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Q: Cascading parent child select boxes from dynamic JSON data I've created some chained select-boxes dynamically from JSON data which I will receive from server. The chaining/cascading works in a way that every select-box is a named object with following properties:

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*Parent Attribute: Name of object which is the parent of this select-box object.

*Options: Array of option objects, where each object contains: (a) Option Value (b) Parent Option Value - The parent select-box value with which the current value is mapped. (c) Option ID.

*Selected Option: An object with two properties: (a) Currently selected value (b) ID of currently selected value.
I am creating select-boxes using ng-repeat in "option" tag, or using ng-option in "select" tag, and then I am using a custom filter where I filter the retrieved options (2) by matching the parent option value (2 > b) of the option values (2 > a) with the "currently selected value" (3 > a) of its parent object. Basically doing many-to-one mapping from child option values to selected parent value using a custom filter.

I am able to correctly map the parent-child select-boxes, but the issue is when I change the parent select-box value, the "selected option value" of its child object doesn't update (the child selected item doesn't grab the first item in the filtered list, causing the grandchild drop-down to not update.)[1]
Is there any way that if parent value changes, the child select-box (and the subsequent children/grandchildren) is initialized with the first option value instead of the current blank value?
Here is the working plunker. (ng-repeat implementation). Will really appreciate any help.
Here is the another plunker with ng-options implementation.
HTML (ng-repeat):

      {{key}}
      <select class="form-control" ng-model="attribute.selectedOption.name">
        <option ng-repeat="option in attribute.options | optionFilter : selection.attributes[attribute.parentAttr]">{{option.name}}</option>
      </select>

HTML (ng-options):

      {{key}}
      <select ng-model="attribute.selectedOption" ng-options="attribute.name for attribute in (attribute.options | optionFilter : selection.attributes[attribute.parentAttr]) track by attribute.id">
      </select>

JS:
myApp.filter('optionFilter', function() {
  return function(items, parent) {
    var result = [];
    if (parent) {
      for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
        console.log(items[0].parent, parent.selectedOption.name);
        if (items[i].parent === parent.selectedOption.name) {
          result.push(items[i]);
        }
      }
      return result;
    } else {
      return items;
    }
  }
});

myApp.controller("MyCtrl", function($scope) {

  this.selectionData = [{
    selectionType: "Geography",
    attributes: {
      country: {
        parentAttr: "none",
        options: [{
          name: "India",
          parent: "None",
          id: 1
        }, {
          name: "Bangladesh",
          parent: "None",
          id: 2
        }, {
          name: "Afganistan",
          parent: "None",
          id: 3
        }],
        selectedOption: {
          name: "India",
          id: 1
        }
      },
      state: {
        parentAttr: "country",
        options: [{
          name: "Rajasthan",
          parent: "India",
          id: 1
        }, {
          name: "Haryana",
          parent: "India",
          id: 2
        }, {
          name: "Dhaka",
          parent: "Bangladesh",
          id: 3
        }, {
          name: "Kabul",
          parent: "Afganistan",
          id: 4
        }],
        selectedOption: {
          name: "Rajasthan",
          id: 1
        }
      },
      city: {
        parentAttr: "state",
        options: [{
          name: "Kota",
          parent: "Rajasthan",
          id: 1
        }, {
          name: "Sirsa",
          parent: "Haryana",
          id: 2
        }, {
          name: "Alwar",
          parent: "Rajasthan",
          id: 3
        }, {
          name: "Gurgaon",
          parent: "Haryana",
          id: 4
        }, {
          name: "Kabul",
          parent: "Kabul",
          id: 5
        },{
          name: "Dhaka",
          parent: "Dhaka",
          id: 6
        }
        ],
        selectedOption: {
          name: "Kota",
          id: 1
        }
      }
    },
  }];

});

References:

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*Cascading select/dropdowns

A: After struggling for some time, I came up with a solution (though not sure if it conforms to best practices). In my custom filter which returns the filtered options based on parent object's selected option value, I am additionally sending current select box object. Then,

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*The filter first checks whether the parent object exists or not, else it returns all options.

*If parent exists, then it loops through all available options of current select-box object.

*If current select-box options' parent value matches the parent object's selected option value, then it pushes the filtered option values in result array, only if parent object's selected option is not null (parent object's selected option can go null when grandparent value is changed and parent does not grab the resulted filtered options, leading to blank first option in parent select-box). This will temporarily cause the current-select box to be completely empty, as the parent object's selected option is null.

*Then, it checks whether the current select-box object's selected option is null. If so, it assigns the first element (object) of result array to the selected option object, and returns the result array. Since the filter will run for all select-boxes (grandparent, parent and child), it will set the first element in parent's filtered array as the parent object's selected option. Now when the parent object's selected option is no longer null, the current select-box will show filtered options (from result array) and first element of result array will be assigned to the selected option of current select-box.

Working demo here. Please share if there is a better solution.
Below is the custom filter:
myApp.filter('optionFilter', function() {
  return function(items, parent, self) {
    var result = [];
    if (parent) {
      for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
        if (parent.selectedOption !== null && items[i].parentValue === parent.selectedOption.value) {
          result.push(items[i]);
        }
      }
      if (self.selectedOption === null) {
        self.selectedOption = result[0];
      }
      return result;
    } else {
      return items;
    }
  }
});

HTML:

    {{key}}
    <select ng-model="item.selectedOption" ng-options="option.value for option in (item.availableOptions | optionFilter : data[item.parent] : item) track by option.id">
    </select>

Data:
this.data = {
  Country: {
    parent: "None",
    availableOptions: [{
      value: "United States",
      parentValue: "None",
      id: 1
    }, {
      value: "China",
      parentValue: "None",
      id: 2
    }, {
      value: "India",
      parentValue: "None",
      id: 3
    }],
    selectedOption: {
      value: "United States",
      parentValue: "None",
      id: 1
    }
  },
  State: {
    parent: "Country",
    availableOptions: [{
      value: "California",
      parentValue: "United States",
      id: 1
    }, {
      value: "Shanghai",
      parentValue: "China",
      id: 2
    }, {
      value: "Delhi",
      parentValue: "India",
      id: 3
    }],
    selectedOption: {
      value: "California",
      parentValue: "United States",
      id: 1
    }
  },
  City: {
    parent: "State",
    availableOptions: [{
      value: "Greenfield",
      parentValue: "California",
      id: 1
    }, {
      value: "Shanghai",
      parentValue: "Shanghai",
      id: 2
    }, {
      value: "New Delhi",
      parentValue: "Delhi",
      id: 3
    }],
    selectedOption: {
      value: "Greenfield",
      parentValue: "California",
      id: 1
    }
  }
};

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Bobby (Bagoes Galistan) cannot perform well at work, as he can't forget his sister, who was sold to a brothel and then killed.
When taking his friend, Hendra (Chairil JM), to a brothel that is owned by Dewi Anjani (Sonny Dewantara), he seeks help from Rini (Ayu Yohana), a prostitute who wants to run away. Reminded of his sister, he is determined to help Rini to get out. He starts dating Rini and they fall in love. Hendra also has a girlfriend who works there. After several failed attempts, Bobby and Hendra finally manage to extricate their girlfriends from the brothel.
Also available on VCD, titled Rahasia Rumah Bordil (Secret of the Brothel).


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Q: Are weak (Sobolev) solutions to a linear ODE a classical ones? Let $\Omega$ be an open subset of $\mathbb{R}$ and let $L$ be the differential operator
$$
Lf = \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} a_k f^{(k)} + f^{(n)},
$$
where $a_k$ are reals.

I would like to show that every weak (in a Sobolev space $W^{1,1}(\Omega)$) solution to
  $Lf = 0$
  is a classical one.

It is quite easy if $n = 1$:
$$
af + f' = 0.
$$
We rewrite the equation in the form
$$
\int_\Omega (af + f')\phi = 0,
$$
where $\phi \in C_c^\infty(\Omega)$ is a test function. Then, by the definition of the weak derivative this means
$$
\int_\Omega f(a\phi - \phi') = \int_\Omega f(x) e^{-ax}(e^{ax}\phi(x))' = 0.
$$
Since $e^{ax} \phi(x)$ could be any test function, we get $(f(x) e^{-ax})' = 0$, which means that $f(x) e^{-ax}$ is constant, hence $f(x) = c e^{ax}$.
But how should I proceed in case $n > 1$?

A: Definition: a distribution $T$ is of order $r$ if $r$ is the smallest integer such that
$$|T(\phi)| \le C\sum_{j=0}^{r} \sup_\Omega |\phi^{(j)}|$$
holds with $C$ independent of $\phi$.
Example: if $f\in W^{1,1}(\Omega)$, then both $f$ and $f'$ are of order $0$.
Property 1: if $T$ is of order $r$, then $T'$ is of order $\le r+1$. This follows directly from $T'(\phi) = -T(\phi')$.
Property 2: if $T'$ is of order $r$, then $T$ is of order  $\le \max(0,r-1)$. To prove this, fix a test function $\phi_0$ with nonzero integral. Every test function $\phi$ can be written as $c\phi_0+\psi'$ where $c=\int \phi/\int\phi_0$ is a constant and $\psi$ is another test function. Indeed, the difference $\phi-c\phi_0$ has zero integral, and therefore its indefinite integral is also a test function. Since $T(\phi) = cT(\phi_0) - T'(\psi)$, the result follows (note that $c$ is bounded by $\sup|\phi|$ and $T(\phi_0)$ is a constant independent of $\phi$).
After these preparations, proceed to the proof. Let $r$ be the order of $f^{(n)}$ (which is $\le n-1$ by assumption $f\in W^{1,1}$). By Property 2, the sum $\sum_{k=0}^{n-1} a_k f^{(k)}$ has order at most $\max(0, r-1)$. So, $r\le \max(0,r-1)$, which implies $r=0$.
Moreover, since any derivative of $f$ satisfies the same ODE, all derivatives of $f$ have order $0$.
By the Riesz Representation theorem, a distribution of order $0$ is a signed measure. Integrating a signed measure once, we get a  bounded  function; integrating it twice, we get a continuous function. Hence, all derivatives are continuous: $f\in C^\infty(\Omega)$.
Remark: the proof does not really use the assumption $f\in W^{1,1}$: it works for any distribution.


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Easier linking is definitely a good thing. It was a bit confusing in DL4.


During my 24 years as a teacher and even before that, I experienced what worked for me to successfully reach students. The common ground for most teachers who reach children and students is they care. One of the ideas that I saw work, was prior to my teaching in a school system. I was fortunate to live in another country which values education highly. That is the country of Switzerland.
Most of the European countries put education at the top of the list near health care to provide for their citizens. It was there that I saw and heard of "Apprenticeship"- as a form of training and teaching in certain fields and professions. This kind of apprenticeship has NOTHING to do with the fake "Reality" show of which Donald Trump was a star. This is NOT entertainment.
One thing I witnessed in Switzerland was that their education system provided many paths to education. At 15 years old students went to different tracks in education. One of those tracks was to do apprenticeships in many different fields. In the USA we act like everyone is going to finish the same high school, which is academic. That kind of education does NOT serve all parts of our population. Instead some of those students end up dropping out of school and have no path to employment, which leads them down the road to poverty.
This REAL apprenticeship works to help train students and actually is run by the German Corporation, Grenzebach, in the state of Georgia. At the end of three years the students participating will be certified Industrial Mechanics by Germany. The program begins when the students are 15 years old. Take a listen.
This is from the August 5, 2016 program of Here and Now on NPR radio. You can listen to the podcast. The story is in the First Hour of Here and Now from the 37-40:23 minutes.
You will NOT hear any "You're fired" in this podcast.
We Americans do not have to reinvent forms of education that work to train people to become skilled workers who can earn good incomes. Apprenticeships have been working well for hundreds of years. As educators we need to just open our minds and do what works, not what is expedient or cheap! Let's invest in all children's futures.
As a former teacher I have great respect and empathy for most teachers. This story shows what IS NOT working in American education.
This last weekend I heard another story about GOOD and excellent teachers and why they are quitting before they reach retirement age. This is a REAL problem. I have known many teachers where this has been the case. We usually lose the teachers who care the most because they are so micromanaged by outrageous paperwork and administrative oversight that has almost NOTHING to do with teaching or being an excellent, caring teacher who has made a difference in many children's lives.
The paperwork has become "soul sucking" as the teacher, Rick Young, calls it. It is pretty sick that after 25 years of great teaching, administrators need to take time away from good teaching and lose people such as, Rick Young, who really cared and worked tirelessly to insure their students' success.
This is the season to be giving. Often we think about and buy Christmas presents for friends, family, and coworkers. We might also give food to the hungry, and financially support groups we care about if we can. The giving I'm talking about is the REST of the YEAR.
I mean giving things to others when you don't use them anymore. Some of us donate to resale shops and nonprofits. Where I live people do that, and they also just leave free stuff for others to pick up and take.
This person gave away her/his TV set free for whomever wanted it. I like this pass it along thinking and giving. The person even included a manual with the TV set. I am always glad when I can pass along what I no longer need to a nonprofit resale store that gives people jobs. I shop there myself. Old school stuff is sometimes better made with better quality fabric and materials than the new purchases of 2015.
One of the greatest stories about giving this year was a story about a little girl from Schenectady, NY. It is the story of Sa'fyre Terry an 8 year old girl. When I looked online there was a YouTube video that preceded this story which I first heard on the radio last week.
The outpouring of giving to Sa'fyre Terry, who had been through so much, shows us the best of who we are. When our hearts are open, we are the most loving we can be. I wish this giving spirit to be a part of your holidays which ever one you celebrate!


Baloo is a featured article, which means it has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Disney Wiki community.
There are 7 cards of items, each with a prize at the end, as well as a smaller prize for each bingo (3 in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Collect Disney and Pixar emoji characters and items from The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Cinderella, Zootopia, The Muppets, Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Dory and more!


Setting up a blog can seem to be a very difficult task for the non techie type out there. They(the techie types) talk about MYSQL, PHP and you need a reader to read a blog in. Then they say u gotta ping the blog.
Is that a new mixed drink or something ?
We talk to our children and they look at us as if we come from another planet.
My Dad being basically computer illiterate a short time ago. HMM I still think he is but I wont say it to often in this house.
I wrote these instructions for him and he had had no major problems setting up a blog.
You will need a reader to read the blog you make or someone elses that you subscribe to.
The 1st step is an easy way to get a reader that allows rss feeds to be pulled to your My page.
1. Go to www.yahoo.com and create a my yahoo page. If you have one already go to step 2.
instructions on the start page. Take your time and make sure you read the instructions. Do Not speed read them like Dad usually will do .
WOW Great job!!! Pat your self on the back.
Congratulations you have now created a blog.
3. Now open up the create new post in your new blog and write new post. Now publish it.
4. Now go back to www.yahoo.com and sign in to your "MY" account.
5. Now go to add content to your front page, upper left corner of your start page.Now click on RSS Headlines. Now copy this and paste this url in The Add New Sources box on this page.
6. Now check Sources to add. This will ad the feed to your MY page.
7. Now repeat steps 4 and 5 with your blog URL.
Have you thought about how easily you could build and maintain a website if you created the entire thing using blog software? Talk about an inexpensive and easy way to make your own website, this is it!A small business could create websites for each of its product lines, and build each site with blogging software, then link them all together to a main sales site. New product announcements,a FAQ, customer support, description of features, etc, is all handled in a snap.


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The Internet of Things in Health: McKinsey Sees $1.6 T Value
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 8 July 2015 in Behavior change, Behavioral economics, Behavioral health, Big data and health, Connected health, Data analytics and health, Design and health, Digital health, Environment and heatlh, Fitness, Health care industry, Health Consumers, Health costs, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health literacy, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, HealthDIY, Home care, Internet of things, Medical device, Medical innovation, Medical technology, mHealth, Mobile health, Patient engagement, Remote health monitoring, Sensors and health, Social determinants of health, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Value based health, Wearables
'Tis the summer of big, smart reports covering the Internet of Things (IoT) impact on health and fitness. Just this month, three of these missives have come to my inbox, and they all contribute sound thinking about the topic. Today, tomorrow and Friday, I'll cover each of these here in Health Populi. We begin with McKinsey Global Institute's The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype.
[In full disclosure, I was an outside adviser to the MGI team members who focused on the human/health and fitness aspects of this report, and thank MGI for the opportunity to provide input into their research].
MGI points to 9 settings where IoT can create value: Home (e.g., security, chore automation), Offices (energy, security), Factories (operations, optimization of capital equipment), Retail (e.g., automated checkout), Worksites (health and safety), Human (health and fitness), Outside (logistics, navigation), Cities (public health, transport), and Vehicles (think: connected car, autonomous vehicles).
In each of these opportunity areas, data created through Internet connections can be captured and analyzed for predictions and optimization of business workflow and consumer "life-flow." In total, MGI forecasts a total cross-sector value across the 9 settings ranging from $3.9 trillion to $11.1 trillion per year in 2025.
IoT in the Human (health/fitness) setting is described by MGI as "devices attached to or inside the human body," where MGI says, "people will use to guide their actions and decisions." Based on this definition, value created by IoT in the Human segment could reach $1.6 trillion globally, MGI calculates.
To put this number in context, the U.S. spends about $3 trillion a year on health care: that is, the proportion of spending on healthcare in the U.S. national health expenditure accounts, what gets counted in the GDP and comprises about 17% of the U.S. economy, compared with about 9% for OECD countries.
The $1.6 trillion value arises through monitoring and treating illness, and improving wellness (say, through nudging people toward lifestyle behaviors like healthier eating and taking more exercise) — enhancing peoples' quality of life, extending healthy life spans for people with chronic conditions, and reducing the direct costs of treatments. In the report, MGI segments health conditions by IoT impact including treatment compliance, early detection of complications, and real-time treatment management to understand the various levels of benefits for each condition. The greatest "DALYs," disability adjusted life-years, accrue among patients dealing with neuropsychiatric conditions, heart disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS, sense organ diseases, and respiratory diseases, based on MGI's calculations.
Health Populi's Hot Points: The opportunity for IoT to positively impact health care costs in the U.S. — to help bend the cost curve — is tremendous. But MGI rightly points out a major barrier to getting to this cost-cutting Nirvana: lack of interoperability. MGI notes that interoperability is required to capture 40% of the total values of IoT across all settings. In healthcare, this may be an even larger challenge than for other industry sectors with less complicated data sets, such as banking and energy.
In healthcare, we talk about "interoperability" in the context of the HITECH Act, Meaningful Use, and implementation of electronic health records in provider settings. In the IoT world, the concept extends to even more hardware, both in provider settings like remote health monitoring equipment, along with home-based equipment and mobile/wearable sensors. With the likes of Validic and other newer entrants focusing on the "API-ification" of health data integration, we're on the road to reducing the friction between Big Iron EHRs and Todd Park's vision of Data Liberación. Furthermore, exciting developments with FHIR and "appification" within the EHR environment via Dr. Ken Mandl's work is encouraging and moving us toward better data liquidity.
Furthermore, it's the context for adopting IoT in health that's also very important to getting to the value. "Perhaps more challenging than the technical issues are the structure changes necessary to create incentives for behavior changes among health-care payors, providers, and patients," MGI notes. Behavior change is hard without aligning incentives, and the perceptions and values of incentives for each of these stakeholder groups are quite different.
On the value-calculation, as a health economist and someone who does cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses in my daily work, I would point out other hard-currency values that can be generated through the IoT Human channel. Patients' return-to-work, as wage earners and taxpayers, is a direct quantifiable benefit, for example, to add to the $1.6 trillion. Further spin-off impacts of those workers patronizing businesses in their local communities — including patronizing neighborhood restaurants, flower shops, dry cleaners, et. al. — are additional positive adds to the value of IoT in health as more health citizens contribute to the economy for more life-years.
Visit Health Populi on Thursday 9th July and Friday 10th July to read our take on two more IoT/health reports – from Goldman Sachs and Accenture.

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I complain/gripe/rant about Michigan a LOT. Pierre simply tunes me out most days. When I tell him that it was well over 75F the other day in Huntington Beach, I get little more than a shrug. Well, I've got two words for him – Flip Flops. They are awesome and I wore them until the plane landed in Detroit. Now, I'm typing this looking like Asian Southpark wearing a snow cap, two sweaters and sweatpants. Yes, pity, pity me. At least I mustered enough energy to make two salads (since I missed last week's because there is little coverage in the snow stormed area of the Grand Canyon).
The first salad is made with fresh fava beans that I found at ZZ Produce in Ypsilanti, Michigan. At this rather unassuming store, (okay, let's be honest — little shack) one can find fresh fava beans, yucca, tamarind, Ya Li Pears, opo squash, okra, culantro (saw tooth herb) and so many other fruits and vegetables. Inside, I saw local Latino, Asian and Middle Eastern folks waiting in line to purchase their goods. I think it's great to see such a diverse group of people in one small store that does little or no advertising save for a somewhat dilapidated sign near the front of the store.
After preparing the fava beans for this salad, I've come to view the task of shucking and shelling them as fun as listening to K-Fed sing and having my appendix removed AT THE SAME TIME. But was it worth it? I'm supposed to say yes, and I will. Pretty darn good is my estimation. I love all sheep's milk cheeses and pecorino is always lovely. I think fresh mint would also be nice here. Some recipes suggest leaving the beans raw but I decided to warm them in some roasted garlic oil before tossing with the pecorino, flat leaf parsley and fleur de sel.
I know people who dislike green beans but love sugar snap peas. I don't associate with such misguided people normally, but I'm willing to extend a branch of friendship with this salad. Sugar snap peas are finally coming into season and this is a simple salad with quickly-sauteéd peas, sliced minneola tangelos and toasted almonds. Serve with a dijon vinaigrette [dijon + 3 parts olive oil + 1 part red wine vinegar+ S&P].
Welcome back and your salads look so pretty.
Michigan is great if you don't like the weather just wait 6 months and your basement will turn into a pool. speaking of flooded basements I was thinking about you and yours last night and I wanted to let you know that if you need help digging a trench this spring let me know, we can do that and plant some veggies too.
I love fava beans and often snack on them just lightly boiled. Try them in a salad with garbanzo beans with parmesan cheese, lemon juice, and salt and pepper. You can make bissara, a hummus-like dip with them too.
Are they already in season there? I didn't see them at the farmers' market yesterday.
The double shelling is a pain but they're so green tasting it's worth it. I remember coming across someone else who had them in a pasta but they didn't remove the second shelling and ate them that way. I mentioned the second shelling but she said she didn't mind the taste. Oh well?
Forgot to add: I hope you enjoyed the garlic oil!
WanderingChopsticks – your idea sounds great – we'll see if I try the whole shucking/shelling thing again. I think if the beans are young and tender enough, the second shelling may not be totally necessary. So, I think I'll look for young and tender ones next time and save some cursing! I found the fava beans at a middle eastern-ish produce store — but I'm fairly certain they're not locally grown.
RasaMalaysia – I imagine you'll be seeing plenty of them soon in your warm, sunny area (jealous here).
Jen- The effort was worth it this time – the salad was great. But, I'll be looking for extra tender specimens next time (which might not require a 2nd shelling). Our trip out west was awesome. It was interesting to see a snow-capped GC. There was a foot of snow outside our cabin at Bright Angel Lodge – which, frankly, was all too familiar for me 🙂 Still, the views are still phenomenal and I'm still sorting though thousands of photos. I know spring is around the corner, but tell that to the Michigan weather fairy!
You really missed the beautiful weather down here over the past few days! It's been screaming out flip flops! and perfect 80 degree weather!
Wow, you've got ZZ! That's not bad because we really thought you lived in the sticks! 🙂 Your tasty green legumes are shouting out "Spring"! and hopefully the glorious season will be following you all the way to Michigan!
Nicely done! I like this weekly salads bit, genius! That second salad is presented very well.
WhiteonRiceCouple- You're killing me with the weather report and the tangerine photos on your blog! Ya know, there's no place like Southern Cali but Ann Arbor is thankfully, not in the sticks.
Oh my goodness – I just found your blog through http://www.localfoodblog.com and I love, love, LOVE the photos!!!


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The initial module was created by Mike Carlson in February of 2006.
I (MC) have done some reorganizing and additions. It's currently June 2007.
I (David Ackroyd) have added some revision phrases to chapter 4. I would like someone to make sure that they are correct.
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AmeriDream Addresses National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Gaithersburg, MD – AmeriDream, a national nonprofit leader in affordable housing was featured as a panelist in a discussion of innovative approaches for affordable housing at the annual national conference of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, held March 14-17, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill Hotel in Washington, DC.
One workshop at the conference examined innovative approaches to challenging foreclosure, combating market fraud, and empowering communities to recognize the newest predatory practices that threaten consumers. The workshop included a special focus on the subject of "suitability" of numerous non-traditional mortgage loans; as well as a discussion of the impact of new federal guidance, appraisal fraud, and predatory practices that is impacting communities across America.
AmeriDream President Ann Ashburn presented information about nonprofit organizations that provide down payment assistance and how these organizations are designed to work with FHA and the population that both serve which are low-to-moderate-income individuals and many first-time homebuyers.
"Often, people don't quite understand how these nonprofit organizations work and there is a lot of misperception," Ms. Ashburn commented. "Workshops like this one, give us an opportunity to correct these myths, tell the complete story, and highlight the work we are doing to help underserved groups become successful homeowners through safe loan programs such as FHA."
Nonprofit down payment assistance organizations, like AmeriDream, help families get into homes who would otherwise never achieve their dream of homeownership.
They accomplish their mission by helping low-to-moderate-income individuals and families overcome the down payment barrier to homeownership while also giving them positive equity in their home from day one.
Nonprofit organizations that provide down payment assistance were first introduced to the public in 1997 after receiving conformation from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the IRS as an allowable gift source and as a nonprofit (respectively) under HUD guidelines and IRS qualifications as a 501(c)(3). Since then, they have helped more than one million individuals and families become homeowners.
Nonprofit programs were designed to work with the same population served by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The FHA was created in 1934 to give home buyers, who most likely have a low-to-moderate-income and a less-than-perfect credit record, access to reasonably priced mortgages under fair terms and universal pricing.
In an effort to clarify some of the misconceptions about nonprofit organizations that provide down payment assistance, Ms. Ashburn called attention to several points regarding down payment assistance and FHA, including:
Down payment assistance programs are not mortgage products. They are a supplemental program that works primary with FHA in accordance with HUD rules and guidelines.
Nonprofit organizations do not over value homes to include service fees. A fair market value appraisal is a critical part of the home buying process. Nonprofits that provide down payment assistance do not conduct appraisals and are not involved in communications with appraisers. All homes using FHA with down payment assistance are required to have a HUD certified appraiser conduct the appraisal.
Down payment assistance program are not predatory lenders. Since the 1930's FHA insured loans have helped low-to-moderate-income homebuyers, with the secure, low interest rates critical for families working just to make ends meet. Nonprofit organizations that provide down payment assistance serve the same population as FHA. Nearly half of FHA loans use down payment assistance provided by nonprofit organizations.
High claim rates are caused by nonprofit down payment programs. Claim rates are caused by a catastrophic event in a homeowner's life. Loss of job, serious illness and divorce are the most common catastrophic events that cause claim rates. The financial health of the homeowner and the economic health of the area or region where they live are two major predictors for successful homeownership. Nonprofit down payment assistance organizations serve low-to-moderate-income individuals; often they are first-time homebuyers and most at risk. Recognizing that it is this population that down payment assistance programs serve, these programs still have a 94% successful homeownership rate compared to family down payment assistance rate of 95%.
Nonprofit down payment assistance programs have limited positive impact. These programs have helped over 1 million individuals and families become homeowners who have gained an average of $18,000 in equity. Additionally, there has been a $22 billion net positive economic impact to the national economy because of nonprofit down payment assistance.
Ms. Ashburn also emphasized that while nonprofit organizations that provide down payment assistance have been widely viewed as helping to increase the nation's homeownership rates, there are areas within the nonprofit sector that could be improved.
AmeriDream's recommendations include:
Increase enforcement of current regulations. Many abuses that occur in areas of the mortgage industry and nonprofit sector are already addressed by existing regulations and policies but they are not enforced effectively.
Change the appraisal process. Implement a blind appraisal process that would increase independence and ensure that homes are fixed at their true market value, stopping inflation and addressing the concern of potentially contributing to loan claim rates.
Require homebuyer education for anyone that receives down payment assistance. The home purchase process can be costly and complex. Early participation in a homebuyer education program can help consumers make sound decisions as they make plans for a successful home buying experience.
Code of Conduct and Best Practices. Additional recommendations can be found in AmeriDream's Code of Conduct and Best Practices.
"At AmeriDream, our goal not only is to assist underserved individuals and families achieve the dream of homeownership but also to help them become long-term, successful homeowners," Ashburn concluded.
In addition to Ms. Ashburn, other panelists included: Janice Bowdler, National Council of La Raza; Gail Burks, the Nevada Fair Housing Center; Alan Fishbein, Consumer Federation of America; and Robert Stupp, Baltimore Community Law.
About AmeriDream
AmeriDream, Inc. is a 501(c)(3), publicly supported non-profit organization founded in 1999. AmeriDream is one of the first nonprofit organizations to pioneer providing down payment assistance to low-to-moderate income individuals and families to help them become homeowners. AmeriDream also provides free homebuyer education and loss mitigation programs that help families keep their homes and prevent foreclosure. These programs have helped thousands of individuals and families become successful homeowners. To learn more about AmeriDream, please go to www.ameridream.org.
About National Community Reinvestment Coalition
NCRC is a national nonprofit membership organization that promotes economic justice and equal access to credit capital and financial services to traditionally underserved communities.
Represents the Number of "Main Street" Americans Denied the Opportunity to Purchase a Home With the Help of AmeriDream, Since Congress Prohibited Such Programs On October 1, 2008.!
Since 1999, AmeriDream has helped
individuals and families achieve the American Dream of homeownership.
On average, every 17 minutes there was a new homeowner because of AmeriDream.
AmeriDream® - a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Copyright © 2004-2008. All rights reserved.


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High-Fidelity Conversion of Floating-Point Networks for Low-Precision Inference using Distillation with Limited Data
Date: Wednesday, May 26
Start Time: 11:00am
End Time: 11:30am
When converting floating-point networks to low-precision equivalents for high-performance inference, the primary objective is to maximally compress the network whilst maintaining fidelity to the original, floating-point network. This is made particularly challenging when only a reduced or unlabelled dataset is available.
Data may be limited for reasons of a commercial or legal nature: for example, companies may be unwilling to share valuable data and labels that represent a substantial investment of resources; or the collector of the original dataset may not be permitted to share it for data privacy reasons. We present a method based on distillation that allows high-fidelity, low-precision networks to be produced for a wide range of different network types, using the original trained network in place of a labeled dataset. Our proposed approach is directly applicable across multiple domains (e.g. classification, segmentation and style transfer) and can be adapted to numerous network compression techniques.
Technical Insights
Introduction to Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes—A New Type of Imager for Computer Vision
Practical Guide to Implementing ML on Embedded Devices
Interview: Developing and Deploying a Privacy-Preserving Vision-Based Sensor System for Commercial Real Estate
Secure Hardware Architecture for Embedded Vision
Three Lessons Learned in Building a Successful AI Inferencing Toolkit—from the OpenVINO Architect
Streamlining Development of Complete Edge AI Solutions via Customizable Reference Software – A Healthcare Use Case
James Imber
Senior Research Engineer, Imagination Technologies
James is a member of Imagination Technologies' AI Research team, where he works primarily on neural network accelerators, compilers and low-precision inference targeting embedded systems. He has 9 years' experience as a researcher in the semiconductor IP industry, during which time he has accumulated 24 granted patents and has contributed to publications in international computer vision conferences including ECCV and ICPR. Last year he received Electronics Weekly's BrightSparks award for young engineers in recognition of his research and his work promoting STEM subjects to secondary school pupils in the UK. His research interests include image processing, ray tracing, machine learning and computer vision. He undertook his PhD studies at the University of Surrey's Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) on shape-assisted intrinsic image decomposition and holds a BEng from the University of Southampton in Electronic Engineering.


The purpose of this website is to provide information that will assist you in understanding your senior housing choices so you may make informed housing decisions.
One of the most important decisions older adults make is their choice of housing. There are a vast array of available options ranging from living independently in your own home without receiving any in-home support services to living in a nursing home and receiving total care.
Many seniors will want to stay in a cherished home for as long as possible but will make some changes to make it safer and more comfortable. Others will seek a group setting, where companionship and planned activities fill the day and where support services may be easier to obtain.
Housing appropriate for one older adult may be completely unacceptable for another. An older person who needs assistance may require a different type of housing than one who can live independently. What's most important is matching, as closely as possible, housing and living arrangements with an older adult's needs and desires.
It helps to know beforehand that the terms for housing options for older adults can be very confusing. In some cases, no standard "vocabulary" clearly distinguishes one housing type from another.
An example is the term "Assisted Living." There is not a standard definition for this term. In some states, where assisted living is not licensed or regulated, the term may be used very loosely. Facilities in these states may not provide the services usually associated with assisted living. In other states, the term is used to describe a specific type of housing option. Those investigating various housing options should make sure they have confirmed all the features and services offered by a provider.
It is similar with the terms "Senior Home", "Adult Foster Care" or "Adult Foster Care Home", "Board and Care Home" and the list goes on. It is important to understand the terms used commonly in your state before your search begins. We can help.
At Senior Home Search, we offer a convenient and free service for finding homes for seniors that are of a Small Setting - usually 6 residents and up to 20 residents. Most of these wonderful homes are owned and operated by individual family business and are regulated and overseen by state agencies. In short, homes that are an excellent option for Senior Care.
Finding the right senior care home, or senior housing can get overwhelming at first, but having a better understanding of all the options of an Adult Foster Care home in your area, will make it easier and less stressful. Senior Home Search will help.
Our website, seniorhomesearch.net, is both a mirror of States Adult Foster Care Homes, Senior Care Homes and other types of senior living home databases for people to search, as well as a place where individual owners of these homes can host their own customized listings.
At this time Senior Home Search, the website, does not have an active system for writing reviews on individual homes (although we have done some testing). If in the future we do add a review platform for individual homes, we will make an announcement. In the meantime, other websites are available for making comments about AFC's and Assisted Living homes and we would recommend such sites for submitting and reading reviews.
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First of all, my brothers, I wanted to let you know that things will all soon be fixed in the contractual, derivative silver and gold markets! You heard me correctly, things will be made "right as rain", and all those responsible for helping the fraud and rigging within these markets will be brought to justice! Wanna know why? Well, look no further than this latest announcement by the CFTC!
Washington, DC — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today launched CFTC SmartCheck, a new national campaign to help investors identify and protect themselves against financial fraud. The comprehensive campaign includes a new website, a national advertising campaign and interactive videos that will help investors spot investment offers that are potentially fraudulent. The new website, SmartCheck.CFTC.gov, unveiled today, is an educational tool that helps investors conduct background checks of financial professionals.
Yes, the CFTC has redoubled their efforts to protect us all from financial fraud, God bless them! Why, they've even made a brand new website to help check the backgrounds of financial professionals! You see, this is crucial, because once the investing public uses this new "SmartCheck" system on each member of the CFTC itself, they will discover that this organization has protected massive cons and market rigging in the commodity and precious metals spaces, by the largest investment and bullion banks on earth! Once citizens realize it, they will demand multiple arrests within the CFTC, and that law-makers shut down this shell organization for good!
Whew, and not a moment too soon, either! About time someone made this exceptionally helpful tool available to the investing public! Finally, justice for every regulator who has colluded with the banks, starting with the inventors of SmartCheck itself!
Ahh, ok, that's enough Holiday humor! Ya know, sometimes ya gotta laugh to keep from weeping, as they say. In this case though, I suspect some of you may have laughed so hard that you did weep!
Recently, I took some time to highlight the silver investment demand numbers in India, because the figures we're seeing there have staggering implications for every stacker. I've been watching India like a hawk because, believe it or not, their attitude toward silver is what largely holds the immediate present for precious metals in its hands.
I've been fairly positive throughout 2014, that we'd see investment demand there for the white metal, up at levels which are at least comparable to last year's record tonnage figures, and India has not disappointed! This is why I've welcomed all the price raids: India is very price-sensitive, and last year's raid only served to remove another 100 million ounces of silver from worldwide inventories.
I've kept my eye on India over the last 2 years, more than any other country on earth, in this regard, because I believe that the key to silver, going forward, is India.
Seriously, India? Watchman, why would you say that?
Well, there are several reasons, and I'd like to address them in this article, including one key question that nobody has asked, but I'll get to that a bit later.
Take a close look at the last 2 years, while this Watchman channels his inner Dwight Schrute here for a moment!
Fact: In 2013, India imported nearly 200 million ounces of silver, during a year in which world silver supply declined by about 3%.
Fact: In 2014, India is on pace to import over 210 million ounces of silver, in a year in which silver scrap supply is on pace to decline yet again.
That's 400 million ounces of silver taken away from the market riggers, in just 2 blessed years! It has gotten so dire for the crooks in London, that SRS Rocco has reported that the LBMA has been almost utterly drained of silver, and that India is now actually having to rely upon Russia and China to slate its silver lust!
What I'd hoped would happen, has finally started to appear: the baddies in the banking West, are being looted of their silver….by their own price-rigging scheme.
2) The 10% tax levied on precious metals, has made gold the lesser bargain when compared to silver.
In a word: India has bought 400 million ounces of silver in just over 700 days, because Indians were "taxed out of gold".
The tax itself made silver preferable to gold for many of the less wealthy stackers, and bargain hunters.
Then, what on earth will happen when nearly 1.2 billion Indians are priced out of gold permanently??
$5,000, $7,000, $10,000, $12,000, $18,000, $30,000, and even $55,000 per troy ounce for gold! All those figures(and more) have been floated.
The average Indian family only can afford roughly 1 ounce of gold per wedding gift, already. Some can afford much more, and others much less, but what happens when the price suppression scheme is on the ropes, and gold flies(literally flies!) upward to a 5 digit dollar price?
"If there's no gold, there's no wedding".
Historically that's been true, due in large part to the market rigging, which has made gold affordable for most middle class, and even some poorer families.
Gold is as much about social status as it is about security for the families. Each bride's family is responsible for saving and procuring the gold which the daughter will wear at her wedding.
What will happen though, when gold is out of reach of millions of brides(and their families) who wish to convey their status, and their daughter's security, with their daughter's adornments?
They will simply never succeed in making fiat, debt notes the chic way to showcase your family's staying power in India! They've tried for decades to achieve that goal there, but to no avail.
Thankfully only Western nations, who prize debt above actual assets, would ever foolishly flaunt their debt notes on their bodies!
Indian families will not stop wearing their wealth, period! Yet, where do they turn, if they can't get gold, and don't want paper junk? What options do they have?
Bitcoin? While this Watchman respects alternative currencies(and owns a little BTC himself, and by the way, thanks to the shield brother who donated to this HQ in BTC)….bitcoin will never have the psychological power of gold or silver, because….it's not beautiful! It's not tangible. Sure, you can put it on a thumb drive, or print it out on a piece of paper, but try as you like: fondling a thumb drive(or a bar code) will never speak deeply to the minds of mankind! You can't really touch a bitcoin, you can't polish it, you can't shape it into anything. That just won't fit the bill either.
While India and gold are inseparable, and while it's true, and there will always be a very wealthy class of families that buy it, it doesn't matter how much the rest of India may want gold. If they can't afford it, they won't get it!
I contend that India will return to its roots, and embrace silver as the 'gentleman's gold', as the people did in India for thousands of years.
Watchman, that's ridiculous! India will never do that!
Do we want to showcase our family's wealth on our daughter, with a few grams of gold…..or with a kilo of silver?
I'm making the bold assumption here, that most will choose the latter.
There's something else going on here, too, which involves the new "Silver Fix", which as we know, is just as criminal as the old "London Silver Fix". It was a weird measurement of silver that was introduced in it all. Most didn't hear about it, because it was buried, and not spoken of, and I wouldn't have known about it either, except that BrotherJohnF found it out through his excellent detective skills.
BrotherJohn covered this new fix in great detail, but he was one of the only commentators that this Watchman remembers, who took note of the new silver measurement: called "the Lakh". After he'd researched this term, he concluded that it was a measurement primarily used in Indian English. I recommend that all shield brothers go back and watch his video, "Fixing Silver , especially from around the 10 minute mark, and onward.
He speculated that the true headline was that this term was thrown into the mix, and after thinking it over for some time, I quite agree with that analysis, and I believe this could be the reason the term was chosen.
Once the average Indian family(who will continue to give wedding gifts which save their family's generational wealth in a tangible, sovereign, precious metal) can no longer afford gold, what will they turn to?
Gold will again become the "money of kings", and since few of us in this life are kings, silver will regain its place, as "money of the people".
We've looked at the BRICS alliance before very carefully on numerous occasions, and what seems to be the case, is that each major power is taking something very big(some huge competitive advantage) from the deal.
China is acquiring the currency hegemony: all the gold, the Yuan swaps, and the direct convertability that goes with it.
Russia seems to be acquiring the energy hegemony: maintaining and expanding their dominant role in natural gas and oil trade.
But, what about India? What comparative advantage does India get?
Will they receive "silver hegemony"? Is India going to get "all the silver" in the end?
It's a serious question, worthy of your attention today, while silver is still basically "free".
Hundreds of millions of Indian families may not yet realize it, but these are the "golden days" of gold-themed weddings.
Gold was known as the "metal of kings" for thousands of years, and will soon return to that status, when the gold suppression ends. At that point, you either owned gold or you didn't(unless you owned silver). The point is that you cannot buy what you cannot afford.
At some not-too-distant point in the future, buying gold for one's daughter, will be like buying her a Maserati. Sure, everyone may want a Maserati, but that is an extreme, luxury good, only accessible to a few.
Will Indians then turn away from "wearing their wealth on their sleeve"?
No way! This Watchman contends that they'll return to their roots, and once again become the world's largest silver-buying country.
This one reason alone is why those who claim that silver "is just a game", and that silver will soar to immeasurable heights, only to crash land when "the bubble pops", are all wet. Central bankers may never buy silver, but hundreds of millions of Indians soon will, and that is all it will take to uphold silver's value at a price which is many multiples higher than it is now.
If price-sensitize Indian gold-buyers have already started to opt to for silver, due to a measly 10% tax hike on gold, what will price-sensitize Indian buyers do when the inevitable happens: when gold hits, say $15,000?
Will India continue to buy a "mere" 200 million ounces for wealth storage and weddings? Remember, 200 million ounces this past year, equaled an investment of roughly $4 billion dollars!
That's it! India's population is almost 20% of the entire world! They're also a nation who just spent $25 to $30 billion this year on gold(of the non-smuggled variety).
What happens when an extra quarter of that money which normally moved into gold, tries to move into silver each and every year?
Say, $8 billion, by that time? Or, what happens when just half that money moves into silver? Three quarters?
Silver is a market so tiny, that it simply cannot continue to absorb these multi-billion dollar investments from India, without causing a price spike that would stun even me.
I highly suggest that the shield brothers here figure all this out right now, before those in India do. For once the smart money in that ancient culture understands this, they'll be able to remove every last lakh of silver themselves…with ease!
Great article WW. I have always speculated that the investment demand will overcome the physical silver market all of a sudden. It could be that India is "re-awaking" to silver or a number of other things. One thing is for sure once that initial surge in demand overcomes the physical supply all hell will break lose because suddenly everybody will want what nobody can have. If you don't have your stack by then, you never will.
WW, its a pleasure reading your words. So much about what is occurring in this fiat/real money space as interesting as it is, is very dry and "monotonous". You inject inject just the right amount of color and humour into your perspectives to make this stuff truly enjoyable and I alwayss look forward to your words. A stacker since 2010 with very strong hands. You are now regularly recommended by me to others. Keep on keepn' on shield brother.
You silly rabbit ! Do you really believe that the C.F.T.C. , S.E.C. , or any other U. S. regulatory agency is gonna come down on the F.E.D. , Banksters too BIG to Jail , and Wall Street ? They are all from the same " Tribal Family ! " http://www.tomatobubble.com/id199.html http://prince.org/msg/105/271100 In fact , the last member of the F.E.D. , Stanley Fischer an Israeli National , left the Bank of Israel to become the Second in Command at the F.E.D. http://www.globalresearch.ca/bank-of-israel-governor-stanley-fischer-nominated-for-number-two-spot-at-the-federal-reserve/5362626 America has been defeated and is an occupied country !
If a measly 10% tax causes them to buy 200million ounces of silver a year, with gold at $15,000.00 that 10% will now be what the silver to gold ratio will be. Why do I say this? Because that 10% on a higher gold price will mean a loss of gold ounces and will be applied to silver since more ounces can be gained from buying silver. In other words, I believe the silver to gold ratio will take its historical value and may even go 1-1 or close because if the kings are not giving up their gold, the people will not give up their silver. Maybe at that time, this is when it will be all cast upon the streets. But that will be at the end of all things before the Most High comes! Here is something to think about. A "STASH" of cash is easily blown away when the storm comes. A "STACK" of gold and silver will maintain even in heavy rain. Wind may blow, but your stack won't go,and when the sun shines again it will glow.
Very thought provoking and exciting new angle on India. If I was a middle class Indian caught in the situation you outline, I would find myself wishing for a jewelry market that specializes in electrum...say 70% silver and 30% gold. Just a thought.
Not sure why nobody offers electrum bullion here in the US. I would love to get my paws on some electrum bullion, and believe others would as well. Scottsdale Mint, consider offering an exclusive and attractive line of electrum bullion...guaranteed to sell out faster than it can be produced. So long as you don't get crazy with the premiums.
A casual look around the net and I found this-http://www.indiapost.gov.in/GoldCoins.aspx ***I might have mentioned this before but I didn't post the link. Gold coins from a post office, .05 Grams and up! Even if we do get $15k gold a 0.5 gram coin, tiny as it is, would fetch roughly $241 each (again, I said roughly.) ***Now this is just me thinking out loud, I wonder if some enterprising jeweler in India could sell gold filled jewelry with the metal underneath being silver instead of copper. This would give the look of gold for the price of silver. While this would be doable I wonder how the different Cultures in India would respond, favorably, unfavorably, or grudgingly accepting the realities of economics. No insult or belittling of the honored cultures of India intended! I'm just asking a question, no intent to slight, belittle or hurt anyone's feelings is intended.
Another little detail-The CFTC can't stop manipulation, because manipulation is the law- http://www.gata.org/node/13059 ***When fraud becomes a way of life and grifters are the norm, the nation should not be shocked when honest men either become less than honest or leave the country permanently for more trustworthy climes.
I myself wouldn't say that the age of heroes is completely over. While modern day heroes don't charge into battle with sword and shield, they still rise to the occasion and charge into dangerous situations and give their all to conquer the challenge. Be it the likes of Kevin Vickers, the sergeant-at-arms in Canada's House of Commons to Captain Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III, to the firefighters who rush into burning buildings to save lives or common citizens who will stop to save a life or render aid when needed, there are heroes in every walk of life. The age of heroes is not over, it has changed to fit into the modern world. *****We, the silver shield soldiers, may see ourselves as mere foot soldiers in the war against metal manipulation, we are much like the biblical David fighting against the modern day Goliath and trough our actions we will be seen by our future generations as heroes for striking a blow against fraudsters and money manipulators. What is the true test to prove one is a hero or not? When the hero in question says "I just did my duty, I didn't do anything special" and feel embarrassed by the limelight and shy away from publicity, that is what makes a true hero-one who is noble, modest and self-effacing. Sorry for being off topic but the age of heroes will always be with us, sword in hand or not.
Hi WW, as I scroll through all sorts of news items, it just seems that more and more of them are gold related. I do think (maybe just wishful thinking) that more and more people are gradually waking up. I see some that start to question the nature of the current money system, etc. I can only hope they take action right now. Because who knows when is The Day? Precious metals are excellent of choice. Thanks for another great article. Ais.
I agree, it does seem that something big is building. When I read that, could not help myself. Immediately ordered another 20 rolls of pre-1964 dimes!
Just watched a greg hunter interview with bill holt on usawatchdog channel on youtube.He says $1 bn will buy the last of the gold on the comex and the $1bn will buy the last of their silver.One entity could put this whole farcical situation to bed.
Dear Wealth Watchman, A good piece of article. I like silver coins by relating to simple daily situations such as escalation of inflation. The silver price manipulation is similar as the use of ice-water to cool down the HYPERINFLATION HEAT associated with non-stop world-wide debt creation & money printing. Yes, I need more time to accumulate more silver coins & gold coins.


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Multi-Player Operation
Since mid-2012 the Open Rails team has been developing a facility for several players to work together, each operating their own locomotive. There are lots of possibilities here, with drivers operating connecting services or two locomotive working together (double-heading) or, with steam power, as driver and fireman.
Dispatcher Operation
Another possibility is for one player to take the role of dispatcher or train controller in charge of operations, using the switches, signals and radio messages to coordinate trains in response to events and in more detail than a timetable.
Dispatcher Window
Driver and fireman is still an item on our wish list but the other capabilities are all in place. An independent window is provided for the dispatcher (or any player) to monitor the location of trains and operate switches and signals.
Players can communicate using the built-in text message but many groups prefer to use a free system such as Skype which can provide voice as well. Their PCs communicate in a flexible way as follows. Any player may launch his Open Rails as a server, publish its IP address and other players launch their Open Rails as clients connecting to that address. See the manual for more details.
There is also a public forum where you can find and announce multi-player sessions and discuss multi-player issues.
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Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong was grilled by South Korean prosecutors Thursday after becoming a criminal suspect in the corruption scandal engulfing impeached President Park Geun-Hye.
[SEOUL] Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong was grilled by South Korean prosecutors Thursday after becoming a criminal suspect in the corruption scandal engulfing impeached President Park Geun-Hye.
Mr Lee, chairman of Samsung Electronics and the son of the Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-Hee, was to be questioned in connection to allegations of bribery, prosecutors said Wednesday.
He is also accused of committing perjury during a parliamentary hearing last month into the affair, Yonhap news agency reported.
"I am sorry for causing concern among the people over this incident", Mr Lee said as he arrived at the office of the special prosecutor investigating the case.
Mr Lee and his lawyer were greeted by scores of journalists as well as dozens of protesters waving banners and chanting "arrest Lee immediately" and calling him a "co-culprit" in the scandal.
The likelihood of prosecutors seeking a court warrant to formally arrest Mr Lee was "high", an unidentified investigator was quoted by Yonhap as saying.
The scandal centres on Ms Park's secret confidante Choi Soon-Sil, who is accused of using her ties to Ms Park to coerce top firms into "donating" tens of millions of dollars to two non-profit foundations which Choi then used as her personal ATMs.
Samsung was the biggest contributor to the foundations. It is also accused of separately giving millions of euros to Choi to bankroll her daughter's equestrian training in Germany in a bid to curry favour.
Prosecutors have for months questioned Mr Lee and other senior Samsung officials. The officials reportedly argued that although they were coerced to offer money, they sought no favours in return and thus the payments were not a bribe.
Mr Lee was named a criminal suspect in the widening investigation on Wednesday.
Prosecutors are investigating whether Samsung bribed Choi in order to win state approval for a controversial merger which it sought in 2015.
The merger of two Samsung group units - Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T - was seen as a crucial step towards ensuring a smooth third-generation power transfer to Lee Jae-Yong.
It was criticised by many, who said it wilfully undervalued Samsung C&T's stocks. But the National Pension Service - a major Samsung shareholder - voted in favour of the deal and it eventually went through.


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package ws

import (
	"github.com/graniticio/granitic/v2/logging"
	rt "github.com/graniticio/granitic/v2/reflecttools"
	"github.com/graniticio/granitic/v2/types"
	"reflect"
	"strconv"
)

// ParamBinder takes string parameters extracted from an HTTP request, converts them to Go native or Granitic nilable types and
// injects them into the RequestBody on a Request.
type ParamBinder struct {
	// Injected by Granitic
	FrameworkLogger logging.Logger

	// Source of service errors for errors encountered while binding.
	FrameworkErrors *FrameworkErrorGenerator
}

// BindPathParameters takes strings extracted from an HTTP's request path (using regular expression groups) and
// injects them into fields on the Request.RequestBody. Any errors encountered are recorded as framework errors in
// the Request.
func (pb *ParamBinder) BindPathParameters(wsReq *Request, p *types.Params) {

	t := wsReq.RequestBody

	for i, fieldName := range p.ParamNames() {

		if rt.HasFieldOfName(t, fieldName) {
			err := pb.bindValueToField(strconv.Itoa(i), fieldName, p, t, pb.pathParamError)

			if err != nil {

				if fe, okay := err.(*FrameworkError); okay {
					fe.Position = i
					wsReq.AddFrameworkError(fe)
				} else {
					pb.FrameworkLogger.LogErrorf("Unexpected error of type %t (was expecting *FrameworkError). Message was: %s", err, err.Error())
				}
			} else {
				wsReq.RecordFieldAsBound(fieldName)
			}

		} else {
			pb.FrameworkLogger.LogWarnf("No field %s exists on a target object to bind a path parameter into.", fieldName)
		}

	}

}

// BindQueryParameters takes the query parameters from an HTTP request and
// injects them into fields on the Request.RequestBody using the keys of the supplied map as the name of the target fields.
// Any errors encountered are recorded as framework errors in the Request.
func (pb *ParamBinder) BindQueryParameters(wsReq *Request, targets map[string]string) {

	t := wsReq.RequestBody
	p := wsReq.QueryParams
	l := pb.FrameworkLogger

	for field, param := range targets {

		if rt.HasFieldOfName(t, field) {

			if p.Exists(param) {
				l.LogTracef("Binding parameter %s to field %s", param, field)

				err := pb.bindValueToField(param, field, p, t, pb.queryParamError)

				if err != nil {
					if fe, okay := err.(*FrameworkError); okay {
						wsReq.AddFrameworkError(fe)
					} else {
						pb.FrameworkLogger.LogErrorf("Unexpected error of type %t (was expecting *FrameworkError). Message was: %s", err, err.Error())
					}
				} else {
					wsReq.RecordFieldAsBound(field)
				}
			}

		} else {
			l.LogErrorf("No field named %s exists to bind a query parameter into", field)
			m, c := pb.FrameworkErrors.MessageCode(QueryNoTargetField, field, param)
			wsReq.AddFrameworkError(NewQueryBindFrameworkError(m, c, param, field))
		}
	}

	pb.initialiseUnsetNilables(t)
}

// AutoBindQueryParameters takes the query parameters from an HTTP request and
// injects them into fields on the Request.RequestBody assuming the parameters have exactly the same name as the target
// fields. Any errors encountered are recorded as framework errors in the Request.
func (pb *ParamBinder) AutoBindQueryParameters(wsReq *Request) {

	t := wsReq.RequestBody
	p := wsReq.QueryParams

	for _, paramName := range p.ParamNames() {

		if rt.HasFieldOfName(t, paramName) {

			err := pb.bindValueToField(paramName, paramName, p, t, pb.queryParamError)

			if err != nil {

				if fe, okay := err.(*FrameworkError); okay {
					wsReq.AddFrameworkError(fe)
				} else {
					pb.FrameworkLogger.LogErrorf("Unexpected error of type %t (was expecting *FrameworkError). Message was: %s", err, err.Error())
				}

			} else {
				wsReq.RecordFieldAsBound(paramName)
			}

		}

	}

	pb.initialiseUnsetNilables(t)
}

func (pb *ParamBinder) bindValueToField(paramName string, fieldName string, p *types.Params, t interface{}, errorFn types.GenerateMappingError) error {

	if !rt.TargetFieldIsArray(t, fieldName) && p.MultipleValues(paramName) {
		m, c := pb.FrameworkErrors.MessageCode(QueryTargetNotArray, fieldName)
		return NewQueryBindFrameworkError(m, c, paramName, fieldName)
	}

	pi := new(types.ParamValueInjector)

	return pi.BindValueToField(paramName, fieldName, p, t, errorFn)

}

func (pb *ParamBinder) initialiseUnsetNilables(t interface{}) {

	vt := reflect.ValueOf(t).Elem()

FieldLoop:
	for i := 0; i < vt.NumField(); i++ {

		f := vt.Field(i)

		if !rt.NilPointer(f) {
			//Not nil
			continue FieldLoop
		}

		var nv interface{}

		switch f.Interface().(type) {

		case *types.NilableString:
			nv = new(types.NilableString)
		case *types.NilableBool:
			nv = new(types.NilableBool)
		case *types.NilableInt64:
			nv = new(types.NilableInt64)
		case *types.NilableFloat64:
			nv = new(types.NilableFloat64)
		default:
			continue FieldLoop
		}

		if err := rt.SetFieldPtrToStruct(f, nv); err != nil {
			pb.FrameworkLogger.LogErrorf("Problem initialising a nilable field %s", err.Error())
		}

	}

}

func (pb *ParamBinder) queryParamError(paramName string, fieldName string, typeName string, p *types.Params) error {

	var v = ""

	if p.Exists(paramName) {
		v, _ = p.StringValue(paramName)
	}

	m, c := pb.FrameworkErrors.MessageCode(QueryWrongType, paramName, typeName, v)
	return NewQueryBindFrameworkError(m, c, paramName, fieldName)

}

func (pb *ParamBinder) pathParamError(paramName string, fieldName string, typeName string, p *types.Params) error {

	var v = ""

	if p.Exists(paramName) {
		v, _ = p.StringValue(paramName)
	}

	m, c := pb.FrameworkErrors.MessageCode(PathWrongType, paramName, typeName, v)
	return NewPathBindFrameworkError(m, c, fieldName)

}


While looking at NBA trends, we talked about the impact of the league's new anti Hack-a-Shaq rule, and the signs that it may be working. This week, I want to look into the other side of the free-throw market, the good shooters.
The free-throw market is in disarray, which opens loads of opportunity for managers who have noticed the shifting marketplace.
For many years, free-throw percentage has been dominated by James Harden and Kevin Durant. The two have been head and shoulders above third place – not to mention the rest of the league – for the last five seasons (in Durant's injury-shortened 2014-15 season, Harden stood alone at the top). Last season the gap narrowed, but the story was the same. Since both players were top-five picks throughout that span, a team drafting either knew right away that they were starting with a dominant free-throw shooter and could build their teams accordingly.
Suddenly, there is a massive shake-up at the top. A new super-class has emerged, and it includes none of the old vanguard. Jimmy Butler, Isaiah Thomas, Damian Lillard, Kawhi Leonard and Steph Curry are the new top dogs. The gap between fifth-place Curry and sixth-place Gordon Hayward is larger than the gap between Curry and first-place Butler. Harden and Durant have fallen to ninth and 10th in free-throw impact, respectively.


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Review: Full Spectrum Warrior (XB)
Full Spectrum Warrior
Developer: Pandemic Studios
Publisher: THQ
Multiplayer: 2 Player Co-op on X-Box Live
The US Military has seen the potential for using videogames as training tools ever since The Marines had somebody modify Doom way back when. Even before then, the Air Force had been using simulators to train its pilots. These simulators were just very expensive videogames, allowing pilots to be engulfed in the situation, giving them a taste of the real thing. Recently the Army has decided to branch out into videogame production as a means of both recruiting new soldiers and training them. Their first effort, America's Army, was a free PC download that was a full online playable game. You had to pass basic training and become proficient in the use of various weapons that you would have access to in the game. The game was a success both with critics and gamers, and is now in the process of being ported to a few of the consoles.
The Army's second game wasn't actually intended for public consumption. Full Spectrum Warrior was designed purely as a training tool for its soldiers, to give them an idea of what it feels like to command troops under fire, without actually exposing them to it. The developers, Pandemic Studios, figured out that there might just be a cool game waiting to be unleashed on the rest of the world and asked if they might be allowed to do it. And here we are.
While this is an Army training game at heart, Pandemic realized that just giving you missions to complete wouldn't be very interesting. So they went about crafting a fairly topical story about the United States being involved in the "regime change" shall we say of a Third World Middle Eastern dictator. Now I know what you're all thinking, but no, it's not about the Army invading Israel. Or even Jordan. Rather, it is that rogue nation, that terrorist state, Zekistan. Actually Zekistan is fictional, but all the maps in game seem to focus on the far eastern boarder of Iran, so who knows. All I'm saying is don't be around Iran in September. Anyway, you are given 8 soldiers to command, and it is their story you unfold as the game progresses. There is no real character development, no deep story involving love and betrayal, just 8 soldiers moving from engagement to engagement, with occasional assistance. The story is probably the weakest thing about the game, all things considered. The fact that they seemed to need to justify the invasion of a fictional country by including mass graves and genocide in the story seems a bit much to me anyway.
If bombed out cars and Middle Eastern architecture is your thing, this game will be right up your alley graphically. The main characters are modeled pretty well, and there is little or no draw in due to the nature of the environments. What I mean there is you won't be on an open battlefield, just confined ones, so you can always see where it is you are headed. Enemy units are fairly generic looking, with little or no variety. Vehicles in game don't look quite right. The Bradley, for example, or the Humvee, both look as though they have sunk a few inches into the ground. Maybe it's all that sand, I don't know. Since this is a game about an Army unit helping to liberate a city, the scenery doesn't change all that much from mission to mission. Pandemic realized though, that even in one city the environment can change from minute to minute and place to place, especially out in a desert. So some of the missions take place during a pretty wicked sand storm. You even hear your guys coughing the whole time during these missions.
The majority of sounds that you will hear in Full Spectrum Warrior will be your two sergeants ordering the troops hither and yon, or ordering your troops to fire on specific targets etc. The other sounds you will be likely to hear are the sounds of the battlefield. M-16's and AK-47's being fired, RPG's being launched and blowing up, these types of things. As well, your soldiers will from time to time speak their minds. If they feel exposed under fire, you will hear about it. Many other times you will hear them cursing at the enemy for firing at them, or at you for leaving them exposed to enemy fire. It all adds up to create a vivid feeling of actually being there, under fire.
Moving around and giving orders in the world of the Full Spectrum Warrior is both easy and at the same time frustrating. You move a cursor representing your 4 soldiers with the left thumbstick wherever it is you wish your guys to move. Move closer to the edge and your team leader will be placed in a position to look around the corner. While it sounds like a good idea, at times it just gets too cumbersome. In addition, the camera is stuck at eye level, so if you are hiding behind a car or something you could be forced to leave your troops exposed to fire until you can clearly see where it is you want to move next. While this is more realistic in some ways, it is also a serious pain in the butt. There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to move the camera up a bit to give you a better view of the battlefield.
You control two units most of the time in FSW, Alpha Team and Bravo Team. You switch between the two by pressing the Y button. At times in the game you will be assigned a third unit, named Charlie Team. Most of the time Charlie will be mission sensitive unit(s) that have to be protected until it's time for them to do their thing. Switching to Charlie team is accomplished by holding down the Y button. While this works, it isn't as intuitive as it could be. If you were able to tap Y and then select the team from an in-game menu on the HUD that might have been easier. Or perhaps pressing Y then X, A and B for the various units might have worked even better.
Another problem I had with the controls that may have more to do with the realism factor in the game is the lag time between you're issuing an order and the troops moving to carry it out. A number of times I ordered the men to turn and fire after having engaged one enemy. After he was killed, they should have turned when ordered to shoot at the other guy. Only they didn't. And so that enemy lived to fight some more, usually killing one or more of my men in the process.
I've got nowhere else to put these particular complaints so they will go here. Why isn't there an anti-tank weapon in the game? I'm pretty sure they do exist. Why is it so awkward to call in anti-armor support? If it's so easy to call in a recon flight why can't I do the same for an Apache? Why is it the men can fling a smoke grenade all the way across the board but can only throw a frag grenade maybe 30 feet? And for that matter why is it when I order my grenade launcher to fire on a target in an apartment balcony the target still lives when its' less than four feet away from the explosion? And for a game that seems to pride itself on realism, the magic medics in this game really detract from the feeling of being there. If a guy is so badly wounded that he has to be carried to a medevac station, there should be no way that he can be looked at and sent on his way. I mean hell, even the Oakland Raiders don't do that. These are some of the things I would like to see addressed in any possible sequel.
Replayability:
There isn't really any reason to go back and play through this game again once you've finished it. The enemies all stay in the same location, attack from the same spots, and in general all die the same way. You may feel you approached the situation wrong, but that is just for the pro's out there who think they know their stuff. Or maybe you are enlisting shortly and want to get the terminology down. Then I could see playing through the game a few times. The game is Live enabled, so you can sign on and play the campaign co-operatively with somebody. There is no vs. mode though, so don't expect to play this for very long unless you just love it. The original Army version is included as an extra you can unlock via cheat code, and it is interesting to see just how much they dumbed it down for us civilian types.
Originality:
Well this game is a Real Time Strategy game, and on the X-Box the pickings are rather slim. In fact this and Goblin Commander are the only games I can think of that would fit that genre. In any event, it's not the gameplay that is original here, it's the implementation of it all, the reality of it. This is essentially what it would feel like to go to war, were you not afraid of death and could replay it over and over again. This is a glimpse of what it's like to be in the military.
Appeal:
Are you into all things military? Did you watch CNN during Desert Storm and go damn that blowed up real good!? Are you considering a career defending the United States? Or do you enjoy Real Time Strategy games that rely more on strategy than they do on reinforcements? If so, Full Spectrum Warrior should be given a good look.
On the flip side, are you a pacifist? Do you despise everything to do with the military? Do you find it hard to separate real life from videogames? Is your name Michael Moore? Do you live in the Middle East? If so you should probably avoid this game, as it will do nothing but confirm your suspicions that the United States really does plan to take over the world. Or something like that.
Addictiveness:
The game is solid, no doubting that. But will it chain you to your X-Box until you've completed it? No, sadly not. In fact it's probably best in your first run through the game if you take it in small doses, as you may be tempted from time to time to put the controller through the TV screen, and your TV doesn't deserve that.
Not much else to add, really. This game is a really solid first step, deserving of a sequel. Oh, one other thing I suppose. Rangers rock! In fact, make the next game about the Rangers.
Story: 5/10
Controls: 7/10
Misc: 6/10
Short Attention Span Summary
This game is at the very least deserving of a rental if you are even remotely into RTS games or into the Military. It's not the best Xbox game released this year, and with Riddick and probably Spiderman being released this month it's not even the best this month. But it IS a quality diversion of your time. You can't really ask for anything other than that.
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