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Art in Plain Sight: Mermaids
By Bruce Walters
Heidi Sallows mural
"It was so hot," says Heidi Sallows. "I remember I filled a small tub full of water. Laughing, we took turns getting in it like a tiny squatting pool. And then we would climb back up and paint in the heat.
"I was painting low and she was standing on a ladder on the scissor lift painting more than 35 feet in the air. It was scary at first and it was a lot of fun by the end."
Ten years have passed. Yet the Sea Turtle mural is still as vibrant and alive as Sallows remembers painting it with Sarah Robb.
Painted on the east wall of the building at 2104 Fourth Avenue in Rock Island, the mural jolts us out of our familiar world – plunging us into an underwater world populated with beautiful, mysterious, mythical, and dangerous creatures.
Sallows sees their work as a story open to interpretation. For her, the story begins with scuba divers unknowingly coming upon the wonders of the sea. And three magical mermaids, who represent three fates: the past, which is the mermaid peeking into the window; the present, which is the mermaid looking out at you; and the future, which is the mermaid looking toward the giant squid. Though facing danger, she seems calm and ready.
The mural was one of her favorite projects working with Robb. "I brought her in on the project because of the size and the amount of time we had to get it done. I felt that her style and my style, though very different, lent themselves to one another very nicely. She painted with bold colors and could cover areas quickly and I could come back in and sweep in details with yes a very painterly style."
On the 1800 block of Bettendorf's Lincoln Road is a mural painted last year by Heidi Sallows with her team of Metro Arts students. A 177-foot-long mermaid dominates the mural. Like the mermaid who represents the present in the Rock Island painting, she is looking directly at us. There is also danger in this mural: pollution.
As Sallows said, "The mural was designed by the kids, but in many different sections like a puzzle. We wanted to focus on the climate again because it's important. And the health of our river is important. I literally told the kids that if we paint something beautiful like the mermaid, we can put all this trash around it and relate to culture through garbage. I wanted her to feel like she was moving in and out of the space itself to remind people of the river just a mile away."
Her concern with the environment and pollution dates back to her involvement with Chad Pregracke's Living Lands & Waters team, when she painted on his towboat and worked for 12 years on the art auction at his annual Barge Party.
Sallows added, "I guess mostly what I want to say about climate change is that I want people to care. To realize that what we do matters and what we don't do matters. That small piece of garbage that you throw on the ground goes somewhere."
To see more of Sallows' work, visit MuralChik.com.
Bruce Walters is a professor of art at Western Illinois University.
This is part of an occasional series on the history of public art in the Quad Cities. If there's a piece of public art that you'd like to learn more about, e-mail the location and a brief description to BD-Walters@wiu.edu.
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Douglas Laman January 20, 2020 Box Office Report, Features
Box Office Report: "Bad Boys" Triumph, "Dolittle" Does Zip
Will Smith & Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys for Life (Sony Pictures)
The critically blasted "Dolittle" follows "Cats" as another flop for Universal while audiences turn out for Will Smith & Martin Lawrence.
2020 just got its very first blockbuster in the form of Bad Boys For Life. Arriving seventeen years after Bad Boys II, this newest entry in the franchise grossed $59.1 million over the weekend. That's a 27% increase over the opening weekend of Bad Boys II and the second-biggest opening weekend ever for a January release, only behind the wide release opening weekend of American Sniper. It's also only the second movie ever to open to over $50 million in January, a sign that highly-anticipated movies can excel at any time of the year.
Why did Bad Boys For Life excel where other long-delayed sequels failed? Well, for one thing, the Bad Boys brand hasn't been utilized (save for that one Spectrum TV show) since Bad Boys II in 2003, meaning this wasn't a Terminator: Dark Fate situation where audiences had become fatigued to a certain franchise. This is also the kind of title (light-hearted blockbusters) audiences love to see Will Smith in, while Martin Lawrence's total absence from movies (save for a Beach Bum cameo last year) over the last nine years made the return of him as a leading man in Bad Boys For Life an event. Plus, the marketing emphasized all the elements (explosions, jokes, the rapport between the two leads) that audiences loved from the first two Bad Boys movies. That's how you get a hit sequel like this one.
Also worth mentioning before we go on ahead is that Bad Boys For Life is yet another recent hit for Sony/Columbia, which has really made an impressive turnaround in recent years. Five years ago, in the middle of the Sony hack and box office duds like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Pixels and After Earth, Sony/Columbia was a punchline among the major American movie studios. Over the last three years, though, a new regime at the studio has revamped the studio and gotten them to deliver a steady stream of box office hits over the last few years. Heck, the most recent batch of Oscar nominations saw the revived Sony/Columbia being a major Oscar contender for the first time in years. The studio is far from devoid of recent flops but it's very impressive to see how Sony/Columbia has been able to turn things around in recent years.
The news was far worse in second place, where fellow newcomer Dolittle debuted with a measly $22.5 million. That's bigger than most family movies that have opened in January but past January family films like The Nut Job or Paddington didn't carry $175 million budgets like Dolittle did. Even putting aside the predominately negative reviews it received, Universal's marketing for Dolittle seemed to seal the films doom since it placed such an emphasis on a somber atmosphere. Family movies tend to succeed when their trailers emphasize laughs or excitement, not Robert Downey Jr. solemnly informing a gorilla that it's okay to be scared.
Now we move onto holdovers, which means we move onto a whole slew of 2019 movies that scored Oscar nominations last week. In years past, many movies that scored large amounts of Oscar nominations managed to see their box office increase exponentially. This year, though, there actually wasn't much of a post-Oscar nominations box office boost for the majority of the Best Picture nominees this year. Holdovers like 1917 and Little Women just kept chugging along in their domestic box office runs like nothing happened while other contenders that have been in theaters for months now (chiefly Jojo Rabbit and Ford v. Ferrari) actually struggled in their notable theatrical re-expansions.
Biggest of these Best Picture nominees this weekend was 1917, which fell 40% from its opening weekend to gross another $22.1 million. Having now grossed $76.7 million at the domestic box office, 1917 seems poised for a domestic total of at least $120 million. We now move onto a pair of December 2019 holdovers, starting with Jumanji: The Next Level. This crowd pleaser comedy continued to hold like a champ as it dipped just 32% for a sixth-weekend gross of $9.5 million and a massive domestic gross of $270.4 million. Meanwhile, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker dropped 45% for a fifth-weekend haul of $8.3 million. Having now grossed $492 million domestically, the newest Star Wars movie will crack $500 million by the end of the month, though it won't get much higher than that in its domestic run.
Just Mercy dipped 38% this weekend, allowing this courtroom drama to serve a motion of $6 million for a so-so domestic gross to date of $19.6 million. The second-biggest of the newest crop of Best Picture nominees this weekend was Little Women, which dipped 24% to add $5.9 million to its domestic haul of $84.4 million. Though it didn't get a massive Oscars boost, it does look like Little Women will be able to crack $100 million domestically. Despite facing a pair of new wide releases, Knives Out actually moved up a spot at the domestic box office (from ninth place to eighth weekend) this weekend. Dipping just 24%, this leggy mystery drama amassed another $4.3 million and has now sleuthed up $145.9 million.
Like a Boss took a sharp 62% plunge this weekend, giving it a second-weekend gross of only $3.8 million and a ten-day domestic gross of just $16.9 million. Rounding out the top ten was Frozen II, which actually got a sing-along re-release over this weekend. This musical hit chilled out with another $3.7 million (a 37% drop from last weekend) and has now grossed $464.8 million domestically. Now we come to a pair of 20th Century Fox, er, 20th Century holdovers. First up is Underwater, which dropped 49% in its second weekend. That's actually a better than usual second-weekend hold for a January horror title, though its opening weekend was so low that it's a case of "too little, too late". Grossing $3.5 million this frame, Underwater has now grossed $12.7 million.
Meanwhile, Spies in Disguise fell 50% this weekend which means this pigeon spy tale only grossed $2.5 million in its fourth weekend of release. Having grossed $58.4 million domestically, there's a chance Spies ends up below the $64.1 million domestic total of Ice Age: Collision Course, becoming the lowest-grossing Blue Sky Studios movie ever domestically in the process. Next up we have Parasite, which expanded into 843 locations (its widest theater count to date) this frame and grossed $1.74 million for a per-theater average of $2,069. Despite a slew of Oscar nods and a major theater count, Parasite actually scored its second-lowest per-theater-average ever domestically this past weekend. There may not be a massive amount of road left for Parasite at the domestic box office but it's already grossed $27.7 million, it's already done more than fine.
Weathering With You debuted to $1.73 million over the weekend from 486 locations for a per-theater average of $3,562. I'd tell you how that compares to the openings of past GKIDS movies, but Box Office Mojo has put such box office information behind an expensive paywall. Weathering with You has now grossed $4.7 million over its first five days of domestic release, a sum that's as impressive as the treatment of workers by Box Office Mojo parent company Amazon is ghastly.
Jojo Rabbit was another Best Picture nominee that struggled over the weekend as it grossed only $1.4 million from 1,005 theaters for a per-theater average of $1,394 and a domestic gross of $25.5 million. Turning out attention to a movie snubbed at the Oscars, Uncut Gems lost 1,151 of its locations to make way for other movies this weekend. This meant it dropped a steep 64% for a fourth-weekend gross of $1.22 million. Having grossed $46.1 million to date, Uncut Gems just needs $2.9 million more to outgross Lady Bird to become the biggest A24 release ever domestically.
Moving back to Best Picture contenders, Ford v. Ferrari expanded back into 1,080 locations this weekend and grossed just $1.096 million for a per-theater average of $1,014 and a domestic total of $112.9 million. Both of those Best Picture nominees may not have gotten as big of a post-Oscar bump as they would have liked but at least they fared better than The Grudge, which fell a staggering 75% in its third weekend of release. Taking in another $860,000, The Grudge has scared up only $19.9 million to date.
Six months after it first opened, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood returned to 705 locations in response to its deluge of Oscar nods. Unsurprisingly, there just wasn't much demand for the title in the theatrical space and it grossed just $310,000 for a per-theater average of $439. No skin off this movie's nose, it's already grossed $141.4 million. Les Miserables grossed $66,569 from 42 locations for a per-theater average of $1,584 and a domestic gross of $103,202. Clemency actually managed to increase 30% from last weekend despite its theater count staying the same (10 locations). This means Clemency grossed another $17,949 for a per-theater average of $1,794 and a domestic gross of $127,046.
Finally, Warner Bros. apparently heavily expanded the theater count of Joker in response to its 11 Oscar nominations but no box office figures have been released for it yet.The top ten movies this weekend grossed $145.5 million, a whopping 33% increase from this same weekend last year when Glass bowed. January 2020 has already grossed a robust $663.4 million to date and while the lack of big titles for the remainder of the month will almost certainly keep this January from cracking $1 billion, it's likely that January 2020 will end up as one of the bigger January's in recent memory and it's certainly guaranteed to end up higher than the $812.9 million haul of January 2019.
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I have several bullnose planes. Too many. I've used and tested all of them. These low-angle bevel-ups stolid and unpretentious planes are the handiest little tenants on my shelves and in my tool chests. There is no equal for a variety planing tasks because when you need them there is no other plane or indeed tool to deal with the task. Forget magazine articles comparing one to the other in silly Best on Test articles or worse still Editor's choice! Where any and all tools test out best is on the job in the hands of an experienced user or two. By that I mean someone who knows the tools. Comparison tests are often of little value at all, in my view.
The bullnose plane works especially well for micro adjusting rebates to receive doors and panels, refining rabbets to finesse adding a corner in an alternative wood. But premium of all in my world of furniture making is working on the wooden drawer runners inside a cabinet. Slip this little bullnose along the surface front or back and suddenly the sticking drawer glides like silk into place. Whereas my favourite bullnose amongst my prizes will always be the well proven Stanley #90, there is something about the older no-name versions in bronze and brass and steel that harkens me.
I had bought this via an eBay sellers. It was advertised as an I Sorby but in reality that was just the blade and not the plane. It's a neat and compact little plane without mechanical adjustment and uses the hammer tap adjustment method which is extremely practical.
The body of brass has a laminated steel sole a millimetre thick. I liked that. But what I really liked and what was not obvious until I started sharpening was the the laminated blade. This is where savvy blade makers take mild steel for the main blade and laminate hardened steel in a counterpoised rake and laminate it to the rake on the main blade. This gives a strong and resilient blade overall with a hardened steel cutting edge that both takes a good edge and one that has good edge retention.
It's the art of the tool maker to deliver a quality blade with shock absorption and hardness. You can see the arrow showing the lamination lines both large flat face and the bevel edge of the blade. Look out for laminated blades. Even Stanley made some with laminated blades but all too briefly.
Hi Paul, because I own a steel Preston with wooden wedge for adjustment. I'd like to restore it. It would be a great idea to give us a video with the preparations and the sharpening of an old bullnose.
I need to get an old 90. I picked up an old 75 because it was cheap. I tried to use it while building your winding sticks the other day and took a couple chunks out. I can get the blade super sharp and seemingly adjusted, but the thing seems to have a mind of its own. Maybe i'll check "the bay" for some other old model with these laminated blades.
I have never altogether understood the 75. I too have never been able to get one of these cheapo planes to work and yet Stanley sold many a thousand of them. They are junk. Best thing is to make a wooden version as a bevel down low angle and benefit from the blade alone.
Great idea. The blade is actually nice and has the old Stanley logo i like. Somebody else said the 75 makes a really cool paper weight. I can salvage the blade and use the body to keep papers from flying away.
I can't help but wonder if it would be possible to build one of these out of brass. Or maybe the body out of wood and the sole out of brass. I would enjoy watching such a video. Just a thought. I am sure you have plenty of things planned to teach us. I do so enjoy your tool making videos though.
It absolutely can. You can use the same principles we used to make our coving plane on woodworkingmasterclasses. I have made several low-angle planes from wood and they match the metal ones in terms of functionality.
Thanks Paul. I have made a few tools. I find imense satisfaction in using a tool that I have made myself.
I have been on the lookout for a #90. They are difficult to find and go for more than I'm ready to spend (that may have to change). I picked up a #75 and it appears that most do not like them at all. I dressed the sole to match elevation with the nose piece and then broke the leading edge of the nose piece to not catch the wood ahead of the blade, it now is acceptable. I had also picked up a #6 Stanley plane several years ago and when sharpening the iron was pleasantly surprised to find it was a laminated steel blade. I have several Japanese chisels and that is very typical for those and also their hand planes (kanna). I enjoy using the wooden Japanese planes but my main work planes are of the western design which, in all work sense, do as good or better. Both styles are enjoyable to use and accomplish the job.
Many, if not most, of my wooden planes have laminated irons. I thought it was just the manufacturer's way of reducing costs. I stand corrected….
It was common practice on wooden planes to provide laminated irons. A lot of this was because they are hammer tapped for adjustment and also wedged hard for retention, which in totally hardened steel can result in blades cracking or breaking.
I've got a Stanley #90 that I bought over 30 years ago. Never used it much, but now that I'm more in to working more with hand tools and have a decent sharpening system, I'll re-visit it.
do you do the convex camber like planes and chisels when sharpening these paul, or do you keep the bevel flat? same question for plough plane cutters.
Yep! A convex bevel on everything with a cutting edge.
Almost all Stanley plane blades (and chisels, too) are laminated until you get to about WWII – I say almost because I have seen a couple that you just can't see the line even after grinding/sharpening the bevel, but they still may be. Must have been technology that making war stuff brought to Stanley that allowed the change. The laminated portion was high-grade steel made in Sheffield perhaps from 1900 til WWII. You can't always see the line, but in many it is visible up the two thin edges of the blade, as well as where Paul shows. The only Stanley blades I have seen from that time that are consistently not laminated are scraper blades. Almost all plane and chisel blades, including woodies, were laminated. In their literature Stanley never mentioned the shock absorption quality likethat built into a Japanese sword with differential tempering. Rather they pointed out that when you clamped down the lever cap the softer steel made for a tighter fit. I think it was a cost issue and once they could economically produce one-piece blades, they did it.
I have an older steel Marples bullnose with a Ward iron. At what angle should the cutting edge be honed to? I find that with this plane, and a Spiers rebate plane with a very narrow skewed mouth, the normal 25-30 deg. fills the gap, leaving no space for the shavings to escape.
Your videos and blogs – and philosophy – are great. Many thanks.
Great post, Paul. Could you please provide a novice a bit more information on what context a bullnose plane would be used over other smaller planes (like a block plane)? Thank you!
I bought a Stanley number 90 but the blade isn't in good shape and is bent. Do you have any idea where I might be able to get a new one? Or if any of the other Stanley/record blades fit?


I always love reading blogs and watching YouTube videos with people's monthly favourites, so I thought, why not have a go myself!
These are a few of the things I've been loving this month. From beauty to bagels these are some of my favourites over the past few weeks! What have been your August favs?
If you love a good bubble bath as I do, you'll be no stranger to the Radox bubble bath range. I usually opt for 'Muscle Soak' but this month I branched out to the 'Feel Heavenly' bottle. I love the smell of coconut both in bath and skincare products as it reminds me of being on holiday (which we all want to be reminded of!) so I instantly loved it. It has a creamy formula so it's perfect for a luxurious bath and it left my skin feel smooth and smelling great at a super affordable price!
Recently I have been wearing a lot of drying lip products to achieve the ever-so-desriable matt lip look. My lips were in need of a serious pick-me-up so I went to my local Boots store and gravitated towards the Burt's Bees products. I am a sucker for anything mango so the 'Nourishing' option with mango butter was the one I settled on. I've been using it before applying other lip products and after I take my make-up off. My lips have never felt so smooth! And it smells great too… that's a winner!
As I previously mentioned, I have been loving the matt lip look. I actually purchased these on a whim a few months ago but this month it's pretty much all I've been wearing on my lips! These are the first liquid lipsticks I have ever tried and I have to say, I am a HUGE fan! The applicator is a fairly thick brush so they are nice and easy to apply. The best part is THEY STAY ON ALL DAY! I am forever topping up my lipstick after eating and drinking (and leaving my boyfriend wearing my lipstick after I've kissed him) but these dry onto your lips and stay put. The only downside is they are slightly drying to the lips, but compared to other products these aren't that bad at all. As long as you apply a lip balm (see my pervious Burt's Bees lip balm favourite!) your lips are good to go! They come in a variety of gorgeous colours and I already have my eye on colours I want to get this autumn!
I know I am super late to the party, but after finishing my YSL concealer and not having enough money to splash out on a replacement (I'm crying inside) I knew I needed a cheaper alternative. I heard amazing things about this concealer and it lived up to expectations. It's creamy, it blends well and it really does last! I would have ideally gone for the number 3 shade but they had sold out so I went for number 2 Cool Medium. This shade is actually perfect for brightening under the eyes so will still be using this even when they restock number 3! Give it a go!
I LOVE Harry Potter and my boyfriend pre-ordered this for me when it came out (I know, he's a keeper). I don't want to say much, but after reading the first Act I ended up with tickets to see it in London next year! I CANNOT wait! So if you love Harry Potter this play is an absolute MUST!
I saw these in Tesco on promotion for £1 (which has sadly ended now) and I'm a sucker for a good deal! I will definitely be repurchasing these as they are a great healthier alternative to the classic sandwich or bagel. They contain 0.2 grams of saturated fat and have just 120 calories per bagel. They are also approved by the vegetarian society. I love mine with salmon, avocado and cream cheese… what's your favourite bagel filling?!


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Handmade Rust Part 4: Generating Vulkan bindings
Vulkan is a C API so we'll need some kind of bindings to be able to use it in Rust. The API is defined in a XML file distributed by Khronos. This file describes the structs, enums, constants, and functions for each version of the API, and all published extensions. The functions can then be loaded from the Vulkan dynamic library and other functions from the API. However using a raw C API isn't easy in Rust because it requires using a lot of unsafe code.
Handmade Rust Part 3: Containers
The most commonly used kinds of containers are arrays and maps. Pretty much any other container type can be built using those two, so that's what we'll build today! The Rust standard library has Vec which is a dynamic array and HashMap and BTreeMap which are two kind of maps, the first one relying on the key being hashable, and the second one relying on the key being sortable.
Handmade Rust Part 2: Unq, an allocator-aware Box
In the Rust standard library, Box is a RAII wrapper for an object on the heap. It's actually a special type that's not implemented purely in the library, but also use special features called lang items. It uses the global allocator to allocate its memory. We want a similar type that also has an allocator associated to it. We'll call it Unq, which mirror C++'s unique_ptr. Defining Unq pub struct Unq<T: ?
Handmade Rust Part 1: Introduction & Allocators
Welcome to Handmade Rust, a series (hopefully) where I will be developing a Vulkan rendering engine in Rust the Handmade way. By this, I mean using no external libraries, not even the Rust standard library, only the core lib. I am doing this mainly for my own enjoyment but also because I want to get better at writing Rust, and sometimes the best way to really understand something is to just do it yourself.
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Q: Pandas take number out string In my data, I have this column "price_range".
Dummy dataset:
df = pd.DataFrame({'price_range': ['€4 - €25', '€3 - €14', '€25 - €114', '€112 - €146', 'No pricing available']})

I am using pandas. What is the most efficient way to get the upper and lower bound of the price range in seperate columns?

A: You can do the following. First create two extra columns lower and upper which contain the lower bound and the upper bound from each row. Then find the minimum from the lower column and maximum from the upper column.
df = pd.DataFrame({'price_range': ['€4 - €25', '€3 - €14', '€25 - €114', '€112 - €146', 'No pricing available']})

df.loc[df.price_range != 'No pricing available', 'lower'] = df['price_range'].str.split('-').str[0]
df.loc[df.price_range != 'No pricing available', 'upper'] = df['price_range'].str.split('-').str[1]

df['lower'] = df.lower.str.replace('€', '').astype(float)
df['upper'] = df.upper.str.replace('€', '').astype(float)

price_range = [df.lower.min(), df.upper.max()]

Output:
>>> price_range
[3.0, 146.0]

A: Alternatively, you can parse the string accordingly (if you want to limits for each row, rather than the total range:
df = pd.DataFrame({'price_range': ['€4 - €25', '€3 - €14', '€25 - €114', '€112 - €146']})

def get_lower_limit(some_string):
    a = some_string.split(' - ')
    return int(a[0].split('€')[-1])

def get_upper_limit(some_string):
    a = some_string.split(' - ')
    return int(a[1].split('€')[-1])

df['lower_limit'] = df.price_range.apply(get_lower_limit)
df['upper_limit'] = df.price_range.apply(get_upper_limit)

Output:
Out[153]:
   price_range  lower_limit  upper_limit
0     €4 - €25            4           25
1     €3 - €14            3           14
2   €25 - €114           25          114
3  €112 - €146          112          146

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A strong, medium-density, medium-textured softwood; widely used for plywood and lumber in construction.
Wood of a number of tropical species, usually distinguished by its dark color, durability, and hardness; used for carving and ornamental cabinetwork.
A tough, strong, moderately high-density hardwood of brown color; often has a twisted interlocked grain; used for decorative veneer, piles, and planks.A softwood of the temperate climates including Douglas fir, white fir, silver fir, and balsam fir; used for framing and interior trim.
A thin skin of plywood reinforced by purlins to form tructures of great strength.
An arch made from layers of wood that are joined with adhesives. The glued joints transmit the shear stresses, so the structure acts as one piece capable for use in structural arches and long-span beams.
A moderately high-density hardwood, whitish to gray-green in color and of uniform texture; used for low-grade veneer, plywood, and rough cabinet work.
A dense smooth-surfaced composition board composed of highly compressed fibers; one such type is called Masonite®.
Timber from all trees except the conifers, which are called softwood.
The center portion of a tree trunk that is no longer growing or carrying the sap; often harder and denser.
Wood of a coniferous tree; moisture-resistant, soft, coarse, and uneven-textured; it splinters easily and is inferior for construction use.
A tough, hard, strong wood; has high shock resistance and high bending strength.
Timber beam or arch manufactured from four or more layers of wood, usually about 1 inch thick, bonded together with waterproof adhesive.
A fine-textured, strong, hard, straight-grained wood of a coniferous tree; heavier than most softwoods.
Narrow strips of wood that serve as a base for plaster, usually nailed to studs in walls or rafters in ceilings.
A straight-grained, fine-textured wood used for interior paneling.
Wood of the locust tree; coarse-grained, strong, hard, decay-resistant, and durable.
A straight-grained wood of intermediate density, pinkish to red-brown in color; used primarily for interior cabinetwork and decorative paneling.
A hard, tough, moderately high-density wood, light to dark brown in color, with a uniform texture; used for flooring and wood trim.
(Pseudotsuga menziesii', better known by the incorrect name P. taxifolia), an evergreen coniferous tree of the family Pinaceae, named for the Scottish botanist D. Douglas (1798-1834). The trees grow 50-75 (100) m tall and 1.2 to 2 (4) m in diameter. The crown is cone-shaped. The needles are flat and stand out in all directions. The female cones are 7 to 10 cm long with rounded seed scales; the covering scales are narrow with a bifurcated tip and a well-developed central vein that extends in an awl-like fashion above the lobes. The tree suffers (and sometimes dies) from spring and autumn frosts and prolonged drought, but it is relatively tolerant of various types of soil. The Douglas fir begins to bear cones after ten to 25 years and can live up to 500 years. It grows wild along the Pacific coast of North America. In the USSR it is found in gardens and parks of the Caucasus and in the southern Ukraine. The wood is used in buildings, ships, furniture, and railroad cars. The bark contains tannins.
A strong, medium-density, medium- to coarse-textured softwood; widely used for plywood and as lumber and timber in construction work.


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History of Lenox Road Baptist Church
The Lenox Road Baptist Church (LRBC) began not as a church, but as a simple prayer group, first meeting in February 1871. That group gathered at the Schoenmakers Hall (893 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn). In March 1872, the LRBC church was formally organized. One month later, our church was publicly recognized as a regularly constituted Baptist Church. For more than a hundred years, the church has flourished.
The 1960s were a time of a time of tremendous of social unrest in the United States. Brooklyn and our church were not immune to these events. Individuals rights, economic and social equalities were critical for everyone. Our community went through several demographic and socio-economic changes, starting in the early 1960s.
Large numbers of new immigrants were arriving in this predominantly white area of Brooklyn. Many worshipers traveled from southern American states, as well as from the Caribbean, Panama, British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Guyana, and other parts of the world. During this time of transition, many of the older, mostly white, residents were moving out of the community.
The economic influence of this new group was profound to Brooklyn. Immigrant ownership of homes and businesses shifted the cultural composition of the community and the church. As more African Americans and people of color from the Caribbean became members of the Lenox Road Baptist Church, the direction and focus of the church's ministries changed to a more socially-oriented ministry.
In the 1960s and '70s, the LRBC was widely viewed as a beacon in the community. It was one of the most established churches in the area. On December 23, 1975 that foundation was shattered; fire destroyed the 103-year-old landmark. Soon after, an Army Chaplin, who served LRBC as both an interim minister and pastor, was reassigned by the United States Army.
Our church found itself with a profound sense of loss. These events were the catalyst that united the established church with a new, emerging membership. Together, they discovered a new direction of ministry. In response to our needs, the local community provided the Grand Theater as a location for our temporary house of worship.
Within a year of the fire, LRBC recruited its first African American minister. This was a first step in filling the void in leadership. This move, coupled with the tremendous financial obligations needed to rebuild the church, precipitated an exodus of primarily young, white families from the church. The Lenox Road Baptist Church, which started as an all-white congregation, transitioned to an all-black congregation within a few years.
It took 13 years to rebuild LRBC where it is today. Again, the Church stands proudly as a beacon in the community. The first worship service in the new sanctuary was held in 1988.
Time and again, our doors have provided refuge to those who sought the Lord. During times of social unrest, changing values, and demographic shifts, LRBC has been an anchor to both our community and Brooklyn. The fire may have destroyed our building, but body has always stood firm in times of adversity and change. This is the gift that we offer all who seek a home with Christ.
Since its beginning, LRBC has embraced a total of eighteen pastors. The church can now be classified as an African-American congregation. Our geographical location is mostly the same, although the cultural make-up continues to change. The church has been an American Baptist congregation Church for most of its history.
After more than a hundred years, we look forward to embracing Brooklyn during the next century. LRBC has always been responsive to the needs of our community, to our followers, and to the Lord. It has always been our humble ambition to provide a home to those who seek God's grace.
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Jaguar C-X75: She will finally be produced
Unveiled in concept form at last Motor Show in Paris, the Jaguar C-X75 will finally know the pleasures of riding on asphalt. But Jaguar had declared in Paris does not intend to produce this exceptional car driven by a rechargeable hybrid drivetrain.
Except, we are well aware that global Jaguar tenors of the luxury car such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz manufacturers will develop and produce a few years of a hybrid drive cars or even a completely the electricity. I forgot to mention that Porsche is the most prolific in this matter the German manufacturer, especially because of its powerful 918 Spyder, too, will soon be produced in very limited series.
To realize this project, Jaguar will join to the stable Williams F1 which engineers will have to focus their energies to designing an ultra lightweight frame made of carbon fiber in addition to producing the atmospheric engine.
The Jaguar C-X75
The petrol engine Cosworth small cylinder that will be developed by Williams F1 will proudly power which should be about 500 horses, and in parallel, one possibly find four electric motors distributed over the axles front and rear.
In total, the power of this beast of very high expected to reach or exceed, r 1 000 horses.
Approval numbers:
Acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h: Approximately 3.0 seconds
Speed: 322 km / h
Electric range: 50 km
CO2 emissions: 99g/km best
The Jaguar C-X75 route will not likely this name, we will not see until 2013 and its production will be limited to just 250 units.
We talk already a price that could total more than one million.
Jaguar C-X75 Prototype: a new series of pictures
Jaguar: a subcompact luxury FWD
Jaguar XF Estate: Family developing
Jaguar C-X75: 250 copies for a few privileged
Jaguar F-Type 2013: based on the C-X16 concept
Jaguar C-X75: only 200 copies
Car Shows in crisis
It is now the turn of Ford to receive money from legislators
CAA-Quebec presented its report in 2012 on gasoline prices
Renault Clio: Focus on production
The 2009 Subaru Tribeca: exceptional characteristics and competitive price


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Q: Destructor in class I have created a class, and according to the textbook Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo,

The work of the destructor is to do any cleanup that should be done whenever an object goes away. Typically this cleanup involves releasing resources, such as memory, that the constructor has allocated.

I am trying to write a destructor, and I'm getting confused by all the code floating out there. Sometimes a simple deconstructor like this is used ~MyIntArray() {} and sometimes there are things between the {}.
What is the rule behind putting things between the curly brackets or not? Is it just containers e.g. lists, arrays, vectors, pointers that need to be placed between the curly brackets (these are the things I see in code examples out there).
edit: this is my class in case that's needed
class msgInfo
{
public:
    msgInfo();
    msgInfo(int, int, int, std::string, std::list<int>);

private:
    int source_id;
    int dest_id;
    int priority;
    std::string payload;
    std::list<int> nodePath;
};

A: Rule 1:
Rule of three in C++03 or rule of five in C++11.
If your class needs a user defined copy constructor or a copy assignment operator then it most likely needs a user defined destructor.

When do you need either of these 3?

*

*When your class has dynamically allocated pointer members and you need to maintain lifetime of each separate from that of another instance member. For e.g: char * member.

*When you manage resources. For e.g: Open file handles, mutex locks etc.

Rule 2:
If your class is intended to be used for derivation and you need polymorphic deletion of objects then you must mark the destructor in Base class as virtual.

A: Well, if you allocated resources dynamically (new etc..) then in the destructor you'd want to release them (delete), in your case, since all of your members are not allocated dynamically, your destructor can be empty ( or non existent).
Another note worth mentioning is, if you do end up implementing the destructor, and you plan on someone inherting your class, you should make it virtual.

A: It is a good programming practice to provide a destructor in your C++ program even if there is no explicit need for one. In your code you might not have any dynamic memory allocation, so the destructor provided is simply  ~MyIntArray() {} without any code inside.
Please also read the Wikipedia article on Rule of Three in C++.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(C%2B%2B_programming)

A: Your class does not have any resources that need to be dealt with in the destructor: each type is either built-in (`int) or handles its own resources (std::string,std::list`). So you do not need to implement your own destructor. The compiler will provide one that is equivalent to the empty braces one.
You would need to implement your own if your class had resources that need dealing with: dynamically allocated objects, handles or connections to sockets, databases, reference counts, etc.
One situation where it might make sense to implement an empty destructor is when you have a class which is intended to be derived from and used polymorphically. In this case, a virtual destructor is needed (there are many SO posts about that), and it is common practice to provide an empty implementation so that derived types to not have to implement it themselves when there are no resources to deal with.
virtual ~Foo() {}

A: If you don't provide a destructor, the compiler will provide one for you. This automatically-generator destructor will correctly call the destructors of all of your class's data members, such as payload etc.
If you don't need to do anything beyond that then you don't need to explicitly provide a destructor. Alternatively, an empty one would work equally well.
If, on the other hand, your constructor allocates some resources (for example, connects to a database), then typically you'd need to put some code in your destructor to release that resource (e.g. disconnect from the database). This is the standard C++ idiom used to prevent resource leaks.

A: A class like this doesn't need a non-trivial destructor (one, with "things between the curly brackets").
In a destructor, you must release resources, you have "manually" allocated. For example:

*

*if you have new/new[] in the constructor and you need to free this memory in the destructor

*if you have opened a file in the constructor, close it in the destructor

*if you have locked a mutex in the constructor, unlock it in the destructor

Things like this.
Also, you may need some additional logic to be implemented, when an object is being destructed. Depends on what you're trying to do.

A: A definition of a destructor should, as far as I know or am concerned, should always look like this:
~msgInfo() { /* free stuff */ }

A constructor on the other hand may look like this:
msgInfo(): m_var1(0), m_var2("Initialize") { /* further initialization */ }

Where what comes between : and { is member variable initialization.
In the destructor you should deallocate anything which was dynamically allocated elsewhere in the class, hence the : notation is no good, since you probably need to do delete on the objects.

A: In your code you might not have any dynamic memory allocation,so you don't need to provide a destructor.


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First 1.2 GHz NMR System Delivered to CERM at the University of Florence, Italy
BALTIMORE, Maryland - March 9, 2020 - At the Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference 2020 (ENC), Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) announces the recent delivery of the world's first Avance™ NEO 1.2 GHz NMR system to the CERM at the University of Florence, Italy, and the first installation of an Avance NEO 1.1 GHz system at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Bruker has now successfully brought three 1.2 GHz magnets to field at its Swiss GHz-class magnet facility. Moreover, Bruker has received two additional 1.2 GHz customer orders in late 2019, with first orders from the United States (The Ohio State University) and Korea (KBSI).
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Welcome to The Readout, where we bring you the latest in biotech. Follow us on Twitter: @damiangarde, @megkesh, and @statnews.
How biotechs teach old drugs new tricks
Some biotech startups are born on second base, licensing drugs left behind by larger companies instead of starting from scratch. The latest to give it a try is BlackThorn Therapeutics, a new company whose top asset is an Eli Lilly-invented therapy that previously failed a pair of trials in depression and alcohol dependence.
STAT talked to BlackThorn CEO Dr. Mark Corrigan about the virtues and risks of picking up where pharma has left off.
Where'd you get the notion of in-licensing a waylaid drug?
I was on the board of Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and they had a billion-dollar drug — Cubicin — that Lilly had shelved due to toxicity. You watch that lesson unfold and you think, "Ah, maybe this is a real hunting ground." What we're trying to take advantage of is, if you look at the exodus from neuroscience by Big Pharma, there are some really promising assets out there, and they're very well developed. If you can access a big pharma asset, specifically one that's been left, you have this fabulous sort of background package.
How do you find promising drugs languishing on the shelf?
For us, we were interested in a number of assets, and amongst them was Lilly's program. And it was through Arch Venture Partners [BlackThorn's founding investor] that we were able to contact them. And that's sort of how it goes. The other way it happens is sometimes you find champions of the drug who have left those companies, and they say, "Boy, you know, I really believed in this program but the company decided not to fund it."
Here's a really obvious question: If these drugs are so valuable, why is pharma willing to part with them?
I think that's the right question for investors to ask, and for us the answer to is that Lilly strategically exited the space, rather than "this has some hidden wart on it that's horrible." I don't know if it's a trend, but it feels that way in part because as large companies focus their research, they recognize that there's an ecosystem of small companies that may be able to bear the risk and raise the funds to advance these assets where they can't. Years ago, when I was at Pharmacia and Upjohn, you were actually terrified of out-licensing molecules because if they hit a home run, there's egg on your face. We would have rather let them rot on our shelves. I think that's changed.
Biogen's plans for pain lose their luster
Speaking of spin-off drugs, a pain treatment that began life at GlaxoSmithKline found its way into a startup called Convergence Pharmaceuticals, only to trade hands again. Last year, Biogen paid $200 million in cash to get its hands on the pain drug, and pledged to pay as much as $475 million more if it panned out. The company saw the therapy as a big earner in the future.
But that's not terribly likely, according to Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges. Leerink consulted some pain specialists and found little enthusiasm for Biogen's drug, which is slated for late-stage development in nerve pain this year. When modeling Biogen's financial outlook, Porges had to weigh whether to include revenue from the drug. "In a word, our conclusion is no," he wrote.
Biogen's treatment is part of a promising but troubled class of therapies that target Nav1.7, a protein that plays a role in pain signaling. Pfizer shelved one such drug last year after encountering mixed clinical results, but groups at Amgen and Genentech are pushing forward with early-stage efforts.
$109 million and counting
That's how much drug companies have poured into defeating a California ballot initiative that would cap the prices the state pays for some drugs, new filings show.
Facing off against pharma: Bernie Sanders, who has gotten quite adept at tanking drug makers' stock with a single tweet.
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Time to splurge on that treadmill desk
why can't someone finally prove that being a couch potato is good for you? (stat / matthew orr)
A quick jog could help you think better.
Researchers are finding that working out — not just walking, but a few days a week of moderate exercise — helps improve cognition right away. That's because when you get moving, your muscles release chemicals that wend their way into your brain — and may help grow new neurons.
In a new episode of Science Happens!, STAT's Carl Zimmer chats with NYU psychologist Wendy Suzuki about the links between exercise and brain power.
Watch here.
What does it take to get the FDA to approve a depression drug?
That's what Alkermes is soon to find out, as it prepares to take a twice-failed, once-successful treatment for major depressive disorder before regulators.
The drug, ALKS-5461, failed in a pair of late-stage trials in January, nearly halving Alkermes' share price and convincing some analysts to write it off outright. But in a third study, the drug met its main goal by significantly beating out placebo in improving symptoms of depression, Alkermes said Thursday. And now the company plans to bring pooled data from all three studies to the FDA to see whether ALKS-5461 might be approvable.
Will the agency accept two misses and one hit? In the past, companies have needed at least two late-stage successes to sway the FDA. But major depressive disorder is a particularly dire diagnosis, and Alkermes studied its drug on patients for whom standard therapies were little help. Investors, who sent the company's shares up by about 50 percent on Thursday night, seem to think ALKS-5461 has shot.
Gilead Sciences is pushing its lead NASH drug into Phase 3 despite some uneven clinical results. (TheStreet)
Roche isn't looking to do any blockbuster deals in the near future, according to its CEO. (Bloomberg)
A startup developing organs on a chip raised $45 million in venture cash. (Forbes)
How does the FBI police do-it-yourself biology labs? (MIT Technology Review)


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\section{Long Time Evolution and short correlation time}
\label{sec:Long-Time-Evolution}
We discuss the long time behavior of the statistical operator $\oldhat{\rho}_{t}$ under the a generic Gaussian evolution given by Eq.~(1), which we rewrite as
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{M}_{t}=\mathcal{T}\exp\left\{ \frac{1}{2} \int_{0}^{t}d\tau\int_{0}^{t}ds \, \mathcal{V}(\tau,s) \right\},
\label{eq:df2}
\end{equation}
where $\mathcal{T}$ denotes the time order operator and
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{V} (\tau,s)= D_{jk}(\tau,s)
\left(\oldhat{A}_{sL}^{k}\oldhat{A}_{\tau R}^{j}-\theta_{\tau s}\oldhat{A}_{\tau L}^{j}\oldhat{A}_{sL}^{k}-\theta_{s \tau}\oldhat{A}_{sR}^{k}\oldhat{A}_{\tau R}^{j}\right),
\end{equation}
under the assumption that there exists a finite (positive) time $\tau_c$ (the correlation time) such that:
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{V} (\tau,s) \approx \;0 \;\;\;\;\text{when}\;\; |\tau-s|>\tau_c. \label{eq:tauc}
\end{equation}
Specifically we study Eq.~\eqref{eq:df2} in the regime:
\begin{equation}
t \gg \;\tau_c .\label{eq:tggtauc}
\end{equation}
We argue that under these assumptions, the map in Eq.~\eqref{eq:df2} can be approximated up to $\mathcal{O}(\tau^{2}_{c}/t^{2})$ by the Markovian map generated by:
\begin{align}\label{eq:markpp}
\partial_{t}\hat{\rho}_{t}={\bf{L}}_{t}\hat{\rho}_{t}
\end{align}
where:
\begin{align}
{\bf{L}}_{t}=\mathcal{T}\left(\int_{0}^{\infty}d\tilde{\tau}\, \mathcal{V}(t,t-\tilde{\tau}) \right)
\end{align}
Here we sketch the derivation, leaving a rigorous analysis of the limits of validity of this result for future research.

In order to show the validity of Eq.~\eqref{eq:markpp} we take the time derivative of $\hat{\rho}_{t}=\mathcal{M}_{t}\hat{\rho}$ with $\mathcal{M}_{t}$ in Eq.~\eqref{eq:df2}, \textit{i.e.}
\begin{align}\label{eq:n_master}
\partial_{t}\oldhat{\rho}_{t}=\mathcal{T}\left(
 \int_{0}^{t} d\tilde{\tau}
\mathcal{V} (t,\tilde{\tau}) \,
e^{\frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{t} d\tau \int_{0}^{t} ds \, \mathcal{V} (\tau,s) } \right)
\oldhat{\rho}.
\end{align}
and rewrite it as:
\begin{equation}
\partial_{t}{\oldhat{\rho}}_{t}=\mathcal{T}\left( \int_{0}^{t} d\tilde{\tau}
\mathcal{V} (t,\tilde{\tau}) \,
e^{\frac{1}{2}\int_{\tilde{\tau}}^{t} d\tau \int_{\tilde{\tau}}^{t} ds \, \mathcal{V} (\tau,s)}\,
e^{\int_{\tilde{\tau}}^{t} d\tau \int_{0}^{\tilde{\tau}} ds \, \mathcal{V} (\tau,s)}\,
e^{\frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{\tilde{\tau}} d\tau \int_{0}^{\tilde{\tau}} ds \, \mathcal{V} (\tau,s)}
 \right)
\hat{\rho}.
\label{eq:approx_stocheq}
\end{equation}
We notice that under the assumption in Eq.~\eqref{eq:tauc} the first factor on the r.h.s. of Eq.~\eqref{eq:approx_stocheq} forces the variable $\tau$ to satisfy
\begin{align}
t \ge \tilde{\tau} \ge (t-\tau_{c}).
\end{align}
Thus we can make the approximations
\begin{align}
&\int_0^t d\tilde{\tau} \, \mathcal{V}(t,\tilde{\tau})
\approx \int_{t-\tau_c}^{t}d\tilde{\tau} \, \mathcal{V}(t,\tilde{\tau}) \propto \tau_c\nonumber\\
&\int_{\tilde{\tau}}^t d\tau \int_{\tilde{\tau}}^t ds \, \mathcal{V}(\tau,s)
\approx \int_{t-\tau_c}^t  d\tau \int_{t-\tau_c}^t   ds \, \mathcal{V}(\tau,s)
\propto \tau_{c}^2,\nonumber\\
&\int_{\tilde{\tau}}^t d\tau \int_0^{\tilde{\tau}} ds \, \mathcal{V}(\tau,s)
\approx \int_{t-\tau_{c}}^{t}  d\tau \int_{{t}-2\tau_c}^{t-\tau_{c}}  ds \, \mathcal{V}(\tau,s) \propto \tau_{c}^2, \nonumber\\
&\int_{0}^{\tilde\tau}d\tau\int_{0}^{\tilde\tau}ds \mathcal{V}(\tau,s)\approx \int_{0}^{t-\tau_{c}}d\tau\int_{0}^{t-\tau_{c}}ds \,\mathcal{V}(\tau,s)\propto \tau_{c}t
\end{align}
Exploiting these results one is allowed to approximate Eq.~\eqref{eq:approx_stocheq} as
\begin{equation}
\partial_{t}\oldhat{\rho}_t=
\mathcal{T}\left( \int_{t-\tau_c}^{t} d\tilde{\tau}
\mathcal{V} (t,\tilde{\tau})\right) \oldhat{\rho}_{\tilde{\tau}} +\mathcal{O}((\tau_c/t)^2),
\label{eq:timennlocmm}
\end{equation}
In the above equation $\hat{\rho}_{\tilde{\tau}}$ can be replaced with $\hat{\rho}_{t}$, because under the assumption \eqref{eq:tggtauc}, $\hat{\rho}_{t}=\hat{\rho}_{\tilde{\tau}}+\mathcal{O}((\tau_{c}/t)^{2})$.

Replacing $\hat{\rho}_{\tilde{\tau}}\to \hat{\rho}_{t}$ and performing the change of variables $\tilde{\tau}\to (t-\tilde{\tau})$ in Eq.~\eqref{eq:timennlocmm} we obtain:
\begin{equation}
\partial_{t}\oldhat{\rho}_t= \mathcal{T}\left(\int_{0}^{\tau_{c}} d\tilde{\tau}
\mathcal{V} (t,t-\tilde{\tau})  \right) \oldhat{\rho}_t + \mathcal{O}((\tau_c/t)^2).
\label{eq:timennlocmm2111}
\end{equation}
Using the assumption in Eq.~\eqref{eq:tauc} one may now replace the  upper limit of the integral with $\infty$ and eventually get:
\begin{equation}
\partial_{t} \oldhat{\rho}_t= \left[\mathcal{T}\left(\int_0^{\infty} d\tilde{\tau}
\mathcal{V} (t,\tilde{\tau})  \right)\right] \oldhat{\rho}_t + \mathcal{O}((\tau_c/t)^{2}),
\label{eq:timennlocmm2}
\end{equation}
which is the desired result (see Eq.~\eqref{eq:markpp}).
When $\tau_c/t \to 0 $, the superoperator $\mathcal{V}(t,s)$ can be assumed delta correlated in time (Markovian assumption):
\begin{align}\label{eq:markv}
\mathcal{V}(t,s) \simeq \delta (t-s)\mathcal{\tilde{V}}(t)\quad \text{with} \quad \mathcal{\tilde{V}}\equiv \int_{0}^{\infty}d\tilde{\tau}\mathcal{V}(t,\tilde{\tau}),
\end{align}
which corresponds to Eq.~(2) in the main text.
More specifically, in this limit it is then straightforward to obtain from Eq.~\eqref{eq:timennlocmm2}:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:lindblad1}
\partial_{t} \oldhat{\rho}_t = \tilde{D}_{jk}(t)
\left(\oldhat{B}_{t}^{k}\oldhat{\rho}_t \oldhat{B}_{t}^{j}-
\frac{1}{2}\{\oldhat{B}_{t}^{k}\oldhat{B}_{t}^{j},\oldhat{\rho}_t\}\right).
\end{equation}
where $\oldhat{B}^{k}_{t}$ and $\tilde{D}_{jk}(t)$ are implicitly defined through  Eq.~\eqref{eq:markv}.
Further assuming that the generator of the dynamics does not depend on time, \textit{i.e.} $\tilde{D}_{jk}(t)=\tilde{D}_{jk}$,  we obtain the standard Lindblad form of the generator.

We stress that this procedure does not guarantee complete positivity of the approximated map in the long time scale given by  Eq.~\eqref{eq:lindblad1}. This reflects the fact that the approximated dynamics is valid only for states $\oldhat{\rho}_{t}$ that are the image of the full dynamical map $\mathcal{M}_{t}$, with $t\gg\tau_{c}$, of the initial state $\hat{\rho}_0$ at time $t=0$. A similar analysis has already been done by Di\'{o}si~\cite{diosi1993high} on the Caldeira Legget master equation in the attempt to extend the original result~\cite{caldeira1983path} to a medium temperature environment. In other words, loosely speaking, the non-Markovian character of the evolution gets encoded over time in the state $\oldhat{\rho}_t$ as well as in the matrix $\tilde{D}_{j k}$ and operators $\oldhat{B}_t^k$ of the approximate Markovian dynamics given by  Eq.~\eqref{eq:lindblad1}.

\section{Dissipation and Covariance}
\label{sec:dissip_cov}
We study the asymptotic behavior of the energy under the assumption of Galilei-Covariance and finite correlation time.
Under the assumption of finite correlation time $\tau_{c}$, the dynamical map can be treated as Markovian in the long time limit, as is shown in Sec.~\ref{sec:Long-Time-Evolution}. This allows to investigate the asymptotic behavior of the energy by considering Markovian dynamical maps, to which Holevo's characterization of Markovian master equations can be applied \cite{holevo1996covariant,holevo1995translation,holevo1993conservativity, holevo1993note}. Specifically, we consider a Galilei covariant Markovian master equation (in the Schr\"{o}dinger picture):
\begin{equation}
\frac{d}{dt}\hat{\rho}_{t}=-\frac{i}{\hbar}[\oldhat{H},\hat{\rho}_{t}]
+ \!\int\!d\oldalpha\!\int\!d\oldbeta\mathcal{F}(\oldalpha,\oldbeta)\Big(e^{i(\oldalpha\oldhat{x}+\oldbeta\oldhat{p})} \hat{\rho}_{t}e^{-i(\oldalpha\oldhat{x}+\oldbeta\oldhat{p})}-\hat{\rho}_{t}\Big).\label{eq:holevotb2}
\end{equation}

For simplicity we limit to the 1-D case (the 3-D case is a straightforward generalization) of an isolated free system: specifically, we set $\oldhat{H}=\frac{\oldhat{p}^{2}}{2m}$. It is then easy to obtain the following system of equations for the expectation values $\braket{\oldhat{p}^{2}}_{t}\equiv \text{Tr}[\oldhat{p}^{2}\hat{\rho}_{t}]$ and $\braket{\oldhat{p}}_{t}\equiv \text{Tr}[\oldhat{p}\hat{\rho}_{t}]$:
\begin{align}
\partial_{t}\braket{\oldhat{p}^{2}}_{t}&= 2\lambda \braket{\oldhat{p}}_{t}+ \gamma,\nonumber\\
\partial_{t}\braket{\oldhat{p}}_{t}&= \lambda,
\end{align}
where we have defined $\lambda= \int d\oldalpha d\oldbeta\, \oldalpha\, \mathcal{F}(\oldalpha,\oldbeta)$ and $\gamma= \int d\oldalpha\int d\oldbeta\, \oldalpha^{2}\,\mathcal{F}(\oldalpha,\oldbeta)$. Solving the above system of equations we obtain the following evolution for the energy:
\begin{align}
\braket{\oldhat{p}_{t}^{2}}&= \lambda^{2}t^{2}+(\lambda \braket{\oldhat{p}}_{0}+\gamma) t + \braket{\oldhat{p}^{2}}_{0}.
\end{align}
This equation diverges for $t\to \infty$, showing that Galilei-Covariance leads to an unbounded growth of the energy for long times.

It is then necessary to relax one of the hypothesis in order to have a physically consistent behavior for long time scales. However, the translational covariance of the model is needed for the reproducibility of the experiments, leaving boost covariance as the only assumption that can be relaxed. For example, this has been done in ~\cite{smirne2015dissipative}, where boost covariance is explicitly broken.

\section{Stochastic Schr\"odinger equations}
We characterize the stochastic unraveling that leads to CP gaussian maps satisfying  translation, boost, boost-translation or rotation symmetry.
We notice that a CP Gaussian map, covariant under Galilean symmetries, can always be written in the form of Eq.~(4), with the matrix $D$ implementing the symmetries: for translation, boost, boost-translation or rotation symmetry the function $D$ has to satisfy Eqs.~(15), (21), (24), or (28), respectively.
Following~\cite{diosi2014general}, and exploiting Eq.~(4) it is straightforward to write the unraveling:
\begin{align}
i\partial_{t}\ket{\psi_{\xi}(t)}= &\int d\Gamma_{1}
e^{i(\alpha_{1}\cdot\hat{x}_{t}+\beta_{1}\cdot\hat{p})}
\times\bigg[\xi_{t}(\Gamma_{1})
+ \int\!\!d\Gamma_{2}\!\int\!\!ds\, \Big(D(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s)
-S(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s)\Big)
\frac{\olddelta}{\olddelta\xi_{s}(\Gamma_{2})}\bigg]\ket{\psi_{\xi}(t)},
\label{eq:psi}
\end{align}
where $\Gamma_{j}$ denotes collectively the two vectors $\alpha_{j}$, $\beta_{j}$ and $\xi_{t}(\Gamma_{j})$ is a complex valued Gaussian stochastic field with zero mean and variance:
\begin{align}
\mathbb{E}_{\xi}[\xi_{t}(\Gamma_{1})\xi_{s}(\Gamma_{2})]=&S(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s),\nonumber\\
\mathbb{E}_{\xi}[\xi^{*}_{t}(\Gamma_{1})\xi_{s}(\Gamma_{2})]=&D(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s)
\end{align}
where $D$ characterizes the symmetries of the gaussian maps according to Eqs.~(15), (21), (24), or (28) and $S$ is constrained only by the request of positivity of the covariance matrix of the noise field $\xi$.
However, Eq.~\eqref{eq:psi}, due to the presence of the functional derivative $\olddelta/\olddelta\xi_{s}$, cannot be trivially used for numerical analysis.
To solve this problem, as discussed in \cite{tilloy2017markovian}, one can introduce an auxiliary stochastic field. Specifically, Eq.~\eqref{eq:psi} is equivalent to:
\begin{align}\label{eq:phi}
i\partial_{t}\ket{\psi_{\xi,\eta}(t)}= \int d\Gamma_{1}
e^{i(\alpha_{1}\cdot\hat{x}_{t}+\beta_{1}\cdot\hat{p})}\bigg[\xi_{t}(\Gamma_{1})
+ \eta_{t}(\Gamma_{1})\bigg]\ket{\psi_{\xi,\eta}(t)},
\end{align}
where $\eta_{t}$ is a complex stochastic noise with zero mean and variance:
\begin{align}
\mathbb{E}_{\eta}[\eta_{t}(\Gamma_{1})\eta_{s}(\Gamma_{2})]&=K(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s)+K(\Gamma_{2},\Gamma_{1},s,t),\nonumber\\
\mathbb{E}_{\eta}[\eta^{*}_{t}(\Gamma_{1})\eta_{s}(\Gamma_{2})]&=Q(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s),
\end{align}
with:
\begin{align}
K(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s)=\theta_{t s}[D(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s)-S(\Gamma_{1},\Gamma_{2},t,s)],
\end{align}
while $Q$ is an arbitrary function. In particular, the unraveling given by Eq.~\eqref{eq:psi} can be generated from the unraveling given in Eq.~\eqref{eq:phi} by averaging over the auxilary noise field, \textit{i.e.}:
\begin{equation}
\ket{\psi_{\xi}(t)}=\mathbb{E}_{\eta}[\ket{\psi_{\xi,\eta}(t)}].
\end{equation}

\section{Measure of macroscopicity: colored and dissipative QMUPL}
Some of the most well-known classicalization maps are given by spontaneous collapse models~\cite{bassi2013models}. Among these models the Quantum-Mechanics-with-Universal-Position-Localization (QMUPL)  model~\cite{PhysRevA.40.1165,PhysRevA.42.5086} offers the possibility of obtaining simple analytical results, whilst retaining most of the important physical features of the more refined models. Specifically, we consider its colored and dissipative generalization (cdQMUPL) in one spatial dimension~\cite{PhysRevA.86.022108} and illustrate the necessity of studying the quantum-to-classical boundary in the the parameter space $(T, \tau_c)$ (see main text).
  The cdQMUPL model dynamics for the statistical operator for a particle of mass $m$ is given by Eq.~(1), with the $j$,$k$ sum containing only one term and with the following replacements:
\begin{align}
\oldhat{A} \rightarrow\; &\oldhat{x}+\frac{i\epsilon}{\hbar}\oldhat{p} \label{eq:Aqmupl}
\\
\oldhat{H} \rightarrow\; &\oldhat{H}+ \frac{\lambda \epsilon}{2} \{\oldhat{x},\oldhat{p}\}  \label{eq:Hqmupl}
\\
D(\tau,s) \rightarrow\; &\lambda D(\tau-s) \label{eq:corrqmupl}
\end{align}
The parameters $\lambda$, $\epsilon$ scale with the mass of the system $m$ as $\lambda=\frac{m_0}{m}\lambda_0$ and $\epsilon=\frac{m_0}{m}\epsilon_0$, respectively, where $m_0=1$ amu is a reference mass.
The parameter $\epsilon_0$ can be converted into a temperature $T= \frac{\hbar^2}{4 m_0 k_B \epsilon_0}$, where $k_B$ is Boltzmann's constant.
Moreover, we assume that the $D$ function in Eq.~\eqref{eq:corrqmupl} is the exponential correlation function in Eq.~(33) of the main text.

This model can be alternatively understood as the a limiting case of small distances and low momentum transfer of the classicalization map defined by Eq.~(17) through Eqs.~(33) and (34). Specifically, the relation between the classicalization map proposed in the main text and cdQMUPL model's parameters is the following:  $\lambda=\gamma/(2r_{c}^{2} )$ and $\epsilon=2 r_{c}^{2} k_{T}$.
\begin{figure}[b]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}
	\includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{color.pdf}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}
	\centering
  \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{dissipation.pdf}
\end{minipage}
\caption{
The evolution of the spread $\sigma(t)$ of a Gaussian wave-packet under the cdQMUPL classicalization map. The black solid line denotes the reference quantum mechanical evolution spread.
Left: We have set $\lambda= 10^{22} \text{m}^{-2}\text{s}^{-1}$ and $T \rightarrow \infty$ (non-Markovian regime). The orange dashed, green dotted and red dot-dashed lines denote the evolution for $\tau_c=10^{6}$ s, $\tau_c=1$ s and $\tau_c=10^{-6}$ s, respectively. Right: We have set  $\tau_c \rightarrow 0$ (dissipative regime). The orange dashed, green dotted and red dot-dashed denote the evolution for $(\lambda=10^{3} \text{m}^{-2}\text{s}^{-1}, T=10^{-7} \text{K})$, $(\lambda=10^{3} \text{m}^{-2}\text{s}^{-1}, T=10^{-15} \text{K})$ and $(\lambda=10^{5} \text{m}^{-2}\text{s}^{-1}, T=10^{-15} \text{K})$, respectively.}
\label{Fig:1}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}
	\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{color_mu.pdf}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}
	\centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{dissipation_mu.pdf}
\end{minipage}
\caption{We consider an experiment that can distinguish between the quantum mechanical spread $\sigma^{\text{(QM)}}_t$ and the cdQMUPL spread $\sigma^{\text{(cd)}}_t$, when $\sigma^{\text{(cd)}}_t/ \sigma^{\text{(QM)}}_t = 10^{-2}$. We plot the dependence of the cdQMUPL measure of macroscopicty (see main text Eqs.~(17), (31), (33) and (34)) with respect to the correlation time $\tau_c$ and temperature $T$. Left: We set $T\ rightarrow \infty $ and consider an experiment which lasts $t=10^{-10}s$ (non-Markovian regime). We see that the longer the correlation time the bigger the macroscopicity of the experiment.
Right: We set $\tau_c\rightarrow 0$ and consider an ideal experiment lasting $t=10^{3}s$ (near the dissipative regime). On the one hand, we see that for temperatures above $T=10^{-10}K$ we obtain a constant macroscopicty measure: this corresponds to the non-dissipative regime. On the other hand, below $T=10^{-10}K$ the situation changes drastically: we are in the dissipative regime, where the macroscopicity measure $\mu$ heavily depends on temperature $T$.}
\label{Fig:2}
\end{figure}

  We further notice that this model reduces to the known non-dissipative~\cite{bassi2009non} and Markovian~\cite{bassi2005energy} limits by imposing $T\rightarrow \infty $ and $\tau_{c}\to 0$, respectively. By imposing both conditions we reobtain the Markovian and non-dissipative QMUPL model.

We will now illustrate through this model that an adequate analysis on how well a given experiment explores the quantum-to-classical boundary must be performed in the parameter space $(\tau_{c}, T)$.

To this end we consider Gaussian wave-packets: the Gaussian form of the wave packet is preserved by the cdQMUPL evolution and the spread of the wave-packet $\sigma_t$ can be calculated analytically~\cite{PhysRevA.86.022108}. For the sake of the discussion, we consider an initial wave-packet with $\sigma_0=1$ m and look at the evolution in regimes, where non-Markovian and dissipative effects become relevant.
From Fig.~\ref{Fig:1}, we see that, on the one hand, for small times (left) the evolution of the spread depends on the correlation time $\tau_{c}$, while, on the other hand, for large times (right) the evolution depends on the temperature $T$. We further illustrate this point in Fig.~\ref{Fig:2}, where we depict the behaviour of the measure of macroscopicty as a function of the correlation time $\tau_{c}$ and temperature $T$ in the non-Markovian and dissipative regimes, respectively, for an ideal measurement capable of resolving the spread of the wave function. As the figure shows, the measure heavily depends on $\tau_{c}$ and $T$, in situations where non-Markovian and dissipative effects dominate, respectively.

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