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Why Are Some Movies and Television Shows Still Being Cropped (Pan and Scan) To Fill a Television Screen?
Sometimes the aspect ratio of a movie or television show doesn't match the aspect ratio of the television or viewing device. The solution to this is either letterboxing or cropping (pan and scan).
One justification for pan and scan instead of letterboxing is because VHS tapes have low resolution and letterboxing would exacerbate the problem. However there have not been any major VHS releases in a long time and in addition lots of people now have a high definition or even an ultra high definition (4K) TV or monitor rendering this justification irrelevant.
In addition all televisions and DTV converter boxes I used have the option to zoom into the video for people who don't like letterboxing.
Also sometimes someone must review each scene and best decide how to crop it which means that pan and scan has a higher cost associated with it than letterboxing. This does not apply when center cropping the entire program.
Another thing often times pan and scan releases anger fans of whatever was cropped which could result in a loss of revenue.
Also unless the program was intentionally framed for multiple aspect ratios, it's not what the people working on it intended meaning that important things may get removed from the program.
As a specific example of this. Seinfeld has been cropped to fill a 16:9 frame. The result of this is that everything looks zoomed in too much. It almost feels like I'm invading their personal space. In my opinion watching cropped Seinfeld is a terrible experience. Something "feels" wrong when I'm watching this. Of course this is only my own personal opinion. Maybe lots of people prefer the other way around but I've only been able to find people against cropping Seinfeld and when I research if people prefer or don't like pan and scan I find largely negative sentiment associated with pan and scan instead of letterboxing. There seem to be many people who have a very strong opinion in favor of letterboxing over pan and scan.
With all that said why are we still seeing pan and scan releases today?
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Presumably because the TV network disagrees with you and presents the show in the format that they think their audience prefers. People don't complain about things they like so negative opinions are always more prevalent that positive ones. – Paulie_D Aug 2 '20 at 11:05
@Paulie_D the concept of not hearing from people who prefer cropping makes sense. The question still remains. What about the zoom option on most TVs? You can't uncrop something but you can always crop it further. It seems like everyone would be happy with letterboxing and zooming in if someone prefers pan and scan. Why force it on everyone? – The Movie Man Aug 2 '20 at 12:12
I think you're making a pretty big assumption people even know about the zoom or fill functions on newer TVs. (Also, plenty of people don't have newer TVs.) – pboss3010 Aug 4 '20 at 16:03
It seems that a lot of directors are really against pan and scan because it changes their directorial vision and leaves out important scenes/information. There were even lawsuits with famous directors. Steven Spielberg even refused to release a pan and scan version for one of his films. I think they have made some steps to change this with letterboxing as you mentioned, and recently formatted for HDTVs. I don't know why they don't change this on TV programs, but I have a feeling it is because they have used this for decades and don't have a breakthrough solution to replace the pan and scan.
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> "[D]on't have a breakthough solution to replace the pan and scan". Isn't letterboxing the breakthrough solution? – The Movie Man Aug 2 '20 at 23:35
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Dunn, P. K., and Smyth, G. K. (1996). Randomized quantile residuals. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 5, 236-244.
Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland Brisbane, Q 4072, Australia.
In this paper we give a general definition of residuals for regression models with independent responses. Our definition produces residuals which are exactly normal, apart from sampling variability in the estimated parameters, by inverting the fitted distribution function for each response value and finding the equivalent standard normal quantile. Our definition includes some randomization to achieve continuous residuals when the response variable is discrete. Quantile residuals are easily computed in computer packages such as SAS, S-Plus, GLIM or LispStat, and allow residual analyses to be carried out in many commonly occurring situations in which the customary definitions of residuals fail. Quantile residuals are applied in this paper to three example data sets.
Keywords: deviance residual; exponential regression; generalized linear model; logistic regression; normal probability plot; Pearson residual.
Residuals, and especially plots of residuals, play a central role in the checking of statistical models. In normal linear regression the residuals are normally distributed and can be standardized to have equal variances. In non-normal regression situations, such as logistic regression or log-linear analysis, the residuals, as usually defined, may be so far from normality and from having equal variances as to be of no practical use. A particular problem occurs when the response variable is discrete and takes on a small number of distinct values, as for Poisson data with mean not far from zero or binomial data with mean close to either zero or the number of trials. In such situations the residuals lie on nearly parallel curves corresponding to distinct response values, and these spurious curves distract the eye seriously from any meaningful message that might be contained in a residual plot.
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Did you know the economy has been saved by a Hobbit? The dumbing down of economic literacy has lead to this; Perhaps the saddest part of all of this is that even this utterly inconsequential number is itself based on basic three-card monte level sleights of hand and statistical fraud that even a grade schooler should be able to see through.
Rejoice! The economy has been saved and the world is back in good financial stead!
What allows me to make this bold proclamation, you ask? Has there been some fundamental transformation in the global economy? Has the sovereign debt crisis been resolved by a giant debt jubilee? Have the central banksters finally been apprehended and shown to their rightful place behind bars? Have the people of the world finally seen through the debt-based fiat money delusion and, all at once, dropped their dependence on Federal Reserve Notes in favor of alternative currencies, self-issued credit, and local exchanges?
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This phenomenon of reporting box office returns as important business news is nothing new, of course. In recent decades there has been a growing obsession with the grosses of films that would be hard to explain on the surface. Surely there aren't that many more producers or investors whose financial fortunes are dependent on the profitability of the latest Tom Cruise vehicle or the newest big budget sequel/prequel/remake/spinoff. So what is the media's fascination with ranking the weekend intake of each movie as if they were reporting the latest sports results?
Well, for starters it's the easiest story for an over-worked, under-staffed, under-funded "news" team in the increasingly penny-pinching offices of a dinosaur mainstream news outlet to report. More troublingly, though, it's part of a longer-term trend in the dumbing down of basic economic literacy that allows the financial controllers to keep the public distracted by shiny baubles while they get to work looting and plundering the economy behind the scenes. In this new paradigm of mainstream "business" reporting, stories of almost no consequence whatsoever can be focused on as if they are bellwethers of the economy: if box office hauls are forever trending upward, after all, then how bad can the economy really be? The setting of box office record after record seems to be a rising economic indicator, if only in the minds of that section of the public whose greatest acquaintance with the economy is the weekly ranking of movie ticket returns.
Perhaps the saddest part of all of this is that even this utterly inconsequential number is itself based on basic three-card monte level sleights of hand and statistical fraud that even a grade schooler should be able to see through. Just as CPI is kept artificially low by excluding those things that people actually buy in favor of more obscure (and less obviously inflating) commodities, and just as unemployment figures of today are compared with unemployment figures of decades past without noting the complete changes in unemployment calculation that make such a side-by-side comparison meaningless, so too are box office intakes of modern Hollywood movies favorably compared to the ticket sales of years gone by without noting the complicating factors in such a comparison. Have you ever seen a list of "highest grossing films of all time" that failed to include information about whether or not the films were being ranked in inflation-adjusted terms? Or how rising ticket prices factor into these numbers? Or why these "records" aren't measured in ticket sales instead of gross revenue? Never mind all that, BusinessInsider.com has a new angle on the tale of The Hobbit's "record smashing" performance: "The Hobbit didn't break $100 million" in its opening weekend. The horror.
If only this phenomenon of trivialization were limited to Hollyweird. Alas, this is not the case.
You've heard of the McDonaldization of the economy? George Ritzer uses the term to describe how both the labor market and the products they produce are increasingly being standardized in the name of efficiency. But there is a more literal level at which we can say the economy has been McDonaldized. It has long been discussed how McDonald's has applied the concept of "artificial scarcity" to raise interest in (and sales of) the McRib, a sandwich consisting of "restructured meat product" that has been molded into the pattern of a slab of ribs. The description of the product's creation is enough to turn one's stomach (and as a hint, scalded stomach is one of the ingredients), but it has achieved cult-like status amongst some McDonald's aficionados for its scarcity. So rare is its seemingly random appearance on the menu that there are entire websites devoted to tracking sightings of the sandwich at restaurants across America. (This despite the fact that it is available on the menu year-round in Germany.) What many don't know is that its sudden appearance and disappearance from the menu in America may not be so random after all. Willy Stanley of The Awl makes a convincing case that the McRib is actually a study in pork price arbitrage. As Stanley demonstrates, nationwide reappearances of the sandwich coincide precisely with troughs in the US hog market. Every time the price of pork bottoms out, it seems, McDonald's goes on a buying spree, reintroducing the McRib to the menu. In other words, they're playing customers like fools, purposefully keeping alive the "mystique" (and keeping aloft the price) of a sandwich they could sell at any time, waiting for pork prices to hit bottom. As Stanley points out, this works because McDonald's is such a market-moving force that "it's more useful to think of it as a company trading in commodities than it is to think of it as a chain of restaurants." McDonaldization indeed.
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About The Harris Poll
The Harris Poll is one of the longest running surveys in the U.S., tracking public opinion, motivations and social sentiment since 1963. It is now part of Harris Insights & Analytics, a global consulting and market research firm that strives to reveal the authentic values of modern society to inspire leaders to create a better tomorrow. We work with clients in three primary areas: building twenty first century corporate reputation, crafting brand strategy and performance tracking, and earning organic media through public relations research. Our mission is to provide insights and advisory to help leaders make the best decisions possible.
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For Dewan Tatum, distance is the key. "There's a beauty in being two busy people because we get a lot of time to miss each other," she says. "To continue to miss someone after so many years is kind of a blessing in disguise."
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Are Great British Bake Off Technical Challenges getting harder?
If in the unlikely event you've never heard of the Great British Bake Off, let me enlighten you: it's a TV show where British people bake things in a tent. It's not quite as relaxing as it sounds: contestants are asked to bake some very complicated things under extremely stressful conditions.
One challenge of the three presented every episode is particularly feared: the Technical. The bakers are given a week to practice for the other two challenges. In the Technical Challenge, though, they're surprised with a recipe and must attempt it with zero preparation.
Since every baker works from the same recipe in the Technical, and because these recipes are readily available online, it's the ideal candidate to investigate claims that the Bake Off is getting much harder over time:
What makes a recipe difficult?
How can we tell if one Technical Challenge is more difficult than another? I polled baking family and friends to see what they thought, and answers fell into two main groups: familiarity with the item being made and overall complexity of the recipe.
Obviously, making a recipe a second or third time is usually easier than doing it the first. Even just having an idea of what the end product should look like gives you a big leg up. Contestants frequently express relief that they've even heard of the items they've been asked to bake.
As a proxy for the nebulous concept of recipe familiarity, I looked up "challenge item" + recipe on Google Books to find how many cookbooks are out there with that item in them. In theory, if lots of cookbooks have a recipe for the item, the people are likely to be familiar with it.
It is cyclical, but there's a very notable downward trend in recipe familiarity over the 9 Bake Off seasons. In season 1, folks were making scones and focaccia. In season 9, they made aebleskiver and blancmange.
Measuring recipe complexity is, well, complex. I decided to look at just a couple of key areas I personally considered important.
Number of Components
A component in a recipe is a sub-item of the whole that requires its own set of instructions. For example, a pie may have two components: the crust and the filling. I find it safe to assume that the more components a recipe has the more of a pain in the ass it is to make.
The number of recipe components has risen over time, and jumped especially in season 9:
Number of Ingredients
The number of unique ingredients also adds to recipe complexity. If you have to gather a wide variety of objects, the recipe might be more harder to make.
This has risen over time, but did undergo a three-year lull during seasons 6 through 8.
Recipe Length
A longer recipe is seems likely to be a harder recipe. I decided to measure length by the number of sentences in the recipe, rather than individual words, with the theory that most sentences contain an action for the baker to take.
By this measure, recipe length cratered in season 7, but rose both before and after that point.
I doubt the Bake Off contestants have to do their own dishes, but we home bakers do. For each recipe, I counted up the number of dirty pots, pans, and bowls generated (forks, spoons, and other stirring implements I ignored).
We can clearly see the technical challenges require more and more dishes over the seasons.
With the 5 aspects of recipe difficulty established (familiarity, components, ingredients, length, and dishes to do), we can roll them up into one overarching difficulty score. I created an incredibly sophisticated, ultra-proprietary formula to do this*.
This formula conclusively shows that the technical challenge has increased in difficulty over time. They eased off a bit in season 7 after the insanity of season 6, but it's been going steadily up since then.
*I just found the decile of each individual score for each individual recipe, then averaged them all to get an overall score from 1-10.
Difficulty of individual challenges
A graph of the difficulty score of each challenge shows how variable they can be. However, it's clearly obvious that the challenges in later seasons are much more difficult in than those at the beginning: the hardest challenge of season 1 (cob loaf) is easier than every challenge in season 9 but one (naan)!
Are Paul's challenges harder?
Contestants sometimes groan when the hosts announce the upcoming Technical was chosen by judge Paul Hollywood. The thinking is his recipes are much harder than those of his co-judges, Mary Berry and Prue Leith.
However, ✨with data✨ I can actually show their fears are misplaced! In truth, Paul is a big ol' softie. Prue, however, is an absolute demon and contestants should be terrified of any challenge she sets. With one exception, all her recipes are above the average difficulty.
My metrics for difficulty don't necessarily capture the full picture. For example, most bread recipes were rated as easy because they're familiar and contain only a few ingredients, but knowing how knead and proof dough is a fine skill. However, they do let us draw a broad conclusion: almost certainly, the bakers of season 9 are busting their butts on a different level than the bakers of season 1.
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By France Jaigu| 2017-03-31T12:52:13+00:00	March 18th, 2016|LRO 25|
The history of emojis1, the little pictorial icons we all have on our cellphones today, really started in the mid 1990s when Shigetaka Kurita, an employee with Japanese mobile network DoCoMo, invented them. The emoji craze however took off later, when Apple successfully slipped them into the iphone. Using emojis in text messages was seen [...]
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By Jorge Assef| 2017-03-31T12:51:30+00:00	March 18th, 2016|LRO 25|
Denmark, 2012, Thomas Vinterberg's film The Hunt is released. It told the story of how a town is shocked after a four-year-old girl confusingly insinuates to the school's principal that one of the teachers, Lucas, has behaved inappropriately. This triggers a parade of adults who cannot hold their own as parents and embark on a [...]


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Trailer: The Leo Fioravanti Movie!
By Michael Ciaramella
What would you give to be nineteen with the whole world before you?
Have you ever considered the life of Italy's first professional surfer? It's more than just barrels, breasts and wine. Maybe!
Leo Fioravanti achieved two childhood dreams this year by qualifying for the CT and giving Slater the ol' Roman Candle not once but twice! Not bad for a nineteen-year-old Italian kid.
Despite his competitive successes, many have criticized Leo's road to fame, claiming he's just a rich Italian kid who was sent around the world and molded into a top athlete. To these people I say two things: 1. You don't get to choose your socioeconomic standing nor nationality and 2. There is no such thing as molding a top athlete. Glen Hall could have surfed forty hours a week since his third birthday, split his time between the North Shore and Indo, and have been coached by an older, wiser version of himself, and he'd still never be able to crack the top ten. Practice and opportunity make the CT, but natural ability is what separates the Slaters from the Durbidges. In short time we'll know where Leo falls.
The trailer for Leo's documentary, Ride to the Roots, is as vague in name as it is in description. From what I gather it will be the story of his life and lineage, which is to say, the story of a rich Italian kid who was sent around the world and molded into a top athlete. Being that he's nineteen and has had only one major setback in his life, this film will likely not be revolutionary in nature, but rather a nationalistic pat on the back to a surf-starved, pasta-bloated Mediterranean peoples.
If for no other reason, watch because Leo won Surfing Mag's Lady Killer award in this year's Peer Poll. Insert Italian Stallion joke here.
Duh: Titans of Mavericks bankrupts!
Blames sunless tanning!
Bankruptcy is a trendy surf thing right now. Very hip. Mavericks just declared. Lame. Later bros. And I'm busy on something else right now (you'll see tomorrow!) so I'll leave you with the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Bay Area big-wave surf competition Titans of Mavericks could be wiped out this year after its organizers filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday amid a sell of their assets.
Titans of Mavericks LLC and Cartel Management Inc. filed separate petitions in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, but described the action as an effort to "ensure a smooth and swift transition of the business and operations."
"The brand has seen explosive growth since its creation," Griffin Guess, Titans of Mavericks founder, said in a press release. "The process will allow Titans of Mavericks to reach new heights in the right hands. It is time for a larger organization to gain from all of our hard work."
Yet the bankruptcy filing comes after costly legal trouble for Cartel Management. Red Bull Media House North America Inc. filed a lawsuit against Cartel and Titans of Mavericks in the Superior Court of Los Angeles on Friday, just days before the bankruptcy action.
Red Bull Media House sought an unspecified amount in damages after paying Titans of Mavericks $400,000 for the rights to webcast this year's competition — which hasn't happened yet — then never receiving a refund after Cartel abruptly terminated the contract.
"After receiving Cartel's purported termination letter, searching for a rationale for Cartel's erratic behavior, Plaintiff found that Cartel is beset by financial and legal difficulties," the suit states.
At the end of October, a jury in the Central District of California found Cartel and Marisa Miller, an international supermodel and wife of Guess, were liable to pay $1 million after breaching a contract with another company, Segler Holdings LLC.
The defendants had apparently violated a promotion deal with Segler Holdings' Glissin sunless tanning products and salons.
Finish the story here but how good is it that part of the bankruptcy has to do with sunless tanning?
Fucking northern California.
"This was supposed to be my winter to really shine," says the water photographer, who snapped his wrist mountain biking in Canada shortly before the start of the North Shore season. "I thought for sure I would lose my contracts and would be stuck shooting from the beach all season, getting the same boring photos as everyone else. The week or two doped up on pain killers was playing a big roll in my emotions because once I got off those things, I snapped out of my funk, quit my bitching and started training my left hand to hold that heavy water housing." The upshot? New angles! Here, John John Florence, Backdoor. | Photo: Brandon "Laserwolf" Campbell/@laserwolf.photo
How to: shoot Pipe left-handed!
Pipe water shooter snaps wrist prior to season. Photos improve!
Imagine this. You shoot water for a living. It's a perilous game, sure, but enough to keep the damn wolves away from the door. And it's s a great life. You swim and you're front row to the best in the biz.
"I'm not stacking paper but my bills are paid, my kids taken care of and I'm travelling the world doing what I love while calling Hawaii base camp," says Brandon Campbell (aka Laserwolf) whom I claimed, yesterday, had taken the best big-wave shot ever. "I wake up every day and do whatever I want. Surf when I wanna surf, shoot when I wanna shoot. No one telling me to shave my face, tuck in my shirt, where and when to be."
This year, howevs, his craft was imperilled when he went mountain biking with his thrill seeker pops in Canada just before the start of the North Shore season.
"The old boy is such an animal when he gets on a bike so I was just doing my best to keep up," says Laser. "I had work contracts lined up and I didn't want to risk getting hurt. But I didn't listen to my instincts so I went on the trip and ended up snapping my hand half-way off my arm and doing a ton of ligament damage," says Laser. "I flew home for surgery and my hand is still held together by a metal bridge plate and a bunch of screws. I can't bend my wrist in any direction and it took a while to get control of my fingers. It wasn't just your typical broken wrist that heals in a month. I was going to be one-handed for the entire season."
The dazzling hand-surgeon Dr Aimee Perreira got Laser back into the game with a toolbox of screws and wires.
Laser says he sank into a depression. "My shooting hand! My only means of providing for my family! A baby on the way. The high cost of living in paradise." Also, he says, "This was my winter to really shine. I thought for sure I would lose my contracts and would be stuck shooting from the beach all season, getting the same boring photos as everyone else on the beach."
Once he binned the painkillers, howevs, Laser got his old hustle back.
"Once I got off those things, I snapped out of my funk, quit my bitching and started training my left hand to hold that heavy water housing," he says. "I kept the injury under wraps and, fortunately, none of my contracts started till November so I had almost two months to adapt. By the time everyone showed up to the North Shore, I was 100% with my left hand and just sort of played it off as a minor injury. I was still in pain and was risking doing long-term damage if I smacked my injured hand on the reef or even if I just got tossed around too much in the water."
And the effect?
"It was a blessing in disguise. I'm getting different angles and now I can shoot with either hand! My photos went up a notch! Blessing in disguise? Yeah, it was."
"I kept the injury under wraps and, fortunately, none of my contracts started till November so I had almost two months to adapt. By the time everyone showed up to the North Shore, I was 100% with my left hand and just sort of played it off as a minor injury." Balaram Stack, Pipe.
Noisy fireworks from a frizzy blond!
Crème: John John's Salute to 2016!
Surfing you must see to believe!
This video affirms two long-held beliefs.
1. John John is the best surfer in the world (sorry, Dane).
2. Competitive surfing is soooooo dull.
The contrast between the front half of this clip and the back is startling. John wins Haleiwa surfing to maybe fifty percent of his abilities. He then loses at Sunset with aggressive, committed surfing and flunks at Pipe because of poor wave choice.
But the second half of the vid… by gosh some of the best surfing I've seen. Better than Dane in Sampler, better than Jordy in …whatever his movie was called. It's just fantastic! Full speed, full-rail, full commitment in waves of power and pain. No one looks more comfortable on a surfboard than a jersey-less John.
At the end of the clip he states, "I'm gonna go after another world title, one-hundred percent." While this thrills part of me — for I want nothing more than a decade-long duel between John and Gab, wherein the white man eventually reigns supreme — another part can't help but wonder what we're losing in that pursuit. I know I'm not alone in that.
For instance, Albee Layer had this to say after being asked about his and John's battle to land the first backside 540/720: "[John] showed me a clip of him over-rotating a backside spin, and I showed him one of me doing the same thing. So it started a bit of a battle. I mean, I think if he put half the energy I did into it he probably would have made it, but this year he just shifted his whole focus onto contest surfing. Which personally, I just hate [laughs], thinking about the progression he could do for surfing."
John is great for competitive surfing, but he's an even greater barometer for what's physically possible in the sport. If he's working towards titles, that means he's at least partly forgoing the pursuit of progression. Woe is me.
"I like how you can feel the raw and beautiful energy of the ocean. It's like the image is alive," says the Hawaiian photographer Brandon "Laserwolf" Campbell. "My friend Casey Decotis, who got me into photography, once told me that a good photographer can bring anything to life through a photo." | Photo: Brandon "Laserwolf" Campbell/@laserwolf.photo
Is this the best big-wave shot ever?
Has a drone reshaped the game of big-wave photography?
Have you seen this photo of smallish Waimea Bay doing the rounds? It was shot a week ago by the North Shore-based photographer Brandon Campbell (aka Laserwolf) and posted on the website Surfline. I saw it and felt a twang and I ain't felt since the daring Rosy Hodge wore underwear for a Stab shoot three years ago.
Best big-wave photo?
Yeah, I can't think of anything remotely as filmic, as textured or as spectacularly dramatic. When I asked Laserwolf about it, turned out it was only the second time he'd ever flown a drone ("Call it beginner's luck," he says), that he used to think drones were a tool of oppressive governments ("I was convinced it was a government conspiracy to get us used to the idea of them buzzing around all the time before Big Brother really gets in our grill") and that there's actually a hierarchy in the sky among the drone operators, something he found out when another photographer's bird flew under him.
"I've put in my time and earned my spot in the hierarchy at Pipeline but what about the air?" he says. "Am I a newbie all over again? Will it be another five years before I'm established and can bark at invasive droners?"
Laser says he got into the drones after seeing the former Surfing magazine gun Corey Wilson's skill as a pilot.
"Corey Wilson was getting some really cool photos this winter," he says. "He definitely inspired me to mix it up. A photographer like myself can't just be posting the same beautiful, blue tube shots all the time on Instagram. Also, a lot of the brands I work with have been asking If I can shoot drone stuff. I think it's becoming the new standard to have in your arsenal. Full on weapon of mass creation. I broke my hand really bad back in September (Editor's note: more on that tomoz!) and have to go in for one more surgery so I'm stoked I'll have something to keep me occupied while I'm out of the water."
What kinda drone gets you a photo like this? Laser got in close to the entry level with a the DJI Phantom 4 Pro. With a stock 20 meg camera, a few batteries (they last 25 minutes each), a screen and a controller, he spent two-and-a-half gees. A good investment? Yeah, he's thrilled.
If you look real close at the photo, you can see Mike Ho, Reef McIntosh, Ross Clark Jones, Eden Saul and "the usual Waimea suspects," says Laser, adding, "I just really like how you can feel the raw and beautiful energy of the ocean. It's like the image is alive. My friend Casey Decotis, who got me into photography, once told me that a good photographer can bring anything to life through a photo."
How big is it? This is where the drone angle deceives.
"It wasn't huge, maybe ten-to-twelve feet, but still plenty of energy," says Laser.
Not that he's claiming it deserves to be in the pantheon of greatest big-wave shots. "I'm honored you like it," he says, "but I think the best big wave photo ever taken was of Sion Milowski by Daniel Russo at one of the outer reefs here in Hawaii. Sion was on a big, vibrant blue gun shaped by rhino chaser extraordinaire Bret Marumoto. The wave looks one hundred foot and Sion is absolutely sending it. I surf that wave a lot but I've have never scored it bigger then twenty feet and I don't think I want to either. I can't even imagine it any bigger then that. It must have been such an incredible thing to witness in person."
Maybe this shot of Sion Milosky at Outside Himalayas in 2010 is the best big-wave photo ever?
Laser thinks for a moment.
"Wait, I take that all back," he says. "The best big-wave photo ever taken was that iconic shot of Greg Noll standing on the beach in front of a pumping Pipeline, shot by John Severson."
Crème: John John's Salute to 2016!


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Apart from having scientific orientation , easy availability of coaching-materials and the perceived high success rate , some parts of the syllabus like economic , environmental and human geography greatly appealed to me .
In the end your optional needs to be mastered by you if you want to tide over these bouncers and be in the top bracket in your optional.
Many people take guidance from standard texts and ace the examination without coaching .
I maintained a separate notebook for geography and had topics like IPCC , Flood control , HDI , Food Security etc as topics which were constantly updated .
It was named Ganga Singh medal and well I got all the Ganga cleaning questions in the interview 😀 Don't know if that was the link though !I used to consult both the syllabus , previous years papers to look out for missed out portions and covered them accordingly .Many people get coaching notes from various coaching institutes and in the end are confused what to read what not to .I guess it was based on certain reviews of a just successful candidate whose blog I found online that I went for Neetu Singh(NS).NS covers about 70% of the syllabus in her class notes .
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"Policy Analysis in Germany." Sonja Blum and Klaus Schubert (eds.). Policy Press. July 2013. --- This book aims to outline the development of policy analysis activities in Germany, identify its role in academic education and research, and examine its styles and methods. The authors focus on the role of policy analysis for governments and parliaments, for parties, social partners, and interest groups. Julia Himmrich finds that the volume grapples with the question of the role academics play in policy analysis by raising issues around independence, academic rigour, methodology, and political interest.


There is an increasing need for tools to help programmers and security analysts understand executables. For instance, commercial companies and the military increasingly use Commercial Off-The Shelf (COTS) components to reduce the cost of software development. They are interested in ensuring that COTS components do not perform malicious actions (or can be forced to perform malicious actions). Viruses and worms have become ubiquitous. A tool that aids in understanding their behavior can ensure early dissemination of signatures, and thereby control the extent of damage caused by them. In both domains, the questions that need to be answered cannot be answered perfectly -- the problems are undecidable -- but static analysis provides a way to answer them conservatively.
In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of research activity to develop analysis tools to find bugs and security vulnerabilities. However, most of the effort has been on analysis of source code, and the issue of analyzing executables has largely been ignored. In the security context, this is particularly unfortunate, because performing analysis on the source code can fail to detect certain vulnerabilities due to the WYSINWYX phenomenon: ``What You See Is Not What You eXecute''. That is, there can be a mismatch between what a programmer intends and what is actually executed on the processor.
Developing algorithms to extract intermediate representations (IR) from executables that are similar to the IR that would be obtained if we had started from source code. The recovered IR should be similar to that built by a compiler, consisting of the following elements: (1) control-flow graphs (with indirect jumps resolved), (2) a call graph (with indirect calls resolved), (3) the set of variables, (4) values of pointers, (5) sets of used, killed, and possibly-killed variables for control-flow graph nodes, (6) data dependences, and (7) types of variables: base types, pointer types, structs, and classes.
Using the recovered IR to develop tools for program understanding and for finding bugs and security vulnerabilities.
The algorithms described in this dissertation are incorporated in a tool we built for analyzing Intel x86 executables, called CodeSurfer/x86.
Because executables do not have a notion of variables similar to the variables in programs for which source code is available, one of the important aspects of IR recovery is to determine a collection of variable-like entities for the executable. The quality of the recovered variables affects the precision of an analysis that gathers information about memory accesses in an executable, and therefore, it is desirable to recover a set of variables that closely approximate the variables of the original source-code program. On average, our technique is successful in identifying correctly over 88% of the local variables and over 89% of the fields of heap-allocated objects. In contrast, previous techniques, such as the one used in the IDAPro disassembler, recovered 83% of the local variables, but 0% of the fields of heap-allocated objects.
Recovering useful information about heap-allocated storage is another challenging aspect of IR recovery. We propose an abstraction of heap-allocated storage called recency-abstraction, which is somewhere in the middle between the extremes of one summary node per malloc site and complex shape abstractions. We used the recency-abstraction to resolve virtual-function calls in executables obtained by compiling C++ programs. The recency-abstraction enabled our tool to discover the address of the virtual-function table to which the virtual-function field of a C++ object is initialized in a substantial number of cases. Using this information, we were able to resolve, on average, 60% of the virtual-function call sites in executables that were obtained by compiling C++ programs.
To assess the usefulness of the recovered IR in the context of bug hunting, we used CodeSurfer/x86 to analyze device-driver executables without the benefit of either source code or symbol-table/debugging information. We were able to find known bugs (that had been discovered by source-code analysis tools), along with useful error traces, while having a low false-positive rate.


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Coop Pank started cooperation with the e-residency program
Every year e-residents establish almost 20% of all new Estonian companies and about 30% of all new Estonian start-ups. Coop Pank has joined the e-Residency Marketplace online platform, through which e-resident entrepreneurs can access the international banking services offered by a local Estonian bank.
The new e-Residency Marketplace platform offers the opportunity to choose reliable and trusted partners from among Estonian companies to over 86,000 Estonian e-residents around the world. "Today e-residents have already established more than 18,000 companies in Estonia with a combined turnover of over 5 billion euros. In addition to direct income, these companies annually bring the Estonian state indirect economic benefits of millions of euros by consuming various services offered by Estonian businesses," said Raimo Matvere, Head of partnership relations for e-residency.
He added that it is banking and financial services that are most in demand on the e-Residency Marketplace. "Therefore, the joining of Coop Pank, an Estonian financial services provider, to our platform is very encouraging. The partnership with Coop Pank is also an important indicator that the Estonian banking sector is ambitious, innovative and open to providing services to e-residents," Matvere said.
Head of daily business customers banking at Coop Pank Erje Mettas, said that by using the e-Residency Marketplace they primarily want to reach e-residents who have really strong ties with Estonia: "We expect our services to be used by companies, at least half of which employees are located in Estonia or at least half of which banking operations are related to Estonia. Thus, we support the development and growth of the Estonian economy, help to attract foreign investments and create new jobs."
According to Mettas, the business environment in Estonia is considered one of the best in the world, as it offers an easy to understand and business-friendly tax system, freedom of entrepreneurship, little bureaucracy, and transparent procedures. Coop Pank joined the program to provide e-residents with fast and flexible banking services. "Clients favour us for our excellent deposit interest rates and flexible individual approach," added Mettas.
Services offered by Coop Pank to e-residents:
SEPA payments
Share capital contribution payments (and proof letter)
Business banking account opening: 200–500 EUR
Business banking account monthly fee: 20–100 EUR
Accepting payments via Banklink
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Learn more: https://marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee/company/coop-pank
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Following Tesco's announcement this morning that profits had been over estimated by £263m resulting in 92% drop to £112m, analysts have taken to Twitter to share their reactions.
Following Tesco's announcement this morning that profits had been over estimated by £263m resulting in 92% drop to £112m analysts have taken to Twitter to share their reactions. As a result chairman Sir Richard Broadbent would be stepping down.
Watch Tesco's chief exectuive officer Dave Lewis speak about his strategy for Tesco moving forward.


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JOSEPH ALBERT CHAPERON (published on June 15, 2008)
JOSEPH ALBERT CHAPERON Peacefully at his residence on Thursday, June 12, 2008, Mr. Joseph Chaperon of Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba passed away at the age of 54 years. He leaves to mourn his passing his mother Philomene (née Pilloud) of Notre Dame de Lourdes; one sister Elise (Clement) Talbot of Logan Lake, BC, two brothers, François Chaperon of Notre Dame de Lourdes, and Rolly (Simone) Chaperon of St. Claude; one brother-in-law Lionel Leduc of St. Claude; and numerous nieces and nephews, relatives and friends. He was predeceased by his father Gustave in 1980, one sister Lorraine Leduc in 2000, one brother Jules in 2003 and by one niece Chantal in 2000. With respect for Joseph's wishes, cremation has taken place. A Memorial Service to celebrate his life will be held at Adam's Funeral Chapel on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. Interment to follow in the Parish Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 200-6 Donald St, Winnipeg, MB R3L 0K6. Adam's Funeral Home of Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba in care of arrangements. Phone 248-2201 or 1-888-400-2326. www.afh.ca
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The first practical compass seems to have been made in Venice in 1274. It was a device supporting a magnetized needle over a card showing four or eight points of direction.
Erik the Red was the first European to land on and settle in Greenland.
He was a Muslim explorer who made a series of journeys that spanned nearly three decades. He traveled throughout almost the entire Islamic world, and went as far as India and China.
Ibn Battuta Interactive Map
Ibn Battuta travels took him through much of the Islamic world, Africa, and into many parts of the east, including Central and Southeast Asia, India, and China.
Used to indicate the distance traveled north or south, the kamal was used to guide Arab ships to port. It led to the later development of the cross-staff.
He became the first European to land on and establish a settlement in North America. He is also credited for bringing Christianity to Greenland.
Leif Eriksson Interactive Map
Leif Eriksson managed to reach North America nearly 500 years prior to Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo is known for traveling along the Silk Road to China, where he explored and documented much of Asia not yet explored by Europeans.
Marco Polo Interactive Map
Marco Polo traveled along the famed trading route to China called the Silk Road, and went on to explore and document many parts of Asia not well known to Europeans


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A column in First Things recently argued that Trump isn't a malign Machiavelli but a benign one. Faint praise, perhaps. And I got to thinking how comparing Trump to other politicians in a way isn't fair simply because his faults are so obvious and transparent while other politicians take care to hide them. He probably has better character than someone like LBJ who lied repeatedly but more subtly and about things of much greater significance than crowd size (like sending kids to die in Vietnam).
We put up with our family's faults and our own faults, why not put up with Trump's faults? If nothing else Donald helps teach us that, that although a similar lesson got lost on me in the Obama era - probably because Obama's faults were so much more damaging to the Republic. Trump tends to shoot himself rather than shoot the country, which is far easier to forgive.
I do find myself constantly amused when I shouldn't be given the stakes. For example, you can't say it's not rich drama that early Trump supporters like Chris Christie (a friend calls him "Two-ton Tony") and Jeff Sessions have been so thoroughly renounced by the Donald. The streetcar of loyalty only goes one way.
"I feel like every time a Trump employee quits, Oompa Loompas should appear & sing a song to teach us about the perils of gluttony & greed."
In a sense the politicians who glommed on to Trump remind me of battered wives who think their man will change, but Sessions at least has the high ground. He did the right thing in recusing himself and he still has the job he really wanted. Trump, hilariously, apparently wants to fire Sessions because Sessions did the right thing.
And then you have Sean Spicer, a likable guy who resigned in protest not over having to lie for Trump but due to someone else Trump hired. This stuff reads like farce. Every day an Onion.
I occasionally listen to folks like Bill Bennett and Laura Ingraham for the sole purpose of hearing an "I was wrong about Trump" confession. Seems to be taking awhile. Of course I'm not waiting for Sean Hannity's confession, which won't happen until the Second Coming (of Trump, in his eyes).
Bennett makes the case that Republicans have always just gotten black and blue from the biased national media and they always just stoically take it and Trump comes in here and hits back. Which is true and refreshing as it goes. I can't say that some of his hits haven't been deeply satisfying. But the problem is there's no picking and choosing which battles to fight. Everything is equally important, from inauguration crowd size to the Comey's inadequacies. Perhaps you don't get one without the other - you don't get someone with the courage to call out the media unless you have a slightly unhinged candidate.
I for one don't fault Trump for hanging out with Putin at the recent G20 conference - who else is he going to hang with? He's a pariah to the uppity Europeans, as black a sheep as Putin despite having done nothing close to what Putin's done. So I say good for him.
On the Russian interference, one thing I'm not hearing too much about is simply voter responsibility. Duped American voters are a fault as much as Russian bots. Shame on voters who don't minimally vet the info they receive. But you'll never hear that in the media or from politicians because both are beholden to their customers - the people - and the customer is said to be always right. Ha.


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The Voice of Dr. Loomis to Appear in New Halloween
This should be one of the more notable callbacks to the series' older films.
July 30, 2018, 7:20 PM EDT
Halloween director David Gordon Green has revealed that the voice of Dr. Sam Loomis will be featured in the new sequel hitting theaters this October. Although the new film will ignore every Halloween film other than the original, there are a number of callbacks to past movies sprinkled throughout this one. In addition to that, the team has found a voice actor who could mimic late actor Donald Pleasence's voice so that dialogue from Dr. Loomis can be used in the new film.
Here's what Green had to say about recreating the voice.
It would seem that the Dr. Loomis voice might be used on a recording, perhaps related to the evidence and case files for Michael Myers, since this sequel takes place so many years after the original. Short of completely recreating the late actor digitally, like Disney did with Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, It's only fitting to be able to include a cameo like this in what might be the biggest piece of the original Halloween left behind in this movie.
Halloween sees Jamie Lee Curtis return to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. The film also stars Judy Green (Ant-Man, Jurassic World), Andi Matichak (Replicate, Orange is the New Black), Will Patton (Armageddon), and Virginia Gardner (Runaways), with Nick Castle (Escape From New York) returning as Michael Myers. The film is directed by David Gordon Green.
Jamie Lee Curtis Wishes Fans a Happy Halloween with a First Look at Halloween Kills
Take a peek at the mayhem that awaits in the new sequel.
Jason Blum Shares New Behind-the-Scenes Photo from the Production of Halloween Kills
The prolific horror producer offers an additional look at the back of David Gordon Green's head, which is definitely something fans have wished for.
Charles Cyphers Back as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Halloween Kills, Hospital Location Revealed
A photo from the location of filming shows the actor in costume with his name tag and all, while other set leaks paint a bigger picture.
Jamie Lee Curtis Shares Photo from First Day Filming Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends
The actress is back with a simple message: never say die!


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Paul Virzi
Paul is a stand up comedian who grew up in the suburbs outside of New York City
He loves his family, cigars and having pointless sports arguments with his friends. He was first attracted to stand up comedy at a very young age. He was only nine years old when he witnessed Eddie Murphey's "Raw". Although he couldn't understand all the jokes and probably should not have been listening to expicit language, he became instantlly intrigued by the idea of speaking into a microphone and making a crowd of people happy. Also, in the mid-eighties, his father took him to see Rodney Dangerfield live at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. By the end of the show, he was sleeping on his fathers lap but the seed was planted. Starting out Paul was performing anywhere he could. From doing contests, awful bar gigs where he stood on soda crates as a stage and even someones living room holding an empty corona bottle as a mic. Paul now headlines clubs all across America. Many of the nations top comedy clubs have called him one of the strongest up and comers working today. Paul has also opened for some of the biggest names in the business. Comics such as Bill Burr, Dave Attell and Jim Breuer to name a few. Recently he has toured with Bill Burr in some of the country's greatest theaters including, Constitution Hall, The Chicago Theatre and Carnegie Hall where he killed in front of a sold out crowd on the most legendary stage in the world. During the NY Comedy Festival Paul opened for Burr at Madison Square Garden in front of 15,000 people. Paul's debut album Paul Virzi "Night At The Stand" was #1 on iTunes and #4 on Billboards comedy album charts. Every week you can hear him host his very popular podcast "The Virzi Effect". Some of his credits include TV appearances on AXS TV's "Gotham Comedy Live", The NFL Networks "Good Morning Football" and writing for the ESPN ESPY Awards. Paul has made numerous appearances at the very prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival In Montreal and was recently asked to perform at the SXSW Festival in Austin, TX. He can also be seen on the upcoming season of truTV's "Comedy Knockout". Paul never fails in keeping the laughs coming and making the audience feel comfortable with his hard hitting personal approach. He is fun to watch and has a stage presence that is second to none.


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Combination therapy a potential strategy for treating Niemann-Pick disease
Niemann-Pick disease is caused by defects in autophagy that allow cholesterol to build up in liver and neuronal cells. To study this disease, scientists pushed patient (NPC) and control (Control) skin cells to an embryonic state and then differentiating them into liver cells (far left, showing red and green markers of liver cells) and neuronal cells (right, showing green marker of neuronal cells and blue stained DNA). A control with the NPC gene corrected (NPC w/ genetic fix) was also created. The black and white images show cholesterol accumulation (white) in both the NPC liver and neuronal cells, but much less in the control and the cells with the NPC gene fixed.
Image: Courtesy Stem Cell Reports
Tags: Jaenisch LabGenetics + GenomicsNervous System
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – By studying nerve and liver cells grown from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), Whitehead Institute researchers have identified a potential dual-pronged approach to treating Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease, a rare but devastating genetic disorder.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), approximately 1 in 150,000 children born are afflicted with NPC, the most common variant of Niemann-Pick. Children with NPC experience abnormal accumulation of cholesterol in their liver and nerve cells, leading to liver failure, neurodegeneration, and—ultimately—death, often before age 10.
Although there is currently no effective treatment for NPC disease, a clinical trial examining potential cholesterol-lowering effects of the drug cyclodextrin in NPC patients is ongoing. However, research in Whitehead Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch's lab led by Dorothea Matezel along with Sovan Sarkar suggests that the high doses may actually be harmful. This and other findings are reported this week in the journal Stem Cell Reports.
"At those levels of cyclodextrin (in the clinical trial), Maetzel and her coauthors show that cells encounter a further block in autophagy that could be detrimental," says Jaenisch, who is also a professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But when they use it at a lower dose in combination with another small molecule, carbamazepine, which stimulates autophagy, then it significantly improves the survival of the cells. Such an approach lowers cholesterol levels and restores the autophagy defects at the same time. This could be a new type of treatment for NPC disease."
To clarify what is amiss in NPC and identify potential therapeutics that could correct these problems, Maetzel generated iPSCs from patients with the most common genetic mutation that causes NPC. She created the iPSCs by pushing skin cells donated by the patients back to an embryonic stem cell-like state. These iPSCs were differentiated into liver and neuronal cells, the cell types most affected in NPC. Along with Haoyi Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in the Jaenisch lab, she then corrected one copy of the causal mutation, in the NPC1 gene, to create control cells whose genomes differ only at the single edited gene copy.
When Maetzel and Sarkar analyzed the cellular functions in the NPC1-mutant and control cell lines, they determined that although cholesterol does build up in the NPC1-mutant cells, a more significant problem is defective autophagy—a basic cellular function that degrades and recycles unneeded or faulty molecules, components, or organelles in a cell. The impaired autophagy prevents normal elimination of its cargo, such as damaged organelles or other substrates like p62, which then accumulates and damages the cells. The finding confirms previous work from the Jaenisch lab linking the NPC1 mutation to defective autophagy in mouse cells.
"Autophagy dysfunction has major implications in several neurodegenerative and certain liver conditions, and therefore autophagy modulators have tremendous biomedical relevance", says Sarkar. "We wanted to screen for compounds stimulating autophagy in human disease-relevant cells and show the beneficial effects of such an approach in the context of a lipid/lysosomal storage disorder."
Maetzel and Sarkar used the two types of human disease-affected cells to screen for compounds known to improve autophagy but not impacting on the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, which has critical cellular functions and also controls autophagy. They found only one capable of jumpstarting autophagy independently of mTOR in both liver and nerve cells. When this drug, carbamazepine, which is a mood stabilizer prescribed for bipolar disorder, was added in combination with low doses of cyclodextrin, both cholesterol accumulation and autophagy defects were rescued in the NPC-mutated cells.
"From here, this combination of drugs should be tested in animal models to see if it has a beneficial effect," says Maetzel. "Carbamazepine has been approved by the FDA for other uses while cyclodextrin is currently in clinical trail for NPC disease, so we're hoping that this will speed up the testing process. I am optimistic that using human disease-affected cell types to identify potent compounds takes us one step closer to the clinic The hits arising from this cell type-specific screening approach can have broad relevance for other human diseases."
This work is supported by the National Niemann-Pick Disease Foundation, the University of Cambridge, UK, US National Institutes of Health (NIH grants R01- CA084198 and HL20948), and the Skoltech Center.
Rudolf Jaenisch is an advisor to Stemgent and Fate Therapeutics.
Written by Nicole Giese Rura
Rudolf Jaenisch's primary affiliation is with Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where his laboratory is located and all his research is conducted. He is also a professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Full Citation:
"Genetic and chemical correction of cholesterol accumulation and impaired autophagy in hepatic and neural cells derived from Niemann-Pick Type C patient-specific iPS cells"
Stem Cell Reports, June 3, 2014.
Dorothea Maetzel (1,5), Sovan Sarkar (1,5), Haoyi Wang (1,5), Lina Abi-Mosleh (2), Ping Xu (1), Albert W. Cheng (1), Qing Gao (1), Maisam Mitalipova (1), and Rudolf Jaenisch (1,3,4).
1. Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
2. Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-9046, USA
3. Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Novaya Street 100, Skolkovo 143025, Moscow Region, Russia
4. Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
5. Co-first author
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