can tell. They will install a marker perhaps. For a public hearing there was little public presence or input. I wonder how many people knew about it and where it was advertised. Adam thanked several local contacts for helping to spread the word. So the process continues - lending $177 million dollars of your money to the military to preserve defense jobs.
Peace Activists speak at Wellesley High -
Metrowest Peace Action received a request from a Wellesley High School teacher Bob Aili to speak at Seminar Day with a message to counter balance to the culture of militarization in the US. Brian Sparks, Iraq War vet from 2005 spoke about how and why he joined the military in high school and was called up in his second year of College and how after a few months he could see that the US mission was more than getting rid of a dictator. Sadly it meant killing and terrorizing innocent civilians. He spoke of his Oral History project about the village of Dora which he came to know well. The 5 students who attended one of the many seminar options asked questions: what did you learn about the culture of Iraq? Would drones have been a better alternative than boots on the ground, the artillery? Paul Shannon began his talk by passing out the Friends' ribbon which shows the amount of money in the discretionary budget that the US spends on the military. He also passed out a graph showing that we spend more than the next 20 countries combined. He talked about our war on native americans, philippinos, vietnam, ISis, our support for the mujahadeen, other horrible dictators like Pinochet, Mubutu, Somoza. The justifications given for war are usually not honest - it is usually for control of territory, resources, markets. He concluded by reading Gen. Smedley Butler's analysis of American interventions around the world. A thug for corporations.We provided literature about organizations, events and MWPA's next meeting on March 21, 2015. It would be nice to be invited by more high schools to talk about WHY WE FIGHT and what are the alternatives to war.
Phyllis Starkey, a former British member of parliament and staunch advocate for Palestinian rights explained the difference between Britain's attitude towards Palestine and the US. She spoke on Feb. 24th at Community Church of Boston. Through her work
Notes from Foreign Policy Workshop on Jan. 10
The following are from my own notes - - mistakes are wholly mine.
Cole said that American foreign policy is basically dominance of the world to benefit the corporations.
After a brief segment, he asked for people's reactions.
Isabella asked about how you can get people energized when there is so much apathy, disconnect and so little unity on the many issues.
Don said we should include separation of church and state .
Don had 5 critiques:
1. We don't seem to have a policy. We react to events.
2. the State Department and Defense have a poor relationship
3. What do we do when all else fails and we have something like a violent ISIS breakout?
4. The Peace Corps was/is too small and if we had 100,000 people going overseas every year, as originally intended)
we would have a significant number of the population who actually understand countries.
5. There is a disconnect between Americans and other countries..we have no knowledge of other countries.
Nazda is not sure how much the CIA is responsible for, agrees state and religion should be separate, economic inequality is a problem and we need to encourage democracy at home.*
Dan - the notion that we must be in perpetual war
JBarr - what does sustainability mean - you haven't gotten specific.
Dhruba offered to start a White House petition - we would have to decide on what issue and craft a statement.
Susan said its important to keep on legislators and the work also seems overwhelming with little progress at times.
We can get on cable TV, local papers appreciative of article -will print letters
Does Evan Falchuk have a foreign policy...Is he engaged politically still,
We should work with people of color.
Faith said via Barney- It's nice that we talk amongst ourselves, but we need to reach out to others.
Tara - went to inauguration to see what Republicans are saying - we need to get out and talk to those not like us.
recommends we work with SEIU and Encuentro 5 and Vets for Peace Pat Scanlon.
* Don's critiques in his own words:
1. The word 'policy' implies that some group in Washington sat down and attempted to formulate a document that would guide whatever we do internationally. That has never happened - although I believe it should happen. In reality, the US does not really have a foreign policy. We react to foreign events. A Foreign Policy for All needs to be framed within this context.
2. Over the years, there have been a handful of relatively small countries that have played major roles in our foreign affairs. The process of decision-making concerning these countries was not helpful. The individuals who made our decisions did so on the basis of the Big Picture issue of the day rather than on a knowledge of the country and its culture. (See the enclosed; this was a chapter of a book I wrote about a decade ago, but never published.)
A Foreign Policy for All ought to address how we decide to do what we do internationally as well as what we do.
3. When President Kennedy established the Peace Corps, he envisioned that we would eventually have 100,000 PCVs serving every year. We reached about 15,000 - but then Nixon wanted to down-grade the Peace Corps' importance because of his personal animosity towards Kennedy. It has never recovered. There are about 8,000 PCVs now.
If there had been 100,000 people serving per year, we would have had a far larger proportion of the American population with deeper knowledge of other countries and cultures. This would have translated into more knowledgeable people in positions of influence at all levels, including a more intelligent foreign policy. If there had been 100,000 people serving per year, there would be no need to write A Foreign Policy for All.
4. This document completely ignores the main decisions that our country makes in foreign crises. What process should we follow and what kind of decisions should we make if, for example, Russia were to invade Latvia? if North Korea were to bomb South Korea? if Iran were to explode an atomic bomb? or 'if' an Islamist State were to be established in parts of Iraq and Syria?
It is insufficient to say that we should take actions to prevent such things from happening in the first place. They will happen.
5. You need to address the relationship between the State Department and the Defense Department. Regardless of how well each functions, and who influences each, State ought to be in overall control, with Defense following its orders. instead, wherever Defense is involved, it ignores State.
An example that you might not like: When Obama became President, I believe that our military ought to have remained in Afghanistan - but with a completely different mission. If State had been in control, the emphasis of US actions could have been on promoting development and improving governance. The military's primary role should have been to protect people who were doing this. The outcome would have been far better.
With Defense as the lead Department, the inevitable emphasis will always be on fighting rather than diplomacy or improving the country and our relations with it."
MetroWest Peace Action will meet Feb. 14th, 1:00, Common St. Church
Mass. Peace Action will have annual meeting on Feb. 7 where we will vote on FP4A
Palestine Israel - Hard to Imagine
A Palestinian bus driver is found hanged in his bus and I don't see it reported in the Boston Globe or on the morning news. Another young Palestinian is shot by IDF. Israel calls it a suicide and Palestinians accuse settlers of murdering the driver. Israel says the young man was killed in crossfire, but a video shows a soldier seeming to aim at the young man.
Four Hassidics are are killed in a synagogue - Front page news, on all the morning shows. Granted there are differences. The Palestinian attackers are killed. Palestinians celebrate the news we are told. Israel attacks the homes
Shift Change
Sponsored by Occupy Natick this film shown at the Common St. Community Church last night offered viewers a new way to look at business. The film showed examples of companies and stores and businesses that were worker owned and worker run. From the industrial laundry company in Detroit, Evergreen, to Mondragon's in Spain to bakeries in California to Equal Exchange the testimonies of owner workers claimed that owning a piece of your job is a good way to go. Members make decisions, hear the debate on decisions, benefit when the company is doing well and accept reduced pay when the company does poorly. In most cases workers are not laid off. They may take a cut in pay or seek work at another cooperative somewhere, but the main focus of the worker cooperatives is to take care of its people.
Discussion after the film spoke of examples around the country and extended to talk of communal housing and government funded projects like TVA that had a socialist aspect. We touched on the difference between socialism and worker owned companies.
Delicious refreshments helped to take the chill out of the cool church. The next event by Occupy will be in November and will feature Rep. David Linsky and how 'sausage' or legislation is made.
Nuclear Savage movie
This movie rates high on the scale of hard to watch...And it's not only that the United States dropped bombs and experimented on humans, it's the racism that stood out for me. Somewhere in the film the term "savage" is used in a US government film. These people in the Pacific Island did not have our fancy clothes and technology and war making machines...they were dark skinned...they didn't matter as much : they were 'savages'. The arrogance of the US is evident and unmistakable. Our pride in developing the bomb and ending a war and showing how powerful we were was apparent. And as WWII came to a close I imagine the mood of the people was quite different than it is now. One can debate whether or not the wind changed directions on the day of the Bravo test and whether or not the US planned to study those exposed to intentional radiation, but the harm done is not debatable and the debt we owe to these people is large. Whether or not the government can own up to its mistakes is yet to be seen. Until we do and until we pay some reparations, we are likely to continue committing such atrocities and denying them until the truth comes out in the distant future. I think it takes a wise and strong nation to admit a mistake. Are we up to the challenge?

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Scientists and researchers have been making many breakthrough discoveries in recent years when it comes to oral health. Many of those breakthroughs have shown new reasons why the health of children's primary teeth is just as important as the health of permanent teeth. If you let your child slack off on dental care, then you have a new reason to make sure they brush and floss every day and keep their smiles cavity-free, even while they still have their temporary, "baby" teeth.
It has always been a generally accepted view that children will get cavities when they are growing up. Some get more than others, but cavities and cavity fillings in baby teeth have never been thought of as having any long-term effect on a child's oral health.
If your child gets frequent cavities, then it may surprise you that while just a small cavity itself may not harm your child's developing adult tooth below it (although very large ones can), the local anesthesia may. A recent study found that local anesthesia in the mouth, which dentists commonly use to numb children's teeth before filling cavities, can affect the development of adult teeth by interfering with how the growth-signaling cells communicate with each other.
What does this mean for your child? The researchers stress that the findings should in no way keep you from getting your child any current dental treatments he or she may need that require local anesthetic. However, as a parent, you should take every step you can to keep your children's teeth healthy if you do not already.
If you think your child may not brush their teeth when they say they do, then supervise them to ensure they really are brushing properly for a full two minutes. Place at timer in the bathroom to record time more easily.
Remember that a teeth-friendly diet is just as important as brushing and flossing. Keep sugary soda out of the house and let your child have sugary treats only occasionally.
Another great way to minimize cavities in a child prone to them is by having your child's dentist apply a special dental sealant to his or her molars that form a barrier between the teeth and cavity-causing bacteria. This sealant is often covered by dental insurance plans.
It is important to keep your child's primary teeth healthy for many reasons. While you should always have any cavities your child does develop filled promptly, helping your child avoid cavities altogether is really the best tactic for their long-term oral health.
To learn more, contact a pediatric dentist clinic like Kids First Pediatric Dentistry.


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Engineering witchcraft in Bihar
Dinesh Mishra
Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date: Sun, 2014-02-09 19:46
The Bhutahi Balan, a tributary of the Kosi may be a small river but it has caused immense devastation. Dinesh Mishra says that embankments aren't the answer to this problem.
Devastation due to floods
It's been years since Bhutahi Balan, a small tributary of the Kosi river in Madhubani, North Bihar, has been causing devastation on both its banks. Dinesh Mishra in his book 'Story of a ghost river and engineering witchcraft' objectively analyses the failure of embankments, which are raised banks to contain the river's flooding.
He combines this analysis with questions of political economy while retaining a moving passion for the lives of people. With sharpness and conviction, Mishra takes a dig at the technical aspects of the embankments. "The engineers instead of routing the river's sand routed the water", he says. The article below is based on excerpts from this book.
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Bhutahi Balan, a tributary of the Kosi is a small river of Madhubani, Bihar but the devastation it causes is, in actual fact, disproportionate to its size. The river rightly derives its name from ghosts (bhut). Local people say that the river rises abruptly in the rainy season, its waters enter the houses and communication goes out of gear. Before one can react to the situation, the river disappears leaving a trail of thick sand behind. The river did not have a definite flow path nor did it have any definite bed until recently.
Change in the course and branching of various streams are the two main problems attached to the river. Most of the streams that have branched off from the river have done so on its right bank. The flow of the river contains excessive sediments, like any other river of north Bihar. This leads to a change in its course, a serpentine flow path, shallow beds, overtopping of the banks and instability of the channel. This causes great inconvenience to the people living on either side of the river.
Embankments on the Kosi
The problems of the Bhutahi Balan are tagged to that of the Kosi river, which was embanked between 1955 and 1957 as a result of a major initiative to control floods in post-independent India. The western embankments of the Kosi intercepted the flow of most of its tributaries. It takes time to construct sluice gates or bridges and hence gaps were left in the western embankment of the Kosi where the rivers were likely to cross it.
Before the construction of the embankment, the water of the tributaries used to spread to the adjoining land prior to emptying into the Kosi's mainstream thereby moderating floods. After the construction of the embankment, the tributaries were forced to converge to the gaps left in the embankment, for constructing sluice gates. This led to the building up of the flood levels upstream and brought more areas under the sheet of water, apart from endangering the western embankment of the Kosi. The Bhutahi's water flowed freely into the Kosi before the embankments were constructed.
Problems caused by the embankment
The construction of the embankment paved the way for raising of the railway track, which impeded flow of many tributaries in the area. The mess of the Bhutahi Balan was created by a mistake, whether willful or otherwise, of building the embankment only on one side of the river. It has pitted people against each other and created a conflicting situation in various hamlets of the same village because of their locations in relation to the river and the embankment. It has created a rift between the Water Resources Department and the people.
It further led to a competition between politicians and the political parties, the sole beneficiaries of this lapse, as they are always on the lookout for issues and the unsettled Bhutahi Balan issue gave them that opportunity. It is the people who have suffered the risk of their livelihood. Because the people did not know the consequences of the western Bhutahi Balan embankment, the resistance to it was not that vocal and the Emergency helped the Government in building the same. The protestors ran the risk of being thrown behind bars.
The Government of Bihar, having constructed the embankment on the western side of the Bhutahi Balan, has tied a snake around the necks of the people in the basin along with that of its own. It would have been better if the Government had evaluated the performance of the existing embankments and taken a decision on the findings of such a study. This study would have revealed the effectiveness of the existing embankments in the backdrop of the claims made in the project report. The claim that there would be a return of Rs. 3.28 against an investment of every rupee should have been verified. A similar assessment is needed of the claim that four times the maximum discharge of the Bhutahi Balan would pass through the Bridge Nos: 133-140 without any difficulty. The Railways should also come out with a clear position in the matter.
The evaluation would have revealed the reasons for straying from the target and fixed the responsibility for the lapses, if any. What were the steps needed to improve the situation? Without knowing all these facts and without planning for rehabilitation for those who are likely to be trapped within the two embankments of the Bhutahi Balan, if the eastern embankment is extended any further, the status quo will be maintained.
What all has been done so far to tame the river and what is being proposed at the moment, amounts to a witchcraft to tame the river that behaves like a ghost. It is about time that the engineers are reminded that the problem lies not in routing the water but routing the sand. Unless that is done, engineering would be reduced to witchery. Until then, there is no other option than to tolerate the continued hissing of the snake silently. The final verdict, however, will come from the river and one will have to wait for that to happen.
Story of a ghost river - Dinesh Mishra (2004) - Part I
Story of a ghost river - Dinesh Mishra (2004) - Part II
Development and Displacement
Droughts and Floods
Society, Culture, Religion and History
Physiography
Eastern Plains
North Bihar Plains
Nepal Himalayas
Madhubani District
Bay of Bengal
Coping with floods & erosion in Brahmaputra plains
Rivers in India
River and people on collision course
River Bagmati: Bounties become a curse
Tensions prevailing around the Kosi in Bihar and Nepal


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Lizard Squad DDoS Attacks, now on Online Banks, Government Websites
The Lizard Squad, the hacking group most known for the Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS attacks that it launches on video game networks, is apparently escalating its attacks toward bigger targets.
According to security researchers of Arbor Networks, the Lizard Squad has taken over thousands of CCTV cameras and webcams that are connected to the internet to be able to focus DDoS attacks on banks and websites of government departments.
The Lizard Squad DDoS group wrote the LizardStresser, a botnet that was released publicly by the Lizard Squad early last year that utilizes IoT devices to pile up the needed power for massive DDoS attacks.
The security company noted that the prime targets of hackers utilizing the LizardStresser are located in Brazil, with previous victims being two big banks, two telecommunications companies and two government agencies in the South American country.
LizardStresser attacks have also been launched against three big gaming companies based in the United States.
While the devices are nowhere near as powerful as a PC, amassing a collection of them will lead to enough power to take down secure websites. In one case that Arbor Networks monitored, an attack generated over 400 Gbps worth of traffic from several thousand sources and directed all of it to one target.


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Noon: 22nd Century
Noon Universe: Book 1
Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
The 22nd Century. Mankind is free from the age-old misery and poverty that have kept it in bondage, free to create a new world, to explore the universe, to confront the mysteries of human existence. Russia's greatest S-F writeres, Arkday and Boris Strugatsky, have produced a futuristic masterpiece of epic proportions and breathtaking vision.
Two interplanetary adventurers hurtle through space at a speed faster than light, and are flung a hundred years into the 22nd century. They find themselves on a planet both like and unlike the earth they abandoned so very long ago--and so recently.
It is a planet ruled by wisdom, where automated farms feed tens million inhabitants, where a complete system of moving roads brings the farthest outposts into close communion, where an advanced science in mechanization approaches the mysterious complexity of life itself. Here all effort is bound to the exhilarating art if discovery--way below the planet's waters, deep into the endless reaches of space and far beyond the boundless zones of the human mind.
Night on Mars
Almost the Same
Old-timer
Two from the Taimyr
The Moving Roads
Langour of the Spirit
The Assaultmen
The Mystery of the Hind Leg
Candles Before the Control Board
Natural Science in the Spirit World ilgrims and Wayfarers
The Planet with all the Conveniences
What You Will Be Like
Escape Attempt
Three short science fiction novellas by the Strugatsky brothers: Escape Attempt, The Kid from Hell and Space Mowgli.
Hard to Be a God
Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages. Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere with the natural progress of history. His place is to observe rather than interfere - but can he remain aloof in the face of so much cruelty and injustice...?
Prisoners of Power
Note: this version of the novel is the one based on a heavily censored source.
The novel is set in the 22nd century of the Noon Universe. Mankind is the prevalent race in the Galaxy, capable of interstellar travel. Human social organization is presumably Communist, and can be described as a highly technologically advanced anarchistic meritocracy.
The Inhabited Island
When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet's humanlike inhabitants, he finds himself increasingly entangled in their primitive way of life. After his experiences in their nightmarish military, criminal justice, and mental health systems, Maxim begins to realize that his sojourn on this radioactive and war-scarred world will not be a walk in the park.
The Inhabited Island is one of the Strugatsky brothers' most popular and acclaimed novels, yet the only previous English-language edition (Prisoners of Power) was based on a version heavily censored by Soviet authorities. Now, in a sparkling new edition by award-winning translator Andrew Bromfield, this land-mark novel can be newly appreciated by both longtime Strugatsky fans and new explorers of the Russian science fiction masters' astonishingly rich body of work.


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2013 Excellence in Education Award – Dr. Gervan Fearon
Dr. Gervan Fearon is the former Dean of the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, a provider of university-based adult education. He is also an associate professor with the department of Economics at Ryerson University.
Dr. Fearon's career has been fuelled by a passion for education and the transformative opportunities it holds for individuals, communities and society. He is also committed to enhancing the student experience.
Dr. Fearon holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Guelph and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Western Ontario.
Before joining Ryerson, Dr. Fearon was a member of the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University, where he was an Associate Dean responsible for co-ordinating the development of academic programs and for managing enrollment, among other responsibilities. He has also taught at the University of Guelph, the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. He has served as a visiting scholar at the University of Washington.
Dr. Fearon's work in community development includes serving as faculty administrative leader of the York University TD Community Engagement Centre, a facility designed to improve public access to, and involvement in, university activities and resources. He is in his third year as president of Tropicana Community Services, a United Way agency that provides support to new immigrants.
Dr. Fearon has received awards for both his academic and community contributions. In 2000, he received the Professor of the Year Award from the Division of Management at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. And in 2007, he received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching for Atkinson at York University. He is also a recipient of the Planet Africa Marcus Garvey Memorial Award for Community Service.
On January 15 of this year, Brandon University, in Manitoba, announced that Dr. Fearon had joined the institution as Vice-President (Academic and Provost) effective July 1, 2013.
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Matt DiBenedetto enters concussion protocol, will miss Sprint Cup race
By Dustin LongNov 5, 2016, 9:14 PM EDT
Matt DiBenedetto will not drive in Sunday's Sprint Cup race because he has entered NASCAR's concussion protocol after a crash in Saturday's Xfinity race, BK Racing announced.
DiBenedetto tweeted that Jeffrey Earnhardt would drive for him in Sunday's Cup race.
BK Racing said that DiBenedetto was not cleared by doctors to race following his incident in Saturday's Xfinity race.
DiBenedetto finished 36th Saturday after his crash brought out the caution on Lap 135 in the 200-lap race won by Kyle Larson.
DiBenedetto had started 66 consecutive Sprint Cup races. His best finish this year was sixth at Bristol in April.
I'm feeling totally fine…just having to follow the concussion protocol. Hate I can't drive tomorrow but I'm looking forward to Phoenix.
— Matthew DiBenedetto (@mattdracing) November 6, 2016
Yea man I'm extremely frustrated. I feel 100% but unfortunately they won't clear me and I'm having to follow concussion protocol https://t.co/L9li0xEdNQ


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Q: Save an opencv video I have written up a code to generate a video with bounding boxes. My current code reads and loads  the video with bounding box. Is there a way I could save the video instead of it closing all open videos.
Here is my snippet of code. Any help is appreciated
    fvs = FileVideoStream('./test_videos/video.mp4').start()
    time.sleep(2.0)
    pcount = 0
    evencount = 0
    print("Model input preparation finished....")
    user = input("\nTo proceed to analysis press y\n")
out = cv2.VideoWriter('outputjcf.mp4',cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc('m','p','4','v'), fps, (300,300))

     while (fvs.more() and pcount < 477):
    frame = fvs.read()
    if(evencount %2 == 0):
    (h, w) = frame.shape[:2]
    blob = cv2.dnn.blobFromImage(cv2.resize(frame, (300, 300)), 1.0, (300, 300), (104.0, 177.0, 123.0))
    conf_threshold = 0.4
    net.setInput(blob)
    detections = net.forward()
    bboxes = []
    confidence = detections[0, 0, 0, 2]
    if(confidence > conf_threshold):
    x1 = int(detections[0, 0, 0, 3] * w)
    y1 = int(detections[0, 0, 0, 4] * h)
    x2 = int(detections[0, 0, 0, 5] * w)
    y2 = int(detections[0, 0, 0, 6] * h)
    if(p[pcount] < 0.85):
    cv2.rectangle(frame, (x1, y1), (x2, y2), (0, 0, 255), 2)
    else:
    cv2.rectangle(frame, (x1, y1), (x2, y2), (0, 255, 0), 2)
    else:
    continue
    evencount += 2
    pcount += 1
out.write(frame)
    cv2.imshow('Video', frame)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
    break
    fvs.stop()
    cv2.destroyAllWindows()
out.release()

A: Use cv2.VideoWriter for the same.
# define fps, frame_width and frame height
out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.mp4',cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc('m','p','4','v'), fps, (frame_width,frame_height))

# in your loop
while ...:
    out.write(frame)

# finally
out.release()

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C'mon Get Happy: First Day of Work--Boss Surprises Young Man
20-year-old Birmingham, Alabama, college student Walter Carr was about to start a new job as a mover when his 2003 Nissan Altima broke down. He called all his friends trying to get a ride, but to no avail. Because he didn't want to miss his first day on the job, Walter decided to start walking to work -- a 20-mile trip -- at around midnight. Four hours later, police officers spotted Walter and learned that he was walking to work. The officers picked up Walter, fed him some breakfast -- and then dropped him off at his new job, where he got right to work. He and two other movers from the company moved a family across town. At the end of the move, after having walked all night to get to work, Walter played basketball with the homeowner's three teenage sons. Another co-worker gave him a ride home from work.
The homeowner was so touched by his dedication and work ethic, she started a GoFundMe page, ostensibly to pay for repairs to Walter's car. Her goal was $2000. She ended up raising $37,000--and a local financial adviser offered to manage Walter's money at no cost.
The CEO of the company, Luke Marklin, was so impressed with Walter's dedication that he gave Walter a newer, more reliable car -- HIS OWN 2014 Ford Escape. The boss said he thought his car was in much better hands, and gave it to Walter.
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Dredging Equipment: Its evolution, capabilities and importance for maritime infrastructural works.
Over the last 50 years the size of dredging equipment has grown tremendously. The current generation of hoppers, cutters and backhoes has enabled the construction of large maritime infrastructural works within a short execution time.
The investments in dredging vessels demonstrate the understanding that dredging contractors have for the ever increasing need for bigger ports and larger deep water land reclamations.
After the first jumbo trailer was built in 1994, eight more of these huge trailing suction hopper dredgers were built over the next six years.
By the year 2000, 33,000 cubic metre so-called 'mega' dredgers were operational, i.e. their carrying capacity had doubled in almost ten years' time.
Whereas the maximum cutter power installed on cutter suction dredgers was about 3,000 kW in the seventies of the last century, nowadays the largest cutter suction dredgers have cutters powered by 8,000 kW engines. Now, the construction of ports and approach channels in strong rock has become possible.
In addition, the much larger pump capacity installed on these vessels, in combination with their high cutter power, have also reduced the construction time in softer materials. Backhoes with buckets of 40 cubic metre are no exception. So, dredging consistent material at narrow places with a high accuracy has become feasible.
Follow this webinar to learn all about the capabilities and the importance of these 3 prime movers of the modern dredging industry.
Previous knowledge is not required.
Frans Uelman graduated with an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering and started his professional career as a research engineer and production estimator with Costain Blankevoort Dredging Company in 1978.
During the late seventies and the early eighties, he worked on many dredgers as a trouble-shooter, meanwhile developing data acquisition systems for the gathering of unbiased process data.
After having been employed for a few years by a company, specialised in the automation of dredging processes, he joined Boskalis in 1987. He started as a research engineer and from the early nineties until 1998 he was a member of the soils group of the estimating department, and therefore involved with soil investigations and soil related studies.
Then, Frans joined Hydronamic bv, Port & Waterway Engineers, a subsidiary of Boskalis where he specialised in geotechnical matters related to dredging and reclamation. Since 2000 he has managed design and engineering work for tenders and projects. As such, Frans managed all technical and environmental matters related to the Channel Deepening Project in Melbourne Australia during tender, preparation and execution between 2003 and 2009.
For the Gorgon project that followed thereafter, he prepared the environmental and quarantine plans.
Since 2010 Frans is based at the Boskalis head office in the Netherlands. He has been lecturer and course coordinator of the IADC Dredging Seminar for more than 15 years.
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The Architecture of Power 2: The White House
If the Capitol building is a symbol of a powerful nation (see previous blog entry), the White House is the symbol of a powerful individual, the President of the United States.
White House stationery.
The White House is interesting as much for what it is not as for what it is. The White House, as signified by name, is not a palace. It is not a castle. It is not even called a mansion. It is a house. (Although it should be noted that early appelations referred to it as the President's Mansion or the President's Palace.) As seats of power go, it is comparatively humble, meant to reflect the idea that our President is a man of the people. He is not a king or sultan or dictator. We do not have, therefore, something like Buckingham Palace with its brutally imposing facade and massive size. Where palaces of potentates are deliberately intimidating and seemingly impenetrable, the White House is gentle by comparison. The grounds are bucolic and welcoming; most powerful administrative functions are downplayed. It presents a domestic visage. The Oval Office, the epicenter of power, is tucked to the side of the main quarters. Other important functions are shifted to to the executive office building. (An exceedingly ugly and ornate Victorian structure a block away). The core of the White House looks like a white house, not the nexus of national and international activity it certainly is. Sure, it is a mansion, but a mansion not much different than your local run-of-the-millionaire might inhabit. The leader of the free world lives here, but that fact is cleverly downplayed.
The north facade looks like a two story building. Note how the east and
west wings and third floor are barely visible.
Earliest known photo of the White House. (South Lawn.)
This self-effacing White House is a deliberate illusion. The under-played west wing is one device that keeps the main house looking like a "simple" mansion. The third floor above the main house is downplayed as an incidental attic, set back from the outer walls and mostly hidden behind a Palladian balustrade. In reality, it houses full size rooms put to various support purposes. Major functions are hidden from public view, including extensive basement bunkers and tunnels, and certainly a lot of things to which only the secret service is privy.
The White House structure is much more complex than first meets the eye. At a glance it appears to be a two-story home. In reality, the ground plane has been manipulated so the ground floor is hidden from view on the north (front) elevation. The "first" and "second" floors are raised a full story above natural grade. The apparent attic is essentially a fourth story. Two levels of basement below the ground floor make this a six story enterprise - half of it hidden or disguised. Contiguous with the main building, the west and east wings are attached by the ground level and basement, visually diminishing their true importance and extent. It is all very clever.
White House interior during the Truman renovation.
The basic form of the current White House can be attributed to the Truman renovation constructed from 1949 to 1952. When Truman took office, the White House, without exaggeration, was a wreck. Things were so rotted and shaky that Truman claimed there was imminent danger of his bath tub crashing through the second floor while the Daughters of the American Revolution were having tea in the room below. He would be forced to greet them "wearing nothing more than reading glasses." Indeed, in 1948 a leg of Margaret Truman's piano actually crashed through a second floor sitting room through the ceiling of the dining room below.
The White house had been altered many times to accomodate the tastes and preferences of different administrations. Most notably, perhaps, was the restoration after a major fire during the War of 1812. But the Truman renovation created the basic shape of the White House we know today. This rebuilding preserved the outside walls of the White House, but not much else. This extent of rebuilding is quite obvious in period photographs.
Schematic overview of the White House complex.
Detail plan of the west wing. (Reversed and up side down from the preceding drawing.)
Like the Capitol building, the White House is an icon of political power. As such, it is almost impossible to judge as architecture. What can we say about the design? It succesfully uses architectural deceptions to hide its true size. It is an textbook example of neo-classical residential architecture, completely in tune with the architectural fashion the late sixteenth century. The original design was created by architect James Hoban, selected by George Washington in a competition. (Thomas Jefferson had anonymously submitted a competing design.) In the end, is it good architecture? Maybe. Probably. But that is overshadowed by everything else it represents.
Basic plans of the first and second floors.
The home of the president of the United States is an awesome presence in Washington D.C. Perhaps we should be grateful it's impact has been somewhat tempered by design lest any self-centered, duplicitous, megalomaniac president assume more power and authority than is actually allowed the office. One can hope.
This aerial view reveals the attic addition as well as part of the ground level.
There are two additional basement levels.
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I think I watched the ring tape when there were no phones nearby, and then I was nowhere near a TV a week later. I guess that also needs more research.
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Chrysis, a survivor from the 20's and Little Star
Chrysis at Brockwell Park
Lionel John French featured as the eighteenth Who's Who in Model Engineering in May 1937. He started life as a dentist, moved into engineering and became involved in patent and experimental work, eventually designing and building automated book binding machines.
His involvement with tethered hydroplanes started in the early 1920s as a teenager, competing with a flash steamer and continued with a series of boats, amongst them Chrysis, Angel and Cigarette.
He was largely responsible for reorganising the South London Power Boat Club in 1926 and running it until 1930. During the 1930s French contributed numerous articles and design features to the Model Engineer, both under his own name and the pen name 'Spectator'. His best-known boat was the record breaking 'Little Star'.
In May 2006 'Pitbox' revealed details of a very early boat that had been discovered. The true significance of this 'find' was appreciated when carrying out research for the centenary. The only other surviving hydroplanes that are known to predate it are flash steam powered, which makes 'Chrysis' one of the oldest known IC engined hydro's. Boats that have survived from the 1920s are exceedingly rare and here is the full story of one that has, along with its subsequent restoration. Right: French and Angel
In the mid 1980s the dilapidated hull of an old tethered hydroplane was discovered in a shed in Glenridding on the shores of Ullswater. It was originally thought to be similar to Westbury's Golly design, but as that was a scow and the boat discovered was boat shaped then that could be discounted. The only clue was a name on the sides, Chrysis. At that stage the then owner contacted Peter Hill, the MPBA historian who was able to identify the boat from the name and ascertain that L.J.R. French of the South London Club had built it in the late 20s. As the boat predated Mr French's record breaking Little Star by some six years it was considered to be a significant find and passed to Peter.
The boat had numerous coats of paint of obscure origin and he started strip down the outside of the hull. Having worked through white enamel the original name could be clearly seen incised into the plywood. The boat had been altered numerous times and there was considerable damage to the deck and internal woodwork, and the remains of a very crude fuel tank support were evident. All the running gear was missing, as was the engine. All in all a sorry state, but a very early example of a tethered hydroplane.
Luckily (Lionel John) French was still alive and he and Peter had a most interesting correspondence about the boat. He confirmed that it was Chrysis and related its early history including the fascinating story of how the engine came to be built. Freddie Ford, who was a friend of his, had built a 50cc opposed twin four stroke from castings he had made at his workplace, Messrs Suggs. French suggested that the crank was so light that the engine would only last seconds, and anyway 30cc was the class limit.
This news decided Ford to give up boats altogether, but as the cylinder heads on the engine were very nicely cast with a 90 degree valve angle French said he would use the heads and build two 30cc engines if Ford would get the crankcases cast up. John French built two engines, one of which he gave to Ford, as well as another Chrysis type hull called Comedienne to get him on the water. He also recalled that he had originally finished the boat in shellac with the name in white so that subsequent owners must have added all the other paint.
In the early 20s, French was building boats from tinplate as was the fashion, but an inability to form the vee bottom to the hull made him change to ply and Chrysis was one of the first to be built from wood. There is a bit of a mystery here as Mr French talks about Vee bottoms on his boats and in an article in Model Engineer shows the underside of a boat purporting to be Chrysis with the vee clearly visible. Close examination shows this boat not to be Chrysis at all and the actual picture above it shows Chrysis with a flat, single stepped bottom. Chrysis was to be the subject of a series of articles in Model Engineer in 1932, describing how to build a 'beginners boat'. If it did have a vee bottom at some stage there is no evidence in the construction of the boat.
What was clear was that the step had been very crudely moved forward and the engine mounts cut to suit.
Other projects and the lack of a suitable engine consigned Chrysis to the shelf for around 20 years until Peter offered it to another member of the Retro Club for restoration. Luckily, with the articles in Model Engineer and John French's letters there was sufficient information to make the project viable.
After a lengthy look at the problem it seemed that with the exception of the deck, all the original material in the boat was in excellent condition for its age, and it was only the later additions that had to go. A decision was made to put the step back in the original position and let wood into the bearers, stringers and hull sides to repair the damage. Several weeks were spent removing the shellac from the inside of the hull and the bullet-proof aluminium and fluorescent red paint from the outside until all that was left was the outer hull and the rear half of the bottom.
The original step was glued back in and a new front half screwed on and it started to look more hopeful. All the internal frames were rebuilt and put back in and the original engine bearers renovated and refitted.
The correspondence detailed the finish that French had used, and so the new wood was stained down to match the old.
The ME articles included drawings of the skeg so a new one of these was built and fitted. As was common at the time, the prop shaft was straight, with the prop mounted in front of the skeg. Peter Hill was able to provide a period prop, no easy feat as it needed to be right-hand rotation and these are particularly rare.
A decision was needed about the deck as it had been liberally drilled for various fittings during its life. A hole had been cut for a battery compartment and part of it had been chewed away somehow. After a bit of thought and cleaning up it was decided to keep the boat as original as possible and use the old deck. To repair the damage new ply was stripped down to individual laminations and then added layer by layer to with overlapping scarfe joints. When stained down the join is barely visible (luckily). The hole for the battery was retained with a frame added to neaten it up somewhat. French finished the boat with shellac, which he brushed on rather than using a 'rubber' and so some eight coats of Rustins finest were applied and rubbed down to take the gloss off.
Now came the major problem, engine and electrics. An original coil was obtained at the ME exhibition, which just left an engine. Oh dear, where does one find a late 1920s home built 30cc four stroke. As it transpired, at Gildings auction. Amongst the lots was a 1930 25cc OHV four stroke, built by F.N. Sharp, who was a fellow Club member of French's. Sharp built his own engines from the turn of the century and went on to design the Grayson as well as building numerous very successful engines for other members of the South London Club. This engine was obviously the basis of the Grayson and its clones, with parallel valves and the inlet/exhaust across the boat.
It is identical to the engine he used in his own ME Competition winning Mona, even to the angled stub exhaust. Given that Mona and the engine were stolen it could even be that motor. Not in the same style or league as French's original, but with the likelihood of finding the correct style of motor non-existent, it would do perfectly. The engine lined up exactly and with a coil mount and fuel tank added, the job was almost finished.
Sign writing is not my strong point so repainting the name and racing number on both sides involved a seriously small paintbrush and a magnifying glass. It does look a bit crooked in places, but it follows the lines cut in the ply.
Chrysis is now 80 years old, and in remarkable condition for its age. Thanks go to Peter Hill for all his advice and assistance during this restoration.
©copyrightOTW2008
Mr French with Little Star at Brockwell Park
In another of his occasional articles, R.T. Pole discussed what must surely be the prettiest tethered hydro ever built, Mr L.J French's 'Little Star', which was the 15cc record holder from 1936-38.
A 'polysphenic ship' was the term used by the Rev. C.M. Ramus in 1870 to describe his 29½" long rocket powered model hydroplane which featured two steps and three equispaced planning surfaces, the literal meaning of polysphenic being many wedges. Over the years since 1870 the multi-stepped hull has been tried many times and the most successful of these was built in 1935 by Lionel French, who had stated in a 1930 Model Engineer, that a multi-step hull could never be as conducive to flat-out speed as a single step hull.
The illustration shows the hull lines of Little Star, which at one time were available from Model Engineer for the princely sum of one shilling and eight pence (8p) post free.
The materials used in construction of the hull are as follows; Bulkheads 3mm, 3 ply, transom 12mm 9 ply. The stem, keel of front plane and centre deck beam from 6mm 5 ply, and the deck sides, middle and rear planes from 1 1/2mm 3 ply.
To achieve the concave vee at the front plane two layers of .75mm 3 ply were laid at 90 degrees to each other in narrow strips, butt jointed and well glued with 'Le pages'. All stringers were ¼" square satin walnut and the sections S2 and S3 were thickened out to take the deep angle aluminium bearers.
Although the thrust line on the plan indicates an articulated driveline, the original had a straight shaft, but was changed, as it proved unsuccessful. The propeller was placed in front of the tail skeg and measured 2 5/8" diameter x only 3 ½" pitch, which was much lower than the norm and allowed the engine to run up to 15,000 rpm.
The engine was a single cylinder 4-stroke of 1in. bore x 1 1/8in. stroke giving a capacity of 15cc, and was unusual in having forced lubrication and oil cooling built in. The cast iron cylinder barrel screwed into the oil sleeve of the crankcase, being secured by a locking ring, which allowed variation of the compression ratio, normally set to 8:1.
The bronze cylinder head in turn screwed onto the cylinder, being drawn up to final tightness with a draw screw. A high set camshaft operated through parallel pushrods, narrow angle inclined valves of 15/32in. dia. and fitted with hairpin springs.
The piston, which had .002in clearance at the top of its stroke, was attached to an H section Duralumin con-rod with a ball raced big end. The overhung crankshaft was supported by a single ball race at the web end and a phosphor bronze bearing at the other.
The crankcase and timing gear case being all cast from aluminium with two substantial mounting lugs either side inline with the crankshaft.
A low-level brass fuel tank, filled with a 50-50 petrol-benzole mix was pressure fed to the carburettor, which had a single submerged jet with slot and well compensation. The finished all up weight of the boat was 6lb 14oz not including fuel.
On its first outing in late December 1935 a speed of 24.74 mph was recorded, which equalled the then current class record set by Captain C.E. Bowden's Jildi Junior. Unfortunately the distance covered in the run was slightly less than the 300 yards specified for the ME Speedboat Competition and record ratification and was therefore disallowed.
However, early the following year (1936) a speed of 34.86 mph was recorded over the 300 yard distance. This record also gained Mr French the 'C' class award in that year's ME Speedboat Competition. As the current 'B' Class record holder, the boat appeared on the MPBA stand at the Model Engineer Exhibition that year. Over the next three years 'Little Star' was run at most of the London area regattas but never again achieved its record speeds.
Postscript. 'Little Star' did not appear at all after the Second War and was effectively 'lost' until 1987 when Peter Hill managed to contact Mr French in the course of research on another of French's boat, 'Chrysis' that had recently been found. He discovered that 'Little Star' was still nearly all in one piece and still owned by Mr French.
Left: Mr French (in the hat) with Mr Ripper and his Little Star copy Happy Days
It transpired that Mr French's interests had changed after the Second World War and the boat had not been run at regattas since 1940. The engine had been bench run, 'off load', on several occasions, and on one of these tests 27,000rpm was claimed.
Mr French's new interest was motor cycle racing and he competed in the I.O.M TT races on five occasions. He raced in the Clubmans classes in 1948/49/51 and the TT itself in 1952 on an E.M.C Puch, finishing 11th, and in 1953 on a Sulby-EMC he had built himself, retiring from the race. A racing crash put an end to his riding career but he continued his involvement, by sponsoring other people.
L.J. French lightly restored the boat he had built 52 years previously and in 1988 passed it to Mr Hill for safe keeping.
'Little Star' was then put on display at the Power Boat Museum at Pitsea where it remained until the redevelopment and eventual closure.
OTW thanks R.T. Pole for permission to use the article, Peter Hill of the Retro Racing Club for the additional information and photograph above, which was taken by Mr French in 1987, prior to the boat being restored. Photos courtesy of the Westbury family archive and Ken Smith.
©copyright2006


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Q: Inheritance in C++ EDIT 2:
Here is a simple summary of what I want to do (I think):
I want to dynamically create global instances based on conditions that are calculated at run time.
You can skip to EDIT1 if you'd like to take a look at sample code, but at this point, the above bolded-text is probably the easiest to understand...
END EDIT 2.
My question is about polymorphism  and inheritance. Specifically, I want to know if there is a way I could inherit functions and pointers from another class.
I have a class called Globals which contains various pointers to objects to other classes as well as various functions. Instead of copy/pasting code, I'll write up a simple example:
(I've removed header guards for simplicity and cleanliness)
The following is my globals.h and globals.cpp, respectively:
// Example of globals.h
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
using namespace std;

class Globals {
  public:
    Globals ();
    virtual ~Globals ();

    void function1(char*);
    void function2();

    class Input *input;
    class Error *error;

};

// Example of globals.cpp
#include "globals.h"
Globals::Globals()
{
    input = new Input();
    error = new Error();
}

void Globals::function1(char*nm)
{
    cout << nm << endl;
}

Now, in my code for my Input class, say I want to use the function1(char*) method, would this be possible without passing an object to the Input class? What I mean by this is that I currently have my Input class being passed a *globals object, so then I could call the function like so: globals->function2();. But this can get very messy if I have a lot of functions within different classes. Additionally, is there a way I could use the Error pointer to object initialized in Globals? If Error had a function called error_func(), how could I be able to call it like so: error->error_func() from within my Input functions?
Thanks, and I apologize if I were too confusing in my question. I'll be happy to elaborate if needed.
Amit
EDIT 1: Added a simplified code to present what I want to do in a clearer way
// Example of globals.h
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include "input.h"
#include "error.h"

using namespace std;

class Globals {
  public:
    Globals ();
    virtual ~Globals ();

    class Input *input;
    class Error *error;

};

// Example of globals.cpp
#include "globals.h"
Globals::Globals()
{
    input = new Input();
    error = new Error();
}

// Example of input.h
#include "globals.h"
class Input {
    public:
        Input();
        virtual ~Input();
}

// Example of input.cpp
#include "globals.h"
Input::Input()
{
    error->print("Hello\n"); // <-- THIS is really what I want to accomplish (without being sent a globals object and say globals->error->print();
}

// Example of error.h
#include "globals.h"
class Error {
    public:
        Error() { }
        virtual ~Error() { }
        void print(char*);
}

// Example of error.cpp
#include "globals.h"
Error::print(char* nm)
{
    cout << nm << endl;
}

A: If I'm understanding your question right, functions are automatically "inherited", at least for the purposes you need.
For example, your global class has two methods, function1(char*) and function2(). If you make a class:
class Descendent
    : public Global
{  };

int main()
{
    Global * global = new Global();
    Global * desc = new Descendant();
    char * str = "string";

    // These two will run the same function:
    global->function1(str);
    desc->function1(str);
}

To prevent that (functions being called based on the current type), you must use virtual, like:
class Global
{
    virtual void function1(char *);
};

class Descendant
{
    virtual void function1(char *);
};

int main()
{
    Global * global = new Global();
    Global * desc = new Descendant();
    char * str = "string";

    // These two will NOT run the same function:
    global->function1(str);
    desc->function1(str);
}

Now, I'm not entirely sure, but the singleton idiom may be of use here, depending on just how global your Global is. In that case, you would have a global like:
class Global
{
    static Global * GetSingleton()
    {
        if (!Global::m_Instance) Global::m_Instance = new Global();
        return Global::m_Instance;
    }

    void function1(char *);

    static Global * m_Instance;
};

class Descendant
{
    void function1(char *)
    {
        Global * global = Global::GetGetSingleton();
        // ...
    }
};

There are a variety of ways to work with globals and functions being needed between classes. One of these may be it, depending on what exactly you're doing. If not, I'll try to edit and suggest one that does work.

A: Updated response:
Its sounds like what you want is actually the Factory pattern. I'm going to use logging as an example, where I assume that in one configuration you want to log and in another you might not want to:
// logger_interface.h
class LoggerInterface {
   public:
      virtual ~LoggerInterface() {}
      virtual void Log(const string& message) = 0;
   protected:
      LoggerInterface() {}
};

The first step is to create a pure virtual interface representing the behavior that is configurable as in the example above. We will then create a factory function that can construct one based on configuration:
// logger_factory.h
LoggerInterface* CreateLogger(LoggerOptions options);

When implementing the factory, we keep the different implementations hidden:
// logger_factory.cc
class DoNotLogLogger : public LoggerInterface {
   public:
      DoNotLogLogger() {}
      virtual ~DoNotLogLogger() {}
      virtual void Log(const string& message) {}
};

class LogToStdErrLogger : public LoggerInterface {
   public:
      LogToStdErrLogger() {}
      virtual ~LogToStdErrLogger() {}
      virtual void Log(const string& message) {
         std::cout << message << std::endl;
       }
};

LoggerInterface* CreateLogger(LoggerOptions options) {
    if (options.IsLoggingEnabled() && options.ShouldLogToStdErr()) {
      return new LogToStdErrLogger;
    }
    return new DoNotLogLogger;
}

There is no reason why the object that you create dynamically in this way needs to be global; in fact, making it global is a really bad idea. Just create it where you need it, and pass it as a parameter to the functions that need it.
Original response:
Inheritance isn't the word you are looking for. Basically, what you are asking for is a static function:
class ClassName {
   public:
       static void methodName();
};

In the above, methodName can be invoked using ClassName::methodName() without requiring a specific instance of the class named ClassName. However, if you are to do this, it is more consistent with C++ style conventions to make it a freestanding function in a namespace like:
namespace name_of_namespace {
void functionName();
}

The above is invoked using name_of_namespace::functionName() as in the previous example, except with the benefit that it is easier to change or remove the prefix (e.g. via a using directive).
NOTE: from a design standpoint, you should only use a freestanding or static function if it does not rely on any state (other than the parameters passed to it) and there is no possibility of alternative implementations. As soon as there is state or alternative implementations, you really should pass around an object encapsulating this state, even if it is a pain to do, since passing around the object makes it easier to configure, makes it easier to mock-out in tests, and avoids threading issues.

A: I'm imagining you have a situation like this:
struct A {
  void f();
};

struct B {
  void g();
};

struct C : virtual A, virtual B {
  C(A *ap, B *bp)
    : A(ap), B(bp)  // This doesn't actually work -- theoretical
  {
  }

  void h()
  {
     f(); // calls A::f()
     g(); // calls B::g();
  }
};

Normally, when you create a C, you would be creating new As and Bs, but you would like to re-use existing ones instead, but still treat it like inheritance so that you don't have to explicitly specify which object to call.
Unfortunately, C++ doesn't support this.   There are a couple of options:
You can make proxy classes that defer the function calls:
struct AProxy {
  AProxy(A *ap) : a(*ap) { }
  void f() { a.f(); }

  A &a;
};

struct BProxy {
  BProxy(B *bp) : b(*bp) { }
  void g() { b.g(); }

  B &b;
};

struct C : AProxy, BProxy {
  C(A *ap,B *bp) : AProxy(ap), BProxy(bp) { }

  void h()
  {
    f(); // calls AProxy::f() which calls a.f()
    g(); // calls BProxy::g() which calls b.g()
  }
};

This may help if you are using A's and B's in lots of different places.
If instead, you don't have many classes, but lots of calls to f() and g(), you might just do this:
struct C {
  C(A *ap,B *bp) : a(*ap), b(*bp) { }
  void f() { a.f(); }
  void g() { b.g(); }
  void h1()
  {
    f();  // well at least the call is clean here
    g();
  }
  void h2()
  {
    f(); // and clean here
    g();
  }

  A &a;
  B &b;
};

If you don't have either of these cases, then just using the proper object each time like you were doing may be best.


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The aim of our study was to analyse the changes in lipid profiles and the atherogenic risk observed in patients receiving ADT and to evaluate differences between medical castration and maximal androgen blockade (MAB). There are some limitations in our study. First, we designed a retrospective study with a control group. Second, the sample size of some study subgroups was small. This could explain the absence of significant differences in some parameters analysed. Third, we did not measure insulin levels, and we did not take into account the BMI (body mass index) of the subjects, and patients treated with estatins were not excluded.
Our study has a few strengths. First, the sample size. Second, the follow-up period of our study are slightly higher compared to other published studies. Finally, in our study, we tried to assess for the first time the differences between both treatment modalities when lipids are analysed.
In summary, the increase in cardiovascular morbidity observed in patients receiving ADT cannot be explained according to the changes observed in the lipid profile.
In the future, large and long-term prospective studies are needed to assess changes in lipid profiles and other cardiovascular risk factors.
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