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24) Three Stories (House)
Dr. Gregory House (Hugh "Seriously, I have range guys" Laurie) is basically Sherlock Holmes with a medical degree, a Vicodin addiction, and a limp. Never forget that Holmes was a cocaine and morphine addict, kids.
Recovering.
Really, making a Holmes medical drama is extra fitting, because the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes was Joseph Bell, a Scottish Surgeon famous for his demonstrations of deductive reasoning. It somehow brings everything full-circle. In addition to being extremely intelligent and observant, House is a Vicodin addict, has a pronounced limp, and is an almost entirely insufferable human being. But, his worth as a diagnostician usually outweighs the difficulty of working with him.
This episode is the closest thing I have to an example of a pataphysical structure. It's not really one, because it doesn't quite go far enough, but it's close. In this episode, we see someone tell a supposedly true story, or three, as it were, that he is seen interacting with, changing things within, and reconfiguring as he goes. It's not entirely unique in this, but the way it's presented and what truth is revealed through the stories definitely reframes the episode in a very different way than most television shows would even try. And this is from a show that, aside from a handful of episodes, is known for being formulaic.
Not quite this formulaic, but you get the idea.
In a typical episode of House, a patient comes in to the Princeton-Plainsboro teaching hospital with a disease that nobody knows, House and his team, Drs. Foreman (Omar Epps), Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), and Chase (Jesse Spencer), misdiagnose the patient six or seven times before finally figuring out what's wrong with them. During this process, House makes snarky and mean comments, says dirty/mean things to his boss Dr. Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), and hangs with/screws up life for his only real friend Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard). This episode manages to avoid most of that. (Update: Wrote this before adding the image above, but it supports my summary)
House agrees to lecture about diagnostics at the med school in exchange for fewer clinic hours. As part of the lecture, he decides to propose three hypothetical situations based on one single common symptom: Leg pain. The first is a farmer who was bitten by a rattlesnake. The second is a female volleyball player who appears to be having tendinitis. The third is Carmen Electra who has severe leg pain while mini-golfing. Which, according to House, in his combo flashback/story/lesson/fantasy, she was doing while wearing a traditional golfing outfit with short-shorts.
As I said before, the structure of these stories is really interesting. The med students make suggestions, and House's hypotheticals play out based on them, while also interacting with them himself. It gives the stories a very different feel to have them be both metaphysical and yet physical at the same time to the characters. It creates a weird twist on reality within the show, which builds up to the climax.
As the farmer's story plays out, the farmer has a reaction to anti-venom, and it's revealed that he lied about the snake, because his dog bit him. The dog had a prior bite report, so the dog would have to be put down if the farmer told the truth. House uses this to continue his frequent theme of "everybody lies." Ultimately, the farmer loses his leg to an infection and his dog to euthanasia, but the farmer gets a prosthetic and a new dog. To balance it out, the volleyball player ends up having osteosarcoma, but beats it and keeps her leg.
The third story progresses a little differently. First, Carmen Electra turns out to be a male golfer, who complains of pain until given Demerol, which he grabs out of the nurse's hand and injects himself. The students, naturally, assume that he's a drug addict looking for a fix. However, the patient then starts to undergo organ failure, and the med students can't figure out why, angering House. His team, as well as Wilson and Cuddy, arrive at the lecture, and determine that the patient was suffering from an aneurysm that led to an infarction, before further realizing that this is the story of how House got his limp.
House, in the past, refuses to have his leg amputated, instead opting for a procedure to try and restore function. However, he suffers a heart attack and dies, briefly, seeing the other two stories he's told during the lecture as visions. Wilson, in the present, asks if he believes the visions were real.
House responds that he finds it comforting to think they were just images his mind conjured as he died, because then all of life isn't just a test. In the past, House is put into a coma, and his then-girlfriend Stacy will, on the advice of his future-boss Cuddy, subject House to a different surgical procedure than he requested, which results in the chronic leg pain he suffers now, the source of his drug addiction.
It's not just because a cane looks classy.
Aside from the format, this episode also receives marks for having a main character reveal his secrets, albeit indirectly, before an audience of strangers. This episode is basically House's origin story, but, more than that, it's his confession and his justification for who he is. He's an atheist, and for a very specific reason. He's an addict, but he actually is constantly in pain. He's an asshole to his boss, because he blames her for his situation, and might be right to do so. And, despite thinking that they were just meaningless images, House still used the two other stories as a way to cope with his own fate, and to enable himself to be honest about his past. It ends up being a complex, layered narrative, but Hugh Laurie manages to sell it, and the structure ends up drawing you further in than most stories could.
Also, the title is a pun on three-storied house, so that's fun.
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"Showstopper", sometimes stylized as "ShowStopper", is a Contemporary Christian song by TobyMac and the second single from his album Tonight.

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Toby says that the song is about who and when is going to stop the show. The song has already been noticed as a crowd-pleasing hit.

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PARALLEL BIBLE - Psalms 110:7
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King James Bible - Psalms 110:7
He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
Douay-Rheims - Psalms 110:7
He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Webster's Bible Translation
He will drink of the brook in the way: therefore will he lift up the head.
Original Hebrew
מנחל 5158 בדרך 1870 ישׁתה 8354 על 5921 �כן 3651 �ירים 7311 ראשׁ׃ 7218
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VERSE (7) - :102:9 Jud 7:5,6 Job 21:20 Isa 53:12 Jer 23:15 Mt 20:22; 26:42
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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:7
Verse 7. He shall drink of the brook in the way ] He shall have sore travail, and but little ease and refreshment: but he shall still go on from conquering to conquer.
Therefore shall he lift up the head. ] Or his head. He shall succeed in all his enterprises, and at last be peaceably settled in his ample dominions.
But these verses, as well as the former, may be applied to our Lord. The fifth verse may be an address to Jehovah: Adonai at thy right hand, O Jehovah, shall smite kings-bring down all powers hostile to his empire, in the day of his wrath-when, after having borne long, he arises and shakes terribly the rulers of the earth.
Ver. 6. He shall judge, give laws, among the heathen-send his Gospel to the whole Gentile world. He shall fill the field of battle with the dead bodies of the slain, who had resisted his empire, and would not have him to reign over them.
He shall wound the heads over many countries. ] This must be spoken against some person possessing a very extensive sway. Perhaps Antichrist is meant; he who has so many countries under his spiritual domination.
Christ shall destroy every person, and every thing, which opposes the universal spread of his own empire. He will be a King, as well as a Priest for ever.
Ver. 7. He shall drink of the brook-he shall suffer sorely, and even die in the struggle: but in that death his enemies shall all perish; and he shall lift up the head-he shall rise again from the dead, possessing all power in heaven and earth, ascend to the throne of glory, and reign till time shall be no more. He must suffer and die, in order to have the triumphs already mentioned.
While all have acknowledged that this Psalms is of the utmost importance, and that it speaks of Christ's priesthood and victories, it is amazing how various the interpretations are which are given of different passages. I have endeavoured to give the general sense in the preceding notes, and to explain all the particular expressions that have been thought most difficult: and by giving the various readings from the MSS., have left it to the learned reader to make farther improvements.
It has, however, long appeared to me that there is a key by which all the difficulties in the Psalm may be unlocked. As this has not been suggested by any other, as far as I know, I shall without apology lay it before the reader: - The hundred and tenth Psalms is a WAR SONG, and every phrase and term in it is MILITARY.
1. In the first place may be considered here the proclamation of the Divine purpose relative to the sacerdotal, prophetic, and regal offices of the LORD JESUS CHRIST: "Jehovah said unto my Lord, SIT THOU ON MY RIGHT HAND." 2. A grievous battle, and consequent victory over the enemy, foretold: I WILL MAKE THINE ENEMIES THE FOOTSTOOL TO THY FEET, ver. 1.
3. The ensign displayed: "THE LORD SHALL SEND FORTH THE ROD OF THY STRENGTH; the pole on which the banner shall be displayed, at the head of his strength-his numerous and powerful forces.
4. The inscription, device, or motto on this ensign: "RULE THOU IN THE MIDST OF THINE ENEMIES," ver. 2.
5. The muster of the troops. A host of bold spirited volunteers; not mercenaries, neither kidnapped nor impressed; but twbdn �[ am nedaboth, a volunteer people; high-born, loyal subjects; veteran soldiers; every man bringing gifts to his General and King.
6. The regimentals or uniform in which they shall appear: "THE BEAUTIES OF HOLINESS; �dq yrdh hadrey kodesh, the splendid garments of holiness. The apparel showing the richness of the King, and the worth and order of the soldiers; every man being determined to do his duty, and feeling assured of conquest. The Lacedaemonian soldiers were clothed in scarlet; and never went to battle without crowns and garlands upon their heads, being always sure of victory.
Potter's Ant., vol. ii., p. 55.
7. The number of the troops: THEY SHALL BE AS THE DROPS OF DEW AT BREAK OF DAY: - innumerable; and this shall be in consequence �tdly yalduthecha, of thy nativity-the manifestation of Jesus. THOU shalt be born unto men; THEY shall be born of thy Spirit, ver. 3.
8. The title of the commander: "THOU ART A PRIEST," hk cohen, a Priest and a Prince. So was Agamemnon in Homer, and AEneas in Virgil. Both were princes; both were priests and both were heroes.
9. The perpetuity of this office: "FOR EVER;" �lw[l Ieolam, for futurity-for all time-till the earth and the heavens are no more.
10. The resolution of setting up such a Priest and lying, and levying such an army: ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK. The Commander, muster, and establishment of the corps shall be according to the plan of that ancient king and priest; or, translating the words literally, qdx yklm ytrbd l[ al dabarti malki tsedek, all shall be executed as I have spoken to my righteous king; I have sworn, and will not change my purpose. All my purposes shall be fulfilled. This speaking may refer to the purpose, ver. 1, confirmed by an oath, ver. 4.
11. Victory gained: ADONAI AT THY RIGHT HAND HATH TRANSFIXED ( �jm machats) KINGS IN THE DAY OF HIS WRATH, i.e., of battle and victory. Jesus, the Almighty King and Conqueror, fights and gains his battles, while sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on high, ver. 5.
12. Judgment instituted and executed: "HE SHALL JUDGE AMONG THE HEATHEN," �ygb baggoyim, among the nations. He shall bring forth, judge, and condemn his enemies; and he shall fill pits with the bodies of executed criminals, ver. 6.
13. False religion, supporting itself by the secular arm under the name of true religion, shall be destroyed. hbr �ra l[ �ar �jm machats rosh al erets rabbah; "He smites the head that is over an extensive land" or country. The priesthood that is not according to the order of Melchizedek shall be destroyed; and all government that is not according to him who is the eternal King and Priest, shall be brought down and annihilated. Who is this great HEAD? this usurping power? this antichristian authority? Let the Italian archbishop answer, ver. 6.
14. Refreshment and rest, the fruits of the victories which have been gained: "HE SHALL DRINK OF THE BROOK IN THE WAY; THEREFORE, SHALL HE LLFT UP THE HEAD." He and his victorious army, having defeated and pursued his enemies, and being spent with fatigue and thirst, are refreshed by drinking from a rivulet providentially met with in the way. But the rout being now complete and final, 15. The emperor is proclaimed and triumphs: God lifts up the HEAD, - �ar rosh, the CHIEF, the CAPTAIN; as the word often means. Jesus, the Captain of our salvation, has a complete triumph; eternal peace and tranquillity are established. The Messiah is all in all-the last enemy, Death, is destroyed. Jesus, having overcome, has sat down with the Father upon his throne; and his soldiers, having also overcome through the blood of the Lamb, seated with him on the same throne, are for ever with the Lord.
They see him as he is; and eternally contemplate and enjoy his glory: - "Far from a world of grief and sin, With God eternally shut in." Hallelujah! The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! Amen, Amen.
ANALYSIS OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH PSALM
This Psalms is short in appearance, but deep and copious in mysteries. The subject, without doubt, is Christ; since both St. Peter ( Acts ii. 34) and St. Paul ( Heb. i. 13) expound it of Christ; and in Matt. xxii. 44, Christ applies it to himself.
In this Psalm Christ is described as a Priest and a King.
I. Christ's kingdom, in the three first verses.
II. His priesthood, from the fourth to the seventh.
I. In reference to his kingdom the prophet acquaints us, 1. With his person; 2. With his power, and the acquisition of it; 3. The continuance of it; 4. The execution of it-First, Over his enemies; Secondly, Over his own people, which is the sum of the three first verses.
1. The person who was to reign was David's Lord; his son according to the flesh, but his Lord as equal to God; Philippians ii. 6, 7. As made flesh, and born of a virgin, the son of David; but as Immanuel, the Lord of David, which the Jews not understanding could not reply to Christ's question, Matthew xxii. 45.
2. As to his power, the Author of it was God: "The Lord said to my Lord," &c. Decreed it from everlasting. And again, "The Seed of the woman," &c.
3. And of his kingdom. He took possession, when the Lord said unto him, "Sit thou on my right hand." Christ, as the Son of God, was ever at God's right hand, equal to him in might and majesty; but, as man, was exalted to honour, not before his glorious ascension, Acts ii. 34; Eph. i. 20; Phil. ii. 9.
4. For the continuance of it. It is to be UNTIL, which notes, not a portion lof time, but a perpetuity. "Sit TILL I make, &c. Sit at God's right hand, that is, in power and glory, till he shall say to all the wicked, "Depart from me," Matthew 25., but not so as to be then dethroned. But when once all his enemies shall be made his footstool, then he shall visibly rule, "sitting at his Father's right hand for evermore;" go on to reign, neither desist to propagate and enlarge thy kingdom, till all men bow the knee to thy name, till all opponents be overthrown.
The beginning of this kingdom was in Zion: "The Lord shall send." &c.
1. The rod of his power was his scepter; that is, "His word, the Gospel, the wisdom of God," 1 Thess. ii. 13; "The sword of the Spirit," Eph. vi. 17; "The mighty power of God," &c., Rom. i. 16.
2. And this was to be sent out of Zion, Isa. xxiii. "It behoved Christ to suffer," &c., Luke xxiv. 46. The sound of the apostle's words went into all lands; but Zion must first hear, Acts xiii. 46.
And now the prophet comes to the execution of his power: "Rule thou in the midst," &c. Converting all such as believe his Gospel, and confounding those who will not have him to reign over them. Now these enemies are the most in number; for the Church however greatly increased, is still surrounded by Turks, Jews, &c. Rule thou; be thou Ruler; go on, and set up thy standard universally; for believers are easily dealt with; they love thy government.
1. "For thy people shall be willing." Not forced by compulsion; "they shall flow together as water," Isaiah 2.
2. But not before thy grace has brought down their hearts: "In the day of thy power," that is, in the days of thy solemn assemblies, when the Gospel light shall be sent forth, and the apostles and messengers go abroad to preach thy truth.
3. The third quality of this good people is, "that they be holy." For some read the words thus: "They shall offer freewill-offerings with a holy worship." Our last translators point it, "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power." Here they pause, and read on thus: "In the beauty of holiness from the womb of the morning." The Vulgate, In splendouribus sanctorum, "In the splendour of the saints," and stops there; but let the reading be as it will, all expositors are agreed that holiness must be the ornament of Christ's Church: - 4. Which sanctity these good people have not from themselves, but by the influence of the Holy Spirit, for "they shall worship in the beauty," &c. This is a very difficult place, and the rendering of it is so various, so perplexed by the several modes of pointing it, that the difficulty is increased. But see the notes. The fathers expound this passage of Christ himself, and the later divines, of his people, which is most probable. By their youth they understand their regeneration; by the dews, the graces bestowed on them; which come immediately from God. The prophet phrases it, "From the womb of the morning." As if the Holy Ghost had said, "The preaching of thy word shall bring forth a great and good people, plentiful as the drops of the morning dew. As the secret and refreshing dews come from heaven to refresh the earth, so thy power, regenerating the hearts of men by the secret operation of thy Holy Spirit, shall produce an immortal seed, children begotten to God. 'Thou hast the dew,' the grace of God, to beautify thy youth, and to make them holy by the direct influence of thy Spirit, to produce entire regeneration." II. The prophet, having foretold Christ's kingdom, now predicts his priesthood, under which his prophetical office may be implied. That Messiah was to be a priest at his coming, God sware: - 1. "The Lord sware." His word of assurance was given with his oath. In the priesthood of Christ lies the main weight of our redemption; therefore God swears that he shall be a priest to offer himself, and to intercede for us, without which he had in vain been our Prophet and our King.
2. "And will not repent." This is also added for our greater assurance.
God is sometimes represented as repenting, as in the case of Nineveh; but now that he was to save the world by this Priest, his Son, he takes an oath to do it, and he will not repent. His sentence for judgment is ever conditional; but his decree for mercy is absolute.
"He will not repent," &c.
The matter of the oath follows: "Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek." 1. Thou is emphatical: Thou- David's Lord, art a Priest, and none such a Priest as thou.
2. Art; for this priest was the I am; therefore, justly said, Thou art.
3. A Priest; whose office the apostle describes, Heb. v. 1.
4. For ever-Not as Aaron and his successors, who were priests, &c., Heb. vii. 23, 24.
5. After the order-The right, the law, the custom, the rites. See the notes.
6. OJ Melchizedek. - Which is opposed to the order of Aaron. He was not then to be a priest after the order of Aaron but by a former and higher order.
The difference lies in this: - 1. In the constitution of him to the priesthood. He was made with an oath; and so were not any of Aaron's order, Heb. vii. 20, 21.
2. In the succession. In Aaron's priesthood, the high priest, being mortal, died, and another succeeded; but this priest, as Melchizedek, "had neither beginning of days nor end of life," Heb. vii.
3. Melchizedeic was priest and king: so was Christ. Aaron was only a priest.
4. "Aaron and his sons offered up oxen," &c., Lev. xvi. 6. "But Christ, being holy," &c., offered no sacrifice for himself, but for our sins, Isa. liii. 9.
5. "Aaron was a local priest; but Christ an universal priest, John iv. 22.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Christ's kingdom.
--Glorious things are here spoken of Christ. Not only he should be superior to all the kings of the earth, but he then existed in glory a the eternal Son of God. Sitting is a resting posture: after service and sufferings, to give law, to give judgment. It is a remainin posture: he sits like a king for ever. All his enemies are now in chain, but not yet made his footstool. And his kingdom, being set up shall be kept up in the world, in despite of all the powers of darkness. Christ's people are a willing people. The power of the Spirit, going with the power of the world, to the people of Christs, i effectual to make them willing. They shall attend him in the beautifu attire of holiness; which becomes his house for ever. And he shall have many devoted to him. The dew of our youth, even in the morning of ou days, ought to be consecrated to our Lord Jesus. Christ shall not onl be a King, but a Priest. He is God's Minister to us, and our Advocat with the Father, and so is the Mediator between God and man. He is Priest of the order of Melchizedek, which was before that of Aaron, an on many accounts superior to it, and a more lively representation of Christ's priesthood. Christ's sitting at the right hand of God, speak as much terror to his enemies as happiness to his people. The effect of this victory shall be the utter ruin of his enemies. We have here the Redeemer saving his friends, and comforting them. He shall be humbled he shall drink of the brook in the way. The wrath of God, running in the curse of the law, may be considered as the brook in the way of his undertaking. Christ drank of the waters of affliction in his way to the throne of glory. But he shall be exalted. What then are we? Has the gospel of Christ been to us the power of God unto salvation? Has his kingdom been set up in our hearts? Are we his willing subjects? Once we knew not our need of his salvation, and we were not willing that he should reign over us. Are we willing to give up every sin, to turn from a wicked, insnaring world, and rely only on his merits and mercy, to have him for our Prophet, Priest, and King? and do we desire to be holy? To those who are thus changed, the Saviour's sacrifice intercession, and blessing belong __________________________________________________________________
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Q: Connecting to swisscom dynamic storage dynstrg with dragondisk fails No matter how I try and following the guide, I can't access my storage with dragondisk.
Behind the swisscom firewall I get connection errors, outside I get "invalid response headers".
I'm using dragondisk 1.05 for OSX, accessHost, accessKey and sharedSecret as parameters as well as the setting "ssl/https".
Any hints?
- How can I enclose the error?
- What can I try?

A: It doesn't seem to work with Dragonfly for Mac. Using Transmit works.

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Q: Numerical Stability when Inverse CDF Sampling from Truncated Density Let $f(x)$ be the pdf of a random variable that we want to truncate to the interval $[a,b]$ and then sample from it. Let $F(x)$ denote the corresponding cdf. We can use inverse cdf sampling and generate a draw from the truncated version of $f(x)$ via
$u \sim Unif(0,1)$
$x \sim F^{-1}[u * (F(b) - F(a)) + F(a)]$
which is, however, numerically instable when, e.g., both $a$ and $b$ are very far in the right tail of $f(x)$, where the probability mass is numerically very close to zero. Is there a numerically more stable version of inverse cdf sampling for such cases?


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Hapalopeza is an Asian genus of praying mantis in the family Gonypetidae.  Two species, previously placed here, are now in the genus Spilomantis.

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The Mantodea Species File lists:
 Hapalopeza fulmeki Werner, 1926
 Hapalopeza nigricornis Stal, 1877
 Hapalopeza nilgirica Wood-Mason, 1891
 Hapalopeza nitens Saussure, 1871 - type species
 Hapalopeza periyara Mukherjee & Hazra, 1985
 Hapalopeza tigrina Westwood, 1889

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HomeNewsPeace River landowners ready to move on after lawsuit settlement
Peace River landowners ready to move on after lawsuit settlement
Wednesday, Oct. 8th, 2014
One of the Peace River landowners involved in the now settled lawsuit against Baytex Energy says the families are ready to move on with their lives.
Baytex Energy has purchased the farm properties of four families who abandoned them due to health concerns from nearby heavy oil production, for an undisclosed price.
Affected landowner Brian Labrecque says their lawsuit has been settled with the energy company, and hopes their case can be an example for others'.
"There was a lot of awareness created. The provincial government stepped in as the regulator, so we're hoping that they take it from here to ensure that other Albertans don't have to experience what we've gone through in the past."
A public inquiry earlier this year found emissions from the Baytex plant in the area was affecting the health of nearby residents.
New regulations are now in place by the Alberta Energy Regulator requiring all companies to capture their produced gas, which Labrecque believes will make a difference.
"I know we all recognize there were some regulatory gaps, and a lot of those gaps have been closed up. I'm sure they're prepared to go even further, but we did see some positive change as a result, and I think it will benefit all landowners in Alberta."
Labrecque says some of the families have settled into new homes, while others are still looking at their options, but everyone's ready to move on.


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Weather control as a service: The scaling and seeding of cloud infrastructure
The fierce race between the cloud computing giants — Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — and their quests to reshape the technological and physical landscape.
Issue 2 Jul 2017
One could be forgiven this past spring for reading the headline that Cloud Computing had won the 2017 Preakness and mistaking it for a Microsoft advertisement. Given the company's penchant for promoting its partnerships with athletic events like the PGA, the Special Olympics, and the World Cup, the idea of Microsoft making the cloud the real winner of the Preakness doesn't sound that far-removed from the company's own promotional copy.
Of course, this was not an act of clever product placement but merely the name of a racehorse. Disappointingly little reporting on the race made mention of the horse's unusual name, or the poetry of the long-shot champion beating out favored horses Always Dreaming and Classic Empire (as opposed to the triumphant empire of the cloud, where the only dreams permitted are deep ones). Microsoft admittedly began as a dark horse in the market when it launched Windows Azure in 2008, but after shifting its business model increasingly to cloud-based products around 2013 it's now the second-largest cloud platform on the market. It's closely followed by Google, which rapidly established itself in the cloud market despite getting a relatively late start (Google Cloud Storage launched in 2010, the Google Cloud Partner Platform launched in 2010). Both companies remain far behind Amazon Web Services.
But these companies aren't merely in a horse race for lowest latency—they're also in an arms race for greatest black box computing power. At this point, none of the top three players in the cloud computing market are just selling storage or scalability to developers and companies. It's proprietary software tools—in particular, AI and machine learning tools all three companies are increasingly invested in—and the massive processing capacity required to use said tools that Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google use to differentiate themselves in the cloud market.
These companies aren't merely in a horse race for lowest latency—they're also in an arms race for greatest black box computing power.
Perhaps the better metaphor for these monolithic companies is no longer simply being or maintaining the cloud but more like cloud seeding, the practice of adding chemicals like silver iodide into the atmosphere to manipulate weather patterns. Place a company's data in Google or Microsoft's cloud, combine with TensorFlow or Cortana and, the logic follows, the platform will inevitably produce a rainmaker.
Choosing among the platforms is as much about strategic positioning as it is about the tools themselves. Consider when Taser announced its shift from hosting its Evidence.com body camera data platform from AWS to Microsoft Azure in 2015. While there were obvious technical advantages to the move, like integrating Microsoft's computer vision services into the Taser platform (the company has since apparently switched to a more in-house AI strategy, acquiring two computer vision companies in February of this year), Microsoft is also already a major vendor to law enforcement IT departments. Taser chose the cloud provider that was already most likely to be serving its primary market. More so than AWS and Google, Microsoft's cloud products benefit from a feedback loop of the company's existing scale: many companies already use their products so migration to their cloud makes sense, and selecting their cloud platform makes sense to reach consumers who already use their products.
Google and AWS, by contrast, mostly bank the reliability and value of their products on their own success with their infrastructure: both companies initially developed the technologies for their cloud services as in-house endeavors to solve their own scaling issues and technical needs. Google describes its own infrastructure as "futureproof"—a term that in engineering refers to creating something in such a way that minimizes or slows down its technological obsolescence, but that is also a reminder that Google itself wants to be the one defining the future, ideally in mathematical proofs.
Although cloud services increasingly make up a huge portion of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google's revenue, part of the reason that they've been able to so rapidly eclipse existing data center companies is that they're not data center companies—they're something far bigger, with ambitions toward a far greater reach into day-to-day life. Like cloud seeding, providing these services requires a pretty intensive amount of infrastructural overhead and implementing them can have some unintended consequences on both rhetorically toxic environments. While the costs of cloud computing are probably unlikely to be as bad as scenarios like the Soviet Union's use of cloud seeding after Chernobyl to divert radiation fallout away from Moscow (instead poisoning swaths of Belarus), public understanding of the risks of poor comprehension and implementation of data-driven systems is still relatively limited. The overhead for these massive platforms also transforms and shapes the physical landscape. Consider some of the investments a company would need to make to even enter into and begin competing in the cloud market today, and what the existing footprint of AWS, Microsoft, and Google already looks like:
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In order to reach users effortlessly with minimal to no latency, cloud providers have to distribute their data centers all around the world—or, as some of the notable blank spots in this map demonstrate, all around parts of the world with obviously relevant markets.
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Cloud computing also requires a lot of energy and resources to operate. Many cloud providers have their own power substations and engineering efforts to improve energy efficiency. Thanks in part to repeated criticism from Greenpeace over the data center industry's carbon footprint, AWS, Google, and Microsoft have all invested in new renewable energy projects to power their data centers.
These investments mainly take the form of Power Purchasing Agreements (PPA). Since cloud companies are retail energy customers and not (yet) utility companies, they have to buy their power off of the grid just like other businesses. This means they can't actually control the source of their energy, but they can invest in the creation of new energy sources that matches their energy use. PPAs are contracts between companies and power facilities for a fixed-rate purchase of a specific amount of power over an extended period of time. (In addition to being a method for buying a renewable energy source, PPAs are also financially smart moves by cloud companies as they offer far better long-term prices for energy use.)
While these are relatively interesting statistics on the geographic expanse that the big three cloud companies occupy, they represent only the very limited publicly discoverable facts on the industry. They don't factor in things like the much-harder-to-track miles of dark fiber that all three companies have invested in but rarely publicly disclose and certainly don't publicly map (the closest Microsoft gets to public disclosure is to note their fiber network could stretch to the moon and back three times over). And, of course, carbon footprint and energy sourcing aren't the only meaningful metrics for understanding environmental impact.Rarely included in the environmental impact reports of companies are numbers about water usage. Additionally, aggregates like these can be impressive but don't necessarily speak to the on-the-ground impact of data centers on communities—having an aggregate total of Google's water usage occludes, for example, the story of the company's trying to expand its groundwater pumping to support its South Carolina data center, much to the consternation of residents.
This infrastructure inventory was something that, ten years ago, companies might have shied away from acknowledging. Before it started making an aggressive play into the data center market, Google's control over images and information about its data centers was so strict that rumors that the company literally erased its data centers from satellite views on Google Maps abounded. Locations of Microsoft and AWS data centers remain slightly more elusive, but the visual vernacular of cloud computing more generally has made a shift away from pure abstraction to infrastructural sublime—the dazzling scale of custom data centers, the gleam of LEDs blinking down a corridor of busy server racks, privately owned wind farms like giant sentries on the horizon.
Google's control over images and information about its data centers was so strict that rumors that the company literally erased its data centers from satellite views on Google Maps abounded.
Of course, beyond the charismatic megainfra that can be easily spotted on the landscape (be it data centers or wind turbines), there are the material costs of what's actually going on inside the data centers: massive investments in hardware. Recent advances in machine learning and quantum computing don't come down merely to better software engineers; most of the concepts being employed today were first theorized in papers in the 1980s and 1990s. It's only the shift in processing power from GPUs that's made those concepts practicable. It's why one of the most unexpected and biggest players in the cloud computing market today is graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA. Previously mostly known for designing graphics processors for video game consoles, NVIDIA's profits are increasingly driven by work on the hardware powering the future of artificial intelligence.
But even hardware is starting to appear as a part of the seeded cloud's vertical integration process. At this year's Google I/O conference, the company announced that it was going to provide use of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as a service in its data centers, a move that pretty openly looks like a challenge to NVIDIA. Although both AWS and Microsoft have established machine learning initiatives and products with NVIDIA, both companies are reasonably well-positioned to do the same. As AWS' James Hamilton noted in an AWS Re:Invent keynote in January, the company has been building its own routers, chips, and storage servers for a good while (the company also purchased Israeli chipmaker Annapurna Labs in 2015). Microsoft has been making its own hardware long enough that they could, theoretically, make the leap into creating their own processors for machine learning.
Case studies in cloud migration: Netflix, Pinterest, and Symantec
Three very different companies and their migrations to the cloud.
This isn't all to say it's impossible for competition with the master cloud seeders to emerge. Alibaba's cloud platform, AliCloud, has quietly been building up its international data center operations—though it's telling that seemingly the only meaningful competitor to Amazon, Microsoft, and Google is basically the biggest company in the market all three companies struggle to gain a foothold in. And, of course, not every big tech company stays beholden to the infrastructural megaliths or their particular brand of AI alchemy. In 2016, Dropbox shifted over 500 petabytes of data off of AWS and onto its own data centers. But that's the kind of shift that a company like Dropbox can afford to make, one that required some massive overhead and that could also be seen as a major gamble.
To some extent, the kind of vertical integration achieved by monopoly control is precisely why Google can claim to have the greenest data center operations in the world—it has near-total control over its own supply chain. Global-scale systems require an inordinate amount of control to implement them with some degree of accountability, but that control (particularly of information about the system itself) also offers an easy opportunity for eliding it.
At this point these companies are operating at the scale of countries but without any of the democratic mechanisms that might be used to maintain accountability in public works.
But perhaps if there's a cause for concern when it comes to the established cloud monopoly of a small number of companies responsible both for the storage infrastructure and increasingly the underlying black-box software of tech, that concern doesn't lie with the absence of meaningful market competition but the logic underlying the market itself. It's everything else that Google, Microsoft, and Amazon do as companies—and that they're able to do as a result of the massive infrastructure that they're seeking to get more and more companies to rely on. It's that software abstractions themselves are increasingly considered core infrastructure for modern life. This soft infrastructure requires such a massive overhead of heavy infrastructure that at this point these companies are operating at the scale of countries but without any of the democratic mechanisms that might be used to maintain accountability in public works. That being said, I don't think the solution is more data centers or more cloud options or more machine learning resources from other companies. Those things aren't bad ideas, but that also assumes that choice in the market will inevitably introduce accountability.
Whenever someone in the tech PR hype machine describes data as "the new oil", they're usually talking about how it's a lucrative investment—not that its production and maintenance involves costly overhead and, in the absence of meaningful regulation, can have toxic effects on humans and the environment. (It's also a flawed comparison insofar as there's no data without oil, which still remains crucial to things like global supply chains underlying hardware, but I digress.) Based on their actual material supply chains and literal footprint on the landscape—the energy used, the backbone maintained—the fact that cloud services aren't considered heavy industry is pretty confusing. But what would that sort of categorization shift from light to heavy industry actually produce?
In an ideal world, maybe, the categorization shift would produce different expectations about regulation and accountability. With the understanding that networked technologies are increasingly crucial infrastructure for the facilitation of public life and that said infrastructure has massive material costs and weight, why not give it the same degree of regulation given to oil drilling or other heavy industry crucial to society? There's historical precedent for the trust-busting and recognition of worker rights in steel manufacture, shipyards, and mining—why not in hardware? Why not treat the centralization of cloud services with either an eye toward breaking monopolies or in pursuing concessions to the public good similar to the ones asked of America's once-giant "natural monopoly" AT&T?
Then again, the mood of federal politics in the United States is one where even already-public infrastructure isn't considered worth protecting with federal funding and regulation, so the idea of applying such regulation to cloud platforms or demanding a new way of thinking about internet infrastructure seems pretty unlikely. But the cost of these companies' massive physical, technical, and political footprints is a lot bigger than the millions they already spend buying off their carbon footprints, and we throw our hands up at taking that impact (and accountability for that impact) seriously at our own risk.
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Bruce Charles Stuart, född 30 november 1881 i Ottawa, Ontario, död 28 oktober 1961 i Ottawa, var en kanadensisk ishockeyspelare, både på amatörnivå och professionellt.

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Bruce Stuart spelade som centerforward och rover för Ottawa Hockey Club, Quebec Bulldogs, Pittsburgh Victorias, Portage Lakes Hockey Club och Montreal Wanderers åren 1899–1911. Han vann Stanley Cup fyra gånger; 1908 med Montreal Wanderers samt 1909, 1910 och 1911 som lagkapten för Ottawa Senators.

Bruce Stuarts äldre bror Hod Stuart var även han professionell ishockeyspelare och bröderna spelade tillsammans i Ottawa Hockey Club och Quebec Bulldogs i Canadian Amateur Hockey League åren 1899–1901 samt i Portage Lakes Hockey Club säsongen 1903–04. Hod Stuart dog 1907, 28 år gammal, i en dykningsolycka.

1961 valdes Bruce Stuart in i Hockey Hall of Fame.

Vid sidan om ishockeyn öppnade Stuart i december 1909 en skoaffär, Bruce Stuart & Co., på 275 Bank Street i Ottawa som förutom stövlar och skor även sålde skridskor.

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CAHL = Canadian Amateur Hockey League, WPHL = Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, Trä. = Träningsmatcher, ECAHA = Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, CHA = Canadian Hockey Association

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Switzerland would like the opportunity to be a non-permanent member of Security Council, we realise that our stay in the MUN has been short but the ability to be on the Security Council would allow us to build stronger relations with other nations of the SC and that of the GA.
Switzerland has played a big role in the UN; we have strengthened the role of the UN and closely followed up UN's Millennium Development Goals as well as promoting Human Security. In the MUN we accept the fact that we had a short stay so far but we have contributed to Indonesia in the MUN when they requested for aid for H5N1.
Switzerland plays an active role in the protection and promotion of human rights particularly with regards to the most vulnerable groups such as children, women and ethnic minorities.
India requests that Venezuela use capital letters and punctuate their writing properly, as to make it easier and clearer to read.
I don't think it was difficult to read at all.
The US would really appreciate this as well. I'm not used to reading 'raw' text.
It must be some software Agent installed on me which allowed me to read it.
Italy would like to nominate itself. I fully appreciate that I've not been around for the past month but I shall make a full and glorious return on tuesday.
A quick question, when voting are we voting for the rep. who we feel most deserves a place on the SC or the country?
You converted it to binary anyway. Makes no difference to you!
A combination of both I believe. The Rep should be a good & active debater, and your country should have no animosity towards that country.
Being one of the more important countries in the Middle East, the U.A.E would like to be nominated in the SC.
The U.A.E shares close ties with Iraq, Iran, the KSA and Kuwait. It makes influential decisions in the GCC, as it is one of the more prominent members.
The U.A.E alone boasts of having three-quarters of the world's heavy machinery, including cranes, trucks and cargo ships. The development here is astounding.
U.A.E considers helping other countries a duty. The Tsunami and the earth quake in the sub-continent saw the U.A.E raise funds worth $9 Billion, including medicine, make shift tents, clothes and Professional help.
The U.A.E may be considered one of the 'new' members, but only when given a chance, will it be able to show the MUN its potential as one of the leading nations.
Wow, we sure have a large number of Nominations for the non-perm seat. Anyone interested in Germany?
I don't think Nightowl's announce the German vacancy in the GA yet.
Hmm... you're right. But I merely stated that since so many people wanted to be on the SC, that could be a solution.
Swaziland would like to declare it's support for the UAE in it's application for the security council. We feel it would be an asset to the council providing an alternative point of view.
India worries that Iraq may be too unstable at the moment to sort out their own government, let alone take a place on the Security Council.
It is true, there is instability in Iraq. However, we feel that only with a direct link to the nucleus of the United Nations, albeit a temporary link, can we achieve a swift resolution - at least plan it, so the Iraqi people can more quickly realise the wonderous democracy we are being gifted. It is beyond our control that there is anarchy on our streets, but our political system and process, has never been more stable - and this prosperity will continue, if we take appropriate consolidatory steps. We feel this is one of those steps, and hope our application is seriously considered by all delegates.
Iraq does appreciate concerns from India, and thanks it for its foresight; we just feel as a people this is the direction we need to get things back on track in Iraq.
I have serious doubts about whether you have three-quarters of the world's heavy machinery in the UAE. Indonesia would like the Ambassador to provide reliable sources to back up such statements. We, on the under hand, do consider ourselves as represetatives of Muslims all around the world (including the Middle East) since we are the largest Muslim country on the planet, yet practise moderate islam and have embraced all the traits of democracy.
Indonesia also believes that Switzerland should not be appointed to the SC since the country has only been part of the UN for approximately 8 years, and lacks the fundamental influence that is required to be a SC member due to its neutrality in most issues. We believe that Switzerland would be more effective in an advisory role.
Dang practically everyone has nominated himself for a seat here, heh.
The UK does not believe that Venezuela is ready for a seat on the UNSC, and neither do we believe that the UAE is read due to its low experience around these parts.
Also Switzerland, whatever happened to your policy of neutrality?
As requested by the Indonesian Representative, the U.A.E is willing to provide any, and all information needed to back its claims.
The U.A.E is one of the most influential Muslim countries in the Middle East, on par with Saudi Arabia. Most of its neighbours depend on the U.A.E as a reliable economic source; trading being the major market in this region.
We would like to remind Indonesia, that although it is the biggest Muslim country on the planet, it will hardly influence, or have a say, in matters of the Arab World, i.e. the GCC. The U.A.E being an Arab country, will be able to represent the reamining Arab countries in this region. This, however, CAN NOT be the case with Indonesia.
Perhaps is UK referred to an earlier statement made by me, I did mention that we were relatively new.
However, only IF elected will we be able to show our potential.
Bear in mind, were Iraq to be elected, then the U.A.E, just like all the other Arab Countries, would play a vital part in its reform.
I'm afraid I have to cateorically and emphatically reject that statement as trash. Indonesia has massive influence in the Muslim world, the Middle East included. People are what make up countries, and we sure have more than enough of them to match the total population of the Middle East. We are also at the centre of the war of terrorism, and therefore thing it is pertinent for us to be a part of the UNSC so we can represent the developing countries, Muslim community, as well as concerns about the use of violence in resolving conflict, regardless of the cause. The UAE on the other hand may be an economic powerhouse of the region but definitely lacks any distinct position on the global front.
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Eight years ago, Janice Gutsche followed her passion and started Impact Studio, aimed at delivering professional wedding and family photos with a personal touch. Within two years, the business was so successful that Janice hired a second photographer to help with the workload. Soon, Impact Studio decided to expand their skill set and passion to Social Media, Graphic Design and Websites. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Janice assembled an über-team to provide the best services possible.
Now, as branding and public perception would have it, Impact Studio had firmly established itself as a bespoke wedding and photography studio, while we really provided much, much more.
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Discussion in 'Second Grade' started by Backroads, May 12, 2016.
Next school year, I'm considering banning kids bringing markers. Yes, I want to be that teacher. At the beginning of the year, and even last year, I didn't have a problem with it. Crayons and colored pencils are fairly standard at the school, but this year markers in the classroom have caused such drama. Kids obsess over their markers to the point I don't think they're at the point of maturity of being able to calmly keep personal markers from home in their possession.
Do you allow students to bring little extras like that?
I teach high school and we ban kids from having sharpies for not so different reasons. I think it's your room and you have the right to decide what kids bring in, within reason!
Next year I have not included markers in the school supply list. I also find them to be more of a problem that a help.
Markers are only a special treat in my class (I teach Kinder). They are never on my supply list.
I get where you're coming from for sure. If you want to ban them, I say go for it. Personally, I don't mind them having them when they actually need them. But they can certainly create a distraction... a few of my kids will use multicolored highlighters to create beautifully highlighted pages while still having no idea what the text actually says. They haven't had any drama-type issues with them though.
Some of my students have really nice metallic markers or gel pen sets. I also find they can be unlikely aids in community building. Friendships have been forged over shared markers, sometimes between kids who wouldn't otherwise talk much.
My kids are older, though... I can see how this would be more of an issue with 2nd graders.
I've never banned markers, but I've always wondered if waxed crayons are the more educational choice for elementary school. With markers, one swipe and it's colored, but to use a crayon, the student must use a continuous back and forth movement, which to me would seem extra beneficial to brain development when coloring a page that includes the outcomes of the lesson.
I have another thought about kids' fads. I wonder if they are always generated by the kids themselves, or if often they are generated by their parents or grandparents--not that this is a bad thing; fads can be a fun, normal part of childhood. What got me thinking about this was the origin of the Ninja Turtles. When the cartoon first came on TV, I taught a small multi-grade class; they thought the Ninja Turtles were the worst cartoon characters in the history of cartoonism! The next year, after all the Turtle hoopla hit the stores, all one ever heard about were Ninja Turtles. It made me wonder if the buying of the Ninja Turtle stuff for the kids, and perhaps some parents watching the show with their kids (some of the humor was geared more toward adults, such as the turtles' names) influenced the fad among the kids.
This is an interesting theory. I think that they would be less of a distraction also.
I want to say I've heard others speak of this. I have heard many encourage writing/printing in early grades rather than going straight to computer typing because it does help the brain more. I would daresay crayons might have a similar effect.
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I don't see any problem with eliminating markers and their associated problems. Why waste the little time students have on arguing over markers? There are far more important things to do. And I am all for creative ways to explore learning in the classroom, but I'm sure everyone can be creative without markers.
AGREED! You'd be surprised how many parents don't get it though.
I don't think it is a bad idea to eliminate markers, but depending on how your school addresses school supplies, it may prove to be difficult.
Our school has included markers in first grade and up on the supply list. It is almost an expected item. If a teacher were to ban it (all kids get the same grade level list), it would be frowned upon because they had to purchase the supplies before they were told they weren't allowed.
I also agree that using crayons and pencils is a benefit to students. It also develops the motor skills that are severely lacking in many kids. It is harder to push a pencil or a crayon.
I'd prefer to teach students the benefits of each, and have them learn to be responsible decision makers, instead of simply banning those things which might not be used completely right. A key part to lifelong learning is to have these learning opportunities, even if it might cause a slight bit more distractions - sort of like how failure is an important step along the way to learning!
Does that mean pointy scissors for Kindergartners and Sharpies for all?
I understand your sentiment, but I do think that sometimes the amount of distraction and problems does require limits when you see a pattern emerge that the students aren't ready to handle the decisions. My feeling is, if using markers has become that big of a problem, they probably have plenty of other opportunities to make other poor decisions without having an environment that ends up being very disruptive and hinders learning for all.
I suppose I over-generalized, you're right - sorry about that! My feelings still hold, but I would agree that there are some circumstances where it's better just to hold it off, for a variety of reasons that may/may not include that distraction element (i.e. I don't have calculators in the fourth grade classroom for a similar reason, but also because it'd require buying a whole bunch when they'd rarely ever get used).
I've been thinking about this and similar situations lately. Kids today seem different than when I was growing up in the 60's. Modern kids seem less cognizant of some safety concerns. (Not that we had pointed scissors in the earliest grades, but when necessary, kids knew what to do and what not to do--their parents had taught them). Kids weren't perfect--my mother tells me I once tried to parachute off a ledge with an umbrella--but overall, most kids knew right procedures from wrong procedures.
The ramifications of childhood injuries has grown which means many families no longer allow activities or use of things they used to. The other reason is many families have either two working parents or a single-parent who works limiting the time the parents have with their kids to teach them. Life has become faster and expectations (real or self-imposed) have grown. All of this impacts raising a child.
I will say growing up that in the early grades we didn't have supplies we controlled. They were monitored, handed out, and collected when needed. This was the time the teacher talked about taking care of the tool you had to use and how to use it properly. It was built into the classroom routine. Teachers taught kids how to use scissors. They talked every time about safety. Sure many kids knew about what to do and not do, but there were those who didn't for a variety of reasons.
This is 2nd grade. Fortunately, we don't have markers on the supply list. In fact, when I first took over the classroom, the markers were kept in the teacher closet for special occassions.
My three-year-old has blunt scissors. She cut her own hair this morning.
I've done the potty-training bit where I give her an Expo to draw with. Once she found a Sharpie to do this with.
Markers had to be under lock and key otherwise they would become tools for wall and body art.
Also, at one point they were used in a study to determine why when you pressed to hard they would disappear inside the tube. It took a lot of markers before that was figured out or given up on. Then the what happens when you press in one spot for a long time? How big can the circle get? Some care about those things. It may look as destructive, but sometimes it is just being inquisitive and not knowing how to ask about it.


"Flow Structure and Transport Characteristics of Feeding and Exchange C" by Arvind Santhanakrishnan, Makani Dollinger et al.
Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol. 215, No. 14, 2012.
Quantifying the flows generated by the pulsations of jellyfish bells is crucial for understanding the mechanics and efficiency of their swimming and feeding. Recent experimental and theoretical work has focused on the dynamics of vortices in the wakes of swimming jellyfish with relatively simple oral arms and tentacles. The significance of bell pulsations for generating feeding currents through elaborate oral arms and the consequences for particle capture are not as well understood. To isolate the generation of feeding currents from swimming, the pulsing kinematics and fluid flow around the benthic jellyfish Cassiopea spp. were investigated using a combination of videography, digital particle image velocimetry and direct numerical simulation. During the rapid contraction phase of the bell, fluid is pulled into a starting vortex ring that translates through the oral arms with peak velocities that can be of the order of 10 cm s–1. Strong shear flows are also generated across the top of the oral arms throughout the entire pulse cycle. A coherent train of vortex rings is not observed, unlike in the case of swimming oblate medusae such as Aurelia aurita. The phase-averaged flow generated by bell pulsations is similar to a vertical jet, with induced flow velocities averaged over the cycle of the order of 1–10 mm s–1. This introduces a strong near-horizontal entrainment of the fluid along the substrate and towards the oral arms. Continual flow along the substrate towards the jellyfish is reproduced by numerical simulations that model the oral arms as a porous Brinkman layer of finite thickness. This two-dimensional numerical model does not, however, capture the far-field flow above the medusa, suggesting that either the three-dimensionality or the complex structure of the oral arms helps to direct flow towards the central axis and up and away from the animal.
Santhanakrishnan, Arvind, Makani Dollinger, Christina L. Hamlet, Sean P. Colin, and Laura A. Miller. 2012. "Flow Structure and Transport Characteristics of Feeding and Exchange Currents Generated by Upside-Down Cassiopea Jellyfish." Journal of Experimental Biology 215 (14): 2369-2381.


Jacek Kugler is the Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of World Politics in the Department of Politics and Policy, School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He is the Co-Editor of International Interactions and past President of International Studies Association, and Peace Science Society. Previously, he has held positions as a Professor at Vanderbilt, Assistant and Associate Professor at Boston Universities, Research Scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Project co-Director at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan. He was also a Visiting Professor at Caltech, Harvey Mudd College, the Hatfield School of Government, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, and UCLA. He founded the Sentia Group Inc. dedicated to the formal study of decision making, policy analysis and advice.
Dr. Kugler been a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, State Department, Department of Defense and a number of U.S agencies and private businesses. His research was funded among others by NSF, DARPA, and the Ford Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan following an M.A. and B.A. in Political Science from UCLA. Through extensive publications on the causes and consequences of war, he has forged a reputation for innovative formal modeling and empirical analysis. His extensions of the theory of power transition explain the initiation of World War I and II and account for peaceful relations among major powers during the Cold War.
His work anticipated stability following the collapse of the Soviet Empire and forecasted the ongoing Asian challenge led by China and India. Professor Kugler is pioneering a new perspective on world politics that logically and empirically challenges well-established formulations of the realist school. His extensive work on nuclear weapons demonstrated the vulnerability of deterrence under nuclear parity. His work shows that instability is induced and not prevented by nuclear proliferation and by achieving Mutual Assured Destruction. His work anticipated the danger of nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists. His work on political demography disclosed the important role played by political factors. His analysis shows that political capability motivates declines in mortality and then fertility and precedes economic growth. This perspective can accounts for the unexpected decline in China's population before economic development took hold. His work expands our understanding of the development process linking growth patterns to political, economic, and demographic changes, which in turn affect stability and the form of government. His formal work on policy advances agent based models that can anticipate the outcome of complex negotiations and provides systematic aid to policy makers involved in day-to-day decisions. His pre war analysis anticipated the outcome of the Iraq war, the rise of terrorist activities and the protracted fight for stability. His analysis shows that the outcome of the Middle East conflicts are not central to global security. Rather, from a US security and economic perspective a far more important development is the emergence of China by the end of this Century. Anticipating such transitions, he has been working on new approaches to understand the preconditions for war or integration in the global arena. He the co-author large number of articles and important books including the War Ledger (1980), Birth Deaths and Taxes (1984), Exploring the Stability of Deterrence (1987), Parity and War (1996), Political Capacity and Economic Development (1997), Power Transitions: Strategies for the 21st Century (2000).
He is a founder of the TransPacific Consortium that brings together a group of West Coast Universities and scholars that will provide systematic, unbiased and empirically supported insight into the changing international politics. TransPacific scholars hope to link these findings to viable policy recommendations. As challenges to Western security grow, the foreign policy priority is to shape a strong economic and security coalition that includes the US, EU, Russia, India and Japan that can set the agenda and the norms and rules that can insure stability for decades to come.


West Ham United striker Andy Carroll was reportedly threatened at gunpoint on Wednesday.
According to the Daily Mail, Carroll was confronted by two motorcyclists, one of whom was carrying a gun, as he returned home from training.
He managed to flee in his Mercedes G-Wagon.
The former England international was left "shaken and stunned" by the ordeal.
Police are investigating the incident and are also expected to increase patrols and security around West Ham's training ground in Rush Green, Essex.
Carroll was driving home when the motorcyclists pulled up to his car at a junction and demanded he pull over. The 27-year-old reacted by speeding off in a bid to escape.
Carroll made contact with several other vehicles as he turned and headed back towards the London club's training facilities.
The bike raiders couldn't keep pace with the former Liverpool striker, who was driving his £100,000 Mercedes.
Upon arriving at the training ground, Carroll ran to the reception and asked for help.
His West Ham teammates are said to have been "alarmed" by the proceedings, finding it difficult to take in Carroll's ordeal.
Police were called at 12:45pm and a response team was sent out.
The striker's rough season was made worse on Wednesday. He hasn't played in the Premier League since the opening day defeat to Chelsea and isn't ready for Saturday's game against Stoke.
Carroll, who has started just 38 games since signing for West Ham in 2013, is currently out with a knee injury.
Hammers boss Slaven Bilic provided an update on Carroll's situation recently.
"He's progressing but it's not at the speed that we wanted," Bilic said, per the Daily Mail. "He's working hard and getting better every day but he's still not ready to train with us.
Carroll spent Wednesday night recovering from the distressing ordeal at his home.


Carmen Caldwell showcasing upcyled bags at Artfest Port Credit!
Born in Transylvania, We raised as free spirist. Love, family, freedom, school and nature were Carmen Caldweill's feeds.
Aerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the research, design process, development, construction, testing, science and technology of aircraft and spacecraft.
Carmen worked in research and at an airline. One of her hobbies included sewing. Carmen has been actively sewing since the early age of five! When she met her husband, she left her home and accompanied him around the world.
So far, the couple has resided in more than 10 countries!
Thus, her ethnic Romanian inheritance was enriched enormously. Carmen's sewing quickly became an expression of the inside tumult, of the dual character of her lifestyle which involved the need of functionality and beauty in a dynamic surrounding.
Carmen has always strived to create unique textile products, mostly clothing, appealing to each community which she has lived in. That proved Carmen has a lot to offer! Abstract and practical worlds are both comfortable spaces for her. She uses them daily and is defined by them.
Carmen is rigorous and a perfectionist by profession with a practical and functional approach as a producer. She is spontaneous, original, vibrant and daring as an artist. Quality, efficiency and ecology are standing matters in her work.
Visit her booth at Artfest Port Credit and feel free to ask her about her travels! See you at the show, from May 29 - 31!
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The Environmental Services Department is excited to invite residents to participate in a Water-Wise Challenge!
Pledge today and earn triple points for your village!
To become water-wise, residents pledge to turn off sprinklers for a 6-month period from October 15, 2017 through April 15, 2018. To pledge, submit online or in person at the Environmental Services Department located at 8203 Millennium Forest Drive (77381).
How does your village win the challenge?
One pledge per household will earn a point for their village. The three water-wise villages that receive the most pledges will earn a cash donation for their scholarship fund from program sponsors.
Early pledges receive bonus points!
Triple points: Pledge made today until October 31, 2017.
Double points: Pledge made between November 1 – December 31, 2017.
Single point: Pledge made between January 1 – April 15, 2018.
Turf grass, particularly St. Augustine, naturally goes dormant during winter months and uses all available energy to grow and strengthen the root system, resulting in healthier spring lawns. Lawn watering accounts for up to 80 percent of the water usage by residents of The Woodlands Township during the peak summer months. Turning off automated sprinkler systems over the winter has helped to reduce total water usage significantly over the past five years.
Please visit us online or call the Environmental Services Department at 281-210-3800.
The Orange Bags are Out!
Noticed all the orange popping up these days?
That's the sign that curbside textile recycling has begun. So join the crowd, fill up your orange bags, and set them out beside your carts.
Simple Recycling automatically picks up your bag on your regular solid waste service day – no ordering necessary! They even leave a replacement bag for the next round.
Textiles in any condition are accepted, along with shoes, books, toys, and housewares. Everything is re-used or recycled – reducing materials placed in landfill.
Didn't receive a bag in the mail or need extras? You can request them online or call 866-835-5068.
Consider donating your quality items to a charity. Then stuff the rest in your orange bag and set it out.
For more information on the program, simply visit Simple Recycling online or contact The Woodlands Township Environmental Services Department, 281-210-3800.
Nature Exploration Walks are good for you!
Getting outside is a good thing. Learning about local nature is great! This fall, the Environmental Services Department is offering a new series of Nature Exploration Walks at The Recreation Center at Rob Fleming Park. Residents are invited to come out for a leisurely walk along the nearby trails with a trained naturalist to learn more about the most common wildlife in our area.
Did you know? "There is a rapidly growing body of studies which show that people are healthier when they spend time in nature. Connecting with the natural world – whether it is in your backyard, out on the lake, or exploring a forest – has been shown to improve a wide range of mental and physical conditions. Conditions such as dementia, asthma, depression, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, diabetes, and many others respond to time in nature. Physicians are rapidly learning about the benefits and have begun prescribing nature to their patients as a component of treatment and wellness." Daniel Porter, Medical Director, Lone Star Family Health Center.
Join in for the health of it! Bring the family and discover what nature has to offer! The walks are FREE, but registration is required. Click on the links to learn more and register today!
September 16, from 9 to 11 a.m.: Who Lives in the Woods?
Discover nature at your backdoor with a full schedule of lectures and outdoor experiences, please visit Gardening and Nature Classes and Events offered by the Environmental Services Department.
Learn to Grow Fall Vegetables,Organically!
Textile Recycling Comes to You!
The Woodlands Township is now offering an additional free and EASY way to recycle textiles, shoes and housewares. And, it's happening right at the curb on your regular solid waste service day! Collection begins the week of July 31.
Regular Trash Schedule on July 4th!
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What's Buzzin' in Your Garden?


For many, who you marry is among the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime.
Everyone hopes that the person they marry is the actual embodiment of Prince Charming, but the truth is that everyone has good and bad qualities and you have to pick and choose what you're willing to deal with.
However, there are certain characteristics that are absolute red flags.
To give your marriage the best possible chance of surviving, weed out guys that exhibit these questionable personality traits.
Pay attention to how your man treats other people, and especially notice how he treats you. Generosity is an attractive trait, and he doesn't have to be a billionaire philanthropist to show that he values those around him and is able to think outside of himself. It's more than just being able to share – although that's important – you want to spend your life with a man who isn't stingy with his time or his affection. Ultimately, what a guy is saying when he acts selfishly around you and others is that he will always put himself first. And that sort of attitude will lead to disappointment and frustration in a marriage.
It's important to marry a man who values your opinion and lets you voice your thoughts, concerns, triumphs and interests. Even if he doesn't stifle your voice, if he doesn't show genuine interest in you or your life, let him go. It can be very detrimental to your emotional and mental health to be with someone who never listens to what you're saying. It shows that he's apathetic about you and your relationship or unwilling to invest the amount of effort necessary to make it work.
Boundaries are super important, especially in a marriage. You have to be able to establish healthy ones early on in a relationship because it's easy for them to become blurred. If your partner doesn't respect clear boundaries before you're married – that you or both of you have agreed to – that isn't going to change by placing a ring on your finger.
If you're considering a marriage with a man who constantly breaks his promises or continually makes excuses – reconsider it. Trust is the basis for any lasting marriage. You are going to experience hardships and trials throughout your life and if you can't trust your spouse with even the little things, it's going to be a long and lonely journey.
Nobody is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. However, if you find that you are the only one who ever apologises for anything in your relationship, take some time to ask yourself why. Does your partner make you feel like you are always in the wrong? Or is he simply unwilling to take accountability for any of his actions? Maybe he doesn't even realise he has done anything wrong. While you shouldn't be keeping tabs on who's said sorry more, in a healthy relationship there should be a fairly equal distribution of responsibility. It's a sign of maturity, self-awareness, and awareness of how your actions affect your relationship.
Marriage is a two-way street. Even though they say opposites attract, the best way to avoid guys with these personality traits is to notice and improve those traits within yourself.


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Q: C++ std::vector to JSON Array with rapidjson I am trying to parse a basic std::vector of strings to json using the rapidjson library.
Even though there are multiple answers to this question online, none of it worked for me. The best I could find was this, but I do get an error (cleaned up a bit):

Error C2664   'noexcept': cannot convert argument 1 from 'std::basic_string,std::allocator>' to 'rapidjson::GenericObject,rapidjson::MemoryPoolAllocator>>'

My code is mostly based on the link above:
rapidjson::Document d;
std::vector<std::string> files;

// The Vector gets filled with filenames,
// I debugged this and it works without errors.
for (const auto & entry : fs::directory_iterator(UPLOAD_DIR))
    files.push_back(entry.path().string());

// This part is based on the link provided
d.SetArray();

rapidjson::Document::AllocatorType& allocator = d.GetAllocator();
for (int i = 0; i < files.size(); i++) {
    d.PushBack(files.at(i), allocator);
}
rapidjson::StringBuffer strbuf;
rapidjson::Writer<rapidjson::StringBuffer> writer(strbuf);
d.Accept(writer);

jsonString = strbuf.GetString();

It would be nice if someone could explain what I am missing here, as I do not fully understand the error showing up. I guess it has to do something with the provided string types, but the error is generated in a Rapidjson file..
I also would appreciate if there were other working examples you could provide.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT
With JSON Array I mean just a basic json string containing the values of the vector.

A: Seems that the string type std::string and rapidjson::UTF8 are not compatible.
I set up a small test program, and it seems to work if you create a rapidjson::Value object and call it SetString method first.
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include "rapidjson/document.h"
#include "rapidjson/writer.h"
#include "rapidjson/stringbuffer.h"

int main() {
    rapidjson::Document document;
    document.SetArray();

    std::vector<std::string> files = {"abc", "def"};
    rapidjson::Document::AllocatorType& allocator = document.GetAllocator();
    for (const auto file : files) {
        rapidjson::Value value;
        value.SetString(file.c_str(), file.length(), allocator);
        document.PushBack(value, allocator);
        // Or as one liner:
        // document.PushBack(rapidjson::Value().SetString(file.c_str(), file.length(), allocator), allocator);
    }

    rapidjson::StringBuffer strbuf;
    rapidjson::Writer<rapidjson::StringBuffer> writer(strbuf);
    document.Accept(writer);

    std::cout << strbuf.GetString();

    return 0;
}


Environment: : a new focus for land-use planning.
Report of the Public Meeting on Genetic Engineering for Nitrogen Fixation : October 5-6, 1977, held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Solar heating proof-of-concept experiment for a public school building.


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New Porsche 911 Carrera launched
Entry-level, rear-wheel-drive Porsche 911 has 380bhp and starts at £83,793
by Ben Custard
Porsche has revealed a new entry-level version of the Porsche 911. Available as a coupe or convertible, the new Porsche 911 Carrera starts at £83,793, around £10,000 less than the more powerful Carrera S. Orders can be placed now, with first deliveries expected in the autumn.
The Carrera uses a slightly less powerful version of the same 3.0-litre six-cylinder engine as the Carrera S. Two turbochargers help it to produce 380bhp - 15bhp more than the previous Carrera and 64bhp less than the current S. Its eight-speed automatic gearbox is also shared with the Carrera S, and helps slingshot the car from 0-62mph in 4.2 seconds and on to a top speed of 182mph. An optional Sport Chrono pack drops the 0-62mph time to four seconds flat.
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Carrera drivers will have to visit a petrol station just as often as Carrera S drivers, as the fuel consumption is exactly the same for both models. The coupe is said to return 28.5mpg in mixed driving, and the Cabriolet is slightly less economical at 28mpg.
While the dual-clutch automatic gearbox is the only option for now, Porsche has confirmed that a six-speed manual gearbox will be available in the near future. The rear-wheel-drive Porsche 911 Carrera will also be joined by an all-wheel-drive version, badged Carrera 4.
On the outside, there's little to tell the difference between the Carrera and Carrera S - especially if you choose not to have any model badges on the car. Look closely, however, and you'll notice smaller wheels on the Carrera - 19-inch alloy wheels at the front and 20s at the rear. The Carrera features two rectangular exhaust tips as standard (the model in these pictures has the optional sports exhaust) and has smaller brake discs than the Carrera S.
There are few changes inside, as Porsche says the entry-level model offers the same plush materials and high quality as the more expensive S. A 10.9-inch infotainment touchscreen fits snugly in the dashboard, and there are digital displays either side of a traditional rev counter behind the steering wheel. LED headlights, heated front seats, cruise control, parking sensors at both ends and Porsche's Active Suspension Management (PASM) system are all included.
You'll need to pay £83,793 to get behind the wheel of a coupe, or £92,438 for the Cabriolet.
Read our reviews of the Porsche 911 Coupe and 911 Cabriolet, or read our guide to the best sports cars available now.
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Redesign Delay: Toyota pushes back U.S. market Corolla makeover; sales of vehicle remain strong
Mark Rechtin | Automotive News
The current Corolla will have been on the market six years by the time it is redesigned for 2008.
SALZBURG, Austria -- Toyota has delayed the redesigned Corolla for U.S. showrooms a year, until spring 2008.
The delay is surprising because Toyota adheres to a disciplined redesign schedule. The current Corolla will be on the market six years, not the typical five.
The Corolla was delayed because the automaker's engineers were stretched too thin by many other product introductions, says Dave Danzer, group vice president of planning and development for Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc.
Toyota's U.S. sales arm was chosen to receive its version of the redesigned Corolla after the Japanese and European markets, Danzer said.
But one analyst says Toyota was caught off guard by the stylish 2006 Honda Civic.
"Some people within Toyota want to make their cars more edgy," says Jim Hall, an AutoPacific analyst in Southfield, Mich. "The delay gives these people the opportunity to counter the more conservative Toyota contingent and do a car more in tune with the U.S. market."
Toyota does not need to rush a redesign to market, says Jim Lentz, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Sales. He and Danzer spoke at a press event here.
Shoppers seeking high-mileage vehicles boosted Corolla sales to 132,182 in the first six months of 2006, up 7.4 percent from the same period of 2005, according to the Automotive News Data Center.
Those numbers do not include sales of the Matrix hatchback, a Corolla sibling. Toyota says it sold 197,303 Corollas through June, of which about 26,000 were of the Matrix.
"We sold 40,000 Corollas last month," Lentz said. "Our incentives are less than $500 a car. It's not as though the current Corolla is a problem."
Lentz added that Toyota likely would redesign the Matrix, although there were rumors the car would be killed off.
"There is a real need for Matrix, especially one with more aggressive styling" Lentz said. "We need Matrix to draw Scion buyers to the Toyota brand, to make it a car equivalent of the FJ Cruiser."


Advances in technology have the possibility to transform the lives of people with a vision impairment. Mobile telephones, camera technology, computer software, satellite navigation equipment, "SMART Housing Technology", delivery of information and DAISY books, etc. are just a few of the opportunities and exciting developments that have a major impact on the lives of many vision impaired people.
This Virtual Committee aims to share ideas, pioneer and advertise low cost solutions and IT equipment and promote the training for vision impaired people in how to use it.