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5 ITERATIONS OF BATMAN YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T SEEN
1 1. BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD
2 2. BEWARE THE BATMAN
3 3. BATMAN THE TELLTALE SERIES
4 4. BATMAN (1943)
5 5. 75TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHORTS
1. BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD
Way before Will Arnett made his debut as the sardonic Batman we all deserved and also needed, Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show) voiced the Dark Knight in Batman: Brave and the Bold. Named after a comic book series that usually featured two superheroes teaming up together, the show followed suit and teamed up Batman with a bunch of B and C list heroes and villains, such as Elongated Man, Wildcat, and the Red Tornado.
2. BEWARE THE BATMAN
Another ill-fated CGI cartoon series that was canceled after just one season, this iteration follows Batman taking on a B-lister rogues gallery in his formative years. What made this show so great was seeing Gotham from a completely different perspective. In this version of the Bat-verse, Alfred was a gun-toting former MI6 agent with a dark past. And in a strange turn of events, Bruce finds himself a personal bodyguard in Tatsu Yamashiro AKA Katana. This odd trio spends the entire season uncovering the secrets of her soul taker sword as well as Alfred's relationship with Katana's father. The greatest shame was the build-up to the season's secret villain, only to be revealed in the last episode as none other than Ra's Al Ghul. Great voice acting, slick action set pieces and interesting villains, this is a must watch for all Bat-fans.
3. BATMAN THE TELLTALE SERIES
My personal favorite from the lot, this game is easily the unique take on the world of Batman. An ongoing series, Batman: The Telltale Series is a choice and consequence based game where you decide what kind of Batman Bruce Wayne will become. Set in his early years as the Dark Knight, we get to explore both sides of his persona and make the choices that will see him either become an apathetic and brutal vigilante, or an ethical and fair crusader. Both outcomes are equally fascinating, and we get a brand new take on a few things we've taken for granted all this time: Oswald Cobblepot and Bruce were childhood friends?! Were the Wayne's really as good as everyone painted them out to be? The game is released episodically, thus making it feel like you are in control of the best damn Batman television show you've ever seen.
4. BATMAN (1943)
Most people only recall Adam West as the earliest live action incarnation of the caped crusader. However, it was Lewis Gordon who first donned the mantle way back in 1943 for a 15 part serial that made Batman a household name to those who had not read an issue. The series made some elemental choices that have defined the Dark Knight since, such as the Bat Cave's secret entrance through the Grandfather Clock in Wayne Manor.
There aren't any familiar faces in the rogue's gallery in this series, but watch it for the significantly darker storyline than the Adam West iteration, which has Batman face off against Dr.Daka, an evil Japanese scientist bent on causing havoc in a post-Pearl Harbour-America.
5. 75TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHORTS
Bruce Timm is one of the greatest contributors to his lore having given us the Dini-Timm-verse version of the animated series we all knew and loved through the 90's. For the Dark Knight's 75th anniversary, Timm returned to his animated style to release a one-shot tribute to the legend. A black and white gothic noir imagining akin to the early incarnations of Batman, with Hugo Strange as the antagonist, we'd really love to see a whole show set in these times.
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Addressing a public rally in the Manipur capital, Gandhi said the job losses under the Modi government were to the tune of 30,000 per day through 2018.
Gandhi claimed that whenever the prime minister visited Manipur, he "insulted your culture, your history".
IMPHAL: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of destroying 1 crore jobs in 2018 alone despite promising to create 2 crore jobs annually.
"In 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi destroyed 1 crore jobs in the country. This is the scale of his incompetence. It is absurd and ridiculous that the PM promises giving 2 crore jobs," Gandhi alleged.
Slamming the Centre's demonetisation move of 2016, Gandhi said it shattered people's lives.
"One fine morning, he (Modi) got up and decided to carry out demonetisation. Is this a joke? Destroying people's lives," he said.
"His (party) president (Amit Shah) says Citizenship Amendment Bill will be imposed on the people of Manipur and the Northeast. These people are attacking your culture. We did not allow the bill to pass. The Congress will defend your culture and the bill will not be passed," he told a huge gathering here.
Gandhi alleged Modi did not match words with action when he said "don't look east but act east".


A number of fatal Amtrak accidents in recent months is focusing renewed attention on the passenger railroad and its safety record.
A spate of fatal Amtrak accidents in recent months is focusing renewed attention on the passenger railroad and its safety record. The latest deadly incident occurred Sunday in South Carolina.
The crashes appear to stem from different causes, and federal investigators are sifting through each to find out what happened.
What accidents focused attention to Amtrak?
• Feb. 4, 2018: An Amtrak train collided with a CSX freight train parked on a siding in Cayce, S.C., killing the train's engineer and conductor. Investigators said a switch was locked to shunt the Amtrak train onto the siding and toward the parked train. Investigators said work crews were updating automatic-braking technology on the tracks when the accident occurred.
• Jan. 31, 2018: An Amtrak train collided with a garbage truck at a crossing in Crozet, Va., killing the truck driver. The crossing had crossbars and warning lights.
• Dec. 18, 2017: An Amtrak train derailed in DuPont, Wash., going about 80 mph into a curve posted for 30 mph, killing three passengers and injuring dozens.
• April 3, 2016: An Amtrak train going 99 mph near Philadelphia slammed into a backhoe on the track, killing two workmen and injuring 39 people on the train. Federal investigations found a series of safety lapses — including a lapse in communications that failed to notify trains that the track was closed — led to the crash.
• May 12, 2015: A train traveling 106 mph into a 50-mph curve in Philadelphia derailed, killing eight passengers and injuring hundreds. Investigators ruled the engineer lost awareness of where he was on the route.
Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson, who joined the railroad last year after years as an airline executive, vowed after the last two accidents to improve safety at the railroad.
"Amtrak is fully committed and values safety as its highest priority," Anderson said in a statement Sunday. "In a word we've got to bring the same focus and safety culture you have at an airline to the railroad industry of America."
How often does Amtrak have accidents?
The number of fatalities involving Amtrak trains has been rising for the past decade, from 119 in 2008 to 167 last year through November 2017, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.
Only 12 of those deaths involved passengers aboard trains. (The three passengers killed in December aren't included yet in the statistics.) The vast majority of rail deaths involve pedestrians trespassing along the tracks or collisions with vehicles at road crossings, rather than train passengers.
The rate of Amtrak accidents per million train miles traveled grew from 41.1 in 2008 to nearly 58.8 by November 2017, according to FRA.
The number of trespasser deaths climbed from 70 to 103 during that same time period, according to FRA. The number of deaths in highway-rail accidents like the one last month in Crozet, Va., grew from 47 to 60 during that period, according to FRA.
But the rate of train accidents per million miles traveled that weren't at road crossings dropped steadily during the last decade, from nearly 2.4 in 2008 to 1.4 through November 2017, according to FRA.
Earl Weener, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, was asked the day of the Crozet crash whether there were too many road collisions with railroads.
The engineers in recent Amtrak crashes each had several years of experience under their belts.
The 55-year-old engineer in the derailment in DuPont, Wash., was hired by Amtrak as a conductor in 2004 and promoted to locomotive engineer in 2013.
The 47-year-old engineer in the backhoe collision began training as an Amtrak engineer in May 2015 and was promoted to locomotive engineer in June 2015. He earlier worked for more than a decade as an engineer and in other jobs with New Jersey Transit.
The 31-year-old engineer in the Philadelphia derailment was hired by Amtrak as an assistant conductor in 2006 and after attending locomotive school he became a certified engineer in 2010, starting in the New York area in 2013.
What steps are being taken to prevent accidents?
Amtrak adopted technology for automatic braking in 2015 on its Northeast Corridor, which safety experts say could have prevented several of the recent accidents.
Najmedin Meshkati, an engineering professor at the University of Southern California, said installing braking technology called Positive Train Control is complicated because it must communicate across a variety of railroads and tracks and locomotives.
Amtrak trains often run on tracks owned by others, such as the CSX freight railroad in the South Carolina collision or Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority in the Washington derailment.
Automatic braking also won't prevent every accident, such as at road crossings like the collision in Virginia with a garbage truck or the backhoe collision when the braking equipment wasn't operating.
"At the end of the day, it comes to the safety culture of each one of these railways," Meshkati said.
Amtrak passengers don't need to stop riding the railroad because of the rare but consequential accidents, he said. But passengers and Congress and the industry should work harder to reduce safety risks and prevent accidents, he said.
• Northeast Corridor: 11.9 million passengers for $1.2 billion in ticket revenue.
• State-supported routes, the most popular of which are the Capitol Corridor or the Keystone: 14.7 million passengers for $490 million in ticket revenue.
• Long-distance routes, the most popular of which are the Empire Builder or the California Zephyr: 4.7 million passengers for $492 million in ticket revenue.
If compared to airlines, Amtrak said it would be the fifth-largest carrier in the country for domestic passengers behind Southwest, American, Delta, United and JetBlue.
Amtrak is even more popular along the Northeast Corridor from Washington, D.C., to Boston. The railroad carries three times as many passengers as airlines between Washington and New York, and more than the airlines between New York and Boston.
What are the financial arguments against Amtrak?
Amtrak is routinely criticized for subsidies, but it retains strong support in Congress with 500 destinations in 46 states.
President Trump proposed in his budget for the year that began Oct. 1 to reduce Amtrak subsidies for long-distance service $630 million — nearly half the $1.4 billion provided the previous year — by arguing that trains were often late and operate at a loss.
But as Congress continues to debate spending, a key Senate panel agreed to provide $1.6 billion for Amtrak and continue all current routes. The key House panel agreed to provide $1.4 billion.


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Massive congratulation to Hyundai who snapped the award for 'Electric Vehicle Manufacturer of the Year' from GreenFleet annual Awards 2018. Sponsored by Elmtronics.
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The latest Hyundai IONIQ Electric has a larger battery pack without sacrificing boot space and the ecologically sensitive materials in the cabin add to its green credentials. The pure electric variant of the Ioniq has a potential range of 174 miles. Hyundai's other pure EV offering, the Kona SUV, comes in a 39kWh version, which manages up to 194 miles on the WLTP cycle, and a 64kWh version which extends the range to 300 miles.
Hyundai Motor has made a conscious effort to become a leader in electrified technology, so it gives me great pleasure to see the brand recognised by the GreenFleet Awards. Our electric offerings, including Kona and IONIQ, represent extremely good value for money, are packed full of the latest technology and come as standard with the peace-of-mind that's afforded by Hyundai's five-year unlimited mileage and 8 Year or 125,000 mile high voltage battery warranty. These models are just the start of Hyundai's electric story, and I look forward to sharing with you all the exciting innovations we have coming over the next five years and beyond.


Zhang SanFeng was a Taoist monk in the 13th century who lived in the Wudan district. Zhang SanFeng is often quoted as the founder of Taijiquan. There is no historical evidence for this, but it is certain that he introduced 13 Shi (standing positions) as a technique for the conduct of war against the Mongolians.
During a certain period of the 13th century Mongolia occupied the whole of China. Zhang SanFeng lead a Taoist monastery the Wudan mountains, that secretly also functioned as a training centre for soldiers. Under the motto 'soft can beat hard' Zhang SanFeng and his students taught soldiers 13 simple fighting techniques. In this way they were actively involved in the uprising against the Mongolians.
After the victory against the Mongolians the first Ming emperor – out of fear for his position – started a campaign against everybody who had had some power in the resistance movement during the war. Zhang SanFeng and his followers fled to the east and went into hiding it the Siming mountains (now NingBo city).
After the first emperor died Zhang SanFeng and his followers came out of hiding and openly started calling their system 'Taijigong' (gong = exercise). Their techniques were called 'Taiji SaQi': SaQi is the way '37' is pronounced in the NingBo dialect. In the Taijiquan world this way of teaching would later be known as SimingPai, NanPai or the Southern school. The core of this system was the use of 37 standing positions to produce spontaneous movement.


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Hosanger is a village in Osterøy municipality in Vestland county, Norway.  The village is located along the Osterfjorden on the northern shore of the island of Osterøy.  The village is  north of the municipal centre of Lonevåg and about  southwest of Fotlandsvåg.

The village was the administrative center of the old Hosanger municipality which existed from 1838 until 1964.  Hosanger Church is located in the village.

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Villages in Vestland
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Q: R Flexdashboard multiple plots on single tab I'm trying to put multiple dygraph plots on a single tab of a flexdashboard.  I've tried a bunch of different options from here and from here
My RMD file looks like this:
    ---
    title: "Project Dashboard"
    output:
      flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:
        orientation: columns
        vertical_layout: scroll
    ---
        # Intro {.sidebar}

        # Page 1

        ## Column 1 {.tabset .tabset-fade data-width=850}

        ### Site 1

    ```{r  Data, echo=FALSE, fig.height=2}

        s <- dygraph(as.xts(df,order.by=df$DateTime), group = "NC") %>%
          dyOptions(drawPoints = TRUE, pointSize = 1) %>%
          dyAxis("y", label = "Salinity (PSU)", valueRange = c(16, 30)) %>%
          dyRangeSelector(height = 20) %>%
          dyLegend(width = 400)

        t <- dygraph(as.xts(df,order.by=df$DateTime), group = "NC") %>%
          dyOptions(drawPoints = TRUE, pointSize = 1) %>%
          dyAxis("y", label = "Temperature (°C)", valueRange = c(0, 30)) %>%
          dyRangeSelector(height = 20) %>%
          dyLegend(show = "follow", width = 400)

        dy_graph <- list(s,t)
        pt <- htmltools::browsable(htmltools::tagList(dy_graph))
        pt

```

I've tried a variety of other combinations but it either just plots the first plot, puts the two plots on top of each other, or squishes them together into a tiny space.  I even tried using a 4th-level markdown header (####), but that doesn't seem to do anything either.
Any thoughts?

A: Don't miss the section '13.2.3 CSS flexbox' here (valid beyond plotly).
library(htmltools)
p <- plot_ly(x = rnorm(100))
# NOTE: you don't need browsable() in rmarkdown,
# but you do at the R prompt
browsable(div(
  style = "display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center",
  div(p, style = "width: 40%; border: solid;"),
  div(p, style = "width: 40%; border: solid;"),
  div(p, style = "width: 100%; border: solid;")
))

A: Here's how you can put multiple figures in a tabset using splitLayout. I haven't figured out how to stack yet, like 2x2 figures.
---
title: "Project Dashboard"
runtime: shiny
output:
flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:
  orientation: columns
  vertical_layout: scroll
---

Page with Tabset {.tabset .tabset-fade}
-------------------------------------

### Two Plots on one Tab

```{r}
library(shiny)
library(flexdashboard)
library(dygraphs)

temperature <- ts(frequency = 12, start = c(1980, 1),
       data = c(7.0, 6.9, 9.5, 14.5, 18.2, 21.5,
       25.2, 26.5, 23.3, 18.3, 13.9, 9.6))
rainfall <- ts(frequency = 12, start = c(1980, 1),
       data = c(49.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0,
       135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4))

output$p1 <- renderDygraph( dygraph(temperature))
output$p2 <- renderDygraph( dygraph(rainfall))
```

```{r}
splitLayout(cellWidths = c("50%"), dygraphOutput("p1"), dygraphOutput("p2"))
```

### Another Tab

Hello

Producing...

A: Not sure about how to do it within the dygraph package, but if you revert to ggplot you can use grid.arrange from the gridExtra package to place multiple plots within one "page".
See https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/egg/vignettes/Ecosystem.html which contains this example:
require(ggplot)
require(gridExtra)
p1 <- qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars, colour = cyl)
p2 <- qplot(mpg, data = mtcars) + ggtitle("title")
grid.arrange(p1, p2, nrow = 1)

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England wicketkeeper batsman blasts 101 off 67 balls to set up 26-run win at T20 World Cup
England's Jos Buttler scored a blistering century against Sri Lanka at the T20 World Cup in Sharjah on Monday, November 1, 2021. AP
Paul Radley
It's Jos Buttler's T20 World Cup, and everyone else is just playing in it.
After his latest masterclass, Ben Stokes was sitting at home and terming him the "best in the world". His employers have long since taken to terming him "Universe Jos".
Two days after savaging Australia's bowlers in Dubai, Buttler became the first male player from England to score a century in all three international formats, with a sparkling knock against Si Lanka in Sharjah.
Virat Kohli running out of options with India down and almost out of T20 World Cup
His 101 not out from 67 balls helped England push their 100 per cent record in this competition to four matches. In that time, Buttler has scored 214 runs for once out.
This 26-run win was England's toughest test to date, but still they march on. Mathematically they can still be beaten to a place in the semi-final. Given their handsome net run-rate, it is realistically impossible they will be.
The conditions for batters in Sharjah must be difficult at the moment, because even Buttler briefly looked human.
In the first half of England's innings, the Sri Lanka bowlers had the better of the exchanges. Ten overs in, they were 47-3, with Jason Roy, Dawid Malan, and Jonny Bairstow all going cheaply.
The low bounce of the Sharjah wicket was playing tricks on everyone. Buttler himself looked increasingly frustrated as ball after ball thudded into the toe of his bat.
It was a far cry from the free-for-all of his unbeaten, 32-ball 71 against Australia on Saturday night. Off the first 30 balls he faced against Sri Lanka, he made a mere 24 runs.
Best in the world @josbuttler 👏 👏
— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) November 1, 2021
It is a marker of his genius that, even in trying circumstances, he found a way to accelerate.
Off the next 37 balls he faced, he struck 77, bringing up three figures off the last ball of the innings when he deposited a high full-toss from Dushmantha Chameera over the backward square leg boundary.
Only Heather Knight, their women's captain, has previously completed the set of Test, one-day international and T20 international centuries for England.
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A target of 164 was by no means impossible. But given the manner in which Buttler seized the momentum for England, it felt far-fetched to think Sri Lanka could do it.
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Fittingly, it was left to Buttler to provide the exclamation mark, as he ran out Shanaka with a direct hit in the next over. Sri Lanka were bowled out for 137 as Moeen took two wickets in the penultimate over.
Updated: November 2nd 2021, 10:01 AM
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How to watch: In theaters; trailer
Why to watch: Casting the most beloved actor alive to play the world's grumpiest man is a wise move. Only Tom Hanks can make anyone seem lovable. The two-time Academy Award winner plays the titular Otto, a down-in-the-dumps widower whose life finds new meaning when a young family moves in next door. If the title sounds vaguely familiar, it's because it's adapted from the Swedish book A Man Called Ove by Frederik Bachman, which itself was already adapted into a Swedish film. The American remake already hit limited theaters in NY and Los Angeles and Universal moved up its nationwide release one week early to January 6.
Pale Blue Eye
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Release date: Jan. 13, 2023
How to watch: Prime Video; trailer
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How to watch: Paramount+; trailer
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X v Sheriff Jack Brown, SCTS and the Lord Advocate
A Court of Session judge has quashed a tribunal decision in relation to the conduct of a sheriff towards a court lawyer.
The lawyer, identified as X to protect her anonymity, asked the Court of Session to review the decision of a 'fitness for office' tribunal investigating the Sheriff's conduct.
When the Lord President, Scotland's most senior judge, was made aware of a complaint, he had requested that the First Minster constitute a fitness for office tribunal under the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act.
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Read the judgment.


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After Falsely Blasting Twitter for 'Discriminatory' Anti-Conservative Policies Trump Meets With Company's CEO
April 23, 2019 at 04:49 PM ET
President Donald Trump kicked off Tuesday with an unusually early tweetstorm, blasting and berating a wide variety of targets, including MSNBC's "Angry Dumb and Sick" "Morning Psycho," known to everyone else in America as "Morning Joe" Scarborough. He also set his sights on "The Radical Left Democrats, together with their leaders in the Fake News Media," and "the Enemy of the People!" better known as The New York Times.
There were also two somewhat irregular tweets, somewhat threatening in nature, and totally false, about Twitter itself:
"The best thing ever to happen to Twitter is Donald Trump." @MariaBartiromo So true, but they don't treat me well as a Republican. Very discriminatory, hard for people to sign on. Constantly taking people off list. Big complaints from many people. Different names-over 100 M…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2019
…..But should be much higher than that if Twitter wasn't playing their political games. No wonder Congress wants to get involved – and they should. Must be more, and fairer, companies to get out the WORD!
Trump was complaining about the entirely false conspiracy theory that conservatives have been spinning for over two years now: that social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter are silencing conservatives, are "shadow-banning" them, and taking other measures against conservatives. In reality, social media platforms have simply changed their focus and no longer are working to promote news outlets in general – regardless of point of view.
But now we learn that President Trump today met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Presumably the meeting, which does not appear on the President's Daily Schedule, was pre-arranged, as Twitter HQ is in San Francisco.
"Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, along with other Twitter executives, is having a closed-door meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, according to an internal Twitter email obtained by Motherboard from two independent sources. The meeting comes after an invitation from the White House, the email adds," according to Vice News' Motherboard website.
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President Trump just tweeted about the meeting:
Great meeting this afternoon at the @WhiteHouse with @Jack from @Twitter. Lots of subjects discussed regarding their platform, and the world of social media in general. Look forward to keeping an open dialogue! pic.twitter.com/QnZi579eFb
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Zhe Lin, Wenxuan Guo
Plant & Soil Science
Machine learning and computer vision technologies based on high-resolution imagery acquired using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) provide a potential for accurate and efficient high-throughput plant phenotyping. In this study, we developed a sorghum panicle detection and counting pipeline using UAS images based on an integration of image segmentation and a convolutional neural networks (CNN) model. A UAS with an RGB camera was used to acquire images (2.7 mm resolution) at 10-m height in a research field with 120 small plots. A set of 1,000 images were randomly selected, and a mask was developed for each by manually delineating sorghum panicles. These images and their corresponding masks were randomly divided into 10 training datasets, each with a different number of images and masks, ranging from 100 to 1,000 with an interval of 100. A U-Net CNN model was built using these training datasets. The sorghum panicles were detected and counted by a predicted mask through the algorithm. The algorithm was implemented using Python with the Tensorflow library for the deep learning procedure and the OpenCV library for the process of sorghum panicle counting. Results showed the accuracy had a general increasing trend with the number of training images. The algorithm performed the best with 1,000 training images, with an accuracy of 95.5% and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 2.5. The results indicate that the integration of image segmentation and the U-Net CNN model is an accurate and robust method for sorghum panicle counting and offers an opportunity for enhanced sorghum breeding efficiency and accurate yield estimation.
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Past Event: Wednesday, November 16, 1988
Note: Seattle Arts & Lectures does not possess an electronic version of the bio done for John Updike's first appearance with SAL, November 16, 1988. What follows is the material created for his November 12, 2008 engagement and thereafter.
Sex, art and religion, Updike famously declared in an autobiographical essay, remain the three secrets of the human experience. With bold language and imagination he has explored them all in his writing, which includes more than sixty books of poetry, criticism, essay, and prose. He is known in his essays and criticism for his sharp eye and unflinching opinion; for unambiguous lines; and for reviews that actually review, not just summarize. In his fiction he has been bold, exposing the inner workings of middle class life in a way that cracked the careful veneer of a certain kind of America.
The Los Angeles Times called Updike "an…imposing stance on the literary landscape," as he's earned "virtually every American literary award, repeated bestsellerdom and the near-royal status of the American author-celebrity." His accolades include the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Arts Club Medal of Honor, the National Medal for the Humanities, and two Pulitzer Prizes: in 1982 for Rabbit is Rich and in 1990 for Rabbit at Rest.
Perhaps his most famous works, the four Rabbit novels star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a twenty-six year old former high school basketball star in the shadow of his glory days. Updike was twenty-seven when he began writing Rabbit Run with a soft pencil. At the time, he says in the introduction to the four-volume set, published in 1995, that he had "no thought of a sequel." He wrote furiously in the present tense for nine months, typed the draft and sent it off to Knopf and, after a few weeks, heard it had been well received. Every ten years for the next three decades, he produced another novel in the series.
"The religious faith that a useful truth will be imprinted by a perfect artistic submission underlies these Rabbit novels," he later wrote. Indeed, with these books and the work between and after, Updike has pushed against and into America's Puritan sensibilities, his own Lutheran upbringing, and the current events of his time. With each addition to the series, Rabbit, Updike, and America grew up together.
Born in 1932 in Reading and raised in Shillington, Pennsylvania, Updike was the only child of middle class parents—his father a high school teacher, his mother a writer. He earned his B.A. in English from Harvard University in 1954, the same year he met and married his first wife, Mary E. Pennington, and sold a poem and a short story to The New Yorker. The following year, the Updikes traveled to England where he studied at Oxford and met Katherine and E.B. White. The Whites encouraged Updike to take a job at The New Yorker upon his return to the States, which he did, beginning his career-long relationship with the magazine. Two years later, he moved with his wife and newborn son to Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he sat down to write Rabbit Run. After another two children, Updike divorced in 1974, moved to Boston, and took a position at Boston University. He married Martha Ruggles Bernhard three years later and settled with her and her three children in Massachusetts, where the couple still resides.
From Updike's obituary in The New Yorker, 2009
In John Updike's long and prolific life as a writer, he gifted and challenged readers with broadly ranging ideas about existential angst; the role of paradox in our lives; electromagnetic fields and quantum theory; domestic fierceness; the sexual proclivities, experimentations, and frustrations of young and old, female and male; witchcraft; social existence as sacrifice; the human soul, longing for goodness but driven by confused passions; what he terms "our heart's stubborn amoral quest for something once called grace;" and the staggering beauty of nature and of art.
In 1987, Updike said "…a mark of a great writer, as Walt Whitman observed, is that a nation absorbs him, or her, in its self-knowledge and self-image. The confident writer assumes that his own sensibility is a sufficient index of general conditions, and that the question 'Who am I?,' earnestly enough explored, inevitably illuminates the question 'Who are we?'"
Updike certainly focused his writing on who we Americans are. "The whole mass of middling, hidden, troubled America" as Updike termed it, is a focus of the four Rabbit novels, from the essential nature of the characters and the landscape they inhabit, to the formal structure of the writing: "The present tense was a happy discovery for me," Updike remarked. "In the present tense, thought and act exist on one shimmering plane; the writer and reader move in a purged space, on the travelling edge of the future, without vantage for reflection or regret or a seeking of proportion."
As he presented the American character and its shifts and struggles over the years, he also was dedicated to showing ordinary life, its daily rhythms, rituals, and objects, as being worth writing about, "to giving the mundane its beautiful due." "The world," he said, "wants describing, the world wants to be observed and hymned and there's a kind of hymning undercurrent that I feel in my work. With writing, or generally with art, we show the world our admiration and express our thanks that we are here. …it's my intention to describe the world as the Psalmists did."
In his lyrical particularity, his fascination with the mundane so lovingly and exquisitely described by Updike, the shimmering presence of faith is present. Indeed, "Fiction," he said, "is rooted in an act of faith: a presumption of an inherent significance in human activity, that makes daily life worth dramatizing and particularizing. There is even a shadowy cosmic presumption that the universe—the totality of what is, which includes our subjective impressions as well as objective data—composes a narrative and contains a poem, which our own stories and poems echo." For Updike, fiction was meant "to give us the human soul with its shadows, its Rembrandtesque blacks and whites, its chiaroscuro; this sense of ourselves, as creatures caught in the light, whose decisions and recognitions have a majestic significance."
The visually rich language used to depict people, places, and things throughout John Updike's stories, novels, and poems, extended seamlessly to his writing about visual art. As a boy, Updike loved comics and his main passion was drawing, a love that prompted him, after he graduated from Harvard, to attend the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts at Oxford. In the 1950s, artists found their way into Updike's poetry, such as Ad Reinhardt, Frank, Stella, and Clyfford Still in: Gradations of Black: Third Floor, Whitney Museum. He wrote numerous critical essays on American artists such as John Singleton Copley, Saul Bellow, Richard Serra, and Edward Hopper, and on European artists including Gustav Klimt, Max Beckmann, and Jan Vermeer.
From "Museums and Women," The New Yorker, November 18, 1967
She was the friend of a friend, and she and I, having had lunch with the mutual friend, bade him goodbye and, both being loose in New York for the afternoon, went to a museum together. It was a new one, recently completed after the plan of a recently dead American wizard. It was shaped like a truncated top and its floor was a continuous spiral around an overweening core of empty vertical space. From the leaning, shining walls immense rectangles of torn and spattered canvas projected on thin arms of bent pipe. Menacing magnifications of textural accidents, they needed to be viewed at a distance greater than the architecture afforded. The floor width was limited by a rather slender and low concrete guard wall that more invited than discouraged a plunge into the cathedral depths below. Too reverent to scoff and too dizzy to judge, my unexpected companion and I dutifully unwound our way down the exitless ramp, locked in a wizard's spell. Suddenly, as she lurched backward from one especially explosive painting, her high heels were tricked by the slope, and she fell against me and squeezed my arm. Ferocious gumbos splashed on one side of us; the siren chasm called on the other. She righted herself but did not let go of my arm. Pointing my eyes ahead, inhaling the presence of perfume, feeling like a cliff climber whose companion has panicked on the sheerest part of the face, I accommodated my arm to her grip and, thus secured, we carefully descended the remainder of the museum. Not until our feet touched the safety of street level were we released. Our bodies separated and did not touch again.
Excerpt from The Widows of Eastwick (2008)
"How quickly, Alexandra thought, they had slipped back into being a trio, a trinity coming together to form a cone of power. It was not that she liked the other two women better than her leathery, bohemian, long-haired, jeans-clad female friends in Taos—comparatively, Sukie and Jane had narrow, Northeastern horizons—but in their company she felt more powerful, more deeply appreciated, more positively enjoyed. They had known her at the height of her desirability, in a society that, isolated from urban narcissism and yet partaking of the sex-centered excitement of the times, had valued desirability above all else. Compared with Sukie she had not been promiscuous—rather, lazily loyal to her hopeless husband and her long-term lover, the would-be husbandly Joe Marino. Compared with Jane she had been motherly and conventionally observant of traditional decencies. Yet she somehow reigned over the others, as a broader conduit into the subterranean flow of Nature, that dark countercurrent to patriarchal tyranny which witchcraft drew upon. It was chemistry: without her as catalyst, the dangerous, empowering reaction did not occur."
Selected Work:
The Widows of Eastwick (forthcoming, fall 2008)
Toward the End of Time (1997)
The Afterlife and Other Stories (1994)
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Bech Is Back (1983)
Problems and Other Stories (1981)
Rabbit is Rich (1981)
Marry Me (1976)
Rabbit Redux (1971)
Bech: A Book (1970)
Couples (1968)
Rabbit, Run (1960)
Americana and Other Poems (2001)
Collected Poems 1953-1993 (1993)
Facing Nature (1985)
Tossing and Turning (1977)
Seventy Poems (1972)
Midpoint and Other Poems (1969)
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958)
Academy of American Achievement biography
Salon interview
New York Times reviews of and by John Updike
Work for The New York Review of Books
John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Middle-Class Man, Dies at 76
A Relentless Updike Mapped America's Mysteries


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Why aren't spectators at the Olympics this year?
Updated: Jul. 23, 2021, 3:06 p.m. | Published: Jul. 23, 2021, 5:30 a.m.
The Tokyo Olympics will go on, but there will not be any fans in the stands to view the athletes as they compete for their medals due to the coronavirus state of emergency declared in the city. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP
By Katherine Rodriguez | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The Tokyo Olympics will go on, but there will not be any spectators or fans in the stands to watch the athletes as they compete for their medals this year.
This is due to the coronavirus state of emergency declared in Tokyo, which took effect July 12 and goes until Aug. 22. The Olympic games start July 23 and end Aug. 8.
"The priority will be to determine safe and secure Games," Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto said at a news conference following a decision by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the government of Japan, the International Olympic Committee, and International Paralympic Committee.
"We wanted a full stadium so community people could get involved in welcoming the athletes so we could have a full presentation of the power of sports," she added. "However, now faced with COVID-19 we have no other choice but to hold the Games in a limited way."
There is still a chance local fans who are not foreigners can witness the games in events held outside Tokyo in areas where a state of emergency is not declared.
Although a state of emergency sounds alarming, it does not mean that the city of Tokyo is under lockdown.
Bars and restaurants will remain open, but will be barred from selling alcohol. Schools and businesses will also remain open under the lockdown.
Japan has had 810,000 cases of the coronavirus as a country, with 14,900 of them being fatal. Currently, only 15% of Japan's population is fully vaccinated, according to the Associated Press.
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Good morning from Southern Utah on the Colorado Plateau!
An amazing panel of petroglyphs covering a large boulder that is split in two. I definitely will need to return and photograph this location in better light someday.
Here's a closer look at some of the Glen Canyon Linear Style petroglyphs found on these boulders.
A very nice petroglyph of a spiral and a zig-zag line.
Beautiful streaks on the wall of a very large alcove.
Amazing red Basketmaker pictographs. The figure on the left appears to be holding a dripping bag (perhaps a scalp?) with two atlatls piercing it. Very interesting!
A couple of storage cists located at the back of a large alcove.
Here's an interesting and remote kiva that I visited with Alan. This kiva is built into the soft mudstone layer found at the back of a large alcove.
The remaining roof and entrance to the kiva.
When you take a look inside the kiva, you can see that after they dug out the space in the mudstone, they lined the walls with stones and mortar, except for the sandstone at the back of the alcove that makes up the rear wall of the structure. I like that the upright posts are still in place.
Here's a closer look at the masonry and the posts inside.
It's hard to tell from this photo, but this is a pretty large pictograph panel consisting of some pretty faded white anthropomorphs.
The remains of a collapsed kiva roof.
A couple of unusual granaries located at the back of a very deep alcove.
A closer look at the granaries, constructed of wood, slabs of sandstone and mortar.
This alcove contained a lot of corn cobs, plus the most corn husks I've ever seen.
Green, red and yellow handprints. I found these colorful handprints on part of a boulder that appears to have fallen from above.
A beautiful morning for a hike through a canyon.
A pretty nice arch I found while searching for ruins.
A couple of petroglyphs located high on a canyon wall. I'm not really quite sure what animal they are supposed to represent? If you have any thoughts, feel free to post them below in the comments!
I love seeing the corn cob remains and the cists. Great pics of the kiva, etc.
Would that be Alan V.? I have never met him, but he and I do have a mutual friend (Dana) who we have hiked in Cedar Mesa with.
Thank you for your amazing photographs. I am headed to Bear's Ears in a couple of weeks and am going through various websites that have photos of the area. Were some of photos taken in areas where you were just wandering?
Some places I found while just wandering, some I followed my friend Alan to.
Great job not sharing locations. I know and love many of them. The last happens to be a favorite and caught me by surprise. I have often wondered about the 4 legs; special place for me that I have been a lot despite that sand. I have been to that exposed Kiva too, great area and very deep. Great lesson in visiting but not sharing details.


Much has been made of Lil Yachty and Quavo's putting a Joe Budden lookalike in their new video for "Ice Tray," but if you let Lil Boat tell it, it's really no big deal. Speaking with the folks at TMZ, the rapper says everything's in good fun.
"Honestly, we not even worried about Joe," Yachty says in the video. "We honestly—it's almost like we poking fun at it. We just bored."
If you didn't know, both Migos and Yachty have had some pretty unpleasant interactions with Budden during interviews on Complex's Everyday Struggle this year. For his part, Yachty was the unwitting recipient of one of Budden's music industry lectures, which many people felt was conspiculously over-aggressive and condescending. Yachty's pops also came at Budden this past spring, calling him a hater.
Later on in the year, when Everyday Struggle hit the BET Awards, Budden stormed off the set of his interview with Migos after a bumpier segment of their interview. Quavo, Offset and Takeoff famously rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight Budden.
Still, Yachty insists that the video for "Ice Tray," a track from the recently released Quality Control compilation project, is way more about having fun than any beef. "We're not mad at him. Just having fun, you know what I'm saying." Yachty goes onto say that the lyrics aimed at Budden is just he and Quavo "being real" about how they feel about the situation.
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Bounty Battle Review
By Brandon Curran | Updated Sep 15, 2020
Fighting games can be quite complicated. If you've ever seen gameplay at the professional level, this may come across as a laughable understatement. But take, for example, something like the juggling system in Mortal Kombat games or the Injustice series. There are so many nuances and considerations in designing this one aspect of the combat.
The juggled character needs to fall progressively faster, and each hit needs to gradually deal less damage. Moreover, there needs to be clear, effective countermeasures, otherwise the whole experience for those on the receiving end will sour and turn into a frustrating nightmare (and even with all of that, people can still get annoyed). What happens when those considerations aren't taken into account? What happens when that sort of effort and detail-oriented design is absent from the fighting game framework? Sadly, you get something like Bounty Battle.
What is Bounty Battle? It's a 2D fighting game featuring characters licensed from various indie games, from Darkest Dungeon to Guacamelee!, in which the player can utilize each character's special abilities and summon minions to aid in the fight.
Reviewed On: PC
Developer: Dark Screen Games
Publisher: Merge Games
Website: www.darkscreengames.com
Juggling Priorities
Bounty Battle's first and greatest strength (a notion the developers seem to agree with) is its trailer. It's colorful and energetic and set to good music, and it sweeps through the roster of characters nicely. The game itself, however, fails to live up to the kinetic feel of the trailer. Its gameplay is a janky, unsatisfying mess peppered with numerous underdeveloped ideas.
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What's more, the visuals of the game itself never match the quality the trailer achieves, something that becomes painfully obvious when you complete a tournament with a character. You are presented with a still image of your character, and allowed to play the trailer again. The trailer plays if you hold on the menu screen for too long. One stage features an arcade cabinet whose screen is playing storyboards from the damn trailer. The result is the nagging sensation that all of the team's effort and resources were devoted to licensing characters from other indie games and making the game's trailer instead of constructing a balanced, fun combat system.
Let's examine the game's failures in microcosm. How does this system approach spamming? It's a crutch in fighting games for people who are still learning the mechanics, one that loses its effectiveness once an opponent devises a countermeasure. Still, it can arouse plenty of annoyance among fighting game players, so how do you mitigate that as a designer? Bounty Battle's answer to this question is deeply misguided.
If you are repeating the same move too often in certain game modes, the game will stun you temporarily, giving your opponent a window to attack. There are two major problems with this. One, the stun does not distinguish between players who are winning or losing, meaning a new player trying to escape a stunlock could inadvertently exacerbate it. It doesn't make sense to punish people who are already losing. The other major problem is that spamming is easily the most consistently reliable strategy for winning, especially against new players.
The stun doesn't punish every repeated move, so you can easily corner an opponent and juggle them endlessly with an uppercut equivalent. The "solution" to the spamming problem is flawed in both conception and execution, failing to address the deeper problems with Bounty Battle's combat. Some of the most prominent issues? There's not nearly enough clear interplay between the two opponents, and not enough moves and countermoves to make most matches compelling.
What About Early Access?
It would be bad enough for Bounty Battle to have core mechanical problems that need fixing, but everything about it feels unfinished. My progress in tournaments (which you must play through in order), and by extension, the skins I earned, were routinely erased. Why? Because the game crashed several times throughout my playthrough.
Bugs aren't the only symptoms of a rushed, unfinished game. The minion system (which serves as one of the game's major idiosyncrasies) and the titular bounty system both feel half-baked and underwhelming. The characters themselves never feel truly special and distinct from one another, and on the whole, they are unsatisfying to play. From top to bottom, Bounty Battle needed more time and care working out the kinks in the code and core gameplay concepts. Compared to games at similar price points (and even free-to-play fighters), it's hard to list any reason to check out Bounty Battle.
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Zoom Out: Verdict
Audiovisuals - 6/10
Roster and Character Design - 5/10
Combat and Core Gameplay - 3/10
Challenge and Tournament Modes - 2/10
Summary: Bounty Battle wants to be the Super Smash Bros. of the indie world, but couldn't seem to inspire the effort necessary to make that a reality. Underdeveloped gameplay concepts and a woefully messy execution combine to make a game that is profoundly frustrating and unsatisfying to play.
Fun trailer
Occasional tense matches
I like the Crusader and Juan
Bugs galore
Awkward, messy execution
Ill-conceived gameplay mechanics
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Brandon Curran
Brandon Curran was born in a Godforsaken desert before being spirited away to the arboreal paradise of Portland, Oregon. He likes grey skies, green trees, and a steady mist of rain. When he's not writing articles about games, he's working on that book he's totally gonna finish.