Ultra-sensitive detection of rare T cell clones.
Advances in high-throughput sequencing have enabled technologies that probe the adaptive immune system with unprecedented depth. We have developed a multiplex PCR method to sequence tens of millions of T cell receptors (TCRs) from a single sample in a few days. A method is presented to test the precision, accuracy, and sensitivity of this assay. T cell clones, each with one fixed productive TCR rearrangement, are doped into complex blood cell samples. TCRs from a total of eleven samples are sequenced, with the doped T cell clones ranging from 10% of the total sample to 0.001% (one cell in 100,000). The assay is able to detect even the rarest clones. The precision of the assay is demonstrated across five orders of magnitude. The accuracy for each clone is within an overall factor of three across the 100,000 fold dynamic range. Additionally, the assay is shown to be highly repeatable.


I'm extremely pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition on "The Front Line of OA in Humanities and Social Sciences" on the 23rd August, 2013 at the Tokyo National Institute of Informatics.
I'll post more about the remit of the talk when I can, but the seminar schedule is now online. The talk will be translated, so all are welcome. It will also be my first visit to Tokyo and Japan, so I'm very much looking forward to meeting up with fellow humanists, open-access advocates (and/or sceptics) and to having a mutually informative and productive dialogue.
For those interested, a flyer for the event is also available.
Speaking at SPARC Japan was published on July 17, 2013 . You can annotate or comment upon this post.


Thank you Morgen. I am delighted to have won this month. I love doing your competitions and to see a story get published does encourage me to keep writing. What a task it must be to choose between all these great little stories.
You're very welcome, Bridget. Do submit again.
Damn it – I missed the deadline because I've been (thankfully) very busy work-wise.


During my PhD I study the mechanisms involved in population's genetic divergence and more particularly in the formation of genomic islands of differentiation. The european sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) is a good model for the study of the speciation process. In fact, this species is divided in two divergent evolutionary lineages represented by the Atlantic and Mediterranean populations, which exchange genes in a hybrid zone. This hybridization reveals the regions resistant to introgression and therefore containing isolating loci.


This is another recipe from Pioneer Womans website although I don't follow it, just get the basic jist and ingredients down.
Add some Bread Crumbs, Parmesan Cheese, Salt, Pepper, Onion Powder and Garlic Powder.
Cook till brown and crispy.
I had to hurry and get a picture since we were eating them so fast I almost didn't get a photo of the final product.
I WANT SOME!!!!!! I'm hungry! :-) Dang you.


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Q: How to call function of one model in another model in yii 1 I have following code in my StudentsForm model:
public function attributeLabels()
    {
        return array(
            'id' => 'ID',
            'sname' => 'Name',
            'fill' => ' Date',
        );
    }

and in my TeacherForm in my model:
 public function attributeLabels()
        {
            return array(
                'id' => 'ID',
                'tname' => ' Teacher Name',
                'fill' => ' Date',
            );
        }

How can I call attributeLabels() of StudentsForm in TeachersForm.
Both models are located in one model

A: Simply use this
$lables = StudentsForm::model()->attributeLabels();

$lables will be an array
$lables = array(
            'id' => 'ID',
            'sname' => 'Name',
            'fill' => ' Date',
        );

A: you can try this by 2 methods.

*

*by yii method

*by using oop

First method.
$studentLable = StudentsForm::model()->attributeLabels();

Second method.
$studentModel = new StudentsForm;

$studentLable = $studentModel->attributeLabels();

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24-year-old man seriously injured in hit-and-run in Saugus
Mass. State Police
Saugus hit and run car
SOURCE: Mass. State Police
Massachusetts State Police are asking for help in identifying a hit-and-run driver who struck and seriously injured a pedestrian Wednesday in Saugus.The crash happened at 10:17 a.m. Route 1 southbound at Route 99. The victim, a 24-year-old Gloucester man, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, state police said. State police said an investigation indicates that the victim, who is employed by a nearby business, stepped into the roadway to retrieve a barrel that had blown onto the road. After hitting the man, the motorist did not stop and continued onto Route 99. State police said the vehicle is a white sedan, possibly a Nissan Sentra, that was being driven by what was believed to be a white man.The vehicle may have front-end damage and undercarriage damage, state police said. Anyone with information is asked to contact state police.
SAUGUS, Mass. —
Massachusetts State Police are asking for help in identifying a hit-and-run driver who struck and seriously injured a pedestrian Wednesday in Saugus.
The crash happened at 10:17 a.m. Route 1 southbound at Route 99. The victim, a 24-year-old Gloucester man, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, state police said.
State police said an investigation indicates that the victim, who is employed by a nearby business, stepped into the roadway to retrieve a barrel that had blown onto the road.
After hitting the man, the motorist did not stop and continued onto Route 99.
State police said the vehicle is a white sedan, possibly a Nissan Sentra, that was being driven by what was believed to be a white man.
The vehicle may have front-end damage and undercarriage damage, state police said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact state police.

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Q: Xcode 6.1 signing certificate I have updated my Max with XCode 6.1 and it seems that the signing was quite changed here.
When I was archiving my app beofre 6.1 , I was asked which provision I want to use on my app. Today doesn't matter what you are state on your configuration, it allways choose a certificate named with XC : at the beginning.
Any idea how can I control the provision just like old versions ?

A: Click the Export button to get various deployment options


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Carlsbad, Eddy County combating sewage problems at 'man camps' during oil and gas boom
Adrian Hedden
Two code enforcement officers cover about 4,200 square miles of Eddy County.
Part of these officers' job is to monitor the 260 known and numerous unregistered RV parks known as man camps built and operated in the county – a highly-productive section of the Permian Basin.
Eddy County enacted an ordinance in 2017 to help regulate the hundreds of camps used to house transient oilfield workers.
The ordinance defines man camps as a property with two or more occupied RVs.
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Assistant Director of Community Services Steve McCroskey estimated about 30 to 40 properties were compliant with regulations.
He said his office has 350 open cases where property owners were accused of violating the ordinance.
One of the most troubling violations: liquid waste.
More:New Mexico to crack down on Eddy County 'man camps' in violation of liquid waste laws
Liquid waste can create a danger to public health as it could contaminate ground water, threaten electrical lines and lead to infection if people are exposed.
"It's a life safety issue. If you've got sewage out on the ground, or you're illegally disposing of it, E. coli, dysentery, everything else can take place," McCroskey said. "You get all the diseases out there off the effluent from the liquid waste."
The problem is not new, McCroskey said, but has grown since a boom in oil and gas production in 2011 and 2012.
More:More man camps coming to Carlsbad as oil prices climb during conflict with Iran
It didn't go away when oil and gas busted in 2015, he said, and it's only gotten worse with the recent population influx.
"It's definitely increased," McCroskey said. "But we've been dealing with this issue since the boom of 2011. We didn't see any change during the downturn. It's just increased since."
When a property is found in violation of county liquid waster regulations, a 10-day notice is sent to the property owner in hopes they will mitigate the issue.
If the county gets no response, another 10-day notice would be sent.
More:Eddy County residents voice fears of man camps
If the owner is in contact with the county, the 10-day period can be extended.
If there is no response, the county issues a citation to the local magistrate court and the violator could face a petty misdemeanor charge. That could result in a fine of up to $300 or 90 days in jail.
Each day could be considered, by the court, to be a separate offense.
The county can also disconnect the water service to the property.
"Generally, people are pretty good at coming in and starting to work with us," McCroskey said. "Occasionally, there are people that don't make contact. We'll work with anybody to the best of our ability."
More:More drilling, man camps coming to Permian Basin
Many of the smaller properties, "mom and pop shops," McCroskey said, simply don't know the rules and end up releasing raw sewage into the environment.
"The smaller ones are harder to work with," he said. "If they don't know the regulation, once they find out, they're usually very willing. They're the ones that tend to go in without checking, and then have to backstep."
Changes could be coming to the regulation, McCroskey said, potentially shortening the 10-day windows to gain compliance sooner.
More:Zoning coming to La Huerta? Residents hope to block encroaching developments
"All it is to try to get ahold on it faster, and get compliance quicker," he said. "The volume has increased."
To respond to the growth in man camps and subsequent violations, McCroskey said county personnel began working closely with the City of Carlsbad and State of New Mexico.
He said the county and staff from the New Mexico Environment Department frequently make inspections and contact owners, up to twice a week.
"Since all this stuff started, we've done everything we can to work with NMED," McCroskey said.
More:Planned 400-bed man camp in Carlsbad could expand for oil and gas workers, following merger
State, local regulators collaborate
NMED recently released a map of man camps in the area to identify those that are out of compliance with state and local sewage regulations.
According the map, more than 140 facilities in Eddy County were found in violation of liquid water requirements, typically when sewage lines are improperly installed.
And NMED reported only about 20 percent were working with the Department to achieve compliance.
"Compliance with state laws that protect public health and the environment from raw sewage is not optional," said NMED Cabinet Secretary James Kenney. "In providing this map to the public, we hope to increase public health awareness and to encourage liquid waste system operators to come into compliance prior to our Department taking legal action."
More:Cascades subdivision in Carlsbad gets another chance with housing, retail coming soon
The City of Carlsbad is planning to increase its response as well to ensure property owners follow sewage regulations, by adding a third code enforcement officer to the two currently inspecting properties.
City Administrator Mike Hernandez said the boom and population growth will likely continue, presenting a growing challenge to protect public health.
More:Drilling, temporary housing: How did your city councilor vote?
"We want everyone to be compliant," Hernandez said. "There's certainly a strong public health concern."
Hernandez said the city works closely with property owners, if they're willing, to ensure compliance during the permitting process itself.
He said the city holds weekly meetings on the subject, with county and state staff.
"I foresee a need increasing in the future," Hernandez said. "With more housing, with just everything, there will be more need."
Carlsbad Director of Utilities Ron Myers also feared that with more growth, would come a higher volume of sewage problems that the City must address.
"It's a big challenge," he said. "It's a bigger challenge for everybody. There's more (water) in collection, and more going to the treatment plant. We're going to step up our game."
More:BLM: Oil and gas lease sale offers 112 land parcels in New Mexico, Texas
A major purveyor of workforce housing in the area, Target Hospitality recently announced the opening of its Seven Rivers Lodge on Boyd Drive in Carlsbad, to join its Carlsbad Lodge on Carlgo Street.
Seven Rivers will offer 660 rooms to house oil and gas workers, along with Carlsbad Lodge's 606.
Chief Commercial Officer Troy Schrenk said Target serves multiple major oil and gas companies, and compliance with sewage and other regulations is crucial to the success of such a high-volume operation.
More:Study: New Mexico oil and gas production threatens scarce water resources
"When you have that type of client roster, safety becomes the first priority," he said. "It's starts with the design. It only takes once incident, and we're all at risk."
He also pointed to smaller operations as a common culprit for violations.
"That's what happens with these fly-by-night operations," Schrenk said. "What we don't understand is why operations tend to be non-compliant. Why would they put their people at risk?"
Schrenk said he expected the housing need to grow in the area in the coming years, making compliance even more important and a bigger challenge.
"The capital investment in New Mexico is growing," he said. "These are going to become even more pressing issues. It's critical for state and local regulators to get it right. That means they must engage with companies to set the standards high enough."
Adrian Hedden can be reached at 575-628-5516, achedden@currentargus.com or @AdrianHedden on Twitter.


What if animated superheroes needed therapy?
In the web series Issues, they would make an appointment to see Dr. Ted, psychologist.
Issues is a comedy produced by the online network Crackle.
Written by Matt Oates and Josh Cooke, it tells the story of long-suffering therapist Dr. Ted (portrayed by Josh Cooke) and his clientele of troubled supers.
From a sidekick grappling with separation anxiety, to a Superman-like icon who chooses an outlandish way to sabotage his public image, Issues hilariously sends up the superhero zeitgeist.
Terrific hero designs by Garrett Vander Leun with animation by Titmouse, Inc.
You can view the entire six episode series on its official home on Crackle.
If you are a fan of animated comedies like Archer, and/or love superhero comic books, definitely check out this comedy gem.


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Street names that Cupid would approve
There is no excuse not to remember Valentine's Day for those living in many of the State's most loved-up residential addresses.
Katrina Creer
Hills Shire TimesFebruary 14, 20195:00am
Residents living in the NSW township of Valentine won't be able to escape the significance of February 14Source:Supplied
Among the street names that would no doubt be approved by Cupid, is Darling Street,
Balmain; Heart Place, Blacktown, Cuddlepie Place, Faulconbridge, and of course Kissing Point Road, Dundas.
MORE: Where to buy your own vineyard
Waterfront home of Brady Bunch star hits the market
A home where you're alreayd on holiday
Love may be considered a two-way street, but at Emus Plains there is a Love Court.
Winston Hills resident Ashleigh Bowles didn't think too much about the street name when she bought her home at Eros Place more than a decade ago. Surprisingly its street sign has never been 'borrowed'.
This four bedroom property in 60 Dilkera Avenue, Valentine has a price guide of $1.8m — $1.9mSource:Supplied
"It is definitely an easy way to tell people where I live, I just tell them `Eros Place', the god of love — they usually have a bit of a giggle," she said.
"Valentine's Day is a bit of big deal for me to an extent, we usually go out for dinner but I specifically ask my boyfriend not to get flowers because they are always really marked up on that day."
Residents living in the Lake Macquarie township of Valentine won't be able to escape the significance of February 14. While those living in the more commonly found Rose Street and Diamond Court may feel pressure to deliver a gift.
The Grose Valley and Bridal Veil Falls from Govett's Leap, in The Blue MountainsSource:News Corp Australia
It could, however, be a lonely night for residents living in Single Street at Werris Creek.
Marriage has also inspired many names around NSW such as Honeymoon Bay, at Currarong on the South Coast, Wedding Cake Island, just off Coogee and Bridal Veil Falls in the Blue Mountains.
Chris Hemsworth's Byron Bay mega mansion
Take a look at the huge mansion Chris Hemsworth is building in Byron Bay.
There is a Bachelor Rd at Wotton on the State's mid-north coast, yet no Spinster Street.
At Wolli Creek, several apartments have been sold in Lusty Street, but the risqué name hasn't put off buyers. Agent Paul Karasalidis from Century 21 Southern Realty admits he was amazed when no one questioned the unusual address when they sold a two-bedroom unit there 18 months ago.
"People just didn't bring it up at all — I'm really not sure why they chose that street name," he said.
This Lovedale has just been listed for saleSource:Supplied
The suburb of Lovedale is capitalising on its romantic name becoming an increasingly popular destination for couples wanting to marry in the Hunter Valley. Agent Ray Armstrong has just listed a stunning vineyard set on 12.14ha at 162 Wilderness Rd. It has attracted several inquiries from buyers interested in turning the property into a wedding reception venue.
"People really do like the name of Lovedale and that is how they have promoted the area," he said.
This home in Love Street, Blacktown sold in December for $718,000Source:Supplied
Romance is literally just around the corner at Blacktown and Cessnock, both of which have a Love Street. But if you are hoping to impress a potential Valentine, maybe steer clear of Dubbo — one of the few towns in the State with a Rocky Road.
Originally published asLove just around the corner
Harbour darling hits market again
Why time is ripe for first home buyers
Bungalow sells $530k over reserve
Frasier star's former Malibu mansion up for sale
Identical bedrooms to prevent fights
Is owning a home still the great Aussie dream?
Inside Ed Sheeran's ridiculous mansion
A view that can never be built out


Description: A UP intermodal with some autoracks come across the river, and across the Mound City Rd. crossing. Nice to see a tunnel motor, and something other than a UP SD70M!
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Dr Marina Miron
Honorary Research Fellow in The Centre for Military Ethics
marina.miron@kcl.ac.uk
Marina is currently an honorary research fellow in the Defence Studies Department (DSD)'s Centre for Military Ethics. She completed a BA in Politics and American Studies (Joint Honours) and an MA in War and Contemporary Conflict, both at the University of Nottingham. Marina was then awarded a PhD scholarship at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia. In February 2019, Marina successfully completed her PhD studies in the area of military strategy (with a focus on counter-insurgency campaigns in Peru, Turkey and Sri Lanka).
Since 2012, she has been working as a volunteer assistant editor at Military Strategy Magazine (formerly Infinity Journal). Marina has also taught short courses related to strategic studies, intelligence and counterinsurgency/counterterrorism at various establishments, most notably at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany and the Colombian War College in Bogota.
Presently, in her current role in the Centre for Military Ethics, Marina is working on topics related to military and military medical ethics, focusing on delivering military ethical education to the Colombian Armed Forces that is country-specific. She is also an honorary researcher in military science at the Colombian War College as well as the Colombian Centre for Military Education.
Marina is fluent in Spanish, German and Russian, near fluent in Ukrainian and reads Italian, Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish. She is also proficient in cyber issues, and is comfortable with coding using Fortran and is proficient in using SPSS.
Her current projects include a study of UK homeland resilience in light of Covid-19 (with Dr Rod Thornton, DSD) funded by a British Academy Covid-19 Small Grant. She is also conducting her post-doctoral research on the use of drones by the private sector and their impact on emergency response by civil authorities. In addition, Marina is participating in a project on military medical ethics education and its methods of delivery (with Professor David Whetham, DSD, Professor Martin Bricknell and Dr Peter Mahoney, both King's College London Department of War Studies).
Multi-domain operations
Cyber tools and artificial intelligence in a military context
Insurgency and counter-insurgency
Russian strategic and military thought
Information warfare
Middle Eastern security
Latin American security
Military Ethics
Defence Studies Academics to research the ethical use of drones during and after a pandemic
Professor David Whetham and Dr Marina Miron received a UKRI grant to investigate the use of drones…
Defence Studies
Cyber Security Research Group


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namespace Tests\AppBundle\Form\Filter\Admin\Other;

use AppBundle\Filter\Admin\Other\CategoryFilter;
use AppBundle\Form\Filter\Admin\Other\CategoryFilterType;
use Tests\AppBundle\Form\Base\BaseTypeTest;

class CategoryFilterTypeTest extends BaseTypeTest {

	const CATEGORY_1 = 201;

	const CATEGORY_2 = 202;

	const CATEGORY_3 = 203;

	const CATEGORY_CHOICES = [self::CATEGORY_1, self::CATEGORY_2, self::CATEGORY_3];

	const CATEGORY_SELECTED = self::CATEGORY_2;

	protected function assertEntity($entity) {
		parent::assertEntity($entity);

		/** @var CategoryFilter $entity */
		$this->assertEquals(self::CATEGORY_SELECTED, $entity->getCategory());
	}

	protected function getFormData() {
		$data = parent::getFormData();

		$data['category'] = self::CATEGORY_SELECTED;

		return $data;
	}

	protected function getFormActions() {
		$actions = parent::getFormActions();

		$actions['submit'] = 'submit';

		return $actions;
	}

	protected function getFormOptions() {
		$options = parent::getFormOptions();

		$options[self::getChoicesName('category')] = self::CATEGORY_CHOICES;

		return $options;
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Fabian Roosbeek received the degree of master in mathematics, from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, in 1993. He received the degree of doctor in exact sciences, from the UCL, in 1998 for the development of a tide generating potential and nutations series for a rigid Earth. Today he is in charge of the ICT infrastructure of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), including the specific needs of the GNSS research group.


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Fifty Years of Leadership In Music:
Glen and Margaret Harrison
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Glen with his parents
Nellie & Gib Harrison
Glen & Margaret with
Susan, Nancy and Reid
Glen with
sister Joyce
At Principal Sparling-
A Festival Trophy
The Choir at Sargent Park
In those day Nellie and Gilbert Harrison were members of Greenwood United Church their children, Glen and Joyce, participants in the Sunday School; a solid West End family bringing up their children through the hardships of the Great Depression and the uncertainties of World War II. And then, somewhere between the end of the War in 1945 and year 1951 Glen met Margaret Dow. They were married in 1951 and the rest…..as follows.
Margaret's career in music started when she was still a high school student at Kelvin. They put on the Mikado and Margaret was the accompanist, her first G & S show.
Glen started his career as music teacher at Lord Selkirk School in Winnipeg in 1951. His teaching then took him to Principal Sparling , Sargent Park and Elmwood Schools. Along the way he was training his school choirs and entering them in the Manitoba Music festival each spring.
Margaret's work as a music teacher took her to eight schools in both Winnipeg and Seven Oakes school divisions. Starting at Machray and ending at Carpathia School. (She had time off in the middle of all that to have a family.) Along the way and up to the present she has worked her considerable skill as an accompanist, 13 years at Rainbow Stage, and 18 years as both organist and choir leader of Oxford United Church. Add to this her work as "lesson accompanist" for the singing students of Nina Dempsey and the string students of John Waterhouse, accompanist for Jon Vickers and Mary Morrison when they performed together in Winnipeg, and organist at St. Paul's United where Glen was Choir director. Margaret's list of these kinds of engagements goes on and on. Good accompanists are never short of work in musical Winnipeg.
Back to Glen: While still in the classroom he started as the "voice" of the bi-weekly Manitoba School Broadcast "Let's Sing Together" from 1956 to 1978. This co-production of the CBC and The Manitoba Department of Education was very popular in elementary school classrooms first in Western Canada and later on national radio. From 1971 to '78 Glen worked for the Department of Education and produced both their radio and television programs.
After 10 years as a school music teacher for the Winnipeg School Division Glen was hired in 1961 as Music Supervisor in Seven Oaks School Division in West Kildonan. During his 10 years there, Glen produced 3 Broadway shows for the School Division's Community School Program in which members of the West Kildonan community and Glen Harrison's friends joined to put on Die Fleidermaus, Carousel and Brigadoon.
If I may skip back to the late '50's Glen was once selected as a contestant in the CBC series "Singing Stars of Tomorrow". He didn't win, but neither did one of his fellow contestants, Jean Ramsey, who was soprano soloist at Westminster Church at the time.
In 1971, after 10 years with the Seven Oaks School Division, Glen moved to the Department of Education for 7 years (see previous reference). Then, in 1978, he became Supervisor of Music for the Winnipeg School Division from which he retired in 1989.
But what was he doing with his spare time over all these years? Besides being Choir Director of Westminster church he was, from its very beginning a member of the artistic staff of Rainbow Stage. At first he trained the chorus and soloists for various shows (does anyone remember Chu Chin Chow?) and in the early 60's he became the conductor. He also directed and conducted musicals at Manitoba Theater Center when it was still located in its building on Portage Avenue East (just a few steps down the street from Jimmy Goundry's Coffee Shop at Portage and Main.) There he worked with John Hirsch and other early MTC directors. He also had time to teach classes off and on in the University of Manitoba faculty of education for 7 years.
Which brings us to 1990 when, with Glen's retirement, both he and Margaret were casting about looking for a retirement project. And the Gilbert and Sullivan Society was born, Margaret as its accompanist and Glen as its director.
Fifty years in the life of a city sees many changes; in the cultural life of a city, in the musical life of a city. Winnipeg's music scene has been rich and varied; Glen and Margaret's contribution to that scene has been constant, also varied and altogether remarkable. We at Westminster have enjoyed Glen's leadership for all those fifty
years and Margaret's contribution for many of them. Our sincere thanks to them both.
Broadcast Teacher
A Big School Broadcast
from the Concert Hall
Glen & Margaret at Westminster Church


The "Once Upon a Time" panel will be held Saturday, July 14 from 11:00-11:45 a.m. in Ballroom 20, followed by a moderated Q&A panel from 11:00-11:45 a.m. in Ballroom 20 and a special autograph session with the cast from 12:15-1:00 p.m. in Room 28C.
Emilie de Ravin will attend the panel.
She recently joined the cast as a series regular.


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CdeWinter on Mar 30, 2014 wrote:
I do understand that, I have also used Lorem Ipsum before in classes, usually the the text is just a long description of the history of Lorem Ipsum, I was just curious that this text was in latin, the Lorum Ipsum I've used before has always been translated.
But as I said, do understand that Lorem Ipsum is just a meaningless place holder.
* Chalks up another mark for leaning another fascinating thing.* Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom once more, AHEM Captain De Winter Congrats on your new rank. I just happened to notice. Well done Captain.
Oops, sorry I didn't know that! ( I do not want to offend Milady De Winter! )
ValkoorTheVictorio...
Rank: Dread Pirate
Hi Anne, I thought you might also like to know that Bob (or Robert) Wickersham was a rather well known director of animated shorts for Disney (like Wynken, Blynken and Nod) and other studios as well. He also was a co-director of some 1944 color Li'l Abner cartoons based on Al Caps pioneering Li'l Abner Comic Strip. So Abner Wickersham, perhaps could be a double nod then.
Chrissy Th'Blesser on Mar 31, 2014 wrote:
(Chrissy, I am quoting you in order to get those extra 1000 characters...just in case.)
Here are a few Easter Eggs I have discovered:
There is a monk(ey) in St. Bonobo's Abbey in Monquista, named Abbot Remigio. I am not 100% certain, but this could be a reference to the character Remigio Da Varagine from the novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, which takes place in a Benedictine Abbey. Though, I don't believe Remigio is the Abbot of the Abbey, but it is still quite a coincidence. It's also a movie starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater and Ron Perlman.
In Robin Oig's Lair in Marleybone there's a fox named Alan Breck. This references a character from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped, which became numerous films including the 1960 Disney one and a 2 part Disney movie/show in 1963. It was even a 1917 Silent Film. The name of the quest in which you come across Alan Breck is....yep, Kidnapped.
In the Hole in the Wall Tavern in Scrimshaw, is a dog pirate named Bill Bobstay. This is a reference to a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera titled H.M.S. Pinafore (also known as The Lass That Loved a Sailor). Gilbert and Sullivan, of course are the quest givers for many of the Port Regal quests, which also reference other characters from their comic opera, H.M.S Pinafore. Bob Beckett in Port Regal, Mrs. Phipps (character in opera is Mrs. Cripps) in Port Regal, Mr. Rackshaw (Ralph Rackstraw) found in Port Regal sewers, Captain Corcoran at The Hope and Anchor in Port Regal and Nick Deadeye (Dick Deadeye) whom you battle on the wreck of the Pequod in Scrimshaw- all from Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore. And the ship name Pequod is of course a reference to Captain Ahab's whaleship in Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
The companion Ensign Emmett (Otter) is likely a reference to Emmett Otter, a character in a children's storybook by Russell Hoban, called Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. Hoban's story was turned into the movie, Jim Henson's Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas in 1977. Yes I do actually remember watching it in elementary school & in fact my 8 year old son also watched it at school when he was in kindergarten a few years ago.
The Musketeer Samoorai companion Masamune Goto, is probably a reference to Goro Nyudo Masamune who is seen as Japan's greatest sword smith and the Goto Shirobei family of master metalworkers. Masamune is referenced in games such as being a weapon in the Final Fantasy series and in literature as well (along with Goto)- 1897 The Windsor Magazine, Volume 5 references them both.
'It was a long sword or katana (the swords, as you know, were worn in pairs, and the smaller was called the wakizashi), and it was mounted by a great metal worker of the Goto family. The signature of the great Masamune himself was engraved in the usual place- on the iron tang within the hilt.'
And Cool Ranch...well the entire Cool Ranch content itself is one big Easter Egg, actually the entire spiral seems to be for that matter.
Oh, almost forgot- I know I saw all of the Bands referenced by Zeke's quests up to MooShu, so here's the rest of them so far:
MooShu- (Shonen Knives) = Shonen Knife- an all female Japanese punk/pop 80's band.
Marleybone- The Rolling Stones- no further explanation needed.
Aquila- Eagles- same as above
I wonder if Mew and Crew are going to keep up the band referenced Zeke quests for future worlds...I sure hope so!
One of the new areas - Maria Celestia = the Mary Celeste, a famous "ghost" ship, it was found abandoned with no explanation as to what happened to the crew. It's still a mystery.
ValkoorTheVictorio... on Apr 1, 2014 wrote:
WOW I'm very impressed and inspired by this...btw, I'm new to posting but, we all gotta walk before we can run.
When you mentioned the quest 'Kidnapped' with Alan Breck, I remember in part of that quest, when we went to Flotsam to speak with one eyed Jack. Jack tells us of a hideout. In his dialog he says "a nod is as good as a wink..to a blind bat."
Not sure if this has been mentioned in this thread, I've only read through a few pages.
"A nod is a good as a wink..to a blind horse" is the name of an album by the band known as 'Faces'. For those not familiar with the band, you might have heard of their lead singer, Rod Stewart. Or their most popular hit 'Stay with me'..which is track 5 on the album ( 1 of my all time favorite songs)
Butterblitz on Apr 2, 2014 wrote:
Nice Catch Butterblitz I always wondered what that meant. Welcome to the message board family. Walk right in and stay a spell and enjoy our madcap fun.
Welcome to the message boards Butterblitz- not even sure why, but I just love the username. I can't take credit for all of that info, some of it I knew or was familiar with and others I had a hunch and had to research to get more additional info like dates and specific names of characters.
As far as your Easter Egg, like Chrissy said, nice find indeed. And you are right, Stay With Me is a great song, and I enjoy many of Stewart's others as well (like Maggie May). It is amazing how many musical references there are throughout the game. Many of them are somewhat subtle and some are not so much- like the one you found. Here are a few more quests that I have come across that reference music. (Some from my own knowledge and some from lots of digging and researching)
'Do Fear the Reaper' - nod to Blue Oyster Cult song Don't Fear the Reaper
'Guilty Heart is Quaking' - lyrics from the song 'The Hours Creep On Apace', from the Gilbert and Sullivan HMS Pinafore...and 'The Hours Creep on Apace' also happens to be the prequest as well.
'Live and Let Livsey' - perhaps a nod to the band Wings w/ Sir McCartney song Live and Let Die
'Rumble in the Jungle' - possibly a nod to Jethro Tull's song Bungle in the Jungle...or the legendary boxing matching
'The Commodores'- nod to the band The Commodores and the quest itself references 4 of the original members of the group- Ensign Richie/Lionel Richie, Ensign Williams/Milan Williams, Ensign King/William King and Ensign McLary/Thomas McClary. Great band and music, might I add.
'A Flock of Seagulls'- nod to the band of the same name (oh yeah, I forgot this one w/ Zeke's quests)
'A Spoonful of Stingers' - likely nod to the song A Spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins
'Be True To Your Sky'- possibly a nod to The Beach Boys song Be True to Your School, maybe not though
'Hungry Like the Wolf'- nod to Duran Duran song of the same name
'Keeping the Peace'- this is a reach but Blind Mew stated he listened to Billy Joel, so perhaps this is a tip of the hat to Joel's song Keeping the Faith
'Gimme Shelter' and 'Wild Horses' - with the reference of The Rolling Stones in Zeke's Marleybone quest, this could be a nod to the Stones' songs of the same name (not sure though)
These are just a few that came to attention just by looking through the lists of quests on the wiki site and I am quite sure I missed a bunch. Not to mention all of the song lyrics (like the ones you new) that are probably all throughout the quest dialogues that are Easter Eggs of the musical variety. It is always a very pleasant surprise when you come across a new one. KI did an amazing job giving us all of these little secrets to discover.
Again, welcome to the boards and hope you enjoy your time here!
Rainstorm286
The coconut mount on April Fools is actually a reference to Monty Python The Quest for the Holy Grail. The film used the gag in the movie because they couldn't afford real horses. I thought it was hilarious when I saw it. I thought it was a joke, but it was real. Good move Kingsisle :D
Speaking about mounts (I know wrong topic): How can you get the panther mount in Pirate101?
~Phantom~
Rainstorm286 on Apr 15, 2014 wrote:
The tribal pack in the crowns shop gives you a chance of getting the mount ( fairly easy to get one ).
The panther is a drop from the Tribal crew pack. Its only a chance but nice when it happens.
genericpirate786
Skull Island is a reference to King Kong, It's a Trap references Return of the Jedi and Port Regal references the pirate haven of Port Royal from real life, but the way it was portrayed, a British-like society, makes it become a reference to Pirates of the Caribbean.
thepiratefan
Peabotz on Jun 30, 2013 wrote:
There is a ship with a cutthroat shark, between Skull Island and the path to Puerto Mico.
On that ship, the mini boss' name is Mack The Shark.
My guess is, this is based off the character from the song Mack The Knife.
Here is part of the lyrics for proof.
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it, out of sight
Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe.
The song I am familiar with is sung by Bobby Darin.
But the actual song dates back to 1928.
The actual song is from Threepenny Opera. Look it up.
Also, Donkey Hotay is actually spelled Don Quixote. Look him up too.
genericpirate786 on Apr 15, 2014 wrote:
Skull Island is also a reference to the Island in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
While the actual treasure island was never named in the book, only referred to as the island, there was a small islet just off of the "Treasure Island" that is called Skull Island in the novel. It's one of the landmarks the treasure map mentions.
thepiratefan on Apr 17, 2014 wrote:
And, The Threepenny Opera, with its murderous hero (?) Mac the Knife, is in turn based on the early 18th C. 'The Beggar's Opera', with its hero (?) being the two-timing highwayman and leader of a gang of ruffians, Macheath. This musical play was a satire on the high style Italian operas so very popular in the day (such as the popular operas of Handel, who was much beloved by the English), and became enormously popular in its own right, I think in part to the bitingly satirical lyrics set to really great tunes from the popular music of the day (which included some of those Handel songs too!). I particularly love the Beggar's Opera version of Over the Hills and Far Away, with its tenderly romantic words set to a beautiful tune, which became part of the 'Top 40' songs for the entire 18th C!
Kyle Fenner
Santa Rana in Cool Ranch is from Mexican president Santa Anna. (Rana means frog in Spanish)
Also, his castle is called Castillo Sapo which means Toad Castle.
Puerto Mico (Mico means monkey)
Prospector Zeke's quests with Marquis Mark and the Funky Bunch and the Dixie Chicks, etc.
"Curious Jorge" Esquivel in the Dark Jungle in the Gold Mine.
I don't remember exactly where I saw this in Monquista but I remember St. Chiquita. Chiquita is a major banana company.
I know Kingsisle has put LOADS of other stuff in Pirate101 but I can't remember them all off the top of my head.
But great job Kingsisle for making me laugh throughout the game!
Melody Fisher
asianboss1374 on Jul 18, 2013 wrote:
Jorge Curiouso in Monquista-curious George
His ship is also called the Sombrero Amarillo, which translates roughly as yellow hat.
Melody Fisher on Apr 23, 2014 wrote:
Oh now THAT I did not pick up on. Nice catch. The man with the yellow hat was George's best friend.
Kyle Fenner on Apr 23, 2014 wrote:
Welcome to the message boards Kyle. Yup a reason to laugh is a wonderful reason to be here. We Message Board Marauders love to laugh and to help out other pirates. I am sure you are gonna love being part of this silly yet virtuous family.
CdeWinter on Apr 18, 2014 wrote:
I'm still considering Skull Island as a reference to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. But, after quickly rereading it, the islet I thought was called Skull Island is actually Skeleton Island. Although, I consider Skull and Skeleton to be close enough to count.
Second, I know somone had disagreed with me in the past about this reference, but I still say it stands (warning might be a spoiler).
In Marleybone, while completing Grace Conrad's promotion quest you fight a group of malfunctioning war golems. These lovely war golems greet you with a hearty mechanical "eradicate, eradicate" I say, even though someone has disagreed before, that this is a reference to Doctor Who's Darleks with their cry of "exterminate, exterminate".
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TalonDevereaux68 on Mar 15, 2013 wrote:
1) HP Lovecraft's dark god, Cthulu shows up in a lot of puppet shows.
2) Fin Dorsal is a play on Vin Diesel's movie character, Riddick, right down to the specialized blades.
4) Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah is pulled from an episode from The Jetsons. That cartoon is probably older than most of the players on this game.
5) The three lieutenants that run the Rat Pack out of Flotsam are based on the actual Rat Pack. More specifically Rat Pack members Sammy Davis, Jr. (Sammy Davies), Dean Martin (Martin Dean), and Frank "Ol' Blue Eyes" Sinatra (Frankie Blue-Eyes.)
6) The Rat Pack gang in Scrimshaw are known as the Rats of Nim. This is taken from an old animated movie The Secret of NIMH, which is based on an old children's book, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. NIMH stands for the National Institute of Mental Health.
7) My favorite easter egg is Chumba Wumba. He is named after a British alternative band called Chumbawumba.
Also, you can't win the fight against Chumba by attacking him directly because he always gets back up. This is taken from Chumbawumba's song "Tubthumping."
Opening lyrics of the song are. "I get knocked down, but I get up again. You ain't ever gonna keep me down."
Bonnie and Ol' Scratch even paraphrase those lyrics in the cut dialogue during the fight.
Chumba Wumba also drops a staff called the Tubthumper (Easter egg 7).
Yes, I noticed this they even sound like Daleks!
I think someone missed another Pokemon reference.
If you look closely in the Chamber of the Paw, one of the fake Monkey's Paws heavily resembles one of Krabby/Kingler's pincers.


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Neurons communicate via release of neurotransmitters from presynaptic terminals. This requires intact functioning of the protein expression and trafficking machinery, of mitochondria to meet a synapses' need for energy, of the proteasome/ubiquitin system and lysosomes to clear aged and misfolded proteins, and of the synaptic vesicle cycle to mediate continuous neurotransmission. Much evidence points to presynaptic terminals as initiation site for neurodegeneration in diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, where synaptic dysfunction has been shown to precede neuron death and to occur long before neuropathological symptoms become apparent. In addition, several rare neurodevelopmental diseases result in synaptic dysfunction, causing epilepsy and intellectual disability in children. Yet, virtually nothing is known about processes involved.
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No matter how hard you try to keep it even, for some reason, your pout ends up wearing your lippy down into one signature shape. Are we right?!
Apparently, this means that you're easygoing and loving (not bad traits to have). If there are zero rough edges on your stick, this shows you're a big fan of beauty and harmony. And what's your shade? Probably subtle pink, says the study.
If yorur lipstick dips in the middle, this supposedly means you're a friendly and adventurous gal. You're probably on the go a lot, love your freedom and don't like to conform to the norm. Concave girls would most likely be rocking a bright fuchsia hue.
Are you ambitious and passionate? You're probably a diagonal lipstick tip kind of girl. Apparently, if youre lippy tip is slanted it means you aim high and strive to achieve. With traits like this, it's no wonder your favourite hue is pillarbox red.
The point at the centre of your lipstick shows you are confident and like taking risks. You've got a bold personality and are always planning the next girls' night out/weekend away. Plum is so your shade.
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$5 million bond set for man charged in killing 6-year-old son, 3 others in Cleveland
Police found the four bodies Tuesday morning in the 3700 block of East 63rd Street.
Author: WKYC Staff
Published: 7:37 AM EDT July 12, 2019
Updated: 11:28 AM EDT July 12, 2019
CLEVELAND — The man accused in the deaths of four people – including two children – is being held on $5 million bond.
Armond Johnson, who has been charged with aggravated murder, made his first court appearance in the case Friday after his arrest earlier this week.
A preliminary hearing has been set for July 25.
Police say Johnson is the father of one of the children who died, 6-year-old Armond Johnson Jr. The others killed in the incident include 2-year-old Aubree Stone and 25-year-old Takeyra Collins. Their neighbor, 35-year-old David Cousin Jr., was found shot to death outside.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner has determined the died from smoke inhalation.
The situation began when David Cousin Jr., was found shot in the head and chest. Police say they believe Cousin was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he encountered Johnson.
When police began knocking on doors to find potential witnesses, officers could see the bodies of both children through a window. Once inside, officers also found the body of Collins, who had been shot in the back and stomach.
Police say evidence of arson was found at the scene, including accelerant and a heavy smell of smoke.


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from __future__ import division
from sklearn.cross_validation import StratifiedKFold
from sklearn.datasets import load_svmlight_file
from sklearn.metrics import log_loss
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier as RF

import argparse
import logging
import numpy as np
import time

def train_predict(train_file, test_file, predict_valid_file, predict_test_file,
                  n_est, depth, n_fold=5):

    logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s   %(levelname)s   %(message)s',
                        level=logging.DEBUG, filename='rf_{}_{}.log'.format(
                                                        n_est, depth
                                                       ))

    logging.info('Loading training and test data...')
    X, y = load_svmlight_file(train_file)
    X_tst, _ = load_svmlight_file(test_file)

    clf = RF(n_estimators=n_est, max_depth=depth, random_state=2015)

    cv = StratifiedKFold(y, n_folds=n_fold, shuffle=True, random_state=2015)

    logging.info('Cross validation...')
    p_val = np.zeros_like(y)
    lloss = 0.
    for i_trn, i_val in cv:
        clf.fit(X[i_trn], y[i_trn])
        p_val[i_val] = clf.predict_proba(X[i_val])[:, 1]
        lloss += log_loss(y[i_val], p_val[i_val])

    logging.info('Log Loss = {:.4f}'.format(lloss))

    logging.info('Retraining with 100% data...')
    clf.fit(X.todense(), y)
    p_tst = clf.predict_proba(X_tst.todense())[:, 1]

    logging.info('Saving predictions...')
    np.savetxt(predict_valid_file, p_val, fmt='%.6f')
    np.savetxt(predict_test_file, p_tst, fmt='%.6f')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('--train-file', required=True, dest='train_file')
    parser.add_argument('--test-file', required=True, dest='test_file')
    parser.add_argument('--predict-valid-file', required=True,
                        dest='predict_valid_file')
    parser.add_argument('--predict-test-file', required=True,
                        dest='predict_test_file')
    parser.add_argument('--n-est', default=100, type=int, dest='n_est')
    parser.add_argument('--depth', default=None, type=int, dest='depth')

    args = parser.parse_args()

    start = time.time()
    train_predict(train_file=args.train_file,
                  test_file=args.test_file,
                  predict_valid_file=args.predict_valid_file,
                  predict_test_file=args.predict_test_file,
                  n_est=args.n_est,
                  depth=args.depth)
    logging.info('finished ({:.2f} min elasped)'.format((time.time() - start) /
                                                        60))


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import { createReducer } from '../../../util'
import InitialState from './globalInitState'
import types from '../../types'

const initialState = new InitialState

export default createReducer(initialState, {
  [types.SET_SESSION_TOKEN]: (state, data) => {
    return state.set('sessionToken', data)
  },

  [types.SET_STORE]: (state, data) => {
    return state.set('store', data)
  },

  [types.GET_STATE]: (state, data) => {
    let _state = state.store.getState()

    if (data) {
      let newState = {}
      newState['cnode'] = _state.cnode.toJS()
      newState['device'] = _state.device.toJS()
      newState['dribbble'] = _state.dribbble.toJS()
      newState['global'] = _state.global.set('store',null).toJS()

      return state.set('showState', data)
        .set('currentState',newState)
    } else {
      return state.set('showState', data)
    }
  },

  [types.SET_STATE]: (state, data) => {
    var global = JSON.parse(data).global
    var next = state.set('currentUser', global.currentUser)
          .set('showState', false)
          .set('currentState', null)
    return next
  }
})


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El neopaganisme a Irlanda és l'expressió de diverses religions sorgides els darrers anys a Irlanda que imiten les antigues creences existents a l'illa. Actualment, corrents com la Wicca, el druïdisme o el politeisme celta tenen molts membres actius a la República d'Irlanda, tot i que el nombre declarat d'adherits és bastant petit.

Abans del 1990, els grups neopagans irlandesos eren considerats com excentricitats; no obstant, des d'aleshores la seva acceptació ha augmentat considerablement, principalment per dues raons: el declivi de la influència de l'església catòlica, provocant que algunes persones explorin altres sistemes de creences; i el descobriment d'alineacions astronòmiques en cercles de pedres, muntanyes i enterraments, indicant que els antics irlandesos estaven més avançats tecnològicament del què es pensava anteriorment.

El desenvolupament extensiu de carreteres i autopistes al país, iniciats a mitjans de la dècada de 1990, hn provocat la destrucció de diversos jaciments celtes, i els grups neopagans s'han involucrat sovint en protestes contra aquestes obres. Les protestes més nombroses es van realitzar contra l'autopista M3, que tallava per Tara-Skryne o vall de Gabhra, al comtat de Meath, i prop del Pujol de Tara, seu tradicional dels Alts Reis d'Irlanda. Els grups relacionats amb el druïdisme han estat els que més s'han involucrat en les protestes contra el desenvolupament de la carretera.

Referències

Neopaganisme

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My history as an artist exists among the intersections of movement, text, sound and song. Mining the unconscious narratives and underlying structures that drive the experience of both the performer and those that witness. Choreographically, I am interested in repurposing iconography and forms to create alternative perspectives. Structuring environments that reframe actions and the perceived logic of the players, exploring a range of temporal forms from short works to durational tasks.
David Thomson, is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary collaborative and performing artist who has worked in the fields of music, dance, theater and performance with such artists as Mel Wong, Jane Comfort, Bebe Miller ('83-'86; '03-'06), Remy Charlip, Marta Renzi, The Lavender Light Gospel Choir, Trisha Brown ('87-'93), David Roussève, Wendy Perron, Susan Rethorst, Michel Laub/Remote Control (NL), Ralph Lemon ('99-'10), Bo Madvig (DK), Sally Silvers, Tracie Morris, Sekou Sundiata, Reggie Wilson, Dean Moss/Layla Ali, Mike Taylor, Meg Stuart, Marina Abramović, Muna Tseng, Daria Faïn & Robert Kocik, Clarinda Mac Low, Alain Buffard (FR), Deborah Hay, Yanira Castro, Tere O'Connor, Beth Gill, Patricia Hoffbauer, Yvonne Rainer, David Bowie, Fiona Templeton, Kaneza Schaal, and Lee Mingwei among many others. He has performed downtown, Off-Broadway and in London with the Drama Desk nominated a capella performance group, Hot Mouth, founded by Grisha Coleman, Jonathan Stone, Viola Sheely and Thomson.
His own work has been presented by The Kitchen, Danspace Project at St Mark's Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Roulette and Movement Research at Judson Church. Thomson has been Artist-in-Residence at Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Gibney Dance Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Process Space Program, The Invisible Dog, Topaz Arts and Mount Tremper Arts Center and The Yard. His work has been supported by The Robison Foundation, The MAP Fund, Jerome Foundation and the Brooklyn Arts Council among other sources. Thomson was honored with a New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") for Sustained Achievement (2001), as part of the creative team for Bebe Miller's Landing/Place (2006) and for Outstanding Production for his first evening-length work he his own mythical beast (2018).
Thomson has been awarded fellowships from United States Artists|Ford, NYFA in Choreography, MacDowell, Yaddo and The Rauschenberg Foundation. He is currently a LMCC Extended Life | Lifeline Artist (2018-21). Thomson has served on the faculties of Movement Research, NYU/Experimental Theater Wing, Sarah Lawrence, The New School, Barnard, Bennington and Pratt as well as teaching internationally. He was a 2017-19 QUEER ARTS Mentor.
He has worked as an Arts Administrator and/or Database Consultant for several organizations including New York Foundation for the Arts, Merce Cunningham Foundation, Dieu Donné Papermill, National Performance Network, Movement Research and developed the Archive database for the Trisha Brown Company. An ongoing advocate for dance and the empowerment of artists, he was one of the founding members of Dancer's Forum and has served on the boards of Bebe Miller/Gotham Dance, Dance Theater Workshop and New York Live Arts. He is currently working with Kate Watson-Wallace on The Sustainability Project, a platform for research and arts activism that seeks to create and expand the discourse surrounding ideas of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment in the performing arts community. Thomson began dancing at Haverford/Bryn Mawr Colleges and later received his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from SUNY Purchase.
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Q: How can I force Caffe to print the label near each probability or fix the order of their printing? I'm trying to analyze probabilities of a binary classifier according to the solution #2 suggested here: How can I get two output values (for each of the two classes) for a binary classifier in Caffe?
I've got the following output of my testing:
I0321 20:27:52.331949 11973 caffe.cpp:276] Batch 1999, accuracy = 0
I0321 20:27:52.332003 11973 caffe.cpp:276] Batch 1999, prob = 0.932919
I0321 20:27:52.332011 11973 caffe.cpp:276] Batch 1999, prob = 0.0670813
I0321 20:27:52.367635 11973 caffe.cpp:276] Batch 2000, accuracy = 0
I0321 20:27:52.367686 11973 caffe.cpp:276] Batch 2000, prob = 0.0507332
I0321 20:27:52.367694 11973 caffe.cpp:276] Batch 2000, prob = 0.949267

There is a problem that the two probabilities for each class are not labeled here. So in this particular case for iterations 0-1999 the probabilities are printed in the following order: first the probability for class 0 ("no") is printed and then for class 1 ("yes"). For iterations 2000-2999 it is printed vice versa: (first probability for class 1 ("yes") and then probability for class 0 ("no").
This is not convenient since I further make an automated parsing of this log.
How can I force Caffe to print the label near each probability or fix the order of their printing?


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What if the Middle Class Moved Into Public Housing?
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One of the most basic questions the 21st century is going to have to answer is what the fate of our cities will be. (It's why some of us are so drearily obsessed with the subject.) Demographic, economic, and technological changes are realigning people's incentives and bringing jobs and people back to city cores, but the market is shifting faster than our mindsets. We've known how to move people around in dense cities for more than a century, but we've forgotten what we once knew about making cities affordable.
Take Singapore. As far as Asian cities go, it's not clear why someone would pick Singapore as a model of affordability. The authoritarian city-state isn't quite as prohibitively expensive as Hong Kong (by one metric, it's substantially more affordable than Toronto), but it's not actually the star performer in Asia. Nevertheless, an article in the New York Times Magazine points out that Singapore seems to have handled massive urbanization while keeping things relatively affordable. The country also is generally well regarded for its emphasis on urban design.
What does Singapore have going for it? Massive public investment in housing, at levels that are frankly unthinkable in North America. More than 80 percent of the population live in their version of public housing. Which, since it's occupied by the large bulk of the middle class and not just the poor, doesn't carry the same connotations as public housing does in North America.
But public investment on its own isn't magical fairy dust: no surprise, it gives planners much more control over how a city grows (because paying the piper lets you call the tune). But the most basic thing Singapore got right is building a massive amount of housing—120,000 new units between 2000 and 2008, which is comparable to the number of new units built in Toronto in the same years. And that was a slow period for Singapore. Meanwhile, Canada's largest provider of public housing has less than 60,000 units in total and a $751 million repair backlog on a good day—and hasn't had a lot of good days lately.
Public investment can work, in other words, if you're willing to commit to something that's basically hallucinatory in a Canadian or American context. ("Good evening sir, I'd like to talk to you about spending hundreds of billions of dollars to move the middle class into public housing. P.S.: I am not a crank.") Oh, and the Singaporean model has its own problems, too, like persistent racism in the rental market and housing quotas that ensure "diversity" by guaranteeing ethnic Chinese supermajorities in every part of the country. Why, it's almost as if there are unintended consequences to massive state-funded urban redevelopment projects.
As noted above, Singapore isn't even a top performer in dense Asian cities when it comes to affordability. Tokyo is more affordable still, using the same metrics by which Singapore scores well, and it's no mystery why: Tokyo built way more housing per person from 2000-2008, so its residents get larger homes for less money than in Singapore.
The broader question is whether millions of North Americans would ever choose to live in places like Tokyo or Singapore in the first place. To which the reasonable answer seems to be: make it cheap for them and we'll find out soon enough.
A more complicated question may be whether our cities need skyscraper-based redevelopment along the lines of what Tokyo's undergone in the last 20 years. Lloyd Alter, echoing a frequent sentiment among urbanists, wrote last week that what cities really need is mid-rise developments, pointing to historic parts of Paris or Barcelona.
Now, someone like Alter and someone like me don't actually disagree here. Whether you think Tokyo or Paris is the model of a 21st-century city, we're both saying lots of major cities need massive new building and rebuilding to make them more affordable—some of us are just a bit more agnostic about how that happens. I don't think mid-rises will be cheaper than high-rises unless they're actually allowed to be, and there's little sign of that happening.
The political obstacle for both towers and mid-rises is the same. The number of cities where actual Parisian-level densities are allowed in North America is nearly zero, since bringing it to a city like Toronto would mean tearing down not just commercial main streets but residential streets of single-family homes and bungalows to be replaced with wall-to-wall buildings six to ten storeys tall. During an argument over a six-storey building here in Toronto, one angry local told me he didn't actually mind the condo development going up—what bothered him were all those assholes putting third-storey additions on their homes on his street. I would suggest this is perhaps not fertile ground for a New Paris.
Which brings us back to our choices. The problem most cities face is that, given the choice between massive public building or massive private building, we actually prefer neither, hoping instead that our affordability woes can be solved while preserving the "character" of our downtowns (and incidentally the property values of incumbent homeowners) without raising taxes. Maybe yelling about greedy developers will solve the problem if we try it for the 11 billionth time, but based on the record to date, that doesn't seem to be working.
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West Hill Sewer Separation Project
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Underground work on Phase 4B of the West Hill Sanitary and Storm Sewer Separation Project on 8th Street has been completed from Cedar to Chestnut including sections of Sycamore (7th to 8th) and Iowa (7th to 8th). Prime contractor KE Flatworks has been preparing these sections for paving which is expected to begin July 15 or July 16.
Underground work from Chestnut to Linn will not resume until the paving on 8th from Cedar to Chestnut, Iowa from 7th to 8th, and Sycamore from 7th to 8th, is substantially complete.
Once underground work resumes and the Pine Street intersection has been closed to traffic, message boards will be placed on Pine and at 11th Street to assist traffic to and from St.Mary and Mathias Catholic Parrish.
The West Hill Area Sanitary and Storm Sewer Project Phase 4B began on March 21, 2019, in the 100 and 200 blocks of East 8th Street and the 700 block of Sycamore Street. Phase 4B includes replacement of water main along with storm and sewer mains. The red area (map above) is where Phase 4B will be through July 3, 2019. The pink areas are the rest of the areas where work will be done during 2019. Advance notice will be given before those streets are closed to traffic.
A detour route has been established this week on 7th Street from Cedar to Broadway to provide the best path for traffic flow and return to West 8th Street at a traffic signal-controlled intersection. Heavy truck traffic is re-routed away from the residential area. In order to provide a detour route through this neighborhood that is safer for traffic and parked vehicles, parking is limited to one side only on 7th Street. No Parking signs were placed on the river side (even number side) to prohibit parking beginning Wednesday, March 20.
The project will be completed in two parts to ease the disruption of traffic on one of Muscatine's busiest streets. Sewer replacement and replacement of the pavement will be completed from Cedar to Iowa during the first part that is expected to be completed by July 3. The second part from Iowa to Lynn is tentatively scheduled to begin on July 7 and anticipated to be completed by September 23. The entire project has an end date of October 4, 2019, weather permitting.
The contract for Phase 4 of the West Hill Sewer Separation Project was awarded to KE Flatwork, Inc., Eldridge, Iowa, on April 5, 2018, in the amount of $6,109,522.45.
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Steps, Charity Shop Sue and Jay Revell to make cameos in RuPaul's Drag Race UK season 3
The BBC has announced some of the celebrities who will be making special guest appearances in the upcoming season of Drag Race UK.
Following the success of season two and last week's cast announcement, excitement for the new edition of the show has been greater than ever.
Now, the BBC has given fans of the franchise another glimpse into its next instalment by ru-vealing some of the guests viewers can look forward to seeing.
Steps, one of the UK's most beloved pop groups, will be sharing their extensive dance and music experience with this season's contestants.
"RuPaul's Drag Race and Steps is THE perfect marriage," H said of the group's appearance. "A total camp-combo! A celebration of Pop and Queer culture! But as mentors we took no prisoners! We worked the Queens hard.. and it paid off! It's going to be an ICONIC episode! It was no DRAG-edy!"
Charity Shop Sue, a comedian and self-proclaimed "very successful manager", will be taking some annual leave from her Nottingham store to bring her retail expertise to the show – an experience which she described as "magical".
Sue said that meeting the upcoming season's queens felt like being "given the golden ticket" and that everyone was "lovely," so there was thankfully no need to use her disciplinary skills on any of the cast or judges.
You thought we were done? Oh no hun, here's even more #DragRaceUK extra special guests for Series 3! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/E03uSH1Hwh
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Also making a cameo on the new season will be award-winning choreographer Jay Revell, who will once again be returning to mentor the queens.
"I think RuPaul's Drag Race is so important to the culture, it's amazing to be a part of something which you can see really builds people up and allows them to express their full selves," Jay said. "Also the laughs and epic personalities, never a dull moment!"
Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Kathy Burke, Matt Lucas and Oti Mabuse will be the season's first three guest judges.
Kathy revealed that her drag name would be Pam Demic and explained that she was elated to make an appearance on the show because of how "important" it is.
Season three of Drag Race UK will arrive on BBC iPlayer this September with 12 fierce queens competing to make herstory.