Would I be able to install an extremely high res camera? The higher the resolution, the more there is to process and the lower the frame rate will be regardless of the how many frames per second the camera is able to produce.
Problem: When I click the go to center button, the turret is not quite centered. Solution: You can adjust the x and y limited in the settings.txt file which will adjust where center is because it splits the difference.
Problem: I plug the board into the usb to usb mini cable and a amber led blinks that is it. Solution: The USB cable you are trying to use is typically the problem.
How well can it see at night? That totally depends on the camera you are using and the lighting. Most cameras have IR filters in them so IR illumination is not an option unless you remove the filter. Analog security cameras with built in IR illumination can be used but you have to also use a $10 Analog-to-USB converter so that the camera can be using in windows. It is usually best to use your own illumination in the form of LED flood lights though.
Can the system be used to point a flashlight at targets? Not at this time. The flashlight will interfere with targeting.
Can this detect, tract and shoot flying insects? Yes, if you use a camera that is zoomed in a lot and high gear ratio gear boxes for the servos so that the movement is very limited but very precise. Many people have already done this though and found it to be a impractical solution to the problem of killing mosquitoes though.
Can I use larger, 12v servos or stepper motor 'servos'? Steppers will not work because they are open loop. 12v may work. See the 'pololu maestro' servo controller documentation. People typically find though that the problem they were attempting to solve by using larger servos was not a problem after all.
Does the program require internet access to tun? No, it doesn't.
Is there way I can use an electronic trigger? Yes, a ~$10 pololu servo controlled relay can be used.
Would the software support a thermal imaging camera? Yes, if it can be seen as a usb video device in windows.
Will the software work if used on a moving platform? No, the camera must be still.
Do you ship to X country? Yes.
WHat is the cost to ship to X country? The shipping prices are listed on each product page.
I recently ordered the starter kit. Can you tell me when it will arrive? When the label is printed, payapl send an email to you with the tracking information.
Can I use a Raspberry Pi? No, the software isn't written in a language that it supports and the Pi is too slow anyway.
Can I use the pololu controller that I already have and just get the software by itself? No, the pololu controller we use has modified firmware.
Can the Kinect be used? Yes. It doesn't work outdoors very well though because it is blinded by the sun.
Can I use an arduino? No, the pololu controller was picked over the arduino after extensive testing. It performs far better for this task and is also less expensive.
Will the software run on Linux, Android, iOS, or Mac? No, it will not.
After I buy the Starter Kit can you email the software to me? It wouldn't matter if we emailed it to you since it only works with the modified pololu controller that is shipped to you. As soon as you opened it it would complain about the missing controller and would not run.
How much weight can the Heavy Turret hold? About 20lbs.
Can I use stepper motors or open-loop servos? No, open loop motors will not work for this software, or for systems like this in general. In other words, any motor that is told to move a direction instead of a specific position will not work regardless of the use of encoders. The main reason is because the computer is making an assumption of position based on encoder tick counts or elapsed time. Several commonly occurring events make that assumption incorrect. Another problem specific to steppers is that they are generally slow and power-hungry.
This software was tested with Windows XP SP2 & 3 and windows 7 32 & 64bit. It has been reported to work with vista. It runs faster and more smoothly on XP. As an experiment, an Acer Aspire One model D255E with win7 starter was tested for frame rate and then XP Pro was installed (all other variables like hardware and drivers were the same). The result was a significant increase in frame rate and smoothness with XP.
Read the readme file and go through the steps in the video below. Make sure the drivers are installed for your camera (Logitec Pro 9000 is recommended) and the there is good lighting.
Setup the turret hardware and servos using the instructions found here.
You should now have a video source running and the turret hardware setup so the that the sliders in the turret calibration tab move the servos as expected.
Initial calibration must be done before the system is used for the very first time and any time a new/different camera is installed. It does not need to be done when swapping paintball/airsoft guns. Instead, an adjustable offset value is used to line the new gun up to the existing calibration map. A popular method with the portable turrets is to calibrate the system against a large wall whose distance from the system is equal to the average distance you expect targets to appear.
There should also be a laser on the paintball gun which is helpful to indicate exactly where the gun is aiming. Be aware that the laser will be very difficult to see outdoors in daylight. It may be best to do calibration at night for this reason.
Use the default calibration mode (leave 'alternate calibration mode' and '360 mode' unchecked).
Look at the image labeled Calibration Example in the turret control folder to get an idea of the general concept.
Put the software in Calibration mode and select a target area with the 'Set Target Area' button.
Select the Turret Calibration tab and click the 'Start Calibration' button.
Move the turret with the X and Y sliders while using the laser on the pb gun as a guide (or the video feed from the zoom camera if there is one) to where the turret is aiming. Aim the turret with the slider so that the you can see the laser dot near the bottom left edge of the target area in the software as illustrated in the example picture.
When the 9th point is set you are done. Click the calculate button.
Mouse Aiming mode should now be used to test calibration accuracy. If, as you slowly move the mouse, the turret moves in the opposite direction, click the appropriate 'reverse axis' checkbox, click the calculate button again, and retest. Do not expect the laser to be an accurate indicator of where the pb/airsoft gun will actually shoot since the paintball/BB will drop a little depending on distance. Because of this, after calibration, you will likely need to use offsets to align the pb/airsoft gun. To do this, use mouse aiming mode and fire test shots. Adjust the offsets until the shots land where the mouse it pointed.
The default setting are pretty good for most scenarios but the settings on this system are so flexible that it can easily be set up to perform poorly if not adjusted correctly. If the settings were dumbed down and simplified, the system wouldn't have the flexibility to operate correctly in such a wide variety of scenarios. The pop-up tool-tips that appear as you hover your mouse over each setting should be very helpful. The combination of those and about a week of experimentation should teach you what you need to know to set it up correctly. We're always available to answer questions over email.
The object recognition features in this software are very flexible. In general the software compares each new target to images in the Reference Targets folder. Then based on user settings, accepts or reject them as a match. Keep the images relatively small and remove target images that are not going to be needed or used. Too many images or images that are very large may slow the software down.
To add more reference images: while in auto targeting mode, simply click the target as it's being tracked. The software will find the target closest to your click point, create a new folder labeled "[date] Motion Image", and save the motion image to that folder as a time stamped bmp file. Then you need to rename it with a description followed by a 2 digit number and move it to the Reference Targets folder. A list of example file names would be Person01.bmp, Person02.bmp, Dog01.bmp, etc. Once you're finished you would click Update Reference Image List (or restart the program) and the new object will be added to the list. From there you can select how and if you want to filter them.
To remove reference images: The program will need to be closed first. then you can move them out of that folder to another one in case you may want to use them again later. When the program is started up again it will add whatever images are in the Reference Targets folder.
There are 2 categories of sound files, the ones played when a target is found and when a target is lost.
Manual Aiming is done by selecting Mouse Aim in the mode selector and simply hovering the mouse where you want the turret to aim. Firing is done with the left mouse button. It was built into the system to verify calibration.
Auto Aim is the primary mode of this system. When Auto Fire is enabled along with Auto Aim the system will automatically track, anticipate and engage targets based on the system settings. It's performance and accuracy is largely dependent on correct calibration and on how well the settings are adjusted.
Auto Fire has 3 main modes, Full Auto, Semi-Auto and Camcorder mode. In full auto the system will hold the trigger while a valid target is present. In semi-auto it will pull and release the trigger at a user specified interval and count down rounds as it fires. When rounds remaining equal zero it will cease fire. In camcorder mode it will press the record button on the camcorder when a target is first detected and press it again to stop the recording after no activity has been detected for a short amount of time.


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IZOD IndyCar Series: Iowa Corn Indy 250
Topics: Iowa Corn Indy 250
NEWTON, IOWA
THE MODERATOR: We are now joined by Ryan Hunter‑Reay of Andretti Autosport, you finished second. This is the second consecutive podium finish for Ryan at Iowa.
Ryan, the race today, obviously a little issue that brought you all the way back to 21, 22, to be able to bounce back to second, especially with the lap traffic out there, talk about today's race.
RYAN HUNTER‑REAY: Yeah, it was so challenging out there today. Just had a lot of imbalance in the first stint. I just had a lot of understeer and really had to push to get by Graham, and I just kept my foot in it trying to pop right out of the corner, and when I did I was right under his gear box. I just had no downforce on the front wing and when I turned it, there goes the front wing. It's that easy to make a mistake.
Had great day, had a lot of fun, got angry a few timesbecause of some lap cars that were just racing a little too hard. But it was a really good day, good points, to finish second after being dead last. And yesterday we had a nightmare of a day as well. So really happy that we were able to bring the No.1 DHL Chevy home in second. Would have liked the repeat but once again, the Andretti cars were the cars to beat here at Iowa.
Q. You passed more cars today than anybody else on the track, so just how difficult was that and how much did you have to pace yourself to be able to systematically get your way backup?
RYAN HUNTER‑REAY: Yeah, definitely had to pace myself, because it was difficult. Like Tony said, with these cars, the underlying characteristic is that they want to understeer quite a bit right in the run, right. So half ‑‑ inaudible ‑‑ tires to the end, it's very difficult, if somebody is running an optimum line that you're working with, and somebody that you're trying to pass is running that line, it can take you 20, 25 laps to even get a shot at them.
It was a difficult day, I had to be patient at times and overly aggressive at others. I had a really good day and I had really good car. It's a bummer when you have that good of a car and you come home second, but considering we came from the back of the pack to finish second in such a tight field, I have to be happy about that, or pleased about it, I should say.
Q. Big picture, what do you think this looks like to people who are watching it? You have a few that's different than we have, but what do you think it looks like to us?
RYAN HUNTER‑REAY: What?
Q. All the mixing and exchanging of positions and dive bombs.
RYAN HUNTER‑REAY: We look like a bunch of nuts out there, quite a few‑‑ anyway.
I'm sure with an action‑packed race‑‑ it was so busy. I think I had a clear track twice, and during that time, it felt like I was on vacation, it was so nice, and then you get back into the rough stuff and just dicing it you have and lap cars coming and then you have a guy for position or behind you while you have two cars in front of you for lap traffic, it was just nuts. That's what's great about this race. I really enjoy I think the night race is really great here. I think we put on a great show during the day, but I think in the end, more people come out at night for this race.
Q. First and second today; what is it about the Andretti cars that they run so strong here?
RYAN HUNTER‑REAY: We just figured out the short oval package, you know. Unfortunately the 28 team, or the No.1 team that you're talking about, the No.1, 28, we've won five I think of the last short ovals, dating back to New Hampshire, Milwaukee, Iowa, Milwaukee. So we came close to doing it again here, but they gave the drivers a great short oval car.
This track, you can see that everybody is very evenly matched when you're on new tires, because the imbalances in the car are not showing and when everybody starts sliding around, that's when the Andretti cars go to the front. We just have great set up and definitely have to credit the engineering staff and the crew at Andretti for giving us those cars.

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Q: How to validate all fields using WPF MVVM? If I click the Create button, it checks that all fields are empty and validate or not. If anything is missing, it shows a validation message.
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<ControlTemplate x:Key="validationErrorTemplate">
    <ControlTemplate.Resources>
        <Style x:Key="textblockErrorTooltip" TargetType="TextBlock">
            <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center" />
            <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center" />
            <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Bold" />
            <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White" />
            <Setter Property="Margin" Value="10 0 10 0" />
        </Style>
    </ControlTemplate.Resources>
    <DockPanel>
        <Border Height="Auto"
            Margin="5,0,0,0"
            Background="#DC000C"
            CornerRadius="3"
            DockPanel.Dock="right">
            <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource textblockErrorTooltip}" DockPanel.Dock="Top"
                       Text="{Binding ElementName=customAdorner, Path=AdornedElement.(Validation.Errors)[0].ErrorContent}" />
        </Border>
        <AdornedElementPlaceholder Name="customAdorner">
            <Border BorderBrush="#DC000C" BorderThickness="1.3" />
        </AdornedElementPlaceholder>
    </DockPanel>
</ControlTemplate>

<TextBlock FontSize="20" Text="UserName"  Name="txtuserName" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="30" Width="163" Canvas.Left="426" Canvas.Top="172"/>
<TextBox MaxLength="10" Name="txtUserName" Validation.ErrorTemplate="{StaticResource validationErrorTemplate}" Text="{Binding MemberModelObj.MemberName, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, ValidatesOnDataErrors=True, NotifyOnValidationError=True}" FontSize="18"  Style="{StaticResource textblockErrorTooltip}" GotFocus="TextUserName_GotFocus" Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="24" Width="370" ></TextBox>
<TextBlock FontSize="20" Text="FullName" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="30" Width="102" Canvas.Left="426" Canvas.Top="241" RenderTransformOrigin="-1.275,0.967"/>
<TextBox FontSize="18" Validation.ErrorTemplate="{StaticResource validationErrorTemplate}" GotFocus="TextFull_GotFocus"  Background="Transparent" BorderThickness="0" Text="{Binding MemberModelObj.MemberFullName,Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, ValidatesOnDataErrors=True, NotifyOnValidationError=True}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="24" Width="367" Name="txtFirstName" />

I'm using IDataErrorInfo interface in Model Class.
Model:

public string this[string columnName]
{
    set { columnName = value; }
    get
    {
        switch (columnName)
        {
            case "MemberName":
                if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(MemberName))
                {
                    result = "! Please Enter a User Name";
                }
                else if (MemberName.Length >= 30)
                {
                    result = "! Name can not be longer than 30 characters.";
                }
                break;
        }
        return result;
    }
}

It validates only before button click. But I excepted it after the button command or click event.

A: You could set the properties that need to be validated as defaults, like empty string in your AddNewMember() method. That would trigger Validation. Or create a public Validate() method on your object that implements IDataErrorInfo interface, where that method would validate everything. So when you create a new member, call the Validate() method after construction should do it.

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Take the honesty out of a relationship and what you are left with is a lot of caring and a big question mark as far as trust is concerned. And nobody wants a giant question mark sitting in the middle of a good relationship tanking up the valuable space where trust should occupy.
Trusting another person comes down to a personal decision and if that person decides to let you down...Remember they made a choice to do so and since everyone deserves to be with a truthful and caring person if you find they can no longer be that, then why stay any longer?
It's very hard to trust a person to do the right thing after they have crossed that line and staying in the relationship may cause you unnecessary strain in your life. Let them make the choice because its ultimately up to you how many lies you are willing to put up with in the end.


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ALTER to modify existing data in a table.
The create command is used to create a table.
A Table name should be unique, i.e., it must not match with existing tables.
A Table name and column name must start with alphabet, must not match with reserved keywords, and should be combination of A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and '_' (underscore) having maximum length up to 30 characters.
Each column definition requires name, datatype and size for that column.
Table name and column name are not case sensitve generally . But if they are enclosed within double quotes, then they are case sensitive.
Each column defintion is seperated byfrom other by a ',' (comma).
Alter command used to modify structures of a table.
This command adds a new columns in an existing table. Initially, this column will not contain any data. If required, data can be filled for this column using UPDATE command.
This command deletes an existing column from the table along with the data held by that column.
This command sets newDatatype and newSize as datatype and size for specified column respectively. The main aim of this command is to modify or change the datatype and size of the column.
DROP TABLE command is used to delete or destroy table from a database.
The DROP TABLE command drops the specified table. This means, all records along with structure of the table will be destroyed.
Care must be taken while using this command, as all records held within the table are lost and cannot be recovered.
Logically, this is equivalent to DELETE statement that deletes all rows without using WHERE clause.
TRUNCATE operation drops and re-creates the table. This is must faster than deleting all rows one by one.
The deleted records cannot be recovered in truncate operation. while in delete operation, deleted records can be recovered using ROLLBACK statement.
DELETE to delete records from the table.
The INSERT command is used insert the data into a table or create a new row in table.
To insert user data into tables, "INSERT INTO ..." SQL statement is used. and stores the inserted values into respective columns.
The SELECT command is used to retrieve selected rows from one or more tables and displays on the screen. It is most widely used and required statement among all others in SQL.
Once a table is loaded with user data, these data can be retrieved in number of different manners.
here, an asterisk (' * ') is used as the meta character, and it indicates all the columns of a given table.
this statement retrieves all the columns and all the rows of the table.
This Statement retrieves only selected columns as specified with SELECT clause.
This Statement retrieves all the row of the table.
This statement retrieves only specific rows that specify the condition given with WHERE clause.
Multiple conditions can be combined with logical operators such as AND and OR.
Also, retrieves only specific rows that specify the condition given with WHERE clause.
The UPDATE command can be used to change or modify the data values in a table.
It can be used to update either all rows or a set of rows from a table.
This update command updates all rows from the table, and displays message regarding how many rows have been updated.
The SET clause specifies which column data to modify.
An expression can be a constant value, a variable, or some expression and it specifies the new value for related columns.
You can update specific rows by the WHERE clause, and displays message regarding how many rows have been updated.
The DELETE command can be used to remove either all rows of a table, or a set of rows from a table.
The DELETE command deletes all rows from the table, and displays message regarding how many rows have been deleted.
The DELETE command deletes rows from the table that satisfy the condition provided by WHERE clause. It also displays message regarding how many rows have been deleted.
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Marvel Studios 10th Anniversary Film Festival Coming To IMAX Theaters
By eelyajekiM | @ | August 13th, 2018 at 12:00 pm
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Marvel Studios, which began with 2008's Iron Man and has since become one of the premiere movie studios, building on its brand of superheroes. And now to commemorate all of that, Marvel Studios will release all 20 of their films in IMAX theaters. This Marvel Studios 10th Anniversary Film Festival will be only for a limited run, with the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe presented on certain days grouped by theme.
The event was announced via Marvel Entertainment's official YouTube channel; watch that video and check out the screening dates and themes here below.
Topics: Movies, News, Sequels
Tags: Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: The Dark World
Ranking The 17 Best and Worst Films Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe
By eelyajekiM | @ | November 2nd, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Marvel will be releasing Thor: Ragnarok this coming weekend. It's the 17th film they've released as a part of their ongoing successful Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not all of Marvel Studios' films are built the same, but they are a part of the larger universe that they are building. Each one of them serving its purpose that is leading towards a much bigger picture. So with each and every new installment comes its praises and criticisms.
While it is easy to say that every new Marvel Studios film is better than the last, the truth is some are not. So let's revisit our list by ranking all 17 Marvel Cinematic Universe films and seeing where Thor: Ragnarok places.
Topics: Features, Movies
Tags: Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The First Avenger, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: The Dark World
Ranking The Best and Worst Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe
By eelyajekiM | @ | July 6th, 2017 at 5:00 pm
Not all Marvel Cinematic Universe films are built the same, but they are all pieces of a larger puzzle. Each one of them serves some sort of purpose to tell its own story while also moving the universe towards a certain direction. So with each and every new installment comes new praises and criticisms.
While it is easy to say that every new Marvel Studios film is better than the last, the truth is, they are not. Some are better than others. With Spider-Man: Homecoming hitting theaters this weekend, I decided to rank all 16 MCU films that have been released, from worst to the best.
Tags: Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The First Avenger, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Thor: The Dark World
Empress Eve's Top 10 Favorite Movies Of 2016
By Empress Eve | @ | January 3rd, 2017 at 10:00 am
Now that 2016 is behind us, it's time for me to reveal my favorite Movies of 2016. On a global level, the year 2016 will go down in history as a difficult one, where we lost a lot of talented people and there seemed to be an overall negativity in the air (thanks in part to the general election here in the U.S). On a personal level, 2016 was not only difficult, but sorrowful, as I lost my father to cancer. My dad loved movies, and every time we got together, we would discuss the films we had recently seen. Dad got sick early in the year, so we didn't get to have our usual movie pow-wows.
My top movies are always of the blockbuster, superhero, scifi/fantasy variety, with some comedies sprinkled in, because I like to rewatch movies, so I tend to pick more uplifting titles as "favorites" — therefore, I'm not saying my list is of the "best" movies, they are just the ones I enjoyed the most and will likely rewatch to my heart's content.
Tags: 10 Cloverfield Lane, Bad Moms, Best Of, Best of 2016, Captain America: Civil War, Deadpool, Doctor Strange, Elvis & Nixon, Ghostbusters, Marvel, Movies of 2016, Neighbors 2, Rogue One, Rush, Sausage Party, Secret Life of Pets, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Boss, Yoga Hosers, Zootopia
Blu-ray Review: Marvel's Captain America: Civil War
By eelyajekiM | @ | September 13th, 2016 at 12:00 pm
3D Blu-ray | Blu-ray | DVD | Digital HD
Directors: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
Screenwriter: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, and Daniel Brühl
Rated PG-13 | 147 Minutes
Earlier this year, Captain America: Civil War stormed into theaters wowing audiences with its spectacular narrative and incredible splash-page sequence that no one could stop talking about. Now, Disney and Marvel are letting fans bring that home, as the film is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD. We've already reviewed the film and had some extra cool coverage during the press junket. Like my previous Blu-ray reviews, this won't be so much of a review of the film itself, but of the bonus features that come with it. Check it out below.
Here are the list of bonus features with a review below.
Topics: Blu-ray Review, Movies, Reviews
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Best Movies Of 2016 … So Far – Baadasssss' Picks
By BAADASSSSS! | September 1st, 2016 at 4:00 pm
The Summer of 2016 is over and the Fall movie season is upon us. As the studios and indies prepare to unleash the prestige pictures and family friendly blockbusters they have been holding on for this moment, I'm taking a look back at the ten best films I've seen so far this year. Please bear in mind that there are titles like The Neon Demon and Hell or High Water that I would love to see, but have not yet received the opportunity to do so. Who knows? They might just make my end of the year list. But, for now, here's my picks for the 10 Best Movies of 2016 … So Far.
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'Civil War' Directors Explain Why Steve Rogers Is No Longer Captain America In The MCU
Whenever a hero decides to pass the torch to another hero or just decide to live the rest of their lives as their alter-ego, it's a pretty big thing. But what happens when there is no one to pick up the shield in your absence. That is going to be the big question going into the Marvel Cinematic Universe post-Captain America: Civil War as one of the most prominent members of the Avengers will no longer be recognized by the patriotic moniker.
Civil War directors Anthony and Joe Russo recently revealed the fate of Steve Rogers' status as a hero, and what it may mean for the future of MCU. More on the story below, oh, and of course, spoilers below if you haven't already seen it.
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'Captain America: Civil War': A 12-Year-Old's Thoughts
By Dr. Zaius | @ | May 23rd, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Captain America: Civil War is the 13th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The ongoing film series started back with Jon Favreau's 2008 Iron Man, and has hit some incredible highs and some modest middles… honestly none of the films are bad, some just mildly disappointing. Directed again by the Russo Brothers (Captain America: Winter Soldier), the new film is the most challenging of the MCU thus far, asking the audience to choose sides over the Sokovia Accords, a treaty signed by hundreds of nations that would put the Avengers under the control of the UN. This is in response to all the past events in the series, but specifically an Avengers mission in Nigeria that stopped a sinister plot, but left many civilians dead. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is sick of watching his technology kill innocents, so he is firmly pro-Accords, whereas Captain America (Chris Evans) believes the whole point of the Avengers is to do what they feel must be done without interference. Things get more complicated when Cap's old best friend and former brainwashed Hydra assassin Bucky, aka The Winter Soldier, (Sebastian Stan) is blamed for a terrorist attack.
Civil War marks the beginning of the MUC's Phase 3, which includes a whopping 10 films, including standalones for Doctor Strange (November 2016), Spider-Man (July 2017), and Black Panther (July 2018), as well as sequels for Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy. By the time Phase 3 gets to the two-part climactic Infinity War saga in 2018-19, my son will be a 15-year-old high schooler. As for now, 12-year-old Brandon is obsessed with all things MCU. After seeing Civil War for a third time Thursday night, we got into a near hour-long Q&A about the film, the characters, and all things MCU. So I decided to track some of our talk in a little interview to give the pre-teen perspective.
Spoilers if you haven't seen Captain America: Civil War yet…
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Michael Keaton Re-Enters Talks To Star In 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'
Just a few weeks ago it looked like Sony and director Jon Watts were going to have to find a new actor to play the villain in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Academy Award winner Michael Keaton was the frontrunner for the role, as reports spread about his possible casting. However, the actor seemingly dropped out of the running.
However, it seems as though the thought of being in a Spider-Man movie that is now a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe could not escape the actor, as he is now back in talks to star in the same role. There are also reports that there will be more than just one villain in the film. Find out more here below.
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'Black Panther': Michael B. Jordan Reunites With Ryan Coogler For Marvel Film
By BAADASSSSS! | May 13th, 2016 at 7:05 pm
Just one day after it was revealed that Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) was in talks for a major (yet unspecified) supporting role in Black Panther, we have word that the hotly-anticipated Marvel Studios production is preparing to add another high-profile performer to the cast.
According to Borys Kit at the Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog, Panther director Ryan Coogler will be reuniting with his Fruitvale Station/Creed star Michael B. Jordan for the Marvel superhero adventure that has been in development for several years now and was announced as part of the studio's Phase Three release slate back in October 2014.
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Depressed? Try Therapy Without the Therapist
Elle is a mess. She's actually talented, attractive and good at her job, but she feels like a fraud — convinced that today's the day she'll flunk a test, lose a job, mess up a relationship. Her colleague Moody also sabotages himself. He's a hardworking, nice person, but loses friends because he's grumpy, oversensitive and gets angry for no reason.
If you suffer from depression or anxiety as Elle and Moody do, spending time with them could help. They are characters in a free online program of cognitive behavioral therapy called MoodGYM, which leads users through quizzes and exercises — therapy without the therapist.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a commonly used treatment for depression, anxiety and other conditions. With it, the therapist doesn't ask you about your mother — or look at the past at all.
Instead, a cognitive behavioral therapist aims to give patients the skills to manage their moods by helping them identify unhelpful thoughts like "I'm worthless," "I'll always fail" or "people will always let me down." Patients learn to analyze them and replace them with constructive thoughts that are more accurate or precise. For example, a patient could replace "I fail at everything" with "I succeed at things when I'm motivated and I try hard." That new thought in turn changes feelings and behaviors.
The success of cognitive behavioral therapy is well known; many people consider it the most effective therapy for depression. What is not widely known, at least in the United States, is that you don't need a therapist to do it. Scores of studies have found that online C.B.T. works as well as conventional face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy – as long a there is occasional human support or coaching. "For common mental disorders like anxiety and depression, there is no evidence Internet-based treatment is less effective than face-to-face therapy," said Pim Cuijpers, professor of clinical psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a leading researcher on computer C.B.T.
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MoodGYM, the pioneer, was developed by Australian psychologists in 2001. Now there are several similar programs in wide use and with good evidence behind them (and lots of junk programs that are completely ineffective).
MoodGYM and its kin are important because untreated mental illness is a huge global problem. Depression is the leading cause of disability for women worldwide, and the second-leading cause for men. If medical care is hard to come by in much of the world — in rural Indiana as well as rural India — mental health care is often impossible to get. In the United States, at least half of major depression goes untreated, and in very poor countries the figure is close to 100 percent.
Why don't people get treated? Many don't know they have a treatable disease, or don't believe that treatment will help them. Some know they have a problem, but the stigma of mental illness keeps them from facing it and seeking help.
Online therapy can't do much about those barriers. But it can help people who stay sick because there are no therapists nearby, who fear being judged or embarrassed in therapy, who can't take time off from work, or for whom the cost of treatment is too high. It allows people to carry therapy around in their pockets, use it at 2 a.m., and pay nothing or nearly nothing.
In the late 1990s, Helen Christensen, a mental health researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, and her colleague Kathleen Griffiths worked with local designers to create MoodGYM, which was adopted by Australia's national health system six years ago. Christensen is now the chief scientist at the mood-disorder research Black Dog Institute (named after Winston Churchill's famous term for his own depression), where she researches and designs more online programs. Among these are BiteBack for teenagers and MyCompass, which aims to treat anxiety, stress and depression in mature adults (MoodGYM is pitched younger, although older people use it, too). MyCompass is designed in small chunks, "something you can do at the bus stop on your mobile phone," said Christensen. Both are available to anyone with a computer worldwide.
MoodGYM was controversial when it first came out. "People did feel threatened," said Christensen. "They said it's unethical, harmful – you're doing damage and you don't know it. Or you're stopping people from getting the real help they need."
But MoodGYM has been widely successful, without the predicted consequences. About 100,000 Australians use it each year, as do people in 200 countries.
Australia is ground zero, but other online cognitive behavioral therapy programs are also widely used in the Netherlands, Sweden and Britain. In 2007, the British National Health Service begancovering a program called FearFighter for phobias and anxiety, and another program, Beating the Blues, for depression. Both can be used for no cost through participating National Health Service doctors, or bought to use alone. Beating the Blues costs the equivalent of $237. FearFighter is $154, or $313 if you want telephone support from clinicians.
In a medical setting, most doctors use online therapy in what's called a stepped model. Patients with mild to moderate problems start with the computer program, checking in every so often with a therapist or case manager. Those who don't get better are then treated face to face by a therapist and, if that doesn't work, by a specialist. (Patients with very serious issues start with in-person therapy.)
Online therapy is effective against an astonishing variety of disorders. A Swedish survey of studies found that online C.B.T. has been tested for 25 different ones. It was most effective for depression, anxiety disorders, severe health anxiety, irritable bowel syndrome, female sexual dysfunction, eating disorders, cannabis use and pathological gambling. "Comparison to conventional C.B.T. showed that [online] C.B.T. produces equivalent effects," the researchers concluded.
Cuijpers said there were fewer studies of online therapy to treat insomnia, pain and alcohol abuse, but what's been done has shown good effects. (Last week the Upshot published one contributor's story of his success using online C.B.T. for insomnia.)
MoodGYM, like some other programs, can be completely self-guided. People who use these programs alone tend to see a small but significant effect — the program helps, but not as much as the same program with occasional human contact. That could be check-ins with a therapist, but it doesn't have to be. The human could be a case manager or possibly a peer. Encouragement and support are what count, not expertise.
The main reason self-guided C.B.T. doesn't work as well is that people tend to stop using it. The human touch encourages people to stick with it. One study of adolescents found that almost 60 percent of users stopped MoodGYM after the first module when they were working unsupported on their own. When the same program was used with monitoring and support, only 10 percent stopped.
"Well, it's called Mood Gym," said Marcia Valenstein, a psychiatrist at the University of Michigan Medical School who is researching online C.B.T. with peer support among veterans at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System. "Even the gym gym people are enthusiastic and go for a day or so — and then they stop."
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Michigan is one of the few places in America working with cognitive behavioral therapy online. Others are Kaiser Permanente in Oakland and the University of Pittsburgh. (The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a co-owner of theAmerican version of Beating the Blues.)
Why so few? One possible reason for America's resistance is that doctors fear lawsuits; what if a patient whom a doctor starts with an online program commits a mass murder? (Perhaps wide access to online therapy plus gun control would be a good plan.)
Also, the American medical system likes to have testing done in the United States before it takes something seriously. The extensive research with Australian, British, Swedish and Dutch patients might not be persuasive here.
Perhaps most important is the lack of an influential champion. Ideas don't spread by themselves. And just as important would be bringing online C.B.T. to the attention of the World Health Organization. Poor countries are where it's needed most.
The reception for online cognitive behavioral therapy isn't uniformly warm — and the dissenters are not just therapists worried about being put out of business (if only untreated depression were that scarce a commodity). One big issue is that someone seriously ill might waste time tootling around with an online program, not realizing he needs more help. Or he might use a program that isn't right for him. It's safer, of course, if a therapist sees the patient and then prescribes online therapy. That's an efficient use of therapists — but it still requires a therapist, and that negates some of online C.B.T.'s advantages.
Over all, the benefits of online cognitive behavioral therapy are persuasive. It allows people who could not otherwise get therapy to get it — and can help psychotherapists and specialists focus on more complex cases. It saves money for patients and health systems. And the online clinic never closes. When you can't sleep for worry and it's 3 a.m., your therapist is there for you
Customization is another benefit. Bruce L. Rollman, an internist who is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is studying an online program tailored for patients with heart failure — a group in which depression is common. Depression can kill in many ways. One is by keeping you from dealing with other illnesses; people who are depressed are less likely to take their meds and do their exercises. So one way to treat heart disease is to treat any accompanying depression. "And if you apply depression treatment to high-cost patients, you are much more likely to save money," said Rollman.
Ricardo Muñoz, a professor of clinical psychology at Palo Alto University, sees online C.B.T. as a tool for preventing depression. "We know that if a person develops a major depressive episode, the likelihood of another one goes to 50 percent, up from 17 percent," he said. "After that, the likelihood of another goes to 70 and then 90 percent. Obviously, we need to be preventing the first one."
Face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches people skills they can use to improve their mood, is well-suited for prevention of depression. But the health insurance system is not. No one will pay for face-to-face therapy for someone who doesn't yet have a disorder. There is a clear need here for the online version.
Why stop there? Muñoz envisions translating and adapting the basic therapy to tailor it to different syndromes, co-illnesses and languages: a Swahili-speaking kidney dialysis patient with depression could get exactly the right program. "I dream of systematically filling in a grid in which columns are health issues (smoking, depression, anxiety, obesity, pain, alcohol and other substance abuse and so on) and the rows are languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, etc.)," he wrote in an email. "This is totally within our ability to do right now. We have the knowledge and the digital tools."
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How do you calculate the value of product placement in hip hop songs? Joe Sabia's CDZA ("Collective Cadenza") project on YouTube attempted to do just that, with a virtual 56 million dollar hip-hop shopping spree.
Prices were calculated based on current retail or market value, not resale value. For vehicles, values for the most part were selected from the high end of the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price range.
Chamillionaire - Ridin Dirty: We went with the PS1 price, even though Chamillionaire can probably afford a PS2.
Nelly - Air Force Ones: We should have gotten white ones, sorry.
R. Kelly - Ignition Remix part 2: Got this empty bottle of magnum Cristal off of eBay for 25 bucks.
Far East Movement - Like a G6: CDZA doesn't provide items to rent. We only provide items to BUY.
This edition of CDZA's weekly musical experiments features Mark, Todd and Stasia from the Key of Awesome.
Related: CDZA merch, and an MP3 download, neither of which cost $56 million.


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Am I a grown up? Yes. Do I watch ABC Family's Twisted? Yes. Am I Ancient-Egypt-obsessed? Yes. So the news that Avan Jogia is going to play King Tut in a miniseries that also stars Ben Kingsley is KILLING me.


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My jewellery making experience feeds into my art works for which I use a variety of media and techniques including decoupage, collage, paint effects and patinas. My materials include sculptural metal and found objects. Many of my works feature wrapping and pleating of metal to create textural overlays on my sculptural forms.
I really enjoy using recycled materials, transforming them in different contexts to imbue them with new meaning. As well as my smaller domestic works, I also work on a larger scale, having completed commissions for larger works in New Zealand and abroad.


I have introduced Perri Jackson a.k.a. Shaktipaj Jewelry Designs's latest Wire Jewelry Tutorial (Perri's Chain Weave Wirework Donut Bail) last month, and these are some variation pieces done by Donna Spadafore a.k.a. Gailavira Jewelry.
The first two pictures in this blog post were her first two attempts. As she claimed: "I couldn't wait. I got all my orders filled as quickly as I could this morning so I could have a try at Perri Jackson's new tutorial. The chain part of the weave didn't come out as even as I had hoped, but not bad for a very rushed first try I guess. I decided to do the back a little differently so it would look different than the front to make it reversible (the original back is still pretty enough to be reversible, I just wanted something different)."
Above picture shows that Donna had introduced beads to the weave, she shared that by introducing beads in between weaves actually makes it harder to keep the weaves all even and centered, she thinks she'll try keeping the frame just a tiny bit wider than the beads in her next attempt so that it will keep it all in line better.
First picture: 20mm frosted black Agate donuts in copper. She used 28g for the weave and made it very narrow.
Second picture: Copper and blue Aventurine. Donna used a 50mm donuts. She combined the chain weave with another technique from her own hyacinth house tutorial for the bottom part of the design. It was a little tricky getting it started since she had to start on the narrow end. She ended up starting with only one chain, then having it branch off into two as the weave became wider.
As for the bracelet, she decided to add some beads as it's focal. The 4mm beads worked into the weave very well.
Hope you're inspired after reading, happy weekend all!


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Android Q is Android 10, Google makes naming simpler
Posted on August 25, 2019 August 25, 2019 by Akash
Google is making Android naming simpler & create less confusion in the user's mind.
Over the last decade, Android's open platform has created a thriving community of manufacturers and developers that reach a global audience with their devices and apps. This has expanded beyond phones to tablets, cars, watches, TVs and more—with more than 2.5 billion active devices around the world. As we continue to build Android for everyone in the community, our brand should be as inclusive and accessible as possible—and we think we can do better in a few ways.
First, we're changing the way we name our releases. Our engineering team has always used internal code names for each version, based off of tasty treats, or desserts, in alphabetical order. This naming tradition has become a fun part of the release each year externally, too. But we've heard feedback over the years that the names weren't always understood by everyone in the global community.
For example, L and R are not distinguishable when spoken in some languages. So when some people heard us say Android Lollipop out loud, it wasn't intuitively clear that it referred to the version after KitKat. It's even harder for new Android users, who are unfamiliar with the naming convention, to understand if their phone is running the latest version. We also know that pies are not a dessert in some places, and that marshmallows, while delicious, are not a popular treat in many parts of the world.
As a global operating system, it's important that these names are clear and relatable for everyone in the world. So, this next release of Android will simply use the version number and be called Android 10. We think this change helps make release names simpler and more intuitive for our global community. And while there were many tempting "Q" desserts out there, we think that at version 10 and 2.5 billion active devices, it was time to make this change.
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The Android brand has evolved over time. Back in 2014, we updated our logo and brand color, and this year, we're introducing a more modern, accessible look.
The design of the logo draws inspiration from the most recognizable non-human member of the community, the Android robot. The robot belongs to everyone in the community, and has long been a symbol of the fun and curiosity at the heart of Android. Now, it has a special place in our logo.
We also changed the logo from green to black. It's a small change, but we found the green was hard to read, especially for people with visual impairments. The logo is often paired with colors that can make it hard to see—so we came up with a new set of color combinations that improve contrast.
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My 1 year olds favorite toy right now is definitely her blocks. At 21 months old she can stack up to 9. She needs no prompting from me. After watching her do this daily I wondered why her mind seems to be craving these type of toddler activities. I mean, building blocks is hard work for a tiny toddler.
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Building blocks is one of the best educational toys for toddlers that develops multiple skills in a child.
Haba First Blocks – This is like the one I have except that mine came with a wooden wagon.
Giant Building Blocks by Imagiplay– I personally LOVE the cardboard blocks but unfortunately they do not sell them here in South Africa. I used to play with those as a child.
Melissa & Doug 100 piece wooden block set – I don't have this one yet but I would love to purchase this. This is great for an older child.
Have you seen the "Peekaboo" ones? They have the alphabet on them, which also makes them double as a learning tool.
p.s. Love the pictures! Your little girl is adorable, and your white balance looks fine to me!
Love your photos, so gorgeous. My little girl is three and she still loves stacking blocks!
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The first ever fluoropolymers up-cycling facility has been opened, as part of a partnership formed between 3M subsidiary Dyneon, the University of Bayreuth and the InVerTec institute. The up cycling plant in Burgkirchen was created to reuse waste that had been created from the manufacturing of perfluorinated polymers.
It is hoped that the plant is able to up cycle around 500 tpa of fluoropolymer waste and was made possible by a US$1.1 mln grant from the German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU). The up cycling facility will become part of the closed loop manufacturing plant at Dyneon, as fluoropolymers that are unnecessarily created will undertake a pyrolysis process, which turns them into gaseous monomers. They are then cleaned and re-entered into the production process, so the total amount of waste is reduced. Dyneon will not only be eliminating waste with the facility, but the company will also save considerable energy as part of this new manufacturing setup.


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TtD supplement #33 : seven questions for Kayla Czaga
Kayla Czaga is the author of For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions, 2014), which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and a Canadian Authors Association Literary Award, and won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her chapbook, Enemy of the People, is forthcoming in fall 2015 from Toronto's ANSTRUTHER PRESS. She lives in Vancouver.
Her poems "The Five-Year Plan (1928-1932)," "The Five-Year Plan (1928-1937)," "Plan (1938-1941)" and "Home, 1935" appear in the sixth issue of Touch the Donkey.
Q: Tell me about the poems "The Five-Year Plan (1928-1932)," "The Five-Year Plan (1928-1932)," "Plan (1938-1941)" and "Home, 1935."
A: These poems are from a series of snapshots of the life of a semi-fictive man named Alexy and his family in Soviet Union. The Five Year Plans is told in third person, but home is told from his POV. My goal was to tackle historical fiction in poetry, using form as a way to capture State Procedure (and oppression) and the ways that citizens submitted and rebelled to it. People were being erased during the Five Year Plans and self-erasure seemed to capture that better than straight-forward narrative poetry. In Home, I wanted to explore Alexy's own potential thoughts, wrestling with the state-answers, so I chose a longer-lined lyric.
Q: I'm curious as to why you chose poetry as the form in which to explore, as you say, "historical fiction." Why not utilize fiction itself, or even non-fiction? What do you feel the form of poetry allows you that other forms wouldn't?
A: The short answer would be that I am primarily a poet, so it's the genre that comes most naturally to me. A longer answer would be that, at the time of I started writing Enemy of the People (my Soviet book), I was really into Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. I had never seen a book-length narrative poem before (besides, I suppose, Beowulf) and it really excited me, so I began with that in mind. The deeper I got into the project, the more poetry seemed to suit the various contents—the repetition and doublespeak of propaganda, the lyric narratives shattered and rehashed by the state, the wild avant garde cubist and futurist arts. Poetry allowed me to speak in many different ways, with various lenses, about the same subject.
Q: How does this compare to the other work you've been producing, such as For Your Safety Please Hold On?
A: It's really difficult to answer the question, "how is this project different from your other project." They felt the same to write. There was the same urgency to "get it down/record it." The language arrived in the same sort of way as with FYSPHO. I see the same preoccupation with family and group hierarchies in both projects. I think ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE pushed me towards using different forms and modes more often. Because I was trying to capture a whole time period—daily life, architecture, media, politics, music and film, etc.—I almost had to invent a new form for every poem I wrote, from self-erasure to list to found to trying to replicate Shostakovitch's rhythms in words. I guess, in a general way, FYSPHO felt more personally challenging, while ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE stretched my technical muscles.
Q: The idea of "getting it down" is a prevalent one. Where does this urgency come from, and who have your models been for attempting to record historical information in such a way?
A: One of my very first poetry professors, Tim Lilburn, talked a lot about the "urgency" of a poem. Basically, he meant that the reader could sense the writer's excitement and investment in the poem/project. He really encouraged me to probe down deep into the dark and violent heart of the Soviet Union, to submerge myself. I think that's how he operates too, with that sort of deep immersion. I basically ate, drank, and lived Soviet documents until that's all that was coming out of me. Other writers I admire who tackle history: Anne Carson, Kevin Young, Ilya Kaminsky (more personal history in his case, mixed with Ukraine's).
Q: I suppose the real question is: what drove you to explore this particular expanse of history? What was it that drove you to compose poems about "the dark and violent heart of the Soviet Union" of the 1930s?
A: Why do we like what we like? I don't know. Steven Price once told me that I needed to discover why I was writing about the Soviet Union or the project would not sustain my attention, or it would become too expansive and lack a focal point. It does feel too expansive, he's right, but I haven't lost my fascination. I think any attempt to pin down the "why" would be a bit reductive. The project is a dear friend to me. We've known each other a long time. I could describe her personality, but that wouldn't really tell you why we spark together. I will give you one reason, but it is not the complete reason.
The project began with a photograph, a very famous photograph of Stalin on a bridge that Nikolai Yezhov had been deleted from after his unpersoning. So, I wrote a poem about this photo and I began to research more about the period. Gaps in reality is a big focus of the project—propaganda, altered censuses, public lies. I am very interested in how Stalin could say, "life is getting better…more fun" during his great purges. I am interested in the fabrication of history and how it bumps up against the lives of ordinary citizens. The second section of my chapbook deals primarily with documents and politics.
In the first section, I created a Soviet family out of the myth of Alexy Stakhanov—a miner who was reported to have mined an improbable amount of coal. Various towns built monuments to him, were named after him, drank to him. Under all that mythology was a regular, maybe slightly stronger, guy who was living an actual life somewhere. I spent several poems wondering who this guy was, who his family was, how many of his family members were unpeopled. He also became kind of an everyman figure--there was a whole Stakhanovite movement, so the poems are not exclusively about him, but about all of the Alexys.
The chapbook coming out in the fall is just a sampling of where this project is going. It is still very much in progress.
Q: Where do you feel your work might be headed?
A: To a less manicured place, maybe. I just graduated my MFA last month and I have no plans of enrolling in further writing classes, so this will be the first time I don't have a group of readers underlining things they don't like in my poems and telling me why they stink. Of course, I have a couple of close first-readers who will keep helping me, but I think my work will get a bit freer outside of the academy. I hope to be less concerned with what my advisors and peers are looking for.
There are things I really want to write about—labia, Khrushchev, northern BC, Nintendo—but I don't know if any of that will happen, as I am pretty bad at predicting what comes out of the pen. I really want to write a short poem, like a ten line/under 100 words poem, but my voice doesn't want to bend that way. One day.
A: Whenever I verge on taking the whole thing too seriously, I read some of Russell Edson's prose poems. A few other favs (i.e.: people whose books don't stay on the shelf very long): Anne Carson, Ilya Kaminsky, Sylvia Legris, Matthew Zapruder. Also, every few months I re-read Ulysses by Tennyson (embarrassing, I know).
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Reviewed Title: The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy. Berg, Maggie and Barbara K. Seeber, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 128 pp. ISBN: 978-1442645561.
Cosgrove, Walker (2017) "The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (Book Review)," Pro Rege: Vol. 45: No. 4, 35 - 37.


One of the best fish dishes in Denmark is a breaded plaice (or just dusted in rye flour), preferably fried up as a whole fish in butter. But it's not a dish you come by every day, we'll only if you are a Fisherman. I still remember my father coming home with the fish so fresh that they were still alive. He put the fish in the bathtub with water, and the fish were swimming.
Most Danes have had breaded filets of plaice on rye bread, served with remoulade (a sweet tartar sauce). Often the fish was frozen and already breaded. This is nothing like the fresh fish, but it's will do in a busy lifestyle. If we wanted a fancier dish, we had a "stjerneskud" (shooting star). A stjerneskud is a breaded fried and a poached plaice filet. Topped with mayonnaise, cold water shrimps and caviar of lumpfish-roe, either served on rye bread or some good white bread.
I found that sole is a good substitute for plaice, so I was happy to have my childhood favorite fried fish with remoulade.
Add the salt and pepper to the flour.
3: breadcrumbs, again make sure the whole fish is covered, and shake the excess breadcrumbs of.
This way the breading will stay on the fish. Otherwise it has a tendency to break apart when flipping the fish.
Heat the skillet and add oil and butter. When the butter stops foaming, gently add the fish. Cook the fish for about 2-3 minutes on each side.
Serve immediately on rye bread with remoulade and a lemon wedge. The fish can also be served with boiled potatoes and a white parsley sauce.


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package org.apache.drill.exec.physical.impl.scan.v3.file;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.apache.drill.exec.physical.impl.scan.v3.ManagedReader;
import org.apache.drill.exec.physical.impl.scan.v3.ManagedReader.EarlyEofException;
import org.apache.drill.exec.physical.impl.scan.v3.ReaderFactory;
import org.apache.drill.exec.store.dfs.easy.FileWork;

/**
 * Iterates over the splits for the present scan. For each, creates a
 * new reader. The file framework passes the file split (and the Drill
 * file system) in via the schema negotiator to the constructor which
 * should open the file.
 */
public abstract class FileReaderFactory implements ReaderFactory<FileSchemaNegotiator> {
  private Iterator<FileWork> splitIter;

  protected void bind(FileScanLifecycle scan) {
    this.splitIter = scan.fileScanOptions().splits().iterator();
  }

  @Override
  public boolean hasNext() { return splitIter.hasNext(); }

  @Override
  public ManagedReader next(FileSchemaNegotiator negotiator) throws EarlyEofException {
    FileSchemaNegotiatorImpl negotiatorImpl = (FileSchemaNegotiatorImpl) negotiator;
    negotiatorImpl.bindSplit(splitIter.next());
    return newReader(negotiator);
  }

  public abstract ManagedReader newReader(FileSchemaNegotiator negotiator) throws EarlyEofException;
}

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Q: Class not found in PHPUnit but recognized by Visual Studio Code When I run PHPUnit in my project, I come across with this issue.
$ vendor/bin/phpunit
PHPUnit 6.5.8 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Estring(29) "PHPFuzzy\Models\CriterionList"

Time: 59 ms, Memory: 4.00MB

There was 1 error:

1) FuzzyAHPTest::testDefineDecisionMaker
Error: Class 'PHPFuzzy\Models\CriterionList' not found

~/Documents/PHPFuzzy/tests/FuzzyAHPTest.php:10

ERRORS!
Tests: 1, Assertions: 0, Errors: 1.

tests/FuzzyAHPtest.php
use PHPFuzzy\Models\{FuzzyNumber as §, DecisionMaker, Criterion, CriterionList, Alternative, AlternativeList};
use PHPFuzzy\{ FuzzyMCDM, Utils };
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class FuzzyAHPTest extends TestCase{
    public function testDefineDecisionMaker(){
        var_dump(CriterionList::class);
        $subcriteria1 = new CriterionList([
            new Criterion("SubCriteria 1"),
            new Criterion("SubCriteria 2"),
            new Criterion("SubCriteria 3")
        ]);
        $subcriteria2 = new CriterionList([
            new Criterion("SubCriteria 4"),
            new Criterion("SubCriteria 5"),
            new Criterion("SubCriteria 6"),
            new Criterion("SubCriteria 7")
        ]);
        $criteria = new CriterionList([
            new Criterion("Criteria 1", $subcriteria1),
            new Criterion("Criteria 2", $subcriteria2)
        ]);
        $alts = new AlternativeList([
            new Alternative("Kia"),
            new Alternative("Nissan"),
            new Alternative("Alfa Romeo")
        ]);
        $dm = new DecisionMaker("Decision Maker 1", $criteria);
        $AHPSess = FuzzyMCDM::AHP($dm, $alts, $pcml);

        d($AHPSess->listPCMCombinations());
        // $this->assertEquals($expected->getMatrix(), $a->getMatrix());
    }

}

in composer.json
{
    "name": "bahadircyildiz/phpfuzzy",
    "description": "Fuzzy Logic library.",
    "keywords": ["fuzzy", "logic", "library"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Bahadir Can Yildiz",
            "email": "mail@bahadircyildiz.com"
        }
    ],
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=7.0",
        "markrogoyski/math-php": "^0.39.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "*",
        "kint-php/kint": "*"
    },
    "suggest":{
        "ext-operator": "Enables FuzzyNumber class to use arithmetic operators."
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "PHPFuzzy\\": "src/"
        }
    },
    "autoload-dev":{
        "psr-4": {
            "PHPFuzzy\\Tests\\": "tests/"
        }
    },
    "conflict": {
        "phpunit/php-timer": ">=2"
    }
}

And this is my File Structure
src/
  MCDM/
    FuzzyAHP.php
  Models/
    Alternative.php
    AlternativeList.php
    Criterion.php
    CriterionList.php
    ...
tests/
  FuzzyAHPtest.php
  ...

To sum up, I can dump the CriterionList classname, but when I want to create an instance, it can't find the class. On the other hand, Visual Studio Code references the class.

A: I found the solution. Composer didn't generate autoload files properly. Using composer update solved the issue.


Reflections: Liane Keane from Trout Creek, Montana submitted this gorgeous picture of reflections in the receding wave water near Gold Beach, Oregon.
It's such a peaceful place;far away from the polluted world. Nice picture.


Advanced robotics sensitive touch or next-generation wearable devices with sophisticated sensing capabilities could soon be possible following the development of a rubber that combines flexibility with high electrical conductivity. The new smart composite material, developed by researchers at the University of Wollongong's (UOW) Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences shows properties that have not previously been observed – it increases its electrical conductivity as it is deformed, especially when elongated.
Elastic materials (such as rubbers), are sought after in robotics and wearable technology, because they are inherently flexible and can be easily modified to suit a particular need.
To make them electrically conductive, a conductive filler (such as iron particles) is added to form a composite material. The challenge for researchers has been finding a combination of materials to produce a composite that overcomes the competing functions of flexibility and conductivity. Typically, as a composite material is stretched, its ability to conduct electricity decreases as the conductive filler particles separate.
Led by Senior Professor Weihua Li and Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Shiyang Tang, the UOW researchers have developed a material that throws out the rule book on the relationship between mechanical strain and electrical conductivity.
Using liquid metal and metallic microparticles as a conductive filler, they discovered a composite that increases its conductivity the more strain is placed on it – a discovery that not only opens up new possibilities in applications, it also came about in an unexpected way.
Dr. Tang said the first step was a mixture of liquid metal, iron microparticles, and elastomer that by a fortuitous accident, had been cured in an oven for much longer than normal.
"When we accidentally stretched a sample while we were measuring its resistance, we surprisingly found that the resistance reduced dramatically", Dr. Tang said.
"Our thorough testing showed the resistivity of this new composite could drop by seven orders of magnitude when stretched or compressed, even by a small amount. The increase in conductivity when the material is deformed or a magnetic field is applied are properties we believe are unprecedented". The results were published recently in the journal Nature Communications.
Lead author and Ph.D. student Guolin Yun said the researchers demonstrated several interesting applications such as exploiting the composite's superior thermal conductivity to build a portable heater that warms where pressure is applied.
"The heat increases to the area where pressure is applied and reduces when it's removed. This feature could be used for flexible or wearable heating devices, such as heated insoles", he said.
The research group has been studying materials that can change their physical state, such as shape or hardness, in response to mechanical pressure. With the addition of electrical conductivity, the materials become 'smart' by being able to convert mechanical forces into electronic signals.
"When using conventional conductive composites in flexible electronics, the decrease in conductivity upon stretching is undesirable because it can significantly affect the performance of these devices and compromise battery life. In this sense, we had to develop a composite material with properties that have never been observed before: a material that can retain its conductivity, or increases in conductivity, as it is elongated".
"We know that many scientific advances have come from unusual ideas. The exploration of unconventional fields and a lab culture that encourages innovation is more likely to bring unexpected discoveries".


The draw for the playoffs for accession to the group stage of the CAF Confederation Cup has been made on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt. The table of confrontations is quite rich with chunks from the Champions League.
Thus, Egyptian giants Al Ahly will face Moroccans of Difaa El Jadida, while Coton Sport will face Atletico Petro Luanda of Angola.
Other meetings such as Kaizer Chiefs – ASEC Mimosas, Horoya – Etoile Sportive du Sahel and the Malian duel between AS Real Bamako and Djoliba is worth paying a visit.
The first leg games are set to be played on April 18, 19 and 20 and the return matches on April 25, 26 and 27.
Next post UEFA Champions League: A 100% Liga shock, Man U to attack Bayern!


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Ha indossato la maglia della Nazionale gallese per la prima volta il 18 marzo 1989 a Cardiff, contro l'Inghilterra (12-9 per i gallesi).

Ultima presenza con la nazionale il 12 ottobre 1991 a Cardiff contro l'Australia (38-3 per gli australiani).

Collegamenti esterni

Conduttori televisivi britannici
Giornalisti sportivi britannici

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Ahmed Sosijewicz Chuczbarow, ros. Ахмед Сосиевич Хучбаров (ur. w 1908 r. w aule Guli w Czeczeno-Inguszetii w Rosji, zm. po 17 grudnia 1955 r. w ZSRR) – legendarny kaukaski bojownik antysowiecki w II poł. lat 40 i I poł. lat 50.

W 1929 r. jego ojciec został "rozkułaczony", po czym – ukrywając się przed aresztem – zbiegł do lasu. W 1943 r. samoloty sowieckie zbombardowały rodzinny auł A. S. Chuczbarowa, zabijając część mieszkańców. W 1944 r. rozpoczęły się deportacje narodów kaukaskich w głąb ZSRR, połączone z niszczeniem wszelkich przejawów ich życia kulturalnego. Oddziały NKWD i grupy specjalne zabijały ukrywających się Górali kaukaskich. Doprowadziło to do powstania  licznych antysowieckich oddziałów partyzanckich. Jednego z najbardziej znanych utworzył A. S. Chuczbarow. Przeprowadził on wiele akcji zbrojnych, w tym:
 9 czerwca 1944 r. oddział A. S. Chuczbarowa zabił w rejonie wsi Malari 6 żołnierzy z oddziałów pomocniczych NKWD,
 6 czerwca 1946 r. w rejonie wsi Chamchi rozbił grupę specjalną NKWD,
 w maju 1947 r. na obszarze Gruzińskiej SRR rozbił grupę milicyjną,
 w 1948 r. partyzanci wpadli w zasadzkę dużego oddziału NKWD. Udało im się wyrwać z okrążenia, ale w walce zginął brat A. S. Chuczbarowa Sołtmurad,
 podczas rajdu w górach  achmetowskiego i achałchewskiego rejonów Gruzińskiej SRR partyzanci rozbili 23-osobowy oddział NKWD i 5-osobową grupę specjalną,
 w styczniu 1949 r. 5-osobowa grupa pod dowództwem Ibi Ałchastowa, wydzielona z oddziału A. S. Chuczbarowa, przeprowadzając rajd, zabiła wielu tzw. aktywistów i milicjantów. Dopadła ją jednak specjalna grupa NKWD, zabijając wszystkich bojowników.
Ogółem w latach 1944-1953 oddział A. S. Chuczbarowa przeprowadził ok. 30 akcji zbrojnych przeciwko wojskom NKWD i NKGB oraz milicjantom i innym przedstawicielom służb siłowych ZSRR, zabijając prawdopodobnie ponad 100 osób. Ahmed S. Chuczbarow zyskał sobie przydomek "Górski Wilk", sam zaś nazywał się "ludowym mścicielem". Najwyższe władze sowieckie, zaniepokojone udanymi akcjami partyzantów, postanowiły ostatecznie się z nimi rozprawić. Po śmierci Józefa Stalina 5 marca 1953 r., A. S. Chuczbarow ograniczył działania zbrojne swojego oddziału. Miał nadzieję, że nowe władze zmienią swoją politykę w stosunku do jego narodu. Otrzymał on propozycję odbycia rozmów z płk. Szaduri, przedstawicielem służb bezpieczeństwa. Wierząc w szczerość intencji swojego rodaka, udał się na spotkanie. Pułkownik Szaduri zaprosił go na rozmowy z wyższymi oficerami MWD i KGB do Tbilisi. W rzeczywistości była to zasadzka i A. S. Chuczbarow 14 stycznia 1955 r. został aresztowany. W procesie 17 grudnia tego roku został skazany za działalność terrorystyczną na karę śmierci, natychmiast wykonaną przez rozstrzelanie.

Linki zewnętrzne
Walka zbrojna Ahmeda S. Chuczbarowa (jęz. rosyjski)

Bibliografia
Кавказские орлы, 1993

Ingusze
Kaukascy partyzanci antysowieccy
Urodzeni w 1908
Zmarli w XX wieku
Straceni przez rozstrzelanie
Straceni przez organa ZSRR


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This page will bring together my reading of 'The Myths' series, published by Canongate, in which modern authors retell or reimagine major myths from around the world. It was launched in 2005. Sadly Canongate appear to have put the series into hiatus, which is a shame.
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
The first book in the series is a scholarly appraisal of the world of myth and its importance to us. Armstrong's primer tells us about the evolution of human society and how myths are bound up in spiritual belief. Absolutely fascinating and an ideal starting point. My Review
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Penelope is the wife that Odysseus left behind when he went off to Helen's rescue and took twenty years to come home. Atwood's feminist retelling of the story from Penelope's point of view from beyond the grave together with a chorus of twelve hanged maids is full of Atwood's wit and candour. My Review
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
Winterson retells the story of Atlas, Heracles and his labour of fetching some of Hera's golden apples. Winterson doesn't take a conventional approach, she inserts herself as an obsessed narrator retelling the story. My review.
The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin
Translated by Andrew Bromfield
Lion's Honey by David Grossman
Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith
Where Three Roads Meet by Salley Vickers
Girl meets Boy by Ali Smith
Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong
The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber
Baba Yaga Laid An Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
The Hurricane Party by Klas Ostergren
Orphans of Eldorado by Milton Hatoum
Brazilian author Hatoum sets his tale early 20thC Manaus – before it became the capital of Amazonia. He weaves the myth of Eldorado, the fabled city of gold in with Amazonian myths and creates a love story when a young businessman falls for an orphan from upriver. My Review
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
You may remember the fracas that surrounded this one. How dare a non-believer take on the New Testament! Pullman finds a fascinating way of contrasting the Messiah and the man and writes with great simplicity to tell his version of the story. My Review, Write-up of the launch event
Ragnarok by A S Byatt
Byatt's masterly retelling of Ragnarok uses the framing device of a child discovering an old book of the Norse myths and telling us about them. Her version is steeped in nature which was particularly reguiling. My Review
The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino
Kirino bases her tale of two sisters, separated by becoming traditional priestesses of life and death on a tiny island in Japan, on the Shinto creation myth of Izanagi and Izanami. It has love, adventure and revenge, and explores the role of the goddess in myth. My Review
The Song of King Gesar by Alai


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The path less traveled: Research is driving solutions to improve unpaved roads
by Kansas State University
A Kansas State University graduate student sees the unpaved road ahead, and it's filled with biomaterial.
Wilson Smith, master's student in civil engineering, Independence, Mo., is working with lignin, a plant-based sustainable material that can be added to improve the quality of unpaved roads throughout Kansas.
More than 70 percent of the 98,000 miles of roads in Kansas are unpaved, Smith said.
"One of the problems with unpaved roads is that they are made from loose granular soils with particles that are not bound to each other on the road surface," Smith said. "This limits the speed of vehicles and often generates a lot of dust, denigrating the quality of the road."
But possible solutions could come from lignin, a biomass product that is present in all plants, including wheat straw, sugar cane and corn stover. Lignin is a waste product from other industries, including the production of biofuel and paper. These industries take plant mass and use the process of hydrolysis to separate useful materials, including cellulose and hemicellulose, from lignin.
"What we're trying to do is find new uses for this lignin co-product, which ties into sustainability," Smith said.
Several properties make lignin a valuable material. It is adhesive when it becomes moist, making it good for binding soil particles together and providing cohesion. As a result, lignin works very well on unpaved roads by providing better support for vehicles and protecting the road from erosion.
Because Kansas is an agricultural state, lignin is an abundant resource and has the potential to improve unpaved roads, leading to less maintenance costs throughout the state, Smith said.
"Lignin can be extracted from many types of crop residue, and it can also be an extra source of income to farmers and the agricultural community if there is a demand for this crop residue," Smith said. "Lignin is a sustainable product. It's 100 percent nontoxic, unlike traditional soil stabilizers such as flash or cement, which do have some heavy materials in them that could contaminate soil."
Smith is working under the direction of Dunja Peric, associate professor of civil engineering.
"Kansas is strategically positioned for using lignin to stabilize unpaved roads," Peric said. "Kansas is located in the midst of the Great Plains, which is one of the largest wheat producing areas in the world. In addition, the construction of the nation's first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant has recently begun in Hugoton."
For his research, Smith takes soil and mixes it with different amounts of water and lignin. He is testing five different lignin concentrations -- 2 percent, 4 percent, 6 percent, 9 percent and 14 percent -- to understand how different levels of lignin affect the soil cohesion and, consequently, road erosion.
Smith then lets the mixture dry in a controlled environment for different periods of time to understand how much it increases the strength of the samples. Other members of Peric's research team have been testing the strength of lignin samples immediately after they are mixed rather than allowing them to dry.
Once the materials are dry, Smith uses a direct shear device to determine the strength of the different mixtures. The direct shear device simulates the stress that unpaved roads experience when cars and heavy machinery drive on them.
"When vehicles drive on unpaved roads, there is a lot of dust that is thrown into the air," Smith said. "In addition, travel is impaired because of raveling and washboarding, which are forms of soil collapse on the top surface of the road. These are all things that can be mitigated by lignin because it holds the soil particles together and in place."
Based on early results, the materials with lignin concentrations of 4 percent, 6 percent and 9 percent show the highest strength benefits. Smith will spend the spring semester further testing all of the different concentrations and how their strength develops with the amount of elapsed time.
"We want to get an exhaustive analysis of how the cohesion varies when you change the concentration of lignin, the water content and the compaction," Smith said. "That will determine in the field, what percentage of lignin is the best concentration to stabilize the soil."
Smith will give a research presentation titled "Feasibility of Using Lignin: Plant Derived Material for Stabilization of Unpaved Roads" at the Capitol Graduate Research Summit in Topeka in February.
Provided by Kansas State University
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Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries, in collaboration with the Harvard University Office for Scholarly Communication, the MIT Libraries, and with inspiration from Jeff Spies, formerly of the Center for Open Science, have developed the Public Access Submission System, or PASS. The innovative web application helps researchers comply simultaneously with the open access policies of both their funders and their institutions.
While many federal agencies have policies that require research results to be made publicly accessible, the requirements to comply with these policies differ greatly from one agency to another. The varied processes for compliance have become burdensome for researchers and their institutions. For research that is funded by multiple agencies, it can be especially daunting to ensure compliance with each funder's access policy.
At the same time, many universities are implementing open access policies to ensure that research originating from their campus is as accessible as possible. As a result, researchers can be subject to multiple policies, each with its own workflow and requirements.
The initial release of PASS launched at Hopkins in July 2018. It provides functionality that reduces burden on, and increases value for, researchers who are required to submit articles for public access compliance. PASS automatically completes metadata fields based on DOIs (digital object identifiers), attaches institutional grants data to articles, and supports entry of free text descriptions, which can subsequently be used for data analytics.
Using standard protocols for deposit such as SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) programmatic interfaces, PASS simultaneously deposits content into PubMedCentral and institutional repositories. PASS also includes dashboards that display submission status for articles and associated NIH identifiers that are required to demonstrate compliance.
In addition to identifying requirements for the initial launch of PASS, in Spring 2019 Harvard will pilot the platform with their health sciences divisions and MIT will conduct user testing on it with their life sciences researchers. These efforts will expand PASS in a manner that will support its adoption by other institutions, to either use it locally or as software as a service.
PASS is an open source software project. The full code base, data model, and Docker containers can be found on GitHub. The development team plans to collect feedback on the initial release and consider other improvements and invites other institutions to participate in its development and use.
"Our hope is that other institutions adopt PASS and we collaboratively build and expand the platform," said Choudhury.
For more information about PASS, please contact sayeed@jhu.edu.
Originally posted on the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries blog, November 13, 2018, by Heather Stalfort.