As soon as you enter Level 1, exit. Then, go back into Level 1. You will notice that the northern door is now unlocked.
When your health gauge is low, visit a lake of a Great Fairy to restore your life. When you approach the lake, your health will slowly fill. While your health is being restored, press start to enter the item selection menu, and your health will continue to fill. Using a controller in port 2, press Up + A to return to the save menu. Select SAVE, and load your character's file. Once loaded, instead of remaining at the default of 3 filled heart containers, Link will have his health fully restored at the start.
Although the video shows gameplay on the Wii Virutal Console version of the game, this glitch is possible on the original version as well as documented. To perform this glitch, Link must go one screen to the left from the start and walk along the rocks on the top of the screen. Once Link gets to the corner, walk to the right while avoiding the break in the wall and turn to go straight up. If done correct, Link will be walking on the top and appearing to be walking on the HUD. To end the glitch, walk down from the rocks.
Sometimes, when exiting the Level 4 entrance screen, the Red Octorok will spawn on the dock, so as you come down from your raft, he will hit you, causing you to sail back to the top without you being able to counter it. He will appear there every time you try to go back. You will either have to use the whistle if you have it, or go deep enough in the dungeon that it will reset the Octorok spawn, then come back out.
To perform this glitch, Link must walk towards a door, and just as he touches the door, attack with the sword. He should now attack and walk through the door at the same time. This is completely cosmetic and will not effect gameplay at all.
Unconfirmed: Using the Red Candle, and a turbo button controller, you are able to shoot the Red Candle immediately after entering the room, allowing Link to move around before he is supposed to. Make sure to hold the "B" button down as soon as your start the transition in between rooms. Now that you can move around before you are supposed to, you can switch to the Silver Arrow to defeat Gannon before the battle even starts. Although the video shows the Second Quest , the author claims it is possible in the First Quest as well.
There is questions to whether or not this is possible due to many not being able to confirm it based on YouTube comments.
By blowing the whistle when fighting Gleeok (the Level 4 boss), leaving the room, then entering the room again, the boss will be gone or killed.
Questions & Theories: Why would this not be possible on the First Quest, has anybody tried? Does this work with any other bosses or rooms?
Missing Information: According to the report, you are able to turn your screen grey if you place a bomb on the Gleeok (Level 4 boss) room, then play the whistle before the bomb explodes, the screen will stay grey.
Questions & Theories: Does the screen turn grey permanently? Why does this only work on the Gleeok screen? Is it possible to reproduce on other bosses or rooms?
When you are in a dark room that calls for use of a candle, place a bomb first. Then, quickly switch to the blue candle, then fire the candle onto the bomb. If done correctly, the room will be in grey.
Unknown Causes: For unknown reasons, the Petra enemy shown in the video below started using strange rotation patterns, which seems to return to normal after some time, before entering the weird rotation once again.
Unknown Causes: Similar to the glitch where Link can appear at the top of the screen upon rare circumstances, once in a while it is possible for a blue Wizzrobe to go through a doorawy at the top of the screen and end up at the top, where the map and life meter are located. If this happens, just leave the room after killing all other enemies, then return to find the Wizzrobe where it belongs. Note: If there were any pink Wizzrobes in the room, this Wizzrobe may transform into a pink one while you're out of the room.
To perform this glitch, Link must find any dungeon that has doors on both the north and south walls in the Second Quest. In Level 2, the wall that borders the north side of the Whistle room will suffice. Start on the north side of the wall and walk south through it, then immediately turn north and go through it again. Once Link finishes going through it, part of him will still be in the wall. Push to the south and he'll enter the wall as if it were an open doorway. Walk through the wall and Link will come out on the other side and move a full tile away from the wall, disregarding anything in the way.
As shown in the video below, the author shows a saved game with no hearts, and upon playing it, Link seems to only have one heart and no items besides the sword. Some other oddities are shown in the video such as getting another heart when being healed by a Fairy Fountain. This is most likely due to a corrupt save game caused by battery age, resetting/turning off power on save, or a variety of other corruption possibilities.
Do not attempt this if you care about your game data. In order to do this, all you need is a NES Advantage controller. Turn on the game and then unplug any controller that you have in slot #1. Now plug in your NES Advantage into slot #1. The game will freeze at this point. Once you reset, you'll find that your data in the first save slot will be erased!
If you wish to switch to a NES Advantage in the middle of a game and avoid data loss, do the following: First, unplug whatever controller you have in slot #1. Before you plug in the NES Advantage, move the switch on the controller over to controller 2. Now you can plug the first cord into slot #1 safely, but just be sure that it's the first cord and not the second! Once it is in safely, you can move the switch on the controller back to controller 1.
The hitbox/collision mask when swinging the wand is disjointed. Whenever you swing in any direction, not only can the Wand hit behind you when you retract it, but when swinging down, left, or right, it hits 1 grid square above you. As demonstrated here, this glitch can be an invaluable asset to any swordless quester.
This works best with stairway entrances in the Overworld, but normal caves (with the fancy entrance cinema) can also be used. After making a large transaction (such as buying the Blue Ring or uncovering a 100-Rupee secret), leave the cave, then either re-enter that cave or go into another one. The only requirement is that the Rupee count is still increasing/decreasing as you enter. About 50% of the time (does not work on all occasions), the Overworld music will continue to play even while you're indoors! If you enter a Dungeon this way, the Overworld music will play until the dungeon is fully loaded, after which the dungeon music takes over.
While standing in or around a door, sometimes damaging spike blocks or projectiles will not cause any damage. There seems to be a field around and in the door that will make things not cause damage to you, such as Wizzrobe wand attacks; however, if an enemy walks into the door frame, they will damage you as per normal. The video below showcases this happening with spike blocks.
To do this, you must be in the Second Quest and have finished the first four dungeons. Blow the whistle so that you are taken to the location where Level 5 used to be. Remember, Whistle drop-off locations remain at the First Quest locations, and where you can go is dependant on which Triforce pieces you have not received, not the on screen level number. When you arrive, the Fairy will start the healing process BEFORE Link appears, and Link will actually be able to move around, even leave the fountain. Better yet, your Life Meter continues to go up even though the fountain isn't onscreen any longer! Any damage that Link receives will automatically be recovered while his hearts are filling.
There seems to be a hidden push block located in Level 9 which can be pushed after placing a bomb down. This is most likely a remnant of the development process and left in the game inadvertently.
To perform this glitch, Link must approach the Hungry Goriya blocking his path in certain dungeons. After feeding the Goriya the Food and the Goriya fades after the "secret found" jingle plays, go to the subscreen to end the game. Select continue on the options list and the game will restart with Link at the dungeon entrance. The Food will still be in Link's possession, but the Goriya will be gone when he returns to its room.
Well look at this? Another gaming site project? I must have all the time in the world! (sarcasm alert) On a serious note, this site hopes to be an extremely comprehensive source and collaboration project for documenting video game glitches, bugs and other errors. Filled with info, sources, pictures and videos.
My nes is eff'd up and it turns every white person in my game….BLACK!!! I'm not kidding. Link is also black.
I LOVE LEGEND OF ZELDA, AND POKEMON! BUT ZELDA IS BETTER!
anyone ever have the level 6 dungeon glitch? I had it when I was a kid on my NES, anytime I walked in a certain room my game froze unless I had a certain item. I forget if this is the game in general or a glitch.
I haven't been able to dig up any information on it. I don't recall that happening to me either when I last played it. Let me know if you have any more info on it.
I just got stuck in a room in Level 6. It was a room where the exit door doesn't open until all enemies are killed. I collected a stopclock and killed all enemies. All that is left is one of those electric balls that you cannot kill. My stopclock will not expire and the door will not open.
@Shinobi – Sounds like you were in a room with Wall Masters and got the Clock. If that is the case, the Wall Masters were also frozen in the walls before appearing, and since this is a room where all enemies need to be killed before the shutters open, you are soft-locked. It is rare, but can happen.
Thanks for confirming. I have marked it confirmed by you. Do you have any additional information on this glitch? Why does this work? Will it work on other bosses? Thanks!
i can. i have all the requirements. i would prefer to do it on 3ds, but i can on the nes if you want.
I am very interested in that Ganon Quick Kill. It looks like a frame-perfect action. I am very surprised that it hasn't been debunked/verified at this point, being the original video is almost 6 years old now.
The community at large is under the impression Ganon cannot be killed without sword. However, Ganon does not enter Phase 1 in this video… and it would be interesting to find out why. And could a wand bolt also cause this glitch to occur?
First things first… I will try to duplicate it.
I know this isn't really related to the glitches, but has anyone ever had their save file mysteriously vanish. I have always killed myself off and saved the game before turning it off and even turn off the console using the reset/power method. Somehow, upon returning to play my game, my file has completely erased itself. It was in the 2nd file slot of three; the third empty and the first containing my gf's file which held no progress, but somehow still existed in tact. I find it odd that only my file would delete and not the file in the first position (especially if this was an issue related to the battery in the cartridge). I realize there's no getting my file back so perhaps this is a lost cause, but if anyone out there happens to know of what may have caused this I would greatly appreciate your input so that it doesn't occur again.
Also, forgot to mention that I play the game on the original NES console.
A quick question, I've been playing The Ultimate NES Remix for the 3DS. In the original The Legend of Zelda game, I noticed in the dungeon levels where there's a diamond shape of bricks and the room is filled with Darknuts, normally you have to kill all the Darknuts and then you can move a hidden block in the diamond shape. It'll make staircases appear in the center of the diamond shape. You go down the stairs and usually there's a special item, like a raft or something. However, in The Ultimate NES Remix of The Legend of Zelda, people are some how walking through the brick on the right of the diamond shape without killing anyone. Somehow they do some fancy button work it looks like, like stabbing once forward, and then pushing down on the controller and over or something. I can't figure it out. They just hop right over to brick and they're inside the diamond. Stairs appear and away they go. I wanted to know if this is unique to just the 3DS Remix game or if it works with the original game as well. I believe it works with the original game. I've seen other glitches from various games that seem to work. Does anyone know how it's done? I can post a video of a player on t he scoreboard who's successfully pulled it off if anyone wants. Thanks.
soflock: Go to the down left corner of the map and use the screenscroll giltch when you are standing just next to a wall.
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Center for Glitch Studies Another now defunct (or never updated) glitch archive site. Plenty of good documentation here.
David Wonn's Unique Video Game Glitches! A vast repository of knowledge on retro game glitches (up to Nintendo 64).
Flying Omelette (Glitches Page) This "Documentation of Game Glitches" page on the Flying Omelette catalogs a lot of retro game glitches.
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Tu B'Shevat: The Enduring Hope of Spring
By Jill Suzanne Jacobs January 12, 2000 10:00 am
Even after four years of living in New England I am still awed by the dramatic change of seasons and stunned by the harsh winter climate. I suppose it is something to which I will never completely adjust.
Growing up in California, the Jewish New Year for the Trees-Tu B'Shevat -which falls every year during January was a grand celebration. We sang songs, we planted, and we celebrated the day outdoors. This time of year in Israel, winter is loosing its edge, and Tu B'Shevat is a time to plant and demonstrate pride in the land. But where I now live, in Massachusetts, it's different.
I remember how strange I felt teaching about Tu B'Shevat my first winter here. Tu B'Shevat is a holiday of trees, of planting. How odd it seemed to celebrate it in the midst of a frozen, white landscape. I showed a Tu B'Shevat video produced by the Jewish National Fund and pointed out the green landscape to my wide-eyed, third grade students. "Look! That's what it looks like in Israel now, the hills are green, the sky is blue, things are beginning to come back to life," I said, as their mouths dropped open in amazement.
Climate is indeed powerful, and defining. And so it is no wonder to me that the holiday of Tu B'Shevat remained dormant during the years when Jews no longer lived in the land of Israel but rather lived in harsh winter climates. The holiday has undergone a renaissance with establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
The holiday of Tu B'Shevat is a post-Biblical one-one of the four "New Years" mentioned in the Talmud. The holiday was originally created for tax purposes-an ancient Jewish version of April 15-as well as to fulfill the mitzvah or commandment of orlah-which forbids picking fruit from a tree before its fourth year. The observances associated with Tu B'Shevat are negligible, although a custom arose in Eastern Europe of eating fruits associated with the land of Israel. It wasn't until the Jewish expulsion of Spain in 1492 and the subsequent return to Israel that Tu B'Shevat began to flourish as a holiday.
There, in the land of Israel, and in particularly in the northern city of Sefad, Tu B'Shevat became a harbinger of spring. The Jewish mystics drank four cups of differently shaded wine and ate many different fruits and nuts as part of a seder or ritual meal. These foods of the Tu B'Shevat seder were closely identified with the land of Israel, the life-giving powers of the earth and the approaching spring. With the rise of the modern state of Israel in 1948, Tu B'Shevat took on the added meaning as a day to commemorate the blooming of Israel's desert with newly planted trees.
Although the New England climate is not exactly conducive to outdoor activity on Tu B'Shevat, the holiday has still become all the more powerful as a symbol of Israel and a precursor to a much-awaited spring. The sky is gray, the earth is white, yet the arrival of this holiday is an ideal New Year's celebration; a time of renewal and reconnection, to the cycles of the earth, the balance of nature, and the enduring hope of spring.
Jill Suzanne Jacobs wrote this article for Jewish Family & Life!-www.jewishfamily.com. Ms. Jacobs is the Jewish family educator at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton, Massachusetts.
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About this journey The average travel time between Nice and Nimes is 5h21 minutes. The quickest route is 3h52 minutes. The first train leaving Nice is at 06:54, the last at 13:55. There is an average of 11 trains a day between Nice and Nimes, leaving approximately every 43 minutes.


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Happy 56th birthday to the one and only Bo Jackson, born on this date in Bessemer, Alabama. He is the only athlete in history to be named to All-Star teams in both MLB and the NFL.
The Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after nine years, during which the club averaged 96 wins per season and won five divisional titles, four National League pennants, and two World Championships. He will lead the Detroit Tigers to the World Series Championship in 1984.
The Professional Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball, formally banned in 1920. Only National League supervisor of umpires Cal Hubbard votes in favor. Hubbard had been an umpire in the American League from 1936 to 1951.
The Dodgers sign the relatively unknown Walter Alston to a one-year pact as their manager for 1954. He will sign 23 one-year contracts with the team and manage the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers through 1976. Alston led Dodgers teams to seven National League pennants and four world championships.
Happy birthday to Greg "the Bull" Luzinski, born on this day in Chicago. Luzinski was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 9, 1970, with the Philadelphia Phillies. He hit 223 of his 307 lifetime HRs for the Phils, and then retired in 1984 after a few seasons as a member of the White Sox. …
Continue readingOn This Day: November 22
Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount edges Ruben Sierra of the Rangers to win his second American League Most Valuable Player Award. Yount, who won the award as a shortstop in 1982, hit .318 with 21 home runs and 103 RBI for Milwaukee.
Two years after breaking the MLB "color barrier," the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson is voted the National League Most Valuable Player award. Jackie led the National League with a .342 batting average and the most stolen bases (37).
Happy birthday to Dwight "Dr. K" Gooden. Born on this date 54 years ago, his meteoric career—primarily with the Mets and Yankees—saw him notch 194 wins, and 2, 293 K's.
Doug Drabek, who pitched to a 22-6 record for the Pittsburgh Pirates, wins the National League Cy Young Award. He collected 23 of a possible 24 first-place votes.
Chicago White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox wins the American League's Most Valuable Player award. His Sox teammates, Luis Aparicio and Early Wynn, finish second and third in the voting. All three are now in the Hall of Fame.
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Original home of Wimbledon Championships dedicated
By Sam Peoples
Since the first serve on a four-acre plot of land at Worple Road, a lot has changed about the Wimbledon Championships in its 135 year history.
Tennis's showpiece event gets under way next week, and on Monday a plaque at the original home of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club – which today is used as playing fields for Wimbledon High School - was unveiled to celebrate the roots of the inaugural championships of 1877.
Then, the name Wimbledon was not a household name worldwide. The first final drew 200 spectators as they gathered to watch 27-year-old Spencer Gore beat William Marshall in three sets to get his hands on the 12 guineas prize fund, a far cry from the £1.1 million that Novak Djokovic picked up by winning the men's singles championship last year.
Long gone are the days of wooden rackets, underarm serving, modest clothing and temporary seating with the championships now considered the pinnacle of global tennis.
In 2011, 489,946 spectators chomped their way through 31,360kg of strawberries and 7,000 litres of dairy cream, washing it down with 250,000 bottles of water on their way to watching the final in the all-seated 15,000 centre court.
Philip Brook, Chairman of the All England Club, believes that the rich history of the club is something that should be recognised and honoured: "As our former home Worple Road occupies a special place of affection in the All England Club's history.
"The return this year of the Olympic tennis for the first time since 1908 offered us the perfect opportunity to celebrate our heritage at Worple Road and we are delighted to have commissioned this new plaque to tell that story," he said.
ENTRANCE FEE TO MEN'S FINAL
= 1 shilling (1887) =£3,200 (2012)
PRIZE FUND FOR MEN'S
=12 guineas (1887) =£1,100,000 (2011)
ATTENDANCE AT CHAMPIONSHIPS
=60,000 (estimated,1913-1921) =489,946 (2011)
LENGTH OF MEN'S FINAL
=48 minutes (1887) =2 hours and 29 minutes (2011)
ATTENDANCE AT FINAL
=200 (1887) =15,000 (2011)
WHO COULD PLAY?
=Men singles only (1887) =Everybody inc. younger players (2012)
=White long sleeves for men and corsets for women (19th century) Short skirts and sleeves all allowed. = A lot of leg always on show (2012)


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Why are My Y-Axis Stepper Motors not Working?
-a number 5 Allen key.
TIP: An easy way to see which motor does not work is to use the Y home command this way the motors will be blocked for about a minute. When the command is executed gently press the X rods on the right and left far end and see which motor is not blocking the assembly.
First turn of the printer, remove the side panel using a number 2 Allen key. and the interior cover-plate for which you will need a number 5 and number 3 Allen key to gain access to the motherboard and check the connections for the Y stepper motors. As you can see in the picture the jumpers circled have to be mounted in that position in order for both Y stepper motors to function properly Pic.1.
So the two jumpers connectors have to be mounted this way: The number 1 jumper on the first and second pin and the number 2 jumper on the second and third pins.
Also make sure the connection that allows the motors to move in sync with each other is properly mounted(marked with number 3 in the picture).
An easy way to check and see if the problem is the motor or the wires connecting the motherboard to the motor is to remove the stepper motor you unplugged and connect it to the wires of the other stepper motor which is working and see if that way it starts working, then you know the root cause is the motor or the wires.


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title:  "Attempting to detect the number of important line segments in data"
date:   2019-03-12 11:20:00
description: Many people using pwlf want to find out how many line segments are present in their data. There is an expensive way to do this, but this posts attempts to find some cheaper alternatives. A least squares fit and an Elastic Net are used to help identify important breakpoint locations.
keywords: [ piecewise linear fits, detect linear segments, linear breakpoint detection, pwlf, linear changepoint detection, sklearn elastic net fit, elastic net fit]
---

There have been a number of people asking how to use [pwlf](https://github.com/cjekel/piecewise_linear_fit_py) when you don't know how many line segments to use. I've been recommending the use of a regularization technique which [penalizes the number of line segments](https://github.com/cjekel/piecewise_linear_fit_py/blob/master/examples/run_opt_to_find_best_number_of_line_segments.py) (or model complexity). This is problematic in a few ways:
- It's an expensive three layer optimization problem (least squares fit, find break point locations, find number of line segments).
- The result will be dependant upon the penalty parameter which is problem specific. Something like cross validation could be used to select the parameter, but again this can be expensive.

A large portion of the expense results from searching for breakpoints on a continuous domain. Once the breakpoint locations are known, then the resulting piecewise continuous model is just a simple least squares fit. In many applications it is reasonable to assume some discrete set of possible breakpoint locations. For instance, it may be reasonable to assume that breakpoints can only occur at the points within the data. This would work well for a large amount of data that is evenly distributed in the domain. Alternatively, one could specify a large number of possible breakpoint locations over the domain. The 0.4.0 version of pwlf will include a function which returns the linear regression matrix, which will be used later on to perform Elastic Net fits to a complex function.

# Least Squares Fits

A least squares fit can be used to solve for the model parameters \\((\mathbf{\beta}) \\) from a discrete list of possible breakpoint locations. Then the value of a model parameter \\((|\beta_3|) \\) would tell whether a breakpoint was significant. The following example demonstrates this on a simple problem with two distinct line segments.

```python
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pwlf

x = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
              14, 15])
y = np.array([5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 28.92, 42.81, 56.7,
              70.59, 84.47, 98.36, 112.25, 126.14,
              140.03])

# initialize pwlf on data
my_pwlf = pwlf.PiecewiseLinFit(x, y)
# perform a least squares fit with the breakpoints
# occurring at the exact x locations
ssr = my_pwlf.fit_with_breaks(x.copy())

# predict on the domain
xhat = np.linspace(x.min(), x.max(), 100)
yhat = my_pwlf.predict(xhat)
```

This results on the following fit which appears excellent.

![excellent fit]({{ "/" | relative_url  }}assets/2019-03-12/simpleex.png)

Let's take a look at the model parameters.

```python
print(my_pwlf.beta)
```
```
[ 5.00000000e+00  2.00000000e+00 -8.72635297e-14
  4.06341627e-14 -1.99840144e-15 -6.66133815e-16
  1.19200000e+01 -3.00000000e-02 -1.24344979e-14
  1.29896094e-14 -1.00000000e-02  1.00000000e-02
  2.06085149e-14 -5.27564104e-14  7.40345285e-14]
```

The first parameter is the model offset and the second parameter is the slope of the first line. The remaining parameters are related to the slopes of subsequent lines. The small and near zero parameters imply that the slope didn't change from the previous breakpoint. We can see that seventh parameter is significant, and it so happens that it corresponds to the seventh data point. This is the first data point on the second line!

There are a few obvious problems with this method. One problem is that the least squares problem becomes ill-posed in the case when you have more unknowns than data points. Additionally, this method is likely to result in a poor model that overfits the data. The following example follows the previous procedure to fit a continuous piecewise linear model to a noisy sine wave.

```python
# select random seed for reproducibility
np.random.seed(123)
# generate sin wave data
x = np.linspace(0, 10, num=100)
y = np.sin(x * np.pi / 2)
ytrue = y.copy()
# add noise to the data
y = np.random.normal(0, 0.05, 100) + ytrue

# initialize pwlf on data
my_pwlf = pwlf.PiecewiseLinFit(x, y)
# perform a least squares fit with the breakpoints
# occuring at the exact x locaitons
ssr = my_pwlf.fit_with_breaks(x.copy())

# predict on the domain
xhat = np.linspace(x.min(), x.max(), 1000)
yhat = my_pwlf.predict(xhat)
```

![Overfit of the sine wave]({{ "/" | relative_url  }}assets/2019-03-12/sin_of.png)

The result was a continuous piecewise linear function that has overfit the data. You'll find that most of the \\((\mathbf{\beta}) \\) parameters are active, with an average absolute value of 1.1.

# Elastic Net for noisy data

We can use a linear model regularizer such as [Elastic Net](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_net_regularization) to prevent this overfitting. The least squares problem minimizes

$$
\mathbf{\hat{\beta}} = {\underset {\mathbf{\beta} }{\operatorname {argmin} }}( \|\mathbf{y}-\mathbf{A}\mathbf{\beta} \|^{2} )
$$

which is prone to overfitting when there are a lot of possible \\((\mathbf{\beta}) \\) parameters. The Elastic Net uses both L1 (LASSO) and L2 (Ridge regression) to penalize the model complexity. This prevents overfitting. The objective function of the Elastic Net is to minimize

$$
\mathbf{\hat{\beta}} = {\underset {\mathbf{\beta} }{\operatorname {argmin} }}( \|\mathbf{y}-\mathbf{A}\mathbf{\beta} \|^{2} + \lambda_2 \|\mathbf{\beta} \|^{2} + \lambda_1 \|\mathbf{\beta} \|_{1})
$$

for some \\((\lambda_1, \lambda_2) \\) penalty parameters. The Elastic Net solution stats each \\((\mathbf{\beta}) \\) parameter at zero, and slowly activates a parameter one at a time through the iterations until convergence. This work well for continuous piecewise linear functions, where a zero parameter value corresponds to that breakpoint being inactive.

[Scikit-learn](http://scikit-learn.org/) has implemented the Elastic Net regularizer in [ElasticNet](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.linear_model.ElasticNet.html). The important penalty parameters to select will be *l1_ratio* and *alpha*. However, we'll use [ElasticNetCV](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.linear_model.ElasticNetCV.html) which will select these parameters based on cross validation results. The following example perform the Elastic Net fit to the noisy sine wave.

```python
from sklearn.linear_model import ElasticNetCV
my_pwlf_en = pwlf.PiecewiseLinFit(x, y)
# copy the x data to use as break points
breaks = my_pwlf_en.x_data.copy()
# new in 0.4.0; creates the linear regression matrix A
A = my_pwlf_en.assemble_regression_matrix(breaks, my_pwlf_en.x_data)

# set up the elastic net
en_model = ElasticNetCV(cv=5,
                        l1_ratio=[.1, .5, .7, .9,
                                  .95, .99, 1],
                        fit_intercept=False,
                        max_iter=1000000, n_jobs=-1)
# fit the model using the elastic net
en_model.fit(A, my_pwlf_en.y_data)

# predict from the elastic net parameters
xhat = np.linspace(x.min(), x.max(), 1000)
yhat_en = my_pwlf_en.predict(xhat, breaks=breaks,
                             beta=en_model.coef_)
```
![Fit of the sine wave]({{ "/" | relative_url  }}assets/2019-03-12/sin.png)

We can see the Elastic Net results are a much better fit to the sine wave than the least squares fit. In fact, the fit appears to resemble a result from support vector regression!

Perhaps we can use the Elastic Net fit to identify important breakpoint locations. Again, the first two parameters are related to the first line segment, so we'll always want to grab the first two parameters. However, after the first two parameters we'll only grab parameters that have an absolute value larger than a threshold. The rational for this is that when \\((\mathbf{\beta}) \\) parameters are small the breakpoint become inactive (effectively removing a column from the regression matrix).

```python
true_list = np.zeros(breaks.size, dtype=bool)
true_list[:2] = True
for i in range(breaks.size):
    if np.abs(en_model.coef_[i]) > 2e-1:
        true_list[i] = True
    else:
        true_list[i] = False
# new list of important breakpoint locations
new_breaks = breaks[true_list]
n_segments = new_breaks.size - 1.

# get the y value from these new breakpoints form the EN model
ybreaks = my_pwlf_en.predict(new_breaks)

# fit a least squares model from these new breakpoints
ssr = my_pwlf.fit_with_breaks(new_breaks)
yhat = my_pwlf.predict(xhat)
```

If we filter the breakpoints with the above code, we'll have 28 line segments and the following important breakpoints. Unfortunately, the new least squares fit at these new breakpoint locations still overfits the true function.

![breakpoint locations]({{ "/" | relative_url  }}assets/2019-03-12/sin_new.png)

# Conclusion

A couple alternative strategies are presented to find the number of line segments instead of running an expensive three-layer optimization. If you do not have much noise in your data, you can try to perform a least squares fit where the breakpoints occur at the data points. Alternatively, if you have noise in your data you can use something like the Elastic Net regularizer to perform the fit. (I have a [paper]({{ "/" | relative_url  }}assets/papers/lofAIAA_rev04.pdf) on approximating the noise in 1D data.) After the fits are performed, you can analyze the model parameters (or slopes) to identify unique line segments in your model. A small \\(\beta \\) parameter implies that the breakpoint is not active.


Dan Werkovitch completed a 340 mile endurance race across Missouri in a boat and astounded his KCTC friends. Dan endured miles of wind, heat, bugs and rain and finished in less than 88 hrs. It wasn't no mama's boy float trip. AND THEN he whipped up some barbeque and potato casserole for WNR with friend Andy OHara at his new condo. The woman between Andy and Dan is Josie Dan's girlfriend, who surprised him at the finish of the MR 340 by greeting him in St. Charles at 11:00 pm Thursday night as Dan pulled to shore.


In support of the upcoming Ghostbusters movie, Lyft has teamed up with studios to offer free rides in the film's iconic Ecto-1 Cadillac.
All you have to do is open the app and select "Ghost Mode" when requesting a vehicle, and when the 1982 wagon shows up stocked with Twinkies and Hi-C Ecto Cooler — the relaunched, green citrus juice that debuted in 1987.
However, the Ecto-1 is will be in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Washington from July 1-2, from 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time.
Ghostbusters is slated to hit theaters on July 15.


Having central air conditioning installed in your Jacksonville, FL home is a major investment in your residence. Central air conditioning is not inexpensive by any means. When you have central air conditioning installed, you are doing so to make a major improvement in the overall comfort of your home, especially when you are trying to survive those hot and humid months of July and August. Central air conditioning is also nots something that you try to have installed on your own time. Yup typically want to hire a professional to install the central air conditioning properly. This is what is going to allow it to work as effective and efficiently as it should.
So how do you go about trying to choose the right professional to install your central air conditioning system? What should you be looking for as a homeowner that is going to allow you to choose one installer over another? You want to focus on five key factors. These are what should be the driving forces behind your decision and lead you to the proper company that you bring in to add central air conditioning to your Jacksonville, FL home. Let's take a look at these five factors and why they are important.
You want to have a central air conditioning installation professional in Jacksonville, FL that has adequate experience. This means that they have worked on houses just like yours in the past. When they have the necessary experience they have probably worked on a home or two before that looks just like yours. You do not want to hire a professional whom has never installed central air conditioning systems before. If that's the case you'd be better off trying to figure it out on your own. Hire a professional central air conditioning installer that has the experience that is going to give you confidence in the work that they are going to be performing.
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Trust is also very important when you are hiring a central air conditioning installation professional. You need to be able to trust the work that they are doing and know that what they are doing is going to be of high quality. If you cannot trust that the work is being done right you probably hired the wrong installation professional.
Getting central air conditioning added to your Jacksonville, FL home is a great investment. It can add a whole new level of comfort to your home, especially when installed properly. Be sure to focus on these key factors when hiring a Jacksonville, FL central air conditioning installation professional. Doing so will ensure the job is done right the first time.


The Independence of India came with the pain of partition and the 1947-48 Indo-Pak war. Soon after independence, Pakistan attacked Kashmir with tribals from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) backed by the regular Pakistan Army. They were few kilometers away from Srinagar airport when Indian soldiers fought gallantly to drive them back.
The Government wanted to honour these brave men, but there were no gallantry awards available.
During the Dominion period (1947-50), the British King remained, theoretically, the head of state. Pre-1947 awards could have been awarded, but awarding personnel of opposing forces with the same medals against each other seemed ridiculous to both New Delhi and London.
Finally, based on specific proposals, new awards known as the Param Vir Chakra (PVC), Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) and Vir Chakra (VrC) were finalised in June, 1948. But the Governor General of India could not institute the awards, as India was still a dominion. So a draft of the Royal warrant was sent to London for approval of the Crown in June 1948. But how could the King sanction awards for a war between two members of the Commonwealth? Moreover, he would not have a symbolic presence on the medals, and the draft warrants were never implemented.
A ceasefire came into force on January 1, 1949. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru urged the Governor General Raja Gopalachari to approve the institution of the awards, but Rajaji thought it was inappropriate as India was still a dominion, and advised Pandit Nehru to wait till January 26, 1950 when India would become a republic.
After crossing these constitutional hurdles, Major General Hira Lal Atal asked Mrs Savitri Khanolkar (popularly known as Savitri Bai) to design these medals. Major General Atal was given the responsibility of designing and naming the gallantry awards of independent India. He chose Mrs Khanolkar for her immense knowledge of Indian mythology, Vedanta and languages like Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi.
Mrs Khanolkar was born Eva Yvonne Linda Maday-de-Maros in Switzerland on 20 July, 1913, to a Russian mother and a Hungarian father. From her childhood, she was fascinated by both India and its culture. In the winter of 1929, on a skiing holiday at Chamonix she met Vikram Khanolkar, a young cadet of Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
For the design of the medal, she selected the mythological weapon of Indra, the Vajra; it was made by asthis (bones) of Maharishi Dadhichi who happily gave his bones to Indra to make a amogh (unfailing) weapon to kill Vitra. The design has four replicas of the Vajra surrounding the State emblem including the motto embossed in the centre. On the reverse, the words "Param Vir Chakra" are embossed in Hindi and English, separated by a lotus.
Bravery and leadership of highest order was displayed by Major Sharma for which he was awarded the first Param Veer Chakra on 26th January, 1950.
While designing the medal, Savitri Bai did not know that the first PVC would be awarded to her daughter's brother-in-law, Major Somnath Sharma from the Kumaon Regiment. Major Sharma was a battle-hardened soldier who had fought in Arakan, in the Burma Campaign of World war II and had been Mentioned in Dispatches.
His injured left arm was heavily plastered, and he was advised to stay in Delhi. But when heard that the 'A' & 'D' Companies of the 4 Kumaon were being moved to the Kashmir valley, he insisted on going along. He argued that no one knew his men better than him, and if they were going into the battlefield, then so was he.
On November 3, 1947, the Kumaon Regiment established a firm base on the high grounds west of the village of Badgam. Though Sharma had noticed what he thought was a group of villagers taking shelter in a nalla (ditch), everything else seemed quiet and calm. Sharma was ordered to start thinning out from the Badgam area from 1330 hrs onwards. At 1400 hrs, 'A' company had moved back towards the airfield. Sharma was ordered by Brigadier L P Sen to commence withdrawal at 1500 hrs.
Everything seemed to be normal until the 'villagers' in the nalla started moving in different directions around Major Sharma's company. Soon the entire company of about 90 men was under fire from west of their position. This was backed by light machine gun (LMG) and mortar fire. Major Sharma was hesitant to return the fire for fear of killing innocent civilians.
Using everything they had, they repulsed the first attack. But enemy pressure started to increase and they were soon facing some 500 odd tribesmen. He asked the brigade commander for help, and was promised air support. Being short of men, he laid out ground panel indicators to guide the aircraft onto the target.
D company repulsed attack after attack, but very soon they were outnumbered by ratio of 7 to 1. He was informed by Brigade commander that 1 Punjab was on its way to reinforce his position. But Major Sharma knew that this would take time. With utter disregard for his own safety, he started going from one section to another in full view of the enemy to inspire his men to fight till last bullet so as to delay the enemy advance towards airfield as much as possible.
When he saw that causalities were affecting the LMG fire, he started filling LMG magazines himself. Then a mortar shell landed right in the middle of the ammunition, resulting in an explosion that killed him.
This gallant action of D company in which it lost Major Sharma, Subedar Prem Singh Mehta and 20 other ranks, delayed the enemy advance by six hours. When Badgam was recaptured by our troops, the bodies of about 300 tribesmen were found at D Company's position.
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Details of these incidents should be put in syllebus of IAS examination so that their mentality about sacrificing groups improves. No country can be cultured due break of administration and discontinuity of its policies and military is a primary requirement. But to control the military the requirement is of clean justified administration and not hypocracy.
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Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy
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BY Michael Promisel
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Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy. Peter Olsthoorn. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2015.
Brutus:
I would not, Cassius, yet I love [Caesar] well.
But wherefore do you hold me here so long?
What is it that you would impart to me?
If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honour more than I fear death.[1]
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar devotes significantly more attention to the character and conduct of the conspirators—and in particular, Marcus Brutus—than to the man whose name the title bears. Caesar's assassination occurs halfway through the play and he has only one speaking part to every five of Brutus. Shakespeare's rendition of this infamous conspiracy, it seems, draws the reader to be more captivated by the motives and nobility of Brutus than the act or victim of his notorious crime.
An abiding concern for the motives behind our moral and political conduct is not, however, exclusively literary. Understanding why we act and what motivates us act to well is an inquiry at the heart of moral and political philosophy. Brutus, "the noblest Roman of them all," for example, committed the same act as Cassius and the other conspirators, but is nonetheless distinguished and remembered by his honorable motives.
But there is a significant motive for moral and political conduct—both for Brutus and many of us—that, as of late, seems to draw little scholarly attention or favor: honor. This is the opening observation of Peter Olsthoorn's book, Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy, that hopes to rejuvenate this motivational buttress. Olsthoorn's work arises in a culture in which,
We like to think that we are not too concerned, and also that we should not be too concerned, about how our conduct might appear to others; we are, as we think we should be, primarily motivated by how it looks in our own eyes, and face and reputation are no longer considered of overriding importance (3).
Largely to blame for the present disrepute of honor are the ideals of autonomy and authenticity that undergird modern moral psychology and rebuff the notion that our character or conduct should be shaped by individuals or groups outside ourselves.
Olsthoorn's primary objection to this relegation of honor is empirical: "The assumption underlying this book is that Jim," Conrad's oft-referenced fictional protagonist who struggles to regain his honor, "is in fact a common type, and that there is probably more of him in us than we care to acknowledge" (3-4). Our actions are motivated, Olsthoorn argues, by the search for recognition and approbation to a much greater extent than many political and moral philosophers realize. In response to this neglect and disregard, Olsthoorn aims to "convince the reader" that "some of the old arguments for honor, brought forward by thinkers from Cicero and Sallust to Bentham and Mill, are still compelling" (vii).
Indeed, as Olsthoorn argues in the first half of the book, when understood not as a virtue but "a reward for virtuous behavior," several familiar thinkers emerge as apologists for honor. These authors—including Cicero, Locke, Mandeville, Hume, and Smith—are united by the perspective that "virtue is within reach of most people, but needs a reward. Especially in the motivational aspect" (70). Olsthoorn views this proposition as a shrewd insight into "what makes human beings tick," and argues that those who advocate loftier motives to moral action—including Aristotle and Kant—are "too demanding," "Utopian," and do so with little "practical consequence" (157-8). Thus, Olsthoorn's book advances two arguments: 1) contemporary scholarship neglects the empirical fact that public recognition motivates much of our conduct, and 2) arguments elevating higher motives, such as the love of virtue or devotion to the common good (as in Shakespeare's Brutus), are unrealistic and even inimical to producing good behavior.
The pursuit of "honor as public recognition," Olsthoorn argues, offers a realistic and attainable incentive to moral conduct. This incentive materializes from two functions inherent to the pursuit of honor. First, "our concern for how others see us can help us to actually see what the virtuous way to behave is" (19). When we look to others' opinions and conduct as a guide to how we should behave, we are exposed to external guides for what is proper. The outward orientation of a concern for recognition helps identify what good behavior looks like. Second, "the concern for reputation motivates to also behave virtuously" (20). Knowing the right thing to do is not enough. We also need the motivation to carry it out. Instead of advocating goodwill or the love of virtue, Olsthoorn argues we should lower the bar for motivation to the pursuit of public recognition. Although some question whether this lower intention may be considered moral, he dismisses this concern as pedantic and argues that honor may help "close the gap between the spheres of is and ought" in moral psychology (6).
Olsthoorn's defense of honor and its salutary functions includes an impressive—and, at times, meandering—march through the history of political thought. The first to recognize these salutary functions of honor, Olsthoorn argues to the chagrin of Greek scholars, were the Romans and, in particular, Cicero. Citing several of his works, Olsthoorn concludes that Cicero, like the Romans more generally, "thought that no one will put aside his or her own interests for the greater good if there is no fame or honor to be earned" (21).
After ironically dismissing medieval Christian conceptions of honor as a prideful "pastime," Olsthoorn turns to several modern thinkers who extend and alter the Roman tradition.[2] In particular, he analyzes the work of Locke, Mandeville, Hume, Smith, and Tocqueville to outline three aspects of honor in the modern world. First, breaking from the Roman tradition that promoted honor as an impetus to martial and public service, by the seventeenth and eighteenth century, "honor was now to promote the quiet and peaceful virtues" of an industrial society (33). As Mandeville's pithy title, Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, suggests, the pursuit of honor—although understood by moderns as vain—was "a socially useful motive," serving "as a check on man's behavior" (38). Moreover, as evident in the work of Hume and Smith, honor became "internalized" because individuals no longer sought approval from a social hierarchy, but rather a judicious, impersonal spectator.[3] Consequently, this commercial and individualized notion of honor became less focused on pleasing a limited group of nobles through martial or public endeavors and instead expanded to include the private actions of all individuals in a democratic society.
The rise of internalized, democratic honor parallels the decline of religion and law in shaping our understanding of honorable conduct—the second development in modern notions of honor. In the words of Olsthoorn, "we fear the opinions of others more than we fear hell or jail" (36). This circumscription of honor prefigured the rise of personal integrity as a fundamental value that amounts to "loyalty to oneself" and is addressed below. Finally, the rise of democracy detached honor from hierarchical groupings and instead linked to broader "honor groups." Thus, honor "became less of a personal (or family) attribute, and more a collective one, and this to the extent that by the start of the twentieth century 'honor was tied to the nation'" (73). Modernized honor, according to Olsthoorn, is exemplified in the expanded and widespread acceptance of the nation as the appropriate scale for adjudicating honor.
After reviewing "some of the old arguments for honor," Olsthoorn spends the second half of the book engaging several conceptual difficulties that face the modern proponent of honor. In particular, he highlights to potential shortcomings: honor's exclusivity and emphasis on external conduct. The former may lead to too much priority given "to the opinions and interests of those who are near and dear to us," and the latter may encourage deception and be "reduced to not being found out" (72). To address these drawbacks, Olsthoorn devotes most of the remaining pages to defining concepts that are akin to, but distinct from, honor: loyalty, integrity, respect, and humiliation. Although the justification for this conceptual examination is not immediately clear, Olsthoorn ultimately employs these concepts to distill responses to the aforementioned pitfalls—we must make honor groups less restrictive and encourage the internalization of honor-driven ethics.
At this juncture, Olsthoorn's argument takes a curious turn. In defense of his first solution—expanding honor groups—Olsthoorn invokes warfare as an "excellent laboratory" and discusses the plight of civilians in military interventions to demonstrate the consequences of limited honor groups. "Militaries and politicians," he writes, "rather transfer risks from their own soldiers to the local population" because foreign civilians reside outside the invading country's bounds of immediate loyalty (89). This troubling pattern, Olsthoorn argues, justifies the invocation of a utilitarian approach to ethics, especially in public affairs.[4] Utilitarianism has the apparent benefit of being "agent-neutral, meaning that the consequences to everyone should weigh equally" in decisions (91). The utilitarian decision-maker, Olsthoorn implies, is less likely to make decisions resulting in civilian casualties because they will be accounted for in his calculations. Moreover, he invokes Bentham Mill to argue that the "love of reputation [is] the motive with the best chance of corresponding with the principle of utility" (94). If politicians embrace utilitarianism, Olsthoorn suggests, they can maintain the pursuit of good repute by earning it through maximizing "the greatest happiness for the greatest number," killing two birds with one stone.
Olsthoorn's defense of utilitarianism is both unconvincing and jolting. His consequence-driven justification arises from the laudable intention to minimize harm to innocent civilians, which he argues is more likely under the "utilitarian credo" (91). But, by the end of the analysis, that very act is deemed excusable: "An excusable act is wrong, killing an innocent civilian for instance, but is in view of the circumstances only considered blameworthy to a limited extent, for example because the death of that innocent civilian was necessary to rescue many others" (141). Thus, the same ethos intended to defend civilian life is just as potent against it. This illustrates the fatal flaw of utilitarianism: ethics devoid of transcendent principle—for example, the prohibition of taking innocent life—is necessarily contingent on the presumptive calculus of the beholder.
Olsthoorn's defense of the second solution—the internalization of honor—is much more intriguing. In a chapter titled "Internalizing Honor: Integrity," he gives a persuasive account against integrity as an appropriate virtue to ensure that honor shapes our internal character. Integrity, he argues, is a relatively new virtue originating in Rousseau's exhortation to heed our "inner voice" rather than external opinions or principles. This elevation of authenticity over moral rules has begotten the rise of integrity, the characteristic of "living by, and being loyal to, one's own values and principles" (107).
The problem with integrity is its lack of ethical content. If integrity means a firm commitment to live by one's values, "integrity is overwhelmingly vague, and in its most common meaning much too subjective" (130). In addition, like the value of authenticity, integrity stands at odds with Olsthoorn's argument that virtue requires an external reward. The authentic individual disdains public opinion and reputation, and consequently squanders a valuable impetus to pursue good conduct. The best alternative to integrity and authenticity for the internalization of honor, Olsthoorn concludes, is cultivating a disposition of respect. Respect for others sets limits "on what we can, and much more so, cannot do to others," attenuating the pitfalls of honor's external emphasis (135). A spirit of respect and its attendant wariness of humiliation, therefore, constitute Olsthoorn's proposal for how the pursuit of honor might be internalized.
If we set aside the anticlimax of his call for universal respect, Olsthoorn's book amounts to an important defense of honor as a motivational wellspring that should be neither neglected nor disparaged. Ultimately, however, readers may feel the case for honor is left incomplete. While Olsthoorn recognizes that the "extent honor can work for the good depends for a large part on the norms and values to which people subscribe," he offers little direction on what exactly should constitute honorable conduct (57). Therefore, the reader unpersuaded by consequentialist utilitarianism is left asking: to what end is honor directed?
One potential answer may lie in the very motives Olsthoorn discounts: virtue and the common good. Although the opening quote suggests Brutus is motivated by "the name of honour," seeming to confirm Olsthoorn's thesis, his honor is inextricably bound to the "general good." We would do well, therefore, to recall Shakespeare's final word concerning the famed character:
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
He only in a general honest thought
And common good to all made one of them.[5]
In the case of Brutus—and perhaps more of us than Olsthoorn recognizes—the love of virtue and the common good is both powerful and edifying. Brutus draws the readers' attention because his noble motives are both persuasive and captivating. The pursuit of external recognition is an important motive indeed, but should not discredit, nor be considered inconsistent with, the devotion to virtue that is honor's highest calling.
[1] Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, I. ii. 89-96. Ed., Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, (New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 1996), 19.
[2] This account of Christian chivalry (p. 27) is just as unsatisfying as his dismissal of Greek notions of honor (pp. 15-16).
[3] For more of Olsthoorn's treatment of spectatorship, see pp. 42-51.
[4] Olsthoorn gives his defense of utilitarianism on pp. 89-97.
[5] Julius Caesar, V. v. 74-78.
Written by Michael Promisel
Michael Promisel is a Ph.D. Candidate in political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His teaching and research is grounded in the history of political thought with particular focus on political leadership, virtue ethics, and the relationship between religion and politics.
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College group tells 'white folks' not to call cops, offers other suggestions for feeling threatened
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One student group at Marquette University apparently wants to police calling the police.
The group, Marquette Empowerment, suggested in a photo shared to social media that "white folks" have many other options to diffuse possible situations before escalating the situation to having to call the police.
Marquette Empowerment suggests that these same "white folks" take matters into their own hands and attempt to resolve any disturbance issues with methods such as third-party mediation and talking it out face-to-face with the person causing the purported disturbance.
The flyer, which was shared to the group's Facebook page, was captioned, "Hey white folks, [h]ere are some handy steps to follow if you feel the urge[.] STOP CALLING THE COPS."
The flyer — titled "Alternatives to Calling the Police" — featured "steps to ask yourself before calling the police."
Those suggestions included:
Is this merely an inconvenience to me? Can I put up with this and be okay?
No, I need to respond. Can I handle this on my own, is this something I could try to talk-out [sic] with the person?
No, I need back-up. Is there a friend, neighbor, or someone whom I could call to help me?
No, I need a professional. Can we use mediation to talk through what's happening or is there an emergency response hotline I could call?
No. If I call the police do I understand how involving the police could impact me and the other person?
The bottom of the flyer refers readers to an organization called Showing Up for Racial Justice, DC, the organization that apparently created the flyer.
The organization features several public Google documents that push the need for calling anyone other than the police if at all possible.
According to Marquette Empowerment's Facebook page the Wisconsin-based college group's mission "is to engage Marquette students in discussion and social action devoted to combating injustice. Marquette Empowerment strives to maintain an environment in which each individual opinion is valued and each voice heard. We advocate for social change to alleviate the current suffering experienced by Marquette students and members of a global community alike, stemming from oppressive institutions associated with intersectional feminism including, but not limited to sexism, racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia."
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Just when some thought we were more or less alone in the universe, we find that planets like earth may be common. In fact, a new study presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston in February estimates that perhaps 60% of the sun-like stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, may form rocky planets much like ours. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space telescope have detected the presence of warm dust around 309 distant stars which they believe is the aftermath of planetary interactions.
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The American military application of remote viewing technology was by all official accounts suspended in the mid 1990s. Even though veterans of the program have testified to its cold war successes, the Pentagon—embarrassed by accounts in the press fed by professional "skeptics" ridiculing the project as tantamount to witchcraft and calling for it to be stopped—apparently dropped the whole business like a hot potato. According to most accounts that was the end of it. But was it?
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With the wit of Steve Erickson's Zeroville and the inventive spirit of Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, John Domini offers a collection at once comical and moving, carefully suspended between a game of language and a celebration of American film.
John Domini has two short story collections and three novels in print, as well as one book of collected essays and criticism. He's published fiction in Paris Review and Ploughshares, non-fiction in GQ and The New York Times, and won a poetry prize from Meridian. Grants include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The New York Times praised his work as dreamlike... grabs hold of both reader and character, and Alan Cheuse, of NPR, described it as witty and biting. He has taught at Harvard, Northwestern and elsewhere and makes his home in Des Moines.
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This is a bowl I turned from a piece of spalted maple firewood. It is the largest bowl I have turned yet. The wood had an indentation in it, so I worked it into the side of the bowl for a bit of character. It is 6 inches wide and 2 inches tall. I am still struggling with getting the end grain of the wood smooth. I keep getting some tear out. I guess my tools may not be sharp enough or I am too aggressive with the cut.
That piece does have some nice color to it and good call with leaving a bit of the natural edge on the bowl. It takes a while to master endgrain tear out. I find that Maple is worse about this than some of the others. I sharp tool is essential, doubly so for finishing cuts. If you're close by I'd be willing to lend a hand. If not, there is probably a wood turners club in your area, and they could give you some pointers in no time. Also, the aaw is an excellent resource for all things woodturning. If you've already heard of them, then you're on the right track!
BTW, I like the under cut you did on the inside of your bowl. Nice touch.
What is this "firewood" you speak?
Thanks for the offer Mike. I live in Kentucky. Woodcraft in Lexington, Ky gives classes. I need to go to one. I don't have very good tools and I do not know how to sharpen them properly. Everything I do is trial and error and watching you tube videos.
Here are a few tips tool wise that you'll probably hear from others. First and foremost, sharp "crappy" tools beat the pants of the best dull tools! A bench grinder makes life sooooo much easier. If you don't have one, check out craigslist. I think I got mine for $25 and its a decent unit.
Secondly is to learn the proper technique and tool presentation. Turning is a lot more fun than sanding. The activity as a whole is greatly improved even more when you're not worrying about catches because you know how to present the tool to the wood! BTW, if I'm being preachy tell me to hush, I'm just excited to pass along information I've worked hard to learn!
And Third. We all know that hobbies are expensive, woodworking is no different. To save money, identify what you want to turn/do most. Spend your hard earned cash there. Also, I don't recommend buying from big box stores. I love woodcraft, I love Rockler, www.woodturnerscatalog.com, and so on, but I only shop there if I have a coupon or a dire need that only these big guys can fill. Great tools are expensive. However, Thompson Lathe Tools are cream of the crop and very affordable when you compare him to the other guys. You can find lots of reviews and high praise of his tools across the web, including on my blog in the reviews section. He sells his tools unhandled which brings down the price and affords you the ability to make your own wooden handle, metal handle or buy a modular handle.
So to recap. First, keep your tools sharp! Proper tool presentation! Tools worth bragging about!
I watch lots of youtube videos too! It's a great way to learn. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Great job on the bowl. Mike is right, and good advise. Cheap aint always cheap. Good quality tools, and a good grinder sure make life alot easier.
I have a good grinder, but only tools I have are 2 craftsman and 3 home made ones the guy gave me when I bought the lathe. They are pretty bad. I just can't afford to buy new ones yet, but a 3/8 bowl gouge is on my wishlist.
I think you did a great job with your limited resources.
As stated earlier, maple end grain can be a problem and even worse if it is spalted and starting to get soft. I occasionally resort to 60 grit sand paper and work my way up from there. Be sure to wear a dust mask when working with spalted wood…that stuff is a fungus and can do a job on your lungs.
Yeah, I always wear a dust mask, especially when sanding.
I get great results minimizing tearout by using a scraper. My favorite is a Sorby 1inch.
You did a fine job on this bowl.
Love that you incorporate the "flaws" of the wood into your design…gives it lots of character. Working with endgrain is always hard. Depending on the wood, I've found that misting the endgrain with water, then sanding with 60-100 grit sandpaper will flatten it down a bit. But I have finished some fuzzy bowls too!
Thanks for the compliments and ideas.
That is a very nice bowl, David. I love that wood!!!!!!!!
I have found that I can cut end grain with very little tear out if I use a sheer scrape cut with a bowl gouge. It takes off very fine shavings and seems to clip that end grain pretty smooth.
Also to smooth out the end grain area, I often stop the lathe and sand just that area real smooth before sanding while spinning. It blends it in pretty good.


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The meaning of the dream symbol: Rock
A rock may symbolize permanence or antiquity; the most ancient -unconscious - part of the human mind; the foundations or essence of the self.
Rocks at sea may symbolize a threat of disaster. The threat could be external or internal. Are you getting too emotional? You may need to change course and take a different direction in life.
In the dream sense, Rocks may represent our own obstinate behavior, which must be avoided, or conversely stockpiled, to use as a form of psychological or emotional protection. Moreover, in the image of our resolute rock pile, we may find valuable gems and crystals of honor, courage and hope. Consequently, a dream of breaking rocks, may refer to a profound sacrifice necessary to reveal our hidden resplendence. Furthermore, the chiseling and shaping of hard stone may epitomize the sculpting and perfecting of our human psyche.
There are different aspects of rock symbolism. But the most obvious is that of unchanging motionlessness. In Chinese landscape painting rocks an; contrasted with waterfalls in the sense of yang contrasted with yin, the active but non-acting principle with the passive but impermanent principle.
This changelessness may be that of the supreme First Cause, as is the case when the Psalmist applies the term 'Rock of Israel' to none other than Jehovah himself.
A similar identification may be made in the case of the rock in the Wilderness from which Moses struck water, as a spring of life and a manifestation of primeval potentiality. In the Old Testament, the rock is the symbol of Jehovah's strength, of the firmness of his Covenant and of his faithfulness. The Psalmist in his distress (Psalms 18: 3: 19: 15) calls upon God as his rock. Moses may also be regarded as the man of the rock from which he made fresh water spring by striking it with his staff. This rock is a prefiguration of Christ who is positively identified by St Paul as that 'spiritual Rock' from which flow the waters of life (1 Corinthians 10: 4).
In Hindu tradition. Shiva's svayambhuvalinga the natural ltngams formed by bare rocks on mountain peaks, possess this same property of the active principle, the source of cosmic manifestation. In Japanese mythology, rocks symbolize firmness.
Ismaili esoterics believe rocks to be underground condensations of the mass which fell with the rebellious Angels since rocks are thick, hard and compacted.
One very special case should be mentioned, that of the two famous rocks in the Bay of Ise linked by a rope. The rising Sun is to be seen between them, symbol of the birth of life.
Sisyphus' rock or boulder, which always rolls to the bottom of the hill and has to be pushed up again, characterizes the insatiable nature of desire and the ceaseless nature of the struggle against its despotism. Sated, pushed away or sublimated, it is constantly reborn and returns in some fresh shape. Its own bulk makes it roll backwards and become a burden. Human laws prescribe a ceaseless attempt to shoulder this burden of one s desires and raise them to a higher level.
Sisyphus' rock is 'the symbol of the crushing burden of Earth [earthly longings]'.
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Orion Engineered Carbons CEO Jack L Clem to retire
By Rachel Evans on	 19th September 2018 People
Orion Engineered Carbons' CEO, Jack L Clem, 65, is to retire from the role, which he has fulfilled since 2011. He will be nominated to join the board of directors and during a transition period will act as an advisor to the company.
Corning F Painter, 55, will succeed Clem as the new CEO and will also be nominated to join the board of directors. Painter was selected during a broad executive search process and stood out due to his track record in the international chemical industry.
"It has been my sincere pleasure to work with Jack Clem over the last several years," said Dan F Smith, chairman of Orion's board of directors.
"Under Jack's leadership, Orion has firmly strengthened its position as a world leader in carbon black, establishing a standard for excellence and delivering industry-leading performance.
"On behalf of Orion's board of directors and all of its employees, I want to thank Jack for his immeasurable contributions and look forward to a continuing, mutually fruitful relationship as we welcome him to the board of Orion.
"At the same time, we are delighted to welcome Corning Painter to the Orion family. He brings decades of international experience managing financial and operational performance, delivering shareholder value, and inspiring teams."
Said Clem (left), "It is with complete confidence that I transition the role of chief executive to Corning Painter. With his deep technical experience in the chemical industry and his outstanding functional competence in global businesses, OEC will be well-positioned to continue its growth as we further penetrate emerging markets and build on the success of our technical and specialty capabilities."
Painter (right) commented, "I am excited to join the Orion team. Orion has consistently delivered financially, and successfully advanced their strategy of focusing on more differentiated carbon blacks. I look forward to building upon this momentum and the strategy that the Orion team has put in place to deliver results for our shareholders and employees."
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