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When Rebecca Romijn isn't teasing fans with her Star Trek characters, she's jumping aboard other unique projects. Per Deadline, the X-Men actress has signed on to star in Fangroia's Chelsea Stardust-directed film, Satanic Panic.
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Actress Rebecca Romijn is set to play Number One in the swecond season of Star Trek: Discovery. Anson Mount, who will play Captain Christopher Pike on the series, revealed the news during the Discovery panel at San Diego Comic Con on Friday.
Originally played by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's wife Majel Barrett, Romijn will be the second actress to ever to play Pike's second-in-command on a Star Trek television series. Romijn confirmed the news on Twitter.
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Skin Wars second season
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Rebecca Romijn returns as host, along with judge RuPaul Charles. GSN is betting on more Skin Wars.
On the heels of a strong summer ratings performance, the cable network has renewed the body-painting competition series for a 10-episode second season.
Rebecca Romijn returns as host, along with judges RuPaul Charles, Craig Tracy and Robin Slonina.
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GSN Orders Third Season of Original Series Skin Wars
The "battle of the brushes" continues as GSN, the leader in game shows and competitive entertainment, announced today it has ordered a 10-episode third season of the top-rated original hit series SKIN WARS, hosted by Rebecca Romijn (X-Men, The Librarians). The announcement comes on the heels of a successful season two finale, which drew over 1.1 million viewers.
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Filming "The Librarians" Season 2
The TNT television series "The Librarians" will film in public places throughout Forest Grove for four days next week. Shooting its second season, the series is a spin-off of The Librarian film series, and stars Noah Wyle and Rebecca Romijn. Both are expected to be in Forest Grove for filming. The series is produced by Electric Entertainment.
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Rebecca Romijn KsiteTV article
TNT's Librarian franchise becomes a weekly series on Sunday, December 7, as Rebecca Romijn takes the lead as a new character, Eve Baird, in a series called The Librarians.
The series will continue to have appearances by Noah Wyle as Flynn Carsen, and it also stars Christian Kane, Lindy Booth, John Kim, John Larroquette, and Matt Frewer, among others.
Even if you're not familiar with the franchise, it's easy to jump on for the new series, according to Romijn.
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Rebecca Romijn's Post Gazette Interview
Model turned actress Rebecca Romijn has played Mystique on the "X-Men" movie franchise and a transsexual (male to female) on the ABC television series "Ugly Betty," but most recently the 42-year-old has found herself in the library. She plays Col. Eve Baird on TNT's new action series, "The Librarians." She and actor husband Jerry O'Connell have twin girls. She was previously married to actor John Stamos. "The Librarians" premieres Dec. 7 on TNT at 8 p.m.
When you first started out as an actor, were you worried about being typecast because of your beauty?
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Skin Wars Interview
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GSN has put a new twist on reality competition shows with their newest show, "Skin Wars." Premiering tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, the show has rounded up 10 of the best body painters around and have them in a competition with amazing challenges and where their only canvas is the naked body.
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Oregon Live Interview
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Rebecca Romijn is one busy person. While she's still working on filming the first season of TNT's "The Librarians" in Portland, Romijn also made a brief appearance here at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the Television Critics Association 2014 Summer Press Tour last week, to promote another show, the GSN channel's "Skin Wars."
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Rebecca Romijn stars in "Librarians"
Two months after the cable network first eyed a revival of the property as a series, TNT has ordered 10 episodes of scripted drama The Librarians and tapped Rebecca Romijn to star, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
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Olivia didn't cry or make a scene. She just closed her eyes and waited for it to end.
If Everett had let her down, she would do everything to keep the child.
However, Everett treated her very well and made her willing to accept his cruelty s even if he didn't love her.
However, she didn't expect her mother-in-law to come when she was about to be pushed into the operating room.
"Stop right there!" Olivia opened her eyes.
Her mother-in-law came over angrily and pointed at the doctor. "Burke, are you really going to do this?"
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"What? Hurry up and send her back. Otherwise, our friendship for decades will be over!"
Leona said in a dominant manner. And Dr. Burke had no choice but to send Olivia back to the ward.
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She covered her relatively flat abdomen and whispered. "Baby, you're still here, aren't you?"
It's not a dream. It's true?
Leona came here quickly, and said to her, "Since both of you don't want this child, I will keep it. From now on, there will be someone taking care of you until you give birth to the child safely."
After saying that, she turned around and left.
Olivia stopped her. "Mom."
Leona stopped and looked at her with displeasure.
Olivia clutched her abdomen tightly and stared at her. "Mom, if this child is born..."
Leona interrupted her before she could finish. "The child will have nothing to do with you. You and Everett can do whatever you want."
Olivia grabbed her clothes in an instant.
It had nothing to do with her, but this was her child...
Olivia didn't know where her courage came from. She sat up. "Mom, can I take this child away?"
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How could a divorced woman take the Weston Family kid away?
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Her mother-in-law left angrily, and Olivia smiled bitterly.
She knew how naive her thoughts were, but she felt painful thinking that this child would have nothing to do with her in the future.
SHS Group, the skyscrapers towered into the sky. The view on the 56th floor was broad enough to look down on everything.
It was the tallest building in F City and was a symbol of power and status.
Everett stood in front of the large French window and looked down at the row upon row of tall buildings. His eyes were deep.
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"Mr. Weston, I heard from the hospital that your mother had taken Miss Hadley away."
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One of the fastest-growing therapies is healing with some form of sound. Cate Montana listens in
Back around 530 BC, Pythagoras, the first person in the West to declare the Earth was round, taught that music can bring the souls of men and women into harmony, calm the mind and restore the physical body to perfect health using harmonic ratios as a medicine for mental and physical diseases.
In ancient Greece, music became so widely respected for its impact on physiology that it was even used to improve the sports performances of athletes during the Olympic games. The ancient Egyptians used vowel sound chants in healing. Australian aboriginal peoples are believed to have used musical instruments for healing purposes more than 40,000 years ago. And now many forward-thinking therapists of many varieties are finding the power of certain sound frequencies to heal.
Sound is a vibratory waveform measured in cycles per second (cps, equivalent to Hertz or Hz) that varies with time (like voltage or current). The human ear can detect sounds from around 18 cps to approximately 18,000 cps, although as we get older our hearing decreases in acuity. Young children can sometimes hear above 20,000 cps, and dolphins and whales can produce and sense waveforms up to 180,000 cps.
It's important to remember that just because we don't hear something doesn't mean there isn't a sound. The entire universe is in a constant state of vibration, from the electrons moving around the nucleus of every atom to planets moving around their suns and distant galaxies moving around the galactic core. Everything is in motion and therefore making what can be perceived as sound. Pythagoras referred to this as "the music of the spheres."
But it's not just heavenly bodies that emit sound. Even the chair you're sitting on, the book you're reading, the carburetor in your car and the molecules that make up your body are in a state of vibration. In fact, each of them has a unique vibratory frequency.
The foundation of sound healing is based on the understanding that every bone, every organ of the human body, even every individual human body, has a unique signature frequency that can be manipulated and modulated by other frequencies. So if your liver is not operating at its correct frequency, for example, it can be 'tuned up' through the application of the correct sound vibration.
Jonathan Goldman, MA, an international authority on sound healing, pioneer in the field of harmonics, and director of the Sound Healers Association in Boulder, Colorado, says that when we are in "sound health," the human body is like an incredible orchestra playing the Symphony of the Self.
"But what if the second violin player loses their sheet music?" he asks. "They begin to play out of tune, out of harmony, and pretty soon the whole string section sounds off. Eventually the whole orchestra sounds off. This is a metaphor for a part of our body losing its normally healthy resonance frequency, its correct vibration. When this happens, we say it is diseased."
In the world of sound healing, there are two main methodologies: psychoacoustics and vibroacoustics. Psychoacoustics refers to sound produced from an external source that is consciously registered through our ears and our brain, such as from music, gongs, singing bowls and tones, thus affecting the entire nervous system.
Vibroacoustic therapy, as the name suggests, is primarily vibratory in nature, with sound delivered to the body in any needed location via speakers embedded in special massage tables, mattresses and reclining chairs, believed to affect the patient at a cellular and even a molecular level.
Chanting, humming and toning register in the ears and also directly vibrate the body of the person doing the chanting or toning. Goldman, who has authored a book called The Humming Effect (Healing Arts Press, 2017), says that simple humming increases oxygen in our cells, lymphatic circulation and melatonin, and lowers blood pressure and heart rate.
"If you are tense and stressed out, take a nice deep breath and hum for a couple of minutes," he says. "It's more effective than straight slow breathing. In fact they've done research that says humming and other self-created sounds improve heart rate variability better than deep breathing and singing. You also get boosted promotion of interleukin, a protein associated with platelet creation, you get increased levels of nitric oxide, which is a vasodilator that helps the body by loosening up the circulatory system, and you get the release of oxytocin, which is the trust hormone."
What medicine knows so far
Modern medicine has been tiptoeing into the arena of sound healing ever since the introduction of ultrasound—which uses sound frequencies higher than the range of human detection—to successfully break up kidney stones back in the 1980s, a process called extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL).1
Beyond its widespread use in medical imaging, such as to observe a fetus in the womb or diagnose various soft-tissue conditions, ultrasound is also currently used in mainstream medicine as a therapy for sports-related musculoskeletal conditions such as tendon injuries.2
As far as sound healing is concerned, there are studies showing effectiveness for a number of conditions. But a good deal more detailed scientific investigation needs to be done to fully understand its potential.
Music therapy has been shown to help reduce agitated behavior in elderly people with dementia while mitigating caregiver stress,3 and it can improve social communication and functional brain connectivity in children with autism.4 Music therapy has also proven useful in managing pre-operative stress before cancer surgery,5 and patients who listened to music while under general anesthesia had lower postoperative blood pressure and a calmer recovery.6
Studies show that vibroacoustics can be effective for managing pain, reducing stress and anxiety, reducing the symptoms of patients undergoing chemotherapy, improving muscle tone and increasing range of motion. It helps soothe patients prior to and after surgery as well as providing stimulation for the hearing impaired and developmentally disabled.7
Vibroacoustics has also been successfully applied to reducing swelling and pain in patients suffering from knee osteoarthritis,8 and there is some preliminary work suggesting that it might be able to treat symptoms of depression in the elderly.9
Tibetan singing bowls have proven to reduce stress, anxiety and depression as well as provide upliftment to the spirit.10 Group drumming is also effective for reducing anxiety and depression while increasing social resilience and shifting the immune system toward greater anti-inflammatory signaling.11 And by exposing mice to a unique combination of light and sound, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can improve cognitive and memory impairments similar to those seen in Alzheimer's patients - although these results in animals do not necessarily apply to humans.12
Dr David Perez-Martinez, an integrative psychiatrist in New York City, has been a therapeutic sound practitioner for 40 years and says that he sees its healing effects in his practice every day. "Sound affects human beings and living organisms at every level of existence," he says. "It affects us physically and physiologically, emotionally, psychologically, socially and spiritually at every level. I can't claim that it cures depression or panic attacks. It's just a tool. But if you use it properly, you can get these desired effects, and my patients walk out of here differently."
Perez-Martinez says that sound affects the central nervous system, putting us into either a rest-and-relax state (activating the parasympathetic nervous system) or fight-or-flight state (activating the sympathetic nervous system).
One major player in this process is the parasympathetic vagus nerve running from the cranium through the trunk, which controls the lungs, heart and digestive tract and also modulates stress response, emotions and mood. "Sound is directly involved in the regulation of all of our viscera, mainly—though not exclusively—through the vagus nerve. Certain sounds stimulate certain emotions."
In addition to all these physical effects, Perez-Martinez maintains that sound is organizational and has design properties. "All matter is formed into the shape it assumes by the underlying vibratory field that it has," he says. As evidence, he points to the science of cymatics, the study of sound wave phenomena pioneered by Swiss medical doctor Hans Jenny, who observed that tones and sounds create intricate geometric patterns in sand, powder and other media (see box, right).
He says that when people come to him panicky, restless and fearful, with a racing pulse and rapid breathing, sound therapy is one of the only things that works. "For those patients, I could give them a pill that would calm them down. But then it would knock them out. So when I get a patient like that, I lie them down and cover their eyes from the light, and then I play very low tones. Usually they walk out of here like they're walking in the clouds."
More than just sound
David Gibson, a leading scholar and researcher in the field of sound healing and the founder and director of the Globe Institute in San Francisco, says that one of the most important aspects is to introduce stable, consistent frequencies to the body, as opposed to the chaotic vibrations created by negative emotions, such as fear and anxiety, anger and stress.
"If you look at a waveform of vocalizations made under stress, it looks very chaotic," he says. "Fortunately, there's a basic law of physics that says strong coherent vibrational signals will overcome a weaker vibration and then entrain the weaker into the stronger. So what we're doing with sound healing, mostly, is changing the chaotic vibrations and overcoming them by introducing coherent, stable vibrations, which are mostly produced by such things as crystal bowls, tuning forks or Tibetan bowls."
Gibson says it's not just the frequency of the tone that needs to be considered, but rather a "hierarchy of vibration" that is far more complex. Other things to consider are the timbre of the tone, intensity, pitch and harmonic structures. Timbre, for example, is the character or quality of a sound. "When I'm talking about the frequency of anger, I'm not really just talking about frequency. I'm talking about the timbre, the tonality of it, that's chaotic."
As simple tones progress to music, there are chordal relationships between two tones and their timbres, as well as rhythms and melodies over time, and thus a whole tapestry of tonal characteristics in musical intervals, which creates varying emotional effects. The last, most subtle effect, he says, is the energy of intention with which the tone is created.
Without a doubt, sound healing is an incredibly diverse and nuanced field with many promising applications for improving health and wellbeing. And yet, so far science has barely scratched the surface in terms of understanding how sound affects the body.
Sharry Edwards, M.Ed., director of Sound Health Research Institute, Inc., in Albany, Ohio, has developed a method of conducting spectral analysis of the human voice. Spectral analysis is the electronic analysis of related frequencies, which there are many of in every human voice, as well as various qualitative timbres that make each human voice unique.
Spectral analysis uses mathematical equations to break down and precisely describe voice patterns into a mathematical language that can be "read,"and Edwards claims that such an analysis can reveal abnormal or missing vibrations in the body indicating disease, which can be normalized by the presentation of the missing sound frequencies. Her work suggests just how subtle a vibratory dance is going on within the human body.
Edwards has found that different people respond differently to the same sounds. "I have yet to discover a universal sound that is beneficial to everyone," she says. "Not only that, people respond differently to sounds depending on their geographical location." She also claims that these fundamental vibrational relationships dictate such things as the behaviors guiding complex chemical interactions in the body.
Mainstream medical science has a long way to go to catch up to all the possibilities that sound healing offers. But slowly, more and more doctors are coming around. As Perez-Martinez puts it, sound vibrations have worked where other medicine has failed. "Sound turned my medical practice into a healing practice."
Where sound and human cells meet
Living cells have been proven to interact not just on a chemical basis, but to also actively generate, emit and be affected by a wide range of electromagnetic signals.1 Cells communicate over a broad spectral range, from low-frequency radio waves up into the visible light segment of the electromagnetic spectrum, and there are many theories as to how cells actually go about this electromagnetic communication.2
Up until recently, it was never thought possible that sound waves and electromagnetic waves could interact, because they are very different in nature. Nor had it been considered possible that sound could impact cellular function and communication.
Sound is a so-called 'mechanical wave,' conducted through some sort of tangible medium like air or water. Electromagnetic waves, on the other hand, are a form of energy transmitted as oscillating electric and magnetic fields, and they do not need any sort of medium to carry them. This is why, for example, electromagnetic waves can travel through the vacuum of outer space, but sound waves cannot.
However, researchers at the Ohio State University recently demonstrated for the first time that sound waves actually do interact with external magnetic fields.3
And perhaps, from a purely mechanical perspective, it makes perfect sense that sound frequencies affect cellular structures. Water accounts for more than 70 percent of total cell mass. As early as 1680, English natural philosopher and architect Robert Hooke was demonstrating the effects of sound on various materials.
Hans Jenny, a Swiss medical doctor, built upon this research, dubbing the study of visible sound and vibration 'cymatics.' Alexander Lauterwasser, a German researcher and photographer, has applied Jenny's work to water, demonstrating the various patterns and wave forms it takes on when sound is introduced.
Tuneful healings
L.L., a 57-year-old woman from Phoenix, Arizona, suffered from brain fog, fatigue, migraines, chronic vertigo and chronic pain, with symptoms lasting for over two years. "I thought I was dying," she says. "I went to every doctor under the sun including naturopaths. I had blood work done, MRIs, allergy tests. I have a folder full of appointments."
A qualified yoga instructor and professional pilot, she ended up diagnosed with fibromyalgia, vestibular migraines and aerotoxic poisoning from airplane fuel. She couldn't walk, drive, read or even watch television.
"I knew that something was out of harmony in my body. It just came to me one night that vibration is everything." She began to research sound and vibrational healing and quickly started doing work with chanting. That same week she found a gong therapist right next door. "Friends helped me to walk over there, and that was it. When I heard the gong, I just knew intuitively that it was going to heal me."
It took a couple of weeks of working with the gongs, playing them for hours every day, before she noticed her daily migraines weren't occurring as often. "I still couldn't walk well," she says. "I sat on a chair and played gongs every day for two years."
Today she is completely out of pain, has no vertigo and only rarely has a migraine. Her balance continues to get better every day. She plays gongs for classes, workshops, and events all over the US and Europe and is building her own Sound Sanctuary in Scottsdale, Arizona.
"Sophie" is a 26-year-old woman from New York City who suffers from anxiety and depression. A patient of Dr David Perez-Martinez, she says that when he initially introduced her to the idea of using sound to help with her symptoms that it seemed pretty "out there." But she thought, "Why not give it a try?"
She says she has found the sound sessions to be consistently positive. "I have never had a session where I left feeling anything less than freed," she says.
"He calls it 'tuning up.' Personally, I feel it is a returning to a primal equilibrium, like deleting your browser history or restoring your computer to an earlier setting. Our brain can return, through sound healing, to a state akin to how it functioned before mental illness
took hold."
She says sound healing plus her meditation practice have empowered her to manage her mental and emotional fluctuations. "Although it is not a once-and-done solution, I credit sound healing and meditation for my steadily improving mental health."
SOUND HEALING THERAPIES
There are literally dozens of different kinds of sound healing therapies currently in use. Here is a list of the most common available today.
Music can help reduce pain, improve sleep, offer relaxation and stress relief, as well as positively affect productivity and accelerate learning. Remember the Mozart effect? Classical music in particular has been shown to reduce heart rate variability and decrease stress hormone levels and blood pressure.1
Vibroacoustic therapy
This type of sound therapy involves delivering vibrational frequencies through speakers directly to the body. It is used to reduce pain and increase relaxation, among other effects.2
Neurologic music therapy (NMT)
NMT focuses specifically on the physical effects of music and rhythm on the brain's signaling pathways. NMT is used by people suffering from a wide variety of neurologic disorders including autism, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, Down syndrome and sensory integration disorder.
The study of sound vibrations emitted by living organisms, bioacoustics as taught by Sharry Edwards, M.Ed., mainly focuses on the sounds of the human voice. She claims that voice analysis can reveal abnormal or missing vibrations indicative of disease in the human structure, which can be normalized by the presentation of the missing sound frequencies.
Singing bowl / crystal bowl therapy
This method dates back to twelfth-century Tibet or earlier and has been used to augment meditation and rituals. Studies show it is an effective intervention for reducing tension, anxiety and depression. It also has been shown to increase spiritual and emotional wellbeing.3
HydroAcoustic Therapy
Music and/or tones are emitted through speakers into a deep tub of soothing water where the patient can recline, submersed up to the chin, absorbing the acoustic waves conducted by the water.
Acutonics
This modality combines the use of tuning forks with Oriental medicine. Tuning forks are placed on acupuncture points, supposedly activating the meridians to induce a healing and balancing response in the body. It's said to be an excellent approach for patients who are afraid of needles or too frail to tolerate them.
Metal gongs of various sizes have been used in sound meditation and vibrational therapy for calming, energizing and transformation since the Bronze Age.
Binaural beats and brainwave entrainment
Binaural beats are created when tones of different frequencies are sent to each of the two ears. The theory is that the brain then 'entrains,' or produces brainwaves, at a third frequency—the difference between the first two—which matches one of the natural brainwave frequencies associated with different behavioral states. It's claimed that this process can induce relaxation, sleep and enhanced focus. Studies have shown that entrainment is effective for improving sleep quality and reducing pain perception.4
Neurophone therapy is another type of brainwave entrainment. The device encodes sound and converts it into ultrasonic signals at 40,000 cps (40 kHz) that are said to open up brain pathways, apparently balancing the left and right hemispheres of the brain and increasing wellbeing.
Vocal sound healing
Chanting, toning and singing have been used to induce relaxation and regulate mood for thousands of years. Chanting and toning vibrate different areas of the body, and the vibrations can be directed through intention.
Humming therapy
You don't even have to be able to carry a tune to hum. According to Jonathan Goldman, founder and director of the Sound Healers Association and author of the book The Humming Effect, humming is the simplest way to create the inner vibrations that can lead to calmness and wellbeing in the body.
This therapy uses calibrated metal tuning forks applied to different parts of the body to help release stress, increase energy and promote wellbeing. Tuning forks are often used on trigger points, with the aim to reduce pain and affect healing responses.
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Släpkolibrier (Lesbia) är ett litet släkte med fåglar i familjen kolibrier inom ordningen skärrfåglar som återfinns i Anderna från Colombia till sydöstra Peru.

Släktet släpkolibrier omfattar endast två arter:
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All of our programs are internationally recognized and approved for both integrity, quality and effectiveness. Many schools are franchised and their curriculums are dumbed down to make money. Our school is certified by the International Martial Arts Council of America, the International Mixed Martial Arts Association, the International Kenpo Council of Grand Masters and the International Association of Krav Maga.
Logan's has a broad range of experience from the best self defense systems on the planet. Sport based systems are at a disadvantage in todays self defense situations. We continually train with the Grand Masters of the systems we teach to keep the integrity and traditions of our arts.
Logan's will teach you to develop as a real Martial artist. We do not push you past your limits. We teach you to find your limits and how to surpass them with proper goal setting. We will help you increase your natural strengths and minimize your weaknesses both physically and mentally.
At Logan's we teach self control and do not promote aggressive behavior, BUT we do teach real self defense that actually works in today's violent world. Many of our programs are taught only to appropriate age groups. A true martial arts program has one primary goal, to teach defense. All the other benefits come after learning confidence. Many water down their art to be made safe for recreational competitions and are totally ineffective on the street. This gives false security. Master Logan and Sifu Tammy have extensive competition experience at both the professional and national level and can teach you the difference.
Many schools train in bare feet on interlocking vinyl floors or training mats that can be a source of fungal diseases unless cleaned properly between every single class, which is highly improbable. At Logan's we train in shoes which is safer, more realistic, and hygenic. Our floor is carpeted over a sprung floor with a three-eighths gymnastics pad for safety and treated with antimicrobial spray daily.
Logan's offers more class times per week than any other school with weekday and weekend classes. All of our instructors must complete an assistant instructor training program before they become certified instructors. All classes are taught with two to three instructors in every class providing plenty of attention to our students. Master Logan is at the school everyday - the first to arrive and the last to leave - and is willing to spend time to answer questions and offer needed advice for parents or students whatever their need may be. Master Logan is a professional instructor and devotes 100% of his time to teaching and developing quality students.
Many schools claim they have no hidden fees, but in reality it's hidden in their astronomical monthly cost - some over double what we charge. Their testing fees are included in your monthly cost whether you test or not. At Logan's you will only test when you are truly ready not on some cycle of weeks and with a reasonable testing fee. Logan's doesn't sell rank, you earn it - no Paper Tigers here. We also do not have a Registration or Signup Fee. We have a lower annual cost and a larger, superior program. Come try a free class and compare, you will find you get more value for your dollar.


We examine the response of the GISS global climate model to different parameterizations of moist convectibe mass flux. A control run with arbitrarily specified updraft mass flux is compared to experiments that predict cumulus mass flux on the basis of low-level convergence, convergence plus surface evaporation, or convergence and evaporation modified by varying boundary layer height. An experiment that includes a simple parameterization of saturated convective-scale downdrafts is also described. Convergence effects on cumulus mass flux significantly improved the model's January climatology by increasing the frequency of occurrence of deep convection in the tropics and decreasing it at high latitudes, shifting the ITCZ from 12°N to 4°S, strengthening convective heating in the western Pacific, and increasing tropical long-wave eddy kinetic energy. Surface evaporation effects generally oppose the effects of convergence but are necessary to produce realistic continental convective heating and well-defined marine shallow cumulus regions. Varying boundary layer height (as prescribed by variations in lifting condensation level) has little effect on the model climatology. Downdrafts, however, reinforce many of the positive effects of convergence while also improving the model's vertical humidity profile and radiation balance. The diurnal cycle of precipitation over the West Pacific is best simulated when convergence determines cumulus mass flux, while surface flux effects are needed to reproduce diurnal variations in the continental ITCZ. In each experiment the model correctly simulates the observed correlation between deep convection strength and tropical sea surface temperature; the parameterization of cumulus mass flux has little effect on this relationship. The experiments have several implications for cloud effects on climate sensitivity. The dependence of cumulus mass flux on vertical motions, and the insensitivity of mean vertical motions to changes in forcing, suggests that the convective response to climate forcing may be weaker than that estimated in previous global climate model simulations that link convection only to moist static instability. This implies that changes in cloud cover and hence positive cloud feedback have been overestimated in these climate change experiments. Downdrafts may affect the feedback in the same sense by replenishing boundary layer moisture relative to cumulus parameterization schemes with only dry compensating subsidence.


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Q: Interview question: How do you scale or optimize a microservice which receives millions of requests? I was asked a question during an interview:
How do you optimize a microservice which receives millions of requests?
How do you optimize the latency/frequency of a service response which accessed multiple times?
My answer was:
I would check the DB query which makes the response slow and then configure the cache.
Can anyone let me in what are the ways a service can be optimized other than these? if there is anything cloud side?

A: It is a vast and complex questions which can have a lot of different (and very long) answers based on the context and the structure of your environment.
There are a lot of patterns and concepts which fit different scenario and architecture.
I would suggest you to start here: https://microservices.io/patterns/index.html
The guy behind the site (Chris Richardson) advocates microservices since a long time. You can find numerous talks of this guy on Youtube. It is a great way to start your journey in the microservice world.
And off course: https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

A: Here are my ideas on this question:

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*Caching, as you mentioned, is a good optimization point when around the data access layer. I would check to see if there is any opportunity to add a cache without breaking the consistency or other hard requirements there may be for the application.

*I would analyze the CPU and memory usage and adjust them progressively while monitoring the latency closely. The objective here is to find the point when more resources does not decrease the latency significantly.

*The above point has to consider the adjustment of the number of threads in the application, and also making sure that you optimize the synchronization scheme.

*If the microservice is built in a JVM-based language, the GC is one component that may introduce latency, mostly when it kicks in, so if the latency spikes correlates with GC cycles, then I would search for optimizations there.

*Making sure the application is reusing connections to external services efficiently is another optimization point that may be considered

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Anorak News | La Grande Bouffe
'WE ALL wish a long and healthy life to St Tony, not to mention nice Mr Major and all the other past prime ministers who are still thankfully with us. But when they are, as Frank Sinatra put it, facing the final curtain, we doubt that any of them will opt for the route taken by former French president François Mitterand.
"If it wasn't for us, he'd have been eating sauerkraut"
The Telegraph reports that a new film recreates his famous "last supper", and it sounds like a homage to La Grande Bouffe – the notorious drama in which various ageing members of the French bourgoisie, driven to despair by ennui, retreat to a luxurious mansion and eat themselves to death.
The paper reports that the greedy former leader summoned his closest friends to his house near Bordeaux, and, "stretched out on a chaise longue, devoured plate after plate of oysters until he felt sick". Then he sent for the ortolans. These songbirds – which are "kept in a darkened barn for two weeks, force-fed millet and then killed with a shot of Armagnac" – are apparently prized above fois gras.
Their consumption is also illegal, but this doesn't seem to have caused Mitterand any pangs of conscience. On the contrary, he "sank his head into the napkin surrounding the bird to breath in its aroma". His head then remained hidden as he ate the bird whole, crunching through its bones and innards. According to the book upon which the film is to be based, he eventually emerged "Capsized with happiness, his eyes sparkling" and ready for death.
We contacted all the living former Prime Ministers of the UK, but only John Major's people replied. They said he had no special plans for his last supper, but they imagined it would be his usual light choice, as heavy food tended to impair his sleep. A poached egg on toast and a glass of milk was the most likely choice, they said.
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Leslie talks vaccination, reality and Rolf Harris on ABC TV Moral Compass
Geraldine Doogue debates the hot-button moral, ethical and religious controversies of our day in this smart and entertaining Compass series. Joined by a panel of experts they'll work out which way their moral compass is pointing on the controversies and dilemmas of our time – big and small – through the prism of faith and ethics.
In our latest program Geraldine and her guests grapple with the thorny topic of children's vaccination: Is it wrong for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children? Reality TV: What responsibilities do broadcasters, producers and viewers have to those who take part? And we also return to the Rolf Harris case: Should his creative legacy be expunged now from public view altogether?
She is joined by Dr Leslie Cannold, ethicist and writer; Tim Bowden, Anglican minister and school principal; Melinda Houston, TV critic and author and Matthew Beard, ethicist at the University of Notre Dame.
Moral Compass, episode 3 ABC TV1
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/moral-compass-3/


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Xiaomi Expands Operations in France and Italy, Soon to Launch New Devices
By Shreeya Ghui
Xiaomi Buds 4 Will Also Launch On 1 December 2022 With Xiaomi 13 Series
Xiaomi's Mi 13 Series: Everything You Need to Know
Xiaomi's Pop-up Camera Patent Is Authorized
Shreeya Ghui
Xiaomi, the fastest growing company in the tech markets with an intention to capture the European market, has officially launched its first physical store in Italy. This launch was held two days ago; in the press conference, the officials further announced that it would be coming up with three products in France. These three products will be Mi Mix 2S, Redmi Note 5, and Mi Electric scooters.
Xiaomi will be making available all these three devices where the first priority product is Mi Mix 2S. This flagship will be offered to users at a price tag of €499.90 for a 6 GB variant of RAM with 64 GB internal storage and €599,90 for 6 GB RAM and 128 GB internal storage.
Xiaomi ha...
Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S features a 5.99-inch full HD display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, further supporting a tri-bezel-less design. This device will run Octa-core Snapdragon 845 chipset by Qualcomm. It is equipped with a 12 MP dual camera and a fingerprint sensor.
Moving on to Redmi Note 5, has notable features like a 5.99-inch display with an 18:9 aspect ratio. It comes with a Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2160 pixels and runs on an octa-core Snapdragon 625. This device is equipped with a battery backup of 4000 mAh. Redmi Note 5 will wear a price tag of €199,90 for the variant providing 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage, whereas another variant with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage will be available at the cost of €249,90.
Not only Xiaomi also launches Mi Electric Scooter in France at a price tag of €349,99. The company also discussed unveiling Xiaomi Mi 7 and Mi 8 on May 31.
Xiaomi Redmi Pad Tablet Will Go Live Later Today: Price and Specifications
Xiaomi will launch a ravishing Redmi Pad tablet today, October 31, in China; this will be the first tablet computer from the house of Xiaomi. As the first of i...
Redmi Pad Launched in India: Price and Specification
The Chinese tech behemoth Xiaomi launched the Redmi Pad in India as well in the global market, precursory reverberate that take measures to the company's subst...
Xiaomi Unveils Mijia Modular Robot For ¥3599 Featured Arm Processor, Emotional Inter...
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NECN Interview: A123 becomes latest 'green energy' failure
October 16, 2012 /0 Comments/in Economic Opportunity, Oped: Economy, Opeds /by Editorial Staff
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(NECN: Peter Howe, Waltham, Mass.) – Two and a half years ago battery-technology pioneer A123 Systems was being feted by President Obama in the White House Rose Garden, hailed by the president as a "green energy" pioneer and major job creator for the future.
Tuesday, after burning through more than $260 million in taxpayer aid, A123 was the latest high-profile green-energy flop, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and bringing back memories of bankrupt Massachusetts startups Evergreen Solar and Beacon Power and California's Solyndra, whose failure cost taxpayers more than $500 million.
In connection with the filing, A123 is agreeing to sell its automotive technology business, include a two-plant complex in suburban Detroit, to Johnson Controls for $125 million. A123 said it is also looking for buyers for its power-grid, commercial, and government divisions and other operations, and Johnson is also providing $72.5 million in "debtor in possession" financing to fund ongoing operations as A123 pursues sales. The bankruptcy filing does not involve subsidiaries outside the U.S.
"We believe the asset purchase agreement with Johnson Controls, coupled with a Chapter 11 filing, is in the best interests of A123 and its stakeholders at this time," A123 CEO David Vieau said in a prepared statement. The company had been looking for a $450 million lifeline bailout from a Chinese company, Wanxiang, which failed to come through in recent weeks, and Vieau said the company has abandoned that in favor of the Johnson deal.
Republican nominee Mitt Romney issued a statement Tuesday saying, "A123's bankruptcy is yet another failure for the president's disastrous strategy of gambling away billions of taxpayer dollars on a strategy of government-led growth that simply does not work."
It's unclear how many of A123's 1,763 employees worldwide – 322 based in Massachusetts, earning an average of $82,800 annually, according to state data – could lose their jobs or be forced to consider moving to Michigan to work for Johnson Controls.
Aides to Gov. Deval Patrick said Massachusetts taxpayers are on the hook for only $2.5 million, the balance of a $5 million grant from the state Clean Energy Center, the first half of which was forgiven based on what A123 spent building a headquarters at 200 West Street on the Waltham-Weston line and creating jobs. Because the remaining $2.5 million is a "senior secured debt," given A123's success raising money from selling divisions, there's a good chance Massachusetts gets back most or all of that funding, unlike the millions it lost in aid to Evergreen Solar. (Beacon's been reorganized after bankruptcy and is estimated to have repaid about 70 percent of the federal aid it got.)
Interviewed during a visit to Ashland Middle School, Patrick said, "I think and expect, given the demand for what they make and how successful they are in the automobile industry and other applications, that in some form or another, the company will continue operations, and those jobs will remain in Massachusetts and other parts of the world."
Patrick also disputed the idea A123 could be considered as another Evergreen or Solyndra failure.
"This isn't like those companies," Patrick said. "This is a company that's going to continue in operation, and companies from time to time reorganize their debts through bankruptcy. That's a part of business."
But Jim Stergios, executive director of the free-market-oriented Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, called A123's bankruptcy filing "just one more piece of evidence that this a failed jobs strategy. The government is not good at picking winners and losers, and it's not working for Massachusetts." Stergios said of green-energy backers like Obama and Patrick, "They are right that we have to find different investments and different vehicles to produce the energy that we need to have – but I just don't think the government's any good at it."
With videographer David Jacobs and assistant video editor Bob Leone.
Tags: A123, green energy, NECN
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Under the Reform Act of 1832, the County of Norfolk was allotted four Members of Parliament, being two Knights of the Shire for the Eastern Division and two for the Western. The Western Division included the hundreds of Brothercross, Clackclose, Freebridge Lynn, Freebridge Marshland, Gallow, North Greenhoe, South Greenhow, Grimshoe, Guiltcross, Holt, Launditch, Mitford, Shropham, Smithdon and Wayland. Polling in 1837 took place at Swaffham, Downham, Fakenham, Lynn Regis, Thetford and East Dereham. The franchise was available to freeholders worth 40s a year or over; copyholders and long leaseholders of £10 or more; short leaseholders and tenants of £50 or more: but limited to adult males. Voting took place on 1 and 2 August 1837. This poll book lists the voters for each parish, with the votes cast. Each voter had two votes: the votes are indicated in the columns F. (Sir William Henry Browne Folkes, 2838); A. (Sir Jacob Astley, 2713); B. (William Bagge, 3178); and C. (William Lyde Wiggett Chute, 2877). The voters were not necessarily resident in the parish, but derived their franchise from the land there; so some of the names have addresses outside the parish, not a few living in different counties. Not everyone voted, but everyone with a vote was listed in the poll book: persons who qualified for voting in two parishes (but nevertheless had just the one vote per person) are noted as such. Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Michael Keating. Rebalancing government in Australia. Part II
By Michael Keating
Taxation Reform and Vertical Fiscal Imbalance
Another third and final reason for national government pre-eminence over the States in our federal system is of course the national government's domination of taxation, widely described as 'vertical fiscal imbalance' or VFI. Paul Keating called VFI the glue that holds our nation together, but for the States and the champions of States' Rights, VFI is regularly trotted out as the root cause of centralism.
In the past the national government has passed payroll tax back to the States, and more recently the States now receive all the proceeds of the GST. It would, however, require very big further changes to taxation arrangements for the States ever to achieve full financial self-sufficiency. While broadening the GST and/or increasing the rate would offer material assistance to the States, the revenue from the GST would need to increase by around 90 per cent in order to replace completely the revenue that the States presently receive from the Australian government though various specific purpose payments. Clearly such a 90 per cent increase in the GST is most unlikely. Indeed the scale of the change and its implications for the balance between indirect taxation and income taxes would have major implications for equity.
Consequently, in order for the States to become completely financially independent they would need to raise a substantial amount in their own names by way of the income tax. In principle this might be possible if the States and the Australian Government were able to agree an arrangement for the States to share in the proceeds of the national income tax. But do the States want to do this and would the Australian Government agree?
In fact in the past the Fraser Government offered the States the chance to levy a surcharge on top of the Commonwealth income tax, but none of them took up the opportunity. Apparently the States preferred to continue the arrangement whereby the Australian Government took the blame for the level of taxation, while they spent the proceeds, and were then able to cry poor and blame the Commonwealth whenever their service provision was considered deficient.
Equally for the Australian Government to exercise its responsibilities for national economic management and performance it would need to control the share of the income tax proceeds that the States received. This would need to be a fixed share, and not allowed to vary from year to year according to the preferences of the States; otherwise such variations could play havoc with the Australian Government's macro-economic policy. But in that case it is questionable how much independence the States would really gain. Indeed the stage could then be set for a return to the traditional argy-bargy about how much general purpose funding the Commonwealth should make available. While at the same time the Australian Government would have lost any financial influence over the national objectives that specific purpose programs are presently meant to achieve.
While there is a case for broadening the GST and increasing the rate, with the proceeds to flow to the States, this in itself is unlikely to change significantly the nature of our federal-state financial relations. Instead substantial VFI will most likely remain, in which case we cannot really expect much change in the incentives and consequently the behaviour of either the Australian Government or the States.
Furthermore, the biggest problem facing all levels of Australian governments in recent years has not been so much the balance of revenue between the Australian Government and the States, but rather finding sufficient revenue to fund the services that Australians are demanding without recourse to continued borrowing. Thus in the last full year of the previous Labor Government (2012-13) the Australian general government sector payments represented 24.1 per cent of GDP; in fact a bit less than their long term average over the previous twelve years since 2000-01 of 24.5 per cent. While by comparison government revenue represented only 23.1 per cent of GDP in 2012-13 – quite a bit less than the average of 24.3 per cent over the previous twelve years. So it is reasonable to conclude that we have a revenue problem rather than an expenditure problem right now. Furthermore, this need for additional revenue may well increase further over the next decade or more because of the ageing of the population and increasing expectations such as have led to the demands for additional funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The reality is that tax reform inevitably uses up scarce political capital. In these circumstances the priority must be to restore the Australian Government's access to revenue; for example by reducing and even removing many of the expensive tax concessions and plugging present loopholes. Restoring the integrity of the tax system in this way is much more important than a futile pursuit of a non-existent 'big-bang' solution to improve the operation of our federal system. Such an approach is almost certainly impractical and could never gain the necessary consensus. Instead incremental progress is much more likely and in practical terms probably the best way forward to an improved federal system for Australia. This incremental approach will need to be based on a continuation of case-by-case discussions for the various programs and regulatory areas leading to the rationalisation of the respective roles and responsibilities of each level of government.
Although this approach to reform sometimes seems slow and tedious, past experience shows that it can achieve results. And the pace of reform can be speeded up by a Prime Minister who is prepared to make reform of the federation a priority and provide the necessary leadership, as was demonstrated by the cooperation achieved at the time of the Keating Government.
Finally we need to remember that, as Abbott himself concedes 'The federation we have – with all its flaws – has spawned a vibrant democracy, a strong economy and a cohesive society that millions of migrants have chosen to join'. Not only is there no real possibility of radical change in our federal system, neither is there any need for it.
Michael Keating is a former Secretary of the Departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Finance and Employment, and Industrial Relations. He is presently a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.
https://johnmenadue.com/author/michael-keating/
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dont be a sucker; fooled into thinking that louisiana's governor, legislature or government, in general, cares one whit about the health of the citizens of this state. if the governor and the legislature were so concerned with our health then why is hot wells which is owned by the state department of health and hospitals of all people, allowed to sit rotting? hot wells you might remember is a place that has healing mineral waters. common sense tells us that if good health was truly their concern then hot wells long ago would have been redeveloped and reopened as at the very least a gift to the people of this state and region. for an example of what the people here in louisiana could have, see the hot springs pool, glenwood springs, colorado.
no legislation like this is only designed to foist, by degrees, more governmental control over the everyday lives of the citizenry. if the legislature can get away with this then the next harebrained law they can think of will be that much more easily acceptable and we see examples of this over and over.
then look at the silly clown that introduced this law -- louisiana state senator robert "rob" marionneaux. you should read c.b. forgotston's commentary on him here complete with a link back to a lsu daily reveille article in which senator marionneaux admits that he has a problem when people begin to talk about what exactly he and his fellow criminals err legislators are up to. senator marionneaux says that when we start "editorializing" then it "becomes a problem."
if the truth was known which in louisiana is very rare then one reason for this legislation is the legislature's rather lame attempt to get us to live longer so they can steal more of our money and property.
should smoking be banned in restaurants? maybe so, but it should be the restaurateur's decision not governments. if a business owner sees that he is losing customers to a competing business because that business bans smoking then it should be his decision whether or not to follow suit.
by the way, as of todays date hurricane katrina struck new orleans 491 days ago and hurricane rita 465 days ago. the suffering all over south louisiana is still indescribable and this is the best that those jackasses down in baton rouge can come up with.


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package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"crypto/sha1"
	"log"

	bencode "github.com/jackpal/bencode-go"
	"github.com/rakoo/rakoshare/pkg/bitset"
)

type messagetype int

const (
	METADATA_REQUEST messagetype = iota
	METADATA_DATA
	METADATA_REJECT
)

const (
	METADATA_PIECE_SIZE = 1 << 14 // 16kiB
)

type MetadataMessage struct {
	MsgType   messagetype "msg_type"
	Piece     int         "piece"
	TotalSize int         "total_size"
}

func (t *TorrentSession) DoMetadata(msg []byte, p *peerState) {
	var message MetadataMessage
	err := bencode.Unmarshal(bytes.NewReader(msg), &message)
	if err != nil {
		log.Println("Error when parsing metadata: ", err)
		return
	}

	mt := message.MsgType
	switch mt {
	case METADATA_REQUEST:
		if !t.si.HaveTorrent {
			break
		}

		rawInfo := t.m.RawInfo()

		from := message.Piece * METADATA_PIECE_SIZE

		// Piece asked must be between the first one and the last one.
		// Note that the last one will most of the time be smaller than
		// METADATA_PIECE_SIZE
		if from >= len(rawInfo) {
			log.Printf("%d is out of range. Not sending this\n", message.Piece)
			break
		}

		to := from + METADATA_PIECE_SIZE
		if to > len(rawInfo) {
			to = len(rawInfo)
		}

		if _, ok := p.theirExtensions["ut_metadata"]; !ok {
			log.Println("%s doesn't understand ut_metadata\n", p.address)
			break
		}

		respHeader := MetadataMessage{
			MsgType:   METADATA_DATA,
			Piece:     message.Piece,
			TotalSize: len(rawInfo),
		}

		var resp bytes.Buffer
		resp.WriteByte(EXTENSION)
		resp.WriteByte(byte(p.theirExtensions["ut_metadata"]))

		err = bencode.Marshal(&resp, respHeader)
		if err != nil {
			log.Println("Couldn't header metadata response: ", err)
			break
		}

		resp.Write(rawInfo[from:to])
		p.sendMessage(resp.Bytes())

	case METADATA_DATA:

		if t.si.HaveTorrent {
			break
		}

		if message.TotalSize == 0 {
			log.Println("No metadata size, bailing out")
			return
		}

		if message.Piece >= len(t.si.ME.Pieces) {
			log.Printf("Rejecting invalid metadata piece %d, max is %d\n",
				message.Piece, len(t.si.ME.Pieces)-1)
			break
		}

		pieceSize := METADATA_PIECE_SIZE
		if message.Piece == len(t.si.ME.Pieces)-1 {
			pieceSize = message.TotalSize - (message.TotalSize/METADATA_PIECE_SIZE)*METADATA_PIECE_SIZE
		}

		t.si.ME.Pieces[message.Piece] = msg[len(msg)-pieceSize:]

		finished := true
		for idx, data := range t.si.ME.Pieces {
			if len(data) == 0 {
				p.sendMetadataRequest(idx)
				finished = false
				break
			}
		}

		if !finished {
			break
		}

		log.Println("Finished downloading metadata!")
		var full bytes.Buffer
		for _, piece := range t.si.ME.Pieces {
			full.Write(piece)
		}
		info := full.Bytes()

		// Verify sha
		sha := sha1.New()
		sha.Write(info)
		actual := string(sha.Sum(nil))
		if actual != t.m.InfoHash {
			log.Println("Invalid metadata")
			log.Printf("Expected %x, got %x\n", t.m.InfoHash, actual)
			break
		}

		err = t.reload(info)
		if err != nil {
			return
		}

		if p.have == nil {
			if p.temporaryBitfield != nil {
				p.have = bitset.NewFromBytes(t.totalPieces, p.temporaryBitfield)
				p.temporaryBitfield = nil
			} else {
				p.have = bitset.New(t.totalPieces)
			}
		}
		if p.have == nil {
			log.Panic("Invalid bitfield data")
		}

		p.SendBitfield(t.pieceSet)
	case METADATA_REJECT:
		log.Printf("%d didn't want to send piece %d\n", p.address, message.Piece)
	default:
		log.Println("Didn't understand metadata extension type: ", mt)
	}
}

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Last weekend the Sunday Times thought it was presenting the voice of reason. Twenty economists wrote to the newspaper decrying the government deficit and calling for urgent cuts in government spending.
For the Tories it was like manna from heaven. Of course the economists were right. Across the land wise heads nodded.
Then yesterday two letters were sent to the FT. This time the total number of signatories added up to 60. And it really is a who's who of economists. The list included Joseph Stiglitz, a former Nobel winner and chief economist at the World Bank; Robert Solow, another former Nobel winner and a man whose growth theory was unquestionably one of the most important economic ideas of the last half a century; the revered Brad DeLong, Professor at UC Berkeley; and not to mention former Bank of England Deputy Governor Sir Andrew Large and his former colleague Rachel Lomax. But there were many more 'A'-list economists who signed the letter. It was an impressive line up indeed. To put it in Hollywood terms, it was the equivalent of Stephen Spielberg and James Cameron getting together to make a film whose cast included every leading actor and actress Oscar winner from the previous ten years.
That is not to decry the economists who signed the Sunday Times letter, but these FT letter writing guys really do sit amongst the royalty of the economic world.
They are not, by the way, calling for indefinite government spending, merely saying the cut back should not begin just yet. They are saying the timing is wrong. In this sense that is going against the Tories, who say cuts need to commence straight away.
For what it's worth, the IMF has expressed similar sentiments to those presented in the two FT letters.
Meanwhile, the latest set of government borrowing figures were released yesterday and they were awful. It was the first time that the government recorded a deficit in January since records began back in the early 1990s. Jonathan Loynes from Capital Economics made the headlines when he said that "the UK is currently on course for recording a bigger deficit this year, as a percentage of GDP, than Greece."
So who is right? We present the arguments for and against.
The snag with economics is that it is not always intuitive. What is common sense is not always right. Keynes showed that the common sense response amongst people in the midst of a recession is to save more.
However, if the country sees a mass increase in savings during a recession, the result would be less demand and the recession would deepen. During the times when Keynes was writing, it was worse than that because, back then, the economy had deflation. The rise in saving meant deflation got even worse, effectively increasing the real value of debts. In other words, the more that individuals tried to reduce debt in unison, the worse the debt got.
It can be like that for government debt too. If a business is in debt, then it probably makes sense for the business to cut back and maybe make redundancies. But this only makes sense because a business is so small that its individual action does not impact on the total economy – at least its impact is only tiny.
But if the government reduces debt, the result will be job losses, meaning a rise in benefit payments and at the same time a cut in aggregate demand, because those without a job are likely to spend less than those with a job. The cut in aggregate demand will lead to job losses in the private sector, meaning less tax receipts for the government and more benefit payments. So, there is a real danger that a government, by cutting its debt, may actually spark off a chain of events which will eventually lead to a lot more government debt.
Against that is the view that government spending crowds out the private sector. If workers are employed by the government, then that means less of the country's labour resource is available for the private sector. So the anti-government-spending argument would say that while government spending can help boost an economy in the short run, in the long run the effect is less wealth creation as the more innovative and dynamic private sector is starved of labour resource.
One of the two letters to the FT made the point that: "History is littered with examples of premature withdrawal of the government stimulus, from the US in 1937 to Japan in 1997."
Here are four arguments in favour of the Gordon Brown approach, which is to carry on spending for the time being, followed by four arguments making the contrary point. And finally there's our conclusion.
The Brown approach, point number 1: The argument that we face a big debt crisis is Mickey Mouse economics. The world can't go bust. For every debtor there must be a creditor. Therefore, the danger of a debt crisis is little more than media hype (and by the way, don't fall into the trap of seeing the debt crisis as meaning power will be ceded to China and the other creditor economies. China has got its own problems – it is in the midst of seeing an investment bubble. German and Japanese consumers are also among the world's biggest creditors, but the German and Japanese economies both have serious problems too).
Brown approach, point number 2: Government debt is affordable. Martin Wolf from the FT made this point very well earlier in the week. Looking specifically at the US he said US government debt is easily affordable, once the US economy returns to a growth rate of 5 per cent a year. The point he was making is that providing that the percentage growth in our income each year is greater than the interest payments on our debt, then our debt is affordable. Mr Wolf also pointed out that the main problem in the US and UK is that the private sector has stopped spending and is saving more. Mr Wolf says that, therefore, the government should spend more to make up for the private sector saving.
In other words, government debt is funded by private saving. So it is all affordable.
Brown approach, point number 3: The recession was caused by the credit crunch. The credit crunch meant less credit available. It is therefore the duty of the government, which can borrow money, to borrow the money that business cannot obtain and spend it on our behalf. In other words, government debt and spending is the logical response to the credit crunch starving business of funds.
Argument for Brown, number 4: UK net public debt hit 250 per cent of GDP after the Second World War. And yet the UK went on to enjoy its best ever 25-year period of economic growth. The experience of the post war years proves that government can spend its way out of recession and create sustainable growth.
Argument in favour of making imminent cuts, number 1: What is the exit strategy? Both sides are agreed that government spending must go into reverse eventually; the disagreement is really over timing. But those who want to see more spending now, seem to assume that at some point in the near future the economy will, as if by magic, right itself, and at that point growth will rise and government debt will automatically fall. But how do we know the economy will right itself?
Government debt will mean higher taxes, which will surely decease the chances of future growth. Research from Rogoff and Reinhart has shown that once public debt in an economy rises above 90 per cent of GDP, growth starts to fall.
Argument in favour of imminent cuts, number two: The economists who want to see more spending are ignoring the underlying causes of the economic crisis. They argue the real cause of the economic crisis was too much debt. How can it therefore make sense to deal with the debt crisis by incurring more debt?
Argument in favour of imminent cuts, number three: Government spending crowds out the private sector. In the short run, public spending saves jobs. But in the long run, if people find they are unemployed it will force them to consider a career change, and will make the economy more dynamic. It may lead to a rise in entrepreneurial activities. (The counter argument to that is that unemployment can be so demoralising that those affected may suffer permanent damage to their confidence.)
Argument number four in favour of imminent cuts is really a response to the fourth argument listed above in favour of Brown. The economic conditions after the Second World War were different. Back then, the global economy had yet to fully exploit the innovation that occurred over the past half a century. Two world wars and a Great Depression meant that there was vast economic potential. It is not like that now. Funnily enough, this argument builds on the work of Robert Solow, who was one of the signatories in favour of the Brown approach. For more on this idea, but applied to China, see: Why China's real opportunity gets overlooked: the parallel with Japan
Our conclusion:
The UK is not close to going bust. According to data from the Debt Management Office, UK sovereign debt is largely funded by bonds that are years away from maturity. As Stephanie Flanders said on her BBC blog: "The average maturity of UK sovereign debt is 14 years. In the US, it's about four years. In France and Germany it's six or seven. In Greece, it's even lower." Or as Martin Wolf said in the FT recently: "The country's private sector financial surplus is, on a net basis, financing four-fifths of the fiscal deficit. The country is not going bankrupt."
As one of the letters to the FT pointed out, the UK's net fiscal debt is lower than in most of the G7 economies.
The UK's debt crisis is not a present danger. Even so, it is a danger, a very serious danger, and there remains a risk that our debt could ultimately prove to be a millstone around our neck, and could drag us back into deep recession. And we may find ourselves joined in that dark place by the rest of the G7 economies.
The biggest concern we have with the arguments for maintaining government spending lies with the exit strategy. The economists in support of Gordon Brown are assuming that this is a temporary crisis, and that somehow growth will return and our debt will fall automatically.
But if government spending is being used to prop up old non-productive sectors, how will this future growth occur? Or worse, if government spending is used to subsidise firms that are struggling to compete – a trick employed in France and Germany with much enthusiasm, but of dubious long-run benefit – then how likely is a sustainable recovery? By using government money to prop up the economy, there is a risk that we will be depriving resource to those sectors that really could create wealth.
The solution surely lies in a bit of both. Government spending is required to prop up demand at a time when business and consumers are spending less. That is agreed. But by using government money to protect jobs, there is a danger the government is sucking dynamism out of the economy.
The government should make cut backs, and it should let businesses that can't compete fail. But the money it saves should be spent on schemes designed to boost dynamism, and entrepreneurial activity. That way demand will be propped up, but the private sector won't be crowded out; instead, it will be boosted. The government has tried to do this, but only in a small way, putting in a few hundred million.
It needs to cut spending in some areas by billions and billions of pounds. But the money should be spent on boosting entrepreneurial activity, not on silly ideas like cuts in VAT which dealt with symptoms rather than causes.
The single biggest danger with government debt, and one that very few are pointing out, is what will happen when the baby boomers retire.
How will Japan possibly be able to afford its government debt once the population starts to fall? Europe will face the same challenge, but in a decade or more from now. The only possible solution lies in innovation now.
And for all their cleverness, the economists on both sides of the debate have not pointed this truth out.
© Investment & Business News 2013
By Michael Baxter
An entrepreneur with well-honed business acumen, Michael Baxter writes on a wide range of economic and socio-economic issues. He launched the Investment and Business News Daily Newsletter in January 2003. Since then, Michael has written over 2million words on all things economics. The newsletter is read by thousands each day.
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Marketers who want to up their social media game are watching the evolution of image analysis intently. The potential value is clear, but the "how" has been less so.
Think about all of the data and images that are stored within image-friendly platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. There are more than 3 billion such images shared on social media every day.
To better understand their audiences, marketers need to know how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help them analyze social media images that feature their brands (or their competitors' brands) to see how consumers are using products and better market to those audiences.
Social media data is an essential tool for marketers, and it goes hand-in-hand with image analysis and AI. With real-time information on consumer preferences, perceptions and behaviors, social media data has become increasingly popular with marketers, but with so much data, marketers sometimes get stuck and don't know where to start with analyzing the data—let alone using the insights from it to run smarter campaigns. That's where AI comes in.
For example, let's say a marketer for a movie studio is building out a campaign to promote an upcoming film. The marketer can find all of the data on social media by searching for keywords like the film's title or the leading actors' names—that's the easy part. But with endless data results, how can marketers find the right method or even the time to fully analyze the data and then act on the findings?
AI can help analyze the data and make predictions that are valuable for marketers, including who their consumers are, what they care about, how they feel, how they interact and influence one another and how they might react to future situations. This will guarantee that the marketer is looking at the most important data from its target audience.
From the AI-powered analysis, the marketer may deduce that the film attracts an audience of females who are 24 to 30 years old with affinities for do-it-yourself projects and YouTube star Jenna Marbles.
While AI helped draw these conclusions, it is now up to the marketer to act on this data and create an effective campaign to get people to buy movie tickets—such as by running targeted ads on DIY websites or Marbles' YouTube channel, or creating an influencer campaign enlisting Marbles.
AI and machine learning can make sense of the data at scale, while also having the "intelligence" to understand nuances of human conversations. For example, if someone shares a post on social media about being "wicked" excited about seeing the movie, sentiment analysis might classify this conversation as a negative reaction. AI can learn to understand human language, including colloquialisms or sarcasm, so marketers really understand consumers without having to manually identify posts with sarcasm or regional terms.
AI and machine learning can help marketers filter through billions of social images to understand their audience in a more personal way. With the help of AI, marketers can analyze data from brands and objects found in photos on social media to identify how, when and where their competitors are being sponsored and advertised and monitor their own audience's interests, conversations and use of products.
Think about Instagram: If a celebrity shares a photo of himself or herself with a certain product or brand but does not directly mention the brand in the post, you can use image analysis to identify whether the brand's logo was captured within the image. Without image analysis and without a brand mention in the photo caption, the marketer would have missed the opportunity to engage this potential influencer as someone who could help promote the brand.


Who says golf clubs no longer have waiting lists? Wachusett CC and Kettle Brook GC have one to play in the Worcester County Amateur next weekend.
Nick Marrone, director of golf at the two clubs, said the tournament has its longest waiting list ever, more than 30, in addition to a full field of 75 players.
"It's unbelievable how many people want to get in," Marrone said.
Fewer than 40 golfers played in the tournament the year after longtime Wachusett head pro Vin OBey died in 2003.
There's been a full field of 75 since Marrone's father, Donald, purchased Kettle Brook and had it host the first of the event's two rounds beginning in 2008. The golfers will play Kettle Brook Saturday and Wachusett a week from today.
Interest is so high, Marrone is considering accepting 100 entries next year and cutting to the low 40 and ties for the second round at Wachusett.
Ricky Stimets, who recently completed his freshman year at the University of North Alabama, will try to repeat as WCA champion.
Stimets lives in Paxton, about a mile from Kettle Brook, but he summers at the Cape; so he had played the course only twice before winning the WCA by three shots last year. He won two state individual championships while he attended Wachusett Regional.
Other past champions in the field include: Frank Vana of Marlboro CC (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2006); Jim Ruschioni of Monoosnock CC (1988, 1992, 1994); David Holmes of Blackstone (2002, 2005); Jon Fasick of New England (1989, 1993); his twin brother, Carter Fasick of Indian Meadows, (1990); R. J. Foley of Mount Pleasant (2003); Matt Dunn of Wachusett (2004); and Robert Linn of Berkshire Hills (2007).
Ryan Riley of Norton CC and Brian Higgins of Franklin CC should contend. Higgins was the 2008 Mass. Golf Association Player of the Year, ending Vana's streak of capturing the award the previous seven years. Riley won the Mass. Public Links title last August, shooting a course-record 63 in the final round at Franconia GC in Springfield, and he teamed up with Herb Aikens of Pinehills to win the past two Mass. Four-Ball championships.
Matt Parziale, Scott Hawley and Fran Quinn won the event before turning pro.
The courses present different challenges. Kettle Brook is longer than Wachusett, 6,912 yards from the back tees compared to 6,567, but more forgiving with wider fairways and larger greens.
Susan Bond is doing her best to keep the Massachusetts Women's Open alive in these difficult economic times.
Bond helped sales rep Tom Murphy and Leo J. Martin head pro Mike Wortis start the Mass. Women's Open at Bellevue GC in Melrose in 1990 when she was an assistant under Wortis.
Bond won the event in 1993 at Wellesley CC when she was an assistant there and she and two-time winner Beth O'Kelly, an assistant at Black Rock in Hingham, are the only ones to have played in all 20 Mass. Women's Open events.
Two years ago, Bond took over promotion of the Open from the New England PGA and signed Johnson & Johnson as a sponsor of the Mass. Women's Open and the New England Women's Open at Weekapaug GC in Westerly, R.I., where she is head pro. Unfortunately, J&J didn't sign an extension of its two-year deal so the event will have no sponsor when it's held at Pleasant Valley CC tomorrow and Tuesday.
J&J accounted for $7,500 of the $13,000 purse last yea. So without a sponsor, the prize money will dip. But there will still be 50 players in the field, the same as last year, in part because so many golfers wanted to play at Pleasant Valley, which hosted seven LPGA Championships in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Amateur Tara Joy Connelly of Duxbury will try to become the first back-to-back winner in the tournament's 21-year history. Connelly shot 77-71 for a 4-over 148 last year at LeBaron Hills CC in Lakeville. She beat pros Susan Choie and Mary Moan by a shot. Connelly won the Edith Baker Trophy at Ocean Edge by five shots on June 15.
"She probably plays more golf than the golf pros who are entered," Bond said.
Lynn Valentine, another former Open champion who used to be an assistant at Pleasant Valley, should have the most knowledge of the course. Valentine works winters at Bear Lakes GC in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Amateurs in the field include Shrewsbury's Brittany Altomare, who just completed her freshman year at the University of Virginia and competed in the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links last week, and Mary Gale of Bedrock GC, who finished fifth in the Edith Baker tournament.
Bond is determined to keep the Open going next year, with or without a sponsor.
The golf range business hasn't changed a lot through the years, but the range balls have and no one knows that better than Bob Anderson.
As a teenager, Anderson painted red stripes on the golf balls for the Auburn Driving Range in the basement of his neighbor and boss, Tommy Vokes.
After Anderson was finally awarded the bid to manage the Auburn Driving Range this month, he purchased 24,000 new Top-Flite Tour range balls and they came with stripes already on them.
Anderson also bought 36 mats thick enough to hold wooden tees, a 10-foot-wide turf mower, a five-bushel ball picker and a ball dispenser that holds 13,000 balls. He plans to fill the range's bunker with sand from Mount Pleasant CC, where he's been a member for six years.
Anderson, 59, owns a mechanical insulation business, Energy Insulation, in his hometown of Worcester, and he teamed up with his office manager, Bob Leyden, formed B&B Leasing Corp. and submitted the highest bid early this year to manage the range on property owned by the Auburn Water District.
Michael Fleming, who managed the range the past 13 years, sued to block the higher bid, saying it wasn't qualified because B&B Leasing Corp had been dissolved in 2007 and revived in March after the bid opening. A Middlesex Superior Court judge agreed with Fleming and the contract was re-bid. Anderson and Leyden again bid the highest, $260,000 for five years, and they were awarded the contract June 2. Fleming's bid of $175,000 was the lowest of the four bids.
The range remained closed during the lawsuit, but Anderson finally opened it June 11.
Anderson said the delay gave him more time to prepare for the opening.
Under Fleming, the range was called "Auburn Golf and Learning Center," but Anderson changed the name back to Auburn Driving Range.
"It's what I always knew it was while growing up," Anderson said.
Jim Fenner will continue to teach at the range.
Anderson took up golf in his 30s. He belonged to Tatnuck CC for nearly a decade before joining Mount Pleasant. He's a huge supporter of the Ouimet Scholarship Fund and he plans to run a fundraiser at the range.
Leyden grew up in Auburn and used to walk to the range to hit balls. He lives in Sturbridge and is a member at Cohasse CC. Leyden served as club manager at Green Hill from 1986 to 1996.
So was it fun painting stripes on the balls when he was young?