QUETTA - Two settlers were shot dead in an incident of 'target killing' in Panjgoor town of Balochistan on Tuesday morning.
Police said that unknown armed assailants on motorcycles opened indiscriminate firing on the two persons near Grid Station area of Panjgoor, a bordering town with Iran. One person identified as Sarfaraz was killed on the spot while the other Munawar Hussain succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. 'It is an incident of target killing', said a police officer and said that both the victims were labourers and belonged to Punjab.
Police has started investigation into the incident. Incidents of target killings in the province have increased manifold and more than 18 people have been killed in past one week in different towns of Balochistan including a renowned educationist, Professor Fazal Bari in provincial capital Quetta on Monday.
ISLAMABAD, Mar 24 (APP): Poverty survey under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in all the districts of Balochistan will be completed till June. The survey in the rest of the country will be initiated in May.This was stated by Farzana Raja, Chairperson BISP while addressing the closing ceremony of Earthquake Disability project and launching of MIOP Micro Finance for Persons With Disabilities arranged by Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF).
The pilot phase of poverty survey has already been completed in 16 districts and the number of families are now being registered, she addded.
Farzana said the organizations serving persons with disabilities (PWDs) are doing commendable jobs through bringing them into mainstream, Farzana said while terming physical disability and poverty as two main hindrances in the country' development.
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Will-writing: "closely related" unreserved services will have to be regulated
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers' (CLC) bid to license alternative business structures (ABS) could allow firms to dodge regulation of their unreserved legal work, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has warned.
Although supportive of the application and complimentary about the CLC's attention to consumer needs in several respects, the panel said it is vague on a number of regulatory issues important to consumers.
In its advice on the application – which is required by the Legal Services Act – the panel called for greater clarity over rules under which licensed bodies undertake non-reserved legal activities related to reserved legal work, such as will-writing alongside probate.
The CLC says in its application that it expects ABSs to provide "closely related" non-reserved activities through the regulated entity, citing the panel's own research, Quality in legal services, which shows that consumers assume that "someone is making sure standards are being maintained".
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority is seeking to address the issue by applying the existing separate business rule to ABSs.
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Q: mac os x mavericks eclipse start and tip a directory not a file I update mac to mavericks and found eclipse(adt bundle) can't start directly, and I check in terminal,found eclipse is a directory:
adt-bundle/eclipse/Eclipse.app/

and I can start in terminal:
adt-bundle/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse

why?

A: This has nothing to do with Mavericks specifically; all OS X applications are supposed to be packaged like this, with the .app actually being a directory. If you look at any other standard OS X application you will find it is also a directory (although Finder hides this fact from you).
The reason Eclipse did not start directly must be some other reason.

A: It seems you should set the execute permission for the app. Execute this command in terminal:
chmod +x /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse
Then you can run the app as usually, clicking on Eclipse.app.

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Research has typically identified social entrepreneurs as characteristically superior to conventional entrepreneurs as they are motivated by making a contribution to society rather than by profits. Yet, few published papers investigate the motives of social entrepreneurs and explore if there are indeed any additional motivations aside from community interests. The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the additional motives, aside from the social interests that motivate social entrepreneurs. This paper does so by using an inductive approach and specifically carrying out a re-examination of two pieces of research examining social entrepreneurship that were carried out independently by the two researchers in South Africa and Ireland. During various discussions between the researchers it became clear that the findings were similar. Accordingly the researchers re-examined the transcripts of the twelve interviews carried out together. The findings indicate that the informants do have additional motivations with respect to their business ventures including lifestyle motives, receiving acknowledgement and generating profit.


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Q: Why are there differences in psych::principal between "Varimax" and "varimax"? In a related question, I have asked why there are differences between stats::varimax and GPArotation::Varimax, both of which psych::principal calls, depending on the option set for rotate =.
The differences between these two (see other question) account for some, but not all of the differences from psych::principal.
It appears that these differences somehow get exacerbated by psych::principal.
(I have a simple theory why, and I'd like to get that confirmed).
library(GPArotation)
library(psych)
data("Thurstone")

principal.unrotated <- principal(r = Thurstone, nfactors = 4, rotate = "none")  # find unrotated PCs first
loa <- unclass(principal.unrotated$loadings)

# just to compare that the rot.mat is correct
varimax.stats <- stats::varimax(x = loa, normalize = TRUE)
varimax.GPA <- GPArotation::Varimax(L = loa, normalize = TRUE)
# notice we're here NOT interested in the difference between stats and GPA, that's the other question

diff.from.rot.meth <- unclass(varimax.stats$loadings - varimax.GPA$loadings)  # very small differences, see this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32350891/why-are-there-differences-between-gparotationvarimax-and-statsvarimax
mean(abs(diff.from.rot.meth))
#> [1] 8.036863e-05

principal.varimax.stats <- principal(r = Thurstone, nfactors = 4, rotate = "varimax")
principal.Varimax.GPA <- principal(r = Thurstone, nfactors = 4, rotate = "Varimax")

diff.from.princ <- principal.Varimax.GPA$rot.mat - principal.varimax.stats$rot.mat  # quite a substantial change, because Theta is NOT a rotmat, that makes sense
mean(abs(diff.from.princ))
#> [1] 0.021233

mean(abs(diff.from.rot.meth)) - mean(abs(diff.from.princ))  # principal has MUCH bigger differences
#> [1] -0.02115263

This seems way too big for just a floating point artefact or something.
My hypothesis would be that the (additional) difference stems from the fact that GPArotation::Varimax defaults to (Kaiser) normalize == FALSE, whereas **stats::varimax defaults to (Kaiser) normalize == TRUE, which cannot be set differently from within `principal::psych``.
stats::varimax manual:

## varimax with normalize = TRUE is the default

GPArotation::Varimax / GPArotation::GPForth manual:

The argument normalize gives an indication of if and how any normalization should be done before rotation, and then undone after rotation. If normalize is FALSE (the default) no normalization is done. If normalize is TRUE then Kaiser normalization is done. (So squared row entries of normalized A sum to 1.0. This is sometimes called Horst normalization.)

Also, they psych::Kaiser manual warns:

The GPArotation package does not (by default) normalize, nor does the fa function. Then, to make it more confusing, varimax in stats does,Varimax in GPArotation does not.

Can anyone confirm that the difference is, in fact, accounted for by the normalization options?

A: The problem of different loadings occurs because of different accuracy in the procedures (of course, since in psych::principal the normalize option is not evaluated, all the other procedures must used with that option switched to TRUE). While the accuracy in stats::varimax and GPArotation::Varimax can be configured (parameter eps) this is ignored in psych::principal, and seems to be implicitely equal to stats::varimax with eps=1e-5 .
If we increase accuracy in stats::varimax and GPArotations::Varimax to eps=1e-15 then we get the same result (at least up to 8 digits)  as in a concurring implementation in my MatMate-program which I've tested to be very accurately equal to the SPSS computations too.
The missing handling of the explicite option eps in psych::principal seems to be a bug, and its poor implicite default value is surely unsatisfying.
Interestingly, the GPArotation::Varimax needs very many rotations with eps=1e-15, see the output at the end; so either there is another internal procedure implemented or the eps-parameter is evaluated differently in the decision when the iterations can be stopped. One example, see at the end of this answer, might suggest such an effect.
Below the protocol of the comparision; only the first two rows of the loadings are displayed.
The first three computations with low accuracy (eps=1e-5)
all procedures give equal or comparable results,
except GPArotation, which is already near the exact answer
--------------------------------
>  principal(r = Thurstone, nfactors = 4, rotate = "varimax")$loadings    *1000000
>  stats::varimax(x = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-5)$loadings            *1000000
>  GPArotation::Varimax(L = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-5)$loadings      *1000000

The second three computations with (attempted) high accuracy (eps=1e-15)
all procedures except psych::principal give equal results, and they
agree also with external crosscheck using MatMate
--------------------------------
>  principal(r = Thurstone, nfactors = 4, rotate = "varimax",eps=1e-15)$loadings*1000000
>  stats::varimax(x = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-15)$loadings*1000000
>  GPArotation::Varimax(L = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-10)$loadings*1000000

The attempts to little/default accurate results with large eps or without
# ===== Numerical documentation (only first two rows are displayed)================
> principal(r = Thurstone, nfactors = 4, rotate = "varimax")$loadings*1000000
                RC1       RC2       RC3       RC4
Sentences       871655.72 216638.46 198427.07 175202.57
Vocabulary      855609.28 294166.99 153181.45 180525.99

> stats::varimax(x = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-5)$loadings         *1000000
                PC1       PC2       PC3       PC4
Sentences       871655.72 216638.46 198427.07 175202.57
Vocabulary      855609.28 294166.99 153181.45 180525.99

> GPArotation::Varimax(L = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-5)$loadings   *1000000
                     PC1      PC2      PC3       PC4
Sentences       871717.3 216618.7 198176.3 175204.47
Vocabulary      855663.1 294146.3 152930.7 180517.21
# =============================================================================

Now the attempts to more accurate results with smaller eps
> principal(r = Thurstone, nfactors = 4, rotate = "varimax",eps=1e-15)$loadings  *1000000
                RC1       RC2       RC3       RC4
Sentences       871655.72 216638.46 198427.07 175202.57
Vocabulary      855609.28 294166.99 153181.45 180525.99

> stats::varimax(x = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-15)$loadings                   *1000000
                PC1       PC2       PC3       PC4
Sentences       871716.83 216619.69 198174.31 175207.86
Vocabulary      855662.58 294147.47 152928.77 180519.37

> GPArotation::Varimax(L = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-10)$loadings             *1000000
                     PC1      PC2       PC3       PC4
Sentences       871716.8 216619.7 198174.31 175207.86
Vocabulary      855662.6 294147.5 152928.77 180519.37

Warnmeldung:
In GPForth(L, Tmat = Tmat, method = "varimax", normalize = normalize,  :
  convergence not obtained in GPForth. 1000 iterations used.

# Result by MatMate: --------------------------------------------------------
 lad = cholesky(Thurstone)
 pc = rot(lad,"pca")
 pc4 = pc[*,1..4]                           // arrive at the first four pc's
     t = gettrans( normzl(pc4),"varimax")   // get rotation-matrix for row-normalized pc's
 vmx = pc4 * t                              // rotate pc4 by rotation-matrix
 display = vmx     * 1000000
                     PC1      PC2       PC3       PC4
Sentences       871716.83    216619.68   198174.31   175207.87
Vocabulary      855662.58    294147.46   152928.77   180519.37

# ===============================================================================>

A much better matching of the results by stats::varimax and GPArotation::Varimax could be achieved by setting eps to 1e-12 in stat:: and to 1e-6 in GPArotation , where one value is the square of the other. We get then
> GPArotation::Varimax(L = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-6)$loadings*1000000
                     PC1      PC2       PC3       PC4
Sentences       871716.8 216619.8 198174.49 175207.63
Vocabulary      855662.5 294147.6 152928.94 180519.21

> stats::varimax(x = loa, normalize = TRUE,eps=1e-12)$loadings*1000000
                PC1       PC2       PC3       PC4
Sentences       871716.80 216619.74 198174.40 175207.85
Vocabulary      855662.55 294147.52 152928.86 180519.36

A: This would seem to confirm that applying psych::kaiser (which, I think, was built for this purpose), reduces the differences back to the original differences between stats::varimax and GPArotation::Varimax:
principal.Varimax.GPA.kaiser <- kaiser(f = principal.unrotated, rotate = "Varimax")
diff.statsvari.gpavar.bothkaiser <- unclass(principal.Varimax.GPA.kaiser$loadings - principal.varimax.stats$loadings)
mean(abs(diff.statsvari.gpavar.bothkaiser))
#> [1] 8.036863e-05

This is pretty much the same result, so I think hypothesis confirmed.
The bigger difference stemming from psych::principal is because of the different default values for normalize.

Update
The differences are also (again) much smaller for the respective rotation matrices (or whatever Th is):
principal.Varimax.GPA.kaiser$Th - principal.varimax.stats$rot.mat  # those differences are very small now, too
#>               [,1]         [,2]          [,3]          [,4]
#> [1,]  1.380279e-04 1.380042e-05 -2.214319e-04 -2.279170e-06
#> [2,]  9.631517e-05 2.391296e-05  1.531723e-04 -3.371868e-05
#> [3,]  1.758299e-04 7.917460e-05  6.788867e-05  1.099072e-04
#> [4,] -9.548010e-05 6.500162e-05 -1.679753e-05 -5.213475e-05


Heritage Bank Plc will soon receive fresh capital injection from yet to be disclosed investors, a development that is expected to push up the bank's capital base and by so doing, drive growth.
The bank's Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ifie Sekibo, who disclosed this yesterday in Lagos, refused to give specific information as to when exactly the capital injection is expected to happen.
In the same vein, he declined to disclose the identity of the investors. He, however, revealed that the expected capital will specifically be used to facilitate the company's intervention plan in the real estate sector.
Reacting further to questions from journalist, the bank chief also disclosed that Heritage Bank is definitely going to become listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in no distant time.
According to him, Heritage Bank's listing on the NSE is one of the requirements set out by their unknown and potential new investors.
He even hinted at the fact that there could be a future merger/acquisition happening between Heritage Bank and any of the Nigerian banks.
"I want to predict a good prediction. For that matter it would not be this year. But it would definitely be listed on the stock exchange especially because we are expecting new investors and one of their core expectations is that we would list within the nearest future, so we would list on the NSE.
Heritage Bank Plc is a commercial bank which was founded in 1989 and headquartered in Lagos. As we reported, the Heritage Bank recently disclosed its intention to focus more on retail banking in order to avail low-income earners and rural dwellers the opportunity to become financially included.


To start, I am aware this topic is widely discussed, and I am just here to Reiterate. This next section is me rationalizing myself so if you want to skip to my solution skip to the next paragraph.
I did some research on the topic and honestly, it doesn't look like there has been a conclusion to this. Some people said the game engine couldn't support un-trimming or it was too much code to write, But I just don't understand why this is not a feature yet. There are tons of people who do videos on untrimmed "Road to X" videos and just happy with their first 99, And we must do glitches (That were apparently patched than un-patched so instead of fixing the issue they re-broke it, but I couldn't find a confirmation on this) to keep it. Now as a UIM we cannot use banks so even with the glitch we now must carry the cape around with us at all times, the cape rack will trim it and it is un-tradeable, so a loot bag will not work to at least store it. I will list off a few ideas I have on the situation and hopefully we can add this small feature to please even a small chunk of the community. I Myself had the goal of an untrimmed slayer cape, but by doing so I now restrict myself even further by not being able to do wilderness activities as if I lose the cape, it is in no way re obtainable once I have a 2nd 99.
is re-obtainable for 99k, and only that cape of course or the shop will look busy.
weather the cape is the first cape of accomplishment or not.
agree, i don't see why this isn't a thing. untrimmed capes and the goal of getting one is quite popular and should be supported. another way it could be done perhaps is with recolour mechanics similar to what's already part of the game with graceful etc. with the first 99 u get access to a kit that keeps your cape untrimmed, and if you lose the cape for whatever reason you can always get another kit to turn that cape (and only that cape) back into its untrimmed version.
I believe the diary cape can be trimmed/untrimmed at will so idk why regular skillcapes can't. It doesn't sit right that the only way to get/keep certain capes is bug abuse.
i don't see it being too hard to code in the option when you buy a 99 cape for the NPC to go "do you wan't trimmed, or untrimmed" and let you buy both options.
Either that or a toggle option, but i feel that first option would be easier, and a nice little 100k gold sink here and there for maxed players.
bumping as untrimmed capes are still a goal for many players and so should be officially added.
It is possible, but not for people who already obtained their first 99. The game does not currently track your first 99. As such, any system they design to allow you to keep your untrimmed cape would only benefit people currently without a 99.
agree, i don't see why this isn't a thing.Because the game was not designed to track your first 99, and it has no way of knowing that currently.
It simply checks whether or not you have two or more 99s. If you do, your cape is trimmed. If you only have one, it's untrimmed.
Jagex did not anticipate people caring about the less prestigious cape.
i don't see it being too hard to code in the option when you buy a 99 cape for the NPC to go "do you wan't trimmed, or untrimmed" and let you buy both options.I don't think this would solve the issue.
People care about which 99 was their first. If you can get the untrimmed at any point, then untrimmed doesn't mean that is your only 99. I'll keep score from now on.
This would be easy to code, on RS3 I have an untrimmed Slayer cape keepsaked. If it's possible in RS3, I'm sure it's possible in OSRS to do something similar. (I'm not suggesting keepsake keys, for the mentally challenged out there).
Never drop a valuable item.
Ikki blaka niður virðismikil ting.
This would be easy to codeYes, but it would only benefit people who obtain a 99 after the update. It is impossible to know the game to recognize which 99 was your first because that information was never being tracked before.
If it's possible in RS3, I'm sure it's possible in OSRS to do something similar.They're different games with different engines, so... no. I'll keep score from now on.


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It can be both shocking and humbling to learn that for all our advanced technology and understanding of our health, our ancestors knew a few things that we mostly ignore or have forgotten. A prime example of this is the antimicrobial properties of copper and how it can prevent the spread of disease. We often think of copper is a pretty metal to foil or leaf jewelry and architecture, something that sun can dance across. But, if something holds true in cultures around the world and has a long history of improving the health of human beings, then it is worthy of deeper exploration and application. Once appreciating all the benefits of copper, can learn more about custom made copper sinks for your home or see a wide variety of copper sinks to find some of the best pre-designed SoLuna copper products.
While there may have been supernatural or spiritual thoughts as to why copper benefits our health, we now understand the perks of using copper in our pipes, tubs, and counters. One such perk is copper's electrically charged ions effect on microbes, which results in eliminating the bacteria and preventing any mutation. A dual benefit since common infections and diseases are becoming resistant to antibiotics and basic hygiene offers little protection from repeated exposure.
Copper's ability to "contact kill" is even more important with the rise in superbugs and resistance to vaccines. Unlike stainless steel, which needs moisture to activate its antimicrobial properties, copper automatically destroys microbes that come into contact with it. Copper manages this by creating openings in the cell and destroying the RNA as well as the DNA rather than washing them away after they've had a chance to mutate and spread to other surfaces.
Soap and water and stainless steel are all great preventive measures against the spread of viruses, but they have their limits. Basic hygiene is taught mainly around bathing regularly and washing hands after using the restroom. It is good advice to prevent the spread of viruses like the Flu but, the problem is when you reach for that stainless steel handle or plastic door you're re-exposed to all the bacteria that you've just tried to wash away. On the topic of regular bathing, many of us are told that baths are less hygienic because it amounts to sitting in your own filth. The natural benefits of a copper bathtub would negate that and not just due to the copper but because the death throes of the bacteria resist it spreading; when bacteria dies it releases small amounts of hydrogen peroxide, the same chemical you use to clean cuts.
With the myriad of ways that copper helps to prevent the spread of disease, it can be enhanced in clinical or bathroom settings. Hospitals and clinics are kept cool and dry because heat aids the spread of bacteria, but with copper surfaces, it appears to aid in their destruction. European nations have taken a cue from the research coming out regarding the antibacterial properties of copper and have begun switching out stainless steel handrails, counter surfaces, and countless other items that are commonly touched for copper.
With the aid of science and clinical research, we can improve upon what our ancestors knew and further develop our understanding of materials used in preventing the spread of ailments. While ancient civilizations used copper in elixirs and fillings, we can reinfuse our world with an aesthetically pleasing metal that aids in our well-being. Read more about the "antimicrobial properties of copper here".
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Q: How can I search content by escaping the html tags from html statement in MongoDB document? (nodejs, mongodb)
I am using WysiWyg Froala Editor to create content. (https://froala.com/)
So, it is saved as an html statement in the db.
In this case, when I searched, there was a problem that html tags and styles were also searched.
(ex. When searching for "stroke", it is searched even if it is not in the content because of "stroke" in "webkit-text-stroke-width")

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*When using the WYSIWYG editor, is it the normal way to save it as an html statement in the db?

*I would really appreciate it if you could give me an approximate direction (idea) on how to search only the actual content excluding the html tag when searching in mongodb.
2-1) Is it correct to use a regular expression to search only the actual content, excluding tags?(I'm trying to do this and that with regular expressions, but I can't solve it...)
2-2) Should I use any other method? (I wonder if there are usually problems like mine when using the WYSIWYG editor..)
This may be a basic question, but...
please help
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}

let exp = new RegExp(keyword, 'i');
query.content = { $regex: exp };
contents= db.Content.include(fields).find(query);


"Do you want to go to Disney this weekend?" | It's "All in WDW"
… you'll be closer to Disney World!" Nice sales pitch!
So, that wonderful Sunday, I hopped onto Travelocity and found something I have never seen since – a $99 a night room at the WDW Dolphin. $99! You've got to be kidding me! It was like fate was screaming at us, "Yes! You MUST go to Walt Disney World this weekend!" Well, we did, and it was our first of many subsequent weekend 'getaways' to the place "Where Dreams Come True".
I was put to mind of this short little story because I received in my email this week the "Monthly Recipe from the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin". Do you get that too, by chance? Not only do they send you a delicious recipe from one of their restaurants' kitchens – this month it is "Homemade Ravioli with Tomato Basil Sauce and Pancetta Feta Cream Filling" – they include exclusive room offers for recipe club members as well.
Anyway, here's the recipe as well as a link to their archive. I mean, take a look at this picture … how can you not want a serving of this heavenly dish?


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Q: Tensorflow loss function no gradient error when provided with scalar This question is about the tf.losses.huber_loss() function and how it can be applied on scalars rather than vectors. Thank you for your time!
My model is similar to a classification problem like MNIST. I based my code on the TensorFlow layers tutorial and made changes where I saw fit. I do not think the exact code is needed for my question.
I have lables that take integer values in {0,..,8}, that are converted into onehot labels like this:
onehot_labels = tf.one_hot(indices=tf.cast(labels, tf.int32), depth=n_classes)

The last layer in the model is
logits = tf.layers.dense(inputs=dense4, units=n_classes)

which is converted into predictions like this:
 predictions = {"classes": tf.argmax(input=logits, axis=1), "probabilities": tf.nn.softmax(logits, name="softmax_tensor")}

From the tutorial, I started with the tf.losses.softmax_cross_entropy() loss function. But in my model, I am predicting in which discretized bin a value will fall. So I started looking for a loss function  that would translate that a prediction of one bin off is less of a problem than two bins off. Something like the absolute_difference or Huber function.
The code
onehot_labels = tf.one_hot(indices=tf.cast(labels, tf.int32), depth=n_classes)
loss = tf.losses.softmax_cross_entropy(onehot_labels=onehot_labels, logits=logits)

in combination with the optimizer:
optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(learning_rate=ps.learning_rate)

works without any errors. When changing to the Huber function:
loss = tf.losses.huber_loss(labels=onehot_labels, predictions=logits)

there are still no errors. But at this point I am unsure about what exactly happens. Based on the reduction definition I expect that the Huber function is applied pairwise for elements of the vectors and then summed up or averaged.
I would like to apply the Huber function only on the label integer (in {0,...,9}) and predicted value:
preds = tf.argmax(input=logits, axis=1)

So this is what I tried:
loss = tf.losses.huber_loss(labels=indices, predictions=preds)

This is raising the error
ValueError: No gradients provided for any variable

I have found two common causes that I do not think are happening in my situation:

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*This where there is no path between tf.Variable objects and the loss function. But since my prediction code is often used and the labels were provided as integers, I do not think this applies here.

*The function is not derivable into a gradient. But the Huber function does work when vectors are used as input, so I do not think this is the case.
My question is: what code lets me use the Huber loss function on my two integer tensors (labels and predictions)?


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Maker vs Marker: Man Beast Fights an Animated Warrior
Using a whiteboard and erasable marker, Jonny Lawrence creates a stop frame animation in which he interacts with his animated character. Lawrence's left hand becomes the nemesis for an animated warrior who was drawn and erased over and over by Lawrence to create the animation. Take a look at more videos by stop motion animator […]
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Sweet Brown – Aint Nobody Got Time Fo Dat Remix
On April seventh, 2012, an apartment building in Oklahoma City, USA, caught fire. Residents quickly evacuated the building and witnesses were interviewed by the media. One of the residential witnesses was Kimberly Wilkins, who gave a boisterous statement to KFOR News Channel 4. Wilkins' depiction of events was so entertaining that soon the video clip […]
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One Man Beach Party in a Sexy Sparkly Speedo
Spandy Andy is a performer from Canada who travels the world entertaining people with his live street dancing performances. In this funny video, Spandy Andy wears a sexy sparkly speedo and dances for holiday makers at St Kilda Beach in Melbourne, Australia. The tune is "Sexy and I Know it" by LMFAO. Visit Spandy Andy […]
How Animals Eat Their Food
In this stupid humor video, Mister Epic Mann acts out a human interpretation of how animals eat their food. For more grown adults acting silly, check out Mister Epic Mann's website which is packed with funny videos. Cardboard boxes were harmed in the making of this film.
Mission Impossible Parkour Squirrel
Home owners in England built a maze for a squirrel that frequently visited their garden, adding pieces as the squirrel learned the previous section of the maze. The clever squirrel quickly figured out how to run the maze in order to get to the ultimate prize; a bowl of nuts left out by the property […]
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Fight! Ariel the Mermaid vs the Peeing Statue
Ariel the mermaid takes on a cheeky statue of a little boy who piddles in her pond. Summoning her father, the king, and Sebastian the crab, Arial goes to extreme lengths to stop the widdling work of art from polluting the water. (This is a GIF animation and may take a few moments to load.)
Cool Cat DJ
A curious cat becomes a DJ when it discovers a Bob Marley record playing on a turn table. This cool cat's got some groovy moves too.
Comedian Dave Allen has an Army of Sperm
Dave Allen was an Irish comedian who lived from 1936-2005. Allen delighted television audiences in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada with his controversial humor, poking fun at religious and political institutions. One of his most notable lines that stirred up religious ire was the short phrase, "I'm an atheist, thank God." Part of Dave […]
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I Threw it on the Ground! The Best Rap Parody Song
Ryan Reynolds and Elijah Wood star in this rap parody song called, "Threw it on the ground". In the video the lead singer roams the city streets and engages in a number of normal social activities. While there's nothing unusual about the situations he finds himself in, what is out of the ordinary is the […]
Human Ventriloquist turns People into Puppets
Nina Conti is a ventriloquist and comedienne born in 1974 in London, England. Conti uses audience members as her ventriloquist dummies, transforming them from people to puppets with the aid of a face mask. The mask is built so that the comedian can control the mouth movements by squeezing a small balloon. While Nina Conti […]


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Explore miles of local singletrack with speed and razor-sharp handling aboard Felt's Dispatch 9/60. Featuring a rugged frame crafted from Felt's SuperLite hydroformed aluminum, the Dispatch 9/60 is paired with a RockShox 30 Silver fork with 100mm of travel. It rolls on 29-inch, tubeless-ready wheels, and it's built up with a mixed drivetrain that includes top-shelf components, including Shimano hydraulic disc brakes, and a SRAM NX Powerspline crankset. Ergonomic touchpoints from Devox keep comfort high during all day riding sessions.
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By Pat Louise
Waterville School Graduate Earns Rank Of Army Colonel
When she graduated from Waterville Central School in 1989, Jennifer Sabol leaned toward a career in science.
She had, she said, an exceptionally good teacher at WCS for chemistry and physics. She also called him Dad.
Andrew Sabol, now retired, taught those classes at the high school. "He made science interesting and now I'm teaching just as he did,'' said Dr. Sabol, recently promoted to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army.
Her parents, Andrew and Vicki, brother Jeff, husband Chris and son Harrison celebrated the new title and her new role as the Commander of the U.S. Army Dental Laboratory at Fort Gordon, Ga. earlier this fall.


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Andrew Finch
General Counsel & Group Executive | Qantas Airways
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What are the most significant cases and/or transactions that your legal team has recently been involved in?
The Covid-19 crisis has represented the greatest ever challenge for the aviation industry, including for Qantas Airways in our 100-year history. The challenges for my team have been intense and manifold, not the least of which have been the industrial and employee relations issues in managing the furloughing of nearly 90 percent of the Qantas workforce for extended periods.
Consistent with a drive to manage down the cost base of our group to meet its post-covid (modest) revenue stream, other critical initiatives led by the legal team included: (i) renegotiating terms with thousands of the group's suppliers to achieve variabilisation and cost savings commensurate with the airlines' activities; (ii) managing the health and safety protocols for the group in mitigating Covid-19, including the introduction of vaccination mandates for the group's workforce; (iii) raising the equivalent of $4bn in debt and equity to bolster balance sheet resilience during the crisis; (iv) liaising with and reporting to regulators, especially the Australian competition regulator, in relation to capacity deployments across the Qantas network; (v) managing the exponential increase in freighter demand during the absence of regular passenger services, including key customer contracts; (vi) negotiating a range of Government support contracts for our employees, training and education, freight and minimum aviation services to Australian regions.
More recently, with a view to a brighter future, the legal team has begun the negotiation of the Australia's largest single aircraft order, reflecting the renewal of the Qantas domestic fleet via an Airbus commitment over the next decade.
How do you feel the pandemic has changed the world of work for in-house counsel and the function of the general counsel?
The role of the legal team, including the general counsel, has become much more centrally focused on crisis management and mitigation. The legal team is a hub in times of crisis that efficiently and proficiently manages the spokes of a complex business to deliver critical outcomes. During this crisis, however, that key project management role has morphed into a more significant strategic role for the legal team, initiating and driving programmes across the organisation to address the challenges of the crisis. There would be few initiatives in the organisation now that fail to have a legal team member at the key decision-making table.
Looking forward, what technological advancements do you feel will impact the role of in-house legal teams in the future the most?
For the strategic partnering and high-value-add work of my team, while technology will assist at the margins for more efficient data analysis and integration, I see slight change to the fundamental role or responsibilities of my legal team.
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General counsel and group executive, office of the CEO | Qantas Airways
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The Afterlives of Art Scraps
Artists Selina Trepp, Leslie Baum, and Diane Christiansen repurpose their own and others' creations into new artworks.
by Lori Waxman May 11, 2022 May 12, 2022
Installation view of An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Pictured: artwork by Selina Trepp (all photos by Clare Britt)
CHICAGO — We all have our art weaknesses. Me, I'm a sucker for anything made from found objects. Call it repurposing, appropriation, sampling, borrowing, assemblage, or any one of the varieties of collage — photocollage, bricolage, décollage. Just maybe not upcycling. Nothing ruins a word like the lifestyle genre.
Anyway, I have been wondering if this style of art making might be particular to Chicago, because so many of our most exciting local artists owe their materials to the dumpster, or at least the thrift store. Take Theaster Gates, famed for turning abandoned buildings into cultural spaces, and whose How to Sell Hardware show at Gray Warehouse last summer involved artfully displaying the extant inventory of a South Side True Value store that he bought in its entirety when it went out of business. Consider Jessica Stockholder, who in the past has employed old sofas, a freezer chest, a streetlamp, a washing machine, and an automobile, among other items, to construct and support her uproarious sculptures. In Specific Shapes at Kavi Gupta, which closed in February, she achieved the impossible: turning broken desktop printers, scourge of office sustainability, into something aesthetically exciting.
Installation view of An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Pictured: artwork by Selina Trepp
Installation view of An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Pictured: artwork by Leslie Baum
What else have Chicago artists made brilliant use of lately? Sam Jaffe turned gaudy knitwear (the kind that can no longer be called Cosby sweaters) into clever op-art canvases for Muscle Memory, her March show at 65 Grand. Claire Ashley, Judith Brotman, and Cameron Clayborn sent materials to one another — everything from scraps to completed pieces — then incorporated that stuff into the outrageous inflatables and infinitely inventive little constructions of Soft Allergy, a winter show at Glass Curtain Gallery.
Repurposing is probably not a Chicago thing, though, if I'm being art historically honest. It appears to be a fundamental instinct of makers everywhere and always, from the Gee's Bend Quilters to Robert Rauschenberg, from your kindergarten teacher to the builders of the Arch of Constantine, who incorporated spolia, fragments of earlier structures, a practice common in late antiquity. Local or not, I'll take collage where I can find it, and right now the ground floor of the Chicago Cultural Center is where it's at. Currently on view in an edifice that once served as the city's central public library is the exhibition An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman. Named after a line in "Planetarium," a poem by Adrienne Rich celebrating the 18th-century astronomer Caroline Herschel, the show features three mid-career Chicago artists, all creators of resolutely handmade, riotously colored abstractions that sometimes find their way into deceptively charming stop-motion animations. For reasons practical, ethical, aesthetic, and otherwise, they all also continually repurpose their own and others' creations into new artworks.
Installation view of An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Pictured: artwork by Leslie Baum and Frederick Wells
Let's begin with Selina Trepp, who provides a free zine diagramming the reasons for her decision to stop bringing any new materials into the studio 10 years ago. This principle has had enviable effects: less money spent, more time gained, aesthetic adjustments, learning new things, less work-related anxiety, and ultimately a happier life. How it looks is inexhaustibly delightful and a wee bit mischievous. There's a series of "Dirty Drawings," mysterious and surprisingly vivid palimpsests created by leaving old drawings on the floor until they have been altered enough by being walked on, then adding a little more. "Utility Piece," a large diamond of Cinefoil covered in irregular patterns of tape, foil, and paint, has been around since 2015 to fix awkward installation situations like an inconvenient shelf or, here, a big blank wall.
Because all venues should offer seating for video watching but too often don't, Trepp provides her own, fashioned from sturdy leftovers; try to spot the flowery painted cardboard that forms the back of "Stage/Seating" in the immersive stop-motion animation projected on the gallery's walls. Declaratively called "I Work with What I Have," it's a whimsical 40-minute loop that might be understood as revealing the secret life of art scraps. What do they get up to when no humans are around? A lot of fun, apparently.
Installation view of An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Pictured: artwork by Diane Christiansen
Know what else is fun? Painting with other people. In 2017, Leslie Baum began the "Plein Air Project," inviting friends, colleagues, even strangers to join her on painting dates at a park, in a backyard, at the botanical gardens, or in some other nature area. She kept the resulting watercolors, made photocopies, cut them up, and rearranged their mixed-up parts into collage studies for a series of large canvases, 13 of which are up at the Cultural Center. These are strange, deeply pleasing pictures, done in thin, luminescent acrylic washes, and they are as much portmanteau landscapes as impressionistic memories of the encounters the people who made the original sketches experienced in those places, Baum included. In a move that is generous, in terms of sharing inspiration, and helpful for understanding how the project works, Baum's paintings are hung above a shallow display case that wraps around the gallery and contains dozens of those initial watercolor sketches. A visitor can stop to look at "shaping the day: rs, ac, and ph" and play the charming game of locating its visual elements — the broken heart shape, the staccato marks in shades of blue — in the plein air sketches below. Nothing ever appears exactly as it once was. Instead it gives rise to something new, and then maybe something else, too.
A Buddhist might call these successions of creation and reuse by the name samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth to which they believe life in the material world is bound. Diane Christiansen, the third artist in the exhibition and a "forever student of Buddhism," suggests as much in some of her stop-motion animations and paintings, as well as in a bench molded from layers and layers of old animation drawings. Sit on that and watch what they once were, in videos equal parts fierce and funny, darkness and light. These are toons where nothing ever stays one thing for long: in "Speck," radiant blobs become a planet, sprout spindly utility poles that morph into chomping alligator maws, go gray and flat and brushy, then host a farm that turns into a giant, teary-eyed toad, which belches a galaxy of rainbow splotches. (There's a walking vagina hand, too, but it's an independent character.) Likewise Christiansen's small paintings on plaster, with their patina of erasure and reworking, repair and graffiti, their feel of being fragments of frescos or tiled flooring. The plasterworks sometimes also serve as animation imagery, and one has even found itself inset into a large, blazing red painting on paper titled "Last Days of Capitalism." After so much repurposing and continuation, it seems the end is nigh. Have we finally reached nirvana? If only!
An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman continues at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 East Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois) through September 4. The exhibition was organized by Annie Morse.
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Nanocomposites For Structural Applications
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Nanotechnology being the most dynamic and rapidly developing areas of interdisciplinary research in applied engineering has revolutionised with a wide range of scientific and technological fields because of its inherent distinguished physical and chemical properties at the nanoscale. The research works reported on material science aims at adopting the advanced state-of-the-art of nanofabrication and its application to the nanoscience and nanotechnology fields. The work reported here focuses on the development of Nano-composites for varied engineering applications.
These works are broadly classified into Polymer, Ceramic, and Metal based composites:
Polymer Based Composites*:Research and development efforts throughout the academic and Industrial sectors have resulted in innovative technologies for the fabrication of the polymer composites. In these composites, the polymer matrix was reinforced with both micro and Nanofillers. The developed novel hybrid composites reinforced with micro, nano and micro-nano filler combinations were comparatively lightweight and exhibited enhanced mechanical performance as compared to conventional composites for aviation and automotive structures like windmill blade, drone, and medical implants. Micro-fillers like CFs and nano-fillers like graphene and CFs can be used as reinforcements in the polymer-based matrix for the development of the said materials for future structural applications as well. Nano-thin film deposition focused on tribological applications facilitated addressing problems of machining industries. These works have won several prestigious awards such as Bosch Inscribe, ICAMDE.
Polymer Based Nano-composites*
Links: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jart.2017.01.014
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1740349915599182
PDMS micropump
Development of magnetically actuated PDMS micropump for drug delivery was undertaken with the fabrication of a simple, dual-chamber, valveless PDMS micropump with an integrated magnetic actuator for drug delivery applications. The micropump developed in the cleanroom consisted of two circular reservoirs provided with end nozzle diffusers. The reservoirs were sealed with a thin PDMS layer and a permanent magnet was attached over it to form the actuation membrane. An external magnet fixed to a rotating DC motor shaft is used to excite the actuation membrane.
Links: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/376/1/012063
Ceramic Based Composites:Ceramic-based composites were developed such as CFRP panels and CFRP footings for disaster management applications. Also, the developed ceramic composites addressed the societal as well as industrial problems adequately. The waste material like granite sludge which was a major concern for environmental issues found its effective utilization in terms of alternative material for the construction Industry. This problem also nullifies the major problem of the carbon footprint of cement industries. Nanomaterials have a great potential to enhance the mechanical properties of traditional cement-based nano-composites that are used for structural applications. The present work aims to increase the strength of cement composite beams subjected to surface cracks by coating the cracks by nanomaterial crack filler*.
Ceramic Based Composites
Links: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1740349912448998
*https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/asp/mf/2017/00000006/00000004/art00006
Membrane Technology:Polymer-based membranes developed as part of membrane technology addressed the problems on Biogas enrichment for automotive traction as well as power generation applications Membranes were also developed for Pervapouration applications where the alcohol procured from sugar industry was effectively used to separate the moisture. These works were funded by institutions of higher learning and government agencies.
Membranes for gas separation
Bioplastic for packaging applicationsAs synthetic plastics are the major concern for environmental issues suitable alternative biodegradable materials were developed. The development of biodegradable plastic at commercial scale being a challenging issue is undertaken as both at research and start upscale. Developed novel and alternative Bioproduct for Packaging and Home Utensils.
BIOPLASTIC MATERIAL AT CMS
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday lifted U.S. economic sanctions on the former pariah state of Myanmar, the culmination of years of rapprochement that Obama has worked to facilitate.
The Southeast Asian nation, also known as Burma, has pursued political reforms over the last five years following decades of oppressive military rule.
The U.S. has already eased broad prohibitions on investment and trade but had retained more targeted restrictions on military-owned companies and officials and associates of the former ruling junta. U.S. companies and banks have remained leery of involvement in one of Asia's last untapped markets.
Friday's executive order lifts those restrictions. It removes the national emergency with respect to Myanmar — the executive order authorizing sanctions that has been renewed annually by U.S. presidents for two decades. It also lifts a ban on the importation of jadeite and rubies from Myanmar, and removes banking restrictions.
"I have determined that the situation that gave rise to the national emergency with respect to Burma has been significantly altered by Burma's substantial advances to promote democracy, including historic elections in November 2015," Obama wrote in a letter to the leaders of Congress. He said the U.S. intends to use other means to support Myanmar in the "significant challenges" it still faces.
Some Myanmar nationals will remain on the Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals under other sanctions authorities, such as those intended to block the drug trade, a Treasury statement said. This bars them from any business dealings with the U.S. They include alleged drugs kingpin Wei Hsueh Kang and other figures from the United Wa State Army, one of Myanmar's biggest ethnic armed groups.
Among those taken off are ex-junta chief, Than Shwe, and the founder of one of the nation's largest conglomerates, Stephen Law, whose late father was once described by Treasury as one of the world's key heroin traffickers. Also taken off were military officials added to the blacklist since 2013 for alleged arms trading with North Korea, such as Lt. Gen. Thein Htay, chief of the Directorate of Defense Industries.
Human rights groups have argued that lifting sanctions is premature as the U.S. will lose leverage over Myanmar's powerful military. Despite the election victory by Suu Kyi party last year, the military still wields major political and economic influence.
Sen. Ben Cardin, top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, voiced support for the sanctions action but concern over the plight of Rohingya Muslims, ethnic reconciliation and reform of a junta-era constitution that guarantees the military a quarter of parliamentary seats.
"Even as we lift these sanctions we must maintain a focus on on-going concerns regarding the role of the military in Burma's economy and politics," Cardin said in a statement, noting that Suu Kyi had raised the issue when she met with senators during her Washington visit last month.
Obama's outreach to Myanmar has reflected his willingness to engage with American adversaries — others being Cuba and Iran. The administration has also sought to promote U.S. strategic interests in Asia. During its years of international isolation, Myanmar was heavily reliant on its northern neighbor China, which remains a key source of trade and investment.


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"I was like 'yeaaaaaahh!' and started crying."
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Listen, we already knew that Sandra Oh was up there as one of our very favourite people on the planet.
And, now we've got final confirmation of that.
Her co-host at the Golden Globes, Andy Samberg, told Jimmy Fallon that "Sandra Oh is the best person on earth."
He talked about what it was like getting to know her: We met briefly, we presented at the Emmys, and we spent like the past week and a half working on the Globes but we didn't know each other that much and we just sort of liked each other so much from that one experience that we decided to go for it," said Samberg.
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Faction: Halcyon Wardens, Blood Angels
The Emperor's Eagles
"so [the] he drew"
So, I'm not sure about how they earned the Aquila. The Emperor's Children earned it through sacrificing a solid chunk of their Legion to personally protect the Emperor. Here, it seems that the Eagle Warriors just happened to have a particularly shiny victory. I'm okay with what is here, but can we make it more dramatic?
Project Leader of the Brotherhood of the Lost
I'm happy to go with that too. Any ideas for circumstances?
Not sure I want to go straight to 'save the Emperor' idea, but definitely up the body count. Perhaps 'save Malcador instead'? Start the war off with a political sneak attack and keep everything else the same?
Well, I decided to go with "save the Emperor" anyway:
A yet greater feat would come to pass with the Feskine Scouring, where the Eagle Warriors fought alongside the Steel Guard and Morning Stars agains the Khrave. Such a concentration of these monsters has never been seen on one planet before or since, and in the midst of the cataclysmic battle, the Emperor and His guards were sundered from the bulk of the Imperial host and surrounded by the malevolent xenos. Faced with utter disaster Orvedui Verigas, Legion Master of the XIIIth, unhesitatingly led his brothers in a valiant charge which claimed a full sixth of the Legion's warriors, but broke the enemy lines.
By the battle's end, only three quarters of the Eagle Warriors remained on their feet, but the Khrave were eradicated. On that bloody field, the Emperor declared that the XIIIth would henceforth have the right to bear His personal symbol, the Palatine Aquila, upon their standards and their armour. This constituted an enormous honour and one not dispensed lightly, for the Eagle Warriors were the only Legion to be acclaimed in this manner. From that day on, the XIIIth swore to never falter in their duty and to carry the Aquila to the darkest corners of the galaxy in the newly declared Great Crusade.
First Draft of Exemp. 1
Two distinct tactical specialties that would outlast the early incarnation of the Eagle Warriors was their predilection for the warfare of armoured tanks and nimble jetbikes. Combined with their Legion's prodigious size, these tactics allowed them to take on foes where other Legions would require the aid of allies, be they the God-Machines of the Ordo Titanicus or the massed ranks of the Imperialis Auxilia.
A prominent example of this can be found in a battle of the Drutayek Purgations. The xenos native to the cluster possessed a form of vast insectoid war machine, equal in size to Imperial Titans. Controlled by an organic network akin to a nervous system and protected by an adamantium exoskeleton, the presence of these weapons platforms ought to have brought a halt to the ongoing Eagle Warrior campaign while they awaited suitable reinforcements. It did not.
The xenos garrison at one of what might be described as analogous to our cities - designated target Theta in the overall campaign - included no less than twenty of these behemothic constructs. Some three months into the war, a sizeable contingent of XIIIth Legion tanks deployed so that it entered well within the attack range of this garrison, albeit on a trajectory that still avoided the city direct. Deployed with it was a significant detachment of landspeeders and jetbikes, high in number but significantly dispersed. A number of scouting forces from the city were intercepted and destroyed, but the aerial probes went entirely untouched.
Evidently, whatever command structure the xenos possessed overcame its hesitancy, the promise of an exposed and vulnerable target evidently too great to resist. The entirety of garrison Theta's Titan analogues departed the city's walls, intent upon obliteration. Initially they were unopposed. They strode over the gorges and ravines pitting the landscape with ease. The bulk of the Eagle Warriors made no attempt to alter their course either to evade or oppose. In truth, the xenos ventured further into danger with every step. Skyhunter squadrons and their kin were flocking towards the formation's rear.
Like the first insects of a swarm, they were hardly of any notice to the the xenos warmachines. A few units boldly struck first, racing at the colossi with melta bombs in hand. Most were slain, cut down by point defense weaponry. The few that got through were insufficient to inflict significant damage.
Over the next hour, as the Drutayek closed with the XIIIth Legion convoy, these assaults intensified. What could have initially been interpreted as desperation took on a far more coordinated aspect. One by one squadrons would burst from cover, target a specific part of a specific vehicle, then wheel away. Casualties were still significant, but piece by piece the point defense weaponry was being stripped away.
A titan's motive systems were crippled, and it began to fall behind. Rather than divide the warmachines by leaving others to defend it, the xenos advance continued. Within 13 minutes of exiting the supporting range of its comrades, the Drutayek Titan was overwhelmed. A flurry of close range firepower tore through its legs and it collapsed to the ground, where the housing of its primary weapons systems became subject to assault. With the construct immobilised and its heavy weapons neutralised, the attacking Astartes withdrew. This was to be repeated another two times, and still the advance continued.
With the Drutayek now almost within range of the Imperial force, the situation shifted dramatically. The armour column switched direction and altered its formation so that it was now moving to directly confront their aggressors. At the same time a vast array of grav vehicles rose from the from the ravines and crevasses. What had been a hundred different strike forces became a single wave, assembling for what would be the final charge of the battle. Recognising the threat at last, a handful of the rearmost began to turn.
Had the Drutayek war-machines been able to focus the firepower of their main cannons on the massed small craft, the Eagle Warriors would have been destroyed or forced to disperse. Instead they struck with overwhelming strength and speed. Despite the risks, they ploughed onwards like a hail of bullets. For every one of them that disappeared in a burst of flame or shrapnel or was hurled from their vehicle as it careened into the ground, four more made it through. With a near suicidal bravery they came, power blades carving into hulls and plasma blasts searing through gunports.
At the same time, the tanks were also engaging. Moving in an enveloping formation, dispersed enough to limit the effect of the incoming fire and close enough for them to concentrate their firepower. Predator and Malcador battle tanks drove beneath their foes arcs of fire, opening up at almost point blank range. Belching smoke and wreathed in flame the Drutayek Titans began to stagger and die.
This was only the first time the Eagles struck down the behemoths Drutayek. The xenos would proceed to display considerably high caution in their Titan's deployment, but to little avail. Time after time the Eagle Warriors proved willing to pay the price of destroying their foe's greatest assets, and within two years the Drutayek were consigned to the history books.
Edited by Beren, 30 June 2019 - 05:42 PM.
"the promise of [an] undefended target"
A little confused. Are you suggesting that 'exposed and vulnerable' be replaced with 'undefended' or something else?
I'd misquoted in haste, the "an" was my sole concern.
Oh, and the charge being "premature" doesn't sound right. More that the EW struck with overwhelming force and speed.
Tweaked.
Golgothan Wastes Exemp
The region of dying stars known as the Golgothan Wastes had already proven itself a perilous place. An expeditionary fleet of the 1st Legion had already failed in its mission to relieve a beleaguered Forge World there. Though they were at least successful in destroying the so called Brotherhood of Ruin responsible, and also gathering valuable information on the waste's other inhabitants, the Lightning Bearers found themselves pattered and without any immediate port of call. Before their fleet withdrew, Sentinel Antru sent out an Astropathic Message relaying their situation, and what they had learnt. The final section advised the immediate commitment of other Imperial forces before their information could be rendered out of date.
Socraes Travier was one of the message's recipients. At the head of his Legion, he decided that it would be his force best situated to wage this campaign. Even before the same conclusion had been reached by strategists elsewhere, the XIIIth Legion fleet was underway and ready to embark upon a campaign of conquest and xenocide.
With the isolated Forge World of Sarum now obliterated, Travier lacked any form of established forwards operations base to supply the needs of his war. The campaign became one of sporadic violence, attacks aimed to cripple infrastructure and cause maximum damage before withdrawing. Those outposts established often relied far more upon concealment than a strong defense to keep them from harm. Regular supply convoys from the nearest Imperial stro gholds were likewise a necessary component in the continuance.
An armada was assembled, slavering warriors and near-feral war machines packed in their holds. With their preceding losses, the bulk of these had to drawn from garrison duty. Specifically, Porpharis's reserves of manpower were believed to have been vastly reduced. The armada's target was an abandoned Sarumite outpost that had since been reoccupied by the Xandrian Mechanicum as part of their efforts to supply the XIIIth's campaign. A barren moon in orbit of a desolate planet around a dying star, its would likely have been unable to repel the assault.
Before a Primarch, they could not stand. Nor were they meant to.
With the hordes now reeling and disorientated, the retreat began full. Still snapping of boltgun shots at the closing foe, Legionaries raced aboard their transports under the cover of Fire Raptor Gunships. After a final scattering of orbital bombardments, the fleet made to exit orbit.
The closing fleets of the enemy were to dispersed to prevent the following withdrawal. Though it required the sacrifice of their accompanying transport barques, the vessels of the Eagle Warriors were able to successfully rupture the cordon and inflict further damage as they did so.
The final result of the Golgothan's gambit was utter failure. Their enemy had escaped, and many of their finest generals slain. If their culture had any resemblance to our own, the battle's aftermath must have been fraught with recriminations and accusations. Indeed, it was the first and last battle of this particular coalition. Any further campaigning on the part of the expeditionary fleet was withheld for just long enough for the politically weakened Torak Dominion to be ravaged at the hands of its neighbours, before the legion resumed the task of conquest.
If it's OK with you, Beren, I'd rather we just have the Wastes left alone until the EW get involved. Just wanna preserve the record of the Lightning Bearers, and in canon it was also isolated until Angron invaded.
Edited by bluntblade, 03 July 2019 - 12:20 AM.
I don't really see what's wrong with a Legion suffering a defeat for once, especially when their actual objective was achieved. Also, how else are we going to explain Sarum being blown to bits? Even if it falls to the Brotherhood of Ruin, the Mechanicum would still want to sieze what's left of it. Handling things like Daemons sitting in the heart of a world that otherwise appears comlpiant falls under the remit of the Ghost Crusade, and this gives us a chance to show that the 1st was doing their job in way significant enough to how our universe differentiates from canon.
We voted to have the Imperials destroy it. I think specifically the job went to the EW.
Actually, how about we have the Lightning Bearers and their allies raise the siege, only to be too badly mauled either to take on the Redjak priesthood or make further conquests in the aftermath, having lost their intended supplier? So then the Sentinel in question (let's namedrop Antru) calls for another Legion to finish the job.
The latter was more or less what I was aiming for. I made a few edits to try and reflect that a little more.
But we do want Sarum to be exposed as hereteks. As you've already got a battle done, I'd suggest the LB identify the taint of the Warp on Sarum and act accordingly. However, they are left having taken severe losses and without any means of quick resupply.
Edited by bluntblade, 03 July 2019 - 07:44 PM.
Why do we want them to be exposed? Wasn't the LB supposed to handle these thigs as quitely as possible to avoid undermining the Imperial Truth? Won't the Mechanicum vociferously oppose the fact that Legions are going around blowing up Forge Worlds along with every piece of salvageable technology on them regardless of them being heretek or not?
If its not clear, the Lightbing Bearers are the ones who blow up Sarum. They just don't let anyone else know that, because of the mass of Mechanicum hostility and pointed questiins about why they did it, which extends to the narrator.
In all honesty, we put it to a vote as soon as we realised that a Legion more cautious than the WE would make contact, and obliteration got a majority. Perturabo recognised immediately that Sarum's priests didn't worship the Omnissiah, so we reckoned that would be the case with Martian or Akiran magi.
So then we get a verdict of Heretek Omega and boom. Massive orbital battle followed by exterminatus.
That doesn't mean they blow it up. That means the Mechanicum launches a full blown invasion to murder the hereteks and loot every piece of sacred technology off of their corpses. The Mechanicus has attempted to retrieve STC data from Hell-Forges, and Sarum isn't even close to that level of obvious corruotion yet.
Then we can go with an invasion and purge, which gives the same result. Our in-universe writers have seen Ist Legion datacores pertaining to the Ghost Crusade, so the detail can be put down to those.
Is it really necessary to have everything explicitly stated like that? I'd rather leave some things for the reader to deduce and draw their own conclusions from.
Edit: Heretek Omega is the term used for Abominable intelligence and similar threats, not a random Heretek Forgeworld that you can still invade and gain actual technology from.
Good point. To keep it simple, shall I rattle off that bit and free you up to do the battle proper?
Sure, but do you mean the next one, or editing the rest of this one?
I meant the rest of this one.
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Florida Gold Star father reacts to the president's announcement to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
President Biden said troops will be home by fall
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will withdraw remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the fall.
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TAMPA, FLA. - — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will withdraw remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the fall.
President Biden said troops would be home by September 11, the anniversary of the terror attacks of 20 years ago.
"I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war. It's time for American troops to come home," said President Biden.
Craig Gross lost his son in Afghanistan in 2011. Corporal Frank Gross was from Oldsmar.
He died after an improvised explosive device caused his military vehicle to rollover.
"A good athlete, a good student, a good son and he was a patriotic young man. He loved his country," said Craig Gross.
Gross reacted to the president's announcement to bring troops home.
"It's no secret that I did not vote for President Biden. I have to admit with him, first of all, we've been there too long," said Gross.
"I really have to ask the question if anybody disagrees with President Biden's move what will we have to show if we stay over there any longer than we've been there."
The Biden Administration argued threats against the U.S. Homeland have changed. President Biden said the U.S. will keep providing humanitarian assistance and support peace talks between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban facilitated by the United Nations.
Gross said removing troops will spare other military families from experiencing grief on a daily basis.
"I don't want to see another young man come back and his family have to greet him on the tarmac of Dover Air Force Base. We've had too many families that have had to endure that hellish moment in their lives when you have two soldiers come and knock on your door."
The Biden Administration said a final withdraw of U.S. troops will begin on May 1.
"I cannot predict what will happen in the future with this decision, but I am hoping and praying it is the right decision," said Gross.