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De Volder's Cartesian Physics and Experimental Pedagogy.Tammy Nyden - 2014 - In Mihnea Dobre Tammy Nyden (ed.), Cartesian Empiricisms. Springer.details
In 1675, Burchard de Volder (1643–1709) was the first professor to introduce the demonstration of experiment into a university physics course and built the Leiden Physics Theatre to accommodate this new pedagogy. When he requested the funds from the university to build the facility, he claimed that the performance of experiments would demonstrate the "truth and certainty" of the postulates of theoretical physics. Such a claim is interesting given de Volder's lifelong commitment to Cartesian scientia. This chapter will examine de (...) Volder's views on experiment and show that they are not Newtonian or inductivist, as is sometimes claimed. While de Volder thinks we need deductive reasoning from first principles to provide evidence of the certainty of the content of our physical theories, he also contends that we need experiment to provide evidence of the certainty of the existence of the particular bodies those theories discuss. This approach to experiment is based on a distinction between rational certainty and the certainty of material bodies in the actual world. While this account is deeply influenced by Descartes, it is importantly different than Descartes' distinction between absolute and moral certainty. De Volder's "Cartesian Empiricism" is best understood as a continuation and further development of a long tradition of teaching through observation at Leiden. (shrink)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Summa Quadripartita That Descartes Never Wrote.Sophie Roux - 2018 - Perspectives on Science 26 (5):563-578.details
Roger Ariew's new book, Descartes and the First Cartesians, will not be a methodological surprise for those who already read his previous work, Descartes and the Last Scholastics, as well as its expanded version, Descartes Among the Scholastics. Right at the beginning of DAS, Ariew justified the title of this book in the following way: A philosophical system cannot be studied adequately apart from the intellectual context in which it is situated. Philosophers do not usually utter propositions in a vacuum, (...) but accept, modify or reject doctrines whose meaning and significance are given in a particular culture. Thus Cartesian philosophy should... (shrink)
Cause and Effect in Leibniz's Brevis Demonstratio.Laurynas Adomaitis - 2019 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (1):120-134.details
Leibniz's argument against Descartes's conservation principle in the Brevis demonstratio (1686) has traditionally been read as passing from the premise that motive force must be conserved to the conclusion that motive force is not identical to quantity of motion and, finally, that quantity of motion is not conserved. In a lesser-known draft of the same year, Christiaan Huygens claimed that Descartes had in fact never held the view that Leibniz was attacking. Huygens is right as far as the traditional reading (...) is concerned. However, if the Brevis demonstratio is seen, as it should be, in the context of Leibniz's attempt to ground mechanics in the foundational metaphysical axiom of the equivalence of full cause and entire effect, then Huygens's objections can be answered. Leibniz may have committed Descartes to the foundational axiom because of the Traité de la méchanique, which was available to Leibniz at that time. Leibniz had used the equivalence of full cause and entire effect both in discovering the conservation of vis viva earlier and in various arguments for it later. Thus, the Brevis demonstratio should be viewed with Leibniz's broader foundational mission in mind. (shrink)


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Bin Laden may be gone but extremism remains a threat to the Arab Spring's happy ending
Not a dusty cave but a million dollar mansion. The intelligence has been meticulously gathered, the courier watched, followed and watched again. A highly trained team of professionals swoop in by helicopter and penetrate the hideout, at long last. Shots are fired and echo in the night; of course there is resistance. He won't come quietly and perhaps they don't want him to. After an intense fire fight, only deep silence reigns. The bullet battered body is bittersweet treasure. The hunt is over and the operation a success. No American casualties.
President Obama's dramatic, triumphant but restrained announcement was long overdue. His predecessor had launched a largely misguided military mission across the world, with the objective to wage "war on terror". Since the daring and devastating attacks of September 2001 though, the primary target has always been the apparent mastermind, Osama Bin Laden. There can be no doubt that his eventual death, and the American managed manner of it, will have widespread political ramifications. The significance of these, particularly in relation to the future threat of Al-Qaida, remain up for debate.
The first consequence commentators are quick to highlight is the boost to Obama's presidency. Many are already saying that the deliverance of justice and his apparent personal involvement will prove the vital factor in tipping the balance of next year's presidential election his way. Obama will already be the favourite and confident of securing a second term, mainly because of the meagre Republican candidates standing in his way. Sarah Palin's ridiculous volatility makes her unelectable, whilst Donald Trump just seems ridiculous. The election will probably boil down to economic performance, as they always tend to do. But for independent voters and the more patriotically minded American, retribution for 9/11 could prove the difference between a Democrat and Republican vote. After all Bush failed to get real results and what would the new candidates offer, besides perhaps more foolhardy wars putting Americans in harm's way?
The more globally contentious result of Bin Laden's assassination, for that is what this was no matter how jubilant some people are, is what the future of Al-Qaida as an organisation will now be. Prime Ministers and heads of state are quick to urge "vigilance" and that the battle with extremism is not over. In a statement Tony Blair made this his key message in reaction to the news. Indeed security chiefs have even warned that the world should be on high alert and ready for a backlash; Al-Qaida will be invigorated to act soon through furious grief. But other experts are saying that apart from an initial anger driven response, we no longer have as much to fear from Al-Qaida. They are already a fading force and Bin Laden's death is the final symbolic nail in their coffin.
Some articles are pointing to the peaceful dawn of the Arab Spring. Across the Middle East and North Africa, supposed Al-Qaida heartlands, revolutions are in full swing that are driven by peaceful protestors calling for democracy. Al-Qaida and indeed other extreme Islamists have failed to hijack the will of the masses in these revolts. If they cannot grasp the initiative and seize control in such turbulent times, what sort of a threat do they now pose? The evidence suggests their strength is severely diminished. Times are changing and this is a new decade of the 21st century.
I am no expert on Al-Qaida and it might be true that the evidence seems to suggest the organisation itself is growing weaker, despite Bin Laden's encouragement of autonomous cells in numerous cities. I also listen to leaders using the word "vigilance" and can only think how hollow it sounds, how meaningless to the life of the ordinary citizen. I am inspired and awestruck by the historic peaceful stands in support of freedom being made in a growing number of Arab countries. But anyone can see that these peaceful protests are not the end of the story and they certainly don't herald the end of extremism.
Extremism, by its nature, is pursued by ideologically brainwashed or ignorant individuals in the minority. This has always been a fact, always be known to the reasonable man, but occasionally obscured by reckless, inflammatory rhetoric and foolhardy foreign policy. The Arab Spring is driven by democracy because the majority of Arabs and Muslim share our desires, dreams and aspirations for rights. It's not a new phenomenon, even if their sudden decision to act has created a shocking domino effect. The uprisings are a cause for immense hope and a huge step forward but they do not signal the end of extremism in these countries. And just because extremists are yet to influence the process, doesn't mean that they won't.
The ethical dilemmas of these conflicts and potential civil wars are already plain, illustrated best in Libya where we may or may not provide the rebels with weapons. History shows us what happened in Afghanistan where the people were armed against the Russians only to morph into the Taliban. It is difficult to know where and when the West should get involved for the best outcome. Why not Syria, right on the borders of Israel, when we've given support to those championing democracy in Libya?
For me the most worrying thing about the Arab Spring is what happens next, after the apparent victory and the departure of the news crews. If Gaddafi falls, hooray for Libya, but what takes his place? As rebellions ignite and swell everywhere, the outcome of the Egyptian rebellion, one of the most vital and influential countries to be gripped by trouble, is consigned to the past. Why are we not tracking the progress of democratic reform there, ensuring that something worse than a dictator cannot step into the vacuum? Why are we not helping the Egyptians achieve the democracy they covet and fought for?
Ok of course someone, somewhere is doing this job. People at the UN, in our own foreign office, are probably involved in the process. But the story of what happened next to Egypt and any other nation successful in overthrowing a long entrenched dictator is not being told in the news. And it should be. If leaders are serious about vigilance then that must be a part of it, keeping the spotlight on reform and not letting dangerous reactionaries creep in from the shadows. The public and the media should be aware of what's going on and care beyond the drama and the headlines. I'm not saying Al-Qaida will revive in the thawing of the Arab Spring, but if we stop paying attention we can hardly complain when we find something or someone we don't like with the reins to power and oil.
Bin Laden's death is symbolic, perhaps as important as the Twin Towers bleeding smoke, and as Hilary Clinton said today, a time for renewed optimism and hope. It is not a time for barbaric and inflammatory jubilation, but for justice, relief and remembrance. And of course we must keep up that so called "vigilance". Ordinary folk like us can do something more than being unnaturally wary in public places by keeping up the pressure on our media to show us the ongoing ends to their stories, not just the thrilling battlegrounds and premature triumphs.
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Comic Relief is an incredible event. It's far more inclusive than any fundraising fixture on the British calendar. You needn't reach a certain level of fitness or want to play games as you might feel obliged to for Sport Relief. You don't have to think Pudsey is a national treasure. You don't have to buy a crap single you don't want to listen to. All you have to do is laugh. Comic Relief celebrates the pure intoxicating, uplifting infectiousness of laughter. It's actually an excellent night of entertainment and fun, somehow conquering the gloomy serious sections that make us all feel guilty. It doesn't set out to be morally superior and demand your donation. It aims to unite and inspire and if nothing else, make the less fortunate smile and recall what makes life remarkably and undeniably worthwhile.
To take part all you have to do is embrace your silly side and don a Red Nose. Maybe get sponsored to wear something red. It needn't be much. But Comic Relief also offers wonderful opportunities for closet creative types and comedians to flex their most imaginative and daft muscles. This year I'm seriously intending to do something for the cause. I hope I can make it happen. But at the very least I'll be buying a Red Nose and trying to spread the word. Order your fundraising pack as I have, they're free! Surrender to the laughter and feel the happiness light up your life. If you can, try to give something back for worthy causes. And be thankful for the good you're lucky enough to have.
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Q: Singular or Plural nouns Could someone please help me with this sentence? I'm having problem with deciding if it's it should be plural or singular.

I have a blue and red car.

or

I have a blue and red cars.

Which one is correct? I think it should be car and not cars as we are only talking about one unit.

A: In your example, you will want to use the singular, I believe you are trying to say

I have a blue car and a red car.
  I have a blue and a red car.
I have two cars, one is red and one is blue

The article "a" distinguishes the two different cars.
However, your example

I have a blue and red car.

can mean you have one car and it has blue and red coloring.

I have blue and red cars.

means you have at least one blue car and at least one red car, but may have several of each.

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Energy Lies—XIII
"The Administration continues to prevent, delay and obstruct development of [oil and gas] and puts off jobs for another day"
~ This allegation, by Erik Milito of the API, and many others like it, are zombies of political mendacity. They just won't die!
We've been hearing this since the start of the Obama Administration. It both ignores the larger truth, and has been consistently wrong for three years.
What occasioned the latest surge of reflexive outrage? The announcement of the proposed management plan to develop oil and gas on Alaska's North Slope. That's right—a management plan. Not an unfettered free-for-all of fossil drilling frenzy certainly, but not a moratorium either. According to US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, "About 11.8 million acres would be available for leasing, including most land projected to contain oil reserves." According to Alaska Senator Murkowski, however, it is the "most restrictive management plan possible." Um, no. The most restrictive plan would be to, you know, actually "prevent, delay and obstruct" rather than what the Administration actually has done—open up the richest half of the entire National Petroleum Reserve.
In the overheated, hyperbolic rhetoric of response, the API and its bought-and-paid-for Congressional toadies call anything less than carte blanche to Big Oil intolerable obstruction. This is not obstruction, it's a prudent balance—here between development, an extremely sensitive environment, and the traditional subsistence culture of the indigenous Alaskans. The breathless alarmism of Murkowski, Milito and others inveighs against a supposed extremism that is thoroughly fictitious. Current politics on this, as on so many subjects, ignores that American government is designed to produce compromise in matters of policy. Just as parents should not cater to every demand of a 4-year old, so too should our government not cater to every demand of the incessantly whining Fossil lobby.
In the same presser, Salazar also commented on the cause of delays to Shell Oil's plans to embark on offshore oil exploration. Ironically, it is due neither to the environment nor to government regulation—Shell has simply been unable to finish work to build, test and validate its spill containment ship and systems. Being prepared for the inevitable spills (or worse) is exactly the kind of minimal regulatory oversight required, and which all but the zealots think forms part of a sensible compromise.
Meanwhile, one of Congress' leading clowns pursues a fishing expedition pointless even by that body's abyssal standards.
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said the committee is considering whether to subpoena the Interior Department to force it to respond to questions about the need for the moratorium.
"While the actions of the Interior Department demonstrate it has chosen to ignore the legitimate oversight responsibilities of the committee, we are dedicated to acquiring information and straight answers about the decisions and actions of the administration that caused lost jobs and economic harm in the gulf," he said in a statement.
BP, Haliburton, Transocean and the rest of that finger-pointing brigade must be quite pleased to learn that it wasn't their catastrophic Deepwater Horizon fiasco that "caused lost jobs and economic harm" but rather our government, acting to protect the interests of the public in making sure it wouldn't happen again. As Shell shows, industry, despite how deeply they want us to accept their earnestness to do differently, still isn't ready. Said Salazar:
"It's not a matter of ice, it's a matter of whether Shell has the mechanical capability" to comply with the exploration plan that had been approved.
Before the industry and its political shills start castigating compromise as obstruction and complaining about delays, they should look to their own lack of preparedness and their skimpy credibility as the real reasons the adults in the room aren't instantly giving them every last thing they demand.
More energy lies.
Labels: energy lies, environment, natural gas, oceans, oil, policy, politics, pollution, regulation, wingnuts
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– Defending whistleblower claims
Defending whistleblower claims
Whistleblower claims have become common in several industries since the Enron financial scam in Texas that became public knowledge in the 1990s. The enacting of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Act by Congress gave whistleblowers standing to file a qui tam lawsuit if they were involved in any illegal activity occurring at work in which they were required to take part. In exchange for legal protection and a percentage of the recovered assets, whistleblower testimony and information are used in the prosecution of the purported fraudulent party. Companies who are accused in these lawsuits must defend their actions against the claims to the government.
Defending a Sarbanes-Oxley Act lawsuit
With the SOX provisions cases being subject to immediate filing in federal court, defending whistleblower claims is similar to representing standard federal lawsuits. The oversight government agency assumes the role of the plaintiff, as the actual whistleblower is granted protections in the initial closed court hearing that verifies whistleblower status. Cross-examining the information provider can be difficult per government protection. And while this issue clearly complicates cases, there are still several other claim elements that can be defended per qualification rules.
Defending a Dodd-Frank claim
Defending a claim in a Dodd-Frank False Claims Act lawsuit begins with taking the case first through the Department of Labor. This can extend the amount of time and litigation required in defense of the whistleblower claims, but it can also result in the case never making its way to court. Attorneys who are defending whistleblower claims will have an opportunity to have the case dismissed even before it gets started when evidence can be discharged through the DOL.
Texas businesses managers should never think there is no defense against a whistleblower qui tam claim. Many times the evidence being provided can be evaluated in negotiations before any litigation filing begins depending on the overlying legislation standing.


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Elohim is the female powerhouse we've all been waiting for
Elohim is a producer coming out of the Los Angeles scene with all guns blazing - and if you didn't already know that, well, then you're probably new to this website. Following a long line of tremendous releases to signify her coming, her latest single is paving the way for a successful twelve months. "Panic Attacks" features Yoshi Flower, has been picked up by The Fader and was added to Spotify's New Music Friday playlist earlier in the month. Most excitingly, it's arrived alongside details of her self-titled debut album, due out on 27th April 2018 through BMG.
The musician has received a mass of exposure for her work already, but there's still a lot of mystery surrounding the project - including Elohim's real name.
"My identity truly lies within my music," she explains, stepping away from the decks for a welcomed conversation, sort of. Part of Elohim's schtick is that she doesn't (often) use her speaking voice, in her music or with the press, and instead heads down a Stephen Hawking-esque automation whenever the occasion arises. Today, our discussion is via another communication platform that's become important to her - the internet. "It seems I can open up best when I fully go into my world with no boundaries, no judgement and no fear. I felt it was important to me, and my creativity as an artist, for people to be immersed in the music and the experience first, rather than my personal information."
Despite that, she doesn't shirk away from fan to fan interaction: "I love meeting people in real life and having one on one conversations with them at shows. I believe it's important to share that human to human exchange. The friendships I've made through music all over the world have been remarkable.
"That is what matters to me most."
On the reverse, sometimes Elohim's songs are very open about her personal struggles including her anxiety, as demonstrated on "Panic Attacks" but also older fan favourites such as "The Wave", "Skinny Legs" and "Hallucinating".
"Songwriting is very cathartic and spiritual [for me]," she explains. "Sometimes I'll be exhausted or emotionally drained after writing a song because you really [have to] dig deep to express the most authentic emotion and struggles."
"What empowers me the most is being able to bring a slice of comfort and/or solace to someone's life who may be struggling or feeling alone. I never want anyone to feel alone... I know the feeling and it drives you to mental insanity," she speaks frankly. "These anxious, depressive and obsessive feelings are so isolating. Therapy and treatment have been very helpful for me because I've been informed that I'm not alone.
Unfortunately, these feelings are probably more common than not. When I started releasing music I received tons of messages from people and it made me realize even more so that I am not alone. Those messages are always so full of gratitude and love. [Fans] thank me for the music and message I've put out to the world, but I'm the one that owes them the thanks! These humans around the world have helped me in such an extraordinary way that they aren't aware of. It's my life mission to give them music that makes them safe. It's my gift of gratitude to them."
Her gift of gratitude extends to more than just recorded music. As a touring machine Elohim's very hardworking: to the point that end of the last year she contracted pneumonia while on tour with Chromeo and Jai Wolf. "The last four months have been dedicated to getting healthy, mentally and physically," she explains of her activity since then. "I have, by some miracle, recovered from an illness that felt like it would never go away!"
"I really do love being on stage. Sometimes I say I wish I could time travel and close my eyes and go from Los Angeles to being on stage within the blink of an eye! The traveling is really the exhausting part," she admits. "Finding good food and having any normalcy and routine is a challenge, but it's a lot of fun. Being on stage is like nothing else. It presents a moment to connect with people and there's nothing like that connection. It's like a motion picture coming to life or something. I get to meet and see all of my internet friends out there which is awesome...
"My goal is to take people to another world and give them an experience and a sensation that they've not felt before through the magic that is MUSIC."
Being a woman in the music industry isn't an easy thing in any genre, but it seems especially turbulent in the electronic music scene. Elohim has become an inspiration herself, notably drawing the title of 'producer' despite a disproportionate amount of tech-savvy women continuing to be branded singer-songwriters in the face of their male counterparts. The Los Angeles-resident herself turns to "Alison Wonderland [as] a huge inspiration and an incredible friend to me. She always has really beautiful advice for navigating a heavily male populated industry and scene. To be honest, I keep myself surrounded by really supportive and protective people that treat me with respect. It's my key to feeling valued. I only care to be around humans that do not discriminate or judge others by race, sexuality or gender. We are all HUMAN and we are making art together. Art should be celebrated equally and beautifully."
Then, "One of the reasons I prefer to not be credited as a 'feature' on someone else's track is because it feels belittling. When you contribute to the production, write lyrics and melody, and do so much more than just "sing on someone's track", I believe you should be credited accordingly. I think people need to give women more opportunities because we are here, we are ready and we are so bad ass!"
"I would say to other females; do not be afraid to show the world what you've got. Sometimes planet earth can feel defeating and overwhelming but it's all about breaking through and persevering no matter what. Stay strong and always expand your knowledge. It's a great feeling when someone assumes you know nothing and you prove them wrong with facts because you are an expert at your craft. Practice and continue to grow. And lastly, as I said previously, it is really important to surround yourself with kind-hearted uplifting and supportive people. Form a team around you that are your guardian angels."
Elohim's self-titled debut album is due out on 27th April 2018 - pre-order it here!
Author Tiffany Daniels
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Lillian Frances 13/04/2018 at 10:35 pm #
Love this so much. As a female producer I really resound with the feeling of men trying to push you into this "singer/songwriter" position, and not acknowledging the breadth of talent that we bring to the table. Thank you, Elohim for your words and for sharing your passion to the world. Thanks Drunken Werewolf for listening and sharing with us.
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Q: Prove that this set and operation comprise a group. Show that the set $\{5, 15, 25, 35\}$ is a group under multiplication modulo $40$. Is there a relation between this and $U(8)$?
I am having a really difficult time beginning this proof. All this is abstract to me.

A: Hint: Since there are only four elements (and the group is abelian because multiplication is commutative), it's easy to write down the multiplication table and check the axioms directly.
For example, one finds that $25 \cdot g = g$ for all $g$ in the set, so $25$ is the identity.
For the associativity axiom, one need not use the multiplication table, as we already know the group operation (multiplication modulo a given number) is associative.
There is a relationship between this and the ring $U(8)$. Namely, we can consider the group $U(8)^* = \{1, 3, 5, 7\}$ of invertible elements in $U(8)$, and this turns out to be isomorphic to the given group (both are isomorphic to the Klein $4$-group, $U(2) \times U(2)$).

A: Well, it is abstract algebra... Jokes aside, do you know the axioms of a group? You need to check, for each pair of elements in the set, that the product mod $40$ is still in the set, find the identity (should surface when you check for closure), and an inverse for each element. For a set like this one, you can do each calculation by hand (there are after all just three possibilities for each inverse). The associativity law follows from the associativity of integers.
Once you have that it is a group, you can set up the multiplication table, and compare it to the multiplication table of $U_8$. See if you can spot any similarities.
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Q: Fast Way to slice image into overlapping patches and merge patches to image Trying to slice a grayscale image of size 100x100 into patches of size 39x39 which are overlapping, with a stride-size of 1. That means that the next patch which starts one pixel to the right/or below is only different to the previous patch in one additional column/or row.
Rough Outline of the code: First compute the indices for each patch, so to be able to
construct the 2D array of patches from an image and to be able to construct an image from patches:
patches = imgFlat[ind]

'patches' is a 2D array with each column containing a patch in vector form.
Those patches are processed, each patch individually and afterwards are merged together to an image again, with the precomputed indices.
img = np.sum(patchesWithColFlat[ind],axis=2)

As patches overlap it is necessary at the end to multiply the img with the precomputed weights:
imgOut = weights*imgOut

My code is really slow and speed is a critical issue, as this should be done on ca. 10^8 patches.
The functions get_indices_for_un_patchify and weights_unpatchify can be precomputed once, so speed is only an issue for patchify and unpatchify.
Thanks for any tipps.
Carlos
import numpy as np
import scipy
import collections
import random as rand

def get_indices_for_un_patchify(sImg,sP,step):
    ''' creates indices for fast patchifying and unpatchifying

    INPUTS:
      sx    image size
      sp    patch size
      step  offset between two patches (default == [1,1])

      OUTPUTS:
       patchInd             collection with indices
       patchInd.img2patch   patchifying indices
                            patch = img(patchInd.img2patch);
       patchInd.patch2img   unpatchifying indices

    NOTE: * for unpatchifying necessary to add a 0 column to the patch matrix
          * matrices are constructed row by row, as normally there are less rows than columns in the
            patchMtx
     '''
    lImg = np.prod(sImg)
    indImg = np.reshape(range(lImg), sImg)

    # no. of patches which fit into the image
    sB = (sImg - sP + step) / step

    lb              = np.prod(sB)
    lp              = np.prod(sP)
    indImg2Patch    = np.zeros([lp, lb])
    indPatch        = np.reshape(range(lp*lb), [lp, lb])

    indPatch2Img = np.ones([sImg[0],sImg[1],lp])*(lp*lb+1)

    # default value should be last column
    iRow   = 0;
    for jCol in range(sP[1]):
        for jRow in range(sP[0]):
            tmp1 = np.array(range(0, sImg[0]-sP[0]+1, step[0]))
            tmp2 = np.array(range(0, sImg[1]-sP[1]+1, step[1]))
            sel1                    = jRow  + tmp1
            sel2                    = jCol  + tmp2
            tmpIndImg2Patch = indImg[sel1,:]
            # do not know how to combine following 2 lines in python
            tmpIndImg2Patch = tmpIndImg2Patch[:,sel2]
            indImg2Patch[iRow, :]   = tmpIndImg2Patch.flatten()

            # next line not nice, but do not know how to implement it better
            indPatch2Img[min(sel1):max(sel1)+1, min(sel2):max(sel2)+1, iRow] = np.reshape(indPatch[iRow, :, np.newaxis], sB)
            iRow                    += 1

    pInd = collections.namedtuple
    pInd.patch2img = indPatch2Img
    pInd.img2patch = indImg2Patch

    return pInd

def weights_unpatchify(sImg,pInd):
    weights = 1./unpatchify(patchify(np.ones(sImg), pInd), pInd)
    return weights

# @profile
def patchify(img,pInd):
    imgFlat = img.flat
   # imgFlat = img.flatten()
    ind = pInd.img2patch.tolist()
    patches = imgFlat[ind]

    return patches

# @profile
def unpatchify(patches,pInd):
    # add a row of zeros to the patches matrix
    h,w = patches.shape
    patchesWithCol = np.zeros([h+1,w])
    patchesWithCol[:-1,:] = patches
    patchesWithColFlat = patchesWithCol.flat
   #  patchesWithColFlat = patchesWithCol.flatten()
    ind = pInd.patch2img.tolist()
    img = np.sum(patchesWithColFlat[ind],axis=2)
    return img

I call those functions, here e.g. with a random image
if __name__ =='__main__':
    img = np.random.randint(255,size=[100,100])
    sImg = img.shape
    sP = np.array([39,39])  # size of patch
    step = np.array([1,1])  # sliding window step size
    pInd = get_indices_for_un_patchify(sImg,sP,step)
    patches = patchify(img,pInd)
    imgOut = unpatchify(patches,pInd)
    weights = weights_unpatchify(sImg,pInd)
    imgOut = weights*imgOut

    print 'Difference of img and imgOut = %.7f' %sum(img.flatten() - imgOut.flatten())

A: An efficient way to "patchify" an array, that is, to get an array of windows to the original array is to create a view with custom strides, the number of bytes to jump to the following element. It can be helpful to think of a numpy array as a (glorified) chunk of memory, and then strides are a way to map indices to memory address.
For example, in
a = np.arange(10).reshape(2, 5)

a.itemsize equals 4 (ie, 4 bytes or 32 bits for each element) and a.strides is (20, 4) (5 elements, 1 element) so that a[1,2] refers to the element which is 1*20 + 2*4 bytes (or 1*5 + 2 elements) after the first one:
0 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 x x

In fact, the elements are placed in memory one after another, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 x x but the strides let us index it as a 2D array.
Building on that concept, we can rewrite patchify as follows
def patchify(img, patch_shape):
    img = np.ascontiguousarray(img)  # won't make a copy if not needed
    X, Y = img.shape
    x, y = patch_shape
    shape = ((X-x+1), (Y-y+1), x, y) # number of patches, patch_shape
    # The right strides can be thought by:
    # 1) Thinking of `img` as a chunk of memory in C order
    # 2) Asking how many items through that chunk of memory are needed when indices
    #    i,j,k,l are incremented by one
    strides = img.itemsize*np.array([Y, 1, Y, 1])
    return np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided(img, shape=shape, strides=strides)

This function returns a view of img, so no memory is allocated and it runs in just a few tens of microseconds. The output shape is not exactly what you want, and in fact it must be copied to be able to get that shape.
One has to be careful when dealing with views of an array that are much larger than the base array, because operations can trigger a copy which would need to allocate a lot of memory. In your case, since the arrays isn't too big and there aren't that many patches, it should be ok.
Finally, we can ravel the array of patches a bit:
patches = patchify(img, (39,39))
contiguous_patches = np.ascontiguousarray(patches)
contiguous_patches.shape = (-1, 39**2)

This doesn't reproduce the output of your patchify function because you kind of develop the patches in Fortran order. I recommend you to use this instead because

*

*It leads to more natural indexing later on (ie, the first patch is patches[0] instead of patches[:, 0] for your solution).

*It's also easier in numpy to use C ordering everywhere because you need less typing (you avoid stuff like order='F', arrays are created in C order by default...).
"Hints" in case you insist: strides = img.itemsize * np.array([1, Y, Y, 1]), use .reshape(..., order='F') on contiguous_patches and finally transpose it .T

A: you can also use a pip library called empatches
pip install empatches

then for extracting patches you can do
from empatches import EMPatches

emp = EMPatches()
img_patches, indices = emp.extract_patches(img, patchsize=32, overlap=0.2)

and to merge patches after doing operation on img_patches you can do,
merged_img = emp.merge_patches(img_patches_processed, indices)

you just need to save indices output by the first extract_patches function.

A: It looks like what you want is exactly numpy.lib.stride_tricks.sliding_window_view:
from numpy.lib.stride_tricks import sliding_window_view

def patchify(img, patch_shape)
    return sliding_window_view(img, patch_shape)


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Q: Exchange 2010 Powershell + C#: how to do WHERE query I'm using the exchange powershell in C# like this:
public PowershellResult GetSendAsPermissions(string TargetIdentity)
    {
        string CommandName = "get-adpermission";

        Command cmd1 = new Command(CommandName);
        cmd1.Parameters.Add("Identity", TargetIdentity);
        if (powershell.DomainController.Length > 0)
        {
            cmd1.Parameters.Add("DomainController", powershell.DomainController);
        }

        List<Command> commands = new List<Command>();
        commands.Add(cmd1);
        string errorMessages = string.Empty;
        Collection<PSObject> commandResults = powershell.ExecutePowershellCommand(commands, out errorMessages);

        PowershellResult psr = null;

        if (errorMessages.Length == 0)
        {
            psr = new PowershellResult(true, "Successfully managed SendAs permission.", 0);
        }
        else
        {
            psr = new PowershellResult(false, string.Format("Error managing SendAs permission: {0}", errorMessages), 0);
        }
        return psr;
    }

public Collection<PSObject> ExecutePowershellCommand(List<Command> commands, out string errorMessages)
    {
        errorMessages = "";
        this.ps.Commands.Clear();
        ps.Streams.Error.Clear();
        if (commands != null)
        {
            foreach (Command cmd in commands)
            {
                this.ps.Commands.AddCommand(cmd);
            }
            Collection<PSObject> ret = null;
            try
            {
                ret = this.ps.Invoke();
                if (this.ps.Streams.Error.Count > 0)
                {
                    StringBuilder stb = new StringBuilder();
                    foreach (ErrorRecord err in this.ps.Streams.Error)
                    {
                        if (err.Exception.Message != null)
                        {
                            stb.AppendLine(err.Exception.Message);
                        }
                    }
                    errorMessages = stb.ToString();
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                StringBuilder stb = new StringBuilder();
                if (ex.Message != null)
                {
                    stb.Append(ex.Message);
                }
                if (ex.InnerException != null)
                {
                    if (ex.InnerException.Message != null)
                    {
                        stb.Append(string.Format(" {0}", ex.InnerException));
                    }
                }
                errorMessages = stb.ToString().Trim();
            }

            return ret;
        }
        else
        {
            return null;
        }
    }

Now I want to to add a "where" clause to the get-adpermission command like this:
Get-ADPermission | where {($_.ExtendedRights -like "*Send-As*") -and ($_.IsInherited -eq $false) -and -not ($_.User -like "NT AUTHORITY\SELF")}

I have absolutely no idea where to put the where clause or how to define those arguments in curly brackets. Anyone got an idea?

A: I see
 Collection<PSObject> commandResults = powershell.ExecutePowershellCommand(commands, out errorMessages);

but nothing is done with commandResults - they're not passed back to the caller.
What it looks like you'll need is something like
 var filteredResults = commandResults.Where(cr =>
       (((string)cr.Properties["ExtendedRights"].Value).Contains("Send-As")) &&
       (((bool)cr.Properties["IsInherited"].Value) == false) &&
       (((string)cr.Properties["User"].Value) == "NT AUTHORITY\\SELF"))

That will (hopefully) get you a filtered list of comandResults with just the items you need. You'll want to pass that back to the caller somehow, or do something else with them.


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An SAP Cloud Platform overview: Capabilities and benefits
SAP Cloud Platform is often confused with other SAP cloud products. Dispel any confusion with an explanation of how the technology works and what it can do.
Linda Rosencrance
Many CIOs, business leaders and even administrators want an SAP Cloud Platform overview that distills its capabilities in easy-to-understand terms. Here's a look at just that.
Put simply, SAP Cloud Platform is a PaaS offered by SAP. It's mainly a custom development platform for building custom applications that need to integrate with an organization's SAP back end.
"It's not just JavaScript-based custom development, it's also the ability to integrate with SAP back-end systems that can be on-premises systems, like an ERP on-premises or S/4 HANA on premises, but also integrating with the SaaS tools from SAP, such as SuccessFactors, Ariba, Concur," said Steve Delien, chief technology architect of SAP intelligent technologies at Accenture. "The list goes on."
Cloud Platform environments
No SAP Cloud Platform overview would be complete without reviewing its environments.
Neo is the version that SAP hosts in it data centers. Cloud Foundry is the version available on public clouds, such as on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
However, SAP's strategy is to put all its investments in the Cloud Foundry version and phase out Neo over time, Delien said.
Companies use SAP Cloud Platform as a platform layer where they can build their applications, house them and build connectors between them, said Seth Lippincott, an analyst at Nucleus Research.
The benefit of the SAP Cloud Platform is that it enables an organization that has been operating in a number of disparate systems -- SAP systems, non-SAP systems, or both -- to tie everything together, he said.
"This is where [SAP] talks about that transformation piece where you're shifting from siloed systems, siloed data and siloed applications, and the platform becomes that connective tissue," Lippincott said.
For example, say a utility company implemented an application-building platform not from SAP for its customer-facing applications, and the company was also an SAP shop, he said.
If that company wanted to offer any self-service capabilities to its customers, such as letting them log into their accounts to check their balances or see how much electricity they've used, the company would build those apps on their non-SAP app-building platform, Lippincott said. But it would also need those applications to operate on the company's overall organizational enterprise platform.
"So they'd use SAP Cloud Platform to tie together their SAP applications and their non-SAP applications and systems onto the same system, so they could talk to each other and the data could be shared across them," he said.
SAP Cloud Platform overview of real-life project
Natura, a cosmetics maker based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, started working with the SAP Cloud Platform in 2017. At the time, the company was looking for a secure and managed cloud computing environment to create and extend its existing apps, said Hamilton Bokaleff, SAP enterprise architect at Natura.
Currently, Natura operates in the hybrid cloud. The company's SAP environment, including SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer and ERP Central Component, is in an on-premises system, and many other applications run inside the cloud, including SAP Ariba and SuccessFactors. In addition, the SAP Tax Declaration Framework is also in the cloud, connected to the company's on-premises system.
However, the company plans to migrate every system to the cloud by 2021, Bokaleff said. It will do so by moving to SAP S/4HANA within the SAP Cloud Platform because of the simplicity of the platform and the way it does system and business process integration.
Integration is key to an SAP Cloud Platform overview, including what it can do.
SAP Cloud Platform is an integration suite that involves cloud integration and API management, so you can open up your enterprise data and processes or key performance indicators, said Harsh Jegadeesan, SAP's vice president and head of product management for integration.
"It involves open connectors that allow you to connect to a lot of third-party applications," he said. "There are capabilities in the platform that allow you to do those integrations."
Natura's first pilot project involved developing SAP Fiori applications with SAP Cloud Platform to improve its sales order tracking process, Bokaleff said.
Natura wanted to mobilize and extend its order delivery systems out to a number of delivery capabilities, but it didn't have the last-mile delivery services figured out for the company or its business associates, said Dan Lahl, global vice president of SAP product marketing.
"So they said, 'We already have a set of applications that are running, so let's extend those applications using the cloud platform,'" he said.
Natura developed SAP Fiori mobile apps on SAP Cloud Platform to handle the entire order process all the way through to delivering to its customers, Lahl said. It was an extension to the order entry system that used the SAP Cloud Platform integration service as well as SAP HANA smart data integration to connect SAP HANA, SAP ERP, SAP Fiori and Ariba, according to an SAP case study on the project.
However, even as Natura was building apps in the cloud, its ERP and some of its other systems were still running on-premises. Natura's digital apps are in the cloud, and SAP focuses on providing a secure connector between the on-premises environment and the cloud, Jegadeesan said.
Using the SAP Cloud Platform has enabled Natura to deliver projects with greater cost-efficiency, Bokaleff said.
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danlahl - 20 Dec 2019 11:07 AM
Great article on SAP Cloud Platform and wonderful that you included Natura, Accenture and Nucleus Research. Great explanation of what the product is and does - and how customers (Natura in this case) are using SAP Cloud Platform...
One minor clarification between S/4 HANA Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform. They are designed to sit side by side in either SAP or public cloud provider clouds. S/4 HANA as the application suite and SAP Cloud Platform to extend S/4 HANA and integrate with other on-premises and cloud applications.
Thanks again for a great article!


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They aren't presented all This book intends to make math more accessible, which I understand to be the point of the Math Circle program created by the authors. Instead, they argue, math should be taught as the highest form of intellectual play, an endeavor to be explored and enjoyed by children or adults of any age. Those the authors believe can appeal to any age include Cantorian set theory and , while those they put off until 9-13 years old include complex numbers, solution of polynomials by radicals, and — heady but exciting stuff for a nine year old! It challenged every prejudice I had developed about the subject. Robert Kaplan is the author of the best-selling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, which has been translated into 10 languages, and together they wrote The Art of the Infinite. They show, for instance, that mathematical ability is not a matter of inborn genius, but of doggedness and attention.
Robert Kaplan is the author of the best-selling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, which has been translated into 10 languages, and together they wrote The Art of the Infinite. Who hasn't feared the math Minotaur in its labyrinth of abstractions? Description: 1 online resource ix, 244 pages : illustrations Contents: Acknowledgments -- ch. I also enjoyed the examples from the classes and the ways they got students to get into certain ideas, even though many of the ideas were over my head. It was only in the final chapter where they gave examples of journals that they managed to communicate with simplicity and clarity, which made it all the clearer that the language of the earlier chapters was a pose. It was curiosity, obsession, and sheer perseverance that brought me to my ideas. What a perverse fate for one of our kind's greatest triumphs! One by one, they dismantle the many barriers to appreciating mathematics, from the self-defeating belief that mathematical talent is inborn, to the off-putting language of mathematics, to the question of why anyone should care.
It's the long, middle section of the book that I found less compelling. Learning Greek and Latin used to play the role of character builder, since they were considered to be as exhausting and unrewarding as digging a trench in the morning and filling it up in the afternoon. The topics, again, are a far cry from. It turns out that the authors run a , practising on kids of all ages. Stocked with puzzles, colorful anecdotes, and insights from the authors own teaching experience, Out of the Labyrinth is both an engaging and practical guide for parents and educators, and a treasure chest of mathematical discoveries.
This is mathematics, which reaches down into our deepest intuitions and outward toward the nature of the universe -- mathematics, which explains the atoms as well as the stars in their courses, and lets us see into the ways that rivers and arteries branch. For any reader who has felt the excitement of mathematical discovery—or tried to convey it to someone else—this volume will be a delightful and valued companion. Instead, they argue, math should be taught as the highest form of intellectual play, an endeavor to be explored and enjoyed by children or adults age. They have an inquiry based approach that engenders the transferable habits of mind necessary for mathematicians to solve any problem rather than teaching algorithmic approaches that help students solve only particular kinds of problems. Approached this as a skim after seeing it on the shelves at Powells math and science store, that is and getting it from the library instead.
Chapter Six - How Math Has Been Taught. The E-mail message field is required. Ellen Kaplan is also co-author of Chances Are: Adventures in Robert and Ellen Kaplan have taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and most recently at Harvard University. The Kaplans have written a great rationale and explanation of their Math Circle approach to teaching mathematics. It's the long, middle section of the book that I found less compelling.
Found it relatively unhelpful on that score. I think this is simply arguing for mathematical epistemology as akin to — in programming terms — summarizing functions by their pre and post conditions. The subject can seem convoluted and forbidding. The Great Barrier Reef -- Language : symbols -- Language : equations -- Language : third person remote -- The Buddha, the Bodhisattva, and the Bo -- Climbing a tall building -- Alienation -- Diamond hard -- who cares? It doesn't just help us to balance our checkbooks; it leads us to see the balances hidden in the tumble of events, and the shapes of those quiet symmetries behind the random clatter of things. However, the main point they were making: that notation invented by the children, will be owned and understood by the children, is a point well made.
Incongruously, in this book, when they are presented, simple concepts are inflated and more challenging concepts are oversimplified. I would recommend that maths teachers give this book a miss and instead read one of the books about problem-posing which is an approach explained with far greater clarity and less desire to impress. Chapter Three - The Myth of Talent. Both perspectives are roundly rejected by the authors, and in any case are very far removed from the reality of mathematics research. Later in the book, when discussing competition, Math Olympiads, etc. And yet it still provided me with inspiration and a desire to restart the math circle I was running last academic year. They show, for instance, that mathematical ability is not a matter of inborn genius, but of doggedness and attention.
Now, in Out of the Labyrinth, Robert and Ellen Kaplan--the founders of The Math Circle, the popular learning program begun at Harvard in 1994--reveal the secrets behind their highly successful approach, leading readers out of the labyrinth and into the joyous embrace of mathematics. It will allow students, parents, teachers, and others to wrestle with the accessible mysteries of math- and discover their inner math genius. Chapter Five - The Great Barrier Reef. Was reading this in hopes of getting concrete advice about how to replicate the authors' Math Circle model in my own community. The myth of talent -- ch. How mathematicians actually work -- ch. Ellen Kaplan is also co-author of Chances Are: Adventures in Probability.
They aren't presented all that much though. The final chapter of the book summarises some ideas for math circle style courses, broken down by age range. I found this book to be a frustrating read. Appendix: Thoughts of a Young Teacher. The authors say in the first chapter that the book describes among other things how they removed the barriers to enjoying mathematics.
It was curiosity, obsession, and sheer perseverance that brought me to my ideas. A Note on Our Pronouns. In their classrooms students ages six to sixty have discovered mathematics as the highest form of intellectual play, while exploring topics that range from Roman numerals to quantum mechanics. It will allow students, parents, teachers, and others to wrestle with the accessible mysteries of math--and discover their inner math genius. The subject can seem convoluted and forbidding. The illustrative problems are well done, but the trappings are the majority of the book and are unwieldy. Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free.


My US Navy sailor based in San Diego really loved her shirt. Nothing better than a reminder of home.
Unique style and color! The fabric is a thin-style sweatshirt material, that flows easily. Not big and bulky.


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Jonathan Groff to return as Jesse St. James for the final three episodes of season 2!
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I'm having an insane amount of trouble containing my excitement. Jonathan Groff, who played Rachel's boyfriend (and Vocal Adrenaline star) Jesse St. James in the second half of season 1, has reportedly signed a contract to appear in the final three episodes of this season! I loved watching Jesse's character and thought that Jonathan was fantastic in the role, so I'm really excited to have him back on the show briefly. Jesse and Rachel always had such amazing chemistry – likely due to the fact that Lea and Jonathan are actually real-life best friends who starred on Broadway together for years.
So what will Jesse be doing on the show? We all remember how he broke Rachel's heart after his role as a Vocal Adrenaline spy was revealed. Well, a source close to the show recently told Michael Ausiello that Jesse is "back to apologize to Rachel and perhaps get her back."
What do you think, gleeks? Are you excited to have Jesse on Glee again? Do you want him to succeed in winning back Rachel? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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Uh!! Excited he will be back, 'cause it adds some drama for the seasons final, but Rachel and Finn ftw!!
Yeah totally agreed with Nathalie. I'm happy about him being back but I think Rachel is waaay better with Finn. I know he's with Quinn now but Rachel's waaay better for him. I think Puck is better for Quinn. Is anyone else confused that Finn dumped Rachel because she cheated on him and went back to Quinn who cheated on him AND HAD A BABY with another guy?!?!?! Anyway FINN AND RACHEL FTW!!!
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MORTIMER D. LEGGETT
MORTIMER D. LEGGETT 1871-1874
General Mortimer D. Leggett, the thirteenth Commissioner of Patents, while demonstrating unusual ability in several fields of activity, came into his greatest prominence in his military career, and it is as a soldier that he is most widely known.
He was a warm friend of Gen. U. S. Grant and it is said when Grant became president Gen. Leggett was offered several desirable positions, but stated that there was but one particular office which he would like to hold and if it became vacant he would be glad to be considered for it, and that was the office of Commissioner of Patents. When this office became vacant by the resignation of Mr. Fisher, Gen. Leggett was appointed, his term extending from January 16, 1871, until his resignation November 1, 1874.


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This Epiphone is one of this short run of Japanese made Epi's from early 1980's that were of superior build quality. This particular guitar had very tired gold parts but the condition and finish were fabulous, so I decided to Hot Rod it with all new Gold parts down to every screw and USA made electronics.
Late 70's Gibson 335 Case (optional). The Schaller's were chosen because they did not require a new hole that would be visible before or after removal of old tuners. The old were likely Gotoh, but the style is virtually impossible to find in a NOS or replacement. The Schaller's are amazing units and add significant value and reliability to this guitar.
Original spec Frequensator tail piece replaced from incorrect trapeze tail piece installed by previous owner.
Little bit of "buckle rash" on back - not that noticeable, but I took this photo in light to accentuate it.
Couple of chip/dings and finish crack at neck joint.
Note replace the screw in original whole - not required for these Schaller Locking Tuners!
Sleeping in its late '70s early '80's Gibson purple plush lined 335 case. Not necessarily included if you don't want to pay for it.


Kangra valley is one of the Himachal's beautiful valleys. It rolls down the southern edge of magnificent Dhauladhar range in gentle slopes covered with forests of pine, orchards, green tea gardens and terraced fields. The Kangra valley is one of the most picturesque valleys of the lower Himalyas. The valley, sheltered by the sublime Dhauladhar range, is green and luxuriant. It provides a tremendous contrast in nature of locals. Dharamshala is full of Buddhist air whereas ancient Hindu Temples like Brajeshwari, Baijnath, Jawalamukhi and Chamunda Devi dot the country side.The picturesque Kangra Valley ( 2000 feet) lies in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The exotic Kangra Valley lying between the Dhauladhar and the Shivalik foothills in the state of Himachal Pradesh is the conglomeration of valleys and plateaus of the Himalayas. It is one of the most pleasant and relaxing destination in the Himalayas. The Valley was called as the Nagarkot in the ancient times, as it was the ancient capital of the hill state of Nagarkot. Renowned for its natural beauty, the valley attracts thousands of tourists every year.
Kangra Valley is situated in Himachal Pradesh, India. It is a popular tourist destination, with the peak season around March and April. Dharamshala, the headquarters of Kangra district, lies on the southern spur of Dhauladhar in the valley.The very stunning region of Kangra Valley is placed in the Himachal Pradesh area, in the time of midst of the 19th century, as fraction of their authority of the Punjab County; the British investigated obtainable real estate rights in Kangra region which is at this time a governmental unit in Himachal Pradesh district. The Kangra Valley, as the name indicates as Valley means "Ghati" means "the place which is full of beautiness and fragrant". So the Kangra valley is the piece of heaven where tourists comes for trekking never loose. Kangra Valley is well protected by the Dhauladhar range. The valley provides the magnificent view of the Dhauladhar Range in gentle slopes covered with the forests of pine, orchards, tea gardens and terraced fields. The valley is known for the scenic beauty, ancient temples and numerous adventure sports.
Masrur Situated at the height of 800 m, 15 kms south of Kangra, on the Jwalamukhi - Kangra Rd. It is well - known for the 15 cave temples, built in the 9th and 10th centuries, in the Shikhar style of Indo - Aryan art. The deities here are SreeRam, Lakshman and Sita. There is an artificial lake in the temple complex.This fort belongs to the Kotak dynasty. This fort was damaged by the earthquake of 1950.This temple is a replacement of the 4th century Marichi Vajravarahi Temple, which was ruined by Sultan Mahmud. The range of Dhauldhar is visible from this temple. You may attend the Mangalarati in the evening. There is the temple of Adinath, the Jain Tirthankar, in front of the temple.


To understand what EMF really is, you need to know what a framework is and what a model is. This chapter explains what is meant by "model."
Simply put, the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is a modeling framework that exploits the facilities provided by Eclipse. By now, you probably know what Eclipse is, given that you either just read Chapter 1, or you skipped it, presumably because you already knew what it was. You also probably know what a framework is, because you know what Eclipse is, and Eclipse is itself a framework. So, to understand what EMF really is, all you need to know is one more thing: What is a model? Or better yet, what do we mean by a model?
If you're familiar with things like class diagrams, collaboration diagrams, state diagrams, and so on, you're probably thinking that a model is a set of those things, probably defined using Unified Modeling Language (UML), the standard notation for them. You might be imagining a higher level description of an application from which some, or all, of the implementation can be generated. Well, you're right about what a model is, but not exactly about EMF's spin on it.
Although the idea is the same, a model in EMF is less general and not quite as high level as the commonly accepted interpretation. EMF doesn't require a completely different methodology or any sophisticated modeling tools. All you need to get started with EMF are the Eclipse Java Development Tools. As you'll see in the following sections, EMF relates modeling concepts directly to their implementations, thereby bringing to Eclipse—and Java developers in general—the benefits of modeling with a low cost of entry.
Starting with these interfaces, you've got what you need to begin writing the application UI, persistence, and so on.
Figure 2.1 UML diagram of interfaces.
Before going any further, you notice that you now have three different representations of what appears to be pretty much (actually, exactly) the same thing: the "data model" of your application. Looking at it, you start to wonder if you could have written only one of the three (i.e., Java interfaces, UML diagram, or XML Schema), and generated the others from it. Even better, you start to wonder if maybe there's even enough information in this "model" to generate the Java implementation of the interfaces.
This is where EMF comes in. EMF is a framework and code generation facility that lets you define a model in any of these forms, from which you can then generate the others and also the corresponding implementation classes. Figure 2.2 shows how EMF unifies the three important technologies: Java, XML, and UML. Regardless of which one is used to define it, an EMF model is the common high-level representation that "glues" them all together.
Figure 2.2 EMF unifies Java, XML, and UML.
Imagine that you want to build an application to manipulate some specific XML message structure. You would probably be starting with a message schema, wouldn't you? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to take the schema, press a button or two, and get a UML class diagram for it? Press another button, and you have a set of Java implementation classes for manipulating the XML. Finally, press one more button, and you can even generate a working editor for your messages. All this is possible with EMF, as you'll see when we walk through an example similar to this in Chapter 4.
If, on the other hand, you're not an XML Schema expert, you might choose to start with a UML diagram, or simply a set of Java interfaces representing the message structure. The EMF model can just as easily be defined using either of them. If you want, you can then have an XML Schema generated for you, in addition to the implementation code. Regardless of how the EMF model is provided, the power of the framework and generator will be the same.


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Stella Dallas
MGM Home Entertainment
1937 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 106 min. / Street Date March 8, 2005 / 14.95
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Marjorie Main, Tim Holt
Cinematography Rudolph Maté
Art Direction Richard Day
Film Editor Sherman Todd
Original Music Alfred Newman
Written by Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Gertrude Purcell, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman from a novel by Olive Higgins Prouty
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn
There are women's pictures and there are women's pictures, but Stella Dallas has to be the mother of them all. Remade several times and loaded down with tear-jerking sentiments "only women" are supposed to be able to appreciate, the ironclad plot has as much to say about class division in America than An American Tragedy. At least it would have, if its entire argument wasn't a stacked deck from the word Go.
Samuel Goldwyn knew there was gold in this fossil and Barbara Stanwyck finds every nugget through the efficient direction of King Vidor. The result is both enduring and as dated as Hell, and is capable of starting heated discussions about human relations, both mother-daughter and upperclass-working class.
Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) is tired of living in her father's shack in a mill town, and maneuvers her way into a marriage with Stephen Dallas (John Boles), a disinherited ex-millionaire who mourns the wedding of his intended, Helen (Barbara O'Neil) to another man. The Dallas marriage goes on the rocks after their first child is born, when Stella refuses to alter her lifestyle to adapt to her husband's more genteel background. He wants to go to New York and she stays behind, befriending a lower-class businessman, Ed Munn (Alan Hale). Eventually the daughter Laurel grows up (Anne Shirley) and Stella's common manners and undignified behavior become a problem; Laurel spends more time with her father and the wealthy family of the now-widowed Helen. Finally Stella realizes that she's a complete liability to Laurel and takes a series of selfless steps to insure that her daughter gets the things she's always wanted.
Stella Martin is trouble. She finds herself a vulnerable gentleman, puts on a sweet act, and maneuvers him into a marriage in record time. She's serious and sincere but incapable of changing her basic nature, which isn't oriented in the direction of gentility. At first the situation just seems unfair - her nurses and husband don't want her dancing so soon after having a baby - but Stella can't help but ruffle feathers. She laughs like a dance hall girl and comes off as completely vulgar in comparison to her husband's reserved, conservative associates.
Stella Dallas really knows how to lay class distinction on thick - it buys into the proposition that affluent people know how to behave and those below simply do not. Stella's dance partner Ed Munn is a fat loudmouth who smokes cigars and leaves hard liquor around the children, and Stella does nothing about it. The story doesn't really explain why Stella isn't willing to follow her husband to New York - it's clear that she isn't Ed Munn's lover - and gives no evidence why she would want to be separated from Stephen. But the separation moves them farther apart, especially when the rigged plot arranges for Stella and Ed to be found in some faux-compromising situation every time husband Stephen comes home.
Stephen becomes re-acquainted with his original sweetheart Helen, who is now a widow with three boys, gentlemen all. In the world view of Stella Dallas, a prosperous upbringing means impeccable manners and gentility, and these adolescents are next to ridiculous, acting as if brainwashed by some etiquette cult.
But Stella's daughter Laurel is a patrician gem herself, sweet and adorable and possessed of better manners than Jackie Kennedy. The film doesn't say so, but we're to assume that its because her father's blue blood is dominant; as soon as she's a teenager Laurel realizes that her mom is a frumpy embarrassment, wearing loud and obnoxious clothing. We're meant to think that he rich kids who ridicule Stella aren't snobby jerks, but merely honest. That type of woman has no place in proper society.
As for Stephen and Helen, they're living together but supposedly remaining chaste; we never hear an angry word toward Stella for blocking a divorce that would let them remarry. Stephen and Helen (and eventually Stella) are so selflessly noble that they almost cease to resemble recognizable human beings.
Stella becomes a good egg once she knows the score, even though everyone wrongly believes her to be a tramp and a horrible mother. Although she's really done nothing wrong, she sacrifices her life with her daughter and her personal future. She grants Stephen his divorce and sees her daughter married to a good boy (played by a young Tim Holt) without the liability of a unpresentable mother putting the curse on her high-toned lifestyle. She accomplishes this by driving Laurel away, pretending she doesn't love her or need her around. This behavior is of course contrary to 99.99999% of human mothers, but what's one more absurdity in a story like this one?
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The famous kicker ending has Stella, dressed in frowsy rags, watch her daughter be married from the street, through a window. She's been invited to the ceremony but doesn't dare show up, as Helen is now Laurel's mother in the society columns. The moment is pure corn and trumped-up flimflammery, but it's worked with female viewers for a century now.
Anne Shirley is the young, pure-as-driven-snow Laurel, and John Boles (Frankenstein) is fairly good as her father; notice in his first scene how dismissively he treats the factory clerk (Olin Howland of The Blob) while glad-handing his boss. Hattie McDaniel and her sister Etta play the maids that give a family the mark of distinction, while Ann Doran and Laraine Day are said to be two of the princesses in the society tennis set. A feeble-looking Marjorie Main plays Stella's mother. Barbara O'Neil, as Stephen's second Mrs. Dallas has a pivotal role - she intuits when Stella is faking being uncaring, and understands Stella's sacrifice for her daughter's sake. However, her only return gesture to her husband's first wife is to have the curtains open so that Stella can watch the wedding with the rest of the riffraff on the street. There are limits, you know.
MGM's DVD of Stella Dallas looks fine. I've seen the end of this one several times and it always looked pretty beat up, but the picture here is clean and sharp right down to the opening card titles that could belong to a silent movie. There are no extras, not even a trailer.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, Stella Dallas rates:
Movie: Excellent
Supplements: none, not even a box of Kleenex
Reviewed: March 26, 2005
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